The Roxburghe ballads . dont jostle close, Then shel kick him out at the beds feet, etc. So Batchellors all, now my leave Ile take, This counsell is good for all honest young men ; If I was shut of this quean, you know what I mean, [, the ivorld ivoidd go well with me then, brave boys,Oh the ivorld ivould go well with me then. 100 Printed for W. Thackeray, at the Golden Sugar-Loaf, in Buck-Lane. [In Black-letter, with three woodcuts. 1st and 2nd, as in vi. 195 left, and right: the 3rd is below. Date, 1660-80, probably circa 1673.] To be Shut of still lingers provincially = clear
The Roxburghe ballads . dont jostle close, Then shel kick him out at the beds feet, etc. So Batchellors all, now my leave Ile take, This counsell is good for all honest young men ; If I was shut of this quean, you know what I mean, [, the ivorld ivoidd go well with me then, brave boys,Oh the ivorld ivould go well with me then. 100 Printed for W. Thackeray, at the Golden Sugar-Loaf, in Buck-Lane. [In Black-letter, with three woodcuts. 1st and 2nd, as in vi. 195 left, and right: the 3rd is below. Date, 1660-80, probably circa 1673.] To be Shut of still lingers provincially = clear or free of a thing. On p. 182an extra cut is given, the first figure represents a humiliated hen-pecked frigateof a husband riding reverse-way at a Skimming ton festival, called Hiding theStai/g (for description of which see Eudibras, part ii. canto 2, 1663). The gangof women evilly-entreats another Husband, one who has been too liberal with histalent outside his household. (See pp. 194-196 for an account of Horn-Fair.). 185 [Roxb. Collection, II. 534; Pepys, IV. 100; Euing, 397, 398; Jersey, I. 268.] Ci)e Ottoman to tyt jMoto, 0no tf)t span to tgc ^emHoogt;£>r, a fine toap to tut* a Cot^uetm [P. m. The Tune is, I have for all good wives a Song. [See p. BOth Men and Women, listen well,A merry jest I will you tell,Betwixt a Good-man and his Wife,Who fell the other day at strife :He chid her for her Huswivery,And she found fault as well as heWith him fors work without the doors,Quoth he, A pox on all such whores ! ial-lect-, you and I cannot agree, Lets change our work ! Content! quoth she, My Wheel and Distaffe here take thou, And I will drive the Cart and Plow. 12 This was concluded twixt them both, To cart and plow the good-wife goeth. The Goodman he at home doth tarry, To see that nothing doth miscarry; An apron he before him put, Judge, was not this a hansome slut ? He fleets the milk, he makes the chese, [skims milk. He gropes the hens, the ducks and g
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