%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Somersetshire LADY:/ CONTAINING/ Her sorrowful Lamentation for her Misfortunes, in an Extravagant SPENDTHRIFT,/ who by Riotous Living, brought her to Ruine. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1675-1703 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/20/2007 21747

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4.83 R187162 1 If Love's a sweet Passion If Love's a Sweet Passion I Am a young Wife that has cause to complain,/ Yet I fear all my sorrowful Sighs are in vain; When a Husband he is a sad Spendthrift, you know/ Then a Wife must sad Sorrow and Grief undergoe. cropped imprint: Printed for J. Back, at the Black=Boy, on the midd[le]/ of London=Bridge. Pepys 4.83 Wing S4653A 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: 83 The Somersetshire LADY:/ CONTAINING/ Her sorrowful Lamentation for her Misfortunes, in an Extravagant SPENDTHRIFT,/ who by Riotous Living, brought her to Ruine. The Somersetshire LADY: CONTAINING Her sorrowful Lamentation for her Misfortunes, in an Extravagant SPENDTHRIFT, who by Riotous Living, brought her to Ruine. The Somersetshire Lady: Containing Her Sorrowful Lamentation for Her Misfortunes, in an Extravagant Spendthrift, Who by Riotous Living, Brought Her to Ruin. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 194 x 320 cropped top and right edges, creased surface, uneven inking horizontal and vertical rules 1675-1703 Printed for I. Back, at the Black=Boy, on the middle/ of London=Bridge. J. Back BBTI, PBA

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I Am a young Wife that has cause to complain, Yet I fear all my sorrowful Sighs are in vain; For my Husband he is an invincible Sot, There is nothing he minds but the Pipe, and the Pot: When a Husband he is a sad Spendthrift, you know Then a Wife must sad Sorrow and Grief undergoe. I am a Knight's Daughter of Somersetshire , And my Portion was Three or Four hundred a Year; Which my rambling Husband has blasted of late, For he spends at a woeful Extravagant rate: When a Husband he is a sad Spendthrift, you know Then a Wife must, etc.
When first he came to me, I needs must confess, He came, like a Spark, in an Officer's Dress; But in drinking so many good Gallons of Sack, He has scarce a good Coat, or a Shirt to his Back: When a Huaband he is a sad Spendthrift, you know Then a Wife must, etc. I know he will revel, and thunder, and call, And suppose there be Twenty, he'll pay for them all, While they are a toping his full flowing Bowl, They will count him a noble and generous Soul: When a Husband he is a sad Spendthrift, you know Then a Wife must sad Sorrow and Grief undergoe.
It is but a folly to mention my Birth, Or to think of my former rich Pleasure and Mirth; For, alas! I am drowned in Floods of sad Tears, For I han't been a Wife above Three or Four Years: When a Husband he is a sad Spendthrift, you know Then a Wife must sad Sorrow and Grief undergoe. Believe me good People, as this is my Hand, He has swallowed about Threescore Acres of Land, With an Orchard, and House, a Draw-bridge, and great Moat, He has swallowed them down his devouring Throat: When a Husband he is a sad Spendthrift, you know Then a Wife must, etc. To see my vast Portion thus wastfully spent, It has cost me, in private, to sigh and lament, And a Thousand times wishing I ne'er had been born; For my Life is a burthen, my Days are forlorn: When a Husband he is a sad Spendthrift, you know Then a Wife must, etc. I often have told him, when all is consum'd, In Prison, with sorrow, he then will be doom'd; Yet he never regards what I say in the least, But abroad with his Croneys he'll Revel and Feast: When a Husband he is a sad Spendthrift, you know Then a Wife must, etc. The Chains, and rich Jewels, I formerly wore, They are gone, I have little, or nothing in store; And besides, all my Lands are here mortgag'd, and sold, There is nothing but Sorrow and Grief I behold: When a Husband he is a sad Spendthrift, you know Then a Wife must, etc. O what will become of my Children dear, They will live to know Hardship, and Sorrow, I fear, When they might have liv'd happy, nay glorious and great, If their Father he had not destroy'd their Estate: When a Husband he is a sad Spendthrift, you know Then a Wife must sad Sorrow and Grief undergoe.
Printed for J. Back, at the Black-Boy, on the midd[le] of London-Bridge.