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<HEAD>The MILKMAIDS Re&s;olution.</HEAD>
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<LG>
<L>Let Young men prate of what they plea&s;e</L>
<L>Cau&s;e young men have been kind,</L>
<L>Theyl find no more &s;uch Fools as the&s;e</L>
<L>To plea&s;e each Api&s;h mind.</L>
</LG>
</ARGUMENT>
<OPENER><HI>Tune,</HI> Cupids Trappan.</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>OF late I did hear a young man domineer,</L>
<L>Plow and vapour of what he could do</L>
<L>But I think he knew how for &s;o manage the</L>
<L>far better then maidens to woe brave boys</L>
<L>far better &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And he &s;urely doth think that we maidens are mad</L>
<L>for to mind ev'ry Clown we do &s;&eacute;e</L>
<L>Should his Love be expre&s;t, with a vow &amp; pro|te&s;t</L>
<L>i'de believe no &s;uch boobies as he brave</L>
<L>ide &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Though his bottles of Ale &amp; other fine things</L>
<L>he be&s;tows on me ev'ry day</L>
<L>It is my intent when his money is &s;pent</L>
<L>to bid him begone &amp; away brave boys</L>
<L>to bid, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ile give him good words while his money doth la&s;t</L>
<L>and tell him I dearly do love him</L>
<L>When his ca&s;h is all gone, ile tell him my man <HI>John</HI></L>
<L>ther's others I fancy above him brave</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And that which is wor&s;e, when once they do find</L>
<L>a maidens poor heart it is won</L>
<L>They'l laugh &amp; they'l jeer, they'l giggle &amp; &s;neer</L>
<L>that they this poor maid hath undone brave</L>
<L>that &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Some men they love for what they can get</L>
<L>&amp; tis certain ther's many a Lubbard</L>
<L>Will &s;igh &amp; will pant, &s;eeming ready to faint</L>
<L>&amp; all for the love of the Cubbard, brave boys</L>
<L>&amp; all &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And others &s;o long as they think a poor maid</L>
<L>has been careful and &s;aved &s;ome money</L>
<L>This maiden will find he will prove very kind</L>
<L>&amp; call her his joy &amp; his honey brave boys</L>
<L>and &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yea if this poor &s;oul will be &s;uch a fooll</L>
<L>to hearken to this fellows tale</L>
<L>Shee'l to poverty fall, he'l beguile her of all</L>
<L>&s;he hath got by the merry milk pail brave boys</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And &s;he that doth carry the merry milk pall</L>
<L>and delights for to milk the brown Cow</L>
<L>May &s;ure be as good, be it well under&s;tood</L>
<L>as the Looby that follows the Plow brave</L>
<L>as the &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet each pittiful clown will boa&s;t up &amp; down</L>
<L>of the maidens that he hath betrayd</L>
<L>If all were like me, &s;uch things &s;hould not be</L>
<L>nor ever hereafter be &s;aid, brave boys</L>
<L>nor &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Keep but at a di&s;tance, and then they will be</L>
<L>like men quite bereaved of &s;ence</L>
<L>Then the be&s;t of them all into pa&s;&s;ion will fall</L>
<L>&amp; be ready to dye for a wench brave boys</L>
<L>and &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Tho &s;ome of them now, do &s;ay they know how</L>
<L>to make any mayden to yield</L>
<L>But I would defie any man that &s;hould try</L>
<L>in the mid&s;t of the merry Broom field brave</L>
<L>in &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For my mode&s;ty &s;hall defend me from all</L>
<L>that &s;ay tis &s;o ea&s;y to win</L>
<L>The poor virgins &s;ort, of which they make &s;port</L>
<L>&amp; delight in this treacherous &s;in brave boys</L>
<L>and &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then maidens beware, of &s;uch villains take care</L>
<L>who&s;e delight is your ab&s;olute ruine</L>
<L>If they conquer with ea&s;e &amp; gain what they plea&s;e</L>
<L>theyl &s;oon be<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> weary of wooing brave boys</L>
<L>But if you &s;tand off and at them do &s;coff</L>
<L>youl find they will burn like a fire</L>
<L>When you make them to bow, let your rea&s;on know how</L>
<L>to grant then the thing they de&s;ire brave</L>
<L>to grant &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then take my advice you maids that are free</L>
<L>ile a&s;&s;ure you I &s;peak not in je&s;t,</L>
<L>Ne'r play with the dart till you yoy&s;on your heart</L>
<L>for a &s;ingle life it is the be&s;t brave</L>
<L>for &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thers &s;ome that are married before they had wit</L>
<L>that with &s;orrows are &s;orely appre&s;t</L>
<L>Then think it not &s;trange, I am not for a change</L>
<L>for a &s;ingle life it is the be&s;t brave boys</L>
<L>for &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
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<P><HI>Printed for</HI> P. Brooksby <HI>at the Golden Ball</HI></P>
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