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5.276 R188491 1 Pegg and the Soldier Peg and the Soldier Peg and the Soldier NEar Old Gravel-lane, a Widower does dwell,/ That courted a Maiden whom he loved well; Pepys 5.276 Wing L3211[E] 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: 276 THE/ Love-sick Blacksmith:/ OR,/ The Unkind MAID/ OF/ Ratcliff's Cruelty. THE Love-sick Blacksmith: OR, The Unkind MAID OF Ratcliff's Cruelty. The Lovesick Blacksmith: or, the Unkind Maid of Ratcliff's Cruelty. 1/2 sheet folio, 256 x 175 horizontal rules 0 Printed for J. Shooter. J. Shooter

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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 Unfortunate class love marriage military/war 08/13/2007 Checker Summer J. Star Ballad Checked; X-ballad performed 08/2006 Transcriber Jeffrey P. Hehymeyer Ballad Transcribed 10/8/2004 Bibliographer Margaret K. Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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NEar Old Gravel-lane, a Widower does dwell, That courted a Maiden whom he loved well, But she often cried, Your Suit pray forbear, For a Blacksmith I never can Love, I declare: Your Hammer and Anvil wont with me agree, Therefore for an Answer take this now from me, And leave off your Wooing, since I must be plain, For a Blacksmith is what I did ever disdain; Do you think that I design ever to have A Blacksmith to follow me unto my Grave; No, no, for an Answer I pray take this here, For a Blacksmith I never can Love, I declare. Her Answers they daily did run in his Mind, Yet he proved Constant, tho' she was Unkind, And often his Love he would make to her known; But her Answer was always, Pray from me begone, And do not persist in your Suit here to me, For single I do resolve ever to be; For Men are deceitful, I to you declare, Especially those that do speak you most fair. A Maid shall wait on thee, my Dear, if you'll have Me to be your Husband, I'll maintain you brave; As for Gold and Silver, you shall have good store, If you'll fancy a Blacksmith and a Widower, That does love you dearly, & would venter his Life For to make you Happy, if you'll be his Wife;
What tho' I'm a Blacksmith, I have Gold good store, My Dear pity me, and your Frowns now give o're: Tho' Forty Years of Age I am, it is true, There is none in the World I can fancy but you. Therefore, dearest Creature, be not too unkind, But let your poor Blacksmith some pity now find; And do not so Cruel resolve for to prove, But grant me some pity and hopes of your Love; But if that so unkind you resolve to be, Farewel, unkind Maiden, I hear Die for ye. Then from her he went with a sorrowful heart, The wound which he felt from a powerful dart, Did cause him to weep, and continually cry, My life is a pain, I am willing to did: My dearest she slights me because of my trade, At every word she with scorn does upbrade A Blacksmith, and this is the cause of my grief, And now I must die without hope of relief. Farewel to my Dearest, the cause of my woe; Farewel to the World, to my Chamber I'll go, And there I will weep out the rest of my days, For I am tormented a Million of ways.
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