%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Fowre wittie Gossips disposed to be merry/ Refused muddy Ale, to drinke a cup of Sherrie./ Their Husbands did their Iudgements spend/ strong Ale was best who did intend/ to try it./ Their Wives reply to euery man/ that Sacke is best and no man can/ deny it University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1632 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/13/2007 20205

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1.436-437 S126297 1 the Mother beguilde the Daughter The Mother Beguiled the Daughter THere was fowre pleasant wiues of late,/ did purpose to be merry: Wee will not depart,/ weell drinke a quart/ of Sacke to make vs merry./ Your Barlie broth fild vp with froth,/ is nothing like old sherrie. [variation in penultimate stanza] THey are but Clownes and doe not know,/ the quintessence of Sherrie, Pepys 1.436-437 Rollins (1) II:174-179; STC 12092.6 [A. Mathewes] for H. G[osson c.1632]. Woodblock 1: first 1/2 sheet, below title, above columns 1 and 2 and cast fleuron: Three figures stand facing forward, a man flanked by two women. The three appear to hold hands. The two women are dressed identically in ornate gowns with large skirts, different patterned underskirts, large ruffs around the neck, and elaborate headpieces. They appear to be wearing a tiara- or crown-like object on top of their heads. The man in the middle wears slops, an ornate doublet or jerkin with a white collar, and a hat. : 58 x 80 Woodblock 2: second 1/2 sheet, below title, above column 3: An aristocratic woman faces to the left of the cut. She wears a gown with a tall collar or ruff, and floral decorations on the bodice. She wears an elaborate embroidered cape or other decoration extends from her shoulders. Her right hand rests on her hip, and in her left she holds a fan. She wears a hat with a plume. : 88 x 58 Woodblock 3: second 1/2 sheet, below title, above column 4: A woman stands in elaborate aristocratic costume. She wears a wide, elaborate ruff, and a hat with an adorned brim and a feather. Her dress features puffed shoulders and a bodice decorated with a panel showing a flower and leaves emerging from a vine. Her wide overskirt (supported by a french farthingale?) is split to display an elaborately embroidered underskirt. She holds a pair of gloves in her left hand.: 89 x 58 Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 436 1: 437 Fowre wittie Gossips disposed to be merry/ Refused muddy Ale, to drinke a cup of Sherrie./ Their Husbands did their Iudgements spend/ strong Ale was best who did intend/ to try it./ Their Wives reply to euery man/ that Sacke is best and no man can/ deny it Fowre wittie Gossips disposed to be merry Refused muddy Ale, to drinke a cup of Sherrie. Their Husbands did their Judgements spend strong Ale was best who did intend to try it. Their Wives reply to every man that Sacke is best and no man can deny it Four Witty Gossips Disposed to Be Merry Refused Muddy Ale, to Drink a Cup of Sherry. Their Husbands Did Their Judgments Spend Strong Ale Was Best Who Did Intend to Try it. Their Wives' Reply to Every Man That Sack is Best and No Man Can Deny it The second part. The second part. The Second Part. 1/2 sheet folio, originally left part, 285 x 154 1/2 sheet folio, originally right part, 284 x 150 cropped right edge, uneven inking cropped right edge, uneven inking cast fleurons cast fleurons 1632 London Printed for H. G. H. G. Weinstein: STC

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 Taxonomy used by Pepys to Organize Ballads in Albums A Small Promiscuous Supplement Devotion & Morality Drinking & Good Fellowship History - True & Fabulous Humour, Frollicks &c Love Pleasant Love Pleasant and Unfortunate Love Unfortunate Marriage Sea State & Times Tragedy Various Subjects Early Modern Center Ballad Project Keyword Taxonomy advice affliction/health alcohol animals/nature appearance Bible/biblical figures buildings/architecture catastrophe children class clothing/fashion country/nation crime death economics/trade entertainment family/procreation folklore gender historical figures & events holidays/seasons infidelity law London love maritime marriage military/war monstrosity mythology/Classical world news nobility/court politics/government punishment religious concepts religious figures religious types & sects royalty rural life servitude sex/sexuality supernatural/magic The New World travel trickery/deceit urban life vice violence virtue vulgarities/crass humor Library of Congress Subject Heading Taxonomy 8/13/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Drinking & Good Fellowship alcohol marriage 8/13/2008 Checker Katy Trumbull Transcription Checked, Metadata and XML Created 7/14/2006 Transcriber Pavneet Aulakh Original