%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Cruell Shrow: / OR, / The Patient Mans VVoe. / Declaring the misery, and the great paine, / By his vnquiet wife he doth dayly sustaine. Halliarg, Arthur University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1601-1601 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/18/2011 30026

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R214094 4 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN Cuckolds all arowe Cuckold's All A-Row Cuckolds All A-Row the same Tune Cuckold's All A-Row The Same Tune COme Batchelers and Maried men, / and listen to my Song; ANd if a friend by chance me call, / to drinke a pot of Beere; Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 28 1: 29 The Cruell Shrow: / OR, / The Patient Mans VVoe. / Declaring the misery, and the great paine, / By his vnquiet wife he doth dayly sustaine. The Cruell Shrow: OR, The Patient Mans Woe. Declaring the misery, and the great paine, By his unquiet wife he doth dayly sustaine. The Cruel Shrew: OR, The Patient Mans Woe. Declaring the misery, and the great pain, By his unquiet wife he doth daily sustain. Halliarg, Arthur Printer M.P. 1601-1601 Henry Gosson

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COme Batchelers and Maried men, and listen to my Song; And I will shew you plainely then, the injury and wrong That constantly I doe sustaine, by the unhappy life, The which does put me to great paine, by my unquiet wife. Shee never linnes her bauling, her tongue it is so loud, But alwaies sheele be railing, and will not be contrould: For shee the Briches still will weare, although it breedes my strife, If I were now a Batcheler, Ide never have a Wife. Sometime I goe ithe morning, about my dayly worke. My wife she will be snorting, and in her bed shyle lurke: Untill the Chimes doe goe at Eight, then shele beginne to wake; Her mornings draught well spiced straight to cleare her eyes shele take. As soone as shee is out of bed, her Looking-glasse shee takes, So vainely is she dayly led, her mornings worke shee makes
In putting on her brave atyre, that fine and costly be, Whilst I worke hard in durt and mire, alacke what remedy. Then she goes foorth a Gossiping, amongst her owne Comrades. And then she falls a bowsing, with her merry blades: When I come from my labour hard, then sheele begin to scould, And calls me Rogue without regard, which makes my heart full cold. When I come home into my house, thinking to take my rest: Then shele begin me to abuse, before she did but Jest: With out you Raskall, you have beene abroad to meet your Whoore: Then shee takes up a Cudgels end, and breaks my head full sore. When I for quietnesse sake desire, my wife for to be still; She will not grant what I require, but sweares sheele have her will: Then if I chance to heave my hand; straight way shele murder cry: Then judge all men that here doe stand, in what a case am I.
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ANd if a friend by chance me call, to drinke a pot of Beere; Then shele begin to curse and brall, and fight, and scratch, and teare: And sweares unto my worke shele send me straight without delay, Or else with the same Cudgels end, shee will me soundly pay. And if I chance to sit at meat, upon some holy day, She is so sullen she will not eate, but vexe me ever and aye: Shele pout, and loure, and curse & bann, this is the weary life That I doe leade, poore harmelesse man, with my most dogged wife. Then is not this a pitteous cause, Let all men now it trie, And give their verdits by the Lawes, betweene my wife and I, And judge the cause, who is to blame, Ile to their Judgement stand, And be contented with the same, and put thereto my hand. If I abroad goe any where, my businesse for to doe, Then will my Wife anone be there, for to encrease my woe: Straight way she such a noise wil make, with her most wicked tongue, That all her mates her part to take, about me soone will thronge. Thus am I now tormented still, with my most cruell Wife, All through her wicked tongue so ill, I am weary of my life:
I know not truely what to doe, nor how my selfe to mend; This lingring life doth breede my woe, I would twere at an ende O that some harmelesse honest man, whom Death did so befriend, To take his Wife from of his hand, his sorrowes for to end: Would change with me to rid my care, and take my wife alive, For his Dead wife unto his share, then I would hope to thrive. But so it likely will not be, that is the worst of all, For to encrease my dayly woe, and for to breed my fall. My wife is still most froward bent, such is my lucklesse fate, There is no man will be content, with my unhappy state. Thus to conclude and make an ende, of these my Verses rude, I pray all wives for to amende, and with peace to be endude: Take warning all men by the life, that I sustained long, Be carefull how youle chuse a Wife, and so Ile ende my Song.
FINIS. Arthur Halliarg. London, Printed by M.P. for Henry Gosson on London Bridge neere the Gate.