EBBA 31661
University of Glasgow Library - Euing
| The Benefit of Marriage. / OR, / The Married Mans good Fortune, with his Counsel to young Batchelors, / Who having tasted of that sweet content / Which wedlock doth afford, is fully bent / To praise good Women, giving them their due, / Yet speaks no more then what he knowes is true. / Young men draw near, and buy this Song, I pray, / Which being done, then bear it hence away, / And to your Sweet-hearts send it in a Letter, / 'Twill be a means to make them love you better. | ||
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| Date Published | 1662-1668 ? | |
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| Imprint | London, Printed for E. Andrews, at the White Lion near Pye Corner. | |
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| Collection | University of Glasgow Library - Euing | |
| Location | University of Glasgow Library | |
| Shelfmark | Euing Ballads 18 | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | The Benefit of Marriage. / OR, / The Married Mans good Fortune, with his Counsel to young Batchelors, / Who having tasted of that sweet content / Which wedlock doth afford, is fully bent / To praise good Women, giving them their due, / Yet speaks no more then what he knowes is true. / Young men draw near, and buy this Song, I pray, / Which being done, then bear it hence away, / And to your Sweet-hearts send it in a Letter, / 'Twill be a means to make them love you better. | The second Part, |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of, The Young Mans Advice. | to the same Tune. |
| First Lines | A Man that had a pretty young Wife, / who closely unto him did cling, Sir, | DO but consider, pray, what is man, / till such times as he doth marry; |
| Refrain | Once I lay with another Mans Wife, / and I lay in a great deal of danger, / But now I have gotten a Wife of my own, / I scorn for to pick on another mans Bone, / for I lie at Rack and Manger. | O Once I lay, &c. |
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