%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Young-Mans Vindication/ Against the Virgins Complaint./ She rail'd against Young-men in a passion great,/ But he more mildly seems with her to treat,/ Young men are not so false as she would make them,/ Some Maids are full as bad, how e're you take them. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1678-1688 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/14/2007 21009

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3.16 R187789 1 The Virgin's Complaint, or Cupid's Courtesie Cupid's Courtesy The Virgin's Complaint; Cupid's Courtesy SWeet Virgin, hath disdain/ Moved you to passion, imprint unclear: London Printed for W. Th<a>cker[a]y, T. Passinger, and W. Whitwo[o]d; another edition at 3.4 Pepys 3.16 Wing Y127C 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. 3: 16 The Young-Mans Vindication/ Against the Virgins Complaint./ She rail'd against Young-men in a passion great,/ But he more mildly seems with her to treat,/ Young men are not so false as she would make them,/ Some Maids are full as bad, how e're you take them. The Young Mans Vindication Against the Virgins Complaint, She rail'd against Young Men in a Passion great, But he more mildly seems with her to treat, Young men are not so false as she would make them Some Maids are full as bad, how e're you take them. The Young Man's Vindication Against the Virgin's Complaint, She rail'd Against Young Men in a Passion Great, But He /more Mildly Seems with Her to Treat, Young Men Are Not So False As She Would Make Them Some Maids Are Full As Bad, However You Take Them. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 198 x 260 cropped top edge, creased, damaged surface, uneven inking vertical rules 1678-1688 London Printed for W. Thackeray, T. Passinger, and W. Whitwood. W. Thackeray, T. Passinger, W. Whitwood PBA

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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 8/14/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant advice gender love trickery/deceit virtue 08/14/2007 Checker Laura Miller XML, transcription checked, metadata created 08/16/2006 Checker Jessica Murphy Transcription Checked 07/24/2006 Transcriber Summer Star Original Transcription 2004 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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SWeet Virgin, hath disdain mov'd you to passion, Ner'e to love man again but for the fashion: Was your abuse so great beyond all measure, That you can quite forget, to think of pleasure. Though one false-hearted man not to be named. Made you look pale and wan, must all be blamed: As if scarce one were good in a whole City, Your peevish angry mood I can but pitty,
Men are not half so bad as you would make them, More Maidens may be had if you forsake them; Therefore I tell you plain, be not disdainful; If Cupid shoot again, you'l find it painful. Young-men had need beware, least they be taken, And drawn into a snare, and so forsaken: Many maids prove untrue, take it for certain. Twill be too late to rue of a bad bargain.
MAidens false-hearted are, I can report it: Their craft they will not spare, when they are courted: They'l bend unto your bow, their wits are nimble, It's very hard to know when they dissemble. They'l powder, prank, and paint, with each new fangle: Sometimes sit like a Saint, for to intangle, Their pretty wanton eyes are so alluring, Life and death in them lies, killing and curing. Their beauty's like a charm, lovers intrancing; No man receives more harm, then by their glancing, Like Syrens they will sing, their voices ravish; They make the Ecchoes ring, their tongues are lavish. By such alluring baits, young men are taken And then it is their Fates to be forsaken; For these inticing girls, are so unconstant, They're won and lost again all in an instant,
[I] have experience had, of their false dealing, Some of them are so bad they're not worth stealing; If one in half a score prove to be vertuous, She shall have Suitors store, her love is precious. Now tell me which are best young Men or Maidens, I think 'tis here confest both have their failings: Therefore be rul'd by me, scorn not a young-man There's as much truth in him as in a woman. Virgins take my advice, be not disdainful. Neither be coy and nice, squemish nor scornful. 'Tis but a pettish strain, for to love no man: If e're you love again, pray love a young man. I am resolved now, thou some miscarry, I'le have a Virgin too, with her I'le marry. From love I'le not refrain, though it be commen: But when I love again, I'le love a Woman.
London Printed for W. Thackeray, T. Passinger, and W. Whitrord.