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R1597 Once busie in study betwixt night and day / With choyce of inventions I had in my mind, To get by good order their Maiden head again. [with variation] Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 3: 200 A Marvelous Medicine to cure a great Pain, / If a Maiden-head be lost to get it again, A Marvelous Medicine to cure a great Pain, If a Maiden-head be lost to get it again, A Marvelous Medicine to cure a great Pain, If a maidenhead be lost to get it again, 1658-1658

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ONce busie in study betwixt night and day With choyce of inventions I had in my mind, And many od matters my mind did assay, But any to please me I could not well find, Then suddenly casting my nose in the wind, I smelt out a Medicine both precious and plain, How to help silly maidens that have bin somwhat kind To get by good order their Maiden head again. First the Maid must be brought into a sleep, For seven dayes together before she awake. And seven dayes after this dyet must keep, with these kind of compounds the which she must take She must not eat neither rost meat Sod neither bake But all kind of daintyes she must refrain, Save only the Medicine which if she take. then it will restore, etc. The first day give her the slime of an Eale Blown through a bag:pipe with the wind of a bladder With two or three turnings of a Spinning wheele, Boyld in an Egshell and straind through a Ladder, The Tongue of an Urchin the sting of an Adder, Boyld in a blanket in a showr of Rain, With seven notes of Musick to make her the gladder And it wlll, etc. The second day give her the peeping of a Mouse, With the drops of Thunder that falls from the sky, And temper it with three leaps of a lowse, And put thereon three skips of a fly. With a gallon of water from a widows eye. That weeps for her husband when death hath him slain
Let her take this Medicine and drink by and by, And it will, etc. The third day give her the chattering of a Sparrow Rosted in a mitten of untand Leather, Give it her with the rumbling of a wheelebarrow, And bast it with three yards of black Swans Feather The juce of a whetstone therein put together, With a fart of a Fryer brought hither from Spain, Let her lay all this in an ell of lowse Leather. And lay warm to her belly to cure her great pain. The fourth day give her the Song of a Swallow, Well tempered with marrow wrung out of a Log With three pound and better of stock fish Tallow, Hard tryd in the left horn of a blew butchers Dog. With the gagling of a Goose and three frisks of a frog The hill of a shovell and an humble Bees brain, Give her this fasting with the grunting of a hog. And it will, etc, The fift day give her twixt eight and nine, Some gruel of grantham boyld for the nonce, The brains of a bird bolt powdred very fine, And beat in a Morter of Genny Rens bones. Boyld in a Nutshel betwixt two Milstones. With the guts of a Gudgin before she be slain, Let her besure to take all this at once, And it will, etc. Now mark well the sixt day what must be her trade She must have a woodcock a snip or a quail, Bakt fine in an Oven before it be made. And mingle it with the blood of a Snale. With four or five inches of a Jack a napes tail. What though for a while it put her to pain, Yet let her take this without any fail And it will. etc. The seventh day give her a pound of maids mocks Brayd in a basket of danger and blame With conserves of colworts bound in a box. To comfort her stomack with sirrop of shame Although she be past all hope of good name. And to her honesty a very great stain, Let her take this to remedy the same And it will, etc: Lo these are our Medicines for Maidens each one Which in their Virginity amisse somewhat fell: Pray if ever you hear them make moan And gladly would know the place where I dwell At the sign of the whip and Eggshell Neer Pancake Alley on Salisbury plain There shall they find remedy using this well Or else ner recover their Maiden head aga[in.]