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S114839 HOw shall we good husband now live this hard yeare, / This world is so queasie and all things so deare: Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 38 A new Ballad, containing a communication between the carefull Wife, and the comfortable Husb / touching the common cares and charges of House-hold. A new Ballad, containing a communication between the carefull Wife, and the comfortable Husb touching the common cares and charges of House-hold. A new Ballad, containing a communication between the careful Wife, and the comfortable Husband touching the common cares and charges of Household. ?-?

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The carefull Wife. HOw shall we good husband now live this hard yeare, This world is so queasie and all things so deare: And so little taking of money for ware, Makes me lye waking with no little care. Then had you need Husband to looke to the Foxe, Whose crafty conveyance will empty your boxe: With faire fawning speeches some credit to crave, Or else to bee surety for more then you have. Then Husband bee carefull and not over large, For unto Hous-keeping there longeth a charge: In wiving and thriving [,] it is an old song, More then the bare legs to bed doe belong. What you spend on mee, I take for my paine, For doing such duties as you would disdaine: For dressing your dyet, in washing and wringing, And much paines I take man, with faire babies bringing. And what you doe get, Sir, that will I save, What better good will in a Wife can you have? Be sure of my promise for better, for worse, I will be a huswife to husband your purse. I must provide, man, for many an odde thing, That you never looke to buy or to bring: To welcome your neighbours, your Nurse and your friend, To furnish a houshold longs many an odde end. What need, man, such odding betwixt you and me? All shall bee even, man, if wee two agree: Even you my good husband, and I your good wife, Will passe this hard yeere, man, without any strife, And I for my part will doe what I may, With Spinning and Reeling to passe time away, Providing and getting to pay for my flaxe: That none shall come chatting to you for such lacks. As just as you will, man, I will be content, Pay you the Brewer, and the Landlord his rent. The Butcher, the Baker, and the Collier his score, And then the Woodmonger and I aske no more, Then a good Newyeers gift, good husband give mee, And a good Newyeers gift I doe give thee, Thou hast a good wife, that a huswife will bee, Both this yeare and many to bee merry with thee.
The comfortable Husband. WIfe, as wee get little, so temper our dyet, With any small morsell to live and be quiet, Though home be but homely and never so poor Yet let us keepe warily the Wolfe from the doore, Nay there lay a straw, wife, I am not so mad, Well payd is well sold, wife, a man may be glad, With any light gaine to fill up the purse, Meane state to maintaine, but not make it worse, I know it is true, goodwife, that you say, He that doth marry, must cast much away: For looke whatsoever I spend upon you, Comes never againe (wife) I thinke this is true, Looke what you would have, Wife, let mee know, I grutch not at any thing that you bestow. Be content and pleased, lacke shall bee no let: Ile see your cares eased as fast as I get. But looke no more m[y] wife, then I looke without, You looke in my purse, wife, too often I doubt, But when you looke in, would you bring in as fast, Then though you still lookd, the longer twould last, Upon the odds, wife, I perceive still you goe, With the oddes I have gotten a verry odde shrow: The oddes may sometimes, wife, make a faire lay, And the oddes may hazard to make all away. A merry new life, makes a merry beginning, Let goe, this is past, wife, be it losing or winning, I will play the good husband the best that I can, To live with good credit and pay every man, Then shall wee lacke nothing, wife I doe beleeve, Nor no man shall take you or me by the sleeve, For scoring, or tallying, or taking on trust, But cleare quittance making is joyfull and just. That I shall doe, wife, with a very good will, To pay that I owe my meaning is still: And shall have to pay, I hope while I live, What old yeare affords not, the new yeere will give, God grant it bee true all this that you say, To his onely glory, to whom let us pray, That wee in his feare may seeme to amend Our former sinnes passed unto our lives end.