The crafty maids approbation. Wherein she shows either black or brown, tis mony makes them straight go down, when pritty girls that gold has none, their fortunes is still to lye alone. To the tune of, A fig for France.

The crafty maids approbation. Wherein she shows either black or brown, tis mony makes them straight go down, when pritty girls that gold has none, their fortunes is still to lye alone. To the tune of, A fig for France.

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The Crafty Maids Approbation.

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The Crafty Maids Approbation.

Wherein she shows either Black or Brown,

'Tis Money makes them straight go down;

When pritty Girls that Gold has none,

Their fortune is still to lye alone.

To the Tune of, A fig for France.

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DRaw near to me young Girls so fine,

Whose means and portion's like to mine;

If you'l but hear what I have pen'd,

'Twill make you smile before I end:

I once had Sweet-hearts fair and young,

Tho' now from me he's fled and gone;

But i'le tell you a very good reason why,

'Twas money did part my Love and I.

When first to me a Wooing he came,

He did desire to know my name;

I told him that my means was small,

He said he valued none at all:

So that my favour he could win,

He valued nothing else a pin:

But now he's gone and I know not why,

Twas mony, &c.

Yet for three years his Love stood fast,

And he vow'd for ever it should last;

But when my friends spoke of the same,

Then he was for another Dame:

Except so much money they'd give me,

No wife for him I must not be:

His words he clearly did deny,

So money did part, &c.

Thus maids may see, so may I too,

It is for money young-men Wooe:

Tho' great store of Love they do pretend,

Yet mark what falls out in the end:

When they find your Portions are but small,

Like to a Snake from you they'l crawl:

And to another streight they'l hye,

So money did part, &c.

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If I had a head like a Horse,

Or a body as thick as a Mill-post,

So bags came but tumbling in,

Then my favour every fool wou'd win;

Or was I long-snouted like a Sow,

Or else Crook-backt like our fine Cow:

Have at her then, these boys would cry,

She's money enough, and what care I.

Young-men don't blush, you know 'tis true,

For let her name be Mary or Sue,

Tho' she was blabber-lipt, also blear-ey'd,

Yet money all those faults will hide;

Nay, were she the nastiest dingiest slut,

That a man durst not after her crack a Nut;

Had she but money, house, or Land,

I'm sure she would not stick long a hand.

Yet we whose portions are but small,

Let us not be dismaid at all;

Neither let us grieve, lament, nor swound,

For Beauty's worth a thousand pound:

Hang't, though my first true Love be gone,

I've the same face for another man;

And I'le prove honest till I dye,

Tho' money, &c.

If two young-men talk of a Wench,

As they do sit of an ale-bench;

She's a good Huswife, the one replyes,

But has she money, the other cries:

If she has none she's not for me,

Give me the Cash, hang Huswifery,

I love to finger that, for why,

'Tis money did part my Love and I.

By this young Girls may plainly see,

How deceitful these young-men be;

They'l search a Maid from top to toe,

Till all her secrets they do know;

Then if her means don't please his mind,

He quickly can turn like the wind:

I must have a wife with more, he'I cry,

So money, &c.

Such affection did that young-man bear,

That he often called me his dear;

Such vows and Oaths he made, 'tis known,

But now he doth them quite disown:

But since he's gone, sing farewel he,

I'le slight him more then he does me:

I'le ne'r lament, nor weep, nor cry,

Tho' money, &c.

I am full glad we parted in truth,

For since I hear he's a cross-grain'd youth;

But had he prov'd true, though ne'r so bare,

In wealth or woe i'de bear a share;

But now i'm free, i'le let that slide,

And ne'r think more to be a Bride:

There's nothing like to Liberty,

Since money, &c.

Thus have I told young Maidens all,

How the weakest go to the Wall;

But she that is full, and her Purse well strung,

She shall have Sweet-hearts come ding dong:

It's no matter for breeding or sense,

So she has but Cash, he'l have the Wench;

Black or brown he looks not o'th dye,

'Twas money did part my Love and I.

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Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, & T. Passinger.

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The crafty maids approbation. Wherein she shows either black or brown, tis mony makes them straight go down, when pritty girls that gold has none, their fortunes is still to lye alone. To the tune of, A fig for France.

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— The crafty maids approbation. Wherein she shows either black or brown, tis mony makes them straight go down, when pritty girls that gold has none, their fortunes is still to lye alone. To the tune of, A fig for France.,

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Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, & T. Passinger.,. [London] :: [between 1678 and 1680]. (Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.)) (Contains 5 illustrations.) (Reproduction of original in: University of Glasgow Library.)

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