%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Maidens Counsellor / OR, / A fair VVarning before Marriage. / You Damosels fair, take special Care, / And not too hasty be / A Marriage Life brings Care and Strife, / When single Maids live free. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer 1685-1685 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 06/18/2014 34136

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R228437 1 Spinning=Wheel. Spinning Wheel, The Spinning=Wheel. YOung Damosels all, both far and near, / observe the Counsel which I give; A single life is free from care. Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1445 The Maidens Counsellor / OR, / A fair VVarning before Marriage. / You Damosels fair, take special Care, / And not too hasty be / A Marriage Life brings Care and Strife, / When single Maids live free. The Maidens Counselor OR, A fair Warning before Marriage. You Damsels fair, take special Care, And not too hasty be A Marriage Life brings Care and Strife, When single Maids live free. 1685-1685 P. Brooksby

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YOung Damosels all, both far and near, observe the Counsel which I give; And then I'm sure you need not fear, but that you all may happy live; Let not young Men your hearts insnare, A single life is free from care. Full one and twenty years and more, I am of Age full well 'tis known, And tho' I have got sweet hearts store yet I delight to lye alone; Resolv[']d I am to shun the snare; A Single Life is free from Care
Some Damosels does great Portions bring, Of Gold and Silver many a Pound, To those that make the Taverns Ring, untill the same they quite confound; For their poor Wives they nothing spare; A single Life is free from Care. Have I not heard of those well bred, who never knew no want at all, Yet after being sometime Wed, they have been brought to deadly thrall; For want alas! full heard they fare; A single Life is free from Care.
What pleasing stories some will tell, poor harmless Damosels to betray, Swearing they Love them passing well, but 'tis their Money more then they; But be advis'd and shun the snare; A single life is free from Care. Beware of e'ry huffing blade, for they are subject to deceive, As being of the Lying trade, and therefore do not them believe, Altho' they Solemnly do swear; A single life is free from Care. For while you lead a single Life, your Suitor he will kindness show, But when you once are made his Wife, alas! you'l find it nothing so; Instead of Love perhaps he'l sware, A single life is free from Care. Bad Husbands they abroad will Roam, and take their pleasure where they please, While their poor Wives must stay at home, there is too many such as these; With this they patiently must bear, A single life is free from Care.
For when they do return at Night, from their sweet Mirth and pleasant Joys, In which they place their chief Delight; I mean their Ranting Roaring Boys; The Wife with this, and more must bear, A single life is free from Care. Tho' she Intreats him to refrain, while Tears does trickle from her Face, Yet alas 'tis all in vain, for he Resolves to run his Race, And will not in the least forbear, A single life is free from Care. I pray take heed now all that's here, before the Marriage Rites are past; It is not for a Month or Year, but full as Long as Life shall Last; Therefore be wise, and shun the snare; A single life is free from Care. Young Dam'sels now of each degree, be careful of your Marriage State, And take this kind advice of me, for fear Repentance comes too Late; Do not yourselves too soon insnare; A single life is free from Care.
Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden Gall in Pye-Corner.