EBBA 21274
Magdalene College - Pepys
| The Young-Mans Answer to the / Merry Maid of Shoreditch her Resolution. / She saith a single Life it is the best, / It is so with a Man, it is confest: / If he marry a Woman of the worser sort, / No one will give her a good report. / So Young-men pray you now be wise, / You see what some Maids can devise; / They are as loose as Water in the River, / They wou'd undo a thousand Men together. | ||
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| Date Published | 1671-1702 ? | |
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| Imprint | Printed for J. Deacon, at the Sign of the Angel,/ in Guilt-Spur-Street. | |
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| Collection | Magdalene College - Pepys | |
| Page | 3.260 | |
| Location | Pepys Library | |
| Shelfmark | Pepys Ballads 3.260 | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | The Young-Mans Answer to the / Merry Maid of Shoreditch her Resolution. / She saith a single Life it is the best, / It is so with a Man, it is confest: / If he marry a Woman of the worser sort, / No one will give her a good report. / So Young-men pray you now be wise, / You see what some Maids can devise; / They are as loose as Water in the River, / They wou'd undo a thousand Men together. | The second part, |
| Tune Imprint | The Tune is, Hold Buckle and Thong together. | to the same Tune. |
| First Lines | DO you see how basely this young Maid, / against young=men that she does clatter: | AND yet they'l say how bravely they / live single, if they never marry: |
| Refrain | and let them fret, it is no matter. {with variations; not stanzas 3,6,7} | |
| Album Page | 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?210 x 316 | |
| Condition | damaged surface | |
| Ornament | vertical rules and cast fleurons | |