A young man put to his shifts: or, The ranting young mans resolution, wherein is show'd how young wenches he doth please and of their heavy burdens he doth them ease, with cunning tricks he their fancies up doth feed and they him relieve when he doth stand in need. To the tune of, Cupids Trappan. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06771 of text R228730 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing Y108). 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. 6 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 B06771 Wing Y108 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.8[548] 99887968 ocm99887968 183634 2240898140

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B06771) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 183634) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A5:2[425]) A young man put to his shifts: or, The ranting young mans resolution, wherein is show'd how young wenches he doth please and of their heavy burdens he doth them ease, with cunning tricks he their fancies up doth feed and they him relieve when he doth stand in need. To the tune of, Cupids Trappan. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts). Printed for W. Thackeray, T. Passenger, and W. Whitwood., London : [167-?] Date of publication suggested by Wing. Verse: "Of late did I hear a young damsel complain ..." Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Broadsides -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800. Man-woman relationships -- Early works to 1800. Ballads -- England -- 17th century. eebo A young man put to his shifts: or, The ranting young mans resolution, wherein is showd how young wenches he doth please and of their heavy burdens he anon 1675 2 984 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. 2008-02 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
A young Man put to his Shifts : Or , The Ranting young mans Resolution , Wherein is showd how young Wenches he doth please And of their heavy burdens doth them ease , With cunning tricks he their fancies up doth feed And they him relieve when he doth stand in need . To the Tune of , Cupids Trappan .

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I Count him a noddy that can't win a Maid , to buckle to bow , and so bend , And if he stands in need to do a good deed , & to give him some mony in hand , brave boys and to , &c. Tho maidens do seem coy on 't they long till they ha 't either Mary , Sue , Bridget or Nan. If they were put to their choice for to ly alone they had rather to lye with a man brave boys they had &c. For dayly and hourely full often it is seen what Maiden 't is will lye alone . If she han't a husband when she is fifteen , she thinks she shall never have none brave boys she thinks , &c. So it doth appear how hasty they are the fruits of love for to tast , It makes their great belly the truth for to tell ye they 've been a clipping a man about'h wast brave boys they 've , &c. Their 's choice of young damsels I have at command that with mony my pockets both fre And if I want a bout , they will not stand out , to help a good turn in my need , brave boys to help , &c. If I cheat a young damsel the faults none of mine to her self she better may look , For i le lay my bast by day or night , be sure I take her of my hook , brave boys be sure , &c. And when I had caught her be sure she 's my own for a little we two do imbrace , But before we go to church I leave her i th lurch thus I cheat her unto her own face , brave boys thus I &c. , I le never be bound when I may live free , nor i le never beside to a wife , Their 's sope fire and candle , a child for to dandle which makes a man weary on 's life , brave boys which , &c. So I get but the child let who will it keep for my part I do mean to keep none , So I have but the sport let them provide for 't for so soon as i 've done I am gone , brave boys for so , &c. For if I should keep all the Children I get I should have a great many lives , I wil take a halter and cut my own throat , before i le have so many wives , before , &c. For Gentleman-like I live as I be and am free from care and sorrow , It never a penny I have over night , be sure I have some the next morrow brave boys be sure , &c. So young men i le leave you make use of your time for so long as my Codyiss doth hold , I am sure of this , let it hit or miss : I shall want neither Silver nor Gold brave boys I shall want neither Silver nor Gold .

London Printed for W. Thackeray , T. Passenger , and W. Whitwood .