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A Pleasant New BALLAD: Being a merry Discourse between a / Country Lass & a
young Taylor: / SHEVVING / How the Taylor lost his plight and pleasure / His
Yard not being, by the Standard, Measure.
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a pleasant New Tune
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A Pleasant New Tune
Kesser Crab
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Kesser Crab
IN Harvest=time I walked / hard by a Corn=Close side;
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A Pleasant New BALLAD: Being a merry Discourse between a / Country Lass & a
young Taylor: / SHEVVING / How the Taylor lost his plight and pleasure / His
Yard not being, by the Standard, Measure.
A Pleasant New BALLAD: Being a merry Discourse between a Country Lass & a young
Taylor: SHEWING How the Taylor lost his plight and pleasure His Yard not being,
by the Standard, Measure.
A Pleasant new ballad: being a merry discourse between a country lass and a
young tailor: showing how the tailor lost his plight and pleasure, his yard not
being by the standard measure.
1672-1672
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buildings/ architecture
catastrophe
children
class
clothing/ appearance
country/ nation
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entertainments
family
folklore
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infidelity
labor/ craft
law
London
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royalty
rural life
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The New World
travel
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urban life
vice
violence
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vulgarities/ crass humor
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Santa Barbara, California, United States of America
economics/ commerce
sex/ sexuality
Ballads, English 17th century
Broadsides, England 17th century
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Becker, Charlotte
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A Pleasant New BALLAD: Being a merry Discourse between a
Country Lass & a young Taylor:
SHEWING
How the Taylor lost his plight and pleasure
His Yard not being, by the Standard, Measure.
To a pleasant New Tune, or Kesser Crab.
IN Harvest-time I walked
hard by a Corn-Close side;
I hearing people talk,
I looked about, and spyd
A Young man and a maid,
together they did lye;
When you hear it told,
youl laugh full heartily.
She was as buxsome a Lass
as any in our Town;
She will not let you pass,
but shel call you to sit down.
A Taylor passing by,
she hit him on the heele,
You are very welcome Sir,
to sit you down and feele.
What moneys in my Purse,
at your command shall be,
If you will go along
to Marson wake with me.
He hearing her say so,
and seeing her to smile,
Was charmed with her, so
he sate him down a while.
And having groped her Purse,
and taken all her money,
He gropd again, and mist,
and caught her by the Coney.
Where am I now? (quoth he)
another I have found,
Its not the same, quoth he,
for this is tufted round.
If it be tufted round, quoth she,
there is good reason fort,
There is such treasure lyes,
will make a Taylor sport.
He hearing her say so,
being a frollicksome Lad,
Was willing for to know
more of the fringed bag.
With that he eagerly
to feel put forth his hand;
Nay, hold good Sir, said she,
go not before you stand:
Except you take your Yard,
the depth of it to measure,
Youl find the Purse so deep,
youl hardly come to th treasure.
He hearing her say so,
it put him to a stand;
She seeing him dismaid,
she took his Yard in hand:
Is this your Yard, quoth she,
is this your Taylors measure?
It is too short for me,
it is not Standard-Measure.
The Taylor being abashed,
she told him that it was
More fitter for a man,
than such a peuny Ass.
She bids him now be gone,
since he could make no sport,
And said, thou art too dull
to enter such a fort.
She looking fiercely at him,
she said, thou sneaking fool,
Go straight away to Vulcan,
and let him mend thy tool:
And tell him that Dame Venus,
at him is almost mad,
For sending to her School
such an unfit Lad.
You Taylors that attempt
fringed bags to measure,
Be sure your Yards be sealed,
and full Standard-Measure.
Printed for P. Brooksby at the
Golden Ball in Westsmi[th]field.
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