%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Scotch Wedding: / OR, / A short and Pretty Way of Wooing. / When as Complexions do agree, / And all things they are fitting; / Why should the time prolonged be, / Be quick and mind your Knitting. D'Urfey, Thomas 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 06/26/2014 33262

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1 To a New Northern Tune, much us'd at the Theatres. In January Last To a New Northern Tune, much used at the Theaters. IN January last, upon / a Munday on the Morn; Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 657 The Scotch Wedding: / OR, / A short and Pretty Way of Wooing. / When as Complexions do agree, / And all things they are fitting; / Why should the time prolonged be, / Be quick and mind your Knitting. The Scotch Wedding: OR, A short and Pretty Way of Wooing. When as Complexions do agree, And all things they are fitting; Why should the time prolonged be, Be quick and mind your Knitting. The Scotch Wedding: OR, A short and Pretty Way of Wooing. When as Complexions do agree, And all things they are fitting; Why should the time prolonged be, Be quick and mind your Knitting. D'Urfey, Thomas ?-? P. Brooksby

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IN January last, upon a Munday on the Morn; As along the fields I past, to view the Winter Corn: I ligged me behind the Bray, and I saw come o're the Slow, Yean glenting in an Apron, with a bonny brant brow. I had good Morrow fair Maid, and she right courteously, By Fe and Tro, geud Sir, she said, geud day agen to ye; I said to her, fair Maid, quo I, how far intend you now, Quo she geud Sir a mile or twa, to yonder bonny Brow.
Fair Maid i'm weel contented, to have sike company For I am ganging on the gate, where you intend to be; When we had walkt a mile or two, I said to her my Dow; May I not lift your Apron, and kiss your bonny Brow. Nay geud Sir you'r mistaken, for I am na'ne of theise; I wot you ha mare breeding, then lift a wemans cleathes: Ye knaw we Mun for modesty, nea at the first time bow, But if we like your company, we are as kind as you.
I Teuk her by the hand so smaw, and I led her o're the Lawn, I gave her many a glancing leuk, so did she me again: I led her in among the bent, where nean of aw cu'd see, And then quo I my bonny Lass, now wilt thou mow with me. I dare not dea that deed, quo she, for fear I prove with Bearn, And then may I sing Lulabee, and live in mickle scorn: Tush, fie, quo I tack thou ne care, fear not with Bearn to be, For we'l I wat next Holliday, that I will wed with thee. I laid her down upon the Green, and said prove kind to me dear, We now are safe from being seen, thou needs nea danger fear, She blusht and smiled in my face, my bonny Lad, quo she, Since we are in this uncouth place, deal kindly now with me. I used all my skill and art, her humour for to please, I prickt her, but she felt no smart, but still lay at her ease: At length I put her to the squeak, and claw'd her bonny weam, Quo she my heart with joy will break, pray let me now gang heam.
When we had tane of Love our fill, sea well she pleas'd my mind I vow'd I wad be constant still, since that she was so kind: Quo I my only Duck and dear, now let us twa agree, How to provide our Bridal cheer, against we wedded be. The warst on't is my love quo she, we want a Ring we trow, Ne'r rack quo I, leave that to me, i'le iell my Dodded Yow: Miss John the Vicar is my friend, who will be rul'd by me, An hour or twa with us to spend, when we wall wedded be. We'l ha beath bak'd & boyld & roast, upon our wedding day, And Will the Weaver at my cost, shall on the Bag-pipes play: The Lads and Lasses in the Town, shall at our Nuptials be, And thou shalt have a Tawny Gown sea well thou pleasest me. Now when the wedding-day was come as they did beath conclude, The Dinner was in readiness, the Liquor it was brew'd: And so they went unto the Kirk weel wedded for to be, And made a mickle merry Feast, and now lives lovingly.
Printed for P. Brooksby, near the Hospital-gate, in West-smithfield.