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1.369 S4114 1 a pleasant new tune A Pleasant New Tune POore Harpalus, opprest with loue, / sate by a cristall Brooke: another edition at 3.319 (columns 3-4) Pepys 1.369 STC 18294.5 [M. Flesher] for H. G[osson c.1625] Woodblock 1: below title, above first column: An armed man holds a spear in his left hand. He is dressed in a breastplate, morion helmet with plumes, slops, hose, and low shoes. His elbows and forearms are covered with armor and he wears gauntlets on his hands. He wears a sash or baldric across his chest, and a swordbelt and sword, visible on his left hip.: 80 x 42 Woodblock 2: below title, above second column: A well-dressed woman stands facing the left of the cut. She holds a large feather fan in her right hand, and rests her left hand at her waist. She wears a stiff ruff, buttoned bodice, and patterned sleeves and cuffs. A long necklace falls to her chest. She has a long skirt with vertical lines or pleats, and a crosshatched underskirt shows below it. She has a small hat with a plume, and her hair is pulled back. Her facial expression is unclear. : 89 x 49 Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 369 The complaint of the Shepheard Harpalus. The complaint of the Shepheard Harpalus. The Complaint of the Shepherd Harpalus. Murray, Sir David 1/2 sheet folio, 256 x 140 cropped top edge, uneven inking cast fleurons 1625 At London Printed for H. G. H. G. Weinstein: STC

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 Taxonomy used by Pepys to Organize Ballads in Albums A Small Promiscuous Supplement Devotion & Morality Drinking & Good Fellowship History - True & Fabulous Humour, Frollicks &c Love Pleasant Love Pleasant and Unfortunate Love Unfortunate Marriage Sea State & Times Tragedy Various Subjects Early Modern Center Ballad Project Keyword Taxonomy advice affliction/health alcohol animals/nature appearance Bible/biblical figures buildings/architecture catastrophe children class clothing/fashion country/nation crime death economics/trade entertainment family/procreation folklore gender historical figures & events holidays/seasons infidelity law London love maritime marriage military/war monstrosity mythology/Classical world news nobility/court politics/government punishment religious concepts religious figures religious types & sects royalty rural life servitude sex/sexuality supernatural/magic The New World travel trickery/deceit urban life vice violence virtue vulgarities/crass humor Library of Congress Subject Heading Taxonomy 1/7/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Unfortunate animals/nature love 1/7/2008 Checker Jessica C. Murphy rechecked transcription, updated metadata 6/25/2007 Checker Katy Trumbull created xml 2006 Checker Jessica Murphy checked transcription 2006 Transcriber Jeff Moorse original transcription 8/1/2004 Bibliographer Margaret Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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P Oore Harpalus, opprest with love, sate by a cristall Brooke: Thinking his sorrowes to remove, ofttimes therein did looke: And hearing how on pibble stones, the murmuring river ran, As if it had bewaild his grones, unto it thus began. Faire streame (quoth he) that pitties me and heares my matchlesse mone, If thou be going to the Sea: as I doe now suppone: Attend my plaints past all reliefe, which dolefully I breath, Acquaint the Sea-Nimphs with the griefe which still procures my death. Who sitting in the cliffie Rocks, may in their songs expresse, While as they combe their golden locks, poore Harpalus distresse And so perhaps some passenger, that passeth by the way, May stay and listen for to heare them sing this dolefull Lay, Poore Harpalus , a Shepheard Swaine, more rich in youth then store: Lov'd fair Philena haplesse man, Philena , oh therefore: Who still remorcelesse hearted maid, tooke pleasure in his paine:
And his good will, poore soule, repaid with undeserv'd disdaine. Nere Shepheard lov'd a Shepheardesse, more faithfully then he: Nere Shepheard yet beloved lesse of Shepheardesse could be: How oft did he with dying lookes, to her his woes impart? How oft his sighs did testifie the dolour of his heart? How oft from Vallies to the Hils did he his griefe rehearse? How oft re-ecchoed they his ills, abacke againe (alas?) How of on Barkes of stately Pines, of Beech, of Holly-greene, Did he ingrave in mournfull lines, the griefe he did sustaine? Yet all his plaints could have no place, to change Philena's mind: The more his sorrowes did increase, the more she prov'd unkind: The thought thereof with wearied care, poore Harpalus did move, That overcome with high despaire, he lost both life and Love.
FINIS. D.M.
At London Printed for H.G.