A new merry dialogue betweene John and Bessee, the two lusty brave lovers of the country, or, A couragious way of vvooing L. P. (Laurence Price), fl. 1625-1680? This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A55790 of text R35369 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing P3379). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A55790 Wing P3379 ESTC R35369 15265307 ocm 15265307 103320 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A55790) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 103320) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2968:19[6], 1192:10) A new merry dialogue betweene John and Bessee, the two lusty brave lovers of the country, or, A couragious way of vvooing L. P. (Laurence Price), fl. 1625-1680? 1 broadside : ill. Printed for William Gilbertson, London : [1655?] In verse. Signed: L.P. Date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). "The tune is, Sweet George I love thee." Illustrated with 4 woodcuts. Item 2968:19[6] is 6 of 32 broadsides on reel 2968:19. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Ballads, English. A55790 R35369 (Wing P3379). civilwar no A new merry dialogue betweene John and Bessee the two lusty brave lovers of the country. Or, A couragious way of vvooing. The young-man very L. P 1655 1005 4 0 0 0 0 0 40 D The rate of 40 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-04 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-10 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A New merry Dialogue betweene John and Bessee The two lusty brave Lovers of the Country . Or , a couragious way of VVooing . The Young man very willing was to marry , The Maid was loath a longer time to tarrie , But when this couple were agreed They married were with all the speed , Then list and I will plainly tell How every thing in order fell . The tune is , sweet George I love thee , I Am a Batchelour bold and brave , sweet Besse now I come to thee , Thy love is the thing that I doe crave , which makes me thus for to wooe thee : My heart is inflamed with Cupids hot fire , One drop of thy mercy to coole I desire , If thou wilt but grant unto what I require , I vow no harme to doe thee . Ever since the first time that I did thee see , faire Besse now I come to thee , My heart and affection was linked to thee , which makes me thus for to wooe thee : And now I am come for to tell thee my mind , As true loves strong fettered chains doth me bind , If thou unto me wilt be courteous and kind , I vow no harme for to doe thee . I le buy thee silk Ribbons , I le buy the gold Rings sweet Besse now I come to thee , Black-bag and silk Apron and other rare things , see now how I doe wooe thee : New gown and new petticoat , new hose & shooes , A new beaver Hat the best that I can chuse , Prethre Love doe not my proffers refuse , all this good will I doe thee . Thou shalt have thy servants on thee to att●●● sweet Besse now I come to thee , My purse and my person thy life shall defend , my suit is still for to wooe thee , My goods & my substance my house and my land , My mind and my sence & my heart and my hand , Thou shalt every houre have at thy command . all this good I will doe to thee , Thou shalt have varieties what thou wilt wish , swéet Besse now I come to thee , Served in at thy Table of Flesh and of Fish , my suit is still for to wooe theer Thou shalt have larks , chickens hens capon or coney , And any fine fare that can be bought for money If thou l't be my True-love , my Joy & my Honey , all this I will doe for thee . More over a faithfull promise I make , swéet Besse now I come to thee , Whilst breath 's in my body I le not thee forsake , as suro as now I doe wooe thee : Then prethee faire Besse ease me of my paine , And doe not repay my true love with disdain , But as I have lov'd thee so love me againe , and I le be faithfull unto thee . The second Part , to the same tune KInd Iohn I protest thou art welcome to me , since thou art come for to wooe me ; Ten thousand to one but wée two shall agrée , now thou com'st lovingly to me , Thy love and thy labour is not lost in vaine , For thus in few words I will tell thee here plain , If thou com'st at midnight I le thee entertaine , I know no harme thou l't doe me . I have kept my maiden-head twenty long yeare , before you come to wooe me , And many a brave gallant that loved me deare . made suite often unto me : But I for my own part could love never a man , Let them use the chiefest of skill that they can , Untill the time came that I met with my Iohn , I know no harme thou l't doe me . You promis●d me gold and you promis'd me fée , when you came first for to wooe me , Because that I your true Lover should be , these knacks you proffered unto me : You promis'd me scarffs & you promis'd mr rings , Silk gown and silk apron and many brave things , The which to my presence much comfort it brings , I know much good you will doe me . Gay garments are good sir of which I except , now you so lovingly wooe me , Your Silver is better I doe it respect , both those are welcome unto me , But your proper person excéeds all the rest , For you are the creature that I doe love best I had rather have you then have gold in my chest , for I know no harme you●l doe me . To bind up the bargaine and finish the strife , séeing you came hither to wooe me , I prethee come quickly and make me thy wife , I know no harme you 'l doe me , And when wée art married thou shalt have thy will To clip and to kisse and to use thine own will , I am thine own true love and so will be still , now I come merrily to thee . This lusty young couple being joyntly agréed , when he came for to wooe her , To Church then they went and were married with speed , then he bravely came to her : Together they went as True lovers should , He gave her gay garments & rings of rich Gold , And when they their tales had so pleasantly told , he did no harme unto her . L , P. London Printed for William Gilbertson Gil●-●pur-street