%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE/ Wanton Maidens Choice./ No Landed Men nor Farmers are for she,/ She delights not in that Wealthy Company:/ No Taylors, Joyners, Gentle-Craft, or any,/ But a thumping Tinker that can pay her Cunny. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1671-1702 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/30/2007 21203

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3.190 R186233 2 Hey boys up go we Hey, Boys, Up Go We Hey Boys Up Go We Alas poor thing Alas Poor Thing I Am a Maid now in my prime,/ and fain I would be wed, Pepys 3.190 Wing ?W715 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: 190 THE/ Wanton Maidens Choice./ No Landed Men nor Farmers are for she,/ She delights not in that Wealthy Company:/ No Taylors, Joyners, Gentle-Craft, or any,/ But a thumping Tinker that can pay her Cunny. THE Wanton Maidens Choice. No Landed Men nor Farmers are for she, She delights not in that Wealthy Company: No Taylors, Joyners, Gentle-Craft, or any, But a thumping Tinker that can pay her Cunny. The Wanton Maiden's Choice. No Landed Men Nor Farmers Are for She, She Delights Not in That Wealthy Company: No Tailors, Joiners, Gentle-Craft, or Any but a Thumping Tinker That Can Pay Her Cunny. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 190 x 314 uneven inking vertical rules 1671-1702 Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Guiltspur-street. J. Deacon Spufford and BBTI

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I Am a Maid now in my prime, and fain I would be wed, But i'le not have a Ranting Blade, to bring him to my Bed: Then oft he will be out abroad, when he should be at home, Then I shall want what is my due and be forc'd to lye alone. Nor i'le not have a Free-holder , they oft-times go astray. They'l have a Miss besides their Wife, and that is but foul play:
they spend their strength so much abroad nothing can be done at home, But give me a Lad, if he can be had, that will do it at Night and Noon. Nor i'le not have a Farmer , that does wear a clouted Shoo, He is so weary all the day, with holding of the Plow He is no sooner got to Bed, but he is fast asleep, Such tricks as those they cannot chuse, but will make a Woman weep.
And if I should Marry a Tradesman, the case it may be bad, For now at hand, I'm at a stand, to have a lusty Lad: For if I should Marry an idle drone, and a Fumbler too beside, I should be in danger to hang my self, that ever I was a Bride. If I should have a Black-smith , he has a fiery look, He often will be Drinking, he has a Spark lies in his Throat: And then at night he has no power, there's nothing to be got, God help that Woman I do say, that Weds a Drunken Sot. Nor I'le not have a Taylor, he is too light behind, He'l be too hard for me at Cabbidge, if he can any find: And so I may be famished while Cabbidge time doth last, He'l have his share, he'l never care, whether I do eat or fast.
If I should Wed one of the Gentle-craft I should have now and then a touch, But if he meet with a pritty Maid, and get her in his Clutch, He'd like the Soul, and stop the hole, and feel the bottom too, When I may lye at home poor fool, and have nothing for to do. Tho' the Joyner comes to me I swear, he is a cunning man, He'l get so far into my Gears, i'le be careful of the same: Yet to besure, and that is pure, if he lay a Maid down on her back, He'l have a care, and that is rare, she shall have what she does lack. But of all the men that here is nam'd, a Mettal-Man for me, He shall be welcome day and night, into my Company: He has a Bag of Tools I swear, and bravely he can them use, I am made go to't, he needs must do't, I can him not refuse.
Printed for J. Deacon , at the Angel in Guiltspur-street .