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3.87 R187640 1 If Love's a sweet passion If Love's a Sweet Passion If Love's a Sweet Passion I Am a Young Woman, 'tis very well known,/ Who have Marry'd a narrow soul sorrowful Drone, For he lyes by me like a cold stone in the Wall,/ And will do a poor woman no kindness at all. (not final stanza; with variation) Pepys 3.87 Wing U48B 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: 87 The Un-equal Match:/ OR, THE/ Old feeble Taylor's Insufficiency/ Containing, The/ Young Beautiful Brides Lamentation. The Un-equal Match: OR, THE Old feeble Taylor's Insufficiency Containing, The Young Beautiful Brides Lamentation. The Unequal Match: Or, the Old Feeble Taylor's Insufficiency Containing, the Young Beautiful Bride's Lamentation. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?200 x 310 cropped right and left edges, uneven inking horizontal and vertical rules 1664-1703 Printed for J. Blare at the Looking-glass on London-Bridge[.] J. Blare BBTI

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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 8/8/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant class infidelity marriage sex/sexuality 08/08/2007 Checker Patrick Ludolph Transcription Checked and X-Ballad 08/11/2006 Transcriber Summer Star Original Transcription 08/21/2004 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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I Am a Young Woman, 'tis very well known, Who have Marry'd a narrow foul sorrowful Drone, Above Forty Years Old, and a Taylor by Trade, Yet alas! to my sorrow, I still am a Maid, For he lyes by me like a stone in the Wall, And will do a poor woman no kindness at all. I brought him a Portion of Silver and Gold, E'en as much as my Apron was able to hold, Yet upon such an Husband it was ill bestow'd,
At my heart grief and sorrow now lyes like a load, For to [th]i[n]k how he sleeps like a stone in a Wall, And will do a poor woman no kindness at all. My Parents, I tell you, are highly to blame, For they knew he was Aged, [&] crippled and Lame, But because he was Rich, and had House and Land free, Why they strait did ordain him a Husband for me, But lyes in my Bed like a stone in the Wall, And will do a poor woman no kindness at all.
There was a brisk Gallant did Court me of late, Yet because that he had but a slender Estate, They disdain[']d him, and chose me this lump of Disease, Which I Married my Covetous Parents to please, Now he lyes in my Bed like a stone in the Wall, And will do a poor woman no kindness at all. And thus for the Luere of Gold, I declare, I am ruin'd for ever, Ah! how shall I bare The invincible torment which I undergo, O this wretched Old Taylor proves my overthrow; For he lyes in my Bed like a stone in the Wall, And will do a poor woman no kindness at all. That day which I Married this Cucumber slave, I do heartily wish I had gone to my Grave, Then my Grief, and my Torment had been at an end, But I now must for ever my Minutes here spend, In complaining of him, who has brought me to thrall, For he yie[l]ds a young woman no kindness at all. Sure never had Creature such cause to Lament, I have never so much as one glance of Content, From my fumbling Taylor by Night or by Day, 'Tis enough to make any one wander astray, For he lyes in my Bed like a stone in the Wall, And will do a poor woman no kindness at all. Both Morning and Night I did heartily pray, That kind death would be pleas'd to convey him away, That I might some Brisk Airy young Gallant enjoy, For me Dotard does all my sweet Blessings destroy, E'ery Night he lyes by like a stone in a Wall, And yeilds a young woman no kindness at all. The smell of his Cabbage I cannot abide, For as e'ery night he lyes close by my side, Both his Cabbage and Cucumber yield such a fume, That I often have wisht myself out of the Room; Besides he lyes by like a stone in the wall, And shows a young woman no Kindness at all. I'll writ on this creeping Old Taylor no more, But will seek out a Brisk Spark who my charms with adore[,] For to reap the dear Pleasures of Joy and Delight, From the Tavern to Play-house he will me invite, O methinks those sweet pleasures already I see, Now the De'el take the Taylor, a Gallant for me.
Printed for J. Blare at the Looking-glass on London-Bridge