%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Womens Work is never done, / OR THE / CROWN GARLAND, / Of Princely Pastime and Mirth, / the Woman has the worst of it; or her Work is never done. 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 07/08/2014 33435

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1 The Doubting Virgin. Doubting Virgin, The The Doubting Virgin. OH that I had never been marrie[d] / since I lead a careful life. womens work is never done. [with variation] Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 939 Womens Work is never done, / OR THE / CROWN GARLAND, / Of Princely Pastime and Mirth, / the Woman has the worst of it; or her Work is never done. Women's Work is never done, OR THE / CROWN GARLAND, Of Princely Pastime and Mirth, the Woman has the worst of it; or her Work is never done. ?-?

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OH that I had never been marrie[d] since I lead a careful life. Things with me are strangely carri[ed] now I am become a wife, While that he doth take his pleasure, lest he should to ruine run: Here I labour out of measure, womens work is never done. Was I one that e're did slight him, then he might some reason have, But I labour to delight him, ever seek to get and save. Never spending, always sparing lest he should to ruine run; Mending, making, thus repairing womens work is never done, Here I look to my habitation, Whiles in troubles to and fro: There is no Woman in the Nation, doth such sorrows undergo: Carding, Spinning, I do my endeavour never resting till the Web is spun, I must at length go to the Weaver, womens work will never be done. He each night doth reel and stagger, coming from his drunken Crew, Nay, and over me will swagger, tho I all the Work must do. When he in his Chair is sitting, when he calls me then I run, I make him Cordials that are fitting womens work is never done. Ne're had a woman such a wedding, I in sorrows am opprest, Yet I bring him to his Lodging, where all night he takes his rest; It is known that he lyes fairly, while Eleven, Twelve, or One, I must be up late and early womens work is never done. In the Field I am expected, for to milk my Cattel there, For it must not be neglected, thus I make my constant care. Tho I am both wet and weary, I must to my labour run, Serve my Hog, and tend my Dairy, womens work is never done. If I am from home an hour, I must surely bear the blame. For my Husband he will lower, all the house is out of Frame, I can have but little quiet, for my Daughter and my Son, Calls upon me for their Dyet. womens work is never done.
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