The unfortunate fortunate marry'd-man This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A64707 of text R220728 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing U54A). 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. 2 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 A64707 Wing U54A ESTC R220728 99832120 99832120 36591 2240908601

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A64707) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 36591) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2100:31) The unfortunate fortunate marry'd-man 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1700?] Verse - "Jack met his friend Dick, and some compliments past,". Place of publication and date conjectured by Wing. Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo The unfortunate fortunate marry'd-man. [no entry] 1700 1 365 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. 2008-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-08 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE UNFORTUNATE Fortunate Marry'd-Man . JACK met his Friend Dick , and some Compliments past , He said , by the by , he had marry'd at last . That 's well , quoth his Friend , — No not so well neither , For none but the Dev'l cou'd link us together ; Her Tongue , without ceasing , by Night or by Day , As loud as a Tempest , as rough as the Sea ! Poor Jack I lament thee , so hard is thy Fate ! No , not so hard neither , — I got with my Kate A Brace of good Thousands ; and thus Men of Skill , By gilding , can swallow the bitterest Pill Then Matters are better by far than I thought . No , Sir , — When you hear of the Bargain I bought , I laid it all out in some Sheep , like a Sot ; And they all took the Scab , and they dy'd of the Rot. Alas , I lament thee , — For better for worse ! Thy Wife and thy Money have both prov'd thy Curse . No , not so bad neither ; I made up what 's lost : For I got for the Skins quite as much as they cost . O ho did you so , — then your Losses are easy . And were your dear Katy but so , how 't would please ye ! No , not quite so easy , two Thousand good Pound , I gave for a House , which is burn'd to the Ground . Then Dick I lament thee , thou' rt ruin'd for Life . No , not so bad neither , — It burn'd my Wife .

The AUTHOR of this has a very compleat Collection of Matrimony-Stories , and intends if this meets with a favourable Reception , to oblige the Publick with 253 more .

* All Persons of what Degree soever , are desired to send their Curtain-Lectures , totidem verbis , to the Printer hereof , and they shall be translated into Verse of the same Kind .