%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Cock-pit CUCKOLD: / OR, A / Wonton Match between his Wife and a 'Squire, / WHO / Fought his Cock against her Game Hen, in her Husband's Absence: Concluding with Jack's / Punishment for speaking the Truth. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1683-1703 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 05/09/2008 21805

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4.141 R174003 1 an excellent new Tune: An Excellent New Tune: COme all loving People, pray listen a while, / Here is a new Ditty will cause you to smile; Pepys 4.141 Wing C4796[a]A 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: 141 The Cock-pit CUCKOLD: / OR, A / Wonton Match between his Wife and a 'Squire, / WHO / Fought his Cock against her Game Hen, in her Husband's Absence: Concluding with Jack's / Punishment for speaking the Truth. The Cock-pit CUCKOLD: OR, A Wonton Match between his Wife and a 'Squire, WHO Fought his Cock against her Game Hen, in her Husband's Absence: Concluding with Jack's Punishment for speaking the Truth. The Cockpit Cuckold: Or, a Wanton Match Between His Wife and a Squire, who Fought his Cock Against her Game Hen, in her Husband's Absence: Concluding with Jack's Punishment for Speaking the Truth. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 200 x 275 damaged surface 1683-1703 London, Printed for C. Bates, at the Sum and Bible in Pye-corner. C. Bates BBTI

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COme all loving People, pray listen a while, Here is a new Ditty will cause you to smile; The truth of which passage there is none can deny; For Gallants I scorn to be catcht in a lye: There was a young Woman liv'd in a Cock-pit, She cuckold her Husband as well she thought fit; As honest a Man as lives under the Sun, For with a young 'Squire to Folly she run. Her Husband and she kept a sweet pretty Youth, A Lad who delighted in speaking the Truth, His Mistress in private he often had seen To toy with a 'Squire, who liv'd on the Green.
The good Man, her Husband, he chanc'd to ride out, She sent for the 'Squire, young, gallant and stout, Whom she did conduct to her Chamber at night, To reap the sweet pleasures of wanton Delight. The Boy he went up to make her a Fire, And saw his young Mistress a Bed with the 'Squire; He thought it uncivil, yet nothing he said; But, Love, said her Gallant, we both are betray'd. Then out of the Bed the young 'Squire he run, And to this young little Boy thus he begun, Here is five pound or ten pound I promise to thee, If that thou wilt keep but this Counsel for me.
Young Lad, if this passage should go any further, I here do assure you that there will be Murther; If you this Account to your Master should give, This Sword shall destroy you as you live. The 'Squire not proving so good as his Word, The little Boy fear'd not the point of his Sword; But unto his Master he carefully told, What he in the Chamber did chance to behold. Believe me, kind Master, and hear what I say, My Mistress all night with the 'Squire she lay; And I the next morning beheld them in bed; Now tell me, have you not a pain in your head? The Man to his Wife in a passion did go, And said, My dear Love, have you served me so? It is I must tell you a woful Disgrace, The Boy calls me Cuckold unto my own face. And likewise my Neighbours they laugh at me too, And tell me, The 'Squire has dally'd with you: This makes me horn-mad, and a weary of life, To think that I have such a wanton young Wife. Believe me, dear Husband, it is no such thing, This Boy to the Whipping-post, faith, you must bring; For should you believe him before you would me, Why then I must tell you we n'er shall agree. To the Whipping-post then they brought him with speed. At every Lash his poor Back it did bleed; And still as they lash'd him aloud he did cry, The 'Squire all night with my Mistress did lie. With Lashes, my Back and poor Shoulders does swell, My Mistress is wanton, she knows very well; And is it not pity, that I a poor Youth, This day should be punish'd for speaking the Truth? My Mistress adores the young 'Squire I'm sure; But as for my Master she cannot endure, In open Derision she laughs him to scorn, And now like a Cuckold let him wear the Horn. His Wife is excus'd that dishonour'd his Bed, And grafted a large pair of Horns on his Head; But I, his true Servant, am punish't you see, Faith, this is the tricks of such Cuckolds as he.
London, Printed for C. Bates, at the Sum and Bible in Pye-corner.