%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Poor Tom the Taylor / His Lamentation. / Giving an Account how he pickt up a Miss near the Maypole in the Strand, and also how / he handed her to the Fair. where he treated her very generously, but according to / the old proverb, sweet meat must have sower sauce, for while he was safe a snoring / in Bed she very dexterously picked his pocket, leaving him to pay the Reckoning, / without ever a penny in his purse, This unfortunate disaster may well be a warning to / all the Taylors in or about London to forsake their old accustomed tricks, setting poor / Tom before them as an example. 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 09/08/2014 33858

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R229031 1 Daniel Cooper. Daniel Cooper Daniel Cooper. TOm the Taylor near the Strand, / he met a pretty Creature. Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1206 Poor Tom the Taylor / His Lamentation. / Giving an Account how he pickt up a Miss near the Maypole in the Strand, and also how / he handed her to the Fair. where he treated her very generously, but according to / the old proverb, sweet meat must have sower sauce, for while he was safe a snoring / in Bed she very dexterously picked his pocket, leaving him to pay the Reckoning, / without ever a penny in his purse, This unfortunate disaster may well be a warning to / all the Taylors in or about London to forsake their old accustomed tricks, setting poor / Tom before them as an example. Poor Tom the Taylor His Lamentation. Giving an Account how he pickt up a Miss near the Maypole in the Strand, and also how he handed her to the Fair. where he treated her very generously, but according to the old proverb, sweet meat must have sower sauce, for while he was safe a snoring in Bed she very dexterously picked his pocket, leaving him to pay the Reckoning, without ever a penny in his purse, This unfortunate disaster may well be a warning to all the Taylors in or about London to forsake their old accustomed tricks, setting poor Tom before them as an example. Poor Tom the Tailor His Lamentation. Giving an Account how he picked up a Miss near the Maypole in the Strand, and also how he handed her to the Fair. where he treated her very generously, but according to the old proverb, sweet meat must have sour sauce, for while he was safe a snoring in Bed she very dextrously picked his pocket, leaving him to pay the Reckoning, without ever a penny in his purse, This unfortunate disaster may well be a warning to all the Tailors in or about London to forsake their old accustomed tricks, setting poor Tom before them as an example. 1672-1672 I. Deacon,

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TOm the Taylor near the Strand, he met a pretty Creature. He kindly took her by the hand, and vow'd that he would treat her, He was kind and gave her wine, a Glass of good Canary; She was fair as might compare, and Tom was brisk and airy.
When Tommy he did court his miss, he called her his honey, But she would not admit a kiss, before she saw his money: But when she did behold his coyn, she was well contented, Every penny shall be mine, thy Pockets shall be emptyed.
She array'd in Flower'd silks, and in costly Laces, With a skin as white as milk, these was sweet imbraces: She called him her only joy, and vow'd she'd ne'r deceive him, As long as he had e're a Groat, she would never leave him. Straight they were convey'd to bed, he fell soon a snoring, Then a trick came in her head, to fit him for his whoring: By slight of hand she pickt his Purse, and what did follow after, She left him all the shot to pay, like a cunning sharper. When the morning day appear'd he had never mist her, And rousing up he turn'd about, hoping to have kist her: But when he found that she was gone, Oh how he then lamented, He cryed out he was undone, he found his pocket emptied. The Taylor he got out of Bed, he was sore discontented, He tore the hair from off his head, it seems he thus lamented: In that his rage he curs'd the time, when that he first beheld her, For she had fun'd him of his Coin, Oh then he could have kill'd her.
The Drawer he came up indeed, with this discourse insuing, Come pay me down my shot with speed, or it shall prove your ruine: The Drawer with such kind of words, began for to afflict him, He call'd him horeson Cuckolds bird, and down the Stairs he kickt him. The poor distressed Taylor lookt, as if he would have died, And then he fell upon his knees, and wrung his hands and cryed: But yet his tears would not prevail, they would not thus dismiss him, But they did ferret him about, that the Taylor he bepist him. The Taylor see himself beset, by those that stood about him, Which caused him to chafe and fret, to see how they did flout him: He striped off his Coat and Cloak, and they from him did take it, And then they turn'd him out of doors a little more then Naked. You Taylors all that keeps a Miss, and deals so much in Courting, They'l give to you a Judas kiss, if you delight in Sporting: You see poor Tommy of your trade, by Whoring was abused, Which made him make a solemn vow that he no more would use it.
Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Guilt-spur-street, without Newgat