%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> An Excellent new Song, Called, The/ Young-Mans Answer/ To the MAIDS/ Garden of TYME,/ Let no Young-maidens shew their proud disdain,/ In slighting Lovers when they're not to blame,/ Least by their haughty Pride as I may tell,/ They slip their Youth, and so lead Apes in Hell. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1696 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/07/2007 22081

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5.246 R188002 1 a pleasant new Tune A Pleasant New Tune MAids that are fair and young,/ why should you thus complain, date from imprint Pepys 5.246 Wing E3828[b]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: 246 An Excellent new Song, Called, The/ Young-Mans Answer/ To the MAIDS/ Garden of TYME,/ Let no Young-maidens shew their proud disdain,/ In slighting Lovers when they're not to blame,/ Least by their haughty Pride as I may tell,/ They slip their Youth, and so lead Apes in Hell. 1/2 sheet folio, 272 x 146 cropped left and right edges, creased surface, uneven inking Printer A. M. 1696 Printed by and for A. M. 1696 A. M. Weinstein

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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 8/7/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant appearance love sex/sexuality trickery/deceit virtue 08/07/2007 Checker Summer J. Star Ballad Checked 08/2006 Transcriber Liberty Stanavage Ballad Transcribed 9/27/2004 Bibliographer Margaret K. Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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MAids that are fair and young, why should you thus complain, Against a Batchellors smooth tongue when Love is all their aim. If we should curse or swear, or surly to you be, O then you justly might forbear a Young-mans company, You say a young man went into your Garden fine, And there unto your discontent he pluckt up all your time. I blame him for the same, he might have spared some, Or for the time that he did take, plant others in the room. Come pritty Lass I pray let me your Garden view, And what fine flowers you do want, ile plant them o'er a new. And if you'l try me once, I doubt not but you'l say, I thank you heartily young man, pray come another day. And in your Garden fine a Fountain there does flow, With pritty bushes all a-round, that Fountain too does grow. Fair Maiden let me in, and then you need not fear, But I the bushes fine will trim, your Fountain too will clear.
And if your time I take, ile give you in return, Cornations of the better sort. and Flowers of the Sun. And for your Fountain too, thus further I can tell, Ile put in pritty Fishes there, will please you wondrous well, And in this Pond they'll breed, for to increase your store, and if you once but let me in, you'l nere deny me more. at length the young Maid then consented to my mind, But said withal, her heart should break if I should prove unkind. When I came to the Garden-door, said she you'l me undo, and steal away my precious time, and leave me nought but Rue. No no, then I reply'd, my pritty Maid ne're fear, For now the Bargain is fast ty'd, ile stay from Year to Year. Your Fountain ile new stock, your Garden ile new plant; There's nothing that is requisite, my pritty Maid shall want. Now maids be ruled by me, nere use Young-men unkind, But take the first that comes to hand, if he be to your mind.
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