A ship-load of waggery. Or, clouded merriment to please young men and maids. Maidens, here's long, and strong, both great and small; for one poor penny you may purchase all. To a new tune. Or Cloris awake. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B05848 of text R227378 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S3438). 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 B05848 Wing S3438 Interim Tract Supplement Guide EBB65H[89] 99887296 ocm99887296 182006 2264219719

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05848) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182006) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A2:4[89]) A ship-load of waggery. Or, clouded merriment to please young men and maids. Maidens, here's long, and strong, both great and small; for one poor penny you may purchase all. To a new tune. Or Cloris awake. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts). Printed for P[hilip]. Brooksby at the golden Ball in West Smithfield., [London] : [between 1670-1696] Verse: "A ship must have a steers-man ..." Date, place of publication and publisher's name from Wing. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University, Houghton Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo A ship-load of waggery. Or, clouded merriment to please young men and maids. Maidens, here's long, and strong, both great and small; for one poor penn anon 1696 1 509 2 0 0 0 0 0 39.29 D The rate of 39.29 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-06 Sampled and proofread 2008-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Ship-load of Waggery . OR , clouded Merriment to please young men and maids . Maidens , here 's long , and strong , both great and small ; For one poor Penny you may purchase all . To a New Tune . Or Cloris awake .

Cowrage

Fidelity

Piety

Loyalty

A Ship must have a Steers-man to steer her Course true , And a Maid must have a youngman to give her her — Top and Top gallant . A ship she Sails trimly , Maids , if they be not pleased , They 'l frown and look grimly . A Ship must have a Rudder to steer in the dark , And a Maid must have a youngman to hit at her — Top and Top gallant . A ship she sails &c. A Ship must have a Canon to keep off her Foes , And a Maid must have a youngman to take up her — Top and Top gallant . A ship she sails &c. A Ship must have a Boltsprit , with a Sprizen a cross , And a maid must have a youngman with a swinging long — Top & top gallant A ship she sails trimly , Maids , if they be not pleased , They 'l frown and look grimly .

A Ship must have a Buntlin to hawle up her Bunt , And a maid must have a youngman to tickle her — Top and Top gallant . A ship she sails trimly , Maids , if they be not pleased , They l frown and look grimly . A Ship must have a Mast ; a long , strong , and strait Stick , And a Maid must have a youngman with a lusty long — Top and Top gallant , A ship she &c. A Ship must be well Victuall'd with Meat without Bones , And a maid would have a youngman with a stout pair of — top and top gallants , A ship she &c. A Ship should have a Captain , her Men to command , And a maid would have a youngman to have his P—Top and Top gallant . A ship she &c. A Ship should have a Master to take in her freights , And a maid would have a youngman to saile in her — top and top gallant . A ship she sails &c. When a Ship is under saile we do wish her good luck , And a maid under a youngman we wish her a good — top and top gallant , A ship she &c. When a Ship comes into Port she must enter her Cockit , When a youngman comes to 'th fort he must enter , and — top and top gallant , A ship she sails trimly , Maids , if they be not pleased , They 'l frown and look grimly .

Printed for P. B●ooksby a●●he golden Ball in West Smithfield .