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R181936 3 Billy and Molly Daniel Cooper Billy and Molly Cold and Raw. Daniel Cooper Cold and Raw. The Journey-man Shoemaker Daniel Cooper The Journeyman Shoemaker WAS ever Man so vext with a Wife / in Suburbs or in City? Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 275 Poor Anthony's Complaint / And Lamentation against his Miseries of MARRIAGE, / meeting with a scolding WIFE. Poor Anthony's Complaint And Lamentation against his Miseries of MARRIAGE, meeting with a scolding WIFE. Poor Anthony's Complaint And Lamentation against his Miseries of MARRIAGE, meeting with a scolding WIFE. 1685-1685 J. Conyers

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WAs ever Man so vext with a Wife in Suburbs or in City? I live a discontented life, alas, the mores the pity: I must to Bed now I am wed before I fill my Belly, Or else I have a broken head, tis a hard case I tell ye. When I would eat she calls me sott, and maundering Broth doth bring me, So scolding, that is, scolding hot, the very stream doth sting me; Then you that live a single life I wish you to beware, For Marriage often breedeth strife, and always bringeth care.
A dismal Peal to me is rung, while I Rock Bearn in Cradle, Oh! bless me from her scolding tongue, and from her basting Ladle. Oh that I were a single man as I was heretofore sir, I would not kiss young Kate or Nan, nor never marry more sir. My Wife doth lug me by the ears if I but ask for Bacon, And flouts and taunts and scolds and jears, but she must have her Capon: She kicks me up and down the house, and roars as loud as Thunder, While I am silent as a Mouse, hold up my hands and wonder.
ABout the Room she often routs for to find fault and quarrel, Although I wash the shitten Clouts and clean the Small Beer Barrel: The Tongs and Irons though I scour, and make her fire daily, Yet I have not one quiet hour she bums me like a Baily. I drudge and toyl, and am her slave, and clean both Pots and Flaggon, I cannot tell what she would have she is so like a Dragon; She makes me weary of my life for I can get no quiet, The live-long day I live in strife, and Scolding is my Diet. Shel often rise from Spinning-wheel to make me dance the Borey, And make me tast so oft salt Eel, I grow a meer John Dorey, She is a Chip of the old block, (such Chips are but too common) A sowre piece of Crab-tree stock, a brawling bawling woman.
One night she went to take the Pot, and all bepist me sweetly, A leaky Cullander she got, which made the Bed feel featly: My Dear (quoth I) you piss beside upon my Face and Pillow; Peace Cuckold, peace, go sleep she cryd, you are a lying fellow. I feel tis not quite to my thumb, it can be no such matter, Thus she pist on the Bed & Room, and soakd me in salt water, She forcd me to rise at night, or else to lye in pickle, For I was in a pissen plight by this same Madam Fickle. By me let others warning take when they intend to marry, Least they (like me) repent too late. and quickly do miscarry. The married life is full of strife, and full of Horns I fear it; Then prithee do not take a Wife, but take a Glass of Claret.
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