The maidens sad complaint for want of a husband. To the new Westcountry tune: or Hogh when shall I be married? / by L.W. L. W. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06751 of text R186108 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W79AA). 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 B06751 Wing W79AA ESTC R186108 52529358 ocm 52529358 179219 2240865622

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B06751) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179219) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2780:20) The maidens sad complaint for want of a husband. To the new Westcountry tune: or Hogh when shall I be married? / by L.W. L. W. 1 sheet ([2] p.) : ill. Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clark, [London] : [between 1674 and 1679] In verse. Caption title. Place and date range of publication from Wing. In two columns. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo The maidens sad complaint for want of a husband wherein she briefly doth declare, the want of a mate makes her despair: she hath her portion all in ho L. W 1674 1 602 7 0 0 0 0 0 116.28 F The rate of 116.28 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-06 Sampled and proofread 2008-12 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2009-12 Sampled and proofread 2009-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2010-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Maidens sad Complaint for want of a Husband Wherein she briefly doth declare , The want of a Mate makes her despair : She hath her portion all in Houshold goods Yet none of those that wear scarfs and Hoods . For she commends her self to any man , That will but please her all the best he can . To the new Westcountry Tune : Or Hogh when shall I be married ? by L. W.

O When shall I be married , hōgh be married ? My beauty begins to decay : 'T is time to find out somebody , hogh some body , Before it is quite gone away . My Father hath forty good shillings , hogh good shillings . And never a daughter but I : My mother is also willing , hogh so willing That I shall have all if she dye , I have gotten some money about me hogh about me For to help me in time of néed : Five shillings pray do not flout , me hogh not flout me For I will be married with spéed . My Father did give me a dish , hogh and a spoon . And a Table made of an old board : Some young men will for me with stord , hogh will wish When they hear how bravely I 'me

My Mother she gave me a Ladle hogh a Ladle And that for the present lies by , My aunt she hath promis● a cradle hogh a cradle When any man with me does ly . A pipain my Vnkle he gave me hogh he gave me And milk porrage in it to make : And I l let them burn too so bravely , hogh so bravely To shew that a flut I do hate . I have got two sp●…ns & a trencher , hogh a trencher With por●●●… 〈◊〉 made of clay : Some squires 〈…〉 is a wencher , hough a wencher I wish he would fetch me away . I have got a soft bed to ly on hough to ly on With fearchers an all long I say But the most of all my sorrow hough my sorrow Is for want of Batchellors play . Fine piggins & noggins my cozen hogh my cozen Has gave me that are so good : With taps and ●●●●ets a dozen hogh a dozen And a chamber pot made of wood . Thus young men I have declared hogh declared My household stuff which do ly by : These seven years I have despaired hogh despaired For fear I a maiden should dy . If any young man will have me hough will have me And no other maiden estéem I will maintain him bravely hogh so bravely And feast him with curds & cream . For I 'm a girle that 's willing hogh is willing To 〈◊〉 my maiden name : So with me he will be billing hogh he billing I don't care from whence he came . Then Thomas , Robbin or Willy , hogh or Willy Come any that is a man : Let be Ralph , or Jarvis silly hogh wise or silly Come love me as well as you can . If any one will me marry , hogh me marry I 'le love him wondrous well : For if longer I should tarry , hogh should tarry I fear I should lead Apes in tell

Printed for F. Cole , T. Vere , J. Wright and J. Clark .