Buxom Joan of Lymas's love to a jolly sailer: or, The maiden's choice: being love for love again. To an excellent new play-house tune. Congreve, William, 1670-1729. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B02347 of text R227630 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C5846). 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. 3 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 B02347 Wing C5846 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.39.k.6[61] 99887440 ocm99887440 182147 2248540586

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B02347) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182147) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A3:1[61]) Buxom Joan of Lymas's love to a jolly sailer: or, The maiden's choice: being love for love again. To an excellent new play-house tune. Congreve, William, 1670-1729. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : music. printed for P[hilip]. Brooksby, at the Golden-ball, in Pye-corner., London: : [between 1693-1695] Attributed to William Congreve by Wing. Date of publication and publisher's name from Wing. Verse: "A soldier and a sailer ..." Printed in two columns. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo Buxom Joan of Lymas's love to a jolly sailer: or, The maiden's choice: being love for love again. To an excellent new play-house tune. Congreve, William, 1695 1 520 0 0 0 10 0 0 1923.08 F The rate of 1923.08 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-07 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
Buxom Joan of Lymas's Love to a jolly Sailer : OR , The Maiden's Choice : Being LOVE for LOVE again . To an excellent new Play-house Tune .

A Soldier and a Sailer , A Tinker and a Tailer , Had once a doubtful strife , Sir To make a Maid a Wife , Sir , Whose name was buxome Joan. Whose name was buxome Joan , For now the time was ended , When she no more intended To lick her lips at Men , Sir , and gnaw the sheets in vain , Sir , And lye o'nights alone , And lye o'nights alone . The Soldier swore like thunder , He lov'd her more than plunder ; And shew'd her many a scar , Sir , Which he had brought from far , Sir , With fighting for her sake . With fighting , &c. The Tailor thought to please her , With off'ring her his Measure : The Tinker too with mettle , Said he could mend her kettle , And stop up e'ry leak . And stop , &c. But while those three were prating , The Sailer slyly waiting ; Thought if it came about , Sir , That they should all fall out , Sir , He then might play his part . He then , &c. And just e'en as he meant , Sir , To Logger-heads they went , Sir , And then he let fly at her , A shot 'twixt wind and water , Which won this fair Maid's heart . Which won , &c. The Souldier being frustrate , Like Boreas lowdly bluster'd , And wou'd have satisfaction , For such a treach'rous action , Done by the cunning Tar , Done by , &c. But he aboard his Pinace , Ne'er fear'd the Bully's menace , But lustily he ply'd , Sir , Against both wind and tide , Sir , Like any Man of War , Like any , &c. The Tailer holdly vows too , He 'll serve him like a Louse too , And with his bloody shears , Sir , Will out off both his ears , Sir , For stealing of his Love , For stealing , &c. But he his end had compast , And laugh'd at Bodkin's bombast ; Still pointing right his needle , He launch'd into the middle ; She tost and heav'd ; he drove , She tost , &c. Then , next , the Man of mettle Began to beat his Kettle , And swore , that ( with a pox ) he Would thump him and his doxy , If ever he came near , If ever , &c. But still the merry Sailer , Defy'd Buff , Brass , and Tailer , Whilst , in his jolly mood , her He manag'd with his rudder , And right his course did stear , And right , &c.

LONDON : Printed for P ▪ Brooksby , at the Golden-Ball , in Pye-corner .