%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> NELL's humble Petition:/ OR,/ The Maidens kind and courteous Courtship to honest John the Joyner,/ whose Love she earnestly desired. 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 08/24/2007 21080

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3.79 R188619 1 I marry and thank ye too Aye, Marry, and Thank You Too Aye, Marry, and Thank You Too THere was an Old Maid of late,/ who did in a Service dwell, And if you can't love me with all your Heart,/ yet love me as well as you can. {stanzas 7, 10, 13, 16; with variations} Pepys 3.79 Wing N414[D] 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: 79 NELL's humble Petition:/ OR,/ The Maidens kind and courteous Courtship to honest John the Joyner,/ whose Love she earnestly desired. NELL's humble Petition: OR, The Maidens kind and courteous Courtship to honest John the Joyner, whose Love she earnestly desired. Nell's Humble Petition: Or, the Maiden's Kind and Courteous Courtship to Honest John the Joyner, Whose Love She Earnestly Desired. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 200 x 293 cropped right edge, damaged surface horizontal and vertical rules 1675-1696 Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare[,]/ J. Back. 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 8/24/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant 08/24/2007 Checker Patrick Ludolph fixed some tabs 08/07/2007 Checker Patrick Ludolph Transcription Checked and X-Ballad 08/09/2006 Transcriber Summer Star Original Transcription 08/21/2004 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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T Here was an Old Maid of late, who did in a Service dwell, It was not far from Billingsgate , her Name it was bouncing Nell . I solemnly do engage, if I have not lost my skill, That she is Forty years of Age, and yet is unmarried still. There was a young man hard by, the which was both tall and trim, And though he never her came nigh, yet she was in love with him.
The maiden she often cry'd, Oh do not my Love refuse, I very fain wou'd be your Bride, and you're the Man I chuse. Why Nelly , he cry'd, thou art Old, thy wrinkl'd Brow I see, They Limbs is stiff, thy Bloud is cold, thou art not a Wife for me. Why Johnny , I know 'tis truth, yet you may be happy still, For what I want to blooming Youth, is added in perfect Skill.
My Love I'll to the impart, I know thou art an honest man, If you can't love me with all your Heart, yet love me as well as you can. Thy Charms I must needs adore, for thou hast a tempting Eye, Thy Skin is like the Tawny-Moor, and thy Nose it stands all awry. Why do you a Maid deride? Why is your Affections cold? A Fig for Beauty, John , she cry'd, I have a long Bag of Gold. And Cupid has kiss'd my Heart, and now I must have a man, And if you can't love me with all your Heart, yet love me as well as you can. I value not Gold or Pearl, true Love makes amends for all, Give me a handsome youthful Girl, though she has no Coin at all. But Johnny , said she, you know, with Wealth you may happy be, 'Tis Money make the Mare to go, then prithee be rul'd by me. Alas! I am loth to part with this pritty sweet smirking John , And if you can't love me with all your Heart, yet love me as well as you can. Whatever I now have spoke, in troth thou shalt find it true, I'll buy thee a new Suit and Cloak, a delicate Beaver too. Be not in the least afraid, to marry with Nelly , when I vow to keep a handsome Maid, to pleasure thee now and then. He then did his mind impart, and spoke like an honest man, If he could not love her with all his Heart, he'd love her as well as he can.