%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Repulsive MAID. / WHO / Once to a Young-man, but now cannot win, / To open the door and let him come in. 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 05/19/2021 37102

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R182676 2 open the door and let me come in [unknown] Open the Door and Let Me Come In To the same Tune [unknown] To the Same Tune SWeet open the door and let me come in, / For to be a Wooer I now begin, I Prethee Love, do not to jeer begin / But open the door and let me come in, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 31 The Repulsive MAID. / WHO / Once to a Young-man, but now cannot win, / To open the door and let him come in. The Repulsive MAID. WHO Once to a Young-man, but now cannot win, To open the door and let him come in. The Repulsive MAID. WHO Once to a Young man, but now cannot win, To open the door and let him come in. ?-?

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Youngman. SWeet open the door and let me come in, For to be a Wooer I now begin, And say thy Lover I yet have been Ile love thee and no more. Maid. To open the door Love that could I do And if it were for an hour or two, But if that my father or mother should know I should be beaten sore. Young-man. To be beaten for me Love that were a sin, Sweet open the door and let me come in Thy father or mother nor none of thy Kin shall never beat thee more. Maid. To open the door Love I have been bold, And many false tales I have been told, But another man hath my heart in hold, I cannot love thee therefore.
Young-man. Thou knowst before when the time hath bin Thou hast open'd the door and let me come in But now my love is not worth a pin I prethee Love tell me wherefore. Maid. I am not disposed to tell thee now Go walk a Knave as thou knowst how, For I can no enterance to thee allow, adieu for evermore. Young-man. To knock and to call I will never sin, Till thou open the door and let me come in, With coming I fell, and I broke my shin, which grieves me very sore. Maid. If thou hast broken thy shin my Love sorry am I, Yet cannot I find in my heart for to cry, Ile give thee a plaster for it by and by shall pain thee ten times more.
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Young-man. I Prethee Love, do not to jeer begin But open the door and let me come in, Ile be more kind then ever I have been, I prethee Love open the door, Maid. Two words to a bargain my small friend, To open the door I do not intend, My father and mother I oft did offend, Ile never offend them more. Young-man. Of Father and Mother doe not tell me, For I am come alone to visit thee, And if my face thou wilt not see, then shew me a reason wherefore. Maid. A reason just I can thee tell To do it now doth not like me well I hate thee as much as the Devil of Hell then adue for evermore. Young-man. How comes it to passe my Love thou art so curst And wert so kind to me at the first, Of all men living my luck is the worst, to be hated and know not wherefore.
Maid. Alasse Sir I have found out your Tricks You love do crave of five or six, Yet take who you will it shall never me vex, adue for evermore. Young-man. What though I have choyce of six or seven, Nay, what if I had nine, ten or eleven, Yet thou mayst make the dozen even, and do as thou hast done before. Maid. I am not the first that hath done amisse, Nor shall be the last that a Knave will kisse, I pray pick English out of this, you shall never kisse me more. Young-man. The Rose is red, and the Leaves are green And the daies are past which I have seen Another man may be where I have been for now I am thrust out of door. Maid. Walk Knave is a Parrats note, And if the Hang-man don't get your coat, Ile meet you at Holborn-Hill in a Boat. if ever I love you more.
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