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R32145 1 the Old Mans Wish Old Man's Wish, The the Old Man's Wish SInce Beauty now fails / And I find I decay, May I govern the Young / By my wholesome advice; / And as older, grow nearer / To be Stil'd prophetess; / Without pride, yet my name / Than the Sibills not less [with variation] Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1 A New / SONG: / OR, / The Old Womans Wish. A New SONG: OR, The Old Womans Wish. A New SONG: OR, The Old Woman's Wish. P., S. Printer G. Croom ?-?

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I. SInce Beauty now fails And I find I decay, Let this be my Wish; In a Chimney not gay, May I have a warme corner And a Bench that's compleat And a cleanly young Wench To sweep the Hearth neat May I govern the Young By my wholesome advice; And as older, grow nearer To be Stil'd prophetess; Without pride, yet my name Than the Sibills not less II. In a Garden that's furnish'd With herbs for the Still, And a bed of choice Sallets, Which I weed at my will; With a spacious Meade, And a delicate Cow And an Arbour to set And heare Colly to low. May I govern the Young etc. III. With a boild Chick on Sunday, And a Dumpling that's soft, And a full teeming Jug, With a motto that Oft
May have puzzled the learnd, By the Old Sages writ; Which in Letters of blew, Is stain'd round about it. May I govern the Young etc. IV. With a Book of Feat tales, And a pleasant Old Story's And riddles by Saxons made Long lived before us: With a dish of Minc'd Meat, Or Pigs Pettitoes; No gristles nor Brawn, To give dangerous blows. May I govern the Young etc. V. With a Conscience untainted, May I pass my last day, And when I am gon, May the good Women say In the Morning at mattens, In the E'en at her Ale, She's gon, and he's happy Can tell out her tale: For she govern'd the Young By her wholesome advice; And as older grew nearer, To be stil'd prophetess; Without pride, yet her name Then the Sibils not less.
By SP. LONDON, Printed by G. Croom, over against Baynard's Castle in Thames-street. 1684.