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R214265 2 the Paratour UNKNOWN The Paratour the same tune UNKNOWN The Same Tune YOu nine CAstalian Sisters / that keep Parnassus hill, IN Tauerne or in Alehouse / if John and Joan did meet, Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 168 1: 169 Iohn and Ioan: / OR, / A mad couple well met. John and Joan: OR, A mad couple well met. John and Joan: OR, A mad couple well met. Parker, Martin 1633-1633 Tho: Lambert

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YOu nine Castalian Sisters that keep Parnassus hill, Come down to me, and let me bee inspired with your skill, That well I may demonstrate, a piece of houshold stuffe, you that are wed mark what is sedd, Beware of taking snuffe. A mad phantastick couple, a yong man and a Lasse, with their content and friends consent resolvd their times to passe As man and wife together, and so they marryd were, of this mad match I made this Catch, which you that please may hear. They both had imperfections, which might have caused strife the man would sweare, and domineere, so also would his wife. If John went to one Alehouse, Joan ran unto the next, betwixt them both they made an oath, That neither would be vext.
What ever did the good man his wife would doe the like, if he was pleasd she was appeasd, if he would kick, sheed strike. If queane or slut he cald her, shee calld him rogue and knave, if he would fight, sheed scratch and bite, He could no victory have. If John his dog had beaten, then Joan would beat her cat, If John in scorne his band would burn, Joan would have burnt her hat. If John would breake a Pipkin, then Joan would break a pot, thus he and she did both agree To waste all that they got. If John would eate no victuals, then Joan would be as crosse, they would not eat but savd their meat, In that there was no losse. If John were bent to feasting, then Joan was of his mind, in right or wrong both sung one song, As Fortune them assignd.
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IN Taverne or in Alehouse, if John and Joan did meet, who ere was by in company, might tast their humors sweet: What ever John had cald for, Joan would not be out-dard, those that lackd drink through want of chink For them the better fard. Thus would they both sit drinking, as long as coine did last, nay more then this, ere they would misse good liquor for their taste, John would have dammd his doublet, his cloak or any thing, and Joan would pawne her coife of Lawne, Her bodkin or her ring. If John were drunk, and reeled, then Joan would fall ith fire, if John fell downe ith midst oth towne, beewraid in dirt and mire, Joan like a kind co-partner, scornd to stand on her feet, but down sheed fall before them all, And role about the street. If John had cald his Host knave, Joan cald her Hostis whore, for such like crimes they oftentimes were both thrust out of dore.
If John abusd the Constable, Joan would have beat the Watch thus man and wife, in peace or strife, Each other sought to match. But mark now how it chanced, after a yeare or more, this couple mad all wasted had, and were grown very poore, John could no more get liquor, nor Joan could purchase drink, then both the man and wife began Upon their states to thinke. Thus beat with their own wepons, John thus to Joan did say, Sweet heart I see we two agree the cleane contrary way, Henceforth lets doe in goodnesse. as we have done in ill, Ile doe my best, doe thou the rest: A match quoth Joan, I will. So leaving those mad humors which them before possest, both man and wife doe lead a life in plenty, peace, and rest: Now John and Joan both jointly, doe set hands to the Plough. Let all doe so in weale or woe, And theyl do well enough. M.P.
Printed at London for Tho: Lambert. Finis.