%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The COUNTRY / Lawyers Maid JOAN, / Containing her Languishing Lamentation for want of a Man, which / at length she met with, being her Masters Man Mark. 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 03/07/2016 35104

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R227037 1 Turn Coat of the Times King's Delight, The Turn Coat of the Times YOu Batchelors all attend, / And stand a poor Maidens Friend, The Grief I sustain, for want of a Man, / There's no body knows but I. Houghton Library Huth EBB65H Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 42 The COUNTRY / Lawyers Maid JOAN, / Containing her Languishing Lamentation for want of a Man, which / at length she met with, being her Masters Man Mark. The COUNTRY Lawyers Maid JOAN, Containing her Languishing Lamentation for want of a Man, which at length she met with, being her Masters Man Mark. The COUNTRY Lawyer's Maid JOAN, Containing her Languishing Lamentation for want of a Man, which at length she met with, being her Master's Man Mark. ?-? P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, and J. Back.

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YOu Batchelors all attend, And stand a poor Maidens Friend, My Sorrows to you I send, In order to let you know My passionate grief and woe, And what I do undergo: In languishing sort I lye, Here ready to sigh and dye, The Grief I sustain, for want of a Man, There's nobody knows but I.
There's my young Sister Kate, She's Marry'd I hear of late Unto a young Sparkish Mate; But I poor honest Joan, Must languish and lye alone, Not any regards my moan: In sorrowful sort I cry, Here ready with grief to dye, What pain I endure for want of a Man, There's nobody knows but I.
I Think I have Beauty bright, Young Batchelors to delight, I wonder that they should flight Such amorous Charms as mine, And suffer me to repine, My Life I shall soon resign: For languishing here I lye, O ready this Day to dye, The Grief I sustain, for want of a Man, There's nobody knows but I. I commonly do repair To every Wake and Fair, Drest up in my Powder'd Hair, My Beauty still to adorn, And yet I am held in scorn, Ah! would I had ne'r been born; For languishing here I lye, And ready this Day to dye, The Grief I sustain, for want of a Man, There's nobody knows but I. Young Robin the Millers Son, When he had my Favour won, He did to another run; Thus hurry'd me to Despair, As knowing the grief and care Was greater than I could bear, For languishing did I lye, I'll tell ye dear Friends, for why? The Grief I sustain, for want of a Man, There's nobody knows but I.
Were Husbands to be sold, And I had as much bright Gold, As ever my Lap could hold; Nay, if I had ten times more, I'd freely part with that store, I tell you, dear friends, before I languishing thus would lye, A Husband, in troth, I'd buy, The Grief I sustain, for want of a Man, There's nobody knows but I. A Husband I dearly lack, Tho' he be a Collier black, Or Pedlar with his Pack, That travels the Nation wide, all one to me, she cry'd, I'd willingly be a Bride: For languishing here I lye, Nay ready this Day to dye, The Grief I sustain, for want of a Man, There's nobody knows but I. At length came lusty Mark, A Country Lawyers Clark, And tickl'd her in the dark; He litt on the very Vein, The place of her grief and pain, And caus'd her to laugh amain: And merrily did reply, O this is the Death I'd dye, What Grief I endur'd for want of a Man, There's nobody knew but I.
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