%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE/ Young Damsels Lamentation:/ OR, THEIR/ Dreadful Outcry against the late Punching,/ WHICH/ Has crack'd above four hundred and fifty West-country Maiden-heads. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1695 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 09/14/2007 21301

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3.287r R187777 1 The Scotch Hay-makers The Scotch Haymakers The Scotch Haymakers HEre's a Lamentation that's spread abroad of late,/ Young Girls do sigh and wimper to see their wretched state; Poor Girls they'r almost wild, to see themselves defil'd,/ This Punching, Punching, O this Punching, has their glory spoil'd. [with variations] hinged broadsheet with verso: "THE/ [?] ABBEY WONDER: OR, the Vestminster Miracle:/..." [first half of title cropped; see Pepys 3.287v] Pepys 3.287r Wing Y100A 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: 287 THE/ Young Damsels Lamentation:/ OR, THEIR/ Dreadful Outcry against the late Punching,/ WHICH/ Has crack'd above four hundred and fifty West-country Maiden-heads. THE Young Damsels Lamentation: OR, THEIR Dreadful Outcry against the late Punching, WHICH Has crack'd above four hundred and fifty West-country Maiden-heads. The Young Damsels Lamentation: Or, Their Dreadful Outcry Against the Late Punching, Which Has Cracked Above four Hundred and Fifty Westcountry Maidenheads. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, hinged, 195 x 290 cropped left edge, uneven inking, verso shows through horizontal rules 1695 LONDON: Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Guiltspur-street. J. Deacon Weinstein: verso content

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H Ere's a Lamentation that's spread abroad of late, Young Girls do sigh and wimper to see their wretched state; Let me tell you now in brief, tho' the Punching-trade in chief, Was much admir'd, and desir'd now poor Girls with grief, Through Town and City they make sad moan, Young Susan, Nancy, Kate, Ginney, likewise Doll and Joan : Poor Girls they'r almost wild, to see themselves defil'd, This Punching, Punching, O this Punching, has their glory spoil'd. Was it not a pleasure to e'ry handsome Maid, When first they heard the tydings, of this new Punching-trade & Of a truth it was we know, they with chearful Hearts did go, Without delaying, beging, praying, for to Punch them so, As other Damsels had been before; Nay, some would need's be Punch'd, full a dozen times or more: But now they'r almost wild, to see themselves defi'd, This Punching, Punching, O this Punching, has their [glory] spoil'd .
Doll , went to the Miller when first she heard the news, Declaring with a smile, he must not the least refuse For to Punch her out of hand. He reply'd, I will not stand, For such a kindness, without shyness, straight he took in hand His Punch, and pleesed her passing well; But now, alas! she finds that her Womb begins to swell, Which makes her most wild, she can't be reconcil'd, This Punching, Punching, O this Punching, has her glory spoil'd. We are told at Reading , Young Men were so unkind, That pritty youthful Lasses could not a Puncher find, Without ready Mony down, some a guinney some a crown, Young mistress Nancy , for her fancy, fairly pawn'd her gown, Then to a Plow-man a way she went, Who pleas'd her with his Punch, but too late she does repent: For she is almost wild, and can't be reconcil'd, This Punching, Punching O this Punching , has her glory spoil'd. Then a Taylor's Daughter, young Genny , call'd by name, Full freighted with desire, to Roger strait she came, I am Punchable she cry'd, therefore will not be deny'd; He being willing, for a shilling, readily comply'd, She gave it freely with all her heart, Because he should not fail for to play a Lovers part: But now she's almost wild, finding herself defil'd, This punching, Punching, etc. Many pretty Lasses might have a slender flaw, Before this Punching time, which they valu'd not a straw; But with Punching them anew, they are crack'd quite through and through That none will take them, but forsake them, ah! what will they do? Burmigem Money will pass as well, As one of these poor Girls, it is a dismal tale to tell: Now, now they'r almost wilde, finding themselves defil'd, This Punching, Punching, etc. In the Town of Plymouth , it seems there's seven-score, At Exeter and Weymouth , there's twice as many more; Nay, they have been double done, since this Punching-trade begun, The Girls did crave it, and wou'd have it, Man nor Mothers Son, Could be at rest if a Punch he had They came from Town, to Town, just as if they had been mad: But now they'r worst than wild, finding themselves with Child, This Punching, Punching, O this Punching, has their glory spoil'd.
London : Printed for J. Deacon , at the Angel in Giltspur-street.