%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Description of a Tovvn Miss. / OR, / A Looking-Glass for all Confident Ladies. / A POEM, / Describing all their Arts, Titilations, and Temptations which they set to ensnare Young / Men, and unadvised Lovers. / If these few Lines are well digested, no Man shall be seduc'd by a fair flattering woman. 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 07/12/2021 37729

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R171745 1 Amarilli Amaryllis Amaryllis YOu Limber Ladies that appear, / in diverse kind of dresses, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 109 The Description of a Tovvn Miss. / OR, / A Looking-Glass for all Confident Ladies. / A POEM, / Describing all their Arts, Titilations, and Temptations which they set to ensnare Young / Men, and unadvised Lovers. / If these few Lines are well digested, no Man shall be seduc'd by a fair flattering woman. The Description of a Town Miss. OR, A Looking Glass for all Confident Ladies. A POEM, Describing all their Arts, Titillations, and Temptations which they set to ensnare Young Men, and unadvised Lovers. If these few Lines are well digested, no Man shall be seduced by a fair flattering woman. ?-? F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke

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YOu Limber Ladies that appear, in diverse kind of dresses, As if you meant to put your ware, in several sorts of messes: Your eye-lids do expresly show, to every kind good fellow, What colours you do bear below, black, brown, white, red, or yellow. What is it that ye would be at, ye stare so much upon us? You look, in brief, as keen as if, that you would over-run us: Your quakeing hips, and trembling lips, doth perfectly relate it, So very well, that we can tell, y'r stark mad to be at it.
What means your curling & your paint your powder, and your patches, Unless it be by kind constraint, to stow us under hatches: Your fancies frail you do intayl, with many gay brabadoes: 'Tis this makes many a Merchant sayl, from Venice to Barbadoes. Brave consultations do appear, when Ladies are convening, What makes you fleer, and wink & jear pray spread abroad your meaning: That we may thrust our judgements in and spend our approbation, Your single wit's not worth a pin, till mixt in Copulation.
And therefore speak your minds sweet souls discover your distresses, Your necks, and breasts, & rups, & rolls, doth furnish us with guesses: Your Eye-brows & your shades of hair, so temptingly exprest is, That by this little show of hair, we guess what all the rest is. Open your mind, we shall be kind, and stifly stand to serve ye, If we have but a bit, you'l find we do not mean to starve ye: With hit for hit, and chinck for chinck, we'l quench your Titilation, You feed on men-kinds meat and drink and have the same temptation. This active fire, and high desire, too fervently doth cease you, That Hercules himself would tire, did he attempt to please you: He fitted fifty Girls a night, but at the last his fate is, A Ne plus ultra there to write, for they were Nunquam Satis. with Cypress, and with fine Love-hoods you vail your splendant faces, Like pictures made to stir the blood, put into Christal cases:
Like Phoebus clouded in the Sky, or day-light when 'tis dawning, But pray let's try what you mean by, your Stretching and your Yawning. we see the sallies of your blood, and spirits in commotion: We see the pretty Ebb and Flood, more active then the Ocean: Your stiring, capering, roling eyes, where Cupid comes and dances, divulge, though we have dancing thighs, that you have dancing fancies. At thirteen years young Ladies are contriving tricks to tempt ye, At sixteen years come if you dare, you shall have kisses plenty: At eighteen they are flush as May, well furnisht to content ye, At fifteen she would bucking be, but a Devil at One and Twenty. All these designs will never catch, for I think there is no man, That though sometimes he get a snatch, will surfeit upon woman: So long as we are coming on, you simper to deceive us, But when our dancing days are done, youl wheel about and leave us.
Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke.