%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The young Women and Maidens/ LAMENTATION:/ OR,/ Their bitter Sighs and Sorrow to hear the Old Women are prest to go with the Army,/ while they themselves are slighted and dejected which are able to perform/ far better Service. 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 08/28/2007 21082

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3.81 R228740 1 I marry and thank ye too Aye, Marry, and Thank You Too Aye, Marry, and Thank You Too WE Lasses of London Town/ in sorrowfull sort appear, Old Women are Prest we hear. [stanzas 1-9]; Then why should not Virgins go? [stanzas 10-15; with variations] Pepys 3.81 Wing Y135 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: 81 The young Women and Maidens/ LAMENTATION:/ OR,/ Their bitter Sighs and Sorrow to hear the Old Women are prest to go with the Army,/ while they themselves are slighted and dejected which are able to perform/ far better Service. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?205 x 303 cropped right edge 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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W E Lasses of London Town in sorrowfull sort appear, Because the Fates on us do's frown; Old Women are Prest we hear. To wait on the warlike Train, and March in the Van and Rear; But Maids they will not entertain, Old Women are Prest we hear . We would with our Maiden Skill, like Amazon Dames appear; But we are unregarded still, Old Women are Prest we hear .
'Tis Reason they should allow, young Lasses to have a share; But Kissing goes by Favour now, Old Women are Prest we hear . We like the sweet tender Dove, could every Souldier Chear; Yet still they slight a Maiden's Love, Old Women are Prest we hear . With Age they do grunt and groan, nay, tremble and quake for fear, Yet tell them this, it is all one, Old Women are Prest we hear .
I am sure a young Lass can Nurse a Souldier they need not fear; But see the Case is alter'd thus, Old Women are Prest we hear . We'd cuddle them in our Arms, and this will their Spirits chear; Yet notwithstanding all our Charms, Old Women are Prest we hear . Our Sweethearts are march'd away, the which we adore so dear, And we behind are forc'd to stay, Old Women are Prest we hear . We'd kiss and embrace them too, and Love should like Fountains flow, But old Wives they can nothing do, Then why should not Virgins go ? Our Glory and Fame shall Ring, and baffle the proudest Foe, In getting Souldiers for the King, Then why should not Damsels go ?
Y oung Heroes that will adorn, the Army in time we know, As being Souldiers bred and born, And why should not Damsels go ? To venture who wou'd refuse? there's Glory and Fame you know, And Teeming time we are loath to loose, And why should not Damsels go ? The Captains for Females good, may pity and kindness show; Alas! we are all Flesh and Bloud, and have a great mind to go . For why shou'd we stay behind, in sorrowful grief and woe? I hope at length they'll be so kind, to suffer young Maids to go .
Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back .