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3.276 R188216 1 She Got Money By't She Got Money By't; Fourpence Halfpenny Farthing She Got Money By It I Wonder that this Age is grown/ to such a vast confusion; a Padlock on their Breeches. [the 'c' of 'Padlock' is inverted in 1st stanza] [with variations] see also Pepys 3.275; Advertisement: {see imprint} Pepys 3.276 Wing H1602[a]D 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: 276 The Hartford-shire Mens/ Fears of the Maidens Furies./ It being an Answer to the Nine Maidens Attempt in Gelding the/ Young-man. The Hartford-shire Mens Fears of the Maidens Furies. It being an Answer to the Nine Maidens Attempt in Gelding the Young-man. The Hartfordshire Men's Fears of the Maiden's Furies. It Being an Answer to the Nine Maidens' Attempt in Gelding the Young Man. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 200 x 254 uneven inking vertical rule 1684-1700 Printed for Iames Bissel at the Bible and/ Harp in West=Smithfield./ Where any Chapmen may be furnished. with all sorts of new and old Songs. Iames Bissel PBA

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I Wonder that this Age is grown to such a vast confusion; That maids won't let young-men alone, but by a strange Intrusion They take much pleasure to gain their treasure their very fingers itches, So that mens care is now to wear a Padlock on their Breeches. The tydings soon began to spread through e'ery Town and Village, How young-maids was by fury led, so that they vow'd to pillage
The young-mens Treasure, & use their pleasure, they rob them of their Riches, So that they swear they now will wear a Padlock on their Breeches. You know nine maidens did beset a man, to make him rue it, And Joan the fatal Knife did whet, and vow'd that she would do it. This makes men tremble, & some run nimble, in hopes to save their Riches; And some they swear, they now will wear a Padlock on their Breeches.
When Robin to the Market goes, he is afraid to meet them, As knowing them most cruel Foes, that would most vilely treat him: Yet now to free 'um, if he should see 'um, and likewise save his Riches, He now takes care alwaies to wear a Padlock on his Breeches. There's Roger, Will, and Richard too, nay, likewise honest Harry, With many more, as I am true, all fears they may miscarry. If maids shou'd find um, they'd surely bind um and rob them of their Riches; Therefore their care is still to wear a Padlock on their Breeches. Nay, Daniel dare not go to Plough, for fear these maids should spy him; 'Cause Joan and Bess did swear and vow if they could but come nigh him, They would not spare him; now this does scare him and all his wits bewitches; So that, I swear, he's forc'd to wear a Padlock on his Breeches. As Ralph does from the Market ride, a thousand fears possess him; The like was never known; beside he pray'd that Jove would bless him, And keep him ever from their endeavour, who fain would have his Riches; Besides he will have alwaies still a Padlock on his breeches. Alas! the young-men far and near, since these nine Damosels trading, Amazed are, and quake for fear if they but see a maiden: They fear their Ruin is just ensuing, in losing of their Riches, For all they wear with prudent care a Padlock on their breeches.
Printed for J. Bissel at the Bible and Harp in West Smithfield. Where any Chapman may be furnished with all sorts of new and old Songs.