%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Couragious Anthony: / OR, / A Relation of a Dreadful Combat between Bonny Anthony, / and his Wife. Together with Anthonys Valliant Conquest. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1664-1703 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 05/05/2008 21810

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4.146 R174346 1 The two English Travellers The Two English Travelers VVAs ever poor Man so perplext with a Trull, / As I Bonny Anthony, since I was Wed? see also Pepys 4.121; imprint unclear: Printed for J. Blare at the Looking-Glass on Londo[n] / Bridge. Pepys 4.146 Wing C6575[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: 146 Couragious Anthony: / OR, / A Relation of a Dreadful Combat between Bonny Anthony, / and his Wife. Together with Anthonys Valliant Conquest. Couragious Anthony: OR, A Relation of a Dreadful Combat between Bonny Anthony, and his Wife. Together with Anthonys Valiant Conquest. Courageous Anthony: Or, a Relation of a Dreadful Combat Beween Bonny Anthony, and his Wife. Together with Anthony's Valiant Conquest. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 195 x 294 cropped right edge and bottom edges, creased surface, uneven inking vertical rule 1664-1703 Printed for J. Blare at the Looking-Glass on London / Bridge. J. Blare BBTI

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WAs ever poor Man so perplext with a Trull, As I Bonny Anthony, since I was Wed? She never will let me have my Belly full, For e're I have Sup d, I must hasten to Bed. Or else she'll begin for to Scold and to Brawl, And calling me Wittal, nay Cuckold and all: Yet she with her Cronies must troul it about. Whilst I in my Kennel must there snore it out.
I once did go for to drink with a Friend, But she in a trice did fetch me away; We two pence a piece, and no more did we spend, And yet it did prove a most terrible fray. She flew in my face and called me fool, Than Combed my head with a three legged stool; And furnish'd my face with so many sad scratches, That for a whole month it was cover'd with patches.
Yet every penny I got in the day, To keep her at quiet, I gave her at night, Or else she will license her Tongue th[e]n to play For two or three hours far worse then a spright. Then unto the Cup-board Peel-garlick must [h]ye To seek for the Crusts that are mouldy & dry: Then steep them in skim-milk until they are wet, And commonly this is the Supper I get. Nay once in a quarter for mere fashions sake, She'll then give me leave to lye in her bed, But I must be sure to lye broad awake, Lest she in her humour knock me on the head. But as for the Bed which I lye on my self, It is full as soft as old Oaken shelf, The Ticks she did make it of course hempen hurds, And yet for all that I must give her good words. We usually pist in a Pan e'ry night, The Cullender happened to stand in the place, She put me into a most pittiful plight, It run all about both my stomach and face. I told her sweet Wife you do Urine beside, She called me Coxcomb, and told me I ly'd How can it run over before it is come So near to the top as the length of my thum[b] A Cudgel of Holly I then did prepare, And lawful Correction to her I did give, O then she cry'd out, I prithee forbear, I ne'er will my Husband offend while I live. I made her forsake all her Gossiping crue, And thus I have handsomely turned the chase, For now it is Husband pray how dost thou do, But before it was Cuckold and Rogue to my face. And thus I must tell you I conquer'd a Shrow And made her to buckle and bend to my bow, We formerly liv'd at much variance and strife, But now we enjoy a more peaceable life.
Printed for J. Blare at the Looking-Glass on Londo[n] Bridge.