%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A New SONG, Call'd, / The Musical Couple, / Or, the / Merry Northen Lass. / With / The pleasant Pastimes between a Country Lass, / and a brisk Country Batchellor. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1687-1691 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 03/11/2008 22037

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5.202 R188655 1 a New Playhouse Tune A New Playhouse Tune THere was a Maid in the North-country, / And she was as gallant as gallant might be, With her Tol de ra lal &c. [with variations] Pepys 5.202 Wing N760[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. 5: 202 A New SONG, Call'd, / The Musical Couple, / Or, the / Merry Northen Lass. / With / The pleasant Pastimes between a Country Lass, / and a brisk Country Batchellor. A New SONG, Call'd, The Musical Couple,Or, the Merry Northern Lass. With The pleasant Pastimes between a Country Lass, and a brisk Country Batchellor. A New Song, Called, the Musical Couple, or, the Merry Northern Lass. With the Pleasant Pastimes between a Country Lass and a Brisk Country Batchelor. 1/2 sheet folio, 235 x 158 cropped top and right edges, uneven inking Printer T. Moore 1687-1691 London, Printed and Sold by T. Moore. T. Moore BBTI

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 Taxonomy used by Pepys to Organize Ballads in Albums A Small Promiscuous Supplement Devotion & Morality Drinking & Good Fellowship History - True & Fabulous Humour, Frollicks &c Love Pleasant Love Pleasant and Unfortunate Love Unfortunate Marriage Sea State & Times Tragedy Various Subjects Early Modern Center Ballad Project Keyword Taxonomy advice affliction/health alcohol animals/nature appearance Bible/biblical figures buildings/architecture catastrophe children class clothing/fashion country/nation crime death economics/trade entertainment family/procreation folklore gender historical figures & events holidays/seasons infidelity law London love maritime marriage military/war monstrosity mythology/Classical world news nobility/court politics/government punishment religious concepts religious figures religious types & sects royalty rural life servitude sex/sexuality supernatural/magic The New World travel trickery/deceit urban life vice violence virtue vulgarities/crass humor Library of Congress Subject Heading Taxonomy 3/11/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant 03/11/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created 07/16/07 Checker Summer J. Star Ballad checked 07/2006 Transcriber Liberty Stanavage Original transcription 9/21/2004 Bibliographer Margaret K. Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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THere was a Maid in the North-country, And she was as gallant as gallant might be, And as frollicksome too as ever you see With her Tol de ra lal etc. There was a young Man and he had a good will With this fair Maid for to try his skill, He pull'd out his Fiddle to play in the middle Of my Tol, etc. Young Man said she Ile tell you your fault, Your will is good but your skill is stark nought, You'r sometimes to high, & sometimes too low With your Tol, etc. Fair Maiden excuse a learner at this Tho instead of hitting I chanced to miss, When the Instrument's tun'd Ile find out the bliss Of a Tol, etc. She laid her Lute before me then, And bid me play with my own Pen, Amongst 500 strings and ten On her Tol, etc. I handled her Lute and I gave it a touch, The pleasantness of it to her proved such She said she cou'd nere have my Musick too much Tol, etc.
The Instrument was so fair to the Eye I could not forbear the strings for to try When I saw them all fix'd in Ivory With Tol, etc. Quoth I fair Maid your Lute is well strung, Ile play one Lesson, and then I begun To strike up a Tune while she with me Sung Tol, etc. She took my Fiddle into her hand, And said sh'e have it at her command, For it made the best Musick in all the Land With Tol, etc. Kind Lass said I both Morning and Noon, You may have the Musick whenever you come, Provided my Fiddle be not out of Tune For Tol, etc. She beg'd one Jigg more before we did part, For the Musical Fiddle had wounded her heart And as she desir'd I eased her smart WitI Tol, etc. It was in a Meadow where nothing was ore us That we in Musick so joyn'd in a Chorus, There never was Couple play'd better before u[s] On Tol, etc.
London, Printed and Sold by T. Moore.