%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A Looking[-]glass for all Good-fellows; or, The Provident Wives/ Directions to her Husband: To turn him to be a good Careful thrifty Man/ to make much of his Wife and Children;/ She strives with him the truth is so,/ At last she brought him to her Bow;/ Some Womens Counsel if Men take heed/ God gives blessing with it indeed;/ Therefore let Men be wise I say,/ And loves their Wives and ne'r go astray. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 0-1689 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/17/2007 21743

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4.79 R188474 2 Packingtons Pound Packington's Pound Packington's Pound Digby Digby's Farewell ALass my dear Husband, what is your intent/ I am afraid that hereafter too late you'l repent Pepys 4.79 Wing L3015[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: 79 A Looking[-]glass for all Good-fellows; or, The Provident Wives/ Directions to her Husband: To turn him to be a good Careful thrifty Man/ to make much of his Wife and Children;/ She strives with him the truth is so,/ At last she brought him to her Bow;/ Some Womens Counsel if Men take heed/ God gives blessing with it indeed;/ Therefore let Men be wise I say,/ And loves their Wives and ne'r go astray. A Looking[-]glass for all Good-fellows; or, The Provident Wives Directions to her Husband: To turn him to be a good Careful thrifty Man to make much of his Wife and Children; She strives with him the truth is so, At last she brought him to her Bow; Some Womens Counsel if Men take heed God gives blessing with it indeed; Therefore let Men be wise I say, And loves their Wives and ne'r go astray. A Looking-glass for All Good Fellows; Or, the Economical Wife's Directions to Her Husband: To Turn Him to Be a Good Careful Thrifty Man to Make Much of His Wife and CHildren; She Strives With Him the Truth is so, at Last She Brought Him to Her Bow; Some Women's Counsel if Men Take Heed God Gives Blessing With It Indeed; Therefore Let Men Be Wise I Say, and Loves Their Wives and Never Go Astray. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, folded, ?210 x 340 cropped right edge, holed surface vertical rule 0-1689 Printed for J. Conyers at the Black Raven a little above St. Andrews Church, Holborn. 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 8/17/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Marriage advice alcohol economics/trade marriage vice 08/17/07 Checker Rachel Mann Transcription checked, Metadata updated, XML created 08/17/06 Transcriber Kris McAbee/Jessica Murphy Original Transcription 9/14/2004 Bibliographer Liberty Stanavage Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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Wife. ALass my dear Husband, what is your intent I am afraid that hereafter too late you'l repent That you spend your time now so idle in vain That I have great cause now dear Husband to complain You know it so well that I need not you tell, That my Heart with great sorrow is ready to swell: Which moves now my Patience my mind for to speak And to ease my mind least my Heart it should break. Husband. What ail's you good wife to make this noyse and a din It is not your brawling I care for a pin; Have you a pain in your tongue that it cannot lye still In keeping good Company I must have my will: For pinching and sparing, then let me alone, I must drink with good Fellows, 'tis very well known If you have maintainance and that which is fitting Sweet wife hold your babble & pray mind your knitting Wife. But Husband you hear not your Babes cry for bread If I had not took pains they might all have been dead While you wasted your mony & got drunk like a Sot, Your care it was all for the Pipe and the Pot. Dear Husband you hear not your poor Children sad moan Though I work my fingers away to the bone; Regard, then say, if you be an honest man For I can do no more then another woman can.
Husband. Wife what if sometimes to the Ale-house I go The worst they can say I am but my own foe, No that is not so; you are a foe to us all When your Children wants victuals to look o'th bare walls Wife tho' I have done amiss, I am not the first, Although you do check me and take me at worst, Then prethee with patience speak no more of this, I am no the first, nor I shall be the last. Wife. Dear husband with grief I must tell you again, I speak it as plain as a good woman can. I'd have you to mind both your Children and Wife, And carry your self like a man all your life: Observe but your neighbours, how they do take pains And at every weeks end they do bring home the gains Like honest good husbands, love doth them bind, And to their Wives and Children do bear a good mind. Husband. My neighbours are not my example at all I can get a penny with the best of them all It is nothing to me what my neighbours they do I can spend and be merry and carefull also: It is not there Wealth nor the Riches they have Can make them live longer to keep them from grave We brought nothing with us when we came into th' World And nothing we shall carry when in the grave we are hurl'd.
Wife. But husband these doings will move a flint stone, Yet say what you will, but it's best to me known: But I ever do find where my shoe doth me wring When this idle Courses no profit brings in, And so I am forced to take all the care, Or else I and our Children we hardly might fare For what you get your self is too little for one, You piss'd all o'th Wall, and came penniless home. Husband. I thought in this morning some storms would arise, When first you began for to open your eyes And how for to raise them I can find out the way But to lay them again it is hard I do say; Goodwife then be patient and quickly have done Or else i'le not stay but abroad i'le be gone, This noise does so mad me, I cannot abide Or else loving wife, you shall see my back side. Wife. I that's all the care that you take to provide You are a kind husband, or else your bely'd For few that are under your charge to maintain, But howevrr you conscience is large died in grain. Away to the Ale-house you here cannot stay I doubt you'l repent it, what I do say To drink and be mad, you do make speedy hast, Pray God turn your heart I do say at the last.
Husband. I am glad now Good wife that you are at your prayers I hope we shall see now and end of our jars Pray God keep you long in that mind I do say Your Counsel is good and I will it obey, For I must confess I have been much to blame I cannot deny it I begin for to shame: But since I confess, I pray thee sweet Wife Content thy self now and i'le live a new life. Wife. Dear Husband, I lament your unkindness to me It were better indeed that you ruled woud be, And leave of this drinking and mind your own Or else you'l repent when all you have is gone. Dear husband my heart it was ready to break No Woman had never more cause for to speak: But consider my words and bear them in mind Hereafter be loving and not so unkind. Husband. I now am resolved to keep the right way Dear Wife I am sorry I have gone so astray But now for thy comfort all this I do tell It is [nev]er too late for to learn to do well; Tho' I have been foolish in spending my Coyn Then prethee dear Wife let us lovingly joyn; Then prethee dear heart come give me a kiss, Let strief and debate have a end now with this.
Printed for J. Conyers at the Black Raven a little above St. Andrews Church, Holborn.