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5.179 R187707 1 The Bonny Milk-maid The Milkmaids; The Merry Milkmaids; The Milking Pail The Bonny Milkmaid YOung Women and Lasses too, / Pray listen to Mistress Prue, My delicate Virgin-rose [with variations] Pepys 5.179 Wing W3239B 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: 179 The Witty LASS of/ Lime-street:/ Containing her kind Advice to the Damosels of City and Coun-/try, in Preservation of their Virgin-rose; with an Account how she/ serv'd a Lawyer's Clark in St. James's Park. The Witty LASS of Lime-street: Containing her kind Advice to the Damosels of City and Coun-try, in Preservation of their Virgin-rose; with an Account how she serv'd a Lawyer's Clark in St. James's Park. The Witty Lass of Lime Street: Containing her Kind Advice to the Damsels of City and Country in Preservation of Their Virgin Rose; with an Account How She Served a Lawyer's Clerk in St. James's Park 1/2 sheet folio, 260 x 135 cropped top, left and right edges, creased surface 1664-1703 London: Printed for J. Blare, at the Looking-glass on London-bridge. J. Blare BBTI

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YOung Women and Lasses too, Pray listen to Mistress Prue , a Gentleman's Maid, and what I have said, Believe me you'll find it true; the Sparks of the Town, that range up and down, Are often Virgins Foes; when in their lap, bright gold they drap, yet no such Fop, should ever crop My delicate Virgin-rose . They commonly will pretend, To be your intire Friend, but when they shall find, one more to their mind, Their favours are at an end; in sorrow and scorn, they leave you forlorn, With eyes that overflows; then Damsels fair, I pray beware, when they come there, they will not spare Your delicate Virgin-rose . They'll flatter you with a kiss, For gaining the Lover's bliss, and when it is done, they'll eagerly run And find out another Miss; both City and Court, do follow the sport, Deck'd up in gaudy Cloaths; they'r so unjust, that Maids they worst, then never trust, but marry first, Before they have cropt your Rose .
Beware of a tempting tongue, So pleasant and fairly hung, least it should intice, your hearts in a trice, O come not the least among such Fellows, for fear grief brings up the rear, And does your faults expose; with gall and rue, what e'er you do, abhor the Crew that would persue Your innocent Maiden rose . No honoured Lord or Knight, For guinea's of gold so bright, and though he would fain, should never obtain The pleasure of fond delight; I scorn to be great, at any such rate, A fig for gaudy cloaths; I do protest, I an't in jest, the very best, in velvet drest Shall never defile my rose . One night in St. James 's Park, I met with a Lawyer's Clark, and as we drew near, he call'd me his Dear; But mind how I serv'd the Spar[k] since he was so fond, down into a pond, I shov'd him with all his cloaths on floods he wav'd, for help he cravd, I run, he rav'd, and thus I sav'd My delicate Virgin-rose.
London: Printed for J. Blare , at the Looking-glass on London-bridge