Quotes from Taylor's Garland ()

“ Richard of Reading a taylor by trade;
Who courted a fair and a young beautiful maid;
Whose parents were wealthy and therefore behold
He gained her love with abundance of gold.
the taylor came often to measure her waist
At length with soft kisses her love he imbrac’d
He told her a thousand fine stories likewise,
But she at the first did his calling despise.
You are a bold impudent fellow quoth Kate,
How dare you presume to talk at this rate?
Be gone from my presence I tell you in brief,
I never intend to marry a thief. ”

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Taylor's Garland (1771-1810)

“ Take courage and suffer the shame for a while,
Thy father and thy mother I’ll soon reconcile,
They’ll grant I shall have thee without all dispute
So shall we have love ay and money to boot;
Within four or five months she begins for to show
So large in the waist that her coats they did grow,
Nay too short before and her apron too;
Her friend cried cousin what’s the matter wi’ you
Alas! in the city thou hast done amiss,
Your parents we must make acquainted with this
I fear that they quickly distracted will turn,
When that we inform them of what ye have done. ”

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Taylor's Garland (1771-1810)

“ Or else I'll disown you for ever he cry'd,
A gentlemans son I mind to provide,
And three hundred pounds in portion I'll give,
That so you may flourish so long as you live.
But true love so deep an impression hath made ”

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Taylor's Garland (1771-1810)

“ Her father by reading it bit his two thumbs,
And cry’d, oh my daughter; her mother she comes
And says what’s the matter? quoth he she’s wi’ child
My honoured family now is defiled.
Some spark in the city has led her astray,
And now to my sorrow, I rue this sad day,
That ever I sent her away from this place,
Dear wife, she has brought us to shame and disgrace
I wish the poor Taylor had her he said,
Nay if he be willing her folly to hide,
He shall have her too and I'll likewise be bound,
To give him a portion of two hundred pound. ”

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Taylor's Garland (1771-1810)

“ Part V. Shewing when the Taylor had got the money, and his marriage over told her father how he had tricked him.
Printed by J. Chalmers & Co. CastleStreet Aberdeen
THE TAYLOR’s GARLAND.
To the tune of, king William and his Forresters
You pretty young maids that has mourn’d many years
Come chear up your hearts and dry up your tears
Let not your grief and sorrows take birth;
For here I have bought you a garland of mirth.
A Garland of pleasure a garland of love,
How a young man did happen to prove
Successful in all his adventures of late ”

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Taylor's Garland (1771-1810)

“ Part I. Shewing a Talor’s Courtship to a young Lady who often denied him and abused him before she gave consent and how her parents threatened her.
Part II. How her parents sent her to London to stay with a friend where she wrote home for the Taylor.
Part III. How the Taylor went to London married her privately and got her with child and then returned home without her.
Part IV. How her father sent for the Taylor when he knew she was with child, hired him to take her and be the child’s father. ”

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