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<DATE>2008-10-04</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B080850.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
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<HEAD>A Plea&s;ant New BALLAD: Being a merry Di&s;cour&s;e between a <HI>Country La&s;s &amp; a young Taylor:</HI> SHEVVING </HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<L>How the Taylor lo&s;t his plight and plea&s;ure</L>
<L>His Yard not being, by the Standard, Mea&s;ure.</L>
</ARGUMENT>
<OPENER>To a plea&s;ant New Tune, or <HI>Ke&s;ter</HI> Crab.</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>IN Harve&s;t-time I walked</L>
<L>hard by a Corn-Clo&s;e &s;ide;</L>
<L>I hearing people talk,</L>
<L>A looked about, and &s;py'd</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A Young man and a maid,</L>
<L>together they did lye;</L>
<L>VVhen you hear it told,</L>
<L>you'l laugh full heartily.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She was as bux&s;ome a La&s;s</L>
<L>as any in our Town;</L>
<L>She will not let you pa&s;s,</L>
<L>but &s;he'l call you, to &s;it down.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A Taylor pa&s;&s;ing by,</L>
<L>&s;he hit him on the heele,</L>
<L>You are very welcome Sir,</L>
<L>to &s;it you down and feele.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What money's in my Pur&s;e,</L>
<L>at your command &s;hall be,</L>
<L>If you will go along</L>
<L>to <HI>Mar&s;on wake</HI> with me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He hearing her &s;ay &s;o,</L>
<L>and &s;eeing her to &s;mile,</L>
<L>VVas charmed with her, &s;o</L>
<L>he &s;ate him down a while.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And having groped her Pur&s;e,</L>
<L>and taken all her money,</L>
<L>He grop'd again, and mi&s;t,</L>
<L>and caught her by the Coney.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>VVhere am I now? (quoth he)</L>
<L>another I have found,</L>
<L>Its not the &s;ame, quoth he,</L>
<L>for this is tufted round.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If it be tufted round, quoth &s;he,</L>
<L>there is good rea&s;on for't,</L>
<L>There is &s;uch trea&s;ure lyes,</L>
<L>will make a Taylor &s;port.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>He hearing her &s;ay &s;o,</L>
<L>being a frollick&s;ome Lad,</L>
<L>VVas willing for to know</L>
<L>more of the fringed bag.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>VVith that he eagerly</L>
<L>to feel put forth his hand;</L>
<L>Nay, hold good Sir, &s;aid &s;he,</L>
<L>go not before you &s;tand:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Except you take your Yard,</L>
<L>the depth of it to mea&s;ure,</L>
<L>You'l find the Pur&s;e &s;o deep,</L>
<L>you'l hardly come to th' trea&s;ure.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He hearing her &s;ay &s;o,</L>
<L>it put him to a &s;tand;</L>
<L>She &s;eeing him di&s;maid,</L>
<L>&s;he took his Yard in hand:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Is this your Yard, quoth &s;he,</L>
<L>is this your Taylors measure?</L>
<L>It is too &s;hort for me,</L>
<L>it is not Standard-Mea&s;ure.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Taylor being aba&s;hed,</L>
<L>&s;he told him that it was</L>
<L>More fitter for a man,</L>
<L>than &s;uch a penny A&s;s.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She bids him now be gone,</L>
<L>&s;ince he could make no &s;port,</L>
<L>And &s;aid, thou art too dull</L>
<L>to enter &s;uch a fort.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She looking fiercely at him,</L>
<L>&s;he &s;aid, thou &s;neaking fool,</L>
<L>Go &s;traight away to <HI>Vulcan,</HI></L>
<L>and let him mend thy tool:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And tell him that Dame <HI>Venus</HI></L>
<L>at him is almo&s;t mad,</L>
<L>For &s;ending to her School</L>
<L>&s;uch an unfit Lad.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>You Taylors that attempt</L>
<L>fringed bags to mea&s;ure,</L>
<L>Be &s;ure your Yards be &s;ealed,</L>
<L>and full Standard-Mea&s;ure.</L>
</LG>
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<P>Printed for <HI>P. Brooksby</HI> at the Golden Ball in VVe&s;t&s;mi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2+ letters">field.</P>
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