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<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_ii" id="page_ii">{ii}</a></span>  </p>
<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_iii" id="page_iii">{iii}</a></span>  </p>
<p class="c"><span class="lspc">OLD SONGS</span></p>
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<h1><span class="big">O</span>LD SONGS</h1>
<p class="c">WITH DRAWINGS BY<br />
<span style="margin-left: 4em;">EDWIN A · ABBEY</span><br />
<span style="margin-left: 8em;">& ALFRED PARSONS</span>
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NEW YORK · HARPER & BROTHERS · PRINTERS &<br />
PUBLISHERS · FRANKLIN SQUARE · M DCCC LXXXIX
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<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_iv" id="page_iv">{iv}</a></span>  </p>
<p class="c"><small><i>COPYRIGHT, 1888, BY</i><br />
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<i>HARPER & BROTHERS</i>.<br />
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<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_v" id="page_v">{v}</a></span></p>
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<tr><td><a href="#A_LOVE_SONG"><i>A Love Song</i></a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_1"><i>1</i></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#WHY_CANST_THOU_NOT_AS_OTHERS_DO">“<i>Why canst Thou not, as Others do</i>”</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_15"><i>15</i></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#WITH_JOCKEY_TO_THE_FAIR">“<i>With Jockey to the Fair</i></a>”</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_19"><i>19</i></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#SWEET_NELLY_MY_HEARTS_DELIGHT">“<i>Sweet Nelly, my Heart’s Delight</i>”</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_27"><i>27</i></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#WHAT_HAP_HAD_I_TO_MARRY_A_SHROW">“<i>What hap had I to Marry a Shrow</i></a>”</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_33"><i>33</i></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#THE_LEATHER_BOTTEL"><i>The Leather Bottèl</i></a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_37"><i>37</i></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#NEVER_LOVE_THEE_MORE"><i>Never Love Thee More</i></a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_49"><i>49</i></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#HERES_TO_THE_MAIDEN_OF_BASHFUL_FIFTEEN">“<i>Here’s to the Maiden of Bashful Fifteen</i></a>”</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_53"><i>53</i></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#BARBARA_ALLEN"><i>Barbara Allen</i></a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_57"><i>57</i></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#PERIGOT_AND_CUDDYS_ROUNDELAY"><i>Perigot and Cuddy’s Roundelay</i></a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_67"><i>67</i></a>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_vi" id="page_vi">{vi}</a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#SALLY_IN_OUR_ALLEY"><i>Sally in Our Alley</i></a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_73"><i>73</i></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#EARLY_ONE_MORNING">“<i>Early One Morning</i></a>”</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_85"><i>85</i></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#KITTY_OF_COLERAINE"><i>Kitty of Coleraine</i></a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_89"><i>89</i></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#OLD_KING_COLE"><i>Old King Cole</i></a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_97"><i>97</i></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#HARVEST-HOME"><i>Harvest Home</i></a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_101"><i>101</i></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#TWAS_DOWN_IN_CUPIDS_GARDEN"><i>Down in Cupid’s Garden</i></a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_107"><i>107</i></a></td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#page_111"><i>Phillada Flouts Me</i></a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_111"><i>111</i></a></td></tr>
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<h2><a name="A_LOVE_SONG" id="A_LOVE_SONG"></a><i>A LOVE SONG.</i><br /><br />
<span class="subhd">BY GEORGE WITHER.</span></h2>
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alt="I" /></span> lov’d a lasse, a faire one,<br /></span>
<span class="ih">As faire as e’er was seene;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">She was, indeed, a rare one,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Another Sheba queen;<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_4" id="page_4">{4}</a></span><br /></span>
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<span class="i0">But, foole, as then I was,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">I thought she lov’d me too;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">But, now, alasse! sh’as left me,<br /></span>
<span class="i2"><i>Falero, lero, loo</i>.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">Her haire, like gold, did glister;<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Each eye was like a starre;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">She did surpasse her sister,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Which past all others farre:<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">She would me hony call:<br /></span>
<span class="i2">She’d, oh, she’d kisse me too!<br /></span>
<span class="i0">But, now, alasse! sh’as left me,<br /></span>
<span class="i2"><i>Falero, lero, loo</i>.<br /></span>
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<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_6" id="page_6">{6}</a></span></p>
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<span class="i0">In summer-time, to Medley<br /></span>
<span class="i2">My love and I would goe—<br /></span>
<span class="i0">The boatmen there stood readie<br /></span>
<span class="i2">My love and I to rowe;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">For creame there would we call,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">For cakes, and for prunes too;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">But, now, alasse! sh’as left me,<br /></span>
<span class="i2"><i>Falero, lero, loo</i>.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">Many a merry meeting<br /></span>
<span class="i2">My love and I have had:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">She was my onely sweeting;<br /></span>
<span class="i2">She made my heart full glad:<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_7" id="page_7">{7}</a></span><br /></span>
<span class="i0">The teares stood in her eyes,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Like to the morning-dew;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">But, now, alasse! sh’as left me,<br /></span>
<span class="i2"><i>Falero, lero, loo</i>.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">And as abroad we walked,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">As lovers’ fashion is,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Oft, as we sweetly talked,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">The sun would steale a kisse;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">The winde upon her lips<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Likewise most sweetly blew;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">But, now, alasse! sh’as left me,<br /></span>
<span class="i2"><i>Falero, lero, loo</i>.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">Her cheekes were like the cherrie,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Her skin as white as snow;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">When she was blyth and merrie,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">She angel-like did show;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Her wast exceeding small,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">The fives did fit her shoo;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">But, now, alasse! sh’as left me,<br /></span>
<span class="i2"><i>Falero, lero, loo</i>.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">In summer-time or winter<br /></span>
<span class="i2">She had her heart’s desire;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">I stil did scorne to stint her<br /></span>
<span class="i2">From sugar, sacke, or fire:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">The world went round about;<br /></span>
