Directions for Damosels,
OR
The Maidens advice, in an answer to the Young-mens
Counseller.
You that a kind good Husband lack
Let me with you prevail,
To choose a Brown or curious Black,
These colours never fail.
Tune of, All Trades. This may be Printed, R. P.
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O Now I have counselld young-men
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what Wives they have reason to choose;
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I tell the young Damsels again,
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what Husbands they ought to refuse
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Beware of fair men that can joke,
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with every Wind they can wave,
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And will your kind spirits provoke,
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and make you an absolute Slave.
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But as for the Brown and the Black,
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they both have a notable smack:Young Women may find them loving and kind,
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theyl give them whatever they lack.
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Ner marry one with a wey Beard,
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He is of the fumbling Crew;
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Of such I have often times heard,
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they little or nothing can do;
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And therefore, I pray now take heed,
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all Wey-Beards forever refrain;
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For when you are married indeed,
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tis never the near to complain.
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But as for the Brown, etc,
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The Sandy Complexion are Sots,
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and given to anger and strife,
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Who ever has such to their lots,
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they need no more plague in their life.
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From Ale-house to Ale-house theyl trudge,
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and make their Wives take all the care,
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Too often they make them their Drudge,
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of Sandy Complexion beware.
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But as for the Brown and the Black,
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they both have a notable smack:
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Young-women may find them loving & kind, [etc.]
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The Flaxen, tho ner so compleat,
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and by the young Damosels adord,
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Yet are they as full of deceit,
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as all the whole World can afford.
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Theyl flatter, dissemble, and lie,
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poor innocent Girls to betray;
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And if to their will you comply,
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theyl pack up their Awls and away.
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But as for the Brown and the Black,
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they both have a notable smack:What promise they make theyl never forsake,
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they scorn to be found to flie back.
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Beware of the Yellow curld locks,
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such men are both wanton and wild;
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Theyl play with the fine Holland Smocks,
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and get the young Lasses with Child:For pleasure abroad they will Roam,
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and lay the young Females along,
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Yet theyl do but little at home.
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what Woman can bear with this wrong.
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But as for the Brown and the Black,
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they both have a notable smack:Young-women may find them loving and kind,
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theyl give them whatever they lack.
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The Swarthy I cannot forget;
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and now to give them their desert,
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They have neither Beauty nor Wit,
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nor any commendable part:
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And therefore Remember the word,
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take no such lad sorrowful soul;
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They say they have need of a Bird,
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that will give a Groat for an Owl.
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But as for the Brown, etc.
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Beware of the head that is Grey,
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old-men they will jealousie breed,
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And think that the wanton you play,
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altho you be honest indeed,
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Hes chilly and cold in his blood,
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and never a Tooth in his Jaw;
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Hel do a young Wife no more good
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than tickle her Tale with a Straw.
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But as for the Brown, etc.
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The Flaxen and Grey I forbid,
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with Sandy, for bad is the best:But now I am come to the Red,
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which is seven times worse than the rest,
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Hes full of ill humours, therefore
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he stinks, let him do what he can,
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As Ramish as any old Bore:
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what Woman can love such a Man.
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But as for the Brown, etc.
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Young-men that are freckled and fair,
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are commonly given to lies:But black men and brown I declare,
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are known to be vertuous and wise,
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They hate for to wrangle and brawl,
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they honor and nourish their Wives,
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And never will wrong them at all,
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But love them as dear as their lives.
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Stand up for the Brown, etc.
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Young Damsels of ery degree,
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Whose Beauty does Batchelors charm,
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Come buy this New Ditty of me,
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good counsel can do you no harm;
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Tho formerly you have bought many:
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this may keep your days free from strife,
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And then it will be the best Penny
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as ere you laid out in your life.
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Then Hey for the Brown and the Black,
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they both have a notable smack:Young Women may find them loving and kin[d,]
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theyl give them whatever they lack.
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