%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Crafty Maids Approbation. / Wherein she shows either Black or Brown, / 'Tis Money makes them straight go down; / When pritty Girls that Gold has none, / Their fortune is still to lye alone. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1678-1678 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 02/29/2012 31687

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R176390 DRaw near to me young Girls so fine, / Whose means and portion's like to mine; 'Twas money did part my Love and I. [with variation] Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 36 The Crafty Maids Approbation. / Wherein she shows either Black or Brown, / 'Tis Money makes them straight go down; / When pritty Girls that Gold has none, / Their fortune is still to lye alone. The Crafty Maids Approbation. Wherein she shows either Black or Brown, 'Tis Money makes them straight go down; When pritty Girls that Gold has none, Their fortune is still to lye alone. The Crafty Maid's Approbation. Wherein she shows either Black or Brown, It is Money makes them straight go down; When pretty Girls that Gold has none, Their fortune is still to lie alone. 1678-1678 F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, & T. Passinger

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DRaw near to me young Girls so fine, Whose means and portions like to mine; If youl but hear what I have pend, Twill make you smile before I end: I once had Sweet-hearts fair and young, Tho now from me hes fled and gone; But ile tell you a very good reason why, Twas money did part my Love and I. When first to me a Wooing he came, He did desire to know my name; I told him that my means was small, He said he valued none at all: So that my favour he could win, He valued nothing else a pin: But now hes gone and I know not why, Twas mony, etc.
Yet for three years his Love stood fast, And he vowd for ever it should last; But when my friends spoke of the same, Then he was for another Dame: Except so much money theyd give me, No wife for him I must not be: His words he clearly did deny, So money did part, etc. Thus maids may see, so may I too, It is for money young men Wooe: Tho great store of Love they do pretend, Yet mark what falls out in the end: When they find your Portions are but small, Like to a Snake from you theyl crawl: And to another streight theyl hye, So money did part, etc.
If I had a head like a Horse, Or a body as thick as a Mill-post, So bags came but tumbling in, Then my favour every fool woud win; Or was I long-snouted like a Sow, Or else Crook-backt like our fine Cow: Have at her then, these boys would cry, Shes money enough, and what care I. Young-men dont blush, you know tis true, For let her name be Mary or Sue, Tho she was blabber-lipt, also blear-eyd, Yet money all those faults will hide; Nay, were she the nastiest dingiest slut, That a man durst not after her crack a Nut; Had she but money, house, or Land, Im sure she would not stick long a hand. Yet we whose portions are but small, Let us not be dismaid at all; Neither let us grieve, lament, nor swound, For Beautys worth a thousand pound: Hangt, though my first true Love be gone, Ive the same face for another man; And ile prove honest till I dye, Tho money, etc. If two young-men talk of a Wench, As they do sit of an ale-bench; Shes a good Huswife, the one replyes, But has she money, the other cries: If she has none shes not for me, Giveme the Cash, hang Huswifery, I love to finger that, for why, Tis money did part my Love and I.
By this young Girls may plainly see, How deceitful these young-men be; Theyl search a Maid from top to toe, Till all her secrets they do know; Then if her means dont please his mind, He quickly can turn like the wind: I must have a wife with more, hel cry, So money, etc. Such affection did that young-man bear, That he often called me his dear; Such vows and Oaths he made, tis known, But now he doth them quite disown: But since hes gone, sing farewel he, Ile slight him more then he does me: Ile ner lament, nor weep, nor cry, Tho money, etc. I am full glad we parted in truth, For since I hear hes a cross-graind youth; But had he provd true, though ner so bare, In wealth or woe ide bear a share; But now im free, ile let that slide, And ner think more to be a Bride: Theres nothing like to Liberty, Since money, etc. Thus have I told young Maidens all, How the weakest go to the Wall; But she that is full, and her Purse well strung, She shall have Sweet-hearts come ding dong: Its no matter for breeding or sense, So she has but Cash, hel have the Wench; Black or brown he looks not oth dye, Twas money did part my Love and I.
Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, & T. Passinger.