%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Distressed Virgin,/ You that [en]joy your hearts delight,/ And sweet embraces every Night,/ Pitty my case, whose pains are great,/ and blame my two too Rigid fate. Parker, Martin University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1680-1682 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/14/2007 21724

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4.58 R181449 1 I am a maid and a very good maid I Am a Maid and a Very Good Maid VVas ever poor maid in such a distress,/ So full of despair and so pittiless, For my heart is broke for want of a man. [with variations] uneven inking, tune: Tune, I am a maid and a very [good ma]id. ; uneven inking, imprint: Printed for M. Cole, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clar[ke,] W. Thackery, and T. Passinger. Pepys 4.58 Wing P436B 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: 58 The Distressed Virgin,/ You that [en]joy your hearts delight,/ And sweet embraces every Night,/ Pitty my case, whose pains are great,/ and blame my two too Rigid fate. The Distressed Virgin, You that [en]joy your hearts delight, And sweet embraces every Night, Pitty my case, whose pains are great, and blame my two too Rigid fate. The Distressed Virgin, You that Enjoy Your Heart's Delight, and Sweet Embraces Every Night, Pity My Case, Whose Pains are Great, and Blame My Too Too Rigid Fate. Parker, Martin 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 206 x 255 cropped and torn top edge, uneven inking vertical rules and cast fleurons 1680-1682 Printed for M. Cole, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke, / W. Thackery, and T. Passinger. M. Cole, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackery, T. Passinger Blagden

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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 8/14/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant and Unfortunate appearance economics/trade family/procreation love mythology/Classicalworld sex/sexuality 08/14/07 Checker Rachel Mann Transcription checked, Metadata added, XML created 09/06/06 Transcriber Kris McAbee Original transcription 9/9/2004 Bibliographer Liberty Stanavage Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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WAs ever poor maid in such a distress, So full of despair and so pittiless, And languish I must let me do what I can, For my heart it is broke for want of a man. I'me twenty years old, & I think somewhat more And as for my beauty all might me adore, But now I do find Cupid is a Trappan, For my heart it is broke for want of a man. If I had no portion my beauty might do But though I have beauty and much money doo I [wo]n't get a husband do I what I can, For my heart it is broak for want of a man.
Some Sweethhearts I had by whom I set sight, That call'd me their love and their chiefest delight now my colour is chang'd, it is grown pale & wan For my heart it is broke for want of a man. My foolish denyals did make them grow slack, And now silly Creature a sweetheart I lack, But let me seek out for help all that I can, My heart will be broke for want of a man. If it were the fashion for maidens to woe, The world should discover soon what I would do, And I should not need for to look pale and wan, Nor my heart should not break for want of a man
But since 'tis not so, the pain I must endure, No able Physitian can find me a cure, Thus I spin out my life though it be abut a span, And my heart it will break for want of a man. When others less fair take their naturall rest, With cares and with fears I am nightly opprest, My senses are drowned and do what I can My heart it will break etc. The load of a maidenhead I will throw off, And will to the world no more be a scoff, For though Cupid's a cheat and a perfect trappan, Ile venture my honour to get me a man. I'le play fast and loose and no more will deny, Ile give my consent though they come but to try. For I find 'tis in vain let me do what I can, If once I say no, for to get me a man. The shifts I am put to the like ne'r was known, For I am forsook and distressed alone, None was so hard set since the world it began, For my heart it will break for the want of a man. Let father and mother both say what they please I'le use my own mind my torments to ease, And strive by all means let them do what they can To banish my pains by the help of a man. My Sister was marry'd at sixteen years old, And many at less, as I have been told, I twenty and upwards yet do what I can, My heart it will break etc. Come sweethearts or no I will get me a friend, That to these my troubles shall soon put an end, I'le ease my sad heart of these pains if I can, By some means or other ile get me a man. And what if by chance he should get me a child, I'le tell my dear father it came by a wild, And when it is done then help it none can, For my heart shall not break for the want of a man But rather than I shall so suffer disgrace My father and mother will pitty my case, For in plain I will say let them do what they can, I cannot survive without use of a man. You maids whose sweethearts do crown you with bliss, I'de think my self happy to gain but a kiss, I resolve to accept the next offer I can, Least my heart it should break for want of a man.
Printed for M, Cole, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clark [,] W. Thackery, and T, Passenger.