A new ballad, containing a communication between the carefull wife, and the comfortable husb[and] touching the common cares and charges of house-hold This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A03188 of text S114839 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 1331). 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. 5 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 2017 A03188 STC 1331 ESTC S114839 99850062 99850062 15246 2240894628

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A03188) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 15246) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 871:15) A new ballad, containing a communication between the carefull wife, and the comfortable husb[and] touching the common cares and charges of house-hold 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. for F. Cowles, [London : c. 1640] Imprint from STC. Verse - "How shall we good husband now live this hard yeare,". Printed on same sheet with STC 13852. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Husband and wife -- Songs and music -- Early works to 1800. A03188 S114839 (STC 1331). civilwar no A new ballad, containing a communication between the carefull wife, and the comfortable husb[and] touching the common cares and charges of h [no entry] 1640 1 904 13 0 0 0 0 0 144 F The rate of 144 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2002-05 Assigned for keying and markup 2002-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-08 Sampled and proofread 2002-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-10 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A new Ballad , containing a communication between the carefull Wife , and the comfortable Husb touching the common cares and charges of House-hold .
The carefull Wife . HOw shall we good husband now live this hard yeare , T●is world is so queasie and all things so deare : And so little taking of money for ware , Makes me lye waking with no little care . Then had you néed Husband to looke to the Foxe , Whose cr●fty conveyance will empty your boxe : With faire fawning speeches some credit to crave , Or else to bee surety for more then you have . Then Husband bée carefull and not over large , For unto Hous-keeping there longeth a charge : In wiving and thriving it is an old song , More then the bare legs to bed doe belong . What you spend on mee , I take for my paine , For doing such duties as you would disdaine : For dressing your dyet , in washing and wringing , And much paines I take man , with faite babies bringing . And what you doe get , Sir that will I save , What better good will in a Wife can you have ? Be sure of my promise , for better , for worse , I will be a huswife to husband your purse . I must provide , man , for many an odde thing , That you ne●●r looke to buy or to bring : To welcom● your neighbours , your Nurse and your friend , To furnish a houshold longs many an odde end . What néed , man , such odding betwixt you and me ? All shall bée even , man , if wée two agree : Even you my good husband , and I your good wife , Will passe this hard yeere , man without any strife , And I for my part will doe what I may , With Spinning and Reeling to passe time away , Providing and getting to pay for my fla●e : That none shall come chatting to you for such la●ks . As iust as you will , man , I will be content , Pay you the Brewer , and the Landlord his rent . The Butcher , the Baker , and the Collier his score , And then the Woodmonger and I aske no more , Then a good Newyéers gift , good husband give mée , And a good Newyéers gift I doe give thée , Thou hast a good wife , that a huswife will bee , Both this yeare and many to bee merry with thée .
The comfortable Husband . WIfe , as wee get little , so temper our dyet , With any small morsell to live and be quiet , Though home be but homely and never so poo● Yet let us keepe warily the Wolfe from the doore , 〈◊〉 there lay a str●● , wife , I am not so mad , We●l ●ard is well sold , wife , a man may be glad , With any light gaine to fill up the purse , Meane state to maintaine , but not make it worse , I know it is true , goodwife , that you say , He that doth marry , m●●t cast much away : For looke wh●tsoever I spend upon you , Comes never againe ( wife ) I thinke this is true , Loo●e what you would have , Wife , let mée know , I grutch not at any thing that you bestow . Be content and pleased , lacke shall bée no let : I le see your cares eased as fast as I get . But looke no more in wife , then I looke without , You looke in my purse , wife , too often I doubt , But when you looke in would you bring in as fast Then though you still look'd , the longer 't would last , Upon the odds , wife , I perceive still you goe , With the oddes I have gotten a verry odde shrow : The oddes may sometimes , wife , make a faire lay , And the oddes may hazard to make all away . A merry new life , makes a merry beginning , Let goe this is past , wife , be it losing or winning , I will play the good husband the best that I can , To live with good credit and pay every man , Then shall wee lacke nothing , wife I doe beleeve , Nor no man shall take you or me by the sleeve , For scoring , or tallying , or taking on trust , But cleare quittance making is ioyfull and iust . That I shall doe , wife , with a very good will , To pay that I owe my meaning is still : And shall have to pay , I hope while I live , What old yeare affords not , the new yeere will give , God grant it bee true all this that you say , To his onely glory , to whom let us pray , That wee in his feare may seeme to amend Our former sinnes passed unto our lives end .