Five Merry wives of Lambeth OR, The Carpenter Cornuted.  
Five wanton wives at Lambeth lived I hear  
Which loved good Wine, good Ale, and eke good cheer,  
And something in a corner they would take  
For which they went abroad to merry make  
And what they did, if you will but draw near  
The full conclusion you shall quickly hear.  
Tune of, I am a Jovial bachelor, &c.  
 

COme Lambeth Wives & gossips all  
here is for you good Ware,  
This pretty jest did late befall  
described to a hair;  
The merry Wives of Windsor was  
a jovial crew, and free,  
But not to be compared to these  
if you will credit me,  
Five wanton wives at Lambeth lives  
and they would merry be,  
The gardener touched the Carpenters wife  
a little above the knee.   

These merry Wives to Dullige Wells  
their progress needs would take  
And on they put their roast-meat clothe  
as fine as hands could make.  
To say each had their private friend  
I should not tell a lie,  
Their gammerships for to attend  
O lie good Women lie,  
Five wanton, &c.   

There christened names I understand  
was Sarah, Sue, and Mary,  
And Nan, and Nell can plainly tell  
nothing to the contrary,  
Perhaps you may not know them well  
but its all one for that,  
Where e'er you meet them yan may get  
a bit to serve your Cat,  
Five wanton, &c.   

●●e Dullige water did not please  
●heir pallets worth two straws,  
●●…se it made them ill at ease  
〈◊〉 rumbled in their maws:  
It was not liquour for their turn  
him thence they do remove,  
〈…〉 ere to laugh, and not to mourn  
〈◊〉 drink a cup in love:  
Five wanton wives at Lambeth lives  
and they would merry be,  
The Gardner catched the Carpenters wife  
a little above the knee.   

Into the bell at Camberwell  
they came and called for Sack  
Whereas one of them chanced to fall,  
down flat upon her back  
But yet such harmless falls as these:  
will never break her bones  
Because she fell so much at ease  
and got no hurt by stones  
Five wanton wives, &c.   

A dinner straight provided was  
which cost them just five pound,  
Whilst every lusty lively lass  
took of their glasses round:  
It was not half so bad as lose  
their coin at Cards and Dice  
Yet such a shot I do suppose,  
might well a served them twice.  
Five wanton wives, &c.   

Great store of dainties there they had  
and diet rarely dressed,  
With wine to make their heart full glad  
and liquour of the best  
They eat their meat and drank their Sack  
and made no more ado  
Such dinners Poets sometimes lack,  
would I had been there too  
Five wanton wives, &c.   

But he that did this merry plot  
unto their grief discover,  
Did show himself more like a sot  
Than any faithful lover:  
As you may understand the same  
if that you mark me well,  
Because you know it is a shame  
to kiss, and after tell  
Five wanton wives, &c.   

One of them a Carpenters wife  
her husband is a Quaker,  
Which made her use a gardener  
sometimes as her partaker:  
This gardener took from her a Ring  
I think the sot was blind,  
He had better took the t'other thing  
and left the Ring behind  
Five wanton wives, &c.   

This Ring he gave unto his wife  
who something did misdoubt,  
She came unto the Carpenter  
to sift the story out,  
He had no sooner seen the Ring  
his wife was wont to wear:  
But was born mad, as any thing  
his patience could not bear  
Five wanton wives, &c.   

With that the gardiner's wife cried out  
if this your wives Ring be▪  
For certain I will slit her nose  
since she hath wronged me,  
My husband hath full twenty pound  
upon her vainly spent:  
With feasting of her whoreish chops  
In mirth and merriment  
Five wanton wives. &c.   

And thus the business was disclosed  
which caused the neighbour's laughter  
Great mirth there was it is supposed  
at what did follow after,  
But if you would informed be  
what after did befall,  
Ask greasy Joan the rumpwoman  
and she will tell you all,  
Five wanton wives at Lambeth lives  
and they would merry be.  
The gardener catched the Carpenters Wife  
a little above the knee.    

Printed for R. Burton at the Horse-shoe in West-Smith-field,