%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Advice to Batchelors,/ OR,/ The Married Mans Lamentation./ Take heed you that Unmarried are,/ How you do make your Choice;/ But if a good Wife you do find,/ Twill make your heart Rejoyce. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1671-1702 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/20/2007 21767

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4.103 R234636 4 Hey boys up go we Hey, Boys, Up Go We Hey Boys, Up Go We busie fame Busy Fame Busy Fame Martellus One Night When All the Village Slept Martellus Jenny Gin Jenny Gin Jenny Gin YOu Batchelors that single are,/ may lead a happy life, then hey boys slap goes she. [no refrain to first and last stanzas] uneven inking, tune: To the Tune of, Hey boys up go we; busi[e] fame; Martellus; Or, Jenny Gin. Pepys 4.103 Wing A645 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: 103 Advice to Batchelors,/ OR,/ The Married Mans Lamentation./ Take heed you that Unmarried are,/ How you do make your Choice;/ But if a good Wife you do find,/ Twill make your heart Rejoyce. Advice to Batchelors, OR, The Married Mans Lamentation. Take heed you that Unmarried are, How you do make your Choice; But if a good Wife you do find, Twill make your heart Rejoyce. Advice to Bachelors, or, the Married Man's Lamentation. Take Heed You that Unmarried Are, How You Do Make Your Choice; But if a Good Wife You Do Find, it Will Make Your Heart Rejoice. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 200 x 300 damaged surface, set-off from opposite page visible cast fleuron 1671-1702 Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Gilt-/Spur-Street, without Newgate. J. Deacon. Spufford and 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 8/20/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Marriage advice infidelity marriage servitude 8/20/07 Checker Rachel Mann Transcription checked, Metadata updated, XML created 11/16/06 Transcriber Jessica Murphy Original Transcription 9/15/2004 Bibliographer Liberty Stanavage Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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YOu Batchelors that single are, may lead a happy life, For married men are full of care, and Women oft breed strife: As by my late unhappy match, you here may plainly see, A loving man and froward Wife, will never well agree. Beauty's a thing that wins mens hearts, and reason so bewitches, That men oft let the weaker sort, like fools to wear the Breeches.
And I my self too late lament my apish foolery; For if I speak an hasty word, then hey boys slap goes she. I in the morning up must get, or else there is no quiet, And get her some delicious bit, for she doth love good dyet: I ask her why she'l be profuse? she crys what's that to me, And if another word I use, then Hey Boys slap goes she.
SHe'l make me rise out of my Bed, to let another in; And if I ask the reason why, a quarrel doth begin; She'l haul me up and down the house, the like you ne're did see, I must be silent as a Mouse, or Hey Boys slap goes she. If I but for my breakfast ask, then doth she laugh and jeer, Perhaps give me a hard dry crust. and strong four Shilling Beer: She tells me that is good enough, for such a Rogue as me, And if I do but seem to pout, then Hey Boys slap goes she. She often times doth tell me plain, that I do wear the horns, Sure every man doth this disdain, and wise men meerly scorns: But since 'tis my unhappy fate, how can it helped be? But if I chance thereof to prate, then hey Boys slap goes she. The Pots and Dishes I must wash, and scowre the Irons too, Nay, and must wash the childrens clouts believe me this is true: But those that did the Children get, should slave as well as me,
And if I chance to vex or fret, then hey Boys slap goes she, This is a strange and dismal life, that I poor man do lead; And when I do consider well: it makes my heart to bleed: But if it goes against the grain, I must contented be, If in the least I do complain then hey Boys slap goes she. O that I were a single man, as I was heretofore, Or if I were a Widdower. I ne're would Marry more: For I do to my sorrow know. and to my grief I see, When she says I and I say no, then hey Boys slap goes she. A thousand times I wish in vain, I ne'r had been begot, Then had I been a happy man, now Cuckold, Fool, and Sot: But once again you Batchelors, take warning now by me, For 'tis a curse to be a Slave, and yet a C[u]ckold be.
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Printed for J. Deacon at the Angel in Gilt Spur-Street, without Newgate.