THE/ Young VVomens Complaint/ FOR/ Pressing the Old Ones,/ Shewing their Willingness above the rest to serve/ the KING, the Souldiers, and to be Prest.

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5.399 N69972 1 I marry and thank you too Aye, Marry, and Thank You Too I Marry And Thank You Too YOung Women and Maidens all, / come help me to make my Moan; Pepys 5.399 Wing Y135[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: 399 THE/ Young VVomens Complaint/ FOR/ Pressing the Old Ones,/ Shewing their Willingness above the rest to serve/ the KING, the Souldiers, and to be Prest. THE Young Womens Complaint FOR Pressing the Old Ones, Shewing their Willingness above the rest to serve the KING, the Souldiers, and to be Prest. The Young Womens' Complaint for Pressing the Old Ones, Showing Their Willingness Above the Rest to Serve the King, the Soldiers, and to be Pressed. 1/2 sheet folio, 260 x 140 cropped right, top and bottom edges, torn surface vertical rules 1684-1700 Printed for James Bissel, at the sign of the Bible and Harp near the/ Hospital Gate in West-Smithfield. James Bissel PBA

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. YOung Women and Maidens all, come help me to make my Moan; For such a decree is new come forth, the like on't was never known. Pray where does the Justice lye, that we above all the rest; Should unimploy'd and useless be, and Grand-mothers must be Prest. Since time it does backward run, and order lose it's course: When men the better part do shun, and willingly choose the worse. To People of Reason and Wit, I will on their Judgment relye; Which is most convenient or fit, to Press an Old Woman or I. I think the Comparison's good, and unto most people is known; That Plump and Jucy Grapes are Prest, when Wither'd are let alone.

If you to the Market go, to buy either Flesh or Fowl; The Youngest alwaies is your choice, and you do reject the Old. Then since of every kind, the Youngest proves the best; Keep all the Matrons still at home, and then let the Young ones be Prest. I know the brave Sons of Mars, if that they might have their mind: Wou'd gladly choose the brisk young Lass, and leave the Old Granny behind. Besides above all the rest, this double advantage wou'd spring: If th' Young ones be but soundly Prest, the'l get Souldiers to serve the King. And now to conclude my song, in the name of all the rest: Keep back the Old, and take the Young, for we long to be soundly Prest.

Printed for James Bissel, at the sign of the Bible and Harp near the Hospital Gate in West-Smithfield.