%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Disdainful Damosel, / Or, The Coy Lass serv'd in her Kind. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1689-1692 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/25/2008 22044

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5.209 R174661 1 Ise often for my Jenny strove, &c. I Often for My Jenny Strove I Often for My Jenny Strove, etc. NOw fifteen years are gone and past, / Bedded, Wedded, I ne'r was; When said my dear Billy, Philly, will ye / Go and wedded be with me? [with variations] imprint unclear: Printed for W. Thackeray, at the Angel in Duck=Lane, I. Millet, at the Angel i[n] / Little=Britain, and A. Milbourn, at the Stationers-Arms in the Little Old=Baily. Pepys 5.209 Wing D1665[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: 209 The Disdainful Damosel, / Or, The Coy Lass serv'd in her Kind. The Disdainful Damosel, Or, The Coy Lass serv'd in her Kind. The Disdainful Damosel, or, the Coy Lass Served in Her Kind. 1/2 sheet folio, 258 x 148 all edges cropped, damaged surface, uneven inking horizontal and vertical rules 1689-1692 Printed for W. Thackeray, at the Angel in Duck=Lane, I. Millet, at the Angel i[n] / Little=Britain, and A. Milbourn, at the Stationers-Arms in the Little Old=Baily. W. Thackeray, J. Millet, A. Milbourn Blagden

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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 8/25/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant advice love marriage sex/sexuality virtue 08/25/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created 07/16/2007 Checker Summer J. Star Ballad Checked no ESTC record in metadata, but ID is listed in main frame as R174661 07/2006 Transcriber Liberty Stanavage Original Transcription 9/21/2004 Bibliographer Margaret K. Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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I. NOw fifteen years are gone and past, Bedded, Wedded, I ne'r was; Which makes me sigh and grieve, to see How Fortune is unkind to me: Oh! had I not then been so Coy, By this I might have had a Boy: When said my dear Billy, Philly, will ye Go and Wedded be with me? II. But I, forsooth, must be so Nice, Fleering, jeering Paradice; With's Cap in hand, and low Congee, He kindly comes to Salute me: Says he, you are my whole Delight, I'll pleasure thee both day and night: Then my dear Philly, Dilly, will ye Go and Wedded be with me? III. Thus often he express'd his mind, Proudly, shrewdly, in this kind, With Mouth twist up, and bended Brows; What! do you think I'll you Espouse? No, foolish Lout, be gone from me, Know, I disdain thy Company: No more cry, my Philly, Dilly, will ye; For I am not one for thee. IV. This put him into such a fume, Bouncing, flouncing o'th' Room; Away he went with full Carreer, And swore he'd never more come here. On second thoughts this vex'd me so, I'll vow I'll never more say No: Then come again Billy, Philly, Dilly, says she I'll go along with thee. V. Mother. Why Daughter, I did much rejoyce, To see, you be, for a Choice Which pleasing may be to your Friends; For such a one will make amends: But stay a while, I you exhort, For otherwise 'twill do you hurt:
Child, be not unruly, truly, you'll be Young enough at Twenty-three. VI. Daughter. Oh Heavens! forget, I'm sure you can't, Mother, smother the Truth I shan't, Before Fifteen was hardly come, Your Maiden-head was not your own: Then why mayn't I as well as you, Now follow that Example too: Come then again Billy, Philly, Dilly, Says she I'll Wedded be with thee. VII. Mother. What, is your Maiden-head a Clog? Doating, floating, my little Rogue; Pish, mind no more such foolish Toys Wedlock's not for Girls and Boys: If you'll be Marry'd, stay your time, Go mind your Book, and don't repine: Then be not unruly, truly, you'll be Young enough at Twenty-three. VIII. Daughter. Why, Mother, what mean you by this? Phanny, Nanny, and Cozen Priss, Are Married all you can't deny, And none of these so Old as I: Tell me no more then of my Book, I'll Wedded be by Hook or Crook: Then come again Billy, Philly, Dilly Says she I'll Wedded be with thee. IX. But Billy he is grown as stout, Slights her, frights her with a Pout: When he was willing she was not, So he serves her quit for quot. Thus Maidens, may you see the Fate Of those that do repeat too late: Then be not like silly, Philly, Dilly, Left yours may be her Destiny.
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Printed for W. Thackeray, at the Angel in Duck-Lane, J. Millet at the Angel in Little-Britain, and A. Milbourn, at the Stationers-Arms in the Little Old-Baily.