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<HEAD>The Country-mans Delight: <HI>Or, <HI>The Happy VVooing.</HI></HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Being the Succe&s;sful Love of JOHN the SERVING-MAN, In his Courting of JOAN the DARY-MAID.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<L><HI>John's</HI> humble &s;uit <HI>Joan</HI> does long time with&s;tand,</L>
<L>Till his known Wealth her favour does command;</L>
<L>Then mu&s;tering all her Smiles, to him &s;he bends,</L>
<L>And to the Bargain &s;traight &s;he conde&s;cends:</L>
<L>Now no Objection can retard her Love,</L>
<L>If not of him, &s;he does his Wealth approve;</L>
<L>So Women for ba&s;e Gold their Beauty &s;ell,</L>
<L>To whom &s;o e're bids mo&s;t, that Cur&s;ed &s;pell,</L>
<L>Fix'd deep into their Souls, comands them &s;till,</L>
<L>And guides the Reins of their tempe&s;teous will.</L>
</ARGUMENT>
<P>To a New Play-Hou&s;e Tune: Or, <HI>Dolly and Molly.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>John.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>QUoth <HI>John</HI> to <HI>Joan</HI> wilt thou have me?</L>
<L>I prethee now wilt thou, i'le Marry with thee</L>
<L>My Cow, my Cow, my Hou&s;e and Rents,</L>
<L>All my Lands and Tennements:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Say my <HI>Joan,</HI> &s;ay my <HI>Ioan,</HI> what wilt thou do?</HI></L>
<L><HI>I cannot, I cannot come every every day to wooe.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I've Corn and Hay in a Barn hard by,</L>
<L>And three fat Piggs penn'd up in a Stye;</L>
<L>I have a Mare and &s;he is Cole-black,</L>
<L>I ride on her Belly to &s;av&egrave; her Back,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Say my <HI>Ioan,</HI> &s;ay my <HI>Ioan,</HI> what wilt thou doe?</HI></L>
<L><HI>I cannot, I cannot come every every day to wooe.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I have three Mark ty'd up in a Ragg,</L>
<L>I keep them there in&s;tead of a Bagg;</L>
<L>I have a Chee&s;e upon the Shelf,</L>
<L>I'le cannot eat it awe my &s;elf:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Say my <HI>Ioan,</HI> &s;ay my <HI>Ioan,</HI> what wilt thou doe?</HI></L>
<L><HI>I cannot, I cannot come every every day to wooe.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Joan.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>Quoth <HI>Joan</HI> to <HI>John</HI> you mu&s;t not come,</L>
<L>For your Ma&s;ter and Mi&s;tris are both at home;</L>
<L>You are a Servant, and mu&s;t obey,</L>
<L>El&s;e they'l be angry and turn you away:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Say my <HI>Iohn,</HI> &s;ay my <HI>Iohn,</HI> is this not true?</HI></L>
<L><HI>You mu&s;t not, you mu&s;t not come every every day to wooe.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>John.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>I love thee <HI>Joan</HI> with all my heart,</L>
<L>Come quickly con&s;ent, and we never will part;</L>
<L>My Shirt, my Shirt, and eke my Band,</L>
<L>All I have is at thy Command:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Believe me <HI>Ioan,</HI> believe me <HI>Ioan,</HI> I tell thee true,</HI></L>
<L><HI>I cannot nown's, I cannot come every every day to wooe</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Joan.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>In troth my <HI>John,</HI> I cannot con&s;ent,</L>
<L>To gain your Cow, your Shirt, and your Rent;</L>
<L>Yet &s;miling I think of your Love,</L>
<L>And wi&s;h oft I worthy cou'd prove:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>VVith a Serving-man, with a Serving-man i'le not doe,</HI></L>
<L><HI>who cannot, who dare not come every every day to wooe.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>John.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>Nay my <HI>Joan,</HI> pray &s;ay not &s;o,</L>
<L>E're i'le loo&s;e thee, my Place i'le forgoe</L>
<L>Come Ki&s;s my Ioy, and I will be</L>
<L>A Servant unto none but thee:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>My Ma&s;ter, my Ma&s;ter i'le bid adieu,</HI></L>
<L><HI>I'le leave him, i'le leave him, every every day to wooe.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Joan.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>Oh <HI>John,</HI> by no means, not for me,</L>
<L>I wou'd not your Ma&s;ter and you di&s;agree;</L>
<L>For I &s;hall never have you 'tis plain,</L>
<L>You offer'd your Band, but all in vain:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Cea&s;e you Clown, cea&s;e you Clown, it will not doe,</HI></L>
<L><HI>tho' you come, tho' you come every every day to wooe.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>John.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>Then yet more my <HI>Joany</HI> I have,</L>
<L>Oh think not pray, thy <HI>Johnny</HI> a Slave;</L>
<L>I was Free born i'le make it appear,</L>
<L>My Father left me five Marks a Year:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Believe me <HI>Ioan,</HI> believe me <HI>Ioan,</HI> I tell you true,</HI></L>
<L><HI>I will come, I will come every every day to wooe.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Joan,</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>Come, come, it is no time for delay,</L>
<L>Hark <HI>Iohn,</HI> your Mi&s;tris calls you away;</L>
<L>We mu&s;t not &s;o &s;uddain agree,</L>
<L>For what will the Maids think all of me:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Say my <HI>Iohn,</HI> &s;ay my <HI>Iohn,</HI> in this not true?</HI></L>
<L><HI>You cannot by'th Ma&s;s, you cannot come every every day to wooe.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Iohn.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>Fear not my <HI>Ioan,</HI> for by this Ki&s;s,</L>
<L>They cannot think on it ami&s;s;</L>
<L>Each on 'um wo'd, and wi&s;ht the like,</L>
<L>And conquer'd by Love, they would &s;oon &s;trike:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Say my <HI>Ioan,</HI> &s;ay my <HI>Ioan,</HI> is this not true?</HI></L>
<L><HI>I cannot, I cannot come every every day to wooe.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ioan.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>Well <HI>Iohn,</HI> you have Charm'd me I &s;ee,</L>
<L>My Love thou ha&s;t won, I yield it to thee,</L>
<L>Though with &s;oft &s;ighs it is expre&s;&s;,</L>
<L>Yet <HI>Iohnny</HI> is lodged in my Brea&s;t:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Say my <HI>Iohn,</HI> &s;ay my <HI>Iohn,</HI> what mu&s;t we doe?</HI></L>
<L><HI>You mu&s;t come, you mu&s;t come every every day to wooe.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Iohn.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>Oh &s;peak it again my dear <HI>Ioan,</HI></L>
<L>Can it be &s;o quickly that thou art my own;</L>
<L>I'le Hug thee, i'le Bu&s;s thee, now for this,</L>
<L>Thou art my Ioy and all my Bli&s;s:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Say my <HI>Joan,</HI> &s;ay my <HI>Joan,</HI> is this not true?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Now I i'le come, now i'le come every every day to wooe.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ioan.</SPEAKER>
<L>Well, when is the time you De&s;ign,</L>
<L>That'th Par&s;on in Weblock may, both of us joyn?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Iohn.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>Uds-foot <HI>Joan,</HI> to morrow let's meet,</L>
<L>And then we'l do all things Compleat:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Say my <HI>Ioan,</HI> &s;ay my <HI>Ioan,</HI> does it plea&s;e you?</HI></L>
<L><HI>then i'le come, then i'le come every every day to wooe.</HI></L>
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</LG>
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