%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Advice to Batchelors, / OR, / The Married Mans Lamentation. / Take heed you that unmarried are, / how you do make your choice; / But if a good Wife you do find, / 'twill make your heart rejoyce. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1671-1671 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/18/2011 30108

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R170072 7 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN Busie Fame Bonny Sweet Robin; My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone Busy Fame Hey Boys up go we Hey, Boys, Up Go We Hey Boys Up Go We Jenny Gin Jenny Gin Jenny Gin Martellus One Night When All the Village Slept Martellus YOu Batchelors that single are, / may lead a happy life; then, hey Boys, slap goes she. [with variation] Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 7 Advice to Batchelors, / OR, / The Married Mans Lamentation. / Take heed you that unmarried are, / how you do make your choice; / But if a good Wife you do find, / 'twill make your heart rejoyce. Advice to Batchelors, OR, The Married Mans Lamentation. Take heed you that unmarried are, how you do make your choice; But if a good Wife you do find, ‘twill make your heart rejoyce. Advice to Bachelors, OR, The Married Man's Lamentation. Take heed you that unmarried are, how you do make your choice; But if a good Wife you do find, it will make your heart rejoice. 1671-1671 J. Deacon

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YOu Batchelors that single are, may lead a happy life; For married men are full of care, and Women oft breed strife: As by my late unhappy match, you here may plainly see; A loving Man and froward Wife will never well agree. Beautys a thing that wins mens hearts and reason so bewitches; That Men oft let the weaker sort, like fools, to wear the Breeches:
And I my self too late lament my Apish foolery; For if I speak an hasty word, then, hey Boys, slap goes she. I in the morning up must get, or else there is no quiet; And get her some delicious bit, for she doth love good Dyet: I ask her why shel be profuse? she crys, whats that to me? And if another word I use, then hey Boys, slap goes she.
Shel make me rise out of my Bed to let another in; And if I ask the reason why, a Quarrel doth begin; Shel haul me up and down the house, the like you ner did see, I must be silent as a Mouse, or, hey Boys slap goes she, If I but for my breakfast ask, then doth she laugh and jeer; Perhaps give me a hard dry crust, and strong four-shilling Beer; She tells me that is good enough for such a Rogue as me; And if I do but seem to pout, then, hey Boys, slap goes she. She oftentimes doth tell me plain, that I do wear the Horns; Sure ery Man doth this disdain, and wisemen meerly scorns: But since tis my unhappy fate, how can it helped be? But if I chance thereof to prate, then, hey Boys, slap goes she. The Pots and Dishes I must wash, and scowre the Irons too; Nay, and must wash the childrens clouts believe me this is true: But those that did the Children get, should slave as well as me[;]
And if I chance to vex or fret, then, hey Boys, slap goes she. This is a strange and dismal life, that I poor Man do lead; And when I do consider well, it makes my heart to bleed: But if it goes against the grain, I must contented be; If in the least I do complain, then, hey Boys, slap goes she. Oh that I were a single Man, as I was heretofore; Or if I were a Widdower, I ner would Marry more: For I do to my sorrow know, and to my grief I see, When she says I, and I say no, then hey Boys slap goes she. A thousand times I wish in vain, I ner had been begot; Then had I been a happy Man, now Cuckold, Fool, and Sot: But once again you Batchelors, take warning now by me: For tis a curse to be a Slave, and yet a Cuckold be.
FINIS. Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel.