%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Skilful DOCTOR; Or, The / Compleat Mountebank. / Good people give ear to me, that stand within the Throng, / And you shall hear a Story strange of a Doctor that is come. / Strange Courages he doth undertake, and he doth come from Spain, / If a Maid has lost her Maiden-head, he can help her to it again. Pilkington, R. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 0-1689 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/14/2008 21926

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4.265 R187306 1 Over the Mountains Love Will Find Out the Way Over the Mountains COme here you brave Gallants, / of Fame and Renown, And he can help a Maid / to her Maiden=head again. (with variations) I Must have a fat Ore/ that was hatched in an Egg, And then I can help you/ to your Maiden-heads again. (with variations) Pepys 4.265 Wing P2232D 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: 265 The Skilful DOCTOR; Or, The / Compleat Mountebank. / Good people give ear to me, that stand within the Throng, / And you shall hear a Story strange of a Doctor that is come. / Strange Courages he doth undertake, and he doth come from Spain, / If a Maid has lost her Maiden-head, he can help her to it again. The Skilful DOCTOR; Or, The Compleat Mountebank. Good people give ear to me, that stand within the Throng, And you shall hear a Story strange of a Doctor that is come. Strange Courages he doth undertake, and he doth come from Spain, If a Maid has lost her Maiden-head, he can help her to it again. The Skillful Doctor; or, the Complete Mountebank. Good People Give Ear to Me, That Stand within the Throng, and You Shall Hear a Story Strange of a Doctor That is Come. Strange Courages He Doth Undertake, and He Doth Come From Spain, if a Maid Has Lost Her Maidenhead, He Can Help Her to It Again. The Doctor's Famous Cures. The Doctor's Famous Cures. The Doctor's Famous Cures. Pilkington, R. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 190 x 300 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 190 x 300 uneven inking uneven inking horizontal rule and cast fleurons. horizontal rule and cast fleurons 0-1689 Printed for J. Conyers, at the Golden-Ring, upon Ludgate-Hill, over / against the Old-Baily. J. Conyers BBTI

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COme here you brave Gallants, of Fame and Renown, Here is a brave Doctor, that is new come to town: He hath been in Holland, in France and in Spain, And he can help a Maid to her Maiden-head again. All other Diseases, I likewise can cure, The which young Women, they much do endure.
Therefore come unto me, you that are not wed For the chief of my skill is, to cure your Maiden-head. I have been at Dover, at Barwick likewise, In France and in Flanders, my skill they much prize; All sorts of young Women, will me entertain, Because I do help them to their Maiden-heads again.
I have been at Glascow, and Scotland throughout, Where Moggy and Jenny for joy they did shout; There is not such a Doctor, in all Scotland doth remain, Now Moggy and Jenny are Maidens again. Throughout the whole Nation, and Country about, My Fame it is known, to Turkey quite out: Then take your opportunity, whilst here I do remain, For when I am gone, you would wish me here again. The Doctor's Famous Cures. I Must have a fat Ore, that was hatched in an Egg, Likewise a quick Ass that has never a Legg, A Swan with five Leggs, you must fetch me from Spain, And then I can help you to your Maiden-heads again. I must have an Oak that in Norway did grow, I must have a Fat Buck, that was Pigg'd by a Sow, I must have an Eagle, hatched under an Hen, And then I can help you, to your, etc. I must have a Cuckow, that at Christmass did cry,
I must have a young Swal[low] that in March did flye, An Egg of an Ant-pie, you must fetch me from Sp[ain] And then I can help you, to your, etc. When they in Virginia. no Tabacco can plant, When at Paris in France, holy-Water is scant, When there is not a Tory in Ireland do remain, O then you shall all become Maidens, etc. When there is no division, betwixt Church and State, When old Wives speak reason and Hens cannot crake: When the arrant Dissembler truth to all Men do mean, O then you will all become Maidens, etc. When the Cat she can speak, both Latine and Greek; And the Monkey doth teach her to Write and to Read: And the Fox comes to tell them their labours in vain, The you will all become Maidens again. And now all young Maids, I you do advise, What ever you do, to be merry and wise: Keep close to your Maiden-heads whilst they do remain, For when they are gone, you'l ne'r see them again.
This may be Printed. R.P. Printed for J. Conyers, at the Golden-Ring, upon Ludgate-Hill, over against the Old-Baily.