%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE / Miserable Maulster: / OR, / The Kentish Man's Cruelty, / VVho, in a Passion Dismember'd himself, to the unspeakable / Grief of his Loving Wife, and Kind Friends. 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 06/24/2014 33671

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R180616 1 Fond Boy, Or, Loves a sweet Passion. Fond Boy Fond Boy, Or, Loves a sweet Passion. A Maulster that liv'd in the County of Kent, / Had a Delicate Movement his Wife to content, His good wife with sorrow she looks like one Dead, / And declares she had rather he'd Cut off his head. [with variation] Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 799 THE / Miserable Maulster: / OR, / The Kentish Man's Cruelty, / VVho, in a Passion Dismember'd himself, to the unspeakable / Grief of his Loving Wife, and Kind Friends. THE Miserable Maulster: OR, The Kentish Man’s Cruelty, Who, in a Passion Dismember’d himself, to the unspeakable Grief of his Loving Wife, and Kind Friends. THE Miserable Maulster OR, The Kentish Man's Cruelty, Who, in a Passion Dismembered himself, to the unspeakable Grief of his Loving Wife, and Kind Friends. ?-? J. Raven

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A Maulster that liv'd in the County of Kent, Had a Delicate Movement his Wife to content, But one day in a passion he Cut off the same, I must tell you, for this he was highly to blame, His good wife with sorrow she looks like one Dead, And declares she had rather he'd Cut off his Head. It was so unruly, that every day, The Goodman was in danger of running a stray, It would commonly leap into other mens ground, Now for fear he at last should be put in the pound, He did whip it quite off, and without fear or Dread, But his wife she had rather he'd Cut off his Head, Then she a New Husband perhaps might have had, To have chear'd up her spirits and made heart glad, But as long as he lives, she is like to have none, Therefore has she just cause to make pittiful moan: Oh she wishes each night as she lyes in her Bed, That instead of that branch he had Cut off his Head. They say that there was not a better in Hide, Nor in all the whole County or Kingdom beside, Many Years the good Woman the same had Injoy'd, But alas after all it is clearly destroy'd, Now she wishes each Night as she lyes in her Bed, That instead of that Branch he had Cut off his Head. There was an Old Women that liv'd in the Town, Straight she pull'd out a Purse, ay, & proffer'd a crown For to have it sow'd on again if it might, For 'tis pitty to lose such a Curriel, quoth she, For with that the Wifes pleasures is utterly fled, Therefore he had been better if he'd Cut off his Head.
She put on her Spectacles meaning to try, For to sow it her self, while in Bed he did lye, Yet alas all her labour did prove but in vain, For it could not be fasten[e]d together again, Then in sorrow she left him to lye in his Bed, And declar'd he had better he'd Cut off his Head. This was a Rich Jewel far better than Gold, For when ever the Womon did happen to Scold, It would strait beat a Parly of pleasure for Peace, But alas it is gone, now her griefs so increase, Now she wishes each night as she lyes in her Bed, That instead of that Branch he had Cut off his Head Since this is a Branch which he cannot repair, It is reason and fit that this Maulster should wear, All the days of his life a strong Night Cap of Horn, Thus the Women and Wenches all laugh him to scorn Ever since that same time such a life he has lead, That he wishes indeed he had Cut off his Head. Some Women come to him and merrily joke, Saying, prithee sweet Neighbour come play us a stroak But the man is not able and that they all know, And besides when along in the Town he does go, Oh! the scoffs of the woman this Maulster does dread, For they tell him 'twere better he'd Cut off his head. He once had the love of Young Women indeed, When it lay in his power their fancies to feed, But yet nevertheless since he's lost his good Geer, Not a Wench of them all will his presence come near, But to scoff at the man; thus his comforts are fled, For they tell him 'twere better he'd Cut off his head.
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