%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Northampton-shire Lovers./ OR,/ No VVealth can compare unto true Love./ Young-men and Maids that delight to hear/ How Lovers couple, pray draw near;/ And in this Sonnet you may find/ A fancy that may please your mind. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1681-1684 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 05/04/2008 20254

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1.532-533 R234221 1 True Love rew[arde]d with Loyalty, or, Lo[ve]s downfal True Love Rewarded with Loyalty; Love's Downfall IN summer-time when leaves are green/ and Flora in her rich aray, Tho foolish knacks some maids intice/ to yield unto a young-mans will; tune unclear: Tune of, True Love rew[arde]d with Loyalty, or Lo[ve]s downfall. Pepys 1.532-533 Wing N1292 Woodblock 1: first 1/2 sheet, below title, above column 1: A well-dressed man in a tall hat with long hair walks toward the right of the cut. he holds his left hand in front of himself, and holds a glove in that hand. HIs right hand is tucked under his cape. He wears a buttoned doublet, a balderick, and pantaloons. : 88 x 54 Woodblock 2: first 1/2 sheet, below title, above column 2: A woman stands and looks toward the left of the cut, smiling. She wears a bonnet or hat with hair showing underneath, a white collar, a laced stomacher, and a full skirt with a white apron. In her left hand she holds a scarf, shawl, or long piece of fabric. Her right hand is raised, as though she is waving. : 86 x 58 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: 532 The Northampton-shire Lovers./ OR,/ No VVealth can compare unto true Love./ Young-men and Maids that delight to hear/ How Lovers couple, pray draw near;/ And in this Sonnet you may find/ A fancy that may please your mind. The Northampton-shire Lovers. OR, No VVealth can compare unto true Love. Young-men and Maids that delight to hear How Lovers couple, pray draw near; And in this Sonnet you may find A fancy that may please your mind. The Northamptonshire Lovers. Or, No VVealth Can Compare Unto True Love. Young Men and Maids That Delight to Hear How Lovers Couple, Pray Draw Near; and in This Sonnet You May Find a Fancy That May Please Your Mind. The second Part, The second Part, The Second Part, 1/2 sheet folio, originally left part, 250 x 142 1/2 sheet folio, originally right part, 250 x 143 cropped top edge, damaged surface, uneven inking cropped top edge, uneven inking vertical rules 1681-1684 Printed for J. Wright. J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger J. Wright, J.Clarke, W.Thackeray, T.Passinger Blagden

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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 A Small Promiscuous Supplement love marriage sex/sexuality trickery/deceit Ballads, English 17th century Broadsides, England 17th century 05/04/2008 Checker Patrick Ludolph checked transcription, metadata added, xml created 08/16/2006 Checker Catherine Zusky checked transcription 03/11/2005 Transcriber Dolly Smith original transcription 07/29/2004 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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IN summer-time when leaves are green and Flora in her rich aray, With all sorts of flowers so sweet, she had bedeckt the fields so gay. I espyed a Young-man and a Maid a walking in the coole o'th'day, The Young-man he was not afraid, but these words unto her did say. Man. Oh turn to me my own dear heart and I my self will turn to thee, For thou and I will never part whilst life and breath remains in me. Thou knowest these long 7 years & more, we two together have been in love, And I have slacken'd my desires only thy passions for to prove. But here's my hand, no longer I no further trial now will make, But love thee till the day I die, therefore my Bride I mean to take.
I have six Horses at my Plow, and six more in my Stable stand, And here to thee I make a vow they all shall be at thy command. Besides my grounds they are well stockt, for thee to walk in to and fro; In truth my dear I do not mock, if thou canst love me tell me so. Maid. Your words good sir are very fair, ten times better than I do deserve, Yet 'tis good for me to have a care lest you from them should quickly swerve For youngmens tongues now in these days they are so tipt with words so fair, A maidens beauty they will praise [t]ill they have caught her in a snare. But if yonder Tower was full of Gold and thou couldst give it unto me, Until i'me wed I never would lose one dram of my Virginity.
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Tho foolish knacks some maids intice to yield unto a young-mans will; Then leave them in fools Paradice, and of repenting they have their fill. For hasty marriage ne'r proves good, so it behoves me to be coy; Although i'me young I understand that in my freedome's all my joy. So for this time good Sir adieu, my mother she for me doth stay; And when I hear your heart is true, you then shall hear what I will say. Till then whatever me betide, let wealth or sorrow come to me, Until that I am made a Bride, I never mean to turn to thee. Man. But wilt thou be gone my love and joy, and leave me in this place alone, The cherping birds will cease their notes to hear me make my grievous moan. The waters which are here so deep without a shroud my Grave shall be; My body shall the fishes feed, if once you do depart from me. Therefore as thou'rt a Virgin pure, and I think thee to be no less, Some comfort now to me procure to ease my grief and heaviness. Be not a talk to other maids, that they behind your back should say, She was so peevish and so coy, she cast her first true-love away. Then turn to me my own dear heart, and I my self will turn to thee, For thou and I will never part whilst life and breath remains in me. Maid. I would not for ten thousand worlds that any friend of mine should say I was so peevish and so coy, to cast my first true-love away. But where he is I cannot tell, no, nor yet do I know his name; Yet you pretend that you are him, with protestations on the same. Yet a farther trial I will have e're that the true-loves knot I tye;
Before i'le matc[h] to be a slave, i'd rather by this knife to dye. Tho some don't look before they leap, I will be wary of such things; For whilst i'me single I live well, but marriage many troubles brings. You say you've House, you say you've Land yet all that does not please my mind, Your looks doth show you dogged are, and will not to a wife prove kinn Then what will Riches profit me, if I have not a quiet life: A Lady that lives discontentedly she'd better be a Hoggards wife. Man. I can say no less my only dear, these words are true you tell