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3.388 R233010 1 How can I be Merry or Glad How Can I Be Merry or Glad How Can I Be Merry or Glad BEhold I am an Aged Man,/ who have one Youthful Daughter dear; Pepys 3.388 Wing U48 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: 388 The Undutiful/ Daughter of Devonshire:/ OR,/ The careful Kind indulgent Fathers Entreaties for her to forsake her/ Lover a Spend-thrift, and to Embrace a Farmers hopeful Son. The Undutiful Daughter of Devonshire: OR, The careful Kind indulgent Fathers Entreaties for her to forsake her Lover a Spend-thrift, and to Embrace a Farmers hopeful Son. The Unkind Daughter of Devonshire: Or, the Careful Kind Indulgent Father's Entreaties for Her to Forsake Her Lover a Spendthrift, and to Embrace a Farmer's Hopeful Son. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 210 x 330 vertical rules 1675-1696 Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare and J. Back. P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back PBA

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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 8/27/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Unfortunate economics/trade family/procreation love marriage rurallife 8/27/07 Checker Rachel Mann Transcription checked, Metadata updated, XML created 1/29/07 Transcriber Cat Zusky Original Transcription 9/9/04 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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BEhold I am an Aged Man, who have one Youthful Daughter dear; And yet let me take what care I can, she'll not to my Counsel once give ear. I love her as I do my Life, for her I take a Constant Care; Therefore I'd not have her make a Wife, for him that should bring her to Dispair.
Having one Daughter, and no more, she should a Loving Father find; I'll give her both Gold and Silver store, if she would but marry to my mind. But she has set her Love on one, who is a Man of mean degree; And tho' I have School'd her still alone, she'll not in the least be rul'd by me.
He is a Spend-thrift Gaming Blade, that Roams abroad both far and near; And therfore as I have often said, there's nothing but ruine does appear. I tell her this with melting Eyes, and beg of her to take good heed; Yet she does my Counsel still despise, which causes my Aged heart to bleed. I tell her of the Pains and Care, which I have took for what I have; And therefore I think it is not fair, to Spend it upon a Crafty Knave. In Taverns will he Rant and Roar, and e'ry lewd Companion feast; And when he has quite Consum'd her store, he'll never regard her in the least. She knows that he delights to Game, and does of folly take his fill; Yet this will not in the least reclaim, her obstinate Disobedient will. Alas! she is my Darling dear, this day alive I have no more; Therefore I would have her flourish here, and live as her Mother has done before.
She is I find so stubborn grown, that what I have she will not Prize; For I declare I will hold my own, she Values not that in the least she cryes. Nay, was he but an honest Man, in whom I might some hope behold; I'd never deny him, for I can give with her three Hundred Pounds in Gold. 'Tis true, three Hundred Pounds, they may be thought a portion mean and small, Yet I think it too much to throw away on one that will Piss it against the Wall. Besides, when I this world shall leave, her Lot will then full larger be: The rest of my Treasure she'll then receive, for why I can give it to none but she. Again I'll to my Daughter go, where like a Father and a Friend, I'll Court her to let this Spend-thrift go, why should she with sorrow my heart offend? And if she does my Counsel take, I have a Farmers Son in store. Who will a kind loving Husband make, and does her fair beautiful Charms adore.
Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, and J. Back.