%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Jolly Widdower:/ OR,/ A Warning for BATCHELORS./ Lest they marry with a Shrow, and so become impatient under the pain and punishment/ of a Hornified Head-piece./ Now he that marrys with a shrow,/ believe me this is true,/ Over her Husband she will crow,/ ay, and cornute him too. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1664-1703 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/20/2007 21766

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4.102 R188349 1 Caper and jerkit Under the Greenwood Tree Caper and Jerkit YOung=Men and Batchelors, pray attend/ unto my doleful Tale, I wou'd I had ne'r been wed. [with variations; not final stanza] Papye 4.102 Wing J898[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: 102 The Jolly Widdower:/ OR,/ A Warning for BATCHELORS./ Lest they marry with a Shrow, and so become impatient under the pain and punishment/ of a Hornified Head-piece./ Now he that marrys with a shrow,/ believe me this is true,/ Over her Husband she will crow,/ ay, and cornute him too. The Jolly Widdower: OR, A Warning for BATCHELORS. Lest they marry with a Shrow, and so become impatient under the pain and punishment of a Hornified Head-piece. Now he that marrys with a shrow, believe me this is true, Over her Husband she will crow, ay, and cornute him too. The Jolly Widower: Or, a Warning for Bachelors. Lest They Marry with a Shrew, and so Become Impatient Under the Pain and Punishment of a Hornified Head-piece. Now He that Marries with a Shrew, Believe Me this is True, Over Her Husband She Will Crow, Aye, and Cuckold Him Too. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 190 x 302 ?cropped top edge, creased and damaged surface, set-off from opposite page visible vertical rule 1664-1703 Printed for I. Blare, at the Looking=glass, on London=Bridge. J. Blare BBTI

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YOung-Men and Batchelors, pray attend unto my doleful Tale, It is to you that these lines I send, in hopes they may prevail With you, to take a special care, when ever you mean to wed, For if that a Shrow, should over you crow, then, then all thy joys are fled. Alas! by woful experience now, I know this too be true, I am forced for to cringe and bow, and yet all will not do:
For being married unto a Scold, my joys they are fully fled, Which makes me to cry so sorrowfully, I wou'd I had ne'r been wed. When I was single i'de rant and roar, and court the charming bowl, Both Silver and Gold I had good store, and none could me controul: But now the case is altered quite, I now am to ruine led, The Horns that I wear, doth make me dispair I wou'd I had ne'r been wed.
When Gallants do come for to court my wife, my patience then is try'd, I dare not spake nor look for my life, but glad to sneak aside, And forc'd to lye in some corner cold, that they may both go to bed, This I must endure, since there is no cure, I wou'd I had ne'r been wed. His Boots I am forc'd to clean and grease, against this blade does rise, 'Tis true, I do it, in hopes to please, but this would not suffice, For if I do not liquor them well, she'l fling them at my head, My grief is so great, no tongue can relate, I wou'd I had ne'r been wed. She will be cloathed in rich array, her Ribbons, Muff and Fan, And goes a Gossiping e'ry day, but I alas poor Man, Must drudge and toil in a thred-bare coat, and glad of a crust of bread, But she has the best of delicates drest, I wou'd I had ne'r been wed. She calls me up in the morning, then I must a fire make Against she rises at nine or ten, yet I no notice take:
But bear it all, what ever may fall it is but in vain to dread This sorrowful lot, a wife I have got, but wou'd I had ne'r been wed. She makes a fool and a perfect mome of me, alas, 'tis true, I wash the Dishes when I come home, and Scoure the Irons too: Nay, wash the clouts and clean her shooes, before I must go to bed, Now this is the life, I lead with a wife, I wou'd I had ne'r been wed. Against her humours I ne'r revil'd, tho' she did rant and reign, I often rock'd another mans child, tho' much against the grain: All this I must do, and ten times more, or else she will break my head, The three-legged stool, my courage must cool, I wou'd I had ne'r been wed. At length she sickn'd, and soon she dy'd, this did my grief destroy, I never so much as sigh'd or cry'd, but leapt and jumpt for joy: I bought her a Coffin large and long, to put her in now she is dead, She is gone to the grave, and I shall be brave, i'le have a care how I do wed.
Printed for J. Blare, at the Looking-glass, on London-Bridge.