The repulsive maid who once to a young-man, but now cannot win, to open the door and let him come in. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B43816 of text R182676 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 B43816 625106320 ocn 625106320 Wing R1114A

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 eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo The repulsive maid :who once to a young-man, but now cannot win, to open the door and let him come in. n/a 1655 2 721 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. 2014-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-10 Sampled and proofread 2014-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Repulsive MAID . WHO Once to a Young-man , but now cannot win , To open the door and let him come in . To a pleasant new Tune , or , Open the door and let me come in .

Youngman . SWeet open the door and let me come in , For to be a Wooer I now begin , And say thy Lover I yet have been I le love thee and no more . Maid . To open the door Love that could I do And if it were for an hour or two , But if that my father or mother should know I should be beaten sore . Young-man . To be beaten for me Love that were a sin , Sweet open the door and let me come in Thy father or mother nor none of thy Kin shall never beat thee more . Maid . To open the door Love I have been hold , And many false tales I have been told , But another man hath my heart in hold , I cannot love thee therefore . Young-man . Thou knowst before when the time hath bin Thou hast open'd the door and let me come in But now my love is not worth a pin I prethee Love tell me wherefore . Maid . I am not disposed to tell thee now Go walk a Knave as thou knowst how , For I can no enterance to thee allow , adieu for evermore . Young-man . To knock and to call I will never lin , Till thou open the door and let me come in , With coming I fell , and I broke my shin , which grieves me very sore . Maid . If thou hast broken thy shin my Love sorry am I , Yet cannot I find in my heart for to cry , I le give thee a plaster for it by and by shall pain thee ten times more .
The Second Part , To the same Tune .

Young-man . I Prethee Love , do not to jeer begin But open the door and let me come in , I le be more kind then ever I have been , I prethée Love open the door , Maid . Two words to a bargain my small friend , To open the door I do not intend . My father and mother I oft did offend , I le never offend them more . Young-man . Of Father and Mother doe not tell me , For I am come alone to visit thee , And if my face thou wilt not sée , the shew me a reason wherefore . Maid . A reason just I can thee tell To do it now doth not like me well I hate thée as much as the Devil of Hell then adue for evermore . Young-man . How comes it to passe my Love thou art so curst And wert so kind to me at the first , Of all men living my luck is the worst , to be hated and know not wherefore . Maid . Alasse Sir I have found out your Tricks You love do crave of five or six , Yet take who you will it shall never me vex , adue for ever more . Young-man . What though I have choyce of six or seven , Nay , what if I had nine , ten or eleven , Yet thou mayst make the dozen even , and do as thou hast done before . Maid . I am not the first that hath done amisse , Nor shall be the last that a Knave will kisse , I pray pick English out of this , you shall never kisse me more . Young-man . The Rose is red , and the Leaves are gréen And the daies are past which I have séen Another man may be where I have béen for now I am thrust out of door . Maid . Walk Knave is a Parrats note , And if the Hang-man don't get your coat , I le méet you at Holborn-Hill in a Boat . if ever I love you more .
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