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<HEAD>Directions for Damo&s;els, OR The Maidens advice, in an an&s;wer to the Young-mens Coun&s;eller.</HEAD>
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<L><HI>You that a kind good Husband lack</HI></L>
<L><HI>Let me with you prevail,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To choo&s;e a Brown or curious Black,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The&s;e colours never fail.</HI></L>
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<OPENER>Tune of, <HI>All Trades.</HI></OPENER>
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<P>This may be Printed,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>R.P.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<LG>
<L>O Now I have coun&s;ell'd young-men</L>
<L>what Wives they have rea&s;on to choo&s;e;</L>
<L>I tell the young Dam&s;els again,</L>
<L>what Husbands they ought to refu&s;e</L>
<L>Beware of fair men that can joke,</L>
<L>with every Wind they can wave,</L>
<L>And will your kind &s;pirits provoke,</L>
<L>and make you an ab&s;olute Slave.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>But as for the Brown and the Black,</HI></L>
<L><HI>they both have a notable &s;mack:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Young Women may find them loving and kind,</HI></L>
<L><HI>they'l give them whatever they lack.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ne'r marry one with a wey Beard,</L>
<L>He is of the fumbling Crew;</L>
<L>Of &s;uch I have often times heard,</L>
<L>they little or nothing can do;</L>
<L>And therefore, I pray now take heed,</L>
<L>all Wey-Beards forever refrain;</L>
<L>For when you are married indeed,</L>
<L>'tis never the near to complain.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>But as for the Brown,</HI> &amp;c,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Sandy Complexion are Sots,</L>
<L>and given to anger and &s;trife,</L>
<L>Who ever has &s;uch to their lots,</L>
<L>they need no more plague in their life.</L>
<L>From Ale-hou&s;e to Ale-hou&s;e they'l trudge,</L>
<L>and make their Wives take all the care,</L>
<L>Too often they make them their Drudge,</L>
<L>of Sandy Complexion beware.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>But as for the Brown and the Black,</HI></L>
<L><HI>they both have a notable &s;mack:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Young-women may find them loving &amp; kind,</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>The Flaxen, tho' ne'r &s;o compleat,</L>
<L>and by the young Damo&s;els ador'd,</L>
<L>Yet are they as full of deceit,</L>
<L>as all the whole World can afford.</L>
<L>They'l flatter, di&s;&s;emble, and lie,</L>
<L>poor innocent Girls to betray;</L>
<L>And if to their will you comply,</L>
<L>they'l pack up their Awls and away.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>But as for the Brown and the Black,</HI></L>
<L><HI>they both have a notable &s;mack:</HI></L>
<L><HI>What promi&s;e they make they'l never for&s;ake,</HI></L>
<L><HI>they &s;corn to be found to flie back.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Beware of the Yellow curl'd locks,</L>
<L>&s;uch men are both wanton and wild;</L>
<L>They'l play with the fine Holland Smocks,</L>
<L>and get the young La&s;&s;es with Child:</L>
<L>For plea&s;ure abroad they will Roam,</L>
<L>and lay the young Females along,</L>
<L>Yet they'l do but little at home.</L>
<L>what Woman can bear with this wrong.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>But as for the Brown and the Black,</HI></L>
<L><HI>they both have a notable &s;mack:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Young-women may find them loving and kind,</HI></L>
<L><HI>they'l give them whatever they lack.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Swarthy I cannot forget;</L>
<L>and now to give them their de&s;ert,</L>
<L>They have neither Beauty nor Wit,</L>
<L>nor any commendable part:</L>
<L>And therefore Remember the word,</L>
<L>take no &s;uch lad &s;orrowful &s;oul;</L>
<L>They &s;ay they have need of a Bird,</L>
<L>that will give a Groat for an Owl.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>But as for the Brown,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Beware of the head that is Grey,</L>
<L>old-men they will jealou&s;ie breed,</L>
<L>And think that the wanton you play,</L>
<L>altho' you be hone&s;t indeed,</L>
<L>He's chilly and cold in his blood,</L>
<L>and never a Tooth in his Iaw;</L>
<L>He'l do a young Wife no more good</L>
<L>than tickle her Tale with a Straw.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>But as for the Brown,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Flaxen and Grey I forbid,</L>
<L>with Sandy, for bad is the be&s;t:</L>
<L>But now I am come to the Red,</L>
<L>which is &s;even times wor&s;e than the re&s;t,</L>
<L>He's full of ill humours, therefore</L>
<L>he &s;tinks, let him do what he can,</L>
<L>As Rami&s;h as any old Bore:</L>
<L>what Woman can love &s;uch a Man.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>But as for the Brown</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Young-men that are freckled and fair,</L>
<L>are commonly given to lies:</L>
<L>But black men and brown I declare,</L>
<L>are known to be vertuous and wi&s;e,</L>
<L>They hate for to wrangle and brawl,</L>
<L>they honor and nouri&s;h their Wives,</L>
<L>And never will wrong them at all,</L>
<L>But love them as dear as their lives.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Stand up for the Brown,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Young Dam&s;els of e'ry degree,</L>
<L>Who&s;e Beauty does Batchelors charm,</L>
<L>Come buy this <HI>New Ditty</HI> of me,</L>
<L>good coun&s;el can do you no harm;</L>
<L>Tho' formerly you have bought many:</L>
<L>this may keep your days free from &s;trife,</L>
<L>And then it will be the be&s;t Penny</L>
<L>as e're you laid out in your life.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Then Hey for the Brown and the Black,</HI></L>
<L><HI>they both have a notable &s;mack:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Young Women may find them loving and kin</HI></L>
<L><HI>they'l give them whatever they lack.</HI></L>
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