%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Maidens Delight: / OR, / A dainty New Dialogue / A Vaporing Gallant came the Maid to woo / But she deni'd and said she would not do / He profferred Ribbans, Gloves, and gay gold Rings / But she refused all manner of such things. / She said the greatest comfort of her life / Was to be made some honest Trades-mans wife. Price, Lawrence University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1623-1623 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 03/05/2012 31642

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R182069 I am a Jovial Batcheler, / and free from care and strife, GOod Sir I thank you kindly for / your proffered courtesy Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 205 The Maidens Delight: / OR, / A dainty New Dialogue / A Vaporing Gallant came the Maid to woo / But she deni'd and said she would not do / He profferred Ribbans, Gloves, and gay gold Rings / But she refused all manner of such things. / She said the greatest comfort of her life / Was to be made some honest Trades-mans wife. The Maidens Delight: OR, A dainty New Dialogue A Vaporing Gallant came the Maid to woo But she deni'd and said she would not do He profferred Ribbans, Gloves, and gay gold Rings But she refused all manner of such things. She said the greatest comfort of her life Was to be made some honest Trades-mans wife. The Maiden's Delight: Or, a dainty new dialogue. A vaporing gallant came to the maid to woo but she denied and said she would not do. He proffered ribbons, gloves, and gay gold rings, but she refused all manner of such things. She said the greatest comfort of her life was to be made some honest Tradesman's wife. Price, Lawrence 1623-1623 Fran. Grove

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Man. I am a Jovial Batcheler, and free from care and strife, I nothing in the world do want and yet I want a wife: Therefore sweet Cupid guide me, and help me to a Love, That may both kind and loving be and honest to me prove. Tis known to all my neighbours I am one and twenty years old, And I have store and plenty of white Silver and red Gold, I have both goods and Cattle, I have both howse and Land, I have my horse, my Hawk, my hound, and all things at command My hat is made of Beaver brave, my band of Flaunders Lace, My golden Belt about my neck, my person for to grace: My silver haunched Rapier doth make a gallant show, And I am well accounted of by all that do me know,
I have my knots of Ribbans brave along my Cod-peice tids I have my goulden fancies meet round at every side So high as is my pocket holes, deny it he that can Let all that sees me judge if I am not a proper man And now sweet Betty I am come a wooing unto thee, I prethee tell me out of hand if thou canst fancy me, If thou canst truly love me ile take thee to my wife, And thou shalt surely always live, A sweet contented life. Ile furnish thee with rare delights, as Ribbans and gold rings Perfumed Gloves and Bracelets fine and such like costly things With a Bever hat and a taffety scarf and a new-fashion silken gown So thou shalt be as brave a Girl. as any in the town
<seg n="1" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">The second part, to the same Tune.</hi></seg>
Maid. GOod Sir I thank you kindly for your proffered courtesy But this I tell you plainly here in truth and verity That I shall never love you whilst I on earth remain Therefore forbear and say no more spend not your breath in vain. Tis not your cunning speeches that shall tempt me unto sin For all your wealth and riches sir, I value not a pin I will not wed a Prodigal though he be never so brave But if ever I marry whilst I live, some Trades-man I will have. A Prodigal wil domineer, and soon consume his store, Which being gone he knows not how nor which way to get more But the brave resolved trades-man is free from such like sorrow If he wants mony over night, heel work for more next morrow A spend-thrift that consumeth and sells his land for gold Is very like to live in want or beg when he is old But the Noble-minded tradesman, his work goes forward still For he hath meat and drink enuf, and al things else at wil.
So now you honest Batchelers you partly know my mind If I can with a Trades-man meet, that wil to me prove kind If that he takes me to his wife, I wil him dearly love, Andile be as faithful unto him as is the Turtle Dove. I do confess gay Ribands becomes the britches fine, And that the golden fancies wil make the Cod-peice shine But before I wil be married to such a Prodigal Ile live a Maid and dye a Maid, and thats a word for all. Man. Farewel you scornful minion I bid thee now adue I never do intend to come, again to trouble you, Ile rest my self contented until that I can finde A wife that is more fitting and agreeable to my mind. Maid. Why then farewel proud Coxcome and this I tel thee plain Thy pride and thy ambition, I hold in much disdain, Rather then such a jack as thou, shouldst be my company keeper, Ile marry with a Beggar-man or with a Chimney-Sweeper.
Finis. L.P. London Printed for Fran. Grove on Snow-hill.