A pretty new Ballad, entituled: The Crow sits upon the wall, Please one and please all.  
To the tune of, Please one and please all.  

 
Please one and please all,  
Be they great be they small,  
Be they little be they low,  
So pypeth the Crow,  
sitting upon a wall:  
please one and please all,  
please one and please all.   

BE they white be they black,  
Have they a smock on their back,  
Or a kircher on her head,  
Whether they spin silk or thread,  
whatsoever they them call:  
please one and please all,  
please one and please all.   

Be they sluttish be they gay,  
Love they work or love they play,  
Whatsoever be their cheer,  
Drink they Ale or drink they beer,  
whether it be strong or small:  
please one and please all,  
please one and please all.   

Be they sour be they sweet,  
Be they shrewish be they meek,  
Wear they silk or cloth so good,  
Velvet Bonnet or French-hood,  
Upon her head a Cap or call:  
please one and please all,  
please one and please all.   

Be they halt be they lame,  
Be she Lady be she dame,  
If that she do wear a pin,  
Keep she tavern or keep she Inn,  
Either bulk booth or stall,  
please one and please all,  
please one and please all.   

The goodwife I do mean,  
Be she fat or be she lean,  
Whatsoever that she be,  
This the Crow told me,  
sitting upon a wall:  
please one and please all,  
please one and please all.   

If the goodwife speak aloft,  
See that you then speak soft,  
Whether it be good or ill,  
Let her do what she will:  
and to keep yourself from thrall,  
please one and please all,  
please one and please all.   

If the goodwife be displeased,  
All the whole house is diseased,  
And therefore by my will,  
To please her learn the skill,  
Lest that she should always brawl:  
please one and please all,  
please one and please all.   

If that you bid her do aught,  
If that she do it not,  
And though that you be her goodman,  
You yourself must do it than,  
be it in kitchen or in hall:  
please one and please all,  
please one and please all.   

Let her have her own will,  
Thus the Crow pypeth still,  
Whatsoever she command,  
See that you do it out of hand,  
whensoeur she doth call:  
please one and please all,  
please one and please all.   

Be they wanton be they wild,  
Be they gentle be they mild:  
Be she white be she brown,  
Doth she scold or doth she frown,  
Let her do what she shall:  
please one and please all,  
please one and please all.   

Be she coy be she proud,  
Speak she soft or speak she loud,  
Be she simple be she flaunt,  
Doth she trip or doth she taunt,  
the Crow sits upon the wall:  
please one and please all,  
please one and please all.   

Is she housewife is she none,  
Doth she drudge doth she groan,  
Is she nimble is she quick,  
Is she short is she thick,  
Let her be what she shall:  
please one and please all,  
please one and please all.   

Be they rich be they poor,  
Is she honest is she whore,  
Wear she cloth or Velvet brave,  
Doth she beg or doth she crave,  
Wear she hat or silken call:  
please one and please all,  
please one and please all.   

Be she cruel be she cursed,  
Come she last come she first,  
Be they young be they old,  
Do they smile do they scold,  
though they do nought at all:  
please one and please all,  
please one and please all.   

Though it be some crows guise,  
Oftentimes to tell lies,  
Yet this crows words doth try,  
That her tale is no lie,  
For thus it is and ever shall:  
please one and please all,  
please one and please all.   

Please one and please all,  
Be they great be they small,  
Be they little be they low,  
So pipeth the Crow,  
sitting upon a wall:  
please one and please all,  
please one and please all.  
FINIS.   
R. T.   

¶ Imprinted at London for Henry Kyrkham, dwelling at the little North door of Paul's, at the sign of the black Boy.