Well met neighbour, or, A dainty discourse betwixt Nell and Sisse, of men that doe use their wives amisse, then all you good women their cases pitty, the cause you shall heare if you list to this ditty to the tune of Ragged and torne / M.P. M. P. (Martin Parker), d. 1656? This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A08990 of text S1616 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 19281). 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 2017 A08990 STC 19281 ESTC S1616 20236017 ocm 20236017 23884 2248559802

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A08990) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 23884) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1711:28) Well met neighbour, or, A dainty discourse betwixt Nell and Sisse, of men that doe use their wives amisse, then all you good women their cases pitty, the cause you shall heare if you list to this ditty to the tune of Ragged and torne / M.P. M. P. (Martin Parker), d. 1656? 1 broadside : ill. For Thomas Lambert, Printed at London : [1640?] Date of imprint suggested by STC (2nd ed.) In four columns. Without music. Reproduction of original in the University of Glasgow. Library. eng Ballads, English. A08990 S1616 (STC 19281). civilwar no VVell met neighbour: or, A dainty discourse betwixt Nell and Sisse, of men that doe use their wives amisse. Then all you good women their ca M. P 1640 2 1001 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-01 Sampled and proofread 2008-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Well met Neighbour : OR , A dainty discourse betwixt Nell and Sisse , of men that doe use their wives amisse : Then all you good women their cases pitty , the cause you shall heare if you list to this ditty .
To the tune of Ragged and Torne .
WHither away good neighbour , what makes you to trudge so fast ? I 'm going to Margeryes Labour , I 'm sent for in very great hast : Yet for all this your spéed , I pray you goe softly a while , For I haue a thing in my head that will hold us talking a mile : Heard you not lately of Hugh , how soundly his wife he bangd , He beat her black and blew O such a Rogue would be hangd . I st possible neighbour Sisse , that they doe no better agrée ? Nay I haue more newes then this of others as bad as he : And séeing wée both goe one way , wée 'l giue to our hast some scope , Though you from the labour doe stay shée l doe well enough I hope : Know you not Laurence the Miller . O he is as good as ere twangd , His wife sayes he threatens to kill her , O such a Rogue would be hangd . O fye on these dastardly Knaues , for those that will beate their wiues They dare not with swords or staues méet men in the field for their liues : But if that my husband should not vse mée so well as he ought , My hands I should hardly hold for i de giue him as good as he brought : But know you not Kett the Baker o he is as good as ere twangd , Hée threatens his wife to forsake her . O such a Rogue would be hangd . Why what is his reason for that ? in troth neighbour I doe not know , But when hée s drunke as a Rat , then shée l act the part of a shrow : Tush , that s such a catching disease few women their silence can kéepe , Let euery one say what they please but a shrew 's better then a shéepe : But know you not Ralph the plummer , I hée is as good as ere twangd : He walkes with a wench euery summer O such a Rogue would be hangd . What does his poore wife the meane while ? at home she doth sadly remaine , And at his returne she will smile , and louingly him entertaine : In troth then he serues her but right , but if that it were my case , The wench that hée kept but one night , should goe with no nose on her face : But know you not Sam the Turner , o hée is as good as ere twangd , He throws his wife i' th fire to burn her O such a Rogue would be hangd .
The second part , To the same tune .
I Pray you how happened that , what should be the cause of this strife ? A man brought a new Beauer hat , vnto his next neighbours wife , And she spoke vnto her good man , to buy such another for her , Which made him to curse and to ban , and thus began all the stir . But know you not Franke the Glouer , o he is as good as ere twangd , His wife sayes he doth not loue her , O such a Rogue would be hangd . But what doe you thinke's the occasion that separates them in affection ? Hée s led by a queanes perswasion to bring his poore wife in subiection , Should my good man vse me thus I 'de feritt both him and his minion , To loue them that loue not us is folly in my opinion : But know you not Ned the painter ? o he is as good as ere twangd , Hée s turnd a great Tauern haunter O such a Rogue would be hangd . This séemes a great wonder to mée , and a thing which I hardly can think For lately so strict was he , that you hardly could get him to drink Tush , that s a thing commonly séene , there s many that séeme so ciuill : In a place conuenient haue béene as bad as who 's most euill : But know you not Stephen the weauer o he is as good as ere twangd , Has deceiu'd my maide , now héel leaue her O such a Rogue would be hangd . Why neighbour I hope you but iest , has he your maid Nan beguild ? T is true neighbour Nell I protest , and I doubt now she will run wild : T is pitty that maids are so kind to trust them that are so fickle , For now you may well vnderstand she is left in a very bad pickle : But know you not George the felmonger o he is as good as ere twangd , He let his first wife dye for hunger , O such a Rogue would be hangd . In sadnesse neighbour Sisse you haue made me my time oreslip , If Margery should doe amisse 't would make mée to bite my lip : And therefore in hast farewell . o Margery now I come , Adiew swéet neighbour Nell , hush , say no more but mum . For staying from Madge t is true , I confesse I deserue to be bangd : And this is all long of Hugh , O such a Rogue would be hangd .
M. P. FINIS .

Printed at London for Thomas Lambert .