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4.361 R174342 1 Let Caesar live long Let Caesar Live Long Let Caesar Live Long A Rich Country Squire, call'd up to the Town, / Lest a young Wife with=Child, just fit to lye down, He beg'd of his Lady to give him the Joy, / Of sending up word when she brought him a Boy. [with variations] verso pasted down Pepys 4.361 Wing C6569[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: 361 The Country Squire Deceiv'd; / OR, The Welsh-man's Invention for a New Suit of Cloaths. The Country Squire Deceiv'd; OR, The Welsh-man's Invention for a New Suit of Cloaths. The Country Squire Deceived; Or, the Welshman's Invention for a New Suit of Clothes. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 204 x 318 all edges cropped, creased surface, uneven inking, set-off from verso shows through horizontal and vertical rules 1682-1692 Printed for J. Millet, at the Angel in Little-Brittain. J. Millet PBA

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A Rich Country Squire, call'd up to the Town, Left a young Wife with-Child, just fit to lye down And seeing her jolly plump Belly swell fair, With the speedy sweet hopes of a young Son and Heir, He beg'd of his Lady to give him the Joy, Of sending up word when she brought him a Boy. And that to his hand the glad News might come safe, The Squire kept a Welshman, an honest true Taff; To him at his parting, he swears all the Oaths, That he would give Taffy a new Suit of Cloaths, If he'd come up to London to give him the Joy, That his Lady was safe brought to Bed of a Boy. Brought to Bed of a Boy! Hdsplutter, crys Taff, If that gets her new Cloaths, her warrant 'em safe: Fare her well then dear Master, to London go trudge it,
And her will come after with News in her Budget: Let Welshman alone then for giving her Joy, Her's certain her Mistress shall bring her a Boy. His Master he scarce had been gone a whole week, But Crying-out Lady begins for to Squeak; And finding her Pains and her Throws come so fast, They forc'd were to send for the Midwife at last; But instead of a Son, to the damping her Joy, The poor squalling Brat proves a cleft-codded Boy. At this the poor Welshman storms, splutters, and raves, A Girl did her say! her are all Foods and Knaves: 'Tis a Boy, Splutter-a-nails, sure Taffy should know; Wou'd her loose her new Cloaths! cheating Rogues serve her so No, her knows better things, for to London with Joy, Will her gang to her Master with News of a Boy.
To London he trots them, no Post could go faster And all in a Rapture, he finds out his Master; Oh Master, her Mistress is brought to Bed safe. And what has God sent her! Oh, Master, crys Taff, Her come up to London to bring her the Joy, That her Mistress has brought her a thumping brave Boy But Master, her Cloaths: Aye Taffy, crys Squire, Call Draper and Taylor, and have thy desire: So with Needle and Thimble falls Pricklouse aboard, And strait Riggs up Taffy as fine as a Lord; For nothing's too dear to pay for the Joy Of hearing dear Wife brought to Bed of a Boy. But when the Squire back to the Country does come, And welcom'd by all the good People at home, In haste to dear Wife in the Straw does repair, To wish her all Joy of her young Son and Heir: Alas! crys the Lady, my Honey and Joy, Poor Baby, 'tis only a cleft-codded Boy. A Girl, says the Squire! O this lying Welsh Cur! Have patience, crys Taff, her beseech her sweet Sir; Her besworn 'tis a Boy still, no better nor worse, And let her be judg'd by her Midwife and Nurse, Let her take up her Tayl, and look, my sweet Joy, If her tell her a Lye when her says 'tis a Boy. The Nurse turns the Breech of the Child up all bare, And crys, ye Welsh Coxcomb, I prithee look there; Has the Child been a Boy, ye silly dull Block, In this very place here it should have a Cock; For without a Cock here, that pretty sweet Toy, I defie the whole World for to make it a Boy. So hasty, crys Welsman God pless the sweet Biddy, Udsplut, wou'd her have her a Cock there already? What a pox, has her got neither Conscience nor Honour To have her so early have Cock put upon her; No, wait but a little, I prithee sweet joy, I warrant her time enough still for a Boy. A Cock would her have? a Cock did her say? Yes, all in good season; for let her but stay Till her grow to her fifteen or sixteen years prime, And if her han't got her a Cock by that time, E'ne take her and Hang her; I warrant, poor Joy, By that time her neither will want Cock nor Boy.
Printed for J. Millet, at the Angel in Little-Brittain.