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Patricia Fumerton Early Modern Center - English Department University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93105 United States of America EMail: pfumer@english.ucsb.edu

4.121 R181936 1 Tom the Taylor, the Journey-man Shoomaker, or Billy and Molly Daniel Cooper Tom the Tailor, the Journeyman Shoemaker, or Billy and Molly VVAs ever Man so vext with a Wife/ in Suburbs or in City? see also Pepys 4.146 Pepys 4.121 Wing P2860A 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: 121 Poor Anthony's Complaint/ And Lamentation against his miseries of/ marriage, meeting with a scolding Wife. Poor Anthony's Complaint And Lamentation against his miseries of marriage, meeting with a scolding Wife. Poor Anthony's Complaint and Lamentation Against His Miseries of Marriage, Meeting with a Scolding Wife. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 200 x 320 cropped right edge, set-off from opposite page visible 0-1689 Printed for J. Conyers at the Black Raven in Fetter-lane. J. Conyers BBTI

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WAs ever Man so vext with a Wife in Suburbs or in City? I live a discontented life, alas, the more's the pity: I must to bed now I am wed before I fill my belly, Or else I have a broken head, 'tis a hard case I tell ye. When I would eat she calls me sott, and maundering Brath doth bring me, So scalding, that is, scolding hot, the very steam doth sting me; Then you that live a single life I wish you to beware, For Marriage often breedeth strife, and alwaies bringeth care.
A dismal Peal to me is rung, while I rock Bearn in the Cradle, Oh! bless me from her scolding tongue, and from her basting Ladle. Oh that I were a single man as I was heretofore sir, I would not kiss young Kate or Nan, nor never marry more sir. My wife doth lug me by the ears if I but ask for Bacon, And flouts, and taunts, and scolds, & jeers, but she must have her Capon: She kicks me up and down the house, and roars as loud as Thunder, While I am silent as a Mouse, hold up my hands and wonder.
ABout the Room she often routs for to find fault and quarrel, Although I wash the shitten Clouts, and clean the Small-Beer Barrel: The tongs and irons though I scour, and make her fire dayly, Yet I have not one quiet hour she bums me like a Bayly. I drudge and toyl, and am her slave, and clean both Pots and Flaggon, I cannot tell what she would have she is so like a Dragon; She makes me weary of my life for I can get no quiet, The live-long day I live in strife, and scolding is my dyet. She'l often rise from Spinning-wheel to make me dance the Borey, And makes me taste so oft Salt-Eele, I grow a meer John Dorey, She is a Chip of the old block, (such Chips are but too common) A soure piece of Crab-tree stock, a brawling bawling woman.
One night she went to take the pot, and all bepist me sweetly, A Leaky Cullender she got, which made the bed feel seatly: My Dear (quoth I) you piss beside upon my Face and Pillow; Peace Cuckold, peace, go sleep she cry'd, you are a lying fellow. I feel 'tis not quite to my thumb, it can be no such matter, Thus she pist on the bed and room, and soak'd me in salt water, She forc'd me to rise at night, or else to lye in Pickle, For I was in a pissen plight by this same Madam Fickle. By me let others warning take when they intend to marry, Least they (like me) repent too late, and quickly do miscarry. The married life is full of strife, and full of Horns I fear it; Then prithee do not take a wife, but take a Glass of Claret.
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