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R228117 2 a pleasant New Tune UNKNOWN A Pleasant New Tune Kesser Crab UNKNOWN Kesser Crab IN Harvest=time I walked / hard by a Corn=Close side; Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 80 A Pleasant New BALLAD: Being a merry Discourse between a / Country Lass & a young Taylor: / SHEVVING / How the Taylor lost his plight and pleasure / His Yard not being, by the Standard, Measure. A Pleasant New BALLAD: Being a merry Discourse between a Country Lass & a young Taylor: SHEWING How the Taylor lost his plight and pleasure His Yard not being, by the Standard, Measure. A Pleasant new ballad: being a merry discourse between a country lass and a young tailor: showing how the tailor lost his plight and pleasure, his yard not being by the standard measure. 1672-1672

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IN Harvest-time I walked hard by a Corn-Close side; I hearing people talk, I looked about, and spyd A Young man and a maid, together they did lye; When you hear it told, youl laugh full heartily. She was as buxsome a Lass as any in our Town; She will not let you pass, but shel call you to sit down.
A Taylor passing by, she hit him on the heele, You are very welcome Sir, to sit you down and feele. What moneys in my Purse, at your command shall be, If you will go along to Marson wake with me. He hearing her say so, and seeing her to smile, Was charmed with her, so he sate him down a while.
And having groped her Purse, and taken all her money, He gropd again, and mist, and caught her by the Coney. Where am I now? (quoth he) another I have found, Its not the same, quoth he, for this is tufted round. If it be tufted round, quoth she, there is good reason fort, There is such treasure lyes, will make a Taylor sport.
He hearing her say so, being a frollicksome Lad, Was willing for to know more of the fringed bag. With that he eagerly to feel put forth his hand; Nay, hold good Sir, said she, go not before you stand: Except you take your Yard, the depth of it to measure, Youl find the Purse so deep, youl hardly come to th treasure. He hearing her say so, it put him to a stand; She seeing him dismaid, she took his Yard in hand: Is this your Yard, quoth she, is this your Taylors measure? It is too short for me, it is not Standard-Measure. The Taylor being abashed, she told him that it was
More fitter for a man, than such a peuny Ass. She bids him now be gone, since he could make no sport, And said, thou art too dull to enter such a fort. She looking fiercely at him, she said, thou sneaking fool, Go straight away to Vulcan, and let him mend thy tool: And tell him that Dame Venus, at him is almost mad, For sending to her School such an unfit Lad. You Taylors that attempt fringed bags to measure, Be sure your Yards be sealed, and full Standard-Measure.
Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in Westsmi[th]field.