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<HEAD>The Engli&s;h Fortune-Teller.</HEAD>
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<L>Being a brief direction how to &s;hun all &s;trife,</L>
<L>A brief in&s;truction how to chu&s;e a wife,</L>
<L>VVhereby a man may lead a happy life:</L>
<L>It &s;hews difference in womens qualities,</L>
<L>By colour of their hair, both face and eyes,</L>
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<OPENER>The tune is, Ragged and Torn, &amp;c.</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>YOu young-men that want skill in wooing</L>
<L>and if you de&s;ire to be wed,</L>
<L>Take coun&s;ell of me in your doing</L>
<L>for fear that you &s;hould be mi&s;&s;ed.</L>
<L>Do not my kind proffer refu&s;e,</L>
<L>for it will never you deceive:</L>
<L>I will &s;hew what women to chu&s;e,</L>
<L>and what creature you's be&s;t for to leave,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>But chiefly i'd wi&s;h you beware,</L>
<L>of a wench with a rowling eye:</L>
<L>For &s;he that will cozen and &s;wear,</L>
<L>will al&s;o di&s;&s;emble and lie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I'th fir&s;t place I do you advi&s;e,</L>
<L>take one not too high nor too low,</L>
<L>But according to your own &s;ize,</L>
<L>that you may her qualities know,</L>
<L>Take one not too young nor too old,</L>
<L>nor one that's too fat nor too lean;</L>
<L>'Tis a bad thing to m&eacute;et with a &s;cold,</L>
<L>tis a wor&s;e thing to m&eacute;et with a Quean.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>But chiefly, &amp;c.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Take one that is not too proud,</L>
<L>nor one that's a dirty foul &s;lut,</L>
<L>The one may babble too loud,</L>
<L>the other may poy&s;on the gut,</L>
<L>'Tis better to wed an hone&s;t maid,</L>
<L>although &s;he be never &s;o poor,</L>
<L>Then to wed a rich Go&s;&s;ip 'tis &s;aid,</L>
<L>if afterwards &s;he &s;hould turn whore,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>But chejfly, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A widow who&s;e wealth doth &s;urmount,</L>
<L>if that you do marry for gain,</L>
<L>Sh&oacute;e'l call you to double account,</L>
<L>and your plea&s;ures will turn to your pain:</L>
<L>Be&s;ides &s;he is apt to be jealous,</L>
<L>which is the fore-runner of &s;trife:</L>
<L>As good to be hang'd at the Gallows,</L>
<L>as marry with &s;uch a cro&s;e wife,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>But chiefly, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And now in the &s;econd place I</L>
<L>am purpo&s;ed for to recite,</L>
<L>My skill in Phy&s;tognomy,</L>
<L>wherein I will &s;hew you alight:</L>
<L>By'th colour of hair on the head,</L>
<L>or el&s;e by the favor or face,</L>
<L>You may know with whom for to wed;</L>
<L>and who you were be&s;t to imbrace.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>But chiefly, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The man that will chu&s;e him a mate,</L>
<L>by color of Hair or complexion,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t u&s;e many ways intricate,</L>
<L>le&s;t he be brought under &s;ubjection,</L>
<L>He mu&s;t veiw both her fore-head and brow</L>
<L>her Cheeks, Eyes, No&s;e, and her-Chin.</L>
<L>Good <HI>Cupid</HI> tho&s;e things doth allow,</L>
<L>when you fir&s;t to wooe her begin,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>But chiefly, &amp;c.</L>
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<LG>
<L>All is not gold which Gli&s;ters,</L>
<L>nor is it all lead that looks dull,</L>
<L>Fair <HI>Venus</HI> the chief of the Si&s;ters,</L>
<L>made <HI>Vulcan</HI> her husband a Gull,</L>
<L>So many times beautifull La&s;&s;es,</L>
<L>will jeer their poor husbands in &s;corn,</L>
<L>And cunningly break all their Gla&s;&s;es.</L>
<L>and make them drink out of the Horn.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>But chiefly, &amp;c.</L>
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<LG>
<L>She that hath her hair of bright yellow,</L>
<L>and traces the wyers of Gold,</L>
<L>If &s;he meet with &s;ome pretty fellow</L>
<L>her husband may chance to be Cuckold,</L>
<L>And &s;he that by nature's compos'd,</L>
<L>of round Cherry-ch&eacute;eks and red hair,</L>
<L>If &s;he be pink-ey'd and long nos'd,</L>
<L>believe me tis dangerous ware,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>But chiefly, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The brown hair with witty di&s;cour&s;e,</L>
<L>but commonly for her own ends;</L>
<L>I like her a great deal the wor&s;e,</L>
<L>becau&s;e &s;h&eacute;e'l di&s;&s;emble with her friends.</L>
<L>A Wench with an a&s;h coloured face,</L>
<L>her actions are often uncivil;</L>
<L>Her tongue will her husband di&s;grace,</L>
<L>ju&s;t like the &s;econd She-devil.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>But chiefly, &amp;c.</L>
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<LG>
<L>The bonny Wench with the black-brow,</L>
<L>oh &s;he is a good one ind&eacute;ed:</L>
<L>For &s;he will be true to her vow:</L>
<L>I would we had more of her breed:</L>
<L>And thus I have told you my mind,</L>
<L>concerning Phy&s;tognomy,</L>
<L>I mean no wrong to women kind,</L>
<L>I &s;wear by my hone&s;ty.</L>
<L>Le&s;t I &s;hould &s;ome female offend,</L>
<L>I'le lay by my pen and re&s;t,</L>
<L>What ever in this Ditty is pen'd,</L>
<L>let young men take where they love be&s;t.</L>
<L>Yet thus much i'le &s;peak, in regard,</L>
<L>and i'le maintain my words in a trice,</L>
<L>Some women may well be compar'd,</L>
<L>to the be&s;t chance or wor&s;t of the Dice,</L>
<L>Suppo&s;e a young-man goes to Dice,</L>
<L>and do venture his goods and his &s;tore,</L>
<L>If he can throw Cinque or a Size,</L>
<L>the games his own for evermore:</L>
<L>But if that his fortune be cro&s;t,</L>
<L>that he throws but a Dewee or an Ace,</L>
<L>His goods and his &s;ub&s;tance is lo&s;t,</L>
<L>and hee's left in a pitiful ca&s;e,</L>
<L>Suppo&s;e in like ca&s;e, if a Lad,</L>
<L>can get him a provident wife,</L>
<L>His fortune can never be bad,</L>
<L>he's made all the dayes of his life:</L>
<L>But if that dame-fortune do frown,</L>
<L>that his wife and he cannot agree,</L>
<L>He is quite for ever ca&s;t down,</L>
<L>by wofull experience we &s;ee.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>And now noble Young-men adieu,</L>
<L>remember the words which I &s;ay:</L>
<L>This &s;ongs like to prove to be true,</L>
<L>then buy it and bear it away.</L>
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<P><HI>London</HI> Printed for <HI>W. Thackeray,
T. Pa&s;&s;enger,</HI> and <HI>W. Whitwood.</HI></P>
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