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3.289 R188191 1 Lay of your Pleading Lay by your Pleading Lay Off Your Pleading I Am a young Maid that now am afraid,/ I never shall have a young Batchelor's Aid, But a Husband. [stanza 1 only]; For a Husband. [stanzas 2-18] Pepys 3.289 Wing H646[B] 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: 289 THE/ Handsome Maid of Milkstreet:/ BEING/ The Substance of her sorrowfull Lamentation for fear she should never/ be Married. THE Handsome Maid of Milkstreet: BEING The Substance of her sorrowfull Lamentation for fear she should never be Married. The Handsome Maid of milkstreet: being the Substance of Her Sorrowful Lamentation For fear She Should Never Be Married. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?195 x 285 damaged surface horizontal and vertical rules 1675-1696 Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, Back. P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, Back PBA

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I Am a young Maid that now am afraid, I never shall have a young Batchelor's Aid, To cure the Disease which lately did seize, It is a sad itching which nothing will please But a Husband. I dare to engage I am at full age, And would it not put a young Lass in a rage To be overthrown, and make this sad moan,
And all the long Night to lye sighing alone, For a Husband . There's my Father's man Dick , for him I am sick, I would he would come to me now in the Nick; He is a stout Lad, that wou'd make my Heart glad, Now I for my own part am almost stark mad, For a Husband.
I have a sweet Face, and I walk with a Grace, Nay, likewise drest up in fine Ribbons and Lace; My Shoulders laid bare, show my Skin white and fair; By this you may know that I am dainty Ware For a Husband . Behold my Silk Gown well lac'd up and down, As Rich as most Ladies in City or Town; Yet nevertheless, though I wear this fine Dress, I can't get a Mate, but am still in Distress For a Husband. I once had a Love, to whom like the Dove, I ever most Loyal and Constant did prove; He did me forsake, and another Lass take, And now my poor Heart it is ready to break For a Husband. There's Susan and Kate , each Lass has her Mate, And I that am handsome must grieve at this rate, And forced to stay, that am older than they, I fear that at last I shall wander astray For a Husband. My Virginity is a burthen to me, Yet no hope of Comfort at all do I see, Each Night it doth keep my poor Eye-lids from sleep, And instead of sweet Slumbers, I sigh, sob, and weep For a Husband. I'm proper and tall, and handsome withall, And therefore young Batchelors come at my call, Some kindness to show, or my Heart will sink low, I fear at the last, I distracted shall go For a Husband. I have Gold, I declare, with other choice Ware, And therefore young Gallants come now if you dare, For I have Fourscore broad pieces in store, And I'd give it all, were it Twenty-times more For a Husband .
Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, Back.