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1 NONE [unknown] Fortune, since thou bidst mee chuse / Of what, I haue most to use of all thy store Ile aske noe more 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: 56 [Fortune, since thou bidst mee chuse] [Fortune, since thou bid me choose] ?-?

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Fortune, since thou bidst mee chuse Of what, I have most to use of all thy store First I wish to bee well fed And keepe a table richly spread, Ile aske noe more Ilse aske noe more For my dwellings to have care Princely howses to prepare With a back dore For private uses and for freinds For choyce delights & speciall ends, Ile aske noe more Ile aske noe more Next a neate and sumptuous bedd Wheare in it a faire lady layd, grant thou therfore A modest vertuous wife be shee To keepe mee honest if it may be, Ile aske noe more Ile aske noe more Melancholly to prevent And remove all discontent encrease my store With some odd thousands every day To drive my museinge thoughts away, Ile aske no mor[e] Ile aske noe more But when aige shall sence deprive And I can noe longer live, I then implore When I the world & it leaves mee A blessed Saint in heaven to be, Ile aske noe more Ile aske noe more But when to heaven I shall ascend One thinge more I may allow, to keepe the dore That soe I may let in my freind And all my foes away may send, Ile aske noe more Ile aske noe more