%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The GALLANT's Wish: / OR, / His earnest desire to be deliver'd from a WOMAN, / OF / Various evil DISPOSITIONS and cross-grain'd QUALITIES. 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 21812

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4.148 R188102 1 O brave Popery. &c. O Brave Popery. etc. FRom a Woman who thirty long Winters has seen, / Yet by patching and painting, and bathing her skin, The Fates deliver us, Heavens deliver us, / For they are desperate things. tune unclear: O brave Popery[.] &c.; imprint unclear: LONDON: Printed for J. Blare, at the Sign of / the Loo[k]ing-Glass, on London-Bridge. Pepys 4.148 Wing G177[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: 148 The GALLANT's Wish: / OR, / His earnest desire to be deliver'd from a WOMAN, / OF / Various evil DISPOSITIONS and cross-grain'd QUALITIES. The GALLANT's Wish: OR, His earnest desire to be deliver'd from a WOMAN, OF Various evil DISPOSITIONS and cross-grain'd QUALITIES. The Gallant's Wish: Or, His Earnest Desire to Be Delivered from a Woman, of Various Evil Dispositions and Cross-grained Qualities. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 193 x 288 guard pasted over bottom edge, torn top edge, damaged surface, uneven inking horizontal rule 1664-1703 LONDON: Printed for J. Blare, at the Sign of / the Looking Glass, on London-Bridge. J. Blare BBTI

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FRom a Woman who thirty long Winters has seen, Yet by patching and painting, and bathing her skin, Appears plump and young as a Girl of fifteen: The Fates deliver us, Heavens deliver us, For they are desperate things. From One who in Meetings is always in motion, Or to Church, hourly gadding, pretending Devotion, Her ways are unknown, like the ways of the Ocean: The Fates deliver us, etc. From One who is always a scolding and railing, 'Gainst the faults of her Sex and their ludeness bewailing Twenty pound to a Cherry-stone she has her failing: The Fates deliver us, etc.
From One who pretends to more Tongues then her own, And in French and Italian a Student is grown, When one Tongue is enough for a Woman 'tis known: The Fates deliver us, etc. From One who e[ach] night to the Play-house still goes, To show her fine Face, or her much finer Coaths, And receives the Addresses of Sharpers and Beaus: The Fates deliver us, etc. From a raw Country Girl, who got all her breeding In a Village, where cows, swine, & poultry were feeding, And never was taught either wrieting or reading: The Fates deliver us, Heavens deliver us, For they are desperate things.
From a Citizen's Daughter, whose dugling charms, Will eagerly take a young Fop in her arms; And from an old Widow, with scolding alarms, The Fates deliver us, Heavens deliver us, For they are desperate things. From a sanctify'd Widow, if such there be any, Who pretends she can love none though courted by many: From One with six Children and never a penny: The Fates deliver us. etc. From a Lass of Intreague, who before she was wed, Could willingly take a young Lad in her Bed; From One who has ne'er a good Tooth in Head: The Fates deliver us, etc. From such a One, who a Town-mistress has been, Who surfits herself in the pleasure of sin; And from One who strives for to draw a Man in: The Fates deliver us, etc. From One who in thought, is as lude as a Stallion, Who tipples Canary, wholesale by the Gallon; From One that's as jealous as any Italion: The Fates deliver us, etc. From taking a Wife here for better or worse, And keeping another Man's Children at Nurse; From One that brought nothing, yet will have the Purse: The Fates deliver us, etc. From the horrible torment of leading my life, With One that is nothing but Tumult and Strife; From One that is more like Old Nick than a Wife: The Fates deliver us, etc. From One that is commonly subject to weep, And will not her Husband's good company keep; From One that is subject to Fart in her sleep: The Fates deliver us, Heavens deliver us. For they are desperate things.
LONDON: Printed for J. Blare, at the Sign of the Looking-Glass, on London-Bridge.