%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Advice to the Maidens of LONDON: / To Forsake Their / Fantastical TOP-KNOTS; / Since they are become so Common with Billings-gate Women, and the Wenches that cryes / Kitchin-Stuff: Together with the Wanton Misses of the Town. 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 08/25/2008 22029

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4.365 R213922 1 Ye Ladies of London Ladies of London You Ladies of London NOw you young Females that follows the Mode, / both beautiful, brown, black, and muddy; date from Rollins; see also 4.366 Pepys 4.365 Wing A657A 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: 365 Advice to the Maidens of LONDON: / To Forsake Their / Fantastical TOP-KNOTS; / Since they are become so Common with Billings-gate Women, and the Wenches that cryes / Kitchin-Stuff: Together with the Wanton Misses of the Town. Advice to the Maidens of LONDON: To Forsake Their Fantastical TOP-KNOTS; Since they are become so Common with Billings-gate Women, and the Wenches that cryes Kitchin-Stuff: Together with the Wanton Misses of the Town. Advice to the Maidens of London: To Forsake Their Fantastical Top-knots; Since They are Become so Common with Billingsgate Women, and the Wenches that Cries Kitchen-stuff: Together with the Wanton Misses of the Town. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 200 x 306 uneven inking cast fleurons 1664-1703 Printed for J. Blare, at the Sign of the Looking-Glass / on London-Bridge. J. Blare BBTI

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NOw you young Females that follows the Mode, both beautiful, brown, black, and muddy; You must expect for to Reap what you've Sow'd, for making of Pride all your study: These very Lines I send to you now, concerning your Noddles adorning, Towers and Top-Knots we will not allow, and therefore take this for a warning. Do but consider the Women of Old, who flourished not in large Laces, Nor in your Glistering Silver and Gold, but with many more Modest Graces;
But now at length these things are forgot, and Women are monstrous wicked, Susan and Joan they will have a Top-Knot, although they have never a Smicket. Every Dragel'-tayl'd Country Girl, when once she comes up to the City, If she can get but a Ribbon-Fallal, O then she is wondrous pritty: Thus Al-a-mode they're willing to seem, when e're they go trooping together, Like a Fore-Horse of a Country Tram, deckt up on their flourishing Feather.
HEre we may see what young Damsel will do, before they will want of their pleasure, Nancy and Nell of the Billings-gate Crew, they'l Mortgage their secret Treasure, For a Top-Knot besure they'l have one, to wear on their heads when they're ready, And as they trip it to Islington, ye scarce can know Joan from my Lady. Kate the Cook-Maid is as fine as the rest, behind there is no one shall leave her, She'l have a Top-Knot to wear when she's drest, or else it would certainly grieve her; Her Kitchin-stuff she often will sell, to purchase that Ranting Attire, And when she wears it it please her well, to think how Young-men her admire. But as for those that have Money to seek, and cannot tell where they shall find it, They their Top-Knots will take up by the week, and pay when the Devil is blinded; What need they care if they have their Pride, the Al-a-mode Fashions of London, Fine Hoods and Laces, with Top-Knots beside, without which, alas! they are undon. Some Misses wear as much Ribbon a top, in this their most Gaudy Attire, As if their Head was a Milliners Shop, and she would have no one pass by her, But what should come and handle her Ware, and they having Money, she'd ease 'um, Being drest up in their Top-Knot and Hair, she may be sufficient to please 'um. Seeing this Al-a-mode wear of the Town, by Gillians is practis'd so common, It is high time that it now was laid down by every right Honest Woman; If that you will but let them alone, O then I shall not be Offended, Jillian and Dolly will straightways be known from those that are better descended.
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Printed for J. Blare, at the Sign of the Looking-Glass on London-Bridge.