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5.264 R181895 1 The Bonny MilkMaid The Milkmaids; The Merry Milkmaids; The Milking Pail The Bonny Milkmaid A Country life is sweet,/ In moderate cold and heat, Do follow the painful Plow. [with variations] Pepys 5.264 Wing P2615A 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: 264 The Plowman's Praise:/ Or, A New SONG in Answer to the Bonny MILKMAID;/ with a brief Account of Rural Pleasures exceeding Courtly Wanton Pastimes. The Plowman's Praise: Or, A New SONG in Answer to the Bonny MILKMAID; with a brief Account of Rural Pleasures exceeding Courtly Wanton Pastimes. The Plowman's Praise: or, a New Song in Answer to the Bonny Milkmaid; with a Brief Account of Rural Pleasures Exceeding Courtly Wanton Pastimes. 1/2 sheet folio, 240 x 116 cropped right edge, uneven inking 0 London: Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Guilt-spur-street. J. Deacon Spufford and 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 8/13/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant advice class clothing/fashion economics/trade love rurallife urbanlife virtue 08/13/2007 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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A Country life is sweet, In moderate cold and heat, to walk in the air, how pleasant and fair, Is every field of wheat; the Goddess of flowers, adorning the bowers, And every meadow now; so that I say, no Courtier may compare with They, who cloath'd in gray, Do follow the painful Plow. They rise with the morning lark, And labour till almost dark, then folding their sheep, they hasten to sleep, While every pleasant park next morning is ringing, with birds that are singing, On each green tender bough; with what content, and merriment, their days are spent, whose minds are bent, To follow the painful Plow. Brisk Country Lads repair To every wake and fair, with Sary and Sue, Nan, Bridget, and Prue, No manner of charge they spare, in seasons of leasure, thus taking their pleasure, Such liberty they allow: the rural Train, through snow or rain, tript o'er the plain, with speed again, To follow the painful Plow. But hectoring Sparks at Court, According to Fame's report, are commonly soil'd, nay, ruin'd and spoild By follewing Venus sport: but this way of sinning, it is the beginning
Of doting on e'ry Sow, who will not fail, for mugs of ale, to spread her tail; 'gainst these we rail, Who follow the painful Plow. A hundred a year and more Some spend to maintain a Whore, who never would give, so long as they li[v]e, Not two-pe[n]ce to hel[p] the Poor; their Wive[s] a[r]e neglected, and Harlots respected, This grieves the Nation now; but 'tis not so, with we that go, where pleasures flow, to reap and mow, And follow the painful Plow. The Gallant that keeps his Crack, And tipples in bowls of sack, were it to be try'd, his feathers of pride, Which decks and adorns his back, are Taylors, and Mercers, and other Men-dressers, For which they do dun them now: but Ralph and Will no Compters fill, for Taylor's bill, or garments st[i]ll, But follow the painful Plow. The Gallant he's Sir'd and Sir'd, By Jenny his pretty Bird, he calls her his Honey, supplies her with Money, Till Frenchefi'd claps the word, and then he runs swearing, nay, raving and taring, And crys, I am ruin'd now; and what is worse, the Spark does curse his empty purse: but 'tis not th[u]s With any that drives the Plow.
Licens'd and Enter'd according to [Law]
London: Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Guilt-spur-street.