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In a May morninge.

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a may morning I mett a sweet nursse

with a babe in her armes, sweetly cold busse.

I wold to god itt were mine! I shold be glad ont!

ffor it was a merry mumping thing, who ere was dad

ont.

I saluted her kindlye, & to her I sayd,

"god morrow, sweet honye, and you be a mayd;
or if
you wold shew to me, I shold be glad ont;
or if you wold tell me who is the right dad ont."

"The dad of my child, Sir, I doe not well know,
ffor all that lay with mee refuseth me now

from one to the other; still I wold be rid ont."
"but whosoeuer gott the Child, Ile be the dad ont.”

"Ile take itt in mine armes, & wislye Ile worke,
Ile lay itt in the hye way as men come from kirke,
& euerye one that comes by shall haue a glegge 1 ont,
vntill I haue ffound out a man, the right dad ont."

There came a kind Scot[c]hman whose name is not
knowne,

sayes hee to this sweet hart, "this babye is mine

owne;

come bind it vpon my backe; Ione shall be rid ont;
for whosoeuer gott the child, Ile be the dad ont."

A glance, a sly look-a word still used in Northamptonshire.-P.

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Now, nay! now, nay!" shee sayes, soe itt may The girl

not bee!

your looke & his countenance doe not agree;

for had hee beene sike a swayne, I had neere been

great ont;

for hee was a blythe young man that was the right
dad ont.

"his lippes like the rubye, his cheekes like the rose,
he tempteth all ffayre mayds where-euer he goes:
first he did salute mee; then was I right glad ont;
O hee was a blythe younge man that was the right
dad ont.

"Ile trauell through England & Scottland soe wyde,
& a-ffoote I will ffollow him to be his bryde;

Ile bind itt vpon my backe, Ile not be ryd ont

refused him he

never got it.

A rubylipped young man was the true father,

and she'd tramp over England and Scotland

32 vntill I haue found out the man thats the right to find him

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dad ont.

"Ile husse1 itt, Ile busse itt, Ile lapp itt in say2;
Ile rocke itt, Ile lull itt, by night & by day;

Ile bind itt vpon my backe, Ile not be ridde ont
vntill I haue found out the man thats the right

and marry him.

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dad ont.

"And thus to conclude, thoe itt ffall to

my

Lott

to ffind a dad ffor my barne 3 that I cannott;

if an englishman gett a child, & wold be ridd ont,

But if she couldn't find him, why then

she'd fall

back on the

let him bring it to Scot[c]hman, & heele be the dad Scotchman.

ont."

1 hush.-F.

2 silk.-F.

3 bairn, child.-P.

The Turk in Linen.

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THIS is the eleventh song in Thomas Heywood's Rape of Lucrece, 1st ed. 1608. It was printed by Mr. Fairholt from the fifth edition, 1638, in his Satirical Songs and Poems on Costume, for the Percy Society, 1849, p. 141-2, but he modernised the spelling. "English Mutability in Dress" is the title that Mr. Fairholt gives the song, and he prints the first stanza of it, which our copy in the Folio omits. This stanza in the earliest and titleless

copy of the play in the British Museum-which I suppose to be the edition of 1608, and the readings of which in the notes below are signed B.M.-runs thus:

The Spaniard loues his ancient slop,

The Lumbard, his Venetian,'

And some, like breech-lesse women goe:

The Russe, Turke, Iew, and Grecian;

The threysly' Frenchman weares small wast,

The Dutch his belly boasteth;

The Englishman is for them all,

And for each fashion coasteth.

