%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Ranting Whores Resolution: / Wherein you will finde that her only Treasure / Consisteth in being a Lady of Pleasure. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1658-1658 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/27/2011 30965

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R216187 2 General Monks March UNKNOWN General Monk's March the same Tune UNKNOWN The Same Tune OH fye upon care / Why should wee despair, WHen this Gallant's broke, / I've another bespoke For I am a Lady of pleasure. [with variation] For I am a Lady of pleasure. [with variation] Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 3: 252 3: 253 The Ranting Whores Resolution: / Wherein you will finde that her only Treasure / Consisteth in being a Lady of Pleasure. The Ranting Whores Resolution: Wherein you will finde that her only Treasure Consisteth in being a Lady of Pleasure. The Ranting Whore's Resolution: Wherein you will find that her only Treasure Consists in being a Lady of Pleasure. 1658-1658 F. Coles, M. Wright, T. Vere, W. Gilbertson

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OH! fye upon care Why should wee despair, Give mee the Lad that will frollick, There is no disease, But Musick will please, If it were the stone or the cholick. The Lad that drinks Wine, Shall only be mine, Hee that calls for a Cup of Canary, That will tipple and sing, Kiss, caper, and spring, And calls for his Mab, and his Mary. Such sinners as these My pallat will please, For this is a Lad that will knock it, Provided hee bee Not Niggard to mee, But carry good gilt in his pocket; I care not from whence Hee gets his expence, Nor how hee comes by his treasure, So I have the sweets When hee and I meets, For I am a Lady of pleasure.
I love a young Heir, Whose fortune is fair, And frollick in Fishstreet-dinners, Who boldly doth call, And in private paies all, These Boyes are the noble beginners, For what the old Father In long time did gather, Hee toaps it away without measure, Heel lye in my lap, Like a Bird in a trap, And call mee his Lady of pleasure. Hee wears gallant cloaths And studies new Oaths and gets pretty words from the players Hee swaggers and roars, Hee calls the next Oars, And cries, heres a peece for your fairs, Thus wee in delight From morning till night, Do study to cast away treasure, At night in my arms I secure him from harms, For I am a Lady of pleasure.
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WHen this Gallants broke, Ive another bespoke, And hee hath my protestation, I call him my Love, My Jewel, my Dove, And swear by my reputation, That I never did know What love was till now, Though I have had men beyond mea-sure With such tricks as these All Coxcombs I please, For I am a Lady of pleasure. When theyre in the Jayle, They wretchedly rail And at mee they cast all their curses, Let them laugh that win, I care not a pin, When I have confounded their purses, While they have disgraces, I know not their faces, When Warriers of Woodstreet make seizure But when theyr whole men Il know them agen For I am a Lady of pleasure. I live by the quick And not by the sick, Or such whose estates lye a bleeding My wast must be bound By men that are sound, For I am a Lass of high feeding
If once they grow poor, No mony, no Whore, And yet they shall wait on my leisure, I only fulfil My fancy and will, Which shews mee a Lady of pleasure. I laugh when they tell Mee stories of Hell I think there is no such Cavern, If Heaven there be (As some will tell mee) I am sure it must bee in the Tavern, Where there is no Wine, Theres nothing divine; Weel think of a grave at more leisure. Boy fill th other glass For I am a Lass That will be a Lady of pleasure. In freedome and joyes Il spend all my daies, For there is no greater blessing Than musick and meat Good Wine and the feat, And nothing to pay for the dressing; Let Sisters precise Go turn up their eyes, And speak words by line and by leisure; If death come at last, And take mee in haste, Then there lies a Lady of pleasure.
FINIS. London, Printed for F. Coles, M. Wright, T. Vere, and W. Gilbertson. 1662/3