%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Fair Maids Choice. Or. / The Seamans Renovvn. / Being a pleasant Song made of a Saylor, / Who excells a Miller, Weaver, and a Taylor, / Likewise brave gallants that goes fine and rare, / None of them with a Seaman can compare. Lanfiere, Thomas 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 07/13/2021 37432

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R179337 1 Shrowsbury for me [unknown] Shrewsbury For Me AS I through Sandwich town passed along, / I heard a brave Damsel singing of this song, of all sorts of tradesmen a Seaman for me. [with variation] British Library - Bagford Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 85 2: 86 The Fair Maids Choice. Or. / The Seamans Renovvn. / Being a pleasant Song made of a Saylor, / Who excells a Miller, Weaver, and a Taylor, / Likewise brave gallants that goes fine and rare, / None of them with a Seaman can compare. The Fair Maid's Choice. Or. The Seaman's Renown. Being a pleasant Song made of a Sailor, Who excels a Miller, Weaver, and a Taylor, Likewise brave gallants that goes fine and rare, None of them with a Seaman can compare. Lanfiere, Thomas ?-? F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and / J. Clarke

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AS I through Sandwich town passed along, I heard a brave Damsel singing of this song, In the praise of a Saylor she sung gallantly, of all sorts of tradesmen a Seaman for me. I gave good attention unto her new ditty, My thoughts it was wondrous gallant & pretty, with a voice sweet & pleasant most neatly sung she of all sorts of tradesmen a Seaman for me. The fair Maids song in praise of a Seaman. COme all you fair maidens in country & town, Lend your attention to what is pen'd down; And [l]et your opinions with mine both agree, of all sorts of tradesmen a Seaman for me. The gallant brave Seaman God bless him I say, He is a great pains-taker both night and day,
When he's on the Ocean so hard worketh he, then of all, etc. Of all sorts of Gallants so gaudy and fine, That with gold and silver so bravely doth shine, The Seaman doth out-pass them in each degree, then of all, etc. For a Seaman will venture his life and his blood, For the sake of his King and his countries good, He is valiant and gallant in every degree, then of all, etc. He ventures for traffique upon the salt seas, To pleasure our Gentry which lives at ease, Through many dangerous places pass he, then of all, etc.
Amongst all your tradesmen & merchants so brave, I can't set my fancy none of them to have, But a Seaman I will have my husband to be, then of all sorts of tradesmen a Seaman for me. With a theevish Miller I never will deal, Because out of a bushel a peck he will steal, I will have no society with such knaves as he, but of all sorts of tradesmen a Seaman for me. Likewise a pimping Taylor, and a lowsie weaver, To steal cloath & yarn they'l do their endeavour, Such fellows are not for my company, but of all, etc. Also the Carpenter and the Shoomaker, The Blacksmith, the brewer, & likewise the baker, Some of them use Knavery, and some honesty, but of all, etc. For I love a Seaman as I love my life, And I am resolv'd to be a Seamans Wife, No man else in England my husband shall be, then of all, etc.
Now i'le tell why I love a Seaman so dear, I have to my sweet-heart a Seaman most rare, He is a stout proper Lad as you shall see, then of all, etc. If that I were worth a whole ship-load of gold, My love should possess it, and with it make bold, I would make him master of every penny, then of all, etc. Through fire and Water I would go I swear, For the sake of my true love whom I love so dear, If I might have an Earl i'de forsake him for he; then of all, etc. Here's a health to my dear, come pledge me who please, To all gallant seamen that sail on the seas, Pray God bless & keep them from all dangers free so of all sorts of tradesmen a Seaman for me.
FINIS. Printed for F. Coles, T[.] Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke.