Good Counsell for young Wooers:
Shewing the Way, the Meanes, and the Skill,
To wooe any Mayden, be she what she will:
Then all young Men that are minded to wooe,
Come heare this new Ballad, and buy't ere you goe.
To a dainty new tune, or else it may be
Sung to the tune of Pretty 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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Ile teach you to wooe, and speed in a trice:
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You must not be daunted whatever she say,
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[H]e may speed tomorrow, that's 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, and coll her untill she doth yield,
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A faint-hearted Souldier will never winne Field.
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[Y]ou must set her beauty at the highest rate,
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[An]d never leave wooing her early and late.
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[Te]ll her that her brow like a black Load-stone drawes
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[Th]y Iron heart to her, as Jet will doe strawes:
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[Whe]n she doth conceive and perceive thy respect,
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[Ere l]ong thy industry shall finde good effect.
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[Th]en you that will wooe a wench with a black brow
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[Acce]pt, etc.
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[For ta]ke this from me, a blacke wench is still proud,
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[And lo]ves well to heare her praise set forth aloud,
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[Althoug]h 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 speec]hes, thy paines, and thy love is all lost.
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[Then if] you will wooe a wench with a black brow,
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[Accept, etc].
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Comply with her humour in ev'rything right,
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For that's 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 Mayden likes best,
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And when she is sad, then put finger i'th eye,
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For Wooers (like women) must oft feign a crye.
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Then if you will wooe a wench with a blacke brow,
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Accept, etc.
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If great be her portion, and thou be but poore,
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Thy duety 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 will not one 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 thy words afterwards prove not all true?
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Then if you will wooe a wench with a black brow,
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Accept, 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 dispense,
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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 obay.
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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 doth yield,
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For a faint-hearted souldier will never winne 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 oftentimes 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 Mayd sees what's 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 doth yield,
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For a faint-hearted souldier will never winne Field.
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If unto a Fayre 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 com'st home againe, be not thou sparing,
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To say thou went'st onely to buy her a Fayring:
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By this she will thinke thou wilt be a kinde wretch,
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That wouldst goe so farre off a Fayring to fetch.
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Then you, etc.
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If she be in presence when others are by,
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Where words must be wanting there woo with thy ey,
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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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Doo well correspond in affection with thee.
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Then if, 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 while the Iron is hot:
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For if thou protract, and let slip thy occasion,
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Shee's not so soone wonne with a second perswasion.
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Then if, etc.
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Thou well may'st perceive by the words that are p[ast,]
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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 like thy wife)
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May make thee or marre thee all dayes of thy lif[e]
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Then if, etc.
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Although in my counsell I let others passe,
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And onely have mention made of a black Lasse,
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Yet be thy Sweet-heart either blacke, browne, or r[uddy]
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These Lessons kinde Wooer are fit for thy study:
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Be she faire or foule, be she widdow or mayd,
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In wooing, a man must doe as I have sayd.
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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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Hee'le shew little wisdome 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 blacke [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 do[th yield,]
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A faint-hearted Souldier will never winne Fi[eld.]
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