EBBA 21744
Magdalene College - Pepys
| Nothing like to a good Wife: / Let a Man consider to the end, / A Loving Wife is his best Friend; / In sickness and in health I say, / She will stick to him night and day, / Oh a Loving Wife, I say give me, / And let all Light Huswifes Carted be: / There's never no Man by them gets good / If things be rightly understood: / Unwholsome Ware, I say they be / An Honest Wife of ones One, for my Money. | ||
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| Date Published | 1685-1688 | |
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| Imprint | Printed for J. Conyers at the Black Raven in Holborn. | |
| License | This may be printed, R.P. | |
| Collection | Magdalene College - Pepys | |
| Page | 4.80 | |
| Location | Pepys Library | |
| Shelfmark | Pepys Ballads 4.80 | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | Nothing like to a good Wife: / Let a Man consider to the end, / A Loving Wife is his best Friend; / In sickness and in health I say, / She will stick to him night and day, / Oh a Loving Wife, I say give me, / And let all Light Huswifes Carted be: / There's never no Man by them gets good / If things be rightly understood: / Unwholsome Ware, I say they be / An Honest Wife of ones One, for my Money. | The second Part |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of, The Country Farmer. | to the same Tune. |
| First Lines | THere is many a Man that in England do dwell / That loves novelty=meat better than any, one can tell | IT vexes a good Wife, and it troubles her mind, / To see when her Husband proves so unkind; |
| Refrain | The best way is to let all bad Women alone / And every Man be content with his own. [with variations] | The best way is to let all bad Women alone / And every Man be content with his own. [with variations] |
| Album Page | 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 200 x 310 | 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 200 x 310 |
| Condition | cropped right edge, uneven inking | cropped right edge, uneven inking |
| Ornament | vertical rules and cast fleurons | vertical rules and cast fleurons |