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R216184 7 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN a very fine Northern Tune Your Humble Servant, Madam A Very Fine Northern Tune I Am a Blade, / That from an old Trade, MY Courtiers Place, / Doth give me grace, And your humble Servant Madame. [with variation] With your humble Servant Madam. [with variation] Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 3: 248 3: 249 Your humble Servant Madam: / BEING / The flattering Courtier. / OR, / The Cheating Lover; Your humble Servant Madam: BEING The flattering Courtier. OR, The Cheating Lover; Your humble Servant Madam: BEING The flattering Courtier. OR, The Cheating Lover; 1647-1647 William Gilbertson

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I Am a Blade, That from an old Trade, Have taken out a new one, Tis onely this, To Court and Kiss Swear Oaths and nere a true one I can tell an hundred lyes, And a thousand more devise, Never was the like since Adam, I can Fetter whom I please, With a Flattering disease, And your humble Servant Madame. The Warrs are done, And I must run A Course that may Preserve me, Should I rely, On Honesty, It were the way to starve me:
I ha givn away my Buff; For a Perriwigg and Muff. And an Art no Wit can Fadom: I have got a Place at Court, Never paid a Penny fort, But your humble Servant Madame. Whilst a Cavelier Both lean and bear, And almost like to Starve is, A Ladies Letter, Shall do better Then all his Iron Service. When I found out what would doot; Straight I put a Lady toot, What things I lackt I had um, Nothing did I give for this, But a promise and a Kiss, With your humble Servant Madam
MY Courtiers Place, Doth give me grace, And Pimp unto my Trade is; The Devill and I, In Ambush lye To Catch all kind of Ladies; I can call um pritty Souls, Though they be as old as Pouls, Then I a bonny Lad am; Thus the Women I Trappan, Fetch um off and bring um on, With your humble Servant Madam. Some give me Rings, And better Things, So cunning is my Carriage, To every soul, Both fair and fowl I promise lawfull Marriage. I have got so many Wives, If I had as many Lives, I should be as old as Adam, But before wee go to Church, I still leave them in the lurch, With your humble Servant Madam. When I find a Face: Of a stately Grace, That would have all adore her, A Knight-hood I Get presently, And that I spread before her:
So I may get somthing byt; I can quickly be a Knight!; If a Title will perswade um, I can tell um that they shall, Answer to no other call But your humble Servant Madam. If I see one that Is given to chatt, I praise her Ingenuity: When I take a Prize With two black Eyes, I call her Queen of Beauty: If another merry be, I can laugh as well as she, When she sighs, I monstrous sad am But if I find her in a heat, I can fit her for the feat, With your humble Servant Madam. All Passions I, Can falsifie, Hipocrisie my Trade is, I have of late, Gaind an Estate By humouring of Ladies; And I very well do find, That I fit them in their kind, For Eve begiuled Adam; Women first did cousen Men But I cousen them agen, With your humble Servant Madam.
London, Printed for William Gilbertson, dwelling at the Bible in Giltspurstreet. FINIS made in ye year 1662.