%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> DICK the Plow-man / Turn'd Doctor. / OR, The Love-Sick Maiden Cured. / Shewing how a Country Maid in Kent fell in love with her Fellow-Servant Dick the Plow- / man, aud how he Cured her of her Sick Distemper, &c. 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 35117

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R227087 1 O Mother Roger O Mother! Roger O Mother! Roger YOu Maidens all of London City, / pray come nigh, and lend an ear; Houghton Library Huth EBB65H Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 67 DICK the Plow-man / Turn'd Doctor. / OR, The Love-Sick Maiden Cured. / Shewing how a Country Maid in Kent fell in love with her Fellow-Servant Dick the Plow- / man, aud how he Cured her of her Sick Distemper, &c. DICK the Plow-man Turn’d Doctor. OR, The Love-Sick Maiden Cured. Shewing how a Country Maid in Kent fell in love with her Fellow-Servant Dick the Plow- man, and how he Cured her of her Sick Distemper, etc. DICK the Plow-man Turned Doctor. OR, The Love-Sick Maiden Cured. Showing how a Country Maid in Kent fell in love with her Fellow-Servant Dick the Plow-man, and how he Cured her of her Sick Distemper, etc. ?-? C. Dennisson

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YOu Maidens all of London City, pray come nigh, and lend an ear; And th' event of this my Ditty, to you all I'le make appear: 'Tis such a one will make you smile, make you smile, make you smile, Then pray Maidens stay a while, Some to hear't would come a Mile, But your hopes I'll not beguile, Nor your expectation spoil. Near Rochester in Kent there lived a brave Lass whose name was Bess, Such a Prank you ne'r did hear of, as to you I will express: 'Tis such a one will make you smile,
make you smile, make you smile, Then pray Maidens stay a while, Some to hear't would come a Mile; But your hopes I'll not beguile, Nor your expectation spoil. Now this Maid was brisk and merry, and had all things to content; Hold! I do forget to tell ye, there was something that ill went. To be short, Sir, this is it, this is it, this is it, That this Maid was very sick, Very, very, very Sick: Sick indeed, but pray for what, Oh! for something Dick has got.
NOw Dick the Plow-man he was busie and this Maid was sham'd to ask, Yet she thought with prithee, prithee, for to win him at the last; But this was no perfect Cure, perfect Cure, perfect Cure, For her grief encreased more, More then e're it did before: And sick she was, but pray for what, Oh! for something Dick had got. One Day when Dick was very jolly, and as he was d[r]iving Plow; Then he spy'd her melancholly, ah! says Dick, how do you now. Ah! quoth she, I'm very sick, very sick, very sick; O, what shall I do, my Dick, I am very, very sick, Sick, says Dick, I pray for what, O, for something you have got. And Dick, 'tis you can only Cure me, prithee do't before you go; Good now Richard, pray assure me, whether you will, aye or no: My dear Richard, don't deny, neither from your promise flye;
For my grievous malady, You can Cure immediately; Then pray now Richard, give me that I need not name it, you know what. Prethee Betty how should I know, what the thing is that you mean; Then she sighed, and cry'd Hi-ho, such a Fool was nev[e]r seen: I must languish here and dye, here and dye, here and dye; And can't have a Remedy, For my grievous mallady; Was ever there so dull a Sot, That knows not yet what he has got. When they had understood each other, Dick for joy did leave his Plow; Gave his Whip unto his Brother, and he Swore he'd Cure her now. Then unto her straight he goes, and his skill to her he shows; Brisk and blith she then became, As anyone upon the Plain: Now Maids you see what Dick can do, then try if he can Cure you too.
FINIS. Printed for C. Tennisson, at the Stationers-Arms within Aldgate.