The Roxburghe ballads . man delude us, when he has so [playd the] Women why he screwed thus, on things we cant obtain:Poor Women, [to discover the votes of If en are vain]. 72 Let us then be contented, let Lordly still remain, -For him he was invented, let us not wish in vain: For what though we endeavour, yet can deserve him never, Poor Women wishing ever, yet all our wishes vain: etc. 81 Let us then be contented, and strive no more with pain,Least we at last repent it, and past all hopes, complain :When there is no relieving, but still we must be grieving:Poor Women by deceiving,
The Roxburghe ballads . man delude us, when he has so [playd the] Women why he screwed thus, on things we cant obtain:Poor Women, [to discover the votes of If en are vain]. 72 Let us then be contented, let Lordly still remain, -For him he was invented, let us not wish in vain: For what though we endeavour, yet can deserve him never, Poor Women wishing ever, yet all our wishes vain: etc. 81 Let us then be contented, and strive no more with pain,Least we at last repent it, and past all hopes, complain :When there is no relieving, but still we must be grieving:Poor Women by deceiving, Men shew their votes are vain :Poor Women, [do discover the vows of Men are vain]. 90 Printed for P. Broohshy, at the Hospital Gate, in West-Smithfield. [In Black-letter. Three woodcuts: 1st, the couple on p. 289 ; 2nd and 3rd,man and woman of p. 132. Date, circa 1673.] * Notes.—Line 15, Thee and Thouing, girds at George Fox and the Quakers:see also on pp. 296, 297. Text, line 69, misreads, When he has so Jitdasd [Woodcut of Tobies Experience, p. 154, and of Mystery Discovered, p. 323.] 294 £D tben mp Lotoc ana 31 tntll matrp! *» A Womans Rule shoud be in such a fashionOnly to guide her household, and her passion,And her obedience never out of season,So long as either Husband lasts or fares the hapless family that showsA Cock thats silent, and a Hen that know not which live more unnatural lives,Obedient Husbands, or commanding Wives. —A Catch, 1671, set by John Hilton. TO find a practicable pathway through the maze of Replies andAnswers connected with Vie tell you whe?i I will be married,could be little beyond idle guesswork or happy intuition, until thewhole of the dissevered materials for judgement had been gatheredfrom various Collections. So long ago as 1877 we reprinted what mighthave been erroneously regarded as the fountain-head ditty, callingitself The Maidens Answer to the Young Mans Request (whoaskd her why so long she tarried), in Bagfor
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