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4.34 R188490 1 Tell me Jenny, &c. Tell Me Jenny, etc. ON a time as I was walking, / in a Meadow, by a River, Pepys 4.34 Wing L3211[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. 4: 34 Love put to it's Shifts: Or, / The Merry Meeting of / JEMMY and JENNY. Love put to it's Shifts: Or, The Merry Meeting of JEMMY and JENNY. Love Put to Its Shifts: Or, the Merry Meeting of Jemmy and Jenny. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 196 x 284 uneven inking cast fleurons 1671-1702 Printed for I. Deacon, at the Angel in Guiltspur=street. J. Deacon Spufford and 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 2/7/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant and Unfortunate love marriage 02/07/08 Checker Rachel Mann Updated metadata, created xml 08/01/07 Checker Jessica Murphy Checked transcription, created metadata 08/30/06 Transcriber Kris McAbee Original transcription 2006 Bibliographer Jessica Murphy Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created/Updated 8/25/2004 Bibliographer Liberty Stanavage Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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ON a time as I was walking, in a Meadow, by a River, There I heard two lovers talking, when they should be joyn'd together, Jemmy swore, once and more, that he could no longer tarry, But the fair, did declare, she had as yet no mind to marry. Prithee dearest tell me freely, why you do so long defer it, Faith and Troth 'tis very silly, e'ry day thus to forbear it:
Jemmy no, did you know, what you fancy in your passion, You would not, be so hot, marriage now is out of fashion. But when Jemmy heard her reason, what his fancy could not cotten, This says he is petty Treason, and can never be forgotten: For should we, single be, Love wou'd never be rewarded, What is best for our rest, ought not to be disregarded.
LOve, quoth Jenny, it's a Feavour, for a moment raging in you, But I find by your behaviour, 'tis not likely to continue: For did you, love me true. like other men you wou'd have tarry'd We should see, you would be, not so hasty to be marry'd. Tell me what says Jemmy boldly, makes you with my passion daily, Prithee why do you thus hold me, thus to plague me with your folly: Either go, or say no, I can't abide this tedious staying, Time does run with the Sun, prithee leave of this delaying. Whereupon without requesting, rudely on the ground he threw her, Fye says she, such foolish jesting, from my heart I can't endure, But the Swain, told her plain, since she had no will to marry, That he cou'd for his blood, from his hopes no longer tarry. What says she you wicked creature, do you mean by all this fooling Nought said he, but harmless Nature, who regarded not her Schooling; Fye says she, certainly, I think you'r minded to undoe me. Jenny no, say not so, for no harm at all i'le do thee. Then as if she had been dying, happily his will he gained, And in spight of all denying, easily her honour stained; Now says he, are you free, to the Church we shou'd be going, Yes says she, if you be, and so they did conclude their wooing.
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Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Guiltspur-street.