%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Milke-maids life: / OR, / A pretty new Ditty, Composed and pend, / The praise of the Milking paile to defend. Parker, Martin University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1633-1633 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/18/2011 30170

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S119377 2 The Milke-maids Dumps Milkmaids, The; The Merry Milkmaids; The Milking Pail The Milkmaid's Dumps the same tune Milkmaids, The; The Merry Milkmaids; The Milking Pail The Same Tune YOu Rurall goddesses / that woods and fields possesse THeir labor doth health preserue / no Doctors rules they obserue, to carry the milking payle. [with variation] to carry the milking paile. [with variation] Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 244 1: 245 The Milke-maids life: / OR, / A pretty new Ditty, Composed and pend, / The praise of the Milking paile to defend. The Milke-maids life: OR, A pretty new Ditty, Composed and pend, The praise of the Milking paile to defend. The Milkmaid's life: OR, A pretty new Ditty, Composed and penned, The praise of the Milking pail to defend. Parker, Martin 1633-1633 T. Lambert

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YOu Rurall goddesses that woods and fields possesse Assist me with your skill, That may direct my quill more jocundly to expresse The mirth and delight, Both morning and night, on mountaine or in dale, Of them who chuse This trade to use, And through cold dewes Doe never refuse to carry the milking payle. The bravest Lasses gay, live not so merry as they, In honest civill sort, They make each other sport, as they trudge on their way: Come faire or foule weather Theyre fearefull of neither, their courages never quaile: In wet and dry Though winds be hye And darkes the sky, They nere deny to carry the milking paile.
Their hearts are free from care, they never will despaire: What ever them befall, They bravely beare out all & Fortunes frowns out-dare. They pleasantly sing To welcome the spring, gainst heaven they never rayle: If grasse wel grow Their thankes they show, And frost or snow They merrily goe along with the milking paile. Base idlenesse they doe scorne, they rise very early ith morn, And walke into the field, Where pretty birds doe yeeld brave musick on every thorn. The Linet and Thrush Doe sing on each bush, and the dulcid Nightingale Her note doth straine In a jocund vaine, To entertaine That worthy traine which carry the milking paile.
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THeir labor doth health preserve no Doctors rules they observe, While others too nice In taking their advice, look alwaies as though they wold starve, Their meat is digested, They nere are molested, no sicknesse doth them assaile: Their time is spent In merryment, While limbs are lent They are content to carry the milking paile. Those Lasses nice and strange, that keep shops in the Exchange Sit pricking of clouts, And giving of flouts, they seldome abroad doe range: Then comes the green sicknesse, And changeth their likenesse, all this is for want of good sale: But tis not so As proofe doth show By them that goe In frost and snow to carry the milking paile. If they any sweet-hearts have, that doe their affection crave, Their priviledge is this, Which many others misse, they can give them welcome brave With them they may walke, And pleasantly talke with a bottle of Wine or Ale:
The gentle Cow Doth them allow As they know how, God speed the plow, and blesse the milking paile. Upon the first of May, with garlands fresh and gay, With mirth and musick sweet For such a season meet they passe their time away: They dance away sorrow, And all the day thorow, their legs doe never fayle: They nimblely Their feet doe ply, And bravely try The victory, in honour oth milking paile. If any thinke that I doe practice flattery, In seeking thus to raise The merry Milkmaids praise ile to them thus reply, It is their desert Inviteth my Art to study this pleasant tale, In their defence, Whose innocence And providence, Gets honest pence out of the milking paile. M.P.
Printed at London for T. Lambert FINIS.