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5.221 R187980 1 an Excellent New Tune much in Request The Milkmaids; The Merry Milkmaids; The Milking Pail An Excellent New Tune Much in Request YE Nimphs and Sylvian Gods, / That love green Fields and woods, Do carry the Milking Pail. [with variations] Weinstein lists tune on sheet as "not specified"; authors noted by Simpson as Martin Parker re-worked by Thomas D'Urfey. Pepys 5.221 Wing ?E3810A 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: 221 An Excellent New Play-House Song, Call'd, / The Bonny Milk Maid. An Excellent New Play-House Song, Call'd, The Bonny Milk-Maid. An Excellent New Playhouse Song, Called, The Bonny Milk Maid. Parker, Martin D'Urfey, Thomas 1/2 sheet folio, 255 x 154 cropped top and right edges, creased vertical rules Printer Charles Barnet 0 Printed for Charles Barnet. Charles Barnet

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YE Nimphs and Sylvian Gods, That love green Fields and woods, when Spring newly blown, her self does adorn With Flowers and blooming Buds come sing in the praise, whilst Flocks do graze In yonder pleasant Vale, of those that choose their sleep to lose, and in cold Dews, with clouted shoes, Do carry the Milking Pail. The Goddess of the morn With blushes they adorn, and take the fresh Air, whilst Linnets prepare A Consort on each green thorn: the Black-bird and Thrush on every bush, And the charming Nightingale, in merry vain their throats do strain, go entertain the jolly train That carry the Milking Pail. When cold bleak Winds do roar, And Flowers can spring no more, the Fields that were seen so pleasant and green, By Winter all Candid o're, oh how the town Lass looks with her white face, And her lips of deadly pale, but it is not so with those that go thro' Frost and Snow, with cheeks that glow, To carry the Milking Pail.
The Miss of Courtly mold, Adorn'd with Pearl and Gold, with washes and paint, her skin does so taint, She's weather'd before she's old, whilst she in Commode puts on a Cart-load, And with Cushions plumps her tail, what joys are found in Russet Gown, young, plump and round, and sweet and sound, That carry the Milking Pail. The Girls of Venus Game That ventures health and fame, in practicing feats with Colds and with Heats, Make Lovers go blind and lame, if men were so wise to value the prize Of the Wares most fit for Sale, what store of Beaus would daub their cloaths, to save a Nose, by following those That carry the Milking Pail. The Country Lad is free From Fears and Jealousie, when upon the green he is often seen With his Lass upon his Knee, with kisses most sweet he does her so treat, And swears she'll ne're grow stale, whilst the London Lass, in e'ery place, with her brazen Face, dispises the Grace Of those with the Milking Pail.
Printed for Charles Barnet.