Tom Farthing: or The married vvomans complaint. To a new tune, well known by the same name. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06160 of text R228582 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T1783). 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 B06160 Wing T1783 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.8[447] 99887903 ocm99887903 183561 2240896405

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06160) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 183561) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A5:2[352]) Tom Farthing: or The married vvomans complaint. To a new tune, well known by the same name. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts). Printed for P. Prooksby [sic], at the Golden-ball, near the Hospital-gate, in West-smithfield., [London] : [1675?] Place and date of publication suggested by Wing. Verse: "Tom Farthing, Tom Farthing ..." Trimmed. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo Tom Farthing: or The married vvomans complaint. To a new tune, well known by the same name. anon 1675 1 646 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. 2008-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-10 Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Tom Farthing : OR , The Married Womans Complaint . To a New Tune , well known by the same Name .

Tom Farthing , Tom Farthing , Where hast thou bin ? Tom Farthing ? Twelve a clock e're thou come in , Four or five e're thou begin , Lye all night and do nothing , 'T would make a woman weary , weary , 'T would make a women weary . Hadst thou bin a lively Lad , And gi'n me part of what thou d'st had , It would have made my heart full glad : And made me wondrous merry , merry , And made , &c. But thou art a Country clown , Sometimes up and sometimes down ; Still doing what was never yet done , 'T would make a woman , sorry , sorry , 'T would , &c. Tom Farthing , Tom Farthing , Thou bungler art , Tom Farthing , Was ever Woman fumbled so , With always bobbing too and fro , Now too high , and now too low , 'T would make a woman weary , weary , 'T would &c. If thou hadst but held me to 't , With hip and lip , and leg and foot , Besides the other thing to boot , 'T would have made me wondrous merry , merry , 'T would , &c. But rivel'd up like Chitterlin , Thou' rt sometimes out and , sometimes in And all thou dost's not worth a pin , Which makes me wondrous sorry , sorry , Which makes me wondrous sorry .
The second Part , to the same Tune .

TOm Farthing , Tom Farthing , Thou mak'st me mad , Tom Farthing , 'T was not for this I did thee wed , Nor brought thee to my marriage bed , But 't was to lose my Maiden-head , Of which i 'm wondrous weary , weary , Of which I am wondrous weary . Could'st thou once but do the feat , And shew thy self to be no cheat , My very heart with joy would beat , And 't would make me wondrous merry , merry , And &c. But by thy side thou idle droan , I lie like one that lies alone , And remedy I can get none , Which makes me wondrous sorry sorry , Which makes me wondrous sorry . Tom Farthing , Tom Farthing , Farewel , farewel , Tom Farthing , Since by thee it can't be done , I 'le now go pick of anothers bone , For meat from thee I can get none , Which makes me wondrous weary , weary Which &c. And though a Womans such , you cry , That no one can her wants supply , I 'le find out one shall satisfie ; And make me wondrous merry , merry , And &c. For since thou never yet hast don 't I 'le bid no more , a pox upon 't , But venture let what will come on 't , And never more be sorry sorry , And &c. Tom Farthing , Tom Farthing , A warning be Tom Farthing , Hence forward that no woman take , A Fumbler for Tom Farthings sake : Unless she will him Cuckold make , For he 'l make her damnable wearry , weary For he 'l make , &c. But if a Husband must be had , Try him first or else you 'r mad , Then should he prove a capering Lad , He 'l make you wondrous merry , merry , And of him you 'l ne'r be weary .
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Printed for P. Prooksby , at the Golden-hall , near the Hospital-gate , in West-smithfield .