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5.194 R188535 1 an Excellent new Tune An Excellent New Tune I Heard an old Proverb by my Father and Mother, / That going to one Wedding, begets another, Come gentle, come simple, come foolish, come witty, / Oh, let me not dye a Maid, take me for pity. [stanzas 1-7] I'll hug thee, I'll kiss thee, and on the Bed tumble, / And you shall not dye a Maid, therefore don't grumble. [stanzas 8-10] Pepys 5.194 Wing M275[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: 194 THE / MAIDS CALL / TO THE / BATCHELORS. THE MAIDS CALL TO THE BATCHELORS. The Maid's Call to the Batchelors. 1/2 sheet folio, 243 x 160 cropped left edge, damaged surface, uneven inking 1671-1702 London: Printed for J. Deacon, at the An-/gel, in Guilt-spur-street J. Deacon Weinstein, BBTI

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I Heard an old Proverb by my Father and Mother, That going to one Wedding, begets another, Than rather than stay I'll go without bidding, To let the World see how I love a Wedding, Come gentle, come simple, come foolish, come witty, Oh, let me not dye a Maid, take me for pity. I have a Sister Cisly she's younger than I am, She had six or seven hearts and forc'd to deny 'em, Before she was nineteen, she'd a Son and a Daughter, And I three and twenty and ne'r had an offer, Come gentle, come simple, come foolish, come witty, Oh, let me not dye a Maid, take me for pity. I will be no scold, nor I will not be jealous, He shall have Mony to spend in an Ale-house; While he's abroad spending, I'll be at home saving, Oh tell me, if I am not worth a Man's having, Come gentle, etc. Oh, let me, etc. There's Roger and Nell is next week to be married, Yet I for a Husband have many years tarry'd; I'll go to the Wedding, sing dance and be merry, And trip it around with Tom, Roger, and Harry, Come gentle, etc. Oh, let me, etc. If any that day should ask me to be wedded, I'd venture almost without Church to be bedded, For Men are so fickle, one day they will have ye, And the next day they are ready to leave ye, Come gentle, etc. Oh, let me, etc. I think my poor case is the hardest of any, For there are some Lasses are courted by many, Last night I heard Betty, cry Sir, I defie ye, I wish'd the young Man wou'd leave her & come try me, Come gentle, etc. Oh, let me, etc.
Oh, why of all Maidens should I be forsaken, Yet if I dye a Maid I am mistaken? 'Tis hard if I meet not a young Man so civil, To take off the burden of a Maidenhead-evil, Come gentle, come simple, come foolish, come witty, Oh, let me not dye a Maid, take me for pity. The young Man's Answer to the Maidens Call to the Batchelors. To the same tune. SWeet heart I do find you no longer will tarry, But fain with a young Man wou'd hastily marry; I'm not of your mind for I will not be wedded, But if you'll consent you shall quickly be bedded, I'll hug thee, I'll kiss thee, and on the Bed tumble, And you shall not dye a Maid, therefore don't grumble. Another young Man to this Maiden reply'd, Sweetheart I confess you shall ne'r be deny'd: 'Tis pity that you should a Virgin depart, Before you have tasted of Cupid's Love Dart, I'll hug thee, etc. And you, etc. Next day came another, and made a kind offer, His Hand and his Heart and something else did proffer, But Marriage, quoth he, I will never consent to, In any thing else, I would freely content you, I'll hug thee, I'll kiss thee and on the Bed tumble And you shall not dye a Maid therefore don't grumble.
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London: Printed for J. Deacon, at the An-gel, in Guilt-spur-street.