Advice to young gentlemen, or, An answer to The ladies of London to the tune of, The ladies of London. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A26474 of text R56 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing A666). 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. 4 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 A26474 Wing A666 ESTC R56 12623759 ocm 12623759 64601 2264226741

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A26474) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 64601) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 339:27) Advice to young gentlemen, or, An answer to The ladies of London to the tune of, The ladies of London. 1 sheet ([2] p.) : ill. Printed for J. Back ..., London : [1690?] "This may be printed, R. P." Date of publication from BM. eng Songs, English -- Texts. Ballads, English -- England. Bawdy poetry -- England. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo Advice to young gentlemen; or, an answer to the ladies of London, to the tune of, The ladies of London. This may be printed, R.P. [no entry] 1682 1 573 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. 2003-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2003-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-10 Sampled and proofread 2003-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-12 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
ADVICE To Young Gentlemen ; OR , An Answer to the LADIES of LONDON . To the Tune of , The Ladies of London .

This may be Printed , R. P.

ALl Iolly Blades that Inhabit the Town , And with the fair Sex are contriving , From the Gay Fop , to the honest bred Clown , be advisd to resolve against Wiving ; Let not a prospect of Pleasure delude , where so many Plagues are attending , For 't is the Nature of Wives to Obtrude , and Miseries heap without ending First , have a care of the Lady precise , who exclaims against Drinking and Roaring , That privately turns up the Whites of her Eyes and in publick abominates Whoring But if you Coach her a mile out of Town and quote her but Solomon's Uices ; With a slight trip you may tumble her down , though seeming she modestly nice is . Let no City-Girl your Freedom beguile , shee 'l cheat you with modest behaviour , Who sits like a Rabbit trust up for to boil , and swears she 's a Maid by her Saviour : But if you cunningly manage your Plot , you 'l quickly be admitted under ; Her coy behaviour will soon be forgot , shee 'l breath out her Soul in a slumber .

The Widdow avoid where Pollicy lurks pretending to act by her Conscience That 's black as the Devil and large as a Turk's shee 'l tease you to Death with her Nonsense : But if you love her and long for a Bout , you ne'r must stand mincing the matter , Brush her with Iollitry briskly about , and down with your Britches and at her . Let not the Country wench that is coy , insinuate into your favour For when she knows what it is to enjoy she quickly will change her behaviour : Turn an insatiate Miss of the Town , to purchase Gallants shee 'l endeavour ; Pawn from her Carcase her Paragon Gown to maintain the curteous Pleasure . But if your Uigor a Wife doth require and will not admit of forbearing ; Any may serve for to quench your desire , ther 's no Barrel the better Herring . When you have ty'd the true Lovers Knot 't is one of the Curses depending To Father a brood you never half got , without any further contending .

When the Wifes brought a Bed , least the Cucko grow in the Midwife she makes an Oration And cryes the poor Infant is so like the Dad 't is worthy of your Observation ; Whilst the good Woman is pleased in her heart to hear them so Err in their chatting , Knowing her Husband and she was a-part when Bully , the Boy was a getting . Now how to avoid so heavy a Curse , I do like a Brother advise ye , Never to take her for better for worse , if you do , by my troth you 'r a Nisey , For you without may get her consent and ne'r make half that Puther Then when she 's false , or her Portion is spent you may change and make choice of another .

LONDON .

Printed for I. Back , at the Black Boy near Draw-Bridge on London-Bridge .