%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Keep a good tongue in your head: / FOR / Here's a good woman in every respect, / But only her tongue breeds all the defect. 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 04/25/2011 30344

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S120567 18 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN the Milkmaids, &c. Milkmaids, The; The Merry Milkmaids; The Milking Pail The Milkmaids, etc. the same tune Milkmaids, The; The Merry Milkmaids; The Milking Pail The Same Tune I Marry'd a wife of late, / the more's my unhappy fate AS she in feature excels, / wel nye most women else she cannot rule her tongue. [with variation] and cannot rule her tong. [with variation] Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 512 1: 513 Keep a good tongue in your head: / FOR / Here's a good woman in every respect, / But only her tongue breeds all the defect. Keep a good tongue in your head: FOR Here's a good woman in every respect, But only her tongue breeds all the defect. Keep a good tongue in your head: FOR Here's a good woman in every respect, But only her tongue breeds all the defect. Parker, Martin 1633-1633 Thomas Lambert

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I Marryd a wife of late, the mores my unhappy fate I tooke her for love, As fancy did me move, and not for her worldly state. For qualities rare, Few with her compare, let me doe her no wrong:I must confesse, Her chiefe amisse, Is onely this, As some wives is, she cannot rule her tongue. She that hath as sweet a face, as any in seaven miles space, Her eyes christalline, Like Diamonds doe shine, she looks with a modest grace:Her haire is like flax, Her lips are red wax that seale the bond so strong Twixt her and I, That till I die, Ile justifie Her constancy, but she cannot rule her tong. Her cheeks are red as the rose, (which June for her glory shows) Her teeth on a row, Stand like a wall of snow, between her round chin & her nose Hier sholders are decent, Her armes white and pleasant,
her fingers are smal and long, No fault I find, But in my minde, Most womenkind, Must come behind, o that she could rule her tong. Her breasts like Pyreene hills, which nature yearely fils With liquor that by ods Doth passe the drink oth gods, all Nectar it far excels, With this she doth feed, The twigs that proceed from our affections strong, Shees fruitfull as The springing grasse, No times let passe, And yet alas she cannot rule her tongue. Her body which I have oft embraced so smooth and soft, Is slender and white, Proportioned aright, tis straight as any shaft, Her leg is compleat, Her foots fine and neat, tis neither too short nor too long, In every part Dame Natures art, Gives her the start, With all my heart I wish she could rule her tong.
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AS she in feature excels, wel nye most women else Even so doth her wit, If sheel make use of it, as daily experience tels, I cannot deny it, If she be at quiet, her speeches will do no wrong Sheel laugh and smile, New termes sheel file, Yet in a while Sheel change her stile, and cannot rule her tong. With eloquence she wil dispute few women can her confute, She sings and she playes, And she knowes all her keyes, on the vial, de Gambo, or Lute Sheel dance with a grace, Her measures sheel trace, as doth unto art belong, She is a Girle Fit for an Earle, Not for a churle, She were worth pearle, if she could but rule her tong. Her needle she can use well, in that she doth most excell, She can spin and knit, And every thing fit, as all her neighbours can tel:Her fingers apace, At weaving Bone-lace, she useth all day long, All arts that be
To women free, Of each degree Performeth she, O that she could rule her tong. For huswifery she doth exceed, she looks to her businesse with heed, Shees early and late Emploid I dare sayt, to see all things wel succeede, She is very wary To looke to her Dary, as doth to her charge belong, Her servants all Are at her call, But sheel so brawle, That stil I shall wish that she could rule her tong With all that hath bin said, no woman neede be dismaid, Sith I have not beene Incensed through spleene, in this spacious river to wade I none doe disparage To hinder their marriage, but wish both old and yong Great heed to take When choice they make For vertues sake, No venemous Snake stings like a womans tongue.
M. P. Printed at London for Thomas Lambert at the Horsshoo in Smithfield. FINIS.