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1.256-257 S124574 1 My deere and only Love take heed I'll Never Love Thee More My Dear and Only Love Take Heed THough booteles I must needs complaine / my fate is so extreame, Ile rather lye alone. [with variations] IF that your loue was but a dreame, / what Woman cares for loue? Ile rather lye alone. [with variations] Pepys 1.256-257 Rollins (1) I:168-171; STC 16862.5 [J. White?] for P. Birch [1618?]. Woodblock 1: first 1/2 sheet, over columns 1 & 2: A bearded man stands with his right hand on his hip. He is dressed in a jerkin with a collar, slops, hose, boots, spurs, ribbon garters, and wears a hat with a brim. A cloak over his left shoulder conceals his left arm. He wears a sword belt and stands on uneven terrain .: 97 x 62 Woodblock 2: second 1/2 sheet, over columns 3 & 4: A lady stands facing towards her right. In her right hand, she holds a large feather fan (or a branch?). The lady wears a large stiff ruff and a necklace or chain. Her full skirt (supported by a french farthingale?) and the front of her dress is decorated with a row of large flowers. : 82 x 63 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: 256 1: 257 The faythfull Louers resolution, / being forsaken of a coy and faythles Dame. The faythfull Lovers resolution, being forsaken of a coy and faythles Dame. The Faithful Lover's Resolution, Being Forsaken of a Coy and Faithless Dame. The coy Maydens answere. The coy Maydens answere. The Coy Maiden's Answer. 1/2 sheet folio, originally left part, 263 x 150 1/2 sheet folio, originally right part, 260 x 112 cropped left and right edges, torn top left and top bottom corners, creased, uneven inking cropped top edge, uneven inking cast fleurons cast fleurons 1618 Printed at London for P. Birch P.Birch 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 5/4/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant gender infidelity love sex/sexuality 5/4/2008 Checker Charlotte Becker ESTC ID added S124574, transcription checked, metadata updated, XML 7/12/2007 Checker Eugene Hart Ballad Checked 2006 Transcriber Apri Medina Ballad Transcribed 7/20/2004 Bibliographer Liberty Stanavage Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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THough booteles I must needs complaine my fate is so extreame, I lov'd, and was belov'd againe, yet all was but a dreame: For as that love was quickly got, so t'was as quickly gon, Ile touch no more a flame so hot, Ile rather lye alone, No Creature be she nere so fayre shall any way beguile My fancy with a feyned teare, nor tempt me with a smile: Ile never thinke affection sounde that is so plainely showne, Nor build on faith before tis found, Ile rather lye alone. Should now the little God conspire againe t'intrap my mind, Or strive to set my heart on fire? alas the Boy's to blinde: For sithes Ile never venter smiles, nor hazard mirth for mone, Nor yet regard a Womans wiles, Ile rather lye alone.
The blazing Torch is soone burnt out, the Diamond light abides, The first her glory hurles aboute, the next her vertue hides: The Sparke if any shall be mine, that else shewes light to none, For if to every eye she shine, Ile rather lye alone. No Woman shall deceive my thoughts with colours not in graine, Nor put a Love so slightly wrought into my hands againe: Ile pay no more so deere for witte, but live upon mine owne, Nor shall affection conquer it, Ile rather lye alone. And now Ile set my heart at rest, in loving, labours lost, Il[e] be no more so rarely blest to be so strangely crost: The love lost Turtle so will dye, the Phenixe is but one, They seeke no Mates, no more will I but ever lye alone.
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IF that your love was but a dreame, what Woman cares for love? There is no meane if t'is extreame, therefore your sute remoove: It booteth not for to complaine, then pray sir sease your mone; Desires hot flame augments your paine, you still may lye alone. If beauty in a Womans face doth residence there keepe? She must not in her heart give place to all can feygne and weepe: But you doe say tis Womens wiles that causeth Men to mone, When all due know you doe beguil's, and let's not lye alone. If Cupid caught you in his snare, you must endure the paine, And eyther speake him foule or faire, your liberty to gaine; For sith, or sob, I will not love, my beauty is mine owne, An other man my heart must proove, and you must lye alone.
The burning Taper spends itselfe for to give others light: The Diamond is esteem'd for wealth, and in the darke showes bright: But like the Torch Ile never be, Ile first be like the Stone, And nere will yeeld in love to thee, But rather lye alone. If that I shewd my selfe once kind, and partly did you love, May I not therefore change my mind[e], and otherwise remoove, You should have held me faster sure, and not have let me gone, Ile come no more unto your lure, but let you lye alone. If Phenixe like you doe intend to end your daies in fire, My life I meane not so to spend, my thoughtes are mounted higher: Ile love and bill like Turtle-doves, although it breed your mone; When you are gon there is more Loves, I will not lye alone.
Printed at London for P. Birch.