Roger the West-Country lad, set forth in his proper shape, or, The West-Country lasses sweet-heart described in answer to the well-shaped country lass to the tune of Cavalilly man. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A70949 of text R41666 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing R1793). 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. 7 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 A70949 Wing R1793 ESTC R41666 31355742 ocm 31355742 110643 2288753860

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A70949) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 110643) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1752:11) Roger the West-Country lad, set forth in his proper shape, or, The West-Country lasses sweet-heart described in answer to the well-shaped country lass to the tune of Cavalilly man. 1 sheet ([1] p.). James Gilbertson and W. Conyers, [London] : [between 1680 and 1695] This item appears on the left half of sheet containing also, on right half, Wing (2nd ed.) V639. Includes music. "Licensed according to order." Imperfect: faded, with loss of print. Reproduction of original in Magdalene College Library, University of Cambridge. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- London (England) -- 17th century. eebo Roger, the West-Country lad, set forth in his proper shapes, or, The West-Country lasses sweet-heart described, in answer to the well-shap'd country l [no entry] 1680 1 545 0 0 0 20 0 0 3669.72 F The rate of 3669.72 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-12 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-01 Sampled and proofread 2009-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
ROGER ▪ The West-Country Lad. Set forth in his proper SHAPES . OR , THE WEST-Country Lasses Sweet-heart Described , in Answer to the Well-shap'd Country Lass . To the Tune of Cavalilly Man .

Licensed according to Order .

HIe hoe , pray what shall I doe ? My Sweet-heart is gone I cannot tell how , He 's like to Old Nick , and give him his due , And this is my Love , do you like him hoe ? I 'm sure he has got a goodly burnt Face , He looks like to Cain , or one of his Race , And a Halter wou'd set him off with a good grace And this is my Love , do you like him ho ? He has a fine Nose that is like to a Bottle , But it bends somewhat downwards and covers his Throttle , 'T is partly green colour'd , & partly 't is mottle , And this is my Love , &c. His Teeth , like a Checquer , is all black & red , And stands very handsomely in his Calves-head Which makes me full often the thoughts of him dread , And this is my Love , &c. His mouth it is narrow , being square a yard long His Breath it is scented , and that very strong , It smells like a Turd when you stir in it long , And this is my Love , &c. The Hair of his Head its colour is red , But it looks very gray having Nits in his Head , And where there is Nits there is Lice it is said , And this is my Love , &c. I spies him by chance the last Wednesday Morn , A Combing his Hair with a Comb made of Horn And I think such a lousie Rogue never was born And this is my Love , &c. His Throat it is like the Ditch near to the Fleet , But it is not so handsome , nor scarce so sweet , And I 'm sure he can swallow a Bashel of Wheat , And this is my Love , &c. His Body is Crooked more every day And his Legs they are both often turn'd the wrong way , Which makes him look wonderfull handsome and gay , And this is my Love , &c. His Legs are small as the Post of a Mill , I think it is true , believe it who will , But his Arse I am sure a great Cauldron will fill , And this is my Love , &c. Last night in a nasty old Bed he Pigg'd in , His Feet in his Mouth all beshit to his Skin , He look'd like a Monster and fiercely did Grin , And this is my Love , &c. And now my good Neighbours I swear by my say I 'm afraid that some of you will steal him away But I hope you 'll return him again the next day If you like not my dearest Love hye ho ,

Printed for James Gilbertson , and G. Conyers .