%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE/ Norfolk Stiff-Rump:/ OR/ The Apple=Dumpling Eater./ Giving an Account, how one Rogers of Lexham in Norfolk,/ by Vertue of Apple-Dumplings, got his Wife with/ Child of Nine Boys at a time. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1692 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/09/2007 22341

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5.419 R188692 1 Winchester-Wedding The King's Jig; Winchester Wedding Winchester Wedding IN Norfolk there Liveth a Yeoman,/ At Lexham, a Town in that Shire, For Dumpling is Food for a King. (with variations; not stanza 1) date from imprint; hinged broadsheet with blank verso; set-off from another ballad visible. Pepys 5.419 Wing N1238[a]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: 419 THE/ Norfolk Stiff-Rump:/ OR/ The Apple=Dumpling Eater./ Giving an Account, how one Rogers of Lexham in Norfolk,/ by Vertue of Apple-Dumplings, got his Wife with/ Child of Nine Boys at a time. THE Norfolk Stiff-Rump: OR The Apple-Dumpling Eater. Giving an Account, how one Rogers of Lexham in Norfolk, by Vertue of Apple-Dumplings, got his Wife with Child of Nine Boys at a time. The Norfolk Stiff-rump: Or the Apple-dumpling Eater. Giving an Account, How One Rogers of Lexham in Norfolk, by Virtue of Apple-dumplings, Got His Wife with Child of Nine Boys at a Time. 1/2 sheet folio, hinged, 282 x 165 cropped right edge, verso shows through horizontal and vertical rules 1692 London, Printed for R.H. in Little-Britain, 1692. R.H. Weinstein: imprint

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I. IN Norfolk there Liveth a Yeoman, At Lexham, a Town in that Shire, More Lusty than ever I knew Man, A Prince of a Man I will Swear; He Eats so much Dumpling they say, That (not to Belye him in Rhyme,) He show'd his Wife delicate Play, And got her Nine Boys at a time. II. And had not the Bed yielded to him, Besides what I told you before, All Men that ever yet knew him, Do think that he had gotten Three more; For Dumpling so strengthned his Back, It is such a delicate thing, That his Bedfellow he held to Tack, For Dumpling is Food for a King. III. You Women that Pray for a Baby, Whose Husbands are Feeble and Old, Must Eat as much Dumpling as may be; 'Twill make 'em both Lusty and Bold, 'Tis Dumpling prolongs a Mans Life, And makes him with ease do the Thing, 'Tis Dumpling joyns Husband and Wife, And Dumpling is Food for a King. IV. When Man has been hard at his Labour, All vexed with Sorrow and Care, Then something you know has some favour, for Dumpling is delicate Fare; It makes a Man fit for the Work, And fits him so well for the the thing, He gets you a Boy at a Jerk, Oh! Dumpling is Food for a King.
V. If Dumpling was once but in Fashion, Then Whoring would quickly go down, There would be no Cuckholds i'th' Nation; For all would make use of their Own; The Bawds would turn Honest and True, And sadly Peccavi would Sing, And Men would live quietly too, For Dumplins is Food for a King. VI. The King would never want Seamen, To Fight on his Royal Concerns, London would never want Freemen, Nor Women a Man for their Turns; We all should be Happy and Blest, Nay, doubly Blest in the Thing, I speak it without any Jest, That Dumpling is Food a for King. VII. And now all you Maids that Love young Men, And that are designed to wed; If you would have them be strong Men, O let them with Dumplins be fed; Dyet them well for the Race With Dumplins that delicate Thing, And fear not they'l scoure your Chace, For Dumplins is Food for a King. VIII. Then both at Dinner and Supper, Be sure to bring in this Dish, 'Twill rarely well strengthen his Crupper As much as a Woman can wish. Instead of a Posset of Sack, Be sure some Dumplins to bring, 'Twill mightily strengthen his Back; For Dumplins is Food a for King.
London, Printed for R.H. in Little-Britain, 1692.