<span class="i2">No cares we ever knew;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">But, now, alasse! sh’as left me,<br /></span>
<span class="i2"><i>Falero, lero, loo</i>.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">As we walked home together,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">At midnight, through the towne,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">To keepe away the weather,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">O’re her I’d cast my gowne;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">No colde my love should feele,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Whate’er the heavens could doe;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">But, now, alasse! sh’as left me,<br /></span>
<span class="i2"><i>Falero, lero, loo</i>.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">Like doves we would be billing,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And clip and kisse so fast,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Yet she would be unwilling<br /></span>
<span class="i2">That I should kisse the last:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">They’re Judas kisses now,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Since that they prov’d untrue;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">For, now, alasse! sh’as left me,<br /></span>
<span class="i2"><i>Falero, lero, loo</i>.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">To maidens’ vowes and swearing<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Henceforth no credit give;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">You may give them the hearing,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">But never them beleeve:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">They are as false as faire,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Unconstant, fraile, untrue;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">For mine, alasse! hath left me,<br /></span>
<span class="i2"><i>Falero, lero, loo</i>.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">’Twas I that paid for all things,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">’Twas others dranke the wine;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">I cannot now recall things,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Live but a foole to pine:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">’Twas I that beat the bush,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">The bird to others flew;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">For she, alasse! hath left me,<br /></span>
<span class="i2"><i>Falero, lero, loo</i>.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">If ever that Dame Nature,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">For this false lover’s sake,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Another pleasing creature<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Like unto her would make,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Let her remember this,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">To make the other true;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">For this, alasse! hath left me,<br /></span>
<span class="i2"><i>Falero, lero, loo</i>.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">No riches, now, can raise me,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">No want make me despaire,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">No miserie amaze me,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Nor yet for want I care:<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">I have lost a world it selfe.<br /></span>
<span class="i2">My earthly heaven, adue!<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Since she, alasse! hath left me,<br /></span>
<span class="i2"><i>Falero, lero, loo</i>.<br /></span>
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<h2><a name="WHY_CANST_THOU_NOT_AS_OTHERS_DO" id="WHY_CANST_THOU_NOT_AS_OTHERS_DO"></a>“<i>WHY CANST THOU NOT, AS OTHERS DO?</i>”</h2>
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<span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_w.png"
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alt="W" /></span>HY canst thou not, as others do,<br /></span>
<span class="ih">Look on me with unwounding eyes?<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And yet look sweet, but yet not so,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Smile, but not in killing wise;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Arm not thy graces to confound;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Only look, but do not wound.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">Why should mine eyes see more in you<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Than they can see in all the rest?<br /></span>
<span class="i0">For I can others’ beauties view,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And not find my heart opprest.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">O be as others are to me,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Or let me be more to thee.<br /></span>
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<h2><a name="WITH_JOCKEY_TO_THE_FAIR" id="WITH_JOCKEY_TO_THE_FAIR"></a>“<i>WITH JOCKEY TO THE FAIR.</i>”</h2>
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alt="’T" /></span>WAS on the morn of sweet May-day,<br /></span>
<span class="ig">When nature painted all things gay—<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Taught birds to sing and lambs to play<br /></span>
<span class="i4">And deck’d the meadows fair—<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Young Jockey early in the morn<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Arose and tripped it o’er the lawn.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">His Sunday coat the youth put on;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">For Jenny had vowed away to run<br /></span>
<span class="i4">With Jockey to the fair.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">The cheerful parish bells had rung.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">With eager steps he trudg’d along;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Sweet flowing garlands round him hung,<br /></span>
<span class="i4">Which shepherds us’d to wear.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">He tapp’d the window. “Hush, my dear!”<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Jenny, impatient, cried, “Who’s there?”<br /></span>
<span class="i0">“<span class="lftspc">’</span>Tis I, my love, and no one near.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Step gently down, you’ve naught to fear<br /></span>
<span class="i4">With Jockey to the fair.”<br /></span>
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<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_23" id="page_23">{23}</a></span></p>
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<span class="i0">“My dad and mammy ’re fast asleep.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">My brother up and with the sheep.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And will you still your promise keep,<br /></span>
<span class="i4">Which I have heard you swear?<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And will you ever constant prove?”<br /></span>
<span class="i0">“I will, by all the pow’rs above!<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And ne’er deceive my charming dove.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Dispel those doubts, and haste, my love,<br /></span>
<span class="i4">With Jockey to the fair.”<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">“Behold the ring!” the shepherd cried.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">“Will Jenny be my charming bride?<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Let Cupid be our happy guide,<br /></span>
<span class="i4">And Hymen meet us there.”<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Then Jockey did his vows renew—<br /></span>
<span class="i0">He would be constant, would be true.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">His word was pledged, away she flew,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">With cowslips sparkling with the dew,<br /></span>
<span class="i4">With Jockey to the fair.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">Soon did they meet a joyful throng.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Their gay companions, blithe and young,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Each joins the dance, each joins the song<br /></span>