Transcription 7/26/2004 Bibliographer Maggie Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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THere was fowre pleasant wives of late, did purpose to be merry: And each for other laid in waite to drinke a cup of sherrie, The time was on a market day the place was at the feather, To drinke and passe the time away they all consent together, Wee will not depart, weell drinke a quart of Sacke to make us merry. Your Barlie broth fild up with froth, is nothing like old sherrie. Each one did in her basket bring a daintie bit to relish A cup of Sacke, which is a thing doth man and woman cherish: Our husbands made a match last night to tast the oyle of barlie, But now weell shew to them a sleight for going to bed so early, We will not depart, etc. Now let us call our liquor in, and bravely we will drinke it, In good old sacke we will beginne, a health whilst now we thinke it: Wee mean unto those drowsie sots, that love the oyle of Barlie: And all last night did tosse the pots, untill the morning early, Wee will not depart etc. But little does our husbands thinke, if that they bee awaking, That in good sack their healths to drinke what paines that wee are taking:
And shee that pledges drinke it up to them that sleepeth soundly: Let every woman have her cup, of sacke and drinke it roundly, Wee will not depart, weele drinke a quart, etc. So let the health goe round about, this day weell take our pleasure: Our husbands were last night all out, and weell goe home by leasure? For sack and suger let us joyne, you see it is cold weather? And blithly let us spend our coine, wee seldome meet together, Wee will not depart etc. Our husbands home did make small hast, all night untill the morning: But if we had not all been chaste, they well might feare the horning: But why doe they this Ale commend, which being thicke is loathsome? But rather should their money spend in sack so pure and wholsome, Wee will not depart etc. Which being cleare, doth cleare the blood, and make old women merry: And sure their judgements are not good that discommends old sherrie, If our opinions doe not fayle? a quart twelve cups containeth, Its cheaper then adozen of ale, where froth and snuffes remaineth: Wee will not depart etc.
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THey are but Clownes and doe not know, the quintessence of Sherrie, Their judgements can no further goe, then Ale, or Beare, or Perry: These homebred guls cannot define from whence this wine proceedeth, Nor what is meant by Grapes or Wine their ignorance exceedeth. Wee will not depart etc. Such idle malt wormes do devoure, more corne in oyle of barlie, Then we in Sacke and ten times more though we drinke late and early: Our husbands have no wit to drinke good Wine, nor how to use it? But swill it up like beare they thinke or ale and so abuse it, Wee will not depart etc. Thus the day was almost spent in merriment and laughing: Their husbands to the Tavern sent yet could not find them quaffing, The younger wives did weep for feare their husbands would abuse them: Quoth mother Joane be of good cheere and said she would excuse them. wee will not depart etc. This old wife was somewhat stout and so also was Bridget? They sw[e]are two cups should goe about and every one should pledge it: This good old wench begun the round to many that was weeping Yet Mall did stoutly stand her ground, and drunke to Nel a sleeping, Wee will not depart, etc. Nel pledg'd the round almost awake the Sack shee much commended: Which unto Bridget she did take,
and so the health was ended: Then to the Drawer they did call: to know what was the skore, Twelve shillings quoth he there is in all besides a quart before: Wee will not depart etc. Old Jane began the shot to take, each one lay downe their store, And just ten shillings they did make, and not one farding more: Here take your money said old Jane wee have no more about us: Gives one quart more, weell come againe you need not for to doubt us, Wee will not depart etc. Here is my girdle for a pawne and Mall leave you your Bodkin, And Bridget leave your peice of Lawen, weell pay him to a dodkin, And Nell her silver Thimble too, because weell goe together, To try what our good men will doe till wee meet at the feather, Thus will wee depart, with this last quart, etc. But men doe thinke they are all wit, yet some doe prove but noddies, That drinking ale all night doe sit, like wash-tubs makes their bodies: When they may drink Sacke pure and strong as cheape as oyle of barlie: And so we doe conclude this song, this morning very early, Wee will not depart weell drinke a quart, of Sack which makes us merry, Your Barlie broth fild up with froth, is nothing like your Sherrie.
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