[The] wanton wenches of Wiltshire[.] Being a pleasant discourse between four young females, as they sat together in a convenient place to scatter their water, who being overheard by two young-men, occasioned the whole discovery of their discourse. Tune of, The maids a washing. This may be printed, R.P. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06741 of text R228639 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W719). 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 B06741 Wing W719 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.8[492] 99887939 ocm99887939 183595 2240889042

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B06741) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 183595) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A5:2[386]) [The] wanton wenches of Wiltshire[.] Being a pleasant discourse between four young females, as they sat together in a convenient place to scatter their water, who being overheard by two young-men, occasioned the whole discovery of their discourse. Tune of, The maids a washing. This may be printed, R.P. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts). Printed for J. Back, at the Black Boy on London-Bridge near the Draw-bridge., [London] : [between 1685-1688] Place and date of publication suggested by Wing. Verse: "Now young batchelors all draw near ..." Imperfect: trimmed at head with some loss of text. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo [The] wanton wenches of Wiltshire[.] Being a pleasant discourse between four young females, as they sat together in a convenient place to scatter thei anon 1688 1 701 5 0 0 0 0 0 71.33 D The rate of 71.33 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-01 Sampled and proofread 2009-03 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2009-04 Sampled and proofread 2009-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Wanton wenches of Wiltshire

Being a Pleasant Discourse between Fo●r young Females , as they Sat together in a convenient place to scatter their Water , who being over-heard by Two young-men , occasioned the whole Discovery of their Discourse .

Tune of , The Maids a Washing .

This may be printed ,

R. P.

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NOw young Batchelo●s all draw near , And you a pleasant Discourse shall here : Of four young Damsels all méeting & greeting Each other together in fair Wiltshire : All complain'd at a sorrowful rate , Because they could not enjoy a mate Whilst they made their sad pittiful moan They thought they were private and all alone . One said , I must depart a space , For here I am in a woful case , I find I 'm ready to scatter my water , Therefore I must find a convenient place , where no young man may see what I do , And then i 'le straight ways return to you ; But unto this they would no ways agree , They'd all go together for Company . Hand in hand then a way they go , Like loving Sisters all in a row , Two young men hearing their tattle & prattle , Resolved some more of this Gigg to know : Therefore watching them whither they went , These two young men by joynt consent , Both resolved in Ambush to lye , Where both words and actions they might descry .

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My sweet Sister , says one I find , Night and day such a pain in my mind , Because I am not the blessing possessing , Which I might enjoy if young men were kind , How I tremble while here I reveal The inward torments which now I feel , But yet in vain do I utter my grief , Since no one will yield me the least relief . Once I heard of a woman old , Whose face was wrinkl'd , and blood near cold , But yet I tell ye , she crying , replying The sorrow I suffer cannot be told ; You may easily guess at the cause , And need not stand very long to pause : Now if old Women such passion express , I hope a young Damosel can do no less . Said the Second , young sweet-fac'd John , You know he is a young lusty-man , I dearly love him , provoke him , and stroke him , Yet he will not Kiss me do what I can I have fed him with Custards and Cream , And all things that can pleasant seem ; Nay , call him my honey , my love and dear , And Yet I protest I am ne'r the near . Said the Third , I am pure Cole-black , And that you know has a dainty Smack , Besides , I know I am witty and pritty Then why should not I have those joys I 〈◊〉 Being youthful , and just in my prime , And loth to lose my Teeming time , Yet brisk young Gallants no kindness will What reason have I to be served so . Then the fourth did begin to prate , And that was bony , brisk bounsing Kate , Who did with fury , behold 'um and told ' That she was stark mad , for a man-lik● 〈◊〉 Tho' I 'm shorter then others may be Yet wherefore should this hinder me ? Behold I am of a delicate Brown , No Colour is better in all the Town . Nay , the worst of us all might serve , For surely Batchellors don't deserve To have our Favour who spight us , & slight And suffer poor Damsels to pine and starve ; But we 'l tattle no longer of this , So e'ry Sister sat down to P — — — — s , But yet before they had perfectly done , The Young-men they laught , & the Wenches

Printed for J. Back , at the Black Boy on London-Bridge near the Draw-Bridge .