<span class="i4">To hail the happy pair.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">What two were e’er so fond as they?<br /></span>
<span class="i0">All bless the kind propitious day—<br /></span>
<span class="i0">The smiling morn, the blooming May,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">When lovely Jenny ran away<br /></span>
<span class="i4">With Jockey to the fair.<br /></span>
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<h2><a name="SWEET_NELLY_MY_HEARTS_DELIGHT" id="SWEET_NELLY_MY_HEARTS_DELIGHT"></a>“<i>SWEET NELLY, MY HEART’S DELIGHT.</i>”</h2>
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<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">He.</span>
<img src="images/ill_s.png"
alt="S"
style="vertical-align:middle;font-size:250%;"
width="60" />WEET Nelly, my heart’s delight,<br /></span>
<span class="i5">Be loving, and do not slight<br /></span>
<span class="i6">The proffer I make<br /></span>
<span class="i6">For modesty’s sake.<br /></span>
<span class="i4">I honor your beauty bright;<br /></span>
<span class="i6">For love I profess,<br /></span>
<span class="i6">I can do no less.<br /></span>
<span class="i4">Thou hast my favor won.<br /></span>
<span class="i6">And since I see<br /></span>
<span class="i6">Your modesty,<br /></span>
<span class="i6">I pray you agree,<br /></span>
<span class="i6">And fancy me,<br /></span>
<span class="i4">Though I’m but a farmer’s son.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_30" id="page_30">{30}</a></span><br /></span>
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<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">She.</span> No; I am a lady gay;<br /></span>
<span class="i5">It is very well known I may<br /></span>
<span class="i6">Have men of renown<br /></span>
<span class="i6">In country or town.<br /></span>
<span class="i4">So, Roger, without delay<br /></span>
<span class="i6">Court Bridget, or Sue,<br /></span>
<span class="i6">Kate, Nancy, or Prue;<br /></span>
<span class="i4">Their loves will soon be won;<br /></span>
<span class="i6">But don’t you dare<br /></span>
<span class="i6">To speak me fair,<br /></span>
<span class="i6">As if I were<br /></span>
<span class="i6">At my last pray’r<br /></span>
<span class="i4">To marry a farmer’s son.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">He.</span> My father has riches in store,<br /></span>
<span class="i4">Two hundred a year and more,<br /></span>
<span class="i6">Besides sheep and cows,<br /></span>
<span class="i6">Carts, harrows, and ploughs<br /></span>
<span class="i4">His age is above threescore,<br /></span>
<span class="i6">And when he does die,<br /></span>
<span class="i6">Then merrily I<br /></span>
<span class="i4">Shall have what he has won.<br /></span>
<span class="i6">Both land and kine,<br /></span>
<span class="i6">All shall be thine,<br /></span>
<span class="i6">If thou’lt incline,<br /></span>
<span class="i6">And will be mine,<br /></span>
<span class="i4">And marry a farmer’s son.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">She.</span> A fig for your cattle and corn!<br /></span>
<span class="i4">Your proffered love I scorn.<br /></span>
<span class="i6">’Tis known very well<br /></span>
<span class="i6">My name it is Nell,<br /></span>
<span class="i4">And you’re but a bumpkin born.<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_31" id="page_31">{31}</a></span></div></div>
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<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">He.</span> Well, since it is so,<br /></span>
<span class="i6">Away I will go,<br /></span>
<span class="i4">And I hope no harm is done.<br /></span>
<span class="i6">Farewell! adieu!<br /></span>
<span class="i6">I hope to woo<br /></span>
<span class="i6">As good as you,<br /></span>
<span class="i6">And win her too,<br /></span>
<span class="i4">Though I’m but a farmer’s son.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">She.</span> Be not in such haste, quoth she;<br /></span>
<span class="i4">Perhaps we may still agree,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_32" id="page_32">{32}</a></span><br /></span>
<span class="i6">For, man, I protest<br /></span>
<span class="i6">I was but in jest;<br /></span>
<span class="i4">Come, prithee, sit down by me.<br /></span>
<span class="i6">For thou art the man<br /></span>
<span class="i6">That verily can<br /></span>
<span class="i4">Win me if e’er I’m won.<br /></span>
<span class="i6">Both straight and tall,<br /></span>
<span class="i6">Genteel withal,<br /></span>
<span class="i6">Therefore I shall<br /></span>
<span class="i6">Be at your call<br /></span>
<span class="i4">To marry a farmer’s son.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">He.</span> Dear Nelly, believe me now,<br /></span>
<span class="i4">I solemnly swear and vow<br /></span>
<span class="i6">No lords in their lives<br /></span>
<span class="i6">Take pleasure in wives<br /></span>
<span class="i4">Like we that do drive the plough.<br /></span>
<span class="i6">Whatever we gain<br /></span>
<span class="i6">With labor or pain,<br /></span>
<span class="i4">We don’t after wantons run,<br /></span>
<span class="i6">As courtiers do.<br /></span>
<span class="i6">And I never knew<br /></span>
<span class="i6">A London beau<br /></span>
<span class="i6">That could outdo<br /></span>
<span class="i4">A country farmer’s son.<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_33" id="page_33">{33}</a></span></div></div>
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<h2><a name="WHAT_HAP_HAD_I_TO_MARRY_A_SHROW" id="WHAT_HAP_HAD_I_TO_MARRY_A_SHROW"></a>“<i>WHAT HAP HAD I TO MARRY A SHROW!</i>”</h2>
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<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="ig">
<span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_w.png"
width="60"
alt="W" /></span>HAT hap had I to marry a shrow!<br /></span>
<span class="ih">For she hath given me many a blow,<br /></span>
<span class="ih">And how to please her, alack! I do not know.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">From morn to even her tongue ne’er lies;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Sometimes she brawls, sometimes she cries;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Yet I can scarce keep her talents from mine eyes.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">If I go abroad and late come in,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">“Sir Knave,” saith she, “where have you been?”<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And do I well or ill, she claps me on the skin.<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_35" id="page_35">{35}</a></span></div></div>
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<h2><a name="THE_LEATHER_BOTTEL" id="THE_LEATHER_BOTTEL"></a><i>THE LEATHER BOTTÈL.</i></h2>
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<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="ig">
<span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_tw.png"
width="60"
alt="’T" /></span>WAS God above that made all things,<br /></span>
<span class="ih">The heav’ns, the earth, and all therein,<br /></span>
<span class="ih">The ships that on the sea do swim<br /></span>
<span class="ih">To guard from foes that none come in;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And let them all do what they can,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">’Twas for one end—the use of man.<br /></span>
<span class="i4">So I wish in heav’n his soul may dwell<br /></span>
<span class="i4">That first found out the leather bottèl.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">Now, what do you say to these cans of wood?<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Oh no, in faith they cannot be good;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">For if the bearer fall by the way,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Why, on the ground your liquor doth lay;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">But had it been in a leather bottèl,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Although he had fallen all had been well.<br /></span>
<span class="i4"><i>So I wish in heav’n</i>, etc.<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_39" id="page_39">{39}</a></span></div></div>
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<span class="i0">Then what do you say to these glasses fine?<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Oh, they shall have no praise of mine,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">For if you chance to touch the brim,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Down falls the liquor and all therein;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">But had it been in a leather bottèl,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And the stoppel in, all had been well.<br /></span>
