%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Woman to the Plow / AND / The Man to the Hen=Roost. / OR, a fine way to cure a Cot-Quean, Parker, Martin 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 03/03/2016 35057

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R26474 BOth Men and Women listen well, / A merry Jest I will you tell, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1 The Woman to the Plow / AND / The Man to the Hen=Roost. / OR, a fine way to cure a Cot-Quean, The Woman to the Plow AND The Man to the Hen-Roost. OR, a fine way to cure a Cot-Quean, The Woman to the Plow AND The Man to the Hen-Roost. / OR, a fine way to cure a Cot-Queen, Parker, Martin ?-? J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger.

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BOth Men and Women listen well, A merry Jest I will you tell, Betwixt a Good man and his Wife, Who fell the other day at strife: He chid her for her Huswivery, And she found fault as well as he. With him fors work without the doors, Quoth he, a pox on all such whores, Sith you and I cannot agree, Let's change our work, content, quoth she, My Wheel and Distafe here take thou, And I will drive the Cart and Plow. This was concluded twixt them both, To Cart and Plow the good-wife goeth The goodman he at home doth tarry, To see that nothing doth miscarry, An apron he before him put, Judge was not this a hansome slut. He fleets the Milk, he makes the Chese He gropes the Hens the ducks & Geese, He Brews and Bakes as well as he can, But not as it should be done, poor man: As did make his Cheese one day, Two Pigs their Bellies broke with whey,
Nothing that he in hand did take, Did come to good, once he did Bake, And burnt the Bread as black as a stock Another time he went to Rock The Cradle, and threw the Child o' th floor And broke his Nose, and hurt it sore. He went to milk one Evening tide, A Skittish Cow on the wrong side, His pail was full of milk God wot, She kict and spilt it every jot, Besides she hit him a blost o' th face Which was scant well in six weeks space, Thus was he served, and yet to well And more mischances yet befell, Before his apron he'd leave off, Though all his Neighbours did him scoff, Now lift and mark one pretty jest, 'Twill make you laugh above all the rest, As he to churm his Butter went, One Morning with a good intent, The Cot quean fool did surely dream, For he had quite forgot the Cream, He Churn'd all day, with all his might, And yet he could get no Butter at night,
TWere strange indeed for me to utter That without Creame he should make butter now having shew'd his huswivery, Who did all things thus untowardly, Unto the good-wife I'le turn my Rhime, And tell you how she spent her time, She us'd to drive the Cart and Plow, But do 't well she knew not how, She made so many banks i' th ground, He been better have given five pound, That she had never tan'e in hand, So sorely she did spoil the Land, As she did go to Sow likewise, She made a Feast for Crows and Pies, She threw away a hanful at a place, And left all bare another space, At the Harrow she could not rule the Mare But bid one Land, and left two bare. And shortly after one a day As she came home with a Load of Hay, She overthrew it nay and worse, She broke the Cart and kill'd a Horse: The good-man that time had ill luck, He let in the Sow and kill'd a Duck, And being grieved at his heart For loss on 's Duck, his Horse and Cart, The many hurts on both sides done, His eyes did with salt water run:
Then now, quoth he, full well I see, The Wheels for her the Plow's for me, I the intreat, quoth he, good-wife, To take thy Charge, and all my life I'le never meddle with huswivery more, Nor find such faults as I did before, Give me the Cart-whip and the Frail Take thou the Churn and milking pail. The good wife she was well content, And about her Huswivery, she went. He to Hedging and to Ditching, Heaping, Mowing, Lading, Pitching, He would be twa[t]ling still before, But after that ne'r twatled more. I Wish all Wives that troubled be, With Hose and Doublet Huswivery, To s[e]rve t[h]em as this woman did. Th[e]n ma[y] they work and ne'r be chid, Thoug[h] she i t'h intrim had some loss, Thereby she was eas[']d of a Cross, Take heed of this you husband-men, Let Wives alone to grope the Hen, And meddle you with the Horse and Ox And keep your Lambs safe from the Fox, So shall you like Contented lives, And take sweet pleasure in your Wives.
FINIS. Printed for J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger.