Good Counsel for young Wooers:  

Showing the Way, the Means, and the Skill,  
To woo any Woman, be she what she will:  
Then all young men that are minded to woo,  
Come hear this new Ballad, and buy't ere you go.   

To a dainty new tune, or else it may be Sung to the tune of Pretty Bessee.  
 

COme all you young Pupils that yet have no skill,  
In wooing to get a fine Lasses good will.  
you will be ruled, and take my advice,  
e teach you to woo and speed in a trice,  
●●u must not be daunted what ever she say,  
●●e may speed to morrow that's cast off to day.  
If you will woo a Wench with a black brow,  
Accept of my Counsel, and I'll tell you how,  
You must kiss h●r, & college her until she doth yield:  
A faint hearted Soldier will never win field.   

●ou must set her beauty at the highest rate,  
●nd never leave wooing her early and late.  
●ell her that her brow like a black Loadstone draws,  
●hy Iron heart to her, as jet will do straws,  
When she doth conceive and perceive thy respect,  
●re long thy industry shall find an effect.  
Then you that will woo a wench with a black brow,  
Accept of my counsel, etc.   

For take this from me, a black w●nch is still proud,  
●nd loves well to hear her praise set forth aloud,  
although she accuse thee of flattery of●t,  
And tell thee she cannot abide to be scoffed.)  
Yet never leave praising her, for if thou dost,  
Thy speeches, thy pavies, and thy love is all lost.  
T●●n if you will woo a Wench with black brow,  
A●●●●● of my Counsel, etc.   

Comply with her h●●our in every thing right,  
For that's the chief course that can give her delight,  
If thou see her merry, then laugh sing and i●●●,  
Or tell some love tales, this a maiden lik●● 〈◊〉,  
And when she is sad then put ●●nger i'th' eye.  
For wooers (like women) must oft feign a cry.  
Then if you will woo a wench with a black brow,  
Accept of my Counsel, etc.   

If great be her Portion, and thou be but poor,  
Thy duty and pains must be so much the more,  
Thou must vow good husbandry during thy life,  
What wilt thou not promise to get such a wife,  
Gowns, Kirtles, and toys of the fashion all new,  
What though all thy words prove not afterward true.  
Then i● you will woo a Wench with a black brow,  
Accept of my Counsel, etc.   

If thou from her fight have been too long a●●ay  
Then redeem thy negligence with longer stay,  
And if she be angry be sure go not thence,  
Until thou force her with thy fault to dispense,  
And tell her thou wilt not o●ely stay all day,  
But (if she please) thou wilt her all night ●bey.  
Then if you will woo a Wench with a black brow,  
Accept of my counsel, and I'll tell you how,  
You must kiss her and college her until she do yield:  
For a faint-hearted Soldier will never win field.    

The second part, To the same tune.  
 

Have her to weddings, plays, and merry meetings,  
Where she may notice take of Lover's greetings,  
S●ch ob●cts oftentimes a motive may be  
To make her love th● if she were a Lady,  
For when a Maid sée's what's done by another,  
It more will persuade then advice from her Mother.  
Then if you will woo a Wench with a black brow,  
Accept of my counsel, and I'll tell you how,  
You must kiss her and college her, until she do yield:  
For a saint-hearted Soldier will never win field.   

If unto a Fair thou do go far or nigh,  
Although thou have other great matters to buy,  
Yet when thou comest home again be not thou sparing,  
To say thou wentest only to buy her a fairing,  
By this she will think thou wilt be a kind wretch,  
That wouldst go so far off a fairing to fetch.  
Then you that will woo a Wench, etc.   

If she be in presence when others are by,  
Where words must be wanting there woo with thy eye,  
Although it see me strange yet experience doth prove,  
That the eye doth convey the first motion of Love,  
And thou mai●t perceive by her eye whether she,  
Do well correspond in affection with thee.  
Then if thou wilt woo a Wench, etc.   

When by these means (or by any of them)  
Thou hast got this favour of thy precious Gent,  
Be careful to hold and keep what thou hast got,  
The Proverb says strike the Iron while it is hot,  
For if thou protract and let slip thy occasion.  
She's not so soon won with a second persuasion.  
Then if thou wilt, etc.   

Thou well may'st perceive by the words that are past  
That I do advise thee to marry in haste.  
A thing may be dashed when it comes to the push,  
And one bird in hand is worth two in the bush,  
One day, nay one hour, (if thou ●ike thy wife)  
May make thee or mar thee all the days of thy life  
Then if you will woo a Wench, etc.   

Although in my counsel I let others pass,  
And only have mention made of a black Lass,  
Yet be thy sweet heart, either black, brown or rudi  
These Lessons kind Wooer are fit for the study,  
Be she fair or foul, b● she Widow or Maid,  
In wooing, a man must do as I have said.  
All you that will woo a Wench, etc.   

And now with this counsel my ditty I'll end,  
And if any Carper my skill discommend,  
he'll show little wisdom my counsel to blame;  
For the wisest Wooer may follow the same,  
And if they will not for my part let them choose,  
But once more I will them these Lines to peruse.  
Then if you will woo a Wench with a black bro●  
Accept of my counsel; and I'll tell you how,  
You must kiss her and college her, until she do yield,  
A faint-hearted Soldier will never win field.    
M. P.  
FINIS.   

Printed at London for F. G.