%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Hen-peckt Cuckold; / Being a Tallow-Chandlers Sorrowful Lamentation for the Cruelty of / A wanton VVIFE. 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 06/18/2014 34138

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R177934 1 Guinea wins her. UNKNOWN Guinea wins her. YOung Gallants that are single, / be careful how you marry, O this Wife will make me weary of my life. [with variation] Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1447 The Hen-peckt Cuckold; / Being a Tallow-Chandlers Sorrowful Lamentation for the Cruelty of / A wanton VVIFE. The Hen-pecked Cuckold; Being a Tallow Chandler's Sorrowful Lamentation for the Cruelty of A wanton WIFE. ?-? Charles Barnet

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YOung Gallants that are single, be careful how you marry, Least sighs with tears you mingle, when you like me miscarry: Unto the sower-apple-tree I am bound, now farewel liberty, the grief I undergo, none but my self doth know, she does the wanton play, I'm Cuckold night and day yet I must nothing say, O this Wife will make me weary of my life. I married her for beauty and faith I think i'm fitted; She scorns to own her duty, am I not to be pittied? A man of Fourscore Pounds a Year, Yet Kind Neighbours I am nere the near; for if I meet a Friend I hant a Groat to spend, but she'll in Taverns meet her Gallants, whom she'll treat, whilst I hant food to Eat. O this Wife will mak me weary of my life. Sometimes I blow the Fire with an intent to ease her, Believe me, i'm no lyar, the Devil cannot please her: Perhaps somthing may fall awry, Then she'll straightways make the bellows fly: or wring me by the Ears, she'll not regard my tears; for being all alone, I dare not sigh nor groan, nor say my souls my own. O this wife will make me weary of my life. One morning she was rising, and I was waiting on her, A Passion straight she flies in for faults which I had done her, Because her Slippers I forgot, At my head she threw the Chamber-pot
so dreadful was the Blow, that blood began to flow, and I aloud did roar, but my tormentor swore, she'd give me ten times more, O this wife, will make me weary of my life. There came a Linnen Draper, one morning to embrace her, And I began to vapour, how I did scourge and lace her: He swore I should not them molest, And with that he lockt me in a chest, where close confin'd I lay, while he and she did play; their sport they did renew, which made my heart to rue, such Queans there is but few. O this wife will make me weary of my life. There's lusty Will the Plummer, likewise his brother Francis, And brawny Dick the Drummer, see how each Villain Dances, Her Musick gives them all content; As for me alas I do lament; the Feathers which I wear, does to the world declare that I am hornify'd; Old Nick would not be ty'd to such a cursed bride. O this wife will make me weary of my life. My Grief I cannot smother, such is my sad disaster; I'll never have another, shall be so much my master; If Death would be so much my Friend, As to bring my Troubles to an end, and to take her to the Grave, all that I would have; so soon as she is Dead, I'll mourn in Sack and Red, and never more will Wed, For this wife will make me weary of my life.
London Printed for Charles Barnet.