The Young-Man's Answer
To the Politick-Maids Device.
If all young-men were as he would be,
Maidens should mould above the knee:
And let them sweat in their own S[?]in,
They are more false than men have been:
And yet you see what here's in hand,
How they do speak against Young-Men.
The Tune is, Digby's Farewel: Or, What shall a Young Woman, etc.
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F Or certain and sure, this Girl will go mad,
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To rail against young men, and say they're so bad:
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They may hold their tongues, and shake 'um byth' hand
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They're as false as the young men, all over the Land:
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There's hardly any truth in a maid to be found,
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They'l lye and dissemble, and search a man round:
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Therefore honest Young-men have a care what you do,
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more maids there are false, then are true in the row.
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They're such dangerous ware, and so apt to make strife,
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A young-man cannot tell how to chuse him a wife:
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They're so false and so fickle, and so full of deceit,
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It's a thousand pound to a penny some light of a Cheat;
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And think he hath a pure virgin to bring to his Bed,
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When long time before she has lost her maiden-head.
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therefore honest young-men, etc.
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I cannot deny, but they keep company,
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But they look to be fed with the best that may be,
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Then cakes upon cakes, and ale, wine, and beer,
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Thus they make fools of young-men e'ry where;
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And then at the last when they have got what they can,
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There is no truth in them, they are for another man;
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therefore honest young-men have a care what you do
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more maids there are false, then are true in the row.
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There is many a Marriage has been in this Land,
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And many a young-man that has been trappan'd:
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When he has brought his young wife unto his own home
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It after has been prov'd he had a butter'd Bunn;
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What he wanted ith' purse, he had it ith' tail,
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I am sorry that Maidens at young-men will rail.
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therefore honest young [- ]men, etc.
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A man cannot tell [?] or to chu[se] one that's g[?]
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They're so rotten at heart, if it be right understood,
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For they go with their necks and their breasts very bare,
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For to give young-men notice they have special ware:
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But yet their conditions are often unsound,
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There is many a man a bad wife he hath found.
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therefore honest, etc.
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A maid may say this, and a maid may say that,
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To blame honest young-men, but I know not for what;
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There's many a man for a maid has been slain,
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And has lost his sweet life, he was a fool for his pains;
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'Tis a hundred to one if he had scap'd his life,
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That she'd never a yielded for to have been his wife.
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therefore honest, etc.
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'Tis a wonderful thing some Maids are so base
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To rail against young-men unto their disgrace:
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A true hearted Lover will scorn to do so,
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But a false hearted Damsel is a mans overthrow:
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There's never a maiden say all what you can,
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But sometimes desires to play with a man.
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therefore honest, etc.
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Now young-men you hear that some Maids are unjust,
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If you be minded to marry, take one you can trust:
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For still there is plenty of both good and bad,
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And you must take your fortune if a wife must be had;
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And if she be half Whorish you must be content,
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For after-wit always is too late to repent.
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therefore honest, etc.
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A Scold and a Slut let them both go together,
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But a Scold is the better, all this I consider,
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A Slut she may poyson a man with his meat,
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And make him to loath every bit he should eat;
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Let Maidens consider and cleanly Girls be,
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It is a foul blot in their Scuttheon truly.
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therefore honest, etc.
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This young-man was vext when he heard the maids touch
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He answer'd her kindly, for his heart it did grutch:
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He tells her his mind, and sets himself out to the view,
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There's not one maid in twenty will stand to be true;
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They'l prate and they'l lye, they'l huff, and they'l puff,
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If men give them their hearts, they've never enough.
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therefore honest young-men have a care what you do,
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more maids there are false then are true in the row.
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FINIS.
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