%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Labour in Vain. / OR, / The Taylor no Man, / Containing, the Lamentation of his Buxom / Wife, for her hard Usage, and his Insufficiency. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1675-1696 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 01/24/2008 22429

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5.168 R179229 1 Let Mary Live Long Let Mary Live Long Let Mary Live Long YOung Women I pray / Be pleased to pity My Husband he Treats me, / My Husband he Treats me, / With Labour in vain. [with variations] Pepys 5.168 Wing L102 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: 168 Labour in Vain. / OR, / The Taylor no Man, / Containing, the Lamentation of his Buxom / Wife, for her hard Usage, and his Insufficiency. Labour in Vain. OR, The Taylor no Man, Containing, the Lamentation of his Buxom Wife, for her hard Usage, and his Insufficiency. Labor in Vain. Or, The Taylor No Man, Containing the Lamentation of His Buxom Wife for Her Hard Usage and His Insufficiency. 1/2 sheet folio, 275 x 136 cropped right edge, uneven inking cast fleurons, horizontal rules 1675-1696 Printed for P. Brooksby, I. Deacon, I. Blare, I. Back. P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back PBA

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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 1/24/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant clothing/fashion marriage punishment sex/sexuality 1/24/8 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created 7/6/7 Checker Summer Star Transcription checked, metadata created 7/6 Transcriber Liberty Stanavage Original transcription 10/26/2004 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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YOung Women I pray Be pleased to pity My sorrowful ditty, This Eighteen Months day I have been a Bride; Yet I'll make it appear, I am never the near, I'm forced to complain, My Husband he Treats me, My Husband he Treats me, With Labour in vain. 'Tis very well known, I am a sweet Beauty, If he did his duty, This sorrowful moan, I need never make; But I'm made a meer fool By a fumbling tool, Which makes me complain, And weep when he Treats me, And weep when he Treats me, With Labour in vain. A Taylor good Lord, He is by profession, Who wanting discretion, He shall be obhorr'd By me I declare, For the Cabbidging Knave, Tho' I covet and crave, He lets me complain, And Treats me with nothing, And Treats me with nothing, But Labour in vain, In Cucumber time, I kept my self quiet, Concluding his Diet, Occasion'd this Crime, I mean his neglect. But the Cucumbers cold I knew would not hold, So I would not complain, 'Tis all one he Treats me, 'Tis all one he Treats me, With Labour in vain.
I feed him he knows With dainties at pleasure, That he in some measure Might readily close To give me content: I have made him Cock-broth, And yet by my troth No comfort I gain, He Treats me with nothing, He Treats me with nothing, But Labour in vain. Altho' I may strive To stiffle my passion, My grief and vexation, What woman alive Would suffer this wrong, Tis a wonder each day, That I don't run astray, Some comfort to gain, So long as he Treats me, So long as he Treats me With Labour in vain. Well, had I but known, That when I was wedded, And lawfully bedded, That he like a stone, Or log, would have lain, I would ne're have been caught, But who would have thought He'd let me complain, And Treat me with nothing, And Treat me with nothing, But Labour in vain. With grief I'm opprest Which I cannot smother, I'd fain be a Mother As well as the rest, I'm Buxom and Young, But declare it I can, That a Taylor's no Man, He lets me complain, And Treats me with nothing, And Treats me with nothing But Labour in vain.
Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back.