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<DATE>2008-12-05</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>My VVife will be my ma&s;ter.</HEAD>
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<P>OR, The Married-Mans Complaint <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters">ain&s;t his Unruly Wife, being a warning for all Unmarried per&s;ons, to have a &s;pecial care in choo&s;ing their Maike, le&s;t they meet with &s;uch a Myre-<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">hype, as this poor-man did</P>
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<OPENER>To the Tune of <HI>A Taylour is no Man.</HI><ADD>Tune <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1+ letters">gis  <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1+ letters"> most love thee</ADD></OPENER>
<LG>
<L>AS I was walking forth of late,</L>
<L>I heard a Man complaining,</L>
<L>With that I drew me near to him,</L>
<L>to know the cau&s;e and meaning</L>
<L>Of this his Sorrow, Pain and Grief,</L>
<L>which bred him &s;uch di&s;a&s;ter;</L>
<L>Alace, quoth he, what &s;hall I do</L>
<L>my Wife will be my Ma&s;ter.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If I &s;hould give her fourty pound</L>
<L>within her Apron folding,</L>
<L>No longer then &s;he telling on't</L>
<L>her tongue leaves never &s;colding:</L>
<L>As <HI>Ae&s;op</HI>'s Dog barkt at the Moon,</L>
<L>thinking for to di&s;tate her,</L>
<L>So doth my Wife &s;cold without cau&s;e,</L>
<L>and &s;trives to be my Ma&s;ter.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Were I &s;o &s;trong as <HI>Hercules,</HI></L>
<L>or wi&s;er then <HI>Apollo;</HI></L>
<L>Or had I <HI>Icarus</HI> wings to flee,</L>
<L>my Wife would after follow:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">r &s;hould I live as many Years</L>
<L>as never did king <HI>Nector,</HI></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters">t do I greatly &s;tand in fear,</L>
<L>my Wife would be my Ma&s;ter.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> know no cau&s;e nor rea&s;on why</L>
<L>that &s;he with me &s;hould jangle,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> never gave her cau&s;e at all</L>
<L>to make her with me wrangle:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> plea&s;e her &s;till in what I may,</L>
<L>and do no jot di&s;tate her;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">et &s;he doth &s;trive both night and day</L>
<L>alwayes to be my Ma&s;ter.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> every Morning make a fire.</L>
<L>all which is done to ea&s;e her,</L>
<L>I get a Nutmug, make a To&s;t,</L>
<L>in hope therewith to plea&s;e her:</L>
<L>With a cup of nappy Ale and Spice,</L>
<L>of which &s;he is fir&s;t ta&s;ter,</L>
<L>And yet this cro&s;s-grain'd quean wil <UNCLEAR>&s;cold</UNCLEAR></L>
<L>and &s;trive to be my Ma&s;ter.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I wa&s;h the di&s;hes, &s;weeps the hou&s;e,</L>
<L>I dre&s;s the whole&s;ome dyet;</L>
<L>I humour her in every thing;</L>
<L>becau&s;e I would be quyet:</L>
<L>O<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2+ letters">ery &s;everal di&s;h of meat</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">ly be fir&s;t ta&s;ter,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> I am glade to pick the bones.</L>
<L>&s;he is &s;o much my Ma&s;ter,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sometimes &s;he'l &s;it while day be light,</L>
<L>in company with good fellowes,</L>
<L>In Taverns and in <UNCLEAR>bow&s;ing</UNCLEAR> Tents,</L>
<L>or in &s;ome pimping Ale-hou&s;e,</L>
<L>And when &s;he comes home drunk at night,</L>
<L>though I do not di&s;tate her,</L>
<L>She'l fling, &s;he'l throw, &s;he'l <UNCLEAR>&s;cratch</UNCLEAR>, &s;he'l <UNCLEAR>bite</UNCLEAR>,  </L>
<L>and &s;trive to be my Ma&s;ter.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Her bed I made both &s;oft and fine</L>
<L>and put on &s;hooes compleatly;</L>
<L>Her &s;hooes and &s;tockings I pul off,</L>
<L>and lay her down mo&s;t neatly;</L>
<L>I cover her and keep her warm,</L>
<L>for fear I &s;hould offend her,</L>
<L>I hug her kindly in my Armes,</L>
<L>yet &s;till &s;he'l be my Ma&s;ter.</L>
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<LG>
<L>And when I am with her in Bed,</L>
<L>&s;he doth not u&s;e me well Sir.</L>
<L>She'l wring my No&s;e and pull my Ears,</L>
<L>a pittifull tale to tell Sir:</L>
<L>And when I am with her in Bed,</L>
<L>not meaning to mole&s;t her,</L>
<L>She'l kick me out at her Beds-feet</L>
<L>and &s;o become my Ma&s;ter.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And thus you hear how cruelly</L>
<L>my Wife doth &s;till abu&s;e me,</L>
<L>At Bed, at Board, at Noon, at Night,</L>
<L>&s;he alwayes doth mi&s;u&s;e me:</L>
<L>But if I were a lu&s;ty man,</L>
<L>and able for to ba&s;te her.</L>
<L>Then would I &s;urely u&s;e a means,</L>
<L>that &s;he &s;hould not be my Ma&s;ter.</L>
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<LG>
<L>You Batchelours that &s;weet hearts have,</L>
<L>when as you are a wooving,</L>
<L>Be &s;ure you look before you leap,</L>
<L>for fear of your undoing:</L>
<L>The after Wit is not the be&s;t,</L>
<L>and he that weds in ha&s;te Sir,</L>
<L>May like to me bewaile his ca&s;e,</L>
<L>if his Wife do prove his Ma&s;ter.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>You married Men that have good wives,</L>
<L>I pray you make much of them,</L>
<L>For they more precious are then gold,</L>
<L>if once you come to try them:</L>
<L>A good Wife makes a Husband glade,</L>
<L>then let him not offend her;</L>
<L>But a Scold will make a man run mad.</L>
<L>if once &s;he prove his Ma&s;ter.</L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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