%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> My VVife will be my master. / OR, The Married-Mans Complaint against his Unruly Wife, being a warning for all / Unmarried persons, to have a special care in choosing their Maite, lest they meet / with such a Myre-shype, as this poor=man did. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 05/04/2011 31193

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R228748 1 A Taylour is no Man UNKNOWN A Tailor Is No Man AS I was walking forth of late, / I heard a Man complaining, Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 576 My VVife will be my master. / OR, The Married-Mans Complaint against his Unruly Wife, being a warning for all / Unmarried persons, to have a special care in choosing their Maite, lest they meet / with such a Myre-shype, as this poor=man did. My Wife will be my master. OR, The Married-Mans Complaint against his Unruly Wife, being a warning for all Unmarried persons, to have a special care in choosing their Mai[t]e, lest they meet with such a Myre-snype, as this poor-man did. My Wife will be my master. OR, The Married Man's Complaint against his Unruly Wife, being a warning for all Unmarried persons, to have a special care in choosing their Mate, lest they meet with such a mire-snipe, as this poor man did. ?-?

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AS I was walking forth of late, I heard a Man complaining, With that I drew me near to him, to know the cause and meaning Of this his Sorrow, Pain and Grief, which bred him such disaster, Alace, quoth he, what shall I do? my Wife will be my Master. If I should give her fourty pound within her Apron-folding, No longer then she telling ont her tongue leaves never scolding: As Aesops Dog barkt at the Moon, thinking for to distate her, So doth my Wife scold without cause, and strives to be my Master. Were I so strong as Hercules, or wiser then Apollo; [O]r had I Icarus wings to flee, my Wife would after follow: [Or] should I live as many Years as never did King Nestor, [Ye]t do I greatly stand in fear, my Wife would be my Master. [I] know no cause nor reason why that she with me should jangle, [I] never gave her cause at all to make her with me wrangle: [I] please her still in what I may, and do no jot distate her; [Y]et she doth strive both night and day alwayes to be my Master. [I] every morning make a fire, all which is done to ease her; I get a Nutmug, make a Tost, in hope therewith to please her: With a cup of nappy Ale and Spice, of which she is first taster, And yet this cross-graind quean wil scold and strive to be my Master. I wash the dishes, sweeps the house; I dress the wholesome dyet; I humour her in every thing; because I would be quyet: Of every several dish of meat [shel] surely be first taster, And I am glade to pick the bones, she is so much my Master.
Sometimes shel sit while day be light, in company with good fellowes, In Taverns and in [bo]wsing Tents, or in some pimping Ale-house: And when she comes home drunk at night, though I do not distate her, Shel fling, shel throw, shel scratch, shel bite, and strive to be my Master. Her bed I made both soft and fine, and put on shooes compleatly; Her shooes and stockings I pul off, and lay her down most neatly: I cover her and keep her warm, for fear I should offend her, I hug her kindly in my Armes, yet still shel be my Master. And when I am with her in Bed, she doth not use me well Sir, Shel wring my Nose, and pull my Ears, a pittifull tale to tell Sir: And when I am with her in Bed, not meaning to molest her, Shel kick me out at her Beds-feet and so become my Master. And thus you hear how cruelly my Wife doth still abuse me, At Bed, at Board, at Noon, at Night, she alwayes doth misuse me: But if I were a lusty man, and able for to baste her, Then would I surely use a means, that she should not be my Master. You Batchelours that sweet hearts have, when as you are a wooing, Be sure you look before you leap, for fear of your undoing: The after Wit is not the best, and he that weds in haste Sir, May like to me bewaile his case, if his Wife do prove his Master. You married Men that have good wives, I pray you make much of them, For they more precious are then gold, if once you come to try them: A good Wife makes a Husband glade, then let him not offend her; But a Scold will make a man run mad, if once she prove his Master.
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