A New Song ("Yonder Sits a Handsome Creature")- broadside (Lon) c. 1776
[From British Library, item 1346 m 7, Broadsides 1 to 42, this being item 29, 3 songs of which this is the third.
R. Matteson 2017]
"A New Song" ("Yonder Sits a Handsome Creature") broadside dated c. 1776.
Yonder sits a handsome creature,
What she is I do not know,
But I'll go court her for her feature,
If her answer be not, "no."
"Madam, I am come a wooing,
If I can your favor gain,
And if you make me kindly welcome,
I perhaps will come again."
"Set down you're kindly welcome,
If I never see you more,
But I must and I will have a handsome husband,
Whether he be rich or poor."
"Madam I've got gold and treasure,
Madam I've got house and land
Madam I've got rings and jewels,
And all will be at your command."
What care I for gold and treasure,
What care I for house and land
What care I for rings and jewels,
If I had but a handsome man."
Madam you have much of beauty,
Which is a thing that soon will fade,
For the brightest flower in the summer,
Is the flower that soonest fades.
After cowslips there comes roses,
After night there comes day,
After a false love there comes a true one,
And so we pass the times away.
Ripest apples are the soonest rotten
Hottest love is the soonest cold
Young men's love is soonest forgotten
Maids take care be not too bold.
He that has my heart a-keeping,
O that he had my body too,
For I shall spoil my eyes with weeping,
Crying, "Alas! what shall I do?"