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3.44 R228334 1 Cold and Raw Stingo; Oil of Barley; Cold and Raw Cold and Raw NOt long ago from hence I went, / to travel into Flanders, Pepys 3.44 Wing ?L3505 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: 44 THE / Lusty Fryer of Flanders; / How in a Nunnery at the City of Gaunt this Fryer got Thirty Nuns with Child in three Weeks / time, and afterwards made his escape. THE Lusty Fryer of Flanders; How in a Nunnery at the City of Gaunt this Fryer got Thirty Nuns with Child in three Weeks time, and afterwards made his escape. The Lusty Fryer of Flanders; How in a Nunnery at the City of Gaunt This Friar Got Thirty Nuns With Child in Three Weeks Time, and Afterwards Made His Escape. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 206 x 272 damaged surface, uneven inking cast fleurons 1688 Printed for I. Blare, 1688. J. Blare Weinstein: imprint

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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 9/4/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant country/nation religiousfigures sex/sexuality vulgarities/crasshumor 12/07/2007 Checker Kris McAbee Corrected transcription errors 09/04/2007 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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NOt long ago from hence I went, to travel into Flanders, To learn the Art of War, was sent under those great Commanders; At Gaunt I saw a pleasant fun, as you shall hear hereafter, Betwixt a Fryar and a Nun, may well deserve your laughter. The Fryer like a Jolly Dad, a propagating Father, Hid not the Talent which he had, but chose to use it rather: The Nun was pretty, young, and fair, as if design'd for pleasure, And pity 'twas that she should swear, to keep her Virgin treasure.
Unto this Lusty Fryer she went, and there her sins confessed, Which he, unto her hearts content, forgave and her released; But this he said, before you rise, for all your sad offences, By good St. Francis, i'le Chastise with Rods your Preter Tenses. Her hinder Quarters up she turns, and ther she lay most fairly, The Fryar now in Lust he burns, and flaug'd her off most rarely: Her prayers and tears at last prevail upon the cruel Fryar, That he'd no more correct her tail, nor would he now deny her.
Thou pretty Nymph arise he said, and let me now imbrace thee, Bestow on me your Maiden-head, fear not that i'le disgrace thee; What tho' my Robe be black my dear, my skins as white as may be, And I have that has pleas'd i'le swear, oh many a gallant Lady. The Charming Nun then blushing said, oh tempt me not to evil, Have I not vow'd to live a Maid, and to renounce the Devil, But should I now commit this Crime, and break my vow by sporting, My belly will grow big in time, and then you'll leave your Courting. The Sin, my Dear, is Venial. and to indulge is easie, Sin on and i'le forgive you all, my Love, if you'll but please me; But since you fear to breed young bones, i'le tell you for their Glory, The Lady Abbess and her Nuns, have done the like before you. This Nun oh she grew big at last, and dayly it increases, And e're ten months were fully past, the Nuns fell all to pieces; The crafty Fryer away he went, that should 'scape 'twas pity, And left behind a Regiment of bastards to the City. Thus he this Creature did beguile, but tell me wan't he dirty, Twenty nine Nuns he'd got with Child, and this made up the thirty: He had a faculty to Cure, each longing expectation. So this religious Rascal sure, is able to stock a nation.
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Printed for J. Blare, 1688.