%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A Weeks Loving, Wooing, and Wedding: / OR, / Happy is that Wooing that is not long a Dooing. / Here was a nimble Bridegroom, and a Bride, / In Eight short days the long fast Knot was ty'd. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1675-1696 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 09/02/2007 21035

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3.39 R228652 1 Billy and Molly Billy and Molly ON Sunday Johnny went to Church / so spruce, and neat, and finey, hinged broadsheet with blank verso; set-off from defective printing of ballad 'Faint Heart never won fair Lady: /', see Pepys 3.21. Pepys 3.39 Wing ?W1247 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: 39 A Weeks Loving, Wooing, and Wedding: / OR, / Happy is that Wooing that is not long a Dooing. / Here was a nimble Bridegroom, and a Bride, / In Eight short days the long fast Knot was ty'd. A Weeks Loving, Wooing, and Wedding: OR, Happy is that Wooing that is not long a Dooing. Here was a nimble Bridegroom, and a Bride, In Eight short days the long fast Knot was ty'd. A Week's Loving, Wooing, and Wedding: Or, Happy Is That Wooing That Is Not Long a Doing. Here Was a Nimble Bridegroom, and a Bride, in Eight Short Days the Long Fast Knot Was Tied. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, hinged, ?210 x 314 creased, damaged surface, verso shows through horizontal and vertical rules, alphabetical acrostic in roman display-face capitals 1675-1696 Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in / Pye=corner, I. Deacon at the Angel in / Gilt=spur=street, I. Blare at the Looking- / glass on London=bridge near the Church, / I. Back at the Black Boy on London=bridge / near the Draw Bridge. P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back 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 9/2/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant advice love marriage 12/07/2007 Checker Kris McAbee Corrected transcription errors 09/2/2007 Checker Patrick Ludolph Transcription and Metadata checked, XML created 07/27/2006 Transcriber Summer Star Original Transcription 08/19/2004 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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ON Sunday Johnny went to Church so spruce, and neat, and finey, Cupid lay for John at lurch, and shew'd him pretty Jinny, Johnny was shot to the heart, and prov'd a zealous Lover, That Jenny she might cure his smart, he was resolved to move her. Johnny was a stiching Blade, but he could not work a Monday; Jinny lov'd the stitching Trade, And minded John a Sunday:
He to her did make Address, but she receiv'd it shiely, The loving truth he did confess, but Jinny she was wily. Tuesday came, and Johnny then profest to her profoundly, He lov'd her more than any Man, and spoke his Passion roundly; Jinny she did love to spin, as pretty Maids do often, She fancy'd John could put it in, and that did Jinny soften.
On Wednesday then the Lovers met, and Johnny prest her home to't; He said his Love was on her set, but she said nought but mum to't: Jinny was a coming Lass, her Silence was consenting, When John had brought it to that pass, he then fell to presenting. On Thursday then he brought her store, what Maid could have forsook 'em? Of Ribbons, Gloves, with sundry more, and she said No, and took'em: Johnny was a Lover free, tho' bound in Jinny's Fetters, Jinny lov'd as well as he, tho' she might a had his Betters. On Friday Johnny ask't her what she had to say against it; She said there was two words to that, for fear she shou'd repent it: But John she did her so perswade, that she gave no denial, But said she should be her own Blade, and put it to the Trial.
On Saturday there ne'er was seen such Billing, and such Cooing; Jinny and her John between, such Kissing and such Wooing. Thus both agreed in Love to speed, concluded on the Morrow, That they would Wed, and so to Bed, and sport away all Sorrow. On Sunday they to Church did goe, where Love first had beginning, The Parson he made one of the two, so the Business had an ending: John and Jinny marry'd were, O! merry night of Sunday! Pretty Maids do not Despair, 'twill be your own case one day.
Printed for P. Brookshy at the Golden Ball in Pye-corner, J. Deacon at the Angel in Gilt-spur-street, J. Blare at the Looking- glass on London-bridge near the Church, J. Back at the Black Boy on London-bridge near the Draw Bridge.