I will perswade him thus and say, a last time that you together lay ... This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06915 of text S117769 in the English Short Title CatalogTextual 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 B06915 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.7[480] 99887557 ocm99887557 183170 2248540626

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I Will perswade him thus and say , Last time that you together lay , the Moon it was Eclipsed strange , And nature did her courses change , Mars by Dame Venus was beguil'd , And so your wife got you with child . this bargain made brought much content Home in all haste the farmer went ; And told his wife so strange a tale , As make her Countenance look pale ; Dear wife quoth he I am perplext , Never was man before so vext . I am intumbered with great pains , from top to toe through all my veins ; My back and sides grieve me so sore , Such pains I never felt before : But yet the greatest pain I tell ye . Lies rumbling up & down my belly . Husband quoth she I can you tell , Of one that soon can make you well , He cures as I do understand , All diseases that he takes in hand ; And if you pleased have it so , I le to him with y●…r water go . Next morning with a good intent , the good-wife to the Doctor went : and shews to im her Husbands water , Now mark th iest that follows after : Cox body quoth ●…e Doctor mild , thy Husband s●…ly is with Child . the woman she ●●…s much amaz●d , And on the D●●… strangely gaz'd ; Good Sir in ki●ness now tell me , How such thins in a man may be ? I will , quoth he make you no doubt , And time at ●…st will bring it out . When Luna last was in the Eclips , You with your Husband joined Lips , Then Jupiter being wrapt in thunder , turn●d Venus up while Mars lay under By which Coniunction well I wot , Your husband then with child was got . Alas , alas , then said his wife , Is there no means to save his life ? I would not for a thousand pound , My husband he should fall to th' Ground , Faith quoth the Doctor there is none , No ways to save his life but one . Kind loving Sir , then answered she , If you will be so good to me , to tell how I his life may save , I 'll give whatever you will have : No cost nor pains that I will spare , to save his life whom I love so dear : But first 〈◊〉 he , i le have you swear , And also have a special care , to let no body know while you live , What Physick he is to receive ; She straightway ●ound it with an Oath , I le keep your Counsel by my troth . then mark me well what s to be done , Each night hour setting of the Sun , His Supper then you must provide , Of eggs , and some choice meats beside : And for to strengthen his weak ●ack You must give him a pint of Sack . Which being done , put him to bed , and lay soft Pillows under his head ; then make for him a Posset fine , With Sugar and sweet muskadine ; Commixt with Cinnamon and mace , And let him swallow it down apace . When he hath slept an hour or twain , then you must came to him again , And bring with you a lusty maid , which to his belly must be laid : So let them merrily sleep together , and lovingly embrace each other . this course you must for 3 weeks take , And then besure that it will make , the pain too from his back and side , the maid the torment shall abide , And afterwards in little space , She will bring forth a babe of Grace . And when the maid is brought to bed , Your self must lie down in her stead ; And because nothing must he known , Folks must believe the Child s your own , Besure to take this course said he , So shall your Husband ●●●ed be . the woman having heard this news , Ran home in haste how could she chuse Where she did see her husband lie , Like one just ready for to die : then presently she did unfold , All that the Doctor had her told . Alas quoth he such pangs I have , there is no means my life to save ; Vnless you do a Posset make , to cure my belly of the ake : Wherefore the woman out of hand Did as the Doctor did command . A Supper of most dainty meat She made him ready for to eat ; And because he should no Physick lack , She after Supper gave him Sack ; then kept him warm within his bed , And with sweet Posset she him fed . this being done , with Cupids aid , she got the good will of her maid , to lye and keep her master warm , and said , he should do her no harm , the maid at first seem'd loath to do , But at the lass yielded thereto . And as the Doctor did foretell , So every thing in order fell , the maid in time was brought to bed , the good wife lay down in her stead : the man was of his burthen eas'd , the child at Nurse , and all are pleas'd . You that these verses hear or read , If of this Doctor you stand in need , Enquire him out where he doth dwell , And surely he will use you well , He 'l give you Physick to your mind , So that your purses be well lin'd .

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