%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> An excellent new SONG, call'd,/ The CRAFTY MAID:/ OR, THE/ Batchellour Outwitted./ BEING/ A Relation how a Batchellor was bawk'd, after he had given ten Shillings, and a blew pair/ of Stockens, for a Maiden head. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1681-1703 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/17/2008 22077

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5.242 N69966 1 Fond Boy Fond Boy Fond Boy COme lissen to me, and I will declare,/ A frollicksome Ditty of late I did hear, title unclear: An excellent new SONG, call'd,/ The CRAFTY MAID:/ OR, THE/ Batchellour Outwitted./ BEING/ A Relation how a Batchellor was bawk'd, after he had given ten Shillings, and a blew pai[r]/ of Stockens, for a Maiden head. Pepys 5.242 Wing E3815[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: 242 An excellent new SONG, call'd,/ The CRAFTY MAID:/ OR, THE/ Batchellour Outwitted./ BEING/ A Relation how a Batchellor was bawk'd, after he had given ten Shillings, and a blew pair/ of Stockens, for a Maiden head. An excellent new SONG, call'd, The CRAFTY MAID: OR, THE Batchellour Outwitted. BEING A Relation how a Batchellor was bawk'd, after he had given ten Shillings, and a blew pair of Stockens, for a Maiden head. An Excellent New Song, Called, the Crafty Maid: or, the Bachelor Outwitted. Being a Relation How a Bachelor Was Balked, After He Had Given Ten Shillings, and a Blue Pair of Stockings, for a Maidenhead. 1/2 sheet folio 237 x 170 cropped top, left and right edges, uneven inking horizontal rules 1681-1703 LONDON: Printed for J. Science, in the Old-baily. J. Science PBA

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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 4/17/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant class sex/sexuality trickery/deceit vulgarities/crasshumor 04/17/2008 Checker Patrick Ludolph checked transcription, metadata added, xml created 02/22/2008 Checker Kris McAbee checked transcription 08/31/2006 Transcriber Liberty Stanavage original transcription 09/27/2004 Bibliographer Maggie Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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COme lissen to me, and I will declare, A frollicksome Ditty of late I did hear, 'Tis on a shopkeeper, and I'll tell you plain, He's a leatherseller, though I tell not his name: This young man is single, and wants to be wed, Which makes him lie restless all night in his bed. He agered with a maiden that lived hard by, For to give her ten shillings with him for to lie; Whenever this maiden went out or came in, He still would be chucking her under the chin, And said, That's not all that I'll give unto you, But I'll give you ten shillings and stockens of blew. This maid was both cunning and crafty and wise, To cheat the shopkeeper she thus did devise, The day it seem'd tedious, he long'd for delight, That he might enjoy the fair maiden that night: But a brisk harnismaker disguised his face, And when it was night he went in the maid's place. Womens cloaths he put on, and straight went his way To bed to the shopkeeper, as I heard say; As soon as he entered into the room, The candle being out, he said, What are you come? He straight gave ten shillings & then said, Prove true, And tomorrow I'll give you the stockens of blew.
The bargain was so, not a word should be said, Betwixt the shopkeeper and this pritty maid; So this silent couple to bed they did go, To those delights that young lovers should do; But he was not content when he was in his bed, For fear that he should not get her maiden-head. Then straightway he whisper'd a word in her ear, And said, It is better to do't in a chair. The young man burst out of a laughter, and said, I pray Sir forbear, for I am not a maid. I'll try that, said he; and he pluck'd up the smock, And instead of a pullet catch'd hold of a cock. Lord, how he was daunted at this strange surprise, What to say for himself he could no ways devise: His courage was cool'd which before was so hot, And he was ashamed to appear in his shop: He desir'd the harnismaker for to go, And beg'd he would not let the neighbours to know: Here's half a crown more, therefore pray do not tell The thing that hath hapned, nor where I do dwell. And now all you young men that lead single lives, Part not with your mony, but be well advis'd, For maids are deceitful, and will not prove true, Although you do promise them stockens of blew.
LONDON: Printed for J. Science, in the Old-baily.