%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The young Mans Resolution to the Maidens Request; / A witty Dialogue between a young Man and a Maid. / Wherein she asks him when he intends to marry, / And he resolves her how long he will tarry. Shirley, John University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1662-1662 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 03/08/2012 32044

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R184139 1 In Summer time In Summer Time In Summer time AS I was walking under a Grove, / within my self as I supposed; WHen men and beasts i'th ocean flows / and fishes in green fields are feed-ing to tell her when I did mean to marry. [with variation] O then my Love and I'le be married. [with variation] Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 405 The young Mans Resolution to the Maidens Request; / A witty Dialogue between a young Man and a Maid. / Wherein she asks him when he intends to marry, / And he resolves her how long he will tarry. The young Mans Resolution to the Maidens Request; A witty Dialogue between a young Man and a Maid. Wherein she asks him when he intends to marry, And he resolves her how long he will tarry. The young Man's Resolution to the Maiden's Request; A witty Dialogue between a young Man and a Maid. Wherein she asks him when he intends to marry, And he resolves her how long he will tarry. Shirley, John 1662-1662 Eliz. Andrews

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AS I was walking under a grove, within myself as I supposed; My minde did often times remove, and by no means could be disclosed: At length by chance a friend I met, which caused me long time to tarry, And then of me she did entreat, to tell her when I did mean to marry. Sweet heart quoth I if you would know. then mark these words and Ile reveal it; Since in your minde you bear it so, and in your heart you do conseal it; She promisd me for to make no words, but of such things she would be wary, And thus in brief I did degin, to tell her when I meant to marry.
When Shrove-tide falls in Easter week and Christmas in the midst of July. And Lawyers for no fees will plead, and Taylors they deal just and truly. When all deceits are quite put down, and truth by all men is prefered; And Indigo dies Red and Brown, O then my love and Ile be married. When Safron grows on every tree and every stream flows milk and hony, And sugar grows in Karret fields, and Usurers refuse good money: When Countrey men for Judges sits, and Lammas falls in February, And millers they their Tole forgets, O then my love and I will marry.
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WHen men and beasts ith ocean flows and fishes in green fields are feed-ing When muscle shels i th streets do grow, and swans upon dry rocks are breeding, when Cockle shells are Diamond rings, and glass to pearle may be compared; And Gold is made of the gray goose wings, O then my Love and Ile be married. When summer doth not dry up mire, and men on earth do leave to flatter; When bakers they do use no fire, and brewers they do use no water, When mountains are by men removed, and England into France is carried And all maids prove true to their Loves, O then my Love and Ile be married. When Hostesses do reckon true, and Dutch-men leave off drinking brandy. When Cats do bark, and Dogs do mew, and Brimstones took for Sugarcandy, Or when that Whitsuntide doth fall, within the moneth of January, And a Cobler workes without an awle, O then my Love and I will marry.
When women know not how to scold, and Maids of sweethearts nere ear thinking When men i th fire complain of cold, and ships on Salisbury Plain fear sinking When horse-coursers turne bonest men, and London unto York is carried Or when you out of one can take ten, O then my Love and Ile be married. When Candlesticks do serve for Bells, and frying-pans are usd for Ladles, Or when in the Sea they dig for wells, and porrige pots they make for cradles; When maids forget to go a maying, and a man on his back an oxe can carry Or when the mice with the cat be playing, tis then my Love and I will marry, Good Sir, since you have told me when; you are resolved for to marry; I wish with all my heart till then, that for a wife you still might tarry: For if all young men were of your minde, and maids no better were preferred, I think it would be when the Devil is blind that we and our Lovers should be married.
FINIS. By J.S London, Printed for Eliz. Andrews, in little St. Bartholomews Court in West-Smithfield.