EBBA 36980
British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads
| Virginity grown Troublesome: / OR, The Younger Sisters Lamentation for / want of a Husband. / Being a most pleasant and Delightful New Song much in use, &c. / Each Age grows Riper, love does still prevail, / And Maiden-heads at Sixteen now are stale; / Young Girls to Mothers will be turn'd e're they / Know what it means, slie Cupid does betray, / Fires them with love, and then there's nothing can / Cure their distemper, unless Oyl of Man. | |
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| Date Published | 1672-1696 ? |
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| Imprint | Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden-Ball, in West-smithfield. |
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| Collection | British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads |
| Location | British Library |
| Shelfmark | C.22.f.6.(222.) |
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| Part 1 | |
| Title | Virginity grown Troublesome: / OR, The Younger Sisters Lamentation for / want of a Husband. / Being a most pleasant and Delightful New Song much in use, &c. / Each Age grows Riper, love does still prevail, / And Maiden-heads at Sixteen now are stale; / Young Girls to Mothers will be turn'd e're they / Know what it means, slie Cupid does betray, / Fires them with love, and then there's nothing can / Cure their distemper, unless Oyl of Man. |
| Tune Imprint | to a pleasant New West-Country Tune. |
| First Lines | I Have a good old Mother at home, / which keeps me from Wedlock still, |
| Refrain | What shall I do, shall I dye for love, / and never have my will. [with variation] |
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