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R227364 1 a pleasant new Tune UNKNOWN A Pleasant New Tune THere was young=man for lucre of gain, / He lov'd a Widow well, Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 407 The Scolding WIFE The Scolding WIFE The Scolding WIFE 1672-1672 P. Brooksby

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THere was young-man for lucre of gain, He lovd a Widow well, His Friends did tell him often and plain, in scolding she did excel. Why that is no matter, quoth he, so I may have her Bags of Gold, let her not spare to Brawl and Scold, For Ill be as merry as merry may be. This Woodcock wedded his hearts desire, a Widow with Money enough; They was not so soon out of the Quire eer she began to snuff:
Methink you be very fine, you can no quicker get you hence, without such large and great expence, Of sugared Sops and musick to dine. They was not all at supper set, or at the board sate down, Eer she began to brawl and scold, and calld him a peaking Clown: That nothing he could doe that was pleasing in her sight; but still she scolded day and night, Which made this merry mans heart full of woe.
If he had provided any good cheer for him and her alone, Then she woud a said, with words more hot, you might a done this of your own. If sparingly he will be, then she would have said with words more hot I will not be pinchd of what I brought; But of mine own I will be free. That nothing he could doe That was pleasing in his sight, But still she scolded day and night, Which made this merry mans hearts full of woe. O God in his Prayer he did beseech To take his Life away, A hundred times he curst The Priest, the Clerk, the Sexton too, And tongue that did the Widow woe, And legs that brought him first. It fell out upon a day that with his friends he did devise to brake her of her scolding guise, And what they did they shall be weary: They got and tyd her Arms She could not them undoe,
And many other pretty Charms they used her unto, Her Petticoat was rent and torn, Upon her Back they did put on, They tore her Smock sleeves all along, As if a Bedlam she had been born; Her hair about her head they shook, All with a bramble Bush. They ring her Arms in every crook Till out the blood did gush, And with an Iron Chain Fast by the Leg he did her tye, There within an old dark House by: So soon he went away again, And with a Countenance so sad, He did his Neighbours call: Quoth he, my Wife is Mad, She doth so rave and brawl: Help Neighbours all therefore, To see if that you can reclaim My Wife into her Wits again For she is troubled wondrous sore.
FINIS. Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in Pye-corner.