%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> TOBIA'S ADVICE, / Or, A Remedy for a ranting Young-Man. / VVhile you are single you take but little care, / Therefore I say better you married were, / Perhaps there's some at this will make a Jest, / But I say still a married Life is best. / Therefore young-men take this Advice of me / Better take one than run to two or three. Bowne, Tobias University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer 1672-1672 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 09/19/2018 35939

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R227390 1 Daniel Cooper Daniel Cooper Daniel Cooper ON May morning as I walkt forth, / I to my self was musing; Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. : TOBIA'S ADVICE, / Or, A Remedy for a ranting Young-Man. / VVhile you are single you take but little care, / Therefore I say better you married were, / Perhaps there's some at this will make a Jest, / But I say still a married Life is best. / Therefore young-men take this Advice of me / Better take one than run to two or three. TOBIA’S ADVICE, Or, A Remedy for a ranting Young-Man. While you are single you take but little care, Therefore I say better you married were, Perhaps there’s some at this will make a Jest, But I say still a married Life is best. Therefore young-men take this Advice of me Better take one than run to two or three. TOBIAS'S ADVICE, Or, A Remedy for a ranting Young Man. While you are single you take but little care, Therefore I say better you married were, Perhaps there's some at this will make a Jest, But I say still a married Life is best. Therefore young men take this Advice of me Better take one than run to two or three. Bowne, Tobias 1672-1672 P. Brooksby

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ON May morning as I walkt forth, I to my self was musing; Though I what a fool am I in truth that I so long am chusing, For Maids enough are to be had, I to my self was thinking, Sure I will have one good or bad, to keep me out of drinking. Yet some there he have said to me, a single life is gallant; But where is he that I can see that lays up any Talant? They'l say we'l live so all our life, for marriage we'l prevent it; But where is he without a wife that can live well contented.
For marriage is a thing ordain'd and what man can deny it? If my true-love doth constant prove, I am resolv'd to try it: He that doth live a single life, I count a simple action, But if you get a loving Wife, that will be satisfaction. I pray observe what I do speak, you'l say these lines are witty; How many hearts you cause to break in Country, Town and City, And then you think to cast it off, and turns it to a laughter; You think that you do well enough, but pray mark what comes after.
When I was young I did the like, then I was brisk and bonny; Sometimes walk abroad all night, and so spent all my money, But now I see it's vanity, i'le strive for to prevent it, I'le go no more to seek a Whore, I'm with my wife contented. All you stand by I ask you why that Marriage should be slighted; Sure you may say as well as I youngmen are over-sighted: But here you run and there you run, and count your selves brave fellows, But if that One you had at home, she'd keep you from the Alehouse. A youngman said that he would wed but he aim'd at promotion; He fain would have a wife in Bed, but not without a portion: I call'd him fool unto his face, I did not like his speeches; Said I, take thou a virtuous Lass, she's better far than Riches.
If once you get a loving mate, and you abroad are ranting, You'l think why shall I stay out late, my wife she finds me wanting; I will haste home unto my choice, she shall not for me tarry: And if you will take my advice, I think it good to marry. And then you may live happily be but a little thrifty; Sure if you spend your time away till you do mount to fifty, And then a wife you chance to have, you may become a Father; You'l say what money might I have sav'd, had I been married rather. And so I bid you all adieu, I hope you don't deny me, I do not speak to you or you, but all that stand here by me. It's but a penny once your life, the Ballad's ready for ye; And so I wish you a good wife when that you chance to marry.
Printed for P. Brooksby in Py-corner.