A new delightful ballad called, Debauchery scared; or, The beggar wench turn'd into a devil, together with the pollicy of bumpkin; giving a peasant account of commical passages between a country gentleman, and a London beggar-wench. Tune of, Ladies of London. This may be printed, R.P. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B04559 of text R228182 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing N616). 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 B04559 Wing N616 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.8[101] 99887671 ocm99887671 183294 2240880578

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B04559) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 183294) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A5:2[85]) A new delightful ballad called, Debauchery scared; or, The beggar wench turn'd into a devil, together with the pollicy of bumpkin; giving a peasant account of commical passages between a country gentleman, and a London beggar-wench. Tune of, Ladies of London. This may be printed, R.P. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts). Printed for J. Bissel at the Bible and Harp near the hospital-gate in West-smithfield., [London] : [between 1687-1696] Verse: "A country gentleman came up to Town ..." Place and date of publication suggested by Wing. Trimmed. Imperfect: stained, with slight loss of text. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo A new delightful ballad called, Debauchery scared; or, The beggar wench turn'd into a devil, together with the pollicy of bumpkin; giving a peasant ac anon 1696 1 578 2 0 0 0 0 0 34.6 C The rate of 34.6 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-09 Sampled and proofread 2008-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A New delightful Ballad , Called , Debauchery Scared ; OR , THE Beggar wench turn'd into a Devil , Together with the Pollicy of Bumpkin ;

Giving a peasant Account of Commical Passages between a Country Gentle man , and a London Beggar-wench .

Tune of , Ladies of London .

This may be printed , R. P.

A Country Gentleman came up to Town , to taste the delights of the City , Who had to his Servant a jocular Clown , accounted to be very witty : His master one night got drunk as a Rat , and swore he would turn him away Sir , Left he would get him a bit for his Cat , and into his Chamber convey her . Some jolly Dame he was willing to have , and gave to his Bumpkin a Guiney , Who had the wit not to give it , but save the far better part of the money ; To find out a Punck , he walkt in the street , and backwards and forwards kept trudging ; At last a young beggar wench he did meet , who was in great want of a Lodging :

Sweet-heart ( said he ) if thou'it give thy consent to go home , and lye with my master , I 'll give thee half a Crown for thy content , and save thee from any disaster : It being late , she fearing the watch , Besides it was very cold weather ; 〈…〉 hat they quickly both made up the match , and trudg'd to his master together . Bumpkin was arth , as he homewards did come he gave her a bout by the way Sir ; Then to his master he carried her home , who in a dark Chamber lay sir : He bid her be sure let his master not know , by any means she was a muniper , But bid her to rise before day-light , and go , or Ad-swounds he would heartily thump her . Bumpkin his 〈◊〉 to the Chamber he led , and then to his Bed look his way sir , She quickly undrest , and gropt into the Bed , and close to the Gentleman lay sir , Eager of Ioy , he gave her a Kiss , and hug'd her with flaming desire : The Gentleman swore that she smell'd so of Cheese he could not indure to lye by her . He bid her get up to a place in the room , where a Bottle stood of Rose-water , And wash her Face to take away the fume , then come into Bed again after ; A Bottle of Ink there happen'd to stand , and for the Rose-water she took it , Pouring a spoonful out into her hand , and over her face she did stroak it . Then to their Ioys they eagerly fell , till at last it began to be Light sir , Then looking he thought her the Devil of Hell , and ran out of Bed in a fright sir ; Crying , the Devil , the Devil was there , she being affrighted ran after , In a tatter'd old smock , crying where is he where which put all the street in a laughter .

Printed for I. Bissel at the Bible and Harp near the Hospital-Gate in West-Smithfield .