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THE LONDON 'PRENTICE.
You wanton maids who want to range,the country round about;Both night and day, to seek and search,to find young gallants out.
Your wanton fancies for to please,betimes give ear to meFor here's a song I really thinkwill fit you to a tee.
'Tis of a merchant in the Strand,that had a handsome wife,And she did love the change of men,as she did love her life.
That Merchant had a young 'prentice,that was at man's estate,And as I understand, his wifethis 'prentice she did hate.
The life he with his mistress liv'd,caus'd him shed floods of tears,She oftentimes would call him names,and lug him by the ears.
This sort of life with her he liv'd,almost the first three years;But now you'll know through policy,he did fit her as appears.
