A Batchelers resolution, or, Have among you now, widowes or maydes ... to the tune of The blazing torch. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A00942 of text S3096 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 1105.5). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A00942 STC 1105.5 ESTC S3096 33142627 ocm 33142627 28155 2240925513

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A00942) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28155) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1862:40) A Batchelers resolution, or, Have among you now, widowes or maydes ... to the tune of The blazing torch. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. A. Mathewes? [S.l. : 1629?] Publisher and date suggested by STC (2nd ed.). Contains three illustrations. Right half of sheet contains "The second part. To the same tune." Imperfect: stained, creased and torn, with loss of print. Best copy available for photographing. Reproduction of original in: Pepys Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- London (England) -- 17th century. eebo A Batchelers resolution. Or haue among you now, widowes or maydes,For I come a woing as fancie perswades. I must haue a wife, be she older or younger, [no entry] 1629 2 1081 26 0 0 0 1 0 240.52 F The rate of 240.52 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2002-11 Assigned for keying and markup 2002-12 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-01 Sampled and proofread 2003-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Batchelers Resolution . OR Haue among you now , Widowes or Maydes , For I come a woing as Fancie perswades . I must haue a Wife , be she Older or Younger , For I cannot , nor will not lye alone any longer . To the tune of , The Blazing Torch .

A Batchelour I haue béene long , and had no minde to marry , But now I finde it did me wrong that I so long did tarry , Therefore I will a wooing ride , there 's many married younger , Where shall I goe to s●ke a Bride ? I le lye alone no longer . So many sinnes are incident vnto a single life , That I all danger to preuent with spéede will seeke a Wife ; If I with Women chance to drinke I 'me call'd a ●utton-monger , But now I le stop their mouthes I thinke And lye alone no longer . O Fate send me a handsome Lasse that I can fancy well , For Portion I le not greatly passe , though Money heares the bell ▪ Loue now adayes with Gold is bought but I 'me no Money-monger . Giue mee a Wife , though shee 's worth nought I le lye alone no longer . Yet if she chance to prooue a Slut , a Scold , or else a Whore , That could not chuse but be a cut , and 〈◊〉 me very sore , A Slut would make me loath my meate were I halfe dead with hunger , But I must leaue this fond conceate , And lye alone no longer . What if she should a Wanton be , a 〈…〉 ake my forehead ake ? Oh that would be a griefe to me , such wrongs few men will take , For iealousie is of such force , no passion can be stronger , But be she better , be she worse , I le lye alone no longer . If iealous she shall be of me , that were as great a spight , Then should we seldome quiet be , but quarrell day and night , She 'd thinke my loue from her did range though I nere meant to wrong her , Yet this shall not my humour change , I le lye alone no longer . What shall I doe to chuse a wife in euery thing compleate ? Should I in searching spend my life , i'would prooue a taske to great , No Man can finde a Woman so , the older nor the younger , I le take my chance as others doe , And lye alone no longer . Yet will I chuse the best I can , ●oue send me luck in chusing , And craue the counsell of some man whose counsels worth the vsing : If she prooue good I shall be glad , and vow I le neuer wrong her , Yet am resolued good or bad To lye alone no longer .
The second Part. To the same tune .

I●e be contented with my lot , How euer it befall , Yet if she prooue a drunken sot , ●●●ill grieue me worst of all , Then I my selfe must drinke small-béere , and she must drinke the stronger , Though 't cost me twenty pounds a yeare , I le lye alone no longer . This is the onely time I know , for Young-men to get Wiues , Thou say that Maides and Widowes now fo● Husbands daily striues , The●●●ore I shall be quickly sped , sith both for Husbands hunger , with any man th●yle quickly wed , They le lye alone no longer . Be shee a widdow or a Maiyde , I doe not greatly passe , A withered Crone whose bla●d's decayde , or a young li●ely Lasse : One that is rich or one that 's poore , a feeble , or a stronger : An honest woman or a whore , I le lye alone no longer . But ye● if I 〈◊〉 choice may haue a Mayde ●ould b● my wife , I would not be a Widowes slaue , I de rather loose my life : If I should wed a Widow old , I ●ad better take a younger , For Widowes will not be contrould , Yet I can stay no longer . If she should haue a stinking breath I neuer should abide her , For tha● to me is worse then death , I had rather touch a Spider : But that s a fault may soone be smelt , s●e Aiax smels no stronger : ●efore I●e take one with such fault , 〈◊〉 lye alone yet longer If shée chance to prooue a Scould , her tongue will bréede my strife , Then I must looke to be contrould , and curbed by my Wife : A Scould of women is the worst , she le force a man to wrong her : Therefore I le try all humors first , And lye alone no longer . Some men perhaps may wonder , why my minde runnes so on Marriage , To him that askes me , I reply , 't is for my honest carriage : For liue a young man nere so chaste , he 's counted a Whoremonger : Therefore I le get a Wife in haste , And lye alone no longer . Although my Wife be none o th best , yet I must be content : I shall as well speede as the rest , whith 'bout this action went : I am not first that matched ill , therefore it is no wonder : I le keepe my resolution still , And lye alone no longer . I trust I shall with one be sped , that doth deserue my loue : If I with such a Woman wed , I sweare by mighty loue , That ere she any thing should 〈◊〉 I le suffer colde and hunger : Though she had scant cloathes I de lye alone no longer . You that my resolution hear iudge whether I deserue To haue a Wife that loue and would my will obser● Were she a Widdow or a 〈◊〉 an Elder , or a Younger My Wedding should not be