A pleasant discourse of a young gentle-woman to her husband the Quaker. To the tune of, Let Mary live long. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28177 of text R229215 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. 3KB 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 B28177 Wing P2546A Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.121.g.9[54] ESTC R229215 ocm99888244

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 eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Society of Friends -- England -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo A pleasant discourse of a young gentle-woman to her husband the Quaker. : To the tune of, Let Mary live long. n/a 1678 1 426 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. 2014-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-08 Sampled and proofread 2014-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Pleasant Discourse OF A Young Gentle-woman to her Husband THE QUAKER . To the Tune of , Let Mary live long . A Citizens Wise I am , I declare it , I solemnly swear it , I lead a sweet life in pleasure each day , I live at my ease , and I walk where I please . To the Tavern I go . And as for my Hushand and as for my Husband he dare not say no . ( 2 ) Five hundred pounds in a portion I brought him good saith I have taught him . His duty and found him willing to please , Like a servant I have My Admiral slave he is brought to my Bow , If I 'll have rich Jewels , &c , he dare not say no . ( 3 ) My dotting old man is late turn'd a Quaker , and I 'm a Cockle-maker , Yet do what he can , My frolick I 'll have , Rich Top-knots I 'll wear And powdered hair , Like a Ladie I 'll go The Quaker my Husband , &c. he dare not say no . ( 4 ) In London I dwell where I at my pleasure do revel in Treasure I know very well , What pleases me best , if I want a rich Gown , nay the best in the town Like a Ladie I 'll go . The Quaker my Husband , &c : he dare not say no , ( 5 ) When ever Idine Rich Tent with Canarie . Nay Ranish and Cherrie , And all sorts Wine have at the board , As I am a true Wife The Liquor of Life . I love to see flow The Quaker my Husband &c , ( 6 ) What if a brisk Blade should happen to meet me , And proffer to treat me , should I be afraid To venture with him , by my truth no not I But I 'll freely comply to the Tavern I 'll go , The Quaker my Husband &c. ( 7 ) It 's not yea , nay , shall ever ov'r , rule me , or any wayes fool me . I will have my way , as sore as a Club . Shall my beautieful Charms in an old Quakers arms Be frozen , faith no , I will have my Humors I will have my Humors , he dore not say no . FINIS