%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Scoulding WIFE, / OR, / The Poor Mans Lamentation of his bad Market in his chusing him a Wife. / The Poor Mans Sorrows and Disquiet of Mind, / Are turned to Comforts, since his Wife fell blind. / It was his old Sweet-heart that stood his Friend, / And caused his Wife her Life for to amend. 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 21800

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4.136 R187391 1 a New Play-House Tune Step Stately A New Playhouse Tune WAs there ever any man so plaug'd with a Trul, / As I poor Anthony: since I was wed; date from imprint Pepys 4.136 Wing S934A 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: 136 The Scoulding WIFE, / OR, / The Poor Mans Lamentation of his bad Market in his chusing him a Wife. / The Poor Mans Sorrows and Disquiet of Mind, / Are turned to Comforts, since his Wife fell blind. / It was his old Sweet-heart that stood his Friend, / And caused his Wife her Life for to amend. The Scoulding WIFE, OR, The Poor Mans Lamentation of his bad Market in his chusing him a wife [T]he Poor Mans Sorrows and Disquiet of Mind, [A]re turned to Comforts, since his Wife fell blind. It was his Old Sweet-heart that stood his Friend, And caused his Wife her Life to amend. The Scoulding Wife, or, the Poor Man's Lamentation of His Bad Market in His Choosing Him a Wife the Poor Man's Sorrows and Disquiet of Mind, Are Turned to Comforts, Since His Wife Fell Blind. It Was His Old Sweetheart That Stood His Friend, and Caused His Wife Her Life to Amend. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 200 x 298 cropped left edge, damaged surface, set-off from opposite page visible vertical rule 1689 Printed for A. Milburn in Green-Arbour-Court in the / Little-Old-Bailey. 1689. A. Milburn 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 affliction/health infidelity marriage 05/09/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created 06/27/07 Checker Jessica C. Murphy Ballad checked 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 there ever any Man so plaug'd with a Trul, As I poor Anthony: since I was wed; No sooner I gets my Belly full, But straight she will hast me up to Bed; Or, alas, she'll begin for to scould and to brawl, And call me Rogue and Cuckold with all, The whilst she with her comrades do tare it about, Then I lies in bed and Snore it out. 'Tis all the Mony that I get in a Day, for to keep at quiet, I give her at night: Or alas, she will find such a Tongue for to blay; that for two or three hours, she will scold like a Sprit.
Then up to the Cubbart Pilgarlick doth hie, For to look for the Crumbs, that are long lain a Rie, And to steep them in skim-milk, whilst they are wet: And this is the common Supper I do get. Then when I consider the sadness I am in, it grieves me to the Heart most bitterly and sore; Still expecting the worst of my sorrow to begin, being now I am fast ty'd to a Scold and a Whore: Then to Patience, for to stand my best friend; I knowing it is but in vain to contend, Far fe[a?]r lest the Tongs, or the Ladel being nigh; Which straightway in her passion at my Head she lets fly.
Once in a Month, for Fashion-sake; she will allow me, for to come to her Bed; But all the night there, I do keep me awake; for fear lest in her fits she should knack me on the head: And as for the bed, that I lie on my self, It is as hard as an Oken-shlef; And the Ticking it is made af the good Hemp-cords; But yet for all this, I must give her good words. Sometime we did use for to piss in a Pan, but the Cullender did chance for to stand in the place; She took it up into her Hand, and spilt it about my Stomach and Face: I told her that she Pist beside, But she call'd me Rogue. and told me I ly'd; For it was not come for to touch her Thumb; And she took it, and she hall'd it in the middle of the room. It was one that had been my Sweet-heart before; she came to the door for to borrow a Pale; I Kist her once, and I thought of no more: but my Wife fell about her Tooth and Nail: The Girl stuck to her, and she claw'd her about, That for a Months space she could scarcely stir out; For her Face was so scratch'd, and her Eyes so sore, That I never see a Jade so mald before. And then she got me for to drop in her Eyes, an excellent water was sent her that day; But I got a liquour, I more did prise; 'twas Henben and Marcury steep'd in Whay: I drop't it in, and I nointed her Face, But I made the Whore in a pittiful case; For she Curst and Swore, well she might, For never since that day she got her sight. And then I provided a Dog and Bell, to carry her about, from place to place: Then she cries Husband, I hope all is well: But before it was Rogue, add Cuckolds to my Face. Then blest be the Henben, and Marcury strong, Thay made such a change in my Wifs Tongue; For it is a Medicine beth certain and sure, To bee cured of a Scold, but I'le say no more.
Printed for A. Milbourn in Green-Arbour-Court in the Little-Old-Bailey. 1689.