The countrey lasse. To a daintie new note, which if you can hit, there's another tune will as well fit. To the tune of, The mother beguild daughter. M. P. (Martin Parker), d. 1656? 1628-1629? 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) : 2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). B00486 STC 19224.5 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.7[52] 99884196 ocm99884196 182949 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. B00486) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182949) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A5:1[30]) The countrey lasse. To a daintie new note, which if you can hit, there's another tune will as well fit. To the tune of, The mother beguild daughter. M. P. (Martin Parker), d. 1656? 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. Printed by the assignes of Thomas Symcocke, [London] : [1628 or 9] Attributed to Martin Parker. Place and date of publication suggested by STC. Verse: "Although I am a countrey lasse ..." Reproduction of original in the British Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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ALthough I am a Countrey Lasse , a loftie minde I beare a , I thinke my selfe as good as those that gay apparrell weare a : My coate is made of comely Gray , yet is my skin as soft a , As those that with the chiefest Wines , do bathe their bodies oft a. Downe , downe dery , dery downe , heigh downe a downe a downe a , a dery dery dery dery downe , heigh downe a downe a dery . What though I keepe my Fathers shéep , a thing that must be done a , A garland of the fairest flowers shall shrewd me from the Sunne a : And when I see them feeding be , where grasse and flowers spring a Close by a Crystall fountaine side I sit me downe , and sing a , Downe &c. Dame nature crownes us with delight , surpassing Court or Citie , We pleasures take from morne to night in Sports and pastimes pretty : Your City Dames in Coaches ride abroad for recreation , We Countrey Lasses hate their pride , and keepe the Countrey fashion . Downe &c. Your City Wiues lead wanton liues , and if they come i' th Countrey , They are so proud , that each one striues for to outbraue our Gentry We countrey lasses homely be for seat nor wall we striue not , We are content with our degree , our debtors we depriue not , Downe &c. I care not for the fane or Maske , when Titans heat reflecteth , A homely Hat is all I aske , which well my face protecteth : Yet am I in my Countrey guise , estéem'd Lasse as pretty As those that euery day deuise new shapes in Court or City . Downe &c. In euery season of the yeare I vnder-goe my labour No Showre nor Winde at all I feare , my Limbes I do not fauour : If Summers heat my beauty staine , it makes me nere the sicker , Sith I can wash it off againe with a Cup of Christmas Liquor . Downe , downe dery , dery downe , heigh downe a downe a downe a , a dery dery dery dery downe , heigh downe a downe a dery . The second part . To the same tune , AT Christmas time in mirth and glee , I dance with young men neatly , And who i' the City like to me , shall surely taste compleately : No Sport , but Pride and Luxury i' th city can be found then , But bounteous Hospitality i' th Countrey doth abound then , Downe &c. I' the Spring my labour yeelds delight , to walke i' the merry Morning , When Flora is ( to please my sight ) the ground with flowres adorning : With merry Lads to make the Hay I goe , and doe not grumble , My worke doth seeme to be but play , when with young men I tumble . Downe &c. The Larke & Thrush from Bryar to Bush do leape , and skip , and sing a , And all this then to welcome in the long-and lookt for Spring a ▪ We feare not Cupids arrowes keene , Dame Venus we defie a , Diana is our honored Queene , and her we magnifie a. Downe &c. That which your City-Damsels scorne , we hold our chiefest Iewell , Without , to worke at Hay and Corne , within to Bake and Brew well , To keepe the Dayrie decently , and all things cleane and neatly , Your Citie-Minions do defie , their scorne we weigh not greatly . Downe &c. When we together a milking go , with pailes upon our heads a , And walking ouer Woods and Fields , where Grasse and Flowers spreds a , In honest pleasure we delight , which makes our labour sweet a , And Mirth exceeds on euery side , when Lads and Lasses meete a. Downe &c. Then do not scorne a Countrey Lasse , though she be plaine and meanely : Who takes the Countrey Wench to Wife , ( that goeth neat and cleanely ) Is better sped , then if he wed a fine one from the Citty , For then they are so nicely bred , they must not worke for pitie . Downe &c. I speake not this to that intent , ( as some may well coniecture ) As though to Wooing I were bent , nor I nere learn'd Louers Lectuue : But what I sing is in defence of all plaine Countrey Lasses , Whose modest honest innocence all City Girles surpasses . Downe , downe dery , dery downe , &c. FINIS . Printed by the Assignes of Thomas Symcocke .