[Jest, o]r, A Pretty iest of a bride and a bridegroome where the bridegroo[m] wa[s] most neately deceiued of his sweet- heart by a seruingman : to the tune of, Better late thriue then neuer. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A04406 of text S888 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 14524.5). 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. 3 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 A04406 STC 14524.5 ESTC S888 22923718 ocm 22923718 25915 2240893390

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A04406) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 25915) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1777:33) [Jest, o]r, A Pretty iest of a bride and a bridegroome where the bridegroo[m] wa[s] most neately deceiued of his sweet- heart by a seruingman : to the tune of, Better late thriue then neuer. 1 broadside : ill. G. Purslowe, [S.l. : ca. 1630] In double columns. Part of title suggested by STC (2nd ed.). Imprint suggested by STC (2nd ed.). Without music. Imperfect: cropped with loss of print. Reproduction of original in the Pepys Library. eng Ballads, English. eebo [ ... ]r, A Pretty iest of a bride and a bridegroome, where the bridegroo[m] wa[s] most neately deceiued of his sweet-heart by a seruingman. To the tu [no entry] 1630 1 476 29 0 0 0 0 0 609.24 F The rate of 609.24 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2002-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2002-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-11 Sampled and proofread 2002-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-12 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
●r , a pretty Iest of a Bride and a Bridegroome , where the Bridegroo● wa● most neately deceiued of his Sweet-heart by a Seruingman . To the Tune of , Better late thriue then neuer .
●Mongst all the creatures by sea land & Ayre , beleeue me I thinke there is no man , ● finde one that equally he may compare , 〈◊〉 lewd and vnconstant Woman : 〈◊〉 Mother beguiled the Daughter of l●●e , 〈◊〉 Daughter her Mother deceiu'd of her mate , 〈◊〉 now a strange story I meane to relate ●ow a rich Goldsmith was cozend ▪ was cozend 〈◊〉 how a rich Goldsmith was cozend . 〈◊〉 far hence of late a rich Goldsmith did dweil , honest reputation , ●ho in his rare skill did so many excell , ●●at he merited comendation , 〈◊〉 fell into loue with a rich mans Daughter , 〈◊〉 to win her affection he daily besought her , ●e gaue her consent , but she cozend him after , 〈◊〉 thus the rich Goldsmith she cozend , &c. ●hen he by his care and good ca●●iage at last , ●ad behauiour had won her affection , ●●d many deepe vowes betwixt them had past , 〈◊〉 make sure each others election : 〈◊〉 marke but a womans vnconstant behauiour , ●hen hee had assured her neuer to leaue her ▪ ●●d she had vow● faith til death did bereaue her , ●et she the rich Goldsmith did cozen , &c. The day was appoynted they maried would be , before a whole congregation , Their friends were inuited to witnes and see the end of this my relation : Neere London t'th Countrey as I doe heare , At an In was prepared both wine bread & beere , & for all their friends & acquaintance great cheer , and yet the rich Goldsmith she cozend , &c. The Goldsmith his faith & his promise did keepe which to the mans daughter be plighted , Wishing that the time might vanish like sleepe , his sences were so delighted , To thinke of the ioyes that in marriage bed was , Especially with such a delicate Lasse , But his Touch stone did prooue all his gold to be beasse for the Bride the rich Goldsmith did cozen , &c. When his expectation was come to an end , which was chiefely his marriage day , The iouiall Bridegroome with al his good friends came to fetch the mans Daughter away : but when he came ther he heard such heauy news That all outward ioyes he did wholy refuse , And all his good friends & acquaintance did muse , and grieu'd that the Goldsmith was cozend . and grieu'd that the Goldsmith was cozend .