An excellent new song, call'd, The praise of women. Or, Wine, women and musick. Being a playhouse song to a pleasant new tune. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B03186 of text R227938 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E3824A). 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 B03186 Wing E3824A Interim Tract Supplement Guide BR f 821.04 B49[49] 99887585 ocm99887585 182308 2240899869

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B03186) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182308) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A3:3[52]) An excellent new song, call'd, The praise of women. Or, Wine, women and musick. Being a playhouse song to a pleasant new tune. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : music. Printed and sold by Tho. Moore, London, : 1695. Verse: "How lovely's a woman before she's enjoy'd, when the spirits are strong, & the fancy not cloy'd ..." Printed in two columns. Imperfect: mutilated, affecting text. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng eebo An excellent new song, call'd, The praise of women. Or, Wine, women and musick. Being a playhouse song to a pleasant new tune. anon 1695 1 401 13 0 0 20 0 0 5311.72 F The rate of 5311.72 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-02 Sampled and proofread 2009-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
An Excellent New SONG , CALL'D , The Praise of Women . OR , Wine , Women and Musick ▪ Being a Playhouse Song to a pleasant New Tune .

HOw lovely's a Woman before she 's enjoy'd , when the Spirits are strong , & the Fancy not cloy'd , we admire ev'ry part , tho never so plain , which when throly possest we quickly disdain .

2 Each Lady we court , and begg they 'd be kind , And when they consent for to be of our Mind , We kiss and embrace and do what 's to be done , When their Beilies are full we leave them forlorn 3 All Women we see we do hope to enjoy , We think our selves happy if they prove not coy , Each Feature we praise and admire their parts , Tho' to the next Face we do proffer our hearts . 4 So drinking we love too just at the same rate , For when we are at it we foolishly prate ; What Acts we have done , and set up for Wit , But next Morning's Pains our Pleasures do quit . 5 We drink all the Morning both Coffe and Tea , And think there is none live more sober than we 'Till to dinner we move , then the glass must go round , Full Bumpers of Wine till our senses are drown'd . 6 Then about Midnight we reeling home go , And neither the Watchmen or Constable know Thus Wine make us valiant , for when we are dru●● We draw at each Man for a nasty Town 7 But Musicks a pleasure , that tires not s●●● 'T is pleasant in Morning , 't is welcome 〈…〉 'T is charming at Nights to sing Catc●e 〈…〉 It diverts our dull hours , and rejoyces o 〈…〉 8 But Musick alone , without Women a 〈…〉 Will govern but dully tho' never so fin 〈…〉 Therefore by consent we 'll enjoy them a 〈…〉 Wine and Musick for you , and the Women 9 For still of all pleasures there 's none can 〈…〉 To the Joys of a Woman that 's charmin● She diverts us all day with pleasing deli●●●… Then Raptures of Joy she yields all the N●●●●…

London , Printed and Sold by Tho. Moore . 1695.