%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The vvooing Maid, / OR / A faire maid neglected, / Forlorne and reiected, / That would be respected: / Which to have effected, / This generall Summon / She sendeth in common, / Come Tinker, come Broomman, / She will refuse no man. 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 04/22/2011 30304

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R215907 2 If be the dad ont UNKNOWN If Be The Dad Ont the same tune UNKNOWN The Same Tune I Am a faire Maid / if my glasse doe not flatter, TIs said that one wedding / produceth another, Come gentle, come simple, / come foolish, come witty, / O if you lack a maid, / take me for pitty. Come gentle, come simple, / come foolish, come witty, / O if you lack a maid, / take me for pitty. Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 452 1: 453 The vvooing Maid, / OR / A faire maid neglected, / Forlorne and reiected, / That would be respected: / Which to have effected, / This generall Summon / She sendeth in common, / Come Tinker, come Broomman, / She will refuse no man. The wooing Maid, OR A faire maid neglected, Forlorne and rejected, That would be respected: Which to have effected, This generall Summon She sendeth in common, Come Tinker, come Broomman, She will refuse no man. The wooing Maid, OR A fair maid neglected, Forlorn and rejected, That would be respected: Which to have effected, This general Summon She sends in common, Come Tinker, come Broomman, She will refuse no man. Parker, Martin 1633-1633 Thomas Lambert

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I Am a faire Maid if my glasse doe not flatter, Yet by the effects I can find no such matter: For every one else can have Suters great plenty, Most marry at fourteene, but I am past twenty. Come gentle, come simple, come foolish, come witty, O if you lack a maid, take me for pitty. I see by experience, which makes me to wonder, That many have Sweethearts at fifteene, and under, And if they passe sixteen they think their time wasted, O what shall become of me, I am out-casted: Come gentle, come simple,
come foolish, come witty, O if you lack a maid, take me for pitty. I use all the motives my sex will permit me, To put men in mind, that they may not forget me: Nay sometimes I set my commission oth tenters, Yet let me doe what I will never a man venters. Come gentle, come simple, come foolish, come witty, O if you lack a maid take me for pitty. When I goe to weddings, or such merry meetings, I see other maids how they toy with their swee-tings But I sit alone
like an abject forsaken, Woes me for a husband what course shall be taken? Come gentle, come simple, come foolish, come witty, O if you lack a maid take me for pitty. When others to dancing are courteously chosen, I am the last taken among the halfe dozen, And yet among twenty not one can excell me: What shall I doe in this case, some good man tell me. Come gentle, come simple, come foolish, come witty, O if you lack a maid take me for pitty.
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TIs said that one wedding produceth another, This I have heard told by my father and mother: Before one shall scape me, Ile goe without bidding, O that I could find out some fortunate wedding. Come gentle, come simple, come foolish, come witty, O if you lack a maid take me for pitty. Sure I am unfortunate of all my kindred, Else could not my happinesse be so long hindred: My mother at eighteene had two sons and a daughter, And Im one and twenty, not worth looking after. Come gentle, etc. My sister thats nothing so handsome as I am, Had sixe or seven Suters, and she did deny them: Yet she before sixteene was luckily marryd, O Fates, why are things so unequally carryd? Come gentle, etc. My kinswoman Sisly in all parts mis-shapen,
Yet she on a husband by fortune did happen, Before she was nineteene years old (at the furthest) Among all my Linage am I the unworthiest. Come gentle, etc. There are almost forty both poorer and yonger, Within few yeares marryd, (yet I must stay longer) Within foure miles compasse, O ist not a wonder, Scant none above twenty, some s[ix]teene, some under. Come gentle, etc. I hold my selfe equall with most in the parish, For feature, for parts, and what chiefly doth cherish, The fire of affection, which is store of money, And yet there is no man will set love upon me. Come gentle, come simple, come foolish, come witty, O let me not die a maid, take me for pitty. Who ever he be that will ease my affliction, And cast upon me an auspicious affection;
Shall find me tractable still to content him, That he of his bargaine shall never repent him. Come gentle, etc. Ile neither be given to scold nor be jealous, He nere shall want money, to drink with good fellows: While he spends abroad, I at home will be saving, Now judge, am not I a Lasse well worth the having? Come gentle, etc. Let none be offended, nor say Im uncivill, For I needs must have one, be he good or evill: Nay rather then faile Ile have a Tinker or Broom-man, A Pedler, an Inkman, a Mat man, or some man. Come gentle, come simple, come foolish, come witty, O let me not die a maid, take me for pitty.
M.P. FINIS. Printed at London for Thomas Lambert, at the signe of the Hors-shoo in Smithfield.