Good Counsell for young VVooers:
Shewing the Way, the Meanes, and the Skill,
To wooe any Woman, be she what she will:
Then all young men that are minded to wooe,
Come heare this new Ballad, and buy't ere you goe.
To a dainty new tune, or else it may be Sung to the tune of Prettie Bessee.
COme all you young Pupils that yet haue no skill,
In wooing to get a fine Lasses good will.
you will be ruled, and take my aduice,
e teach you to wooe and spéed in a trice,
[...]u must not be daunted what euer she say,
[...]e may speed to morrow that's cast off to day.
If you will wooe a Wench with a blacke brow,
Accept of my Counsell, and Ile tell you how,
You must kisse h
[...]r, & coll her vntill she doth yield:
A faint hearted Souldier will never win field.
[...]ou must set her beauty at the highest rate,
[...]nd neuer leaue wooing her early and late.
[...]ell her that her brow like a black Loadst
[...]ne drawes,
[...]hy Iron heart to her, as Iet will doe strawes,
When she doth conceiue and perceiue thy respect,
[...]re long thy industry shall find an effect.
Then you that wil wooe a wench with a black brow,
Accept of my counsell, &c.
For take this from me, a blacke w
[...]nch is still proud,
[...]nd loues well to heare her praise set forth aloud,
[...]lthough she accuse thée of flattery of
[...]t,
And tell thée she cannot abide to be scoft.)
Yet neuer leaue praysing her, for if thou dost,
Thy spéeches, thy pauies, and thy loue is all lost.
T
[...]n if you will wooe a Wench with black brow,
A
[...] of my Counsell, &c.
Comply with her h
[...]our in euery thing right,
For that's the chiefe course that can giue her delight,
If thou sée her merry, then laugh sing and i
[...],
Or tell some loue tales, this a maiden lik
[...]
[...],
And when she is sad then put
[...]nger i'th eye.
For wooers (like women) must oft feigne a cry.
Then if you will wooe a wench with a blacke brow,
Accept of my Counsell, &c.
If great be her Portion, and thou be but poore,
Thy duty and paines must be so much the more,
Thou must vow good husbandry during thy life,
What wilt thou not promise to get such a wife,
Gownes, Kirtles, and toyes of the fashion all new,
What though al thy words proue not afterward t
[...]ue.
Then i
[...] you will wooe a Wench with a black brow,
Accept of my Counsell, &c.
If thou from her fight haue béene too long a
[...]ay
Then redéeme thy negligence with longer stay,
And if she be angry be sure goe not thence,
Untill thou force her with thy fault to dispence,
And tell her thou wilt not o
[...]ely stay all day,
But (if she please) thou wilt her all night
[...]bey.
Then if you will wooe a Wench with a black brow,
Accept of my counsell, and Ile tell you how,
You must kisse her and coll her vntill she doe yield:
For a faint-hearted Souldier will neuer win field.
The second part, To the same tune.
HAue her to weddings, playes, and merry méetings,
Where she may notice take of Louers greetings,
S
[...]ch ob
[...]cts often-times a motiue may be
To make her loue th
[...] if she were a Lady,
For when a Maid sée's what's done by another,
It more will perswade then aduice from her Mother.
Then if you will wooe a Wench with a black brow,
Accept of my counsell, and Ile tell you how,
You must kisse her and coll her, vntill she doe yi
[...]ld:
For a saint-hearted Souldier will neuer win field.
If vnto a Faire thou doe goe farre or nigh,
Although thou haue other great matters to buy,
Yet when thou com'st home againe be not thou sparing,
To say thou went'st onely to buy her a fayring,
By this she will thinke thou wilt be a kind wretch,
That would'st goe so farre off a fayring to fetch.
Then you that will wooe a Wench, &c.
If she be in presence when others are by,
Where words must be wanting there wooe with thy eye,
Although it sée me strange yet experience doth proue,
That the eye doth conuey the first motion of Loue,
And thou mai
[...]t perceiue by her eye whether she,
Doe well correspond in affection with thée.
Then if thou wilt wooe a Wench, &c.
When by these meanes (or by any of them)
Thou hast got this fauour of thy precious Gent,
Be carefull to hold and kéepe what thou hast got,
The Prouerbe sayes strike the Iron while it is hot,
For if thou protract and let slip thy occasion.
She's not so soone wonne with a second pers
[...]asion.
Then if thou wilt, &c.
Thou well may'st perceiue by the words that are past
That I doe aduise thee to marry in haste.
A thing may be dasht when it comes to the push,
And one bird in hand is worth two in the bush,
One day, nay one houre, (if thou
[...]ike thy wife)
May make thée or marre thée all the dayes of thy life
Then if you will wooe a Wench, &c.
Although in my counsell I let others passe,
And only haue mention made of a blacke Lasse,
Yet be thy swéet heart, either blacke, browne or rudi
These Lessons kind Wooer are fit for the study,
Be she fayre or foule, b
[...] she Widow or Maid,
In wooing, a man must doe as I haue said.
All you that will wooe a VVench, &c.
And now with this counsell my ditty Ile end,
And if any Carper my skill discommend,
Hee'le shew little wisedome my counsell to blame;
For the wisest Wooer may follow the same,
And if they will not for my part let them chuse,
But once more I will them these Lines to peruse.
Then if you will wooe a VVench with a black bro
[...]
Accept of my counsell; and Ile tell you how,
You must kisse her and coll her, vntill she doe yield,
A faint-hearted Souldier will neuer win field.
M. P.
FINIS.
Printed at London for F. G.