%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Young-Mans Answer to the/ Merry Maid of Shoreditch her Resolution./ She saith a single Life it is the best,/ It is so with a Man, it is confest:/ If he marry a Woman of the worser sort,/ No one will give her a good report./ So Young-men pray you now be wise,/ You see what some Maids can devise;/ They are as loose as Water in the River,/ They wou'd undo a thousand Men together. 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 04/03/2008 21274

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3.260 R187783 1 Hold Buckle and Thong Together Hold Buckle and Thong Together DO you see how basely this young Maid,/ against young=men that she does clatter: and let them fret, it is no matter. {with variations; not stanzas 3,6,7} AND yet they'l say how bravely they/ live single, if they never marry: Pepys 3.260 Wing Y111D 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: 260 The Young-Mans Answer to the/ Merry Maid of Shoreditch her Resolution./ She saith a single Life it is the best,/ It is so with a Man, it is confest:/ If he marry a Woman of the worser sort,/ No one will give her a good report./ So Young-men pray you now be wise,/ You see what some Maids can devise;/ They are as loose as Water in the River,/ They wou'd undo a thousand Men together. The Young-Mans Answer to the Merry Maid of Shoreditch her Resolution. She saith a single Life it is the best, It is so with a Man, it is confest: If he marry a Woman of the worser sort, No one will give her a good report. So Young-men pray you now be wise, You see what some Maids can devise; They are as loose as Water in the River, They wou'd undo a thousand Men together. The Young Man's Answer to the Merry Maid of Shoreditch Her Resolution. She Said a Single Life It Is the Best, It Is So With a Man, It Is Confessed: If He Marry a Woman of the Worser Sort, No One Will Give Her a Good Report. So Young Men Pray You Now Be Wise, You See What Some Maids Can Devise; They Are As Loose As Water in the River, They Would Undo a Thousand Men Together. The second part, The second part, The Second Part, 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?210 x 316 damaged surface vertical rules and cast fleurons 1671-1702 Printed for J. Deacon, at the Sign of the Angel,/ in Guilt-Spur-Street. J. Deacon Spufford and BBTI

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DO you see how basely this young Maid, against young-men that she does clatter: For her scornful words that she hath said, I do intend now for to fit her: Young Maids they will both swear and lye, and ugly words sometimes they'l scatter, But young-men you must be very wise, and let them fret, it is no matter. Young-men you must not be too kind, for if you be they will undo you; And never let them know your mind, for then they'l seek to overthrow you: Till you have prov'd them to the full, that you may know their love the better, And never let them have their will, if they fret a while it is no matter.
They say they can live single well, it is but till they can be fitted: But they can dissemble, I can tell, and they'l hav't as soon as they can get it: You may consider young-men first, they'r as false as Dice and Cards toth' matter, They'r quickly won, and sooner lost, believe not every Maidens clatter. There was a Maid the other day, its but a while since she came to London, That married a Felt-maker they say, and she prov'd with-child then with a young one. So often young-men are beguil'd, when they run on, and believe their clatter. They have ways enough to beguile a man, if they fret a while it is no matter.
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ANd yet they'l say how bravely they live single, if they never marry: When young-men see it every day, that one or other does miscarry: I wonder Maids will be such fools, to make it good when a bad matter; But Young-men never be o're-rul'd, but let them fret, it is no matter. If you give them any little affront, that they do think is disloyal: Then night and day they then will hunt, to put another to the Tryal: They are as false as rotten Wood, I scorn a jot for to belye them: Such as those will never do a man good, that Man's undone that's ty'd to try them. But yet there's many an honest Maid, that is both true and loyal-hearted: It's pitty they should be badly wed, that good husbands and they should be parted. But dissembling Damosels have a care, they'r like a Bog that's ever sinking: They'l bring a Young-man in a snare, they'l make them blind instead of winking. There is a great difference in Maids, the better sort I do commend them, But for dissembling Girls that are misled, no man is worthy to befriend them: But young-men you must now be wise, to pick and chuse to gain the better; And do not believe every Maids lyes, but let them fret, it is no matter. Now young-men all I wish you well, be careful pray you in your chusing; Let the worser sort stay a while and mend, and in good honest Maids make no refusing: For an honest Girl is worth her weight in Pearl, when an ill-bred Girl will lye and flatter: By their carriage you may partly tell their condition, they'l make known the matter.
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Printed for J. Deacon, at the Sign of the Angel, in Guilt-Spur-Street.