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4.289 R172783 1 The ORANGE With a Fading The Orange ONe morning of late, hard by Billingsgate, / There Dolly she happen'd to meet with young Kate, Pepys 4.289 Wing B3227[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: 289 THE / Bloody Battle at Billingsgate, / Beginning with a Scolding bout between the young Fish-women, Doll and Kate. THE Bloody Battle at Billingsgate, Beginning with a Scolding bout between two young Fish-women, Doll and Kate. The Bloody Battle at Billingsgate, Beginning with a Scolding Bout between the Young Fish-women, Doll and Kate. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 190 x 320 cropped right and bottom edges, creased and damaged surface vertical rule 1675-1696 Printed for P. Brooksby, I. Deacon, I. Blare, I. Back. P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back PBA

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ONe morning of late, hard by Billingsgate, There Dolly she happen'd to meet with young Kate, They Quarrel'd and Fought, and made a sad Rout, And if you wou'd know, Sirs, what it was about, I will tell ye. Last Wednesday night, young Kate did invite The Husband of Dolly, her Joy and Delight, And merrily they, did Frolick and Play, A whole Winter's night, till the morning next day; was it fitting? Doll. You're Impudent grown, shall I lye alone, And you have delight, while his poor Wife has none; You saivry young Sow, I will not allow Such doings, but here I will pummel ye now, ye bold Strumpet.
Kate. Marry gap, Mistress Gill, my mind to fulfill, I'de have you to know he shall come when he will, And yet not by stealth, ye impudent Elf, I have as much right to the Man as your self, he's no Husband. Doll. I'de have ye know before I do go, That I can a Lawful Certificate show; Thus I am his Wife, the joy of his life, But you have between us created much strife, ye bold Strumpet. Kate. A Twelvemonth ye Whor'd, then he did afford A Marriage, by leaping twice over a Sword, Your Shams I degrade, for Robin he said, That under a Hedge-Row that Writing he made; hopeful Marriage.
Ye pittiful Trull, I never did gull Like you, the poor Drummer, last Summer, at H[ul]l An impudent Stock, went breaking his Lock, And stole the man's Shirt, for to make ye a Smock. ye bold Strumpet. Kate. Slut this is a Lye, she then did reply But here is one truth, which you cannot deny, Ye pittiful Punk, last week ye were Drunk, Four men had ye home, and they told me ye stunk like a Pole-Cat. Kate. Are you not a shame, to all of your name? All honest good people against you exclaim: You left your poor Brats, and went to the t[?] [?]ats There lay with a Man for a bushel of Sp[yri]ts, out upon ye. Doll. I'll make ye to smoak, for what ye have spoke Since you do so often my patience provoke, What flesh can forbear? besides I declare, Your Neighbors knows all well enough what you are Mistress Trinkets. Kate. She gave her a thrust, and said, do your worst, If you have much Money that does lye and rust, W[h]y then go to Law, I won't stand in awe; With that down her Face she her Tallents did claw, with a vengeance. The other she flew, and gave her her due, First tore off her Hood, Quoif, and Filleting too: They fight and did Scold, and both kept their hold, At length in the Kennel together they roll'd, like two fat Sows. The Women and Men, soon parted 'um then, And bid them be Friendly and quiet agen: Their words did prevail, together they Sail, And drank up two quarts of hot Brandy and Ale, in good Friendship.
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Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back.