A quip for a scornfull lasse. Or, three slips for a tester To the tune of Two slips for a tester. 1627 Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2011-04 (EEBO-TCP Phase 2). A73055 STC 20567.7 ESTC S124598 99899197 99899197 150737

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A73055) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 150737) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1976:9) A quip for a scornfull lasse. Or, three slips for a tester To the tune of Two slips for a tester. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts) for F. Groue, Printed at London : [c. 1627] Date of publication from STC. Verse - "All you who haue heard". In two parts, printed side by side. Reproduction of original in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, England.

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A Quip for a ſcornfull Laſſe. Or, Three ſlips for a Teſter. To the tune of Two ſlips for a Teſter.

ALl you who haue heard How I did regard a peeuiſh diſdainfull Laſſe, Who proud of her beauty, Forgetting her duty, did ſéeke to make me an aſſe: Heare likewiſe my part, Who haue in my heart reſolu'd euermore to deteſt he, Sith ſhe was i'th fault, I well may reuolt, and giue her three ſlips for a teſter. There once a time was, When I lou'd that laſſe, more deare then I did mine owne life And firmely was bent, If ſhe would conſent, with ſpeed to haue made her my wife: The fooliſh nice creature, Lookt I ſhould intreat her, ſuch madneſſe and folly poſſeſt her: No more Ile be vext, My humour is fixt, Ile giue her three ſlips for a teſter. As ſhe was to me, To her will I be: for ſo all my friends doe aduiſe, If I ſhould her meet, I would not her greet, nor afford her a glance from my eies: As I on the way Was walking one day, to meet me ſtraight way ſhe addreſt her: Which I to preuent, A contrary way went, and gaue her three ſlips for a teſter. She came t'other day To the houſe where I lay, to ſpeake with me was her deſire, She ſaid that ſhe would See me if ſhe could, but I ſaid I ſcorn'd to come nie her: Yet thorow the glaſſe I peept on my Laſſe, good Lord how braue ſhe had dreſt her In hope to allure, But let her be ſure, Ile giue her three ſlips for a teſter. She ſtaid at the doore, An houre and more, to wait for my comming in ſight: At laſt I came to her, But not like a wooer, though once ſhe was all my delight, But that I was loath To infringe mine oath, I had gone very near to haue kiſt her She ſeemed ſo faire, I could hardly forbeare, yet I gaue her three ſlips for a tteſter What lacke you faire maid, Vnto her I ſaid, or what is your errand with me She prayd me ſo come To her father at home, to which I deny'd to agree: And made a reply, That neuer more I intended my mind to peſter, With any ſmall thought That concerned me ought, but to giue her three ſlips for a teſter.
The ſecond part. To the ſame tune.

AT laſt I went with her, And ſo both together did come where her father did dwell. I wonder, quoth he, That we cannot you ſée, what haue you forſaken my Nel • ? Your daughters too fine, Quoth I to be mine, therefore tis in vaine to moleſt her: Yet take this from me, Ime as ſcornfull as ſhe, and Ile giue her three ſlips for a teſter. Then ſhe ſtanding by, Put finger t'th eye, and ſorely began to wéepe: Sir quoth the old man, Doe all what we can, where loue cannot goe it will créep. All this would not ſerue, I ſtill did reſerue my vow, & Ime glad that I miſt her, Thus I tooke my leaue, And they all did perceiue, I would giue her three ſlips for a teſter. Yet ſince at a Wedding, Where ſhe came a gadding, among other maids of the towne, She came to the boord, Of her owne accord, and cloſe by me ſhe ſate downe, Thought I this is ſtrange, To ſée ſuch a change, I wiſht that my tongue had a bliſter. When I made that vow, But I muſt kéep't now, and giue her three ſlips for a teſter. It makes me to muſe, That ſhe who did vſe ſo much to reiect me before, Should follow me ſo, Where ere I doe goe, yet ſhe hath incens'd me ſo ſore, My heart is ſo hard, I cannot regard her beauty which brightly doth gliſter. I would haue had faine What now I diſdaine, I muſt giue her three ſlips for a teſter. If I had not ſworne To hold her in ſcorne, I would not ſo hardly deale with her. Oh had ſhe béene true, As to louers is due, ere this we had maried together, For me ſhe ſhall ſtay, Yet néeds muſt I ſay, that loue is a ſore that will feſter: I pity her ſtate, But helpe is too late, I muſt giue her three ſlips for a teſter. Let euery mayd Marke what I haue ſaid, and leaue off all ſcornfull diſdaine, Take leue while tis profferd, And time while tis offerd, or elſe you may wiſh for't in vaine: My loue when time was Did make me an aſſe, and plaid vpon me like a Ieſter: But the worſt is her ſhare, I ſcorne to take care, but Ile giue her three ſlips for a teſter.
FINIS.

Printed at London for F. Groue.