%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Oh faine would I marry / Yet divers occasions a while make me tarry, / Before he will wedd he is thrifty to see, / And set downe with Items what charge It will be. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer 1635-1635 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 10/22/2018 36094

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S94518 1 Drive the cold Winter away Drive the Cold Winter Away Drive the Cold Winter Away [O]H faine would I wiue, / Yet doubting to thriue, Manchester Central Library Blackletter Ballads Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 47 Oh faine would I marry / Yet divers occasions a while make me tarry, / Before he will wedd he is thrifty to see, / And set downe with Items what charge It will be. Oh fain would I marry Yet diverse occasions a while make me tarry, Before he will wed he is thrifty to see, And set down with Items what charge It will be. 1635-1635

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OH faine would I wive, Yet doubting to thrive, [?]e enter'd the straits of that trouble, Or how to maintaine, For what I complaine, [?]en I doe my single life double: The care a young man Should take if he can, [?] love and affect his marriage, And his wife to his minde Be loving and kinde, [?]agoes there the Creame of her car-riage, Love is but a toy That answers the joy, [?]ce the blinde chit hath but hit me: Which when I have knowne, And my paines taken showne, [?]y sweet meat with sawce she will fit me: Her tricks & her toyes Will surfet my joyes, [?] her minde falleth a longing, Twelve times before noone, Sheell change like the Moone, [?] better [?]r[?]led to my hanging, [?]rv[?]d [?] one have [?] nor too brave. [?]h [?]a [?]too low nor too fat, [?] quick nor too slow, [?]e nor a shrow; [?]u [e]ndure that. [?]res of my Lass [?]ds nor alass [?]and lig in neat measure [?]e doth wrong, [?]te her nose long, [?] a[?]e[?]e great pleasu[re.]
Let the haire of her head By no meanes be red, for that showes a white spotted favour: Her breath let be sweet, When hers and mine meet, but of rotten teeth take no savour: In her cheekes and her chin Three dimples put in, for that adds a grace to her feature, But if that her minde You fixe like the winde, by no meanes give me such a creature. Make her neck white and long, But not like a swan, her shoulders in in even equall manner: But make not her back Like a Pedlers pack for then I shall crie out upon her: Her arms and each brest, Her hands and the rest, [?] neatly all over: Then let me her finde To none but me kinde, and you shall see how I shall love her. Let Sol on her face No garish looke place, nor Mercury make her deceitfull: Nor Juno the scold In pride her uphold, such things in women are hatefull: Let Luna be strange, To give her a change, and Venus the gift of her falling: For so sayes Queene Mab, the trade of a drab, [?]m[?] too common a calling.
The charge for delight, Of wedlock bed-right, who needs will withhold & have kn[?] Sure wots what he doe, Ere he goe thereunto, or better he were to forgoe it: For cares of the world, Are round about hurld, and with marriage take often dw[?] But if it so be That accords he and she they the sooner may give it expelling But, let none be nice In taking advice, nor a wiving let no young man ga[?] For he that goes slow May misse of a shrow when the caster may light of a Tr[?] The proverbe of old You often heard told, soft fire the sweetest Mault maketh Then best is he sped, That unto his bed, a Female well qualifyde taketh. But where one to finde Ile aske of the winde, for that goes about the foure corn[?] He lookes ev'rywhere, But is seldome the neer, for which you may hear oft he mu[?] Some women there bee, But I doubt none for m[e] on which a man freely may ventu[re] But fearing to finde Such a one to my minde, I a contrary passage may enter.