%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Sorrowful BRIDE;/ OR,/ The London Lasses Lamentation for her Husbands Insufficiency. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1682-1694 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/01/2008 21258

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3.244 R187163 1 Let Caesar Live long Let Caesar Live Long Let Caesar Live Long I Have now been Marry'd a Twelvemonth and more,/ And here is a sorrow which troubles me sore; Alas! I am almost a weary of Life,/ For to live a Maiden, tho' a Marry'd Wife. [with variations] Pepys 3.244 Wing S4709C 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: 244 The Sorrowful BRIDE;/ OR,/ The London Lasses Lamentation for her Husbands Insufficiency. The Sorrowful BRIDE; OR, The London Lasses Lamentation for her Husbands Insufficiency. The Sorrowful Bride; or, the London Lass's Lamentation for Her Husband's Insufficiency. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 197 x 312 cropped bottom edge, creased, damaged surface cast fleurons 1682-1694 Printed for R. Kell, at the White-Hart in West-Smithfield[.] R. Kell 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 4/1/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant affliction/health London marriage sex/sexuality vulgarities/crasshumor 04/01/2008 Checker Patrick Ludolph metadata added, xtml created 2/17/2008 Checker Patrick Ludolph checked transcription 10/22/2007 Checker Catherine Zusky Checked transcription 06/23/2007 Transcriber Pavneet Aulakh original transcription 08/30/04 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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I Have now been Marry'd a Twelvemonth and more, And here is a sorrow which troubles me sore; As having my Maiden-head now to this day: Is this not enough to make me run astray? Alas! I am almost a weary of Life, For to live a Maiden, tho' a Marry'd Wife. My Husband is one of the most largest size, And what is the reason I cannot devise, That he should thus baulk a young Woman, I vow, The sweet Joy and Pleasure he doth not allow; The which makes me almost a weary of Life, For to live a Maiden, tho' a Marry'd Wife.
He brought me much Riches of Silver and Gold, With Houses and Land too, the which was Freehold; And gave me a Chain, with a rich Diamond Ring, But I am still wanting a far better thing: Which makes me, I tell ye, quite weary of Life, For to live a Maiden, tho' a Marry'd Wife. I Kiss him and hugg him both morning and night, Which may be sufficient, I think, to invite A Huaband, methinks, to the passion of Love; Yet nothing, I find, will his appetite move: The thoughts of these things makes me weary of Life, For to live a Maiden, tho' a Marry'd Wife.
I'm sure I am Youthful and Beautiful too, And yet notwithstanding he nothing will do, But lies like a Log or a Stone in my Bed, At which I have wish'd my self twenty times dead: For why I am utterly weary of Life, To live a young Maiden, and a Marry'd Wife. Alas! was he Aged, I could not expect The pleasure which he does thus dayly neglect; His Age is not now above Twenty-one years, Yet in pure affection he never appears: This makes me, I tell ye, quite weary of Life, To live a young Maiden, yet a Marry'd Wife. I take him each night in my Amorous Arms, In hopes to provoke him to Loves pleasing Charms; But straight he falls into a slumber or sleep, And I the mean while do both sigh, sob and weep: Have I not just cause to be weary of Life, To live a young Maiden, yet a Marry'd Wife. I feed him with Lamb-stones, nay Cock-broth and Cream In hopes that thereby he may most pleasant seem; But yet notwithstanding this delicate Chear, I tell you no Lye, I am never the near: It makes me Distracted and weary of Life, To live a young Maiden, yet a Marry'd Wife. My Sister she marry'd a Cock of the Game, And that was, I tell ye, young Robin by name: Before she full seventeen Weeks had been wed, With a Son and Daughter she was brought to Bed But here I lye sighing, quite weary of Life, To live a young Maiden, etc . Now see what a lusty stout Fellow has done, When I'de a been thankful for one only Son; But my earnest wishes I find are in vain, In sad sobs and sorrowful sighs I complain; As being, I tell ye, quite weary of Life, For I am a Maiden, yet a Marry'd Wife.
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Printed for R. Kell , at the White-[Hart] in West-Smithfield [.]