In illustration of this Mr. Fairholt aptly quotes the wellknown passages from Andrew Borde and Coryat about the Englishman's changeableness in dress. The latter says, "We weare more fantastical fashions than any nation under the sun, the French only excepted [see 1. 6 of our poem]; which hath

A kind of hose or breeches described by Stubbes. See the word in Nares.-F. 2 thrifty.-Fairholt. The fourth and

fifth editions both read threysly. ? from A.-S. bras, a hem, fringe-Somner. Or breahs, rottenness-Lye.-F.

given occasion to the Venetian, and other Italians, to brand the Englishman with a notable mark of levity, by painting him stark naked, with a pair of shears in his hand, making his fashion of attire according to the vain conception of his brainsick head, not to comeliness and decorum."

Possibly this copy in the Folio is from one of those of which Heywood complains in his To the Reader :

".. some of my plaies haue (vnknowne to me, and without any of my direction) accidentally come into the Printers hands, and therefore so corrupt and mangled (coppied only by the eare) that I haue bin as vnable to know them as a-shamed to chalenge them. This therefore I was the willinger to furnish out in his natiue habit: first being by consent, next because the rest haue been so wronged in being publisht in such sauadge and ragged garments: accept it courteous Gentlemen, and prooue as fauorable Readers as we haue found you gratious Auditors.

Yours T. H."

THE: turke in Linen1 wrapps his head,

the persian his in 2 lawne tooe,
the rushe 3 with sables ffurres his cappe,
& change will not be drawen tooe.
the Spaynyards constant to his blocke,
the ffrench inconstant euer;
but of all ffelts 4 that may

be ffelt,

8 giue me the English beuer.5

Linem in the MS.-F.

2 MS. in his ;-his in, B.M.-F. 3 Russe.-B.M.

4 Fealts.-B.M.

5 Fairholt says that beaver hats appear to have been first imported from Flanders. Cost. in England, p. 490. Stubbes, 1583, that they "were fetched from beyond the seas, from whence a great sort of other vanities do come besides." In a satiric ballad on the knights of £40 per annum made by James I. (in Wit and Wisdom, Shaksp. Soc. 1846, p. 146-7) the shepherds are jestingly told

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Above all other felts,

Russian,

Spanish,

French,

give me the English beaver!

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Cover your coxcombs with three-pound
beavers.-ib. p. 498.

"Beaver hats were expensive articles of
dress, as already noted. Dugdale, in
his Diary (under April 13, 1661), notes:
Payd for a bever hatte, £4 10s.'; the
fashion of it may be seen in Hollar's
print of that distinguished antiquary.
Pepys records (under June 27 in the
same year): This day Mr. Holden
sent me a bever, which cost me £4 5s.""-
ib. p. 503.

* Mr. Hunter's copy reads tenpenny.-Halliwell.

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The German loues his connye well,1
the Irishman his shagg tooe 2;
the welch his Monmouth 3 loues to weare,
& of the same will bragg tooe.

some loue the rough, & some the smooth,

some great, & other small thinge 1; but oh, your English Licorish man,5

he loues to deale in all thinges!

The Rush drinkes Quash6; Duche, lubickes beere,7

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conny-wool.-B.M. In another poem in the same volume, at p. 162, we readHere is an English conny furr !

Rushia hath no such stuffe,
Which, for to keep your fingers warme,
Excells your sable muffe.

The Burse of Reformation. ? For the double entendre of the black beaver, compare 1. 32 of Off alle the seaes below.-F.

2 Shagge-too.-B.M.

3 Munmouth.-B.M. A cut of the Monmouth cap is given on p. 502 of Fairholt's Costume in England, 1860, and on p. 115 of the Percy Society's Satirical Songs and Poems on Costume, and it is mentioned twice in the "Ballad of the Caps," which Mr. Fairholt places at the end of the reign of Elizabeth, and which is found in Sportive Wit, 1656; D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth, 1719-20, &c. The Monmouth-cap, the saylors thrum... The souldiers that the Monmouth wear.

From Cleveland's Square-Cap for me, the cap seems to have been made of plush

And first, for the plush-sake, the Monmouth-cap comes.

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11 (Sat. Songs, 134.) It was worn by sailors, as Mr. Fairholt

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