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4.10 R188537 1 Two English Travellors The Two English Travelers IF that there a bonny / brisk Batchellor be, Pepys 4.10 Wing M278[a]A 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. 4: 10 The Maids Hue & Cry / after a Husband, / OR, / The Damosels Complaint. The Maids Hue & Cry after a Husband, OR, The Damosels Complaint. The Maid's Hue and Cry After a Husband, or, the Damsel's Complaint. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 195 x 262 damaged surface vertical rule and cast fleurons 0-1689 Printed for J. Conyers at the Raven in Fetter-lane. J. Conyers BBTI

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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 2/24/2009 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant and Unfortunate 02/24/09 Checker Rachel Mann Re-xmled 07/19/07 Checker Jessica C. Murphy Ballad checked 08/22/06 Transcriber Kris McAbee Original transcription 2006 Bibliographer Jessica C. Murphy Bibliographic SQL Database Record Updated/Created 8/24/2004 Bibliographer Liberty Stanavage Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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IF that there a bonny brisk Batchellor be, Oh! gentle sweet Cupid, convey him to me, And grant me a Man without any delay To court me, and love me by Night and by Day. I value not whether he's black, brown, or fair: To get me a Husband is all my whole care:
For all other things I wiil shift as I can, If I can but marry some bonny Young-man. The pevish nice Virgins admire a sweet face, And others for Riches will any embrace; 'Tis true, Gold and Beauty create much delight, But give me a man that can please me at night.
[If ? o]n [such a man ca]n be found, I'le give him my heart and five hundred good pound: The Portion is small, but i'le prove such a wife, He ne'r shall repent him all daies of his life. Now after so much by a Virgin is told, That for a good Husband will give all my Gold: Methinks some sweet William, or Thomas, or Ned, Should venture, and try me, and take me to bed. What were it for any of these pretty men To hug me and kiss me agen and agen? I should think a young Maid were more sweet and divine Than all the delights of the juice of the Vine.
There's scarce a young man but his Bottle will mind: But in a Wifes Arms no pleasure can find; When we talk of a Husband away they are gone, Resolv'd (as they tell us) to marry------with none. My Masters I think 'tis a very hard case That none but your Misses you ever embrace: Strange charms you can find in Coelias bright eye, But hang the dull Wife every Fopling does cry. To conclude all in short, i'le get if I can A Husband that shall be a lively brisk man: And if such a person would once come to me, I'd strike up a bargain, and quickly agree.
Printed for J. Conyers at the Raven in Fetter-lane.