%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Praise of / Lancashire MEN, / Or, A few Lines which here is pen'd / Wherein they Lancashire Lads commend. 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 07/18/2021 37486

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R181996 1 A Job for a Journey-man Shoomaker Daniel Cooper A Job for a Journeyman Shoemaker YOu Muses all assist my Pen, / I earnestly require, British Library - Bagford Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 132 2: 133 The Praise of / Lancashire MEN, / Or, A few Lines which here is pen'd / Wherein they Lancashire Lads commend. The Praise of Lancashire MEN, Or, A few Lines which here is penned Wherein they Lancashire Lads commend. ?-?

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YOu Muses all assist my Pen, I earnestly require, To write the praise of the Young men born in Lancashire: They are both comely, stout, and tall, and of most mild behaviour, Fair Maids I do intreat you all to yield to them your favour. When Lancashire Lads doth feel the dart of Cupids Bow and Quiver, And aims to take a fair Maids part, I'm sure he'l not deceive her: Unto their promise they will stand which they to you propounded, They will not break for house nor land if love their hearts have wounded.
But if a Young man do require, in hast for to be bedding, Give no consent to his desire, before your lawful wedding: In such remains no faithful love, unto him bear no favour, If he a Maid to leudness move, his mind will quickly waver. There is Knights sons and Gentlemen that's born in Lancashire, That will be merry now and then, if need it do require, The Plowman likewise is our friend, which doth use Plow and Harrow, He freely will his money spend when he meets with his marrow,
In Lancashire there's brisk young Lads as are within our Nation, Most of them of several Trades or some Occupation: That their Wives they can well main-tain and bring them store of Treasure All by their labour and their pain, they live with joy and pleasure. It is a most delightful thing, and pleasure for to hear, These Boys their Songs & Catches sing when they drink Ale and Beer, They will be merry great and small, when they do meet together, And freely pay for what they call, a figg for wind and weather. At pleasant sports and Foot-ball play, they will be blyth and jolly, Their money they will freely lay, and cast off melancholly: When Lancashire Lads of several trads they have a jovial Meeting, Each man a glass unto fair Maids, will drink unto his sweeting.
Brave Lancashire men are Souldiers stout whose valour have been tryed At Sea and Land in many Bout when thousands brave men dyed, And always scorned for to yield, although their foes wer[e] plenty If they but ten men on the field, they surely will fight twenty. Great James our King they will defend as well as any Shire, To England they will prove a friend, if need it do require, They Loyal Subjects still hath been, and most of them stout hearted, Who still will fight for King & Queen and never from them started. Now to conclude and make an end of this my harmless Sonnet, I hope no man I do offend each man put off his Bonnet, And drink a Health to James our King and to our English Nation. God us defend in everything and keep us from Invasion.