Good Counsell for young Wooers:
Shewing the Way, the Meanes, and the Skill,
To wooe any Woman, be she what she will:
Then all young men that are minded to wooe,
Come heare this new Ballad, and buyt ere you goe.
To a dainty new tune, or else it may be
Sung to the tune of Prettie Bessee.
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COme all you young Pupils that yet have no skill,
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In wooing to get a fine Lasses good will,
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[If] you will be ruled, and take my advice,
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[Il]e teach you to wooe and speed in a trice,
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[Yo]u must not be daunted what ever she say,
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[H]e may speed tomorrow thats cast off today.
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If you will wooe a Wench with a blacke brow,
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Accept of my Counsell, and Ile tell you how,
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You must kisse her, & coll her untill she doth yield:
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A faint hearted Souldier will never win field.
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[Y]ou must set her beauty at the highest rate,
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[A]nd never leave wooing her early and late.
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[T]ell her that her brow like a black Loadstone drawes,
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[T]hy Iron heart to her, as Jet will doe strawes,
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When she doth conceive and perceive thy respect,
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[E]re long thy industry shall find an effect.
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Then you that will wooe a wench with a black brow,
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Accept of my counsell, etc.
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For take this from me, a blacke wench is still proud,
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And loves well to heare her praise set forth aloud,
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Although she accuse thee of flattery oft,
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And tell thee she cannot abide to be scoft,
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Yet never leave praysing her, for if thou dost,
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Thy speeches, thy paines, and thy love is all lost.
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Then if you will wooe a Wench with black brow,
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Acc[ept] of my Counsell, etc.
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Comply with her humour in every thing right,
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For thats the chiefe course that can give her delight,
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If thou see her merry, then laugh sing and jest,
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Or tell some love tales, this a maiden likes best,
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And when she is sad then put finger ith eye,
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For wooers (like women) must oft feigne a cry.
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Then if you will wooe a wench with a blacke brow,
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Accept of my Counsell, etc.
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If great be her Portion, and thou be but poore,
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Thy duty and paines must be so much the more,
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Thou must vow good husbandry during thy life,
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What wilt thou not promise to get such a wife,
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Gownes, Kirtles, and toyes of the fashion all new,
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What though al thy words prove not afterward true.
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Then if you will wooe a Wench with a black brow,
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Accept of my Counsell, etc.
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If thou from her sight have beene too long away,
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Then redeeme thy negligence with longer stay,
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And if she be angry be sure goe not thence,
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Untill thou force her with thy fault to dispence,
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And tell her thou wilt not onely stay all day,
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But (if she please) thou wilt her all night obey.
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Then if you will wooe a Wench with a black brow,
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Accept of my counsell, and Ile tell you how,
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You must kisse her and coll her untill she doe yield:
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For a faint-hearted Souldier will never win field.
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The second part, To the same tune.
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HAve her to weddings, playes, and merry meetings,
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Where she may notice take of Lovers greetings,
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Such objects often-times a motive may be
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To make her love thee if she were a Lady,
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For when a Maid sees whats done by another,
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It more will perswade then advice from her Mother.
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Then if you will wooe a Wench with a black brow,
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Accept of my counsell, and Ile tell you how,
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You must kisse her and coll her, untill she doe yield:
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For a faint-hearted Souldier will never win field.
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If unto a Faire thou doe goe farre or nigh,
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Although thou have other great matters to buy,
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Yet when thou comst home againe be not thou sparing,
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To say thou wentst onely to buy her a fayring,
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By this she will thinke thou wilt be a kind wretch;
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That wouldst goe so farre off a fayring to fetch.
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Then you that will wooe a Wench, etc.
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If she be in presence when others are by,
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Where words must be wanting there wooe with thy eye,
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Although it seeme strange yet experience doth prove,
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That the eye doth convey the first motion of Love,
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And thou maist perceive by her eye whether she,
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Doe well correspond in affection with thee.
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Then if thou wilt wooe a Wench, etc.
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When by these meanes (or by any of them)
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Thou hast got this favour of thy precious Gem,
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Be carefull to hold and keepe what thou hast got,
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The Proverbe sayes strike the Iron while it is hot,
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For if thou protract and let slip thy occasion,
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Shes not so soone wonne with a second pers[w]asion.
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Then if thou wilt, etc.
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Thou well mayst perceive by the words that are past
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That I doe advise thee to marry in haste.
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A thing may be dasht when it comes to the push,
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And one bird in hand is worth two in the bush;
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One day, nay one houre, (if thou [l]ike thy wife)
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May make thee or marre thee all the dayes of thy life
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Then if you will wooe a Wench, etc.
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Although in my counsell I let others passe,
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And only have mention made of a blacke Lasse,
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Yet be thy sweet heart, either blacke, browne or rudd[y]
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These Lessons kind Wooer are fit for thy study,
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Be she fayre or foule, be she Widow or Maid,
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In wooing, a man must doe as I have said.
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All you that will wooe a Wench, etc.
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And now with this counsell my ditty Ile end,
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And if any Carper my skill discommend,
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Heele shew little wisedome my counsell to blame;
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For the wisest Wooer may follow the same,
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And if they will not for my part let them chuse,
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But once more I will them these Lines to peruse.
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Then if you will wooe a Wench with a black bro[w]
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Accept of my counsell, and Ile tell you how,
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You must kisse her and coll her, untill she doe yield,
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A faint-hearted Souldier will never win field.
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