The MILKMAIDS Resolution.  

Let Young men prate of what they please  
'Cause young men have been kind,  
They'll find no more such Fools as these  
To please each Apish mind.   
Tune, Cupid's Trappan.  
 
 

OF late I did hear a young man domineer,  
Blow and vapour of what he could do  
But I think he knew how for so manage the  
far better than maidens to woe brave boys  
far better etc.   

And he surely doth think that we maidens are mad  
for to mind every Clown we do see  
Should his Love be expressed, with a vow & protest  
i'd believe no such boobies as he brave  
i'd &c.   

Though his bottles of Ale & other fine things  
he bestows on me every day  
It is my intent when his money is spent  
to bid him begun & away brave boys  
to bid, etc.   

I'll give him good words while his money doth last  
and tell him I dearly do love him  
When his cash is all gone, i'll tell him my man John  
there's others I fancy above him brave   

And that which is worse, when once they do find  
a maiden's poor heart it is won  
They'll laugh & they'll jeer, they'll giggle & sneer  
that they this poor maid hath undone brave  
that etc.   

Some men they love for what they can get  
& 'tis certain there's many a Lubbard  
Will sigh & will pant, seeming ready to faint  
& all for the love of the Cupboard, brave boys  
& all etc.   

And others so long as they think a poor maid  
has been careful and saved some money  
This maiden will find he will prove very kind  
& call her his joy & his honey brave boys  
and etc.   

Yea if this poor soul will be such a fool  
to hearken to this fellows tale  
she'll to poverty fall, he'll beguile her of all  
she hath got by the merry milk pail brave boys   

And she that doth carry the merry milk pall  
and delights for to milk the brown Cow  
May sure be as good, be it well understood  
as the Looby that follows the Blow brave  
as the etc.   

Yet each pitiful clown will boast up & down  
of the maidens that he hath betrayed  
If all were like me, such things should not be  
nor ever hereafter be said, brave boys  
nor &c.   

Keep but at a distance, and then they will be  
like men quite bereft of sense  
Then the best of them all into passion will fall  
& be ready to die for a wench brave boys  
and etc.   

Tho some of them now, do say they know how  
to make any maiden to yield  
But I would defy any man that should try  
in the midst of the merry Broom field brave  
in etc.   

For my modesty shall defend me from all  
that say 'tis so easy to win  
The poor virgin's sort, of which they make sport  
& delight in this treacherous sin brave boys  
and etc.   

Then maidens beware, of such villains take care  
whose delight is your absolute ruin  
If they conquer with ease & gain what they please  
they'll soon be● weary of wooing brave boys  
But if you stand off and at them do scoff  
you'll find they will burn like a fire  
When you make them to bow, let your reason know how  
to grant then the thing they desire brave  
to grant etc.   

Then take my advice you maids that are free  
i'll assure you I speak not in jest,  
Ne'er play with the dart till you yoyson your heart  
for a single life it is the best brave  
for etc.   

there's some that are married before they had wit  
that with sorrows are sorely apprest  
Then think it not strange, I am not for a change  
for a single life it is the best brave boys  
for etc.    

Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball