The Roxburghe ballads . ,Many a vow pass as they talked, that their hearts should never the Church he did conduct her, where the Priest did end the strife,And so well he did instruct her, she that day was Williams for P. Brookshj, at the Golden-Ball, in Pye-corner. [In Black-letter. Three woodcuts, one alone common to both the Roxburgheexemplars, viz. the young man, of p. 203, right: we follow R. C. IV. 50, withthe grim lady, p. 2u3 left; Roxb. Coll., II. 206, has the couple in forest dell,p. 228. Date, 1672-82.] *#* We hope the Hasty Wedding proved happy. In ballad liter
The Roxburghe ballads . ,Many a vow pass as they talked, that their hearts should never the Church he did conduct her, where the Priest did end the strife,And so well he did instruct her, she that day was Williams for P. Brookshj, at the Golden-Ball, in Pye-corner. [In Black-letter. Three woodcuts, one alone common to both the Roxburgheexemplars, viz. the young man, of p. 203, right: we follow R. C. IV. 50, withthe grim lady, p. 2u3 left; Roxb. Coll., II. 206, has the couple in forest dell,p. 228. Date, 1672-82.] *#* We hope the Hasty Wedding proved happy. In ballad literature isshown the connection of cuckoldry and shrewishness. Women who indulged inthe latter seldom left the former in abeyance. To be false to her husband, andotherwise to make his life a burden to him by her tongue, was to use a double-edged weapon of offensive warfare. How the Devil was gulld by a Scold(June, 1630) is in vol. ii. 366. Of better promise was The H iltshire Wedding.(For tune, see Popular JUusic, p. 146.). [These two ruts belong to p. 197.] 205 [Roxb. Coll., III. 286 ; Pepys, IV. 107 ; Jersey, II. 79 ; Douce, II. 256 verso.] Betintit Daniel Do-well anti Doll tfje BatrnvfHaiti. WLify theconsent of fyer olti jFatJ)Er. Leather-Coat, ano her Seat- ant) tenon:fHotfjer Plodwell. To an excellent [North-Country~\ Tune. [This maybe printed, A LI in a misty morning, so cloudy was the weather,I meeting with an old man, who was cloathed all in leather,With neer a Shirt unto his back, but woollen to his how do you do, and how do you do, and how do you do, again 9 The rustick was a Thresher, and on the way he hyd,And with a leather bottle fast buckled by his side;And with a cap of woollen, that coverd cheek and chin :With how do you do \_and how dyou do~\, etc. 16 I went a little farther, and there I met a Maid,Who was going then a milking, A-Milking, Sir, she I began to compliment, and she began to sing:With how do you do [and how dye do~\, etc. This
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