%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE / Maiden LOTTERY: / Containing Seventy Thousand Tickets; each a Guinney; the / Prizes being Rich and Loving Husbands, from three Thousand to one / Hundred a Year, which Lottery will begin to draw on next Valentine's Day. / Then Pretty Lasses venture now, / Kind Fortune may her Smiles allow. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1664-1696 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/04/2008 22342

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5.420 R188525 1 The Evening Ramble The Evening Ramble YOung Ladies that live in the City, / sweet beautiful proper and tall, Of her that shall light of a fortunate Lott; / There's six of three thousand a Year to begot. (with variations; not stanza 8) Pepys 5.420 Wing M264[a]B 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: 420 THE / Maiden LOTTERY: / Containing Seventy Thousand Tickets; each a Guinney; the / Prizes being Rich and Loving Husbands, from three Thousand to one / Hundred a Year, which Lottery will begin to draw on next Valentine's Day. / Then Pretty Lasses venture now, / Kind Fortune may her Smiles allow. THE Maiden LOTTERY: Containing Seventy Thousand Tickets; each a Guinney; the Prizes being Rich and Loving Husbands, from three Thousand to one Hundred a Year, which Lottery will begin to draw on next Valentine's Day. Then pretty Lasses venture now, Kind Fortune may her Smiles allow. The Maiden Lottery: Containing Seventy Thousand Tickets; Each a Guinea; The Prizes Being Rich and Loving Husbands, from Three Thousand to One Hundred a Year, Which Lottery Will Begin to Draw on Next Valentine's Day. Then Pretty Lasses Venture Now, Kind Fortune May Her Smiles Allow. 1/2 sheet folio, 250 x 170 cropped top and right edges, creased, uneven inking vertical rules 1664-1696 LONDON: Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden-ball in Pye-Corner P. Brooksby BBTI

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YOung Ladies that live in the City, sweet beautiful proper and tall, And Country Maids who dabling wades, here's happy good News for you all: A Lottery now out of hand, erected will be in the Strand , Young Husbands with treasure, and wealth out of measure will fairly be at the cammand Of her that shall light of a fortunate Lott; There's six of three thousand a Year to begot . I tell you the Price of each Ticket, it is but a Guiney, I'll vow: Then hasten away, and make no delay, and fill up the Lottery now: If Gillian , that lodges in straw, shall have thee good fortune to draw A knight or a Squire, he'll never deny her, 'tis fair, and according to Law; Then come pretty Lasses and purchase a Lott, There's ten of two thousand a Year to be got. The number is seventy Thousand, when all the whole Lott is compleat; Five Hundred of which, are Prizes most rich, believe me for this is no Cheat. There's Drapers and Taylors likewise, brave Men that you cannot despise: Come Briget and Jenny , and throw in your Guinney, a Husband's a delicate Prize: Then come pretty Lasses and purchase a Lott, There's ten of one Thousand a Year to be got. Suppose you should win for your Guiney, a Man of three thousand a Year, Would this not be brave? what more would you have? you soon might in Glory appear, In glittering Coach you may ride, with Lackeys to run by your side, For why should you spare it, faith, win Gold and ware it: now who would not be such a bride? Then come pretty Lasses and purchase a Lott, There's sixty five hundreds a year to be got.
Old Widows, and Maids above forty, shall not be admitted to draw; There's five hundred and ten, as proper young Men, indeed, as your, eyes ever saw, Who scorns for one Guinney of Gold To lodge with a Woman that's old; Young Maids are admitted, in hopes to be fitted, with Husbands couragious and bold: Then come pretty Lasses and purchase a Lot, There are wealthy kind Husbands now, now, to be got. Kind Men that are full of good Nature, the flaxen, the black, and the brown, Both lusty and stout, and fit to hold out, the prime and the top of the Town, So clever in every part, they'll please a young Girl to the heart; Nay, kiss you, and squese you, and tenderly please you, for Love has a conquering dart, Then come pretty Lasses and purchase a Lott, There is wealthy kind Husbands now, now, to be got. Then never be fearful to venter but Girls bring your Guinneys away, Come merrily in, for we shall begin To draw upon Valennine's day: The Prizes are many and great, each Man with a worthy Estate; Then come awa[y] Mary, Sib, Susan, and Sarah, Joan, Nancy, and pretty fac'd Kate , For now is the time, if you'll purchase a Lott, While wealthy kind Husbands they are to be got. Amongst you I know there is many, Will miss of a capital Prize, Yet never the ess, no sorrow express, but dry up your watry eyes, Young Lasses it is but in vain, in sorrowful sighs to complain Then ne'er be faint hearted, tho' luck be departed, for all cannot reckon to gain, Yet venture young Lasses, your Guinneys bring in, The Lucky will have the good fortune to win.
LONDON: Printed for P. Brooskby, at the Golden-ball in Pye-corner.