%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Trappand Taylor: Or, / A pretty Discovery, how a Taylor was cheated, and Married to a beggar-wench, / taking her to be a Country Gentlewoman, she having good apparel, which an / old Bawd had lent her, intending to use her as a necessary Instrument to pro- / mote her trade. And may serve for a general warning to all the rest of that/ Finical Society. P., J. 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 08/13/2008 21074

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3.74r R187287 1 The loving Lad, and coy Lass; Or wanton Willy, &c. The Loving Lad, and Coy Lass; Or Wanton Willy, etc. COme hear a song, and a very fine Song, / 'tis neither of Sea-men nor Saylor: hinged broadsheet with verso: 'A Lamentable Ballad of a Combate lately Fought, near London, between / Sir James Steward, and Sir George Wharton,' (see Pepys 3.74v, at V. App.ii:44); original text faces left and in facsimile the text faces right; first lines unclear; COme hear a song, and a very fine Song, / 'tis neither of Sea[-]men nor Saylor;. Pepys 3.74r Wing T2050A 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: 74 The Trappand Taylor: Or, / A pretty Discovery, how a Taylor was cheated, and Married to a beggar-wench, / taking her to be a Country Gentlewoman, she having good apparel, which an / old Bawd had lent her, intending to use her as a necessary Instrument to pro- / mote her trade. And may serve for a general warning to all the rest of that/ Finical Society. The Trappand Taylor: Or, A pretty Discovery, how a Taylor was cheated, and Married to a beggar-wench, taking her to be a Country Gentlewoman, she having good apparel, which an old Bawd had lent her, intending to use her as a necessary Instrument to pro- mote her trade. And may serve for a general warning to all the rest of that Finical Society. The Trapanned Taylor: Or, a Pretty Discovery, How a Taylor Was Cheated, and Married to a Beggar wench, Taking Her to Be a Country Gentlewoman, She Having Good Apparel, Which an Old Bawd Had Lent Her, Intending to Use Her as a Necessary Instrument to Promote Her Trade. And May Serve for a General Warning to All the Rest of That Finical Society. P., J. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, hinged, ?205 x 305 damaged surface, uneven inking, verso shows through 1678-1688 London, Printed for W. Thackeray, T. Pas- / singer, and W. VVhitwood. 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 8/13/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant appearance class clothing/fashion marriage trickery/deceit 08/13/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created 08/02/2007 Checker Patrick Ludolph Ballad Checked 08/09/2006 Transcriber Summer Star Original Transcription 08/21/2004 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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COme hear a song, and a very fine Song, 'tis neither of Sea-men nor Saylor: To tell you the truth this bonny young Youth was a finnikin vapouring Taylor. It was in the prime of Cucumber time when Taylors have very much leisure. This gallant so nimble did cast by his thimble and sport away time for his pleasure. A Beggar wench chanced to London to come, a Girl that had very good features, And begging about an old Bawd spi'd her out for why, we have store of such creatures. This cunning, old, crafty, and subtile piece; she finding the Lasse was willing, She took the wench in and washed her clean, and put her on very good Linnen.
She pulled off her rags, and gave her black-bags and made her as fine as may be, She looked so smug, she was not like Jugg for she was as brisk as a Lady. She taught her the trade, to pass for a Maid, after she had been twenty times used; And thus silly fools, are cheated like gulls, being bafled and basely abused. She used her art, and acted her part, as if she had been an old stander: She liked the trade, far better she said, than abroad in the Country to wander. Oft times as the door, like a crafty young whore she stood, for to tempt in her Cullies, When once they were in, she taught them to sin, and dearly they paid for their follies.
WHilst she did frisk, this Taylor so brisk, it was his chance for to spy her, She ravisht his heart before he would part, he hop'd to injoy his desire. For verily she, pretended to be a Country Gentlemans Daughter Come up the last Term, new fashions to learn but mark how she fitted him after. His trade he defies in hope of this prize, he now was a man worth regarding, He gave her rich gifts to purchase his drifts; for he was in hopes of a bargain. By little and little she seemed to yeild, being moved she said by his carriage, Provided that he would likewise agree to joyn with her in lawful marriage. He made no stay, but without delay, this couple was privately married, He thought by this plot a rich heir he had got but I think he had better a tarryed. For when the Bawd found out their design, she vowed to have satisfaction: The Taylor she said, enough had not paid, so she presently entred an Action. And then she did knap, the novice i'th trap to pay for his wives apparel: That she had her lent it made him repent, but it was but in vain for to quarrel.
She stript the fair Bride, he standing beside. like a man that would scorn to disown her, He ceased his brags when he saw his wiv's rags & wisht that he never had known her. The rags they were known for to be her own to take them again she had reason: And since she did catch a blade that could patch he had botching work for a whole season. And thus the Taylor was finely trappand, he curst, he swore, and he vapor'd. It made him to stare, and tear off his hair, like a pig in a halter he capor'd. He skipt & he jumpt, but sure he was mumpt as well as ever was any: A Begger wench bride to lie by his side, might please him as well as a many. And now we will leave him to kiss up his wife for she's enough cool his courage, Let Taylors beware and have a great care how they joyn with such Beggars in Marriage But least that my song may be tedious & long, I'le end it with hey down derry For I put it in Rime, this Cucumber time that Taylors may laugh and be merry.
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With Allowance. London, Printed for W. Thackeray, T. Pas- singer, and W. Whitwood.