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<DATE>2014-10-14</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140719.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<STC T="W">R1922</STC>
<BIBNO T="oclc">[ocn]767840351</BIBNO>
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<DIV1 TYPE="song">
<PB REF="1">
<PB REF="2">
<PB REF="3" MS="y">
<HEAD>Room for a Jovial Tinker, Old <HI>Bra&s;s</HI> to mend.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<LG>
<L>OR, Here is a Tinker full of Mettle,</L>
<L>The which can mend, pot, pan, or Kettle;</L>
<L>For &s;topping of holes is his delight,</L>
<L>His work goes forward day and night:</L>
<L>If there be any Woman brave,</L>
<L>Who&s;e Couldrons need of mending have;</L>
<L>Send for this Tinker, ne'r deny him,</L>
<L>He'l do your work well if you try him:</L>
<L>A proof of him, i'le forthwith &s;how,</L>
<L>'Cau&s;e you his workman&s;hip may know.</L>
</LG>
</ARGUMENT>
<OPENER>The Tune is, <HI>Behold the man, &amp;c.</HI></OPENER>
<P><FIGURE>
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<LG>
<L>IT was a Lady of the <HI>North,</HI></L>
<L>&s;he lov'd a Gentleman,</L>
<L>And knew not well what cour&s;e to take,</L>
<L>to u&s;e him now and then;</L>
<L>Wherefore &s;he writ a Letter,</L>
<L>and &s;eal'd it with her hand,</L>
<L>And bid him be a Tinker,</L>
<L>to mend both pot and Pan:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>With a hey ho hey derry derry down,</HI></L>
<L><HI>with hey trey down down derry,</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And when this merry Gentleman,</L>
<L>the Letter he did read,</L>
<L>He got a Budget on his back,</L>
<L>and Apron with all &s;p&eacute;ed:</L>
<L>His pretty &s;hears and pinters,</L>
<L>&s;o well they did agree,</L>
<L>With a long Pike &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ff upon his neck,,</L>
<L>came triping o're the Lee:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>With a hey,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When he came to the Ladies hou&s;e,</L>
<L>he knocked at the gate,</L>
<L>Then an&s;wered this Lady gay,</L>
<L>who knocketh there &s;o late?</L>
<L>'Tis I Madam the Tinker &s;aid,</L>
<L>I work for Gold and Fee,</L>
<L>If y' have any broken Pots and Pans,</L>
<L>then bring them all to me:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>With a hey,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="3">
<L><HI>I</HI> Am the brave&s;t Tinker,</L>
<L>that liveth beneath the Sun</L>
<L>If you have any Work to do,</L>
<L>you &s;hall have it well done:</L>
<L>I have bra&s;s within my Budget,</L>
<L>and punching under my Apron,</L>
<L>I'm come unto your Lady&s;hip,</L>
<L>and mean to mend your Cauldron.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>With a hey ho hey derry derry down,</HI></L>
<L><HI>with a hey trey down down derry,</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I prethes &s;aid the Lady gay,</L>
<L>bring now thy Budget in,</L>
<L>I have &s;tore of work for thee to do,</L>
<L>if thou wilt once begin.</L>
<L>Now when the Tinker he came in,</L>
<L>that did the Budget bear,</L>
<L>God ble&s;s, quoth he, your Lady&s;hip,</L>
<L>God ble&s;s you Madam fair,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>With a hey,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But when the Lady knew his face,</L>
<L>&s;he then began to wink,</L>
<L>Ha&s;t lu&s;ty Butler then, quoth &s;he,</L>
<L>to fetch the man &s;ome drink,</L>
<L>Give h m &s;ome meat as we do eat,</L>
<L>and drink as we do u&s;e,</L>
<L>It is not for a Tinkers trade,</L>
<L>good liquor to refu&s;e.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>With a hey,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But when that he had eat and drunk,</L>
<L>the truth of all is &s;o,</L>
<L>The Lady took, him by the &s;leeve,</L>
<L>her Work to him to &s;how,</L>
<L>Set up thy tools Tinker, quoth &s;he,</L>
<L>and &s;ee there be none lo&s;t,</L>
<L>And mend! he Kettle hand&s;omely,</L>
<L>what e're it doth me co&s;t,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>With a hey,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Your Work Madam &s;hall be well done,</L>
<L>if you will pay me for't,</L>
<L>For every nail that I do drive,</L>
<L>you &s;hall give me a mark:</L>
<L>If I do not drive the nail to'th head,</L>
<L>I'le have nothing for my pain,</L>
<L>And what I receive of you,</L>
<L>&s;hall be return'd again.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>With a hey,</HI> &amp;c</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At la&s;t being come into the room,</L>
<L>where he the Work &s;hould do,</L>
<L>The Lady lay down on the bed,</L>
<L>&s;o did the Tinker too.</L>
<L>The Tinker did his work full well,</L>
<L>the Lady was not offended,</L>
<L>But before that &s;he ro&s;e from the bed,</L>
<L>her Cauldron was well mended.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>With a hey, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But when his Work was at an end,</L>
<L>which he d<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d in the dark,</L>
<L>She put h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r hand into her pur&s;e,</L>
<L>and gave him twenty mark,</L>
<L>Here's mony for thy Word, &s;aide,</L>
<L>and I thank thee for thy pain:</L>
<L>And when my Cauldron mending lacks,</L>
<L>I'le &s;end for thee again.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>With a hey, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Tinker he was well content,</L>
<L>for that which he had done,</L>
<L>So took his Budget on his back,</L>
<L>and quickly he was gone,</L>
<L>Then the Lady to her Husband went,</L>
<L>O my dear quoth &s;he,</L>
<L>I have &s;et the brave&s;t Tinker at Work,</L>
<L>that ever you did &s;ee.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>With a hey, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>No fault at all this Tinker hath</L>
<L>but he takes dear for his Work:</L>
<L>That little time that he wrought here</L>
<L>it co&s;t me twenty mark.</L>
<L>If you had been &s;o wi&s;e quoth he,</L>
<L>for to have held your own,</L>
<L>Before you &s;et him to his Work,</L>
<L>the price you might have known.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>With a hey, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Pray hold your peace my Lord, qd. &s;he,</L>
<L>I think it not to dear,</L>
<L>If you coold do't &s;o well, twould &s;ave</L>
<L>you forty pound a year,</L>
<L>With that the Lord mo&s;t lovingly,</L>
<L>to make all things amends,</L>
<L>He kindly ki&s;t his Lady gay,</L>
<L>and &s;o they both were friends,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>With a hey, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>You merry Tinkers every one,</L>
<L>that bear this new made Sonnet,</L>
<L>W<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">en as y<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">u do a Ladies Work,</L>
<L>b<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ure you think upon it.</L>
<L>Drive home your nails unto the head,</L>
<L>and do your Work profoundly</L>
<L>And then no doubt your Mi&s;tre&s;&s;es,</L>
<L>will pay you for it &s;oundly,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>With a hey, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
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<P><HI>Printed for</HI> M. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray <HI>and</HI> T. Pa&s;&s;inger.</P>
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