Together with supplied to the new tune: “My personal minnie states We mauna”, Scots Songs Museum , #465, are a track slightly revised from given by Wm. Hick’s inside the Grammatical Drollery , p. 75, 1682. The fresh tune had received into the Oswald’s Caledonian Pocket Mate , bk. 8, c 1756, since “My Mom claims We mannot.”

That it track provided over try reworked regarding the eighteenth century, offering it a relatively other meter, requiring yet another tune, and you can is actually wrote as the one piece song having musical, entitled “Cupid’s Payback.”

Cupid’s Revenge.

‘Twas to the a certain time, when Mars and Venus met, both are young and you will gay, in order to satisfaction rapidly Sett. But nothing Cupid roguishly, He noticed them so Slim, He could not cover up, however, noisy he Cry’d Come off my Mother Sirrah, Sirrah, Sirrah Sirrah come off my Mommy Sirrah.

Precious Cupid hold your own language, my quite nothing Boy, I’le not your Mom wrong, go-go the right path to tackle, O the way i Claspt their particular during my armes since if I’de push her thorrow, Zounds cry’s the fresh chap, because if he had been Aggravated, come off my personal Mommy, Sirrah, Sirrah &c.

Dear Cupid keep your own serenity, your own Mommy are a lady, We do this for our convenience, throughout the nation ’tis Preferred, Today if you will however, promote myself hop out to draw my Wonderful Arrow, I’le make you an excellent Groat, pish We worthy of it perhaps not, be removed my Mom, Sirrah, Sirrah &c.

Beloved Cupid this might be Mars, this new annoyed Jesus of Battle, All the Globes concerns their push, pray cease your tittle tattle, He could be a goodness that do’s command, he neither beggs original source site or borrows, Be the guy Jesus otherwise Demon, the guy need civil, come-off my Mother, Sirrah Sirrah &c.

She clap’t his pouting Cheeks, crying Mars anger more than, Our very own friendship ’tis the guy aims, find nothing you find, He will perhaps not stay in order to troubles your, he’le be wiped out in order to Morrow, The guy n’d, go off my personal Mother, Sirrah, Sirrah &c.

‘The Foreign language Merchant’s Daughter’ along with its double bad question and answer making a confident, is meagerly well known because a classic song, but smaller notorious is the origins. An excellent broadside ballad regarding c 1672-84, ‘The Stupid Woman, Or, No-no not I, I’le answer,’ spends the same motif, but there is a mature variation yet ,. Regrettably, a book particular from the 1635-40, inside Bodleian MS Ashmole 38 (a set of unmarried sheets out of various offer bound together), can be so improperly waterstained that all from it is actually unreadable. The initial of eight verses happens:

A slightly changed text looks in the Tablets to Provide Melancholy , beginning into the 1700; (III, p. 82, 1719), with a tune, also it goes below:

Consent for a change.

Ladys, why doth Love torment your? You should never We your own Suffering beat? Can there be nothing that can stuff your Into sweet delights out of Love O Zero, no, zero, zero, no: O, Zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, no.

Charm inside the best Level, Hath the fresh new Love and would you like to of all: Dear, next should I hold off the Satisfaction, One to commands my Cardiovascular system and all sorts of: O No, &c.

If i grieve, and you will convenience me personally, To you become thus increasingly bent, With wherewithal to excite myself, Should i remain Discontent? O No, &c.

If i are your loyal Servant, And my personal Love really does still will always be; Will you believe they unwell deserved, Are favour’d to possess my pain? O No, &c.

If i should then crave a support, Hence the Lips receive me to, Do you ever consider they unwell Actions, Therefore to inexpensive a kiss otherwise two? O No, &c.