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5.331 R187779 1 Fond Boy Fond Boy Fond Boy I Am a young damsel this day in distress, / Who has a sad sorrowful tale to express, Young Thomas should never have tickled my geer. [stanzas 2-4; with variations] You must not expect for to be my sweet bride. [stanzas 5-7; with variations] date from imprint Pepys 5.331 Wing Y102D 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: 331 THE / Young Lass's Lamentation: / CONTAINING HER / Melancholy Moan for the loss of her Maiden-head. / To which is added, / The Young MAN's Answer; concluding with his kind Promise, in helping her to a Husband to make / her Amends. THE Young Lass's Lamentation: CONTAINING HER Melancholy Moan for the loss of her Maiden-head. To which is added, The Young MAN's Answer; concluding with his kind Promise, in helping her to a Husband to make her Amends. The Young Lass's Lamentation: Containing Her Melancholy Moan for the Loss of Her Maidenhead. To Which is Added, the Young Man's Answer; Concluding with His Kind Promise, in Helping Her to a Husband to Make Her Amends. 1/2 sheet folio, 268 x 180 cropped left and right edges horizontal and vertical rules 1693 London: Printed for T- H-, in the Fryars, 1693. T- H- Weinstein: imprint

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Her COMPLAINT. I Am a young damsel this day in distress, Who has a sad sorrowful tale to express, And therefore good people pray hear my complaint: Young Thomas the baker I took for a saint; But since I did let him once tickle my geer, He leaves me to sigh and shed many a tear. At first he did love me, and kindness did show, Now who would have thought he'd served me so! I thought my self sure, I'd a laid my sweet life, That he had intended to make me his wife, Had I not believ'd it, as sure as I am here, Young Thomas should never have tickled my geer. I gave him a tast of the pleasure of night, In hopes to alure him with love and delight, And that he should think me a heaven of charms, When melting he lay in my languishing arms. For this very reason, as sure as I am here, I suffer'd young Thomas to tickle my geer. My maiden-head's gone, and 'ifaith let it go, For now I am eased of that burthen you know; Some journey-man shoemaker, friends I may wed, Who never had skill in a true maiden-head. He'll count me a virgin, and call me his dear, Though Thomas the baker first tickled my geer.
His ANSWER. I tell thee, sweet creature, it is but in vain, In sorrowful tears thus to sign and complain; For as I am here, a true baker by trade, Whoever I marry she shall be a Maid. But since you before-hand was free to be try'd, You must not expect for to be my sweet bride. I love a young Lass that is vertuous and wise, But she that is wanton, I hate and despise; Perhaps I the minute of pleasure may take, And when that is over, the lass I forsake. Though you may intreat me. your sute is deny'd; No lass that is wanton shall e'er be my bride. I courted you once for the fountain of bliss, The which was deny'd me no more than a kiss; Now finding that you was before-hand so kind, I straightways concluded to alter my mind. I thought you right vertuous before I had try'd, But now I do tell you, you shant be my bride. 'Tis like I may do you what kindness I can, To help you e're long to some innocent man, A husband with silver and gold in his purse, Who freely will take you for better for worse. What he never see love, his heart will not rue, And so at the present sweet creature adieu.
London: Printed for T--- H---, in the Fryars, 1693.