English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700; English wit and humor; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 17th century -- Literary collections
Good Women they will never change,
so will the Wine, so will the Wine,
For profit they abroad will range,
Hail, Rain or Shine, Hail Rain or Shine.
_But if &c_
_Thomas_
Women they will fight and brawl,
fill'd with Wine, fill'd with Wine,
Their Husbands they will Cuckolds call,
inflam'd with Wine, inflam'd with Wine.
_But if &c_
_John_
Good Women they will comfort all,
like the best Wine, like the best Wine,
Whatever Sorrow doth befall,
so will good Wine, so will good Wine.
_But if you'l believe me_,
_i'le tell you true_,
_What good Women are like unto_,
_Wine, Wine, Women and Wine_,
_thus you may compare them to_.
Printed for J. Williamson,[F. 111] at the Sun and Bible in Cannon
Street near London Stone.
[Footnote 111: Published in 1665.]
[17.] A Welch man in heat of blood, challenged an Englishman at Sword
and Buckler; but the Englishman giving him a lusty blow on the leg
which vext him, he threw down his Weapon, swearing _Splut, was not her
Buckler broad enough, but her must hit her on the leg?_
[52.] A _Bulkin_[F. 112] well knowne in divers places for his
mad conceits, and his couzenage, upon a time came into Kent to
Sittingborne; and in divers Villages there-about set up bills that all
sorts of people, young and old, that would come to Sittingborne, on
such a day, they should find a man there, that would give a remedy for
all kinds of diseases; and also would tell them what would happen unto
any of them in five or Six yeares after: and he would desire but two
pence a piece of any of them. Whereupon came people of all sorts and
from all places: so that he gathered of the people that came to the
value of twenty pounds: and he had provided a Stage, and set it up,
and placed a chaire where he would sit: and so, they being all come
in, and every one set in order, he comes to the gate, and takes the
money from them that gathered it, and bids them looke that good
rule be kept, and so they did: also hee bid them by and by sound the
drumme, and then he would begin his Orations. He, when they were
gone, with all haste gets him to the backe-side, and there having his
Gelding, gets upon his backe, and away towards _Rochester_ rides
he, as fast as ever he could gallop. Now they, thinking he had beene
preparing of things in a readinesse, sounded the drumme. The Audience
looked still when he would come, and staying one, two, or three
houres, nay more, thought sure they were cozened. Whereupon one of the
Company seeing a paper in the chaire on the Stage, tooke it, wherein
was written.
_Now you have heard the sound of the drumme_
_You may all depart like fooles as you come_.
Whereupon the men falling to cursing and swearing, the women to
scolding, scratching, and biting, were fame to depart like fooles
indeed.
[Footnote 112: Or bulchin, is a little bull, or bull calf.]
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