The Jovial tinker, or, The Willing couple ... to a new tune called To high, to low, to low. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B25370 of text R41436 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 5KB 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 B25370 Wing J1118 ESTC R41436 ocm 31355347

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 eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- London (England) -- 17th century. eebo The Jovial tinker, or, The Willing couple ... : to a new tune called To high, to low, to low. n/a 1680 2 751 1 0 0 0 0 0 13.32 C The rate of 13.32 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-05 Sampled and proofread 2014-05 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The jovial Tinker ; Or , The willing Couple . A Tinker by a maid put to his dumps , Til he was fain to turn her up for trumps She fretted his hammers went so slow , They alwayes hit to high or else to low At first he was unapt and therefore told , Her Kettles crackt and so it wil not hold : At last with double fe she brought him on And then he provd himself a mettl'd man To a new tune , called To high , to low , to low ,

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THere was a Tinker liv'd of late , as I to you will show ; And how he us'd a maiden kinde , you presently shal know , He 'd undertake to cure a crack i' th Kettle at a blow : Although his hammers they did beat to high , to low , to high , to low , to low And as this Tinker walkt the streets for work as he did cry ; A handsom proper maid did meet . and call him by and by : Tinker said she draw near to me , my Kettle I will show ; Although thy Hammers they do beat to high , She took the Tinker by the hand , and led him in at door ; fair maid said he your kettlé's crackt 't was mended once before : With that she call'd the tinker rogue fair maid why saist thou so ? Because thy Hammers they do bat to high , &c. And as the Tinker sate at work , this maid began to chide ; Because he did not clench the nail upon the other side : Thou doest not work , & workman like fair maid why sayest thou so , Because thy Hammers they do beat , to high , to low , to high , to low , to low :

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THe Tinker then took up his pack , and fain would go his way ; The fair maid she perceiving that , desired him to stay : I 'le give the meat , I 'le give thée drink I 'le pay thée e're thou go ; Although thy Hammers they do beat to high , to low , to high , to low , to low , Cause she was neat he did retreat , and come e're she could send . Fair maid said be I needs must sée what hole you have to mend : She took the Tinker by the hand , into a Room they go , But still she cry'd his Hammers beat to high , &c. The Tinkers job did hold him tack , till it was almost dark . It seem'd her Kettle was so black , he could not hit the mark : which made the the maiden for to cry , strike home before you go , For yet the Hammers they do beat , to high , &c. The Tinker sée his work in vain , the cause he plainly told , there hath so many nails been drove , that mine will not take hold , It hath béen peec't so many times 't will not endure a blow , No wonder if my Hammers beat , to high . The maid thereat was sore perplex , and troubled at this ill : Said she it hath endured some knocks ▪ and more it may do still ; I 'me sure good liquour it would hold , if it were stil'd I know ; The reason is your Hammers beat to high , &c. She bid the Tinker mend his work and she would mend his wage ; He us'd his Hammers like a Turk , and did himself engage . And at the last when all was past the Tinker pleas'd her so , She said his Hammers did not beat . to high , &c. The Tinker he for double fee , did please with much a do , But yet e're forty weeks were gone , her Kettle fell in two : he knockt her till she Gig'd again , as boys they us'd to do : I hope she will not now complain , to high , to low , to high , to low , to low . FINIS .

London , Printed for Eliz . Andrews in St: Bartholomews Court in Smithfield .