THE
lovesick Maid of Waping
Her Complaint for want of Apple-Pye.
This Maid was in such deep distress,
wanting a gamesome Lad,
She cry'd for want of Happiness
that other Lovers had.
Tune of, Jenny Gin, Fair one let me in, Busie fame, Hey boys up go we.
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YOu that enjoy your hearts delight,
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take pitty now on me,
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Whom fortune seeketh to despite,
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and bring to misery:
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But yet I will a Husband have,
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no fate shall me deny,
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For I sigh myself into my Grave
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and for want of Apple-py.
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Now I am seventeen years of age,
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methinks it is high time
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Love's fiery passion to asswage,
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now I am in my prime,
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I must, I must a Husband have,
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no fate shall me deny;
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For I sigh myself into my Grave
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and for want of Apple-py.
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Oh that I play'd so much the fool
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as in times past I did;
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I might have gone to Venus School,
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but fortune did forbid:
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And now I must a Hu[s]band have,
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no fate shall me deny,
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Fo[r] I sigh myself into my Grave,
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and for want of Apple-py.
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When George the Goldsmith came to me
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my beauty he admir'd;
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And like a fool I did deny
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what of me he desir'd:
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But now a Husband I will a Husband have
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no fate shall me deny,
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For I sigh myself into my Grave,
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and for want of Apple-py.
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When Valentine the Vintener came
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that handsome bonny Lad,
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And to deny his fiery flame
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I think I was quite mad:
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But now I must a Husband have,
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no fate shall me deny,
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For I sigh myself into my Grave,
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and for want of Apple py.
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Could I but now a Husband have,
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how happy should I be,
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O then should I be brisk and brave,
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and live in jollitry:
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But the pangs of love doth me oppress,
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tho' fate doth me deny;
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And it is the only happiness
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to taste of Apple-py.
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Then John the Joyner came to me,
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whose charms were half divine;
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He told me he could gamesome be,
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and understood to joyn:
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But alas I must a husband have
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that will both hug and kiss,
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Else I shall pine into my Grave
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for want of hit and miss.
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At last a Taylor neat and fine,
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with Bodkin and nis Needle,
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He came to gain the love of mine,
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but him I thought too feeble:
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For I must have a thundering lad
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my passion to allay,
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Or else I surely shall go mad;
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brisk Youngsters come away.
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A brisk young Cobler to me came,
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who worked in a Stall;
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He said he burnt with fiery flame,
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but I did not like his Aul:
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No, no, 'tis not a cobling fool
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must be a match for me,
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For I ful well must like his Toole
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that must my Husband be.
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And after they were come and gone,
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to me then came a Glover,
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He looked like a feeble one,
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not fit to be a Lover:
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At my denyal he look'd pale,
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and a passion he was in;
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I bid him hold his babling tale,
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for he should not prick my skin.
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But then the Blacksmith to me came,
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whose sight I did despise;
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He lov'd, but I abhor'd the same,
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tho' he for pitty crys:
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Oh let me not these pains indure,
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but grant to me some ease,
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Except I can some help procure,
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I die of Loves disease.
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At last the Sailor gent and neat
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to me a wooing came;
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And he I thought was most compleat
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to ease my fiery flame:
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He gave to me such sweet discourse
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I could him not deny,
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My stubborn heart then felt remorse,
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and he gave me Apple-py.
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