%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The POET's DREAM: / CONTAINING / His amazing and frightful Vision of Pride, / WHEREIN / Lucifer seem'd to be Deck'd with a higher Topping then was e- / ver yet Worn, not doubting but Proud Women would endeavor to imitate / him. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 07/01/2014 32841

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R235745 1 O Folly, &c. UNKNOWN O Folly, &c. AS I of late was in a Dream, / it frighted me to the heart, Now Women, insolent Women, / What do you think of Pride? [with variation] Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 98 The POET's DREAM: / CONTAINING / His amazing and frightful Vision of Pride, / WHEREIN / Lucifer seem'd to be Deck'd with a higher Topping then was e- / ver yet Worn, not doubting but Proud Women would endeavor to imitate / him. The POET’s DREAM: CONTAINING His amazing and frightful Vision of Pride, WHEREIN Lucifer seem’d to be Deck’d with a higher Topping then was e-ver yet Worn, not doubting but Proud Women would endeavour to imitate him. The POET's DREAM: CONTAINING His amazing and frightful Vision of Pride, WHEREIN Lucifer seemed to be Decked with a higher Topping then was ever yet Worn, not doubting but Proud Women would endeavor to imitate him. ?-? C. Bates

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AS I of late was in a Dream, it frighted me to the heart, My thought old Lucifer did seem to act a proud Woman's part: He enter'd my Chamber with three or four more, Who brought in black Patches & Toppings great store, To Deck their old Devil whom they did adore. Now Women, insolent Women, What do you think of Pride?
He never hid his Cloven-Foot, but sat in a chair of State, While on his Head a Dress they put, and every one did wait; Their Box of Perfume then like Sulpher did swell; I wisht them a thousand times over in Hell; But they was as busie as Bridget and Nell: Now Women, insolent Women, What do you think of Pride?
The Devil call'd for his Commode, drest up with rich gaudy Lace; When it was on, methoughts it show'd to be of a London-Grace; He lookt in the Glass, when the hight he did see, I'll have it full seven times higher, said he, That Ladies of London may imitate me. Now Women, delicate Women, What do you think of Pride? Then like the May-pole in the Strand, or Pudding-lane Monument, They brought a Topping out of hand, which gave the old Spark content: Since such a high Tower for him they did make, They danc'd, while I thought my whole lodging did shake, I being afrighted, I strait did awake: Now Women, insolent Women, What do you think of Pride? I on my Pillow sighing lay, with sorrow and grief of Mind, And to myself did often say, Young Women are wilful Blind; Thought I, if the truth of this Dream I should write, And tell them that Pride is the Devil's delight, They'd follow the Mode if it were but for spight: Now Women, insolent Women, Why will you be so Proud? Of this great Sin you have been told, a million of times at least, Besides, strange Monsters you behold in many a brutish Beast; Tho' Heaven and Earth does your Folly degrade, Yet in the defiance of what can be said, Like Bruits and strange Anticks you will be array'd: Ah! Women, insolent Women, How can you be so Proud?
The very Cook and Scullion-maid, or Country home-bred Girl, When they in London are arraid, drest up in a fine Fallal; I mean a rich Topping, high, proper and tall, Altho' her mean Station be never so small, She is Madam, forsooth, with the best of them all: O Lasses, insolent Lasses, How can you be so Proud? Those topping Towers they are grown most monsterous high of late; Both Nancy, Bridget, Doll, and Jone, with Margery, Prue, and Kate, Tho' each of them han't a good Smock to their back, Before a high Tower and Topping they'll lack, They'll leave a good Service, forsooth, and turn Crack: Oh! Lasses, delicate Lasses, Well may you blush for shame. Let but a Lass come from the North, and tarry a while in Town, She will dispise her Ruset-cloath, and covet a Silken Gown; Likewise ahigh Topping she'll dearly adore; Tho' she had not seen it past two Months before; For these are as proud as the Devil all o'er; Now Lasses, delicate Lasses, Why will you be so Proud? We have not seen brave happy Days, in Country, Court, or Town; Since Women did their Topping raise, like Monuments on each Crown: Young Women, Why should you so Obstinate stand? Let a Reformation be made out of hand; Down, down, with your Toppings the Pride of the Land, Young Women, excellent Women, Then will you be indeed.
Printed for C. Bates, at the White-Hart in West-Smithfield.