<span class="i4"><i>So I wish in heav’n</i>, etc.<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_40" id="page_40">{40}</a></span></div></div>
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<span class="i0">Then what do you say to these black pots three?<br /></span>
<span class="i0">If a man and his wife should not agree,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Why, they’ll tug and pull till their liquor doth spill;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">In a leather bottèl they may tug their fill,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And pull away till their hearts do ake,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And yet their liquor no harm can take.<br /></span>
<span class="i4"><i>So I wish in heav’n</i>, etc.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">Then what do you say to these flagons fine?<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Oh, they shall have no praise of mine,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">For when a Lord is about to dine,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And sends them to be filled with wine,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">The man with the flagon doth run away,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Because it is silver most gallant and gay.<br /></span>
<span class="i4"><i>So I wish in heav’n</i>, etc.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">A leather bottèl we know is good,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Far better than glasses or cans of wood,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">For when a man’s at work in the field,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Your glasses and pots no comfort will yield;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">But a good leather bottle standing by<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Will raise his spirits whenever he’s dry.<br /></span>
<span class="i4"><i>So I wish in heav’n</i>, etc.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">At noon, the haymakers sit them down,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">To drink from their bottles of ale nut-brown;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">In summer, too, when the weather is warm,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">A good bottle full will do them no harm.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Then the lads and the lasses begin to tottle,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">But what would they do without this bottle?<br /></span>
<span class="i4"><i>So I wish in heav’n</i>, etc.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">There’s never a Lord, an Earl, or Knight,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">But in this bottle doth take delight;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">For when he’s hunting of the deer,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">He oft doth wish for a bottle of beer.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Likewise the man that works in the wood,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">A bottle of beer will oft do him good.<br /></span>
<span class="i4"><i>So I wish in heav’n</i>, etc.<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_45" id="page_45">{45}</a></span></div></div>
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<span class="i0">And when the bottle at last grows old,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And will good liquor no longer hold,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Out of the side you may take a clout,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">To mend your shoes when they’re worn out;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Or take and hang it up on a pin,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">’Twill serve to put hinges and odd things in.<br /></span>
<span class="i4"><i>So I wish in heav’n</i>, etc.<br /></span>
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<h2><a name="NEVER_LOVE_THEE_MORE" id="NEVER_LOVE_THEE_MORE"></a><i>NEVER LOVE THEE MORE.</i></h2>
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<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="ig">
<span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_m.png"
width="60"
alt="M" /></span>Y dear and only love, take heed<br /></span>
<span class="ih">How thou thyself expose<br /></span>
<span class="ih">By letting longing lovers feed<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Upon such looks as those.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">I’ll marble-wall thee round about,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And build without a door;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">But if thy heart do once break out,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">I’ll never love thee more.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">Let not their oaths, by volleys shot,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Make any breach at all,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Nor smoothness of their language plot<br /></span>
<span class="i2">A way to scale the wall;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">No balls of wildfire love consume<br /></span>
<span class="i2">The shrine which I adore;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">For if such smoke about it fume,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">I’ll never love thee more.<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_51" id="page_51">{51}</a></span></div></div>
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<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_52" id="page_52">{52}</a></span></p>
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<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">Then if by fraud or by consent<br /></span>
<span class="i2">To ruin thou shouldst come,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">I’ll sound no trouble as of wont,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Nor march by beat of drum,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">But fold my arms, like ensigns, up,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Thy falsehood to deplore,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And after such a bitter cup<br /></span>
<span class="i2">I’ll never love thee more.<br /></span>
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<h2><a name="HERES_TO_THE_MAIDEN_OF_BASHFUL_FIFTEEN" id="HERES_TO_THE_MAIDEN_OF_BASHFUL_FIFTEEN"></a>“<i>HERE’S TO THE MAIDEN OF BASHFUL FIFTEEN.</i>”</h2>
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<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="ig">
<span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_h.png"
width="60"
alt="H" /></span>ERE’S to the maiden of bashful fifteen,<br /></span>
<span class="ih">Now to the widow of fifty;<br /></span>
<span class="ih">Here’s to the flaunting extravagant quean,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And here’s to the housewife that’s thrifty.<br /></span>
<span class="i4">Let the toast pass,<br /></span>
<span class="i4">Drink to the lass;<br /></span>
<span class="i4">I warrant she’ll prove<br /></span>
<span class="i4">An excuse for the glass.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">Here’s to the charmer whose dimples we prize,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Now to the damsel with none, sir;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Here’s to the girl with a pair of blue eyes,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And now to the nymph with but one, sir.<br /></span>
<span class="i4"><i>Let the toast</i>, etc.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">Here’s to the maid with a bosom of snow,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Now to her that’s as brown as a berry;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Here’s to the wife with a face full of woe,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And now to the damsel that’s merry.<br /></span>
<span class="i4"><i>Let the toast</i>, etc.<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_55" id="page_55">{55}</a></span></div></div>
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<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_56" id="page_56">{56}</a></span></p>
