%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE / Innocent Country Maids / Delight. / OR, / A Description of the Lives of the Lasses of LONDON. / At London they the wanton play, / as it is often seen. / Whilst we do go, all of a Row, / Unto the Meadows green. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1685-1685 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/20/2011 30690

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R234325 5 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN an Excellent Country Dance UNKNOWN An Excellent Country Dance SOme Lasses are nice and strange, / That keep Shop in the Exchange, But 'tis not so, with we that go, / Through Frost and Snow, when Winds do blow, / to carry the milking-Payl. [with variation] Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 230 2: 231 THE / Innocent Country Maids / Delight. / OR, / A Description of the Lives of the Lasses of LONDON. / At London they the wanton play, / as it is often seen. / Whilst we do go, all of a Row, / Unto the Meadows green. THE Innocent Country Maid's Delight. OR, A Description of the Lives of the Lasses of LONDON. At London they the wanton play, as it is often seen. Whilst we do go, all of a Row, Unto the Meadows green. THE Innocent Country Maid's Delight OR, A Description of the Lives of the Lasses of LONDON. At London they the wanton play, as it is often seen. While we do go, all of a Row, Unto the Meadows green. 1685-1685 P. Brooksby

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SOme Lasses are nice and strange, That keep Shop in the Exchange, Sit pricking of Clouts, And giving of flouts, And seldom abroad do range: Then comes the Green Sickness, And changes their likeness, and all for want of Sale; But tis not so, with we that go, Through Frost and Snow, when Winds do blow, to carry the milking-Payl.
Each Lass she will paint her Face, To seem with a comely grace, And pouder their Hair, To make them look fair, That Gallants may them embrace: But every Morning, Before their adorning, theyre far unfit for Sale; But tis not so, with we that go, Through Frost and Snow, when Winds do blow to carry the milking-Payl.
The more to appear in Pride, They often in Coaches ride, Drest up in their Knots, Their Jewels and Spots, And twenty Knick-Knacks beside: Their Gallants Embrace em, At length they Disgrace em, and then they weep and wail; But tis not so, with we that go, Through Frost and Snow, when Winds do blow, to carry the milking-Payl. Theres nothing they prize above, The delicate Charms of Love, They Kiss and they Court, Theyre right for the Sport, No way like the Turtle-Dove: For they are for any, Not one, but a many, at length they spoyl their Sale; But tis not so, etc. They feed upon Dainties fine, Their Liquor is curious Wine, If any will lend, Theyl borrow and spend, And this is a perfect sign That they are for pleasure, Whilst wasting their Treasure, and then they may to Jayl; But tis not so, etc.
They sit at their Windows all day, Drest up like your Ladies gay, They prattle and talk, But seldom they walk. Their Work is no more than play: They living so easy, Their Stomacks are squesie, they know not what they ail; But tis not so, etc. When ere they have been too free, And happen with Child to be, The Doctor be sure, Is sent for to Cure, This two-legged Tympany: And thus the Physician, Must hide their Condition, for fear they spoyl th[e]ir Sale, But tis not so, etc. Theres Margery, Ciss and Prue, Right Country Girls and true, Nay Bridget and Jone, Full well it is known, Theyl dabble it in the Dew: They trip it together, And fear not the Weather, although both Rain and Hail: Full well you know, away we go, Through Frost and Snow, when Winds do blow. to carry the milking-Payl.
Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden-Ball in Pye-Corner.