%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Man's Filicity and Misery,/ Which is a good Wife and a bad; Or, the best and the worst./ Discoursed in a Dialogue between Edmund and David. Parker, Martin University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1678-1680 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/20/2007 21755

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4.91 R187292 1 I have for all good Wives a Song I Have for All Good Wives a Song KInd Couzen David prethee stay,/ Good news to thee I will bewray, I have the best Wife that ever had Man [with variations; not final stanza] another edition at 1.392-393 ; cropped imprint: Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. P. Pepys 4.91 Wing P441C; Rollins (2) 1657 (July 16, 1632, IV, 281, Fran. Grove); Rollins (2) ?1671 (Mch. 20, 1638, IV, 412, Fran. Grove); Rollins (2) 1658 (Mch. 1, 1675, ii, 499). 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: 91 Man's Filicity and Misery,/ Which is a good Wife and a bad; Or, the best and the worst./ Discoursed in a Dialogue between Edmund and David. Man's Filicity and Misery, Which is a good Wife and a bad; Or, the best and the worst. Discoursed in a Dialogue between Edmund and David. Man's Felicity and Misery, Which is a Good Wife and a Bad; Or, the Best and the Worst. Discussed in a Dialogue Between Edmund and David. Parker, Martin 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?205 x 294 damaged surface, uneven inking, set-off from opposite page visible 1678-1680 Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. P.[?] F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, T. P. Blagden

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Edmund. KInd Couzen David prethee stay, Good news to thee I will bewray, Since last I saw thee I am married, Now things with me are better carried, I dare say that which no man can: I have the best Wife that ever had Man David. I am right joyful Couzen Ned To hear that thou so well hast sped, As thou mayest thy good fortune blesse, I may curse mine unhappiness: My torments none on Earth can scan, I have the worst Wife that ever had man Edmund. My Wife for Beauty bears the name, From all the town from whence she came, For shape she might a Lady be, And so say all that ever her see Her middle I can easily span, She is the best Wife etc. David. My wife so loathsome is to view She every morning makes me spew, For person she's scarce good enough
To cry, maids ha, ye any kitching stuff She shineth like a Dripping-pan, O she's the worst Wife, etc. Edmund. My Wife is affable and meek, To please my fancy she doth seek, My Humour she will never thwart, But do my will with all my heart, We use no worse words but Ned, & Nan She is the best, etc. David. My wife is obstinate and froward, She's sullen, peevish and untoward: She's glad at heart when she can find, Occasion to molest my mind: She'l have her will do what I can, O she's the worst Wife, etc. Edmund. My Wife is careful of her charge, She never romes abroad at Large, Her businesse she will ne're neglect, But bring all things to good effect, She's to her Babes a Pellican, She is the best Wife, etc.
David. MY wife among'st her Gossips doth gad, As though nothing to do she had, The Children go undrest all the day Unless I put on their Array, I'm fain to make what shift I can: O she's the worst Wife, etc. Edmund. My Wife for constant chastity, Is like Lucrece or Penelope: She is so weary in her carriage, That if a kiss would wrong her marriage, No man could get the favour than, She is the best, etc. David. My wife is full of merry trix, She hath been nought with five or six; If she can but get me out of door, E're I come in she'l play the whore, She'l say though I cant others can, O she's the worst, [etc.] Edmund. My wife so cleanly is and neat, She adds a sweetness to my meat, I eat when I no stomach have, Because tis done as I do crave; In sickness she is my best Physitian, She is the best, etc. David. My wife is such a beastly Slut, Unless it be an Egg or a Nut, I in the house dare nothing eat, For feare there's poyson in the meat The Dogs do lick both Dish and Pan; O she's the worst, etc. Edmund. My wife will wear no yellow hose, No wench can make her swell i'th nose She knows that I to her am just, And in my faith she puts her trust; She'l not be vexed say what I can She is the best, etc. David. If I upon a Woman look, My Wife will swear upon a Book, That she is certainly my whore, Though I ne'r saw the woman before She'l claw her eyes out if she can: O she's the worst, etc.
Edmund. My Wife will never follow me. Go where I will at home stays she, Though I from morn to night do rome, She smiling bids me welcome home, This makes me hast home to my Nan, She is the best, etc. David. If I unto the Ale-house go To drink a jug of Beer, or so, Though ne'r so fast I thither hie, My Wife is there as soon as I: If me and my friends she'l curse & ban O she's the worst, etc.. Edmund. If any friends comes home to me, My Wife gives entertainment free, But out of doors she will not stir, Unless I go along with her, She scrapes and saves what e're she can She is the best, etc. David. My Wife will at the Ale-house sit, And waste away both money and wit, Nay rather then she'l lack, She'l sell the Smock from of her back She'l steal from me all that she can: O she's the worst, etc. Edmund. Kind Couzen David I am very sorry To hear thee tell so bad a story Marriage and hanging now I see, Goes as they say by destiny, I would thou couldst say as I can: I have the best Wife that ever had Man. David. I thank you Couzen for your good will Long may your blessings continue still My Crosse I must with patience bear Till God or the Devil end my care And thus I end as I began, I have the worst Wife that ever had man, Author. You Wives who have heard this discourse Now shew who is better & who is worse. The best will freely buy this Song, The worst will shew she hath a tongue: The head's soon broken that is scal'd, And Jades will kick if they be gall'd.
Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. P[assinger].