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4.128 R188219 1 The Winchester Wedding The King's Jig; Winchester Wedding The Winchester Wedding AT Charlton there was a Fair,/ where Lads and Lasses did meet, date from content Pepys 4.128 Wing H1658[a]B 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: 128 Hey for Horn-Fair:/ OR,/ Room for Cuckolds, here comes a Company. Hey for Horn-Fair: OR, Room for Cuckolds, here comes a Company. Hey for Horn-fair: Or, Room for Cuckolds, Here Comes a Company. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 208 x 316 cropped right edge horizontal rules and cast fleurons 1685 Printed for C. Dennisson, at the Stationers=Arms within Aldgate. C. Dennisson Weinstein: content

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AT Charlton there was a Fair, where Lads and Lasses did meet, Young Johnny and Jenny came there, to Dance to the Fiddle so sweet; Brisk Sue she led up a Dance, and called for Sellengers-round, And Nelly to Will did advance, and neatly tript o're the Ground: Fair Frances with her fine Meen, and Dorothy gay as a Queen, With Fanny, and pritty-fac'd Nanny, the Glory of all the Green.
The Wives from their Houses fled, and thither with joy did repair, Forsaking their Husbands dull Bed, to find out Gallants in Horn-Fair; There Kisses with Glasses go round, upon the Maids Marmalet Cheek, And many sweet Pleasures were found, which vainly their Husbands did seek: Poor Jeremy Betty did call, and pray'd her to keep her at home, But Billy was silly to Bawl, since Cuckolds must have their doom.
The Lanthorn they vainly expose, an Honest Man there for to find, Their Light and their Labour they loose, for they'l with their Misses be kind: Although their Husbands them love their Wives they seldom do please, 'Tis Kitty most kindly does prove, 'tis Christopher gives them their ease: Young Christopher must be their Mate, their Gallant agen and agen, Sweet Kissing must never be missing, no pleasures are like young Men. Close under the Hedges they lye, and there they sweet Furmity eat, And if their Old Husbands stand by, the Wives will put on them the Cheat; When Roger had found our fair Nell, he takes her a little aside, But what he did there I shan't tell, with playing at Whoope-all hide: 'Tis then the sweet pleasure begins, the Lover enjoys with the Lass, One Billing oft makes the Maid willing to dally upon the Grass. The Fairings they give on this Morn, obtain them a jolly Renown, All sorts and all sizes of HORNS, the Al-a-mode Gifts of the Town, The Cups and the Watches they give to the Fine, and the Tatter's, and Torn,
They without distinction receive, for there they buy nothing but Horn: Let the Cuckolds assemble all here, and for their Dooms patiently w[ait], Here's Horns for the Brows of each Deer, guilded Horns for the Rich Mans Pate. And thence to fair Greenwich they came, to drink a sweet Bumper of Wine, To raise up the hearts of each Dame, and make them look briskly and fine; 'Tis Wine that doth heighten Delight, and gives to Loves torments an ease. Like Love, can shorten the Night, and e'ry young Pallat can please: There Claret created Desire within the soft Breast of each Dame, New kindled a Lovely bright fire, until that Aurora came. Let Husbands take care of their Wives, if that they are mindful of Fame, And though they live troublesome lives, let 'um keep in the Buxom young Dame: Their Treasure may quickly be lost, and cause them to mourn and complain, And when the Wife's tumbl'd and tost, the sighs of a Husband are vain: When once the Thief findeth his prey, he presently seizes the Game, And in the Night all Nymphs will play, though they live to repent the same. SIR, These are to warn you, now you are lawfully Summoned, that belong to the Hen-peck't Frigat, to come to Cuckolds- Point, not only Compleated, Bifronted, and Fortified, but also with a Basket, Pick-Axe, and Shovel, on the Nineteenth of October, 1685. By Eight of the Clock in the Morning precisely, there to be ready with the rest of your Brethren, to march to the Gravel- Pits to dig Gravel to make a Foot-Path for your Wives to go to Horn- Fair; and that Decency may be observed in such a numerous Assem- bly, you are hereby enjoyned to respect Seniority, that the Anci- entest of the Tribe may have Precedency, which cannot be so well discernable by their Age, as by the Bread Palm of their Heads, hereof you are not to fall under the Penalty of a Garret Correcti- on, and forfeiture of all your Goods and Chattels, Except your Masters Joynture. Thomas Can't-be-quiet Beadle.
Printed for C. Dennisson at the Stationers-Arms within Aldgate.