Hello everyone,

Here is the earliest date for "The Foggy, Foggy Dew". This is from a broadside dated 1689 and is found on page 250 of vol.5 in Pepys Ballad Collection Facsimile according to John Wardroper's Lovers, Rakes and Rouges. The modernized text below is found in Wardroper's Lovers on pgs. 87-88.

Can anyone confirm the song is in the Pepys Facsmile?

John Mehlberg
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The Firghtened Yorkshire Damsel
or Fears Dispersed by Pleasure

When first I began to court
And pretty young maidens to woo,
I could not win the virgin fort
But by the Bogulmaroo.

I kissed her in the summer time
And in the cold winter too;
At last I took her in the prime,
But by the Bogulmaroo.

My love she was going on night
To bed as she used to do
When on the stairs she saw a spright:
It was the Bogulmaroo.

She came to my chamber-door
And could not tell what to do,
But straight began to weep full sore
For fear of Bogulmaroo.

At last she came boldly in,
Though still her poor heart did rue,
For looking back, the spright did grin.
O cruel Bogulmaroo!

She started and run in haste
And close to my bedside dre3w.
Her eyes she durst not backward cast
For fear of Bogulmaroo.

But into my bed she crept,
And did her sorrows renew:
She wrung her hands and sadly wept
For fear of Bogulmaroo.

I turned about to the maid,
As lovers are wont to do,
And bid her be no more afraid
Of th'ugly Bogulmaroo.

I kissed and embraced her then.
Our pleasures they were not few.
We lay abed next day till ten
For fear of the Bogulmaroo.

My love she was all dismayed
To think of what she had done.
Arise, said I, be not afraid,
The Bogulmaroo is gone.

I married her the next day
And did her pleasure renew.
Each night we spend in charming play,
For all the Bogulmaroo.

I ne'er said a word of the thing
Nor never intended to do,
But every time she smiles on me
I think of Bogulmaroo.