Wealthy farmers choice, or, The beautiful damosels fortunate marriage Fair beauty bright, was his delight, He would not wed for gold; in his loves face, each charming grace, his fancy did behold. To the tune of Cold and raw. This may be printed, R.P. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A96132 of text R227625 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W1187). 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 A96132 Wing W1187 ESTC R227625 99896976 99896976 136227 2240924651

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A96132) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 136227) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2468:12) Wealthy farmers choice, or, The beautiful damosels fortunate marriage Fair beauty bright, was his delight, He would not wed for gold; in his loves face, each charming grace, his fancy did behold. To the tune of Cold and raw. This may be printed, R.P. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts) Printed for J[osiah]. Blare, at the Looking-Glass on London-Bridge, [London] : [1687?] Place and date of publication and publisher's name from Wing CD-ROM, 1996. The words "Fair beauty bright ... his fancy did behold." are printed in two columns, gathered in between by a set of inverted brackets. Verse - "Near a pleasant shady grove,". Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, England. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Marriage -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. eebo The wealthy farmers choice, or, the beautiful damosels fortunate marriage. Fair beauty bright, was his delight, he would not wed for gold; in his love [no entry] 1683 2 572 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. 2007-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-07 Sampled and proofread 2007-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE Wealthy Farmers Choice , Or , The Beautiful Damosels Fortunate Marriage . Fair Beauty bright , was his delight , he would not Wed for Gold ; In his Loves Face , each Charming Grace , his Fancy did behold . To the Tune of Cold and Raw.

This may be Printed , R. P.

NEar a pleasant shady Grove , in prime of Summer weather , There a Young-man and his Love , was sitting close together ; In sugred words to her he speaks , saying , he 'd ne'r disgrace her , Then stroaking her fair Rosie Cheeks , he lovingly did Embrace her . Then he took her by the Hand , saying , I come to Wooe thee , I have Riches , House and Land , with which I will Endow thee : All that 's mine thou shalt enjoy , my Love and only Honey ; Then let us Kiss , and be not Coy , thou shalt not want for Money . Like a Lady fair and gay , my dear I will Attire , Therefore do not say him nay , who does you so admire : For ever since I saw your Eyes , I have been in care surrounded , O do not seem to Tyrannize , over a true Lover wounded .

He exprest his Loyalty , and proffer'd to advance her , But the Maid in Modesty , returned him this answer : Saying , my self i 'le not ingage , but reckon some years to tarry , I am not Sixteen years of Age , and therefore too young to Marry . Love , said he , I pray forbear , this seeming feigned Story , Youth and Beauty may compare , with Flora in her Glory : But pray what Man alive will wed , or in th' least come a Wooing , To Winters Snowy Frosty head , where Beauty is run to ruine ? Some Young Men will Court for Coyn and with Old Wives will Marry , But this is not my design , for fear I should miscarry : For i 'le not have one stich if Old , such Wives young Men ne'r pleases ; For I should have with bags of Gold , a thousand or two Diseases . But in thy sweet Charming Face , the Red Rose and the Lilly Does appear with such a Grace , the which has wounded Willy : I thee adore , my Dear , my Dove , might I have the choice of many , Give me the Lass I dearly love , tho' her Portion be not one Penny . I have Sheep and Lambs good store , and likewise Corn each Harvest , Yet if I had ten times more , it should be at thy service . She hearing what her Love did say , she presently consented , And they were Marry'd last Holiday , and now they live both contented . He having thus obtain'd the Prize , their joys are both compleated , Now they do to Riches rise , no Lovers better seated : Since she did willingly comply , there needed no Disputation , She is a Jewel in his Eye , and the Glory of all the Nation .

Printed for I. Blare , at the Looking-Glass on London-Bridge .