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<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">For let her be clumsy or let her be slim,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Young or ancient, I care not a feather;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">So fill up a bumper, nay, fill to the brim,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And let us e’en toast ’em together.<br /></span>
<span class="i4"><i>Let the toast</i>, etc.<br /></span>
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<h2><a name="BARBARA_ALLEN" id="BARBARA_ALLEN"></a><i>BARBARA ALLEN.</i></h2>
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<span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_a.png"
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alt="A" /></span>LL in the merry Month of May,<br /></span>
<span class="ih">when green leaves they was springing,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">This young man on his Death-bed lay,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">for the love of <i>Barbara Allen</i>.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">He sent his man unto her then,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">in the Town where she was dwelling:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">You must come to my Master dear,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">if your name be <i>Barbara Allen</i>.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">For Death is printed in his face,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">and Sorrow’s in him dwelling,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And you must come to my Master dear,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">if your name is <i>Barbara Allen</i>.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_60" id="page_60">{60}</a></span><br /></span>
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<span class="i0">If Death be printed on his face,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">and Sorrow’s in him dwelling,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Then little better shall he be<br /></span>
<span class="i2">for Bonny <i>Barbara Allen</i>.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">So slowly, slowly she got up,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">and so slowly she came to him,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And all she said when she came there,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">young Man, I think you are a dying.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_62" id="page_62">{62}</a></span><br /></span>
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<span class="i0">He turn’d his face unto her then:<br /></span>
<span class="i2">if you be <i>Barbara Allen</i>,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">My dear, said he, come pitty me,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">as on my Death-bed I am lying.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">If on your Death-bed you be lying,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">what is that to <i>Barbara Allen</i>?<br /></span>
<span class="i0">I cannot keep you from Death,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">so farewell, said <i>Barbara Allen</i>.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">He turn’d his face unto the Wall,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">and Death came creeping to him:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Then adieu, adieu, and adieu to all,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">and adieu to <i>Barbara Allen</i>.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">And as she was walking on a day,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">she heard the Bell a Ringing,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And it did seem to ring to her,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">unworthy <i>Barbara Allen</i>.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">She turn’d herself round about,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">and she spy’d the Corps a coming:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Lay down, Lay down the Corps of Clay,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">that I may look upon him.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">And all the while she looked on,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">so loudly she was laughing;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">While all her Friends cry’d amain,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">unworthy <i>Barbara Allen</i>.<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_63" id="page_63">{63}</a></span></div></div>
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<span class="i0">When he was dead & laid in Grave,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">then Death came creeping to she.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">O Mother! Mother! make my Bed,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">for his Death hath quite undone me.<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_64" id="page_64">{64}</a></span></div></div>
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<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_65" id="page_65">{65}</a></span></p>
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<span class="i0">A hard hearted Creature that I was,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">to slight one that loved me so dearly;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">I wish I had been more kinder to him,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">the time of his Life, when he was near me.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">So this Maid she then did dye,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">and desired to be buried by him,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And repented herself before she dy’d<br /></span>
<span class="i2">that ever she did deny him.<br /></span>
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<h2><a name="PERIGOT_AND_CUDDYS_ROUNDELAY" id="PERIGOT_AND_CUDDYS_ROUNDELAY"></a><i>PERIGOT AND CUDDY’S ROUNDELAY.</i><br /><br />
<span class="subhd">BY EDM. SPENSER.</span></h2>
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<span class="ig">
<span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_i.png"
width="60"
alt="I" /></span>T fell upon a holy-eve<br /></span>
<span class="ih">(Heigho, holy-day!),<br /></span>
<span class="ih">When holy fathers wont to shrive<br /></span>
<span class="i2">(Now ’ginneth this roundelay),<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Sitting upon a hill so high<br /></span>
<span class="i2">(Heigho, the high hill!)<br /></span>
<span class="i0">The while my flock did feed thereby,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">The while the shepherd’s self did spill.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">I saw the bouncing Bellibone<br /></span>
<span class="i2">(Heigho, bonny-bell!)<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Tripping over the dale alone—<br /></span>
<span class="i2">She can trip it very well—<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Well decked in a frock of gray<br /></span>
<span class="i2">(Heigho, gray is great!)<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And in a kirtle of green say—<br /></span>
<span class="i2">The green is for maidens meet.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">A chaplet on her head she wore<br /></span>
<span class="i2">(Heigho, the chaplet!);<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Of sweet violets therein was store—<br /></span>
<span class="i2">She’s sweeter than the violet.<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_70" id="page_70">{70}</a></span></div></div>
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<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_71" id="page_71">{71}</a></span></p>
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<span class="i0">My sheep did leave their wonted food<br /></span>
<span class="i2">(Heigho, silly sheep!)<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And gazed on her as they were wood—<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Wood as he that did them keep.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">As the bonny lass passed by<br /></span>
<span class="i2">(Heigho, bonny lass!)<br /></span>
<span class="i0">She rolled at me with glancing eye<br /></span>
<span class="i2">As clear as the crystal glass.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">All as the sunny beam so bright<br /></span>
<span class="i2">(Heigho, the sunbeam!)<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Glanceth from Phœbus’ face forth-right,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">So love into my heart did stream.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">Or as the thunder cleaves the clouds<br /></span>
<span class="i2">(Heigho, the thunder!)<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Wherein the lightsome leaven shrouds,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">So cleaves my soul asunder;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Or as dame Cynthia’s silver ray<br /></span>
<span class="i2">(Heigho, the moonlight!)<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Upon the glistening wave doth play,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Such play is a piteous plight.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">The glance into my heart did glide<br /></span>
<span class="i2">(Heigho, the glide!),<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Therewith my soul was sharply gride.<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Such wounds some waxen wide;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Hasting to wrench the arrow out<br /></span>
<span class="i2">(Heigho, Perigot!),<br /></span>
<span class="i0">I left the head in my heart-root:<br /></span>
<span class="i2">It was a desperate shot.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_72" id="page_72">{72}</a></span><br /></span>
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<span class="i0">Then it rankleth aye more and more<br /></span>
<span class="i2">(Heigho, the arrow!),<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Nor can I find salve for my sore—<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Love is a cureless sorrow.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And though my bale with death I bought<br /></span>
<span class="i2">(Heigho, heavy cheer!)<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Yet should this lass not from my thought,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">So you may buy gold too dear.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">But whether in painful love I pine<br /></span>
<span class="i2">(Heigho, pinching pain!)<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Or thrive in wealth, she shall be mine.<br /></span>
<span class="i2">But if thou can her obtain,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And if for graceless grief I die<br /></span>
<span class="i2">(Heigho, graceless grief!),<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Witness she slew me with her eye,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Let thy folly be the preef (<i>sic</i>).<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">And you that saw it, simple sheep<br /></span>
<span class="i2">(Heigho, the fair flock!),<br /></span>
<span class="i0">For prief thereof my death shall weep<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And moan with many a mock.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">So learn’d I love on a holy-eve<br /></span>
<span class="i2">(Heigho, holy-day!)<br /></span>
<span class="i0">That ever since my heart did grieve.<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Now endeth our roundelay.<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_73" id="page_73">{73}</a></span></div></div>
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<h2><a name="SALLY_IN_OUR_ALLEY" id="SALLY_IN_OUR_ALLEY"></a><i>SALLY IN OUR ALLEY.</i></h2>
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<span class="ig">
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alt="O" /></span>F all the girls that are so smart<br /></span>
<span class="ih">There’s none like pretty Sally:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">She is the darling of my heart,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And she lives in our alley.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">There is no lady in the land<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Is half so sweet as Sally:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">She is the darling of my heart,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And she lives in our alley.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">Her father he makes cabbage-nets,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And through the streets does cry ’em;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Her mother she sells laces long<br /></span>
<span class="i2">To such as please to buy ’em;<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_75" id="page_75">{75}</a></span></div></div>
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<span class="i0">But sure such folks could ne’er beget<br /></span>
<span class="i2">So sweet a girl as Sally!<br /></span>
<span class="i0">She is the darling of my heart,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And she lives in our alley.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">When she is by, I leave my work,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">I love her so sincerely;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">My master comes like any Turk,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And bangs me most severely;<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_77" id="page_77">{77}</a></span><br /></span>
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<span class="i0">But let him bang his bellyful,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">I’ll bear it all for Sally:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">She is the darling of my heart,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And she lives in our alley.<br /></span>
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<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_80" id="page_80">{80}</a></span></p>
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<span class="i0">Of all the days that’s in the week<br /></span>
<span class="i2">I dearly love but one day,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And that’s the day that comes betwixt<br /></span>
<span class="i2">A Saturday and Monday;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">For then I’m drest all in my best<br /></span>
<span class="i2">To walk abroad with Sally:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">She is the darling of my heart,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And she lives in our alley.<br /></span>
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<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_81" id="page_81">{81}</a></span></p>
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<span class="i0">My master carries me to church,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And often am I blamed<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Because I leave him in the lurch<br /></span>
<span class="i2">As soon as text is named;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">I leave the church in sermon-time<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And slink away to Sally:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">She is the darling of my heart,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And she lives in our alley.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">When Christmas comes about again,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Oh, then I shall have money;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">I’ll hoard it up, and box it all,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">I’ll give it to my honey:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">I would it were ten thousand pound,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">I’d give it all to Sally:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">She is the darling of my heart,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And she lives in our alley.<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_82" id="page_82">{82}</a></span></div></div>
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<span class="i0">My master and the neighbors all<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Make game of me and Sally,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And, but for her, I’d better be<br /></span>
<span class="i2">A slave and row a galley;<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_83" id="page_83">{83}</a></span></div></div>
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<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_84" id="page_84">{84}</a></span></p>
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<span class="i0">But when my seven long years are out,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Oh, then I’ll marry Sally!<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And then how happily we’ll live,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">But <i>not</i> in our alley.<br /></span>
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<h2><a name="EARLY_ONE_MORNING" id="EARLY_ONE_MORNING"></a>“<i>EARLY ONE MORNING.</i>”</h2>
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<span class="ig">
<span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_e.png"
width="60"
alt="E" /></span>ARLY one morning, just as the sun was rising,<br /></span>
<span class="ih">I heard a maid sing in the valley below:<br /></span>
<span class="ih">“Oh, don’t deceive me! oh, never leave me!<br /></span>
<span class="i2">How could you use a poor maiden so?<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">“Oh, gay is the garland and fresh are the roses<br /></span>
<span class="i2">I’ve culled from the garden to bind up my brow.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Oh, don’t deceive me! oh, do not leave me!<br /></span>
<span class="i2">How could you use a poor maiden so?<br /></span>
</div><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">“Remember the vows you made to your Mary;<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Remember the bow’r where you vowed to be true.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Oh, don’t deceive me! oh, do not leave me!<br /></span>
<span class="i2">How could you use a poor maiden so?”<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">Thus sang the poor maiden, her sorrows bewailing;<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Thus sang the poor maid in the valley below:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">“Oh, don’t deceive me! oh, never leave me!<br /></span>
<span class="i2">How could you use a poor maiden so?”<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_87" id="page_87">{87}</a></span></div></div>
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<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_89" id="page_89">{89}</a></span></p>
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<h2><a name="KITTY_OF_COLERAINE" id="KITTY_OF_COLERAINE"></a><i>KITTY OF COLERAINE.</i></h2>
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<span class="ig">
<span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_a.png"
width="60"
alt="A" /></span>S beautiful Kitty one morning was tripping<br /></span>
<span class="ih">With a pitcher of milk from the fair of Coleraine,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">When she saw me she stumbled, the pitcher it tumbled,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And all the sweet buttermilk water’d the plain.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">Oh, what shall I do now? ’Twas looking at you, now.<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Sure, sure, such a pitcher I’ll ne’er meet again.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">’Twas the pride of my dairy. Oh, Barney M’Leary,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">You’re sent as a plague to the girls of Coleraine!<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_92" id="page_92">{92}</a></span></div></div>
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<span class="i0">I sat down beside her, and gently did chide her,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">That such a misfortune should give her such pain.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">A kiss then I gave her. Before I did leave her,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">She vow’d for such pleasure she’d break it again.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">’Twas haymaking season. I can’t tell the reason—<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Misfortunes will never come single—that’s plain—<br /></span>
<span class="i0">For very soon after poor Kitty’s disaster,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">The devil a pitcher was whole in Coleraine.<br /></span>
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<h2><a name="OLD_KING_COLE" id="OLD_KING_COLE"></a><i>OLD KING COLE.</i></h2>
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<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="ig">
<span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_o.png"
width="60"
alt="O" /></span>LD King Cole was a merry old soul,<br /></span>
<span class="ih">And a merry old soul was he;<br /></span>
<span class="ih">And he call’d for his pipe,<br /></span>
<span class="i4">And he call’d for his bowl,<br /></span>
<span class="i4">And he call’d for his fiddlers three.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Then twedle, twedle, twedle, twedle, twedle went the fiddlers;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Twedle, twedle, twedle, twedle, twedle, twedle twee.<br /></span>
<span class="i4">There’s none so rare as can compare<br /></span>
<span class="i4">To King Cole and his fiddlers three.<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_99" id="page_99">{99}</a></span></div></div>
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<h2><a name="HARVEST-HOME" id="HARVEST-HOME"></a><i>HARVEST-HOME.</i></h2>
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<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="ig">
<span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_c.png"
width="60"
alt="C" /></span>OME, Roger and Nell;<br /></span>
<span class="ih">Come, Simkin and Bell;<br /></span>
<span class="ih">Each lad with his lass hither come,<br /></span>
<span class="i4">With singing and dancing,<br /></span>
<span class="i3">In pleasure advancing<br /></span>
<span class="i4">To celebrate harvest-home.<br /></span>
<span class="i4">’Tis Ceres bids play<br /></span>
<span class="i4">And keep holiday<br /></span>
<span class="i4">To celebrate harvest-home.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">Our labor is o’er, and our barns in full store<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Now swell with rich gifts of the land.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Let each man then take, for the prong and the rake,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">His can and his lass in his hand.<br /></span>
<span class="i4">’Tis Ceres bids play<br /></span>
<span class="i4">And keep holiday<br /></span>
<span class="i4">To celebrate harvest-home.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">No courtiers can be so happy as we<br /></span>
<span class="i2">In innocent pastime and mirth,<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_103" id="page_103">{103}</a></span></div></div>
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<span class="i0">While thus we carouse with our sweetheart or spouse,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And rejoice o’er the fruits of the earth.<br /></span>
<span class="i4">’Tis Ceres bids play<br /></span>
<span class="i4">And keep holiday<br /></span>
<span class="i4">To celebrate harvest-home.<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_105" id="page_105">{105}</a></span></div></div>
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<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_108" id="page_108">{108}</a></span></p>
<h2><a name="TWAS_DOWN_IN_CUPIDS_GARDEN" id="TWAS_DOWN_IN_CUPIDS_GARDEN"></a>“<i>’TWAS DOWN IN CUPID’S GARDEN.</i>”</h2>
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<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="ig">
<span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_tw.png"
width="60"
alt="’T" /></span>WAS down in Cupid’s garden<br /></span>
<span class="ih">For pleasure I did go,<br /></span>
<span class="ih">To see the fairest flowers<br /></span>
<span class="i2">That in that garden grow.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">The first it was the jessamine,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">The lily, pink, and rose,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And surely they’re the fairest flow’rs<br /></span>
<span class="i2">That in that garden grows!<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">I’d not walked in that garden<br /></span>
<span class="i2">The part of half an hour,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">When there I saw two pretty maids<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Sitting under a shady bower.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">The first was lovely Nancy,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">So beautiful and fair;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">The other was a virgin<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Who did the laurel wear.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">I boldly stepped up to her,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And unto her did say,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Are you engaged to any young man?<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Do tell to me, I pray!<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_109" id="page_109">{109}</a></span></div></div>
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<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_110" id="page_110">{110}</a></span></p>
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<span class="i0">I’m not engaged to any young man,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">I solemnly do swear;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">I mean to live a virgin,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And still the laurel wear.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">Then hand in hand together<br /></span>
<span class="i2">This lovely couple went;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Resolved was the sailor boy<br /></span>
<span class="i2">To know her full intent—<br /></span>
<span class="i0">To know if he would slighted be<br /></span>
<span class="i2">When to her the truth he told.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Oh no! oh no! oh no! she cried;<br /></span>
<span class="i2">I love a sailor bold.<br /></span>
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<h2><i>PHILLADA.</i></h2>
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<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="ig">
<span class="letra"><img src="images/ill_o.png"
width="60"
alt="O" /></span>H, what a pain is love!<br /></span>
<span class="ih">How shall I bear it?<br /></span>
<span class="ih">She will unconstant prove;<br /></span>
<span class="i2">I greatly fear it.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_114" id="page_114">{114}</a></span><br /></span>
<span class="i0">She so torments my mind<br /></span>
<span class="i2">That my strength faileth,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And wavers with the wind<br /></span>
<span class="i2">As a ship saileth.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Please her the best I may,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">She loves still to gainsay:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Alack and well-a-day!<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Phillada flouts me.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">All the fair yesterday<br /></span>
<span class="i2">She did pass by me;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">She looked another way<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And would not spy me.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">I woo’d her for to dine,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">But could not get her;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Will had her to the wine—<br /></span>
<span class="i2">He might intreat her.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">With Daniel she did dance;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">On me she looked askance:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Oh, thrice unhappy chance!<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Phillada flouts me.<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_115" id="page_115">{115}</a></span></div></div>
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<span class="i0">Fair maid! be not so coy;<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Do not disdain me!<br /></span>
<span class="i0">I am my mother’s joy:<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Sweet! entertain me!<br /></span>
<span class="i0">She’ll give me when she dies<br /></span>
<span class="i2">All that is fitting:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Her poultry and her bees,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And her goose sitting,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_117" id="page_117">{117}</a></span><br /></span>
<span class="i0">A pair of mattress beds,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And a bag full of shreds:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And yet, for all this guedes,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Phillada flouts me.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">She hath a clout of mine,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Wrought with blue coventry,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Which she keeps for a sign<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Of my fidelity;<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_118" id="page_118">{118}</a></span><br /></span>
<span class="i0">But, ’faith, if she flinch,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">She shall not wear it;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">To Tib, my t’other wench,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">I mean to bear it.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And yet it grieves my heart<br /></span>
<span class="i0">So soon from her to part:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Death strike me with his dart!<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Phillada flouts me.<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_119" id="page_119">{119}</a></span></div></div>
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<span class="i0">Thou shalt eat crudded cream<br /></span>
<span class="i2">All the year lasting,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And drink the crystal stream<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Pleasant in tasting,<br /></span>
<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_120" id="page_120">{120}</a></span></div></div>
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<span class="i0">Whig and whey whilst thou lust,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And ramble-berries,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Pie-lid and pastry crust,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Pears, plums, and cherries;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Thy raiment shall be thin,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Made of a weevil’s skin—<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Yet all’s not worth a pin:<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Phillada flouts me.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_121" id="page_121">{121}</a></span><br /></span>
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<span class="i0">Fair maiden! have a care,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">And in time take me;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">I can have those as fair,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">If you forsake me:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">For Doll the dairy-maid<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Laughed at me lately,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And wanton Winifred<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Favors me greatly.<br /></span>
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<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_122" id="page_122">{122}</a></span></p>
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<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">One throws milk on my clothes;<br /></span>
<span class="i0">T’other plays with my nose:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">What wanting signs are those!<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Phillada flouts me.<br /></span>
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<span class="i0">I cannot work nor sleep<br /></span>
<span class="i2">At all in season,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Love wounds my heart so deep,<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Without all reason.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">I ’gin to pine away<br /></span>
<span class="i2">In my love’s shadow,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Like as a fat beast may<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Penned in a meadow.<br /></span>
<span class="i0">I shall be dead, I fear,<br /></span>
<span class="i0">Within this thousand year:<br /></span>
<span class="i0">And all for that my dear<br /></span>
<span class="i2">Phillada flouts me.<br /></span>
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