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<NAME>Judith Siefring</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch Z090211.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>The Maidens Delight: OR, A dainty New Dialogue.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<LG>
<L><HI>A Vaporing Gallant came the Maid to woo</HI></L>
<L><HI>But &s;he deni'd and &s;aid &s;he would not do</HI></L>
<L><HI>He profferred Ribbans, Gloves, and gay gold Rings</HI></L>
<L><HI>But &s;he refu&s;ed all manner of &s;uch things.</HI></L>
<L><HI>She &s;aid the greate&s;t comfort of her life</HI></L>
<L><HI>Was to be made &s;ome hone&s;t Trades-mans wife.</HI></L>
</LG>
</ARGUMENT>
<OPENER>To the Tune of, Behold the man with a gla&s;s in his hand. Or, The Mountebank of York.</OPENER>
<P><FIGURE>
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<P><FIGURE>
</FIGURE></P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Man.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L><HI>I</HI> am a Iovial Batcheler,</L>
<L>and free from care and &s;trife,</L>
<L>I nothing in the world do want</L>
<L>and yet I want a wife:</L>
<L>Therefore &s;weet <HI>Cupid</HI> guide me,</L>
<L>and help me to a Love,</L>
<L>That may both kind and loving be</L>
<L>and hone&s;t to me prove.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Tis known to all my neighbours I</L>
<L>am one and twenty years old,</L>
<L>And I have &s;tore and plenty of</L>
<L>white Silver and red Gold,</L>
<L>I have both goods and Cattle,</L>
<L>I have both hou&s;e and Land,</L>
<L>I have my hor&s;e, my Hawk, my hound,</L>
<L>and all things at command</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My hat is made of <HI>Beaver</HI> brave,</L>
<L>my hand of <HI>Flaunders</HI> Lace,</L>
<L>My golden Belt about my neck,</L>
<L>my per&s;on for to grace:</L>
<L>My &s;ilver haunched Rapier</L>
<L>both make a gallant &s;how,</L>
<L>And I am well accounted of</L>
<L>by all that do me know,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>I</HI> have my knots of Ribbans brave</L>
<L>along my Cod-peice tide</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> have my goulden fancies</L>
<L>meet round at every &s;ide</L>
<L>So high as is my pocket holes,</L>
<L>deny it he that can</L>
<L>Let all that &s;ees me judge if I</L>
<L>am not a proper man</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And now &s;weet <HI>Betty I</HI> am come</L>
<L>a wooing unto thee,</L>
<L>I prethee tell me out of hand</L>
<L>if thou can&s;t fancy me,</L>
<L>If thou can&s;t truly love me</L>
<L>ile take thee to my wife,</L>
<L>And thou &s;halt &s;urely always live,</L>
<L><HI>A</HI> &s;weet contented life.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ile furni&s;h thee with rare delights,</L>
<L>as Ribbans and gold rings</L>
<L>Perfumed, Gloves and Bracelets</L>
<L>and &s;uch like co&s;tly things</L>
<L>With a <HI>Bever</HI> hat and a taffety &s;carf fine</L>
<L>and a new-fa&s;hion &s;ilken gown</L>
<L>So thou &s;halt be as brave a Girl.</L>
<L>as any in the town</L>
</LG>
</SP>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The &s;econd part,</HEAD>
<OPENER>to the &s;ame Tune.</OPENER>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Maid.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>GOod Sir I thank you kindly for</L>
<L>your proffered courte&s;y</L>
<L>But this I tell you plainly here</L>
<L>in truth and verity</L>
<L>That <HI>I</HI> &s;hall never love you</L>
<L>whil&s;t <HI>I</HI> on earth remain</L>
<L>Therefore forbear and &s;ay no more</L>
<L>&s;pend not your breath in vain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Tis not your cunning &s;peeches that</L>
<L>&s;hall tempt me unto &s;in</L>
<L>For all your wealth and riches &s;ir,</L>
<L>I value not a pin</L>
<L>I will not wed a Prodigal</L>
<L>though he be never &s;o brave</L>
<L>But if ever <HI>I</HI> marry whil&s;t <HI>I</HI> live,</L>
<L>&s;ome Trades-man <HI>I</HI> will have.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A Prodigal wil domineer,</L>
<L>and &s;oon con&s;ume his &s;tore,</L>
<L>Which being gone he knows not how</L>
<L>nor which way to get more</L>
<L>But the brave re&s;olved trades-man</L>
<L>is free from &s;uch like &s;orrow</L>
<L>If he wants mony over night,</L>
<L>hee'l work for more next morrow</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A &s;pend-thrift that con&s;umeth</L>
<L>and &s;ells his land for gold</L>
<L>Is very like to live in want</L>
<L>or beg when he is old</L>
<L>But the Noble-minded tradesman,</L>
<L>his work goes for ward &s;till</L>
<L>For he hath meat and drink enuf,</L>
<L>and al things el&s;e at wil.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>So now you hone&s;t Batchelers</L>
<L>you partly know my mind</L>
<L>If <HI>I</HI> can with a Trades-man meet,</L>
<L>that wil to me prove kind</L>
<L>If that he takes me to his wife,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> wil him dearly love,</L>
<L>And ile be as faithful unto him</L>
<L>as is the Turtle Dove.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>I</HI> do confe&s;s gay Ribands</L>
<L>becomes the britches fine,</L>
<L>And that the golden fancies</L>
<L>wil make the Cod-peice &s;hine</L>
<L>But before <HI>I</HI> wil be married</L>
<L>to &s;uch a Prodigal</L>
<L>Ile live a Maid and dye a Maid,</L>
<L>and thats a word for all.</L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Man.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>Farewel you &s;cornful minion</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> bid thee now adue</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> never do intend to come,</L>
<L>again to trouble you,</L>
<L>Ile re&s;t my &s;elf contented</L>
<L>until that <HI>I</HI> can finde</L>
<L>A wife that is more fitting and</L>
<L>agreeable to my mind.</L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Maid.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>Why then farewel proud Coxcom<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>and this <HI>I</HI> tel thee plain</L>
<L>Thy pride and thy ambition,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> hold in much di&s;dain,</L>
<L>Rather then &s;uch a jack as thou,</L>
<L>&s;hould&s;t be my company keeper,</L>
<L>Ile marry with a Beggar-man</L>
<L>or with a Chimney-Sweeper.</L>
</LG>
</SP>
<TRAILER>Finis.</TRAILER>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>L. P.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>London Printed for Fran. Grove on Snow-hill.</P>
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