%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Good Counsell for young VVooers: / Shewing the Way, the Meanes, and the Skill, / To vvoe any Woman, be she what she will: / Then all young men that are minded to vvooe, / Come heare this new Ballad, and buy't ere you goe. Parker, Martin University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1624-1624 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/18/2011 30089

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S119599 3 a dainty new tune UNKNOWN A Dainty New Tune Prettie Bessie UNKNOWN Pretty Bessie the same tune UNKNOWN The Same Tune COme all you young Pupils that yet haue no skill, / In wooing to get a fine Lasses good will, HAue her to weddings, playes, and merry meetings, / Where she may notice take of Louers greetings, If you will wooe a Wench with a blacke brow, / Accept of my Counsell, and Ile tell you how, / You must kisse her, & coll her vntill she doth yield: / A faint hearted Souldier will never win field. [with variation] If you will wooe a Wench with a black brow, / Accept of my counsell, and Ile tell you how, / You must kisse her and coll her, vntill she doe yield: / For a faint-hearted Souldier will neuer win field. [with variation] Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 142 1: 143 Good Counsell for young VVooers: / Shewing the Way, the Meanes, and the Skill, / To vvoe any Woman, be she what she will: / Then all young men that are minded to vvooe, / Come heare this new Ballad, and buy't ere you goe. Good Counsell for young Wooers: Shewing the Way, the Meanes, and the Skill, To wooe any Woman, be she what she will: Then all young men that are minded to wooe, Come heare this new Ballad, and buy’t ere you goe. Good Counsel for young Wooers: Showing the Way, the Means, and the Skill, To woo any Woman, be she what she will: Then all young men that are minded to woo, Come hear this new Ballad, and buy it before you go. Parker, Martin 1624-1624 F.G.

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COme all you young Pupils that yet have no skill, In wooing to get a fine Lasses good will, [If] you will be ruled, and take my advice, [Il]e teach you to wooe and speed in a trice, [Yo]u must not be daunted what ever she say, [H]e may speed tomorrow thats cast off today. If you will wooe a Wench with a blacke brow, Accept of my Counsell, and Ile tell you how, You must kisse her, & coll her untill she doth yield: A faint hearted Souldier will never win field. [Y]ou must set her beauty at the highest rate, [A]nd never leave wooing her early and late. [T]ell her that her brow like a black Loadstone drawes, [T]hy Iron heart to her, as Jet will doe strawes, When she doth conceive and perceive thy respect, [E]re long thy industry shall find an effect. Then you that will wooe a wench with a black brow, Accept of my counsell, etc. For take this from me, a blacke wench is still proud, And loves well to heare her praise set forth aloud, Although she accuse thee of flattery oft, And tell thee she cannot abide to be scoft, Yet never leave praysing her, for if thou dost, Thy speeches, thy paines, and thy love is all lost. Then if you will wooe a Wench with black brow, Acc[ept] of my Counsell, etc.
Comply with her humour in every thing right, For thats the chiefe course that can give her delight, If thou see her merry, then laugh sing and jest, Or tell some love tales, this a maiden likes best, And when she is sad then put finger ith eye, For wooers (like women) must oft feigne a cry. Then if you will wooe a wench with a blacke brow, Accept of my Counsell, etc. If great be her Portion, and thou be but poore, Thy duty and paines must be so much the more, Thou must vow good husbandry during thy life, What wilt thou not promise to get such a wife, Gownes, Kirtles, and toyes of the fashion all new, What though al thy words prove not afterward true. Then if you will wooe a Wench with a black brow, Accept of my Counsell, etc. If thou from her sight have beene too long away, Then redeeme thy negligence with longer stay, And if she be angry be sure goe not thence, Untill thou force her with thy fault to dispence, And tell her thou wilt not onely stay all day, But (if she please) thou wilt her all night obey. Then if you will wooe a Wench with a black brow, Accept of my counsell, and Ile tell you how, You must kisse her and coll her untill she doe yield: For a faint-hearted Souldier will never win field.
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HAve her to weddings, playes, and merry meetings, Where she may notice take of Lovers greetings, Such objects often-times a motive may be To make her love thee if she were a Lady, For when a Maid sees whats done by another, It more will perswade then advice from her Mother. Then if you will wooe a Wench with a black brow, Accept of my counsell, and Ile tell you how, You must kisse her and coll her, untill she doe yield: For a faint-hearted Souldier will never win field. If unto a Faire thou doe goe farre or nigh, Although thou have other great matters to buy, Yet when thou comst home againe be not thou sparing, To say thou wentst onely to buy her a fayring, By this she will thinke thou wilt be a kind wretch; That wouldst goe so farre off a fayring to fetch. Then you that will wooe a Wench, etc. If she be in presence when others are by, Where words must be wanting there wooe with thy eye, Although it seeme strange yet experience doth prove, That the eye doth convey the first motion of Love, And thou maist perceive by her eye whether she, Doe well correspond in affection with thee. Then if thou wilt wooe a Wench, etc. When by these meanes (or by any of them) Thou hast got this favour of thy precious Gem, Be carefull to hold and keepe what thou hast got, The Proverbe sayes strike the Iron while it is hot, For if thou protract and let slip thy occasion, Shes not so soone wonne with a second pers[w]asion. Then if thou wilt, etc.
Thou well mayst perceive by the words that are past That I doe advise thee to marry in haste. A thing may be dasht when it comes to the push, And one bird in hand is worth two in the bush; One day, nay one houre, (if thou [l]ike thy wife) May make thee or marre thee all the dayes of thy life Then if you will wooe a Wench, etc. Although in my counsell I let others passe, And only have mention made of a blacke Lasse, Yet be thy sweet heart, either blacke, browne or rudd[y] These Lessons kind Wooer are fit for thy study, Be she fayre or foule, be she Widow or Maid, In wooing, a man must doe as I have said. All you that will wooe a Wench, etc. And now with this counsell my ditty Ile end, And if any Carper my skill discommend, Heele shew little wisedome my counsell to blame; For the wisest Wooer may follow the same, And if they will not for my part let them chuse, But once more I will them these Lines to peruse. Then if you will wooe a Wench with a black bro[w] Accept of my counsell, and Ile tell you how, You must kisse her and coll her, untill she doe yield, A faint-hearted Souldier will never win field.
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