A fairing for young-men and maids. If you'l take my advice, this I would have you do, then every young-man take his lass, and drink one pot or two. To the tune of, The Winchester wedding. This may be printed, R.P. / By Tobias Bowne. Bowne, Tobias. 1670-1696? Approx. 5 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). B01737 Wing B3892 Interim Tract Supplement Guide EBB65H[98] Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.8[162] 99887129 ocm99887129 183342 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. B01737) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 183342) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A2:3[98]; A5:2[133]) A fairing for young-men and maids. If you'l take my advice, this I would have you do, then every young-man take his lass, and drink one pot or two. To the tune of, The Winchester wedding. This may be printed, R.P. / By Tobias Bowne. Bowne, Tobias. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts). Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden Ball in Pye-corner., [London] : [between 1670-1696] Verse: "As Thomas and Mary did meet ..." Place, date of publication suggested by Wing. Item at reel A5:2[133] trimmed. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University, Houghton Library (reel A2) and the British Library (reel A5). 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. 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Broadsides -- Early works to 1800. 2008-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-09 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-11 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-11 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A FAIRING For Young-Men and Maids : If you 'l take my advice , this I would have you do , Then every Young-man take his Lass , and drink one Pot or two . To the Tune of , The Winchester Wedding . By Tobias Bowne . This may be Printed , R. P. AS Thomas and Mary did meet , it was on a Summers day , With words they began to greet each other upon the way : Pray what are you bound for the Fair this Young-man unto her did say , And if that you be going there , I 'le be glad of your Company ; He said that he did love her . as a young-man a Maid should do , And every Stile they went over , he gave her a kiss or two . But when they came to the Fair , they merrily spent the day , But me●ting with William and Betty , thus Thomas to them did say , We 'l drink before we part , come give us a Bottle of Wine , Since thou art with thy Sweet-heart , and I am come here with mine : The Maids were not unwilling , as far as I understand , But Will was for kissing and feeling a Maid upon every hand . And when they were full of Canary , their stomachs began for to rise Then Thomas began to court Mary , with hand upon one of her thighs : Said he art thou willing to Wed , for I have some goods before hand , Besides when my Father is dead , he promis'd me all his Land , And this is a good beginning , besides I have more at home , You may get a little by spinning , and I can both Weave and Comb. My Mother will give me a little , if I get an honest Young-man , She saith I shall have the Kettle , and likewise the Warming-pan : My Granum will give me a Cradle , which is both firm and strong , Sister Margery will give me a Ladle , these Goods comes in ding dong : And this is a good beginning , besides I have more at home , I may get a little by spinning , and you can both Weave and Comb. Then William struck up to Betty , and thus unto her did say , Since thou art a Girl that 's pritty , I 'le give thee a Fairing this day , Why sit you so melancholly , my pretty sweet Betty my Dove , Though Thomas be all for Molly , it 's thou art the Maid that I love , And this unto thee I will promise , then hang Sorrow cast away care , We 'l be as far forth as Thomas , before we get out of the Fair. If that you will change your condition , and that you do fancy a Man , I pray Bett● have no suspicion , t●at you I do seek to trappan , My tongue and my heart is united , I scorn for to tell thee a lye , Sure I have no cause to be slighted , then prethee love do not deny , Though we have a small beginning , as little as nothing I know , You may get a little by spinning , and I can both Reap and Mow. And thus we may live in content , as they that had a great deal more , Then out of the door they went , and walked the Fair all o're , To buy each other a Fairing , as young-men and Maids should do , And when they were home repairing , they walked away two and two , It was Thomas and Mary together , with William and Betty so rare , Pray what Man can say any other , but that they had made a good Fair. What Maid can there be so hard hearted , an honest Young man to deny , That is the cause many are parted , without any reason why , I would have you strive to prevent it , or else it may be to your loss , I know that you are not contented , when you one the other do cross , And now my new Song it is over , for I have no more to say , But wish every Maid a true lover , that I have seen here to day . Printed for P. Brooksby , at the Golden Ball in Pye-Corner .