%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Plovvmans Art in VVoeing / The brisk young plowman doth believe / If he were put to tryal, / There's not a maid in all the Shire / Could give him the denyal. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer 1672-1672 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 07/11/2014 32996

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R227329 1 Cupid's Trappan. Cupid's Trepan Cupid's Trappan. I Am a young man that do follow the Plow / But of late I have found out an art, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 562 The Plovvmans Art in VVoeing / The brisk young plowman doth believe / If he were put to tryal, / There's not a maid in all the Shire / Could give him the denyal. The Plowmans Art in Woeing The brisk young plowman doth believe If he were put to tryal, There’s not a maid in all the Shire Could give him the denyal. The Plowman's Art in Wooing The brisk young plowman doth believe If he were put to trial, There's not a maid in all the Shire Could give him the denial. 1672-1672 P. Brooksby

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I Am a young man that do follow the Plow But of late I have found out an art, And can when I please with abundance of ease, Deprive any maid of her heart, brave boys Deprive etc. To think how they'l yield as I walk in the field My thinks is so pleasant to me, I long to be nigh her who'l burn like a fire, If she but my favour doth see, brave boys If she etc. Such wenches I think must be certainly mad, Whose hearts are betray'd with a smile, But they quickly find such a change in my mind That will them of all pleasure beguile, brave That etc. And will make them look pale like maidens so stale That for a good Husband doth long, And this unto me such pleasure will be That I shall thereof make a song, brave That etc.
For who can delight in a thing that is fond 'Tis a thing that I never could do, My passion is gone when she doates upon John, Then another Girl I must go woe, brave That I etc. And in a months space it will be her case If she can be easily wonn, To mourn and bewail beneath the Milk-Pale, And to cry she's forsook and undone, brave And to cry etc. I could ne'r understand there's a man in the land Could delight in whats easily gain'd, But if it be so that Love they long show, Then they'r passion must surely be feignd, brave Then etc. Then give me the wench that has so much sence When a Youngster doth come upon tryal, Will so cunningly deal that his heart she may steal; And seemingly give the denyall, brave And etc.
She surely will find young men be more kind, If she be but strange and untoward, For men like the fire do burn with desire, If they meet with a maid that is froward, brave If etc. But it is the fashion throughout all the nation, And chiefly in Country Townes, Men maidens beguil who are won with a smile And then they're destroy'd with their frowns brave And etc. And it may be said there's not a milk maid, Although she be never so fair, But if once I begin, her heart I would win And by my fair words would betray her, brave And by etc. It is a rare thing to hear the Girls sing Oh! my love hath forsaken me quite, And for his dear sake my heart it doth ake, I languish by day and by night, brave boys I languish etc. As I follow the Plow my thinks I see how They look pale and their lips they do tremble Cause they were mistaken and are forsaken By Youngsters that much did dissemble, brave By Youngsters etc. I will have tother bout and without any doubt Ile compass the thing I desire, For I cannot well pass if I meet with a Lass, Till her heart it be set on a fire, brave Till her etc. There's Marget and Jone who still lye all alone But ile venture to lay twenty shilling, If a motion I make to cure their heart ake To lye with me both will be willing, brave To lye etc. There's Susan and Kate that long for to ha't And are vigorous in their desire, But before they are mad let some lusty young lad Make haste and Extinguish their fire, brave Make. etc.
Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden Ball in West-Smith-field.