%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Labour in [Vain] / OR, / The Taylor [no Man?] / Containing, the Lamentation [of his buxom] / Wife, for her hard Usage, and his [Insufficiency] 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 34205

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R179229 1 Let Mary Live Long. Let Mary Live Long Let Mary Live Long. YOung Women I pray / Be pleased to pity My Husband he Treats me, / My Husband he Treats me, / With Labour in vain. [with variation] Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1465 Labour in [Vain] / OR, / The Taylor [no Man?] / Containing, the Lamentation [of his buxom] / Wife, for her hard Usage, and his [Insufficiency] Labor in Vain OR, The Tailor [no Man,] Containing, the Lamentation [of his buxom] Wife, for her hard Usage, and his [Insufficiency] ?-? P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back.

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YOung Women I pray Be pleased to pity My sorrowful ditty, This Eighteen Months day I have been a Bride; Yet I'll make it appear, I am never the near, I'm forc'd to complain, My Husband he Treats me, My Husband he Treats me, With Labour in vain. very well known, I am a sweet Beauty, If he did his duty, This sorrowful moan I need never make; But I'm made a meer fool By a fumbling tool, Which makes me complain, An weep when he Treats me, And weep when he Treats me, With Labour in vain. A Taylor good Lord, He is by profession, Who wanting discretion, He shall be obhorr'd By me I declare, For the Cabbidging Knave, Tho' I covet and crave, He lets me complain, And Treats me with nothing, And Treats me with nothing, But Labour in vain, In Cucumber time, I kept my self quiet, Concluding his Diet, Occasion'd this Crime, I mean his neglect. But the Cucumbers cold I knew would not hold, So I would not complain, 'Tis all one he Treats me, 'Tis all one he Treats me, With Labour in vain.
I feed him he knows With dainties at pleasure, That he in some measure Might readily close To give me content: I have made him Cock-broth, And yet by my troth No comfort I gain, He Treats me with nothing, He Treats me with nothing, But Labour in vain. Altho' I may strive To stiffle my passion, My grief and vexation, What woman alive Would suffer this wrong, Tis a wonder each day, That I don't run astray, Some comfort to gain, So long as he Treats me, So long as he Treats me With Labour in vain. Well, had I but known, That when I was wedded, And lawfully bedded, That he like a stone, Or log, would have lain, I would ne're have been caught, But who would have thought He'd let me complain, And Treat me with nothing, And Treat me with nothing, But Labour in vain. With grief I'm opprest Which I cannot smother, I'd fain be a Mother As well as the rest, I'm Buxom and Young, But declare it I can, That a Taylor's no Man, He lets me complain, And Treats me with nothing, And Treats me with nothing But Labour in vain.
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