%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE / Poor Contented Cuckold / Being a Relation, / Of a man that us'd sometimes to stand, / Pimp at the door holding it with his hand / The whilst the Gallant did his VVife possess, / In quiet he poor fool thinking no less, / But that he all his money should obtain / Being mistaken made him thus complain. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1689 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 05/09/2008 21797

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4.133 R187313 1 Cold and Raw Stingo; Oil of Barley; Cold and Raw Cold and Raw VVAs e'er man so unfortunate, / as to be a Cuckold and poor sir; date from imprint Pepys 4.133 Wing P2861A 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: 133 THE / Poor Contented Cuckold / Being a Relation, / Of a man that us'd sometimes to stand, / Pimp at the door holding it with his hand / The whilst the Gallant did his VVife possess, / In quiet he poor fool thinking no less, / But that he all his money should obtain / Being mistaken made him thus complain. THE Poor Contented Cuckold Being a Relation, Of a man that us'd sometimes to stand, Pimp at the door holding it with his hand The whilst the Gallant did his Wife possess, In quiet he poor fool thinking no less, But that he all his money should obtain Being mistaken made him thus complain. The Poor Contented Cuckold Being a Relation, of a Man That Used Sometimes to Stand, Pimp at the Door Holding it with his Hand the Whilst the Gallant Did his Wife Possess, in Quiet He Poor Fool Thinking No Less, But That He All His Money Should Obtain Being Mistaken Made Him Thus Complain. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?195 x 317 damaged surface, uneven inking vertical rules 1689 Printed for Iames Bissel, at the Bible and Harp in West=Smithfield, 1689. James Bissel Weinstein: imprint

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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 5/9/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Marriage advice infidelity marriage sex/sexuality 05/09/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created 05/09/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created 06/27/07 Checker Jessica C. Murphy Ballad checked, added bibliographer name to editorial history 05/2007 Transcriber Jessica C. Murphy Original transcription 2006 Bibliographer Jessica C. Murphy Bibliographic SQL Database Record Updated/completed 10/25/2004 Bibliographer Liberty Stanavage Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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WAs e'er man so unfortunate, as to be a Cuckold and poor sir; 'Tis a curse which all do hate, yet I the same endure Sir: For I have a Whore to my Wife, and she a very proud one, That wearys me out of life, and makes me wish I had none.
Other Cuckolds their be 'tis true, yet I can Scarcely believe they; More for their Wives did ever do, Then I have done already: Yet verily I go thred-bare, although I was contented; And that my Wife should be a Whore, truly I first consented.
[For] sometimes I Pimp did stand, whilst my wife did rant it; And with her Hector in her hand, together did gallant it: Thus may you see what I have done, and how I was contented, To be Cuckolded by some, I never then Lamented. If I home did chance to come, and her Gallants were playing, With her then I must be gone, There was for me no staying: I must not stay to speak a word, but presently be packing, And not let my Voice be heard, for fear of a good Twacking. Oftimes at the Door I lay, whilst that they lay a Courting, Least some one should them betray, and spoil all their sporting: Yea more then this too have I done, to make my work the surer; And finish what I had begun, I sometimes was procurer.
Thus have I done thinking that I, all her Gallants Coyn Sir; Should possess but verily, what she get's not mine Sir: She with her Trollops it does spend, and leaves me not a Farthing, Which makes me now complain in the end, seeing I have lost by the bargin. Shee's give me nought but Craved look[s,] if I her desire; To give me some Money Zooks, I'de better near come nigh her; For whatsoever does stand nigh, her she straight way takes it: And at my head strikes presently, endeavouring for to break it. Now Married Men my counsel take, mind what I say to ye; If that you full heard do rake, for to live yet prithee: Here consent your Wife shall be, made common unto any; For then you'l nere live happily, nor will they maintain ye.
Printed for James Bissel, at the Bible and Harp in West-Smithfield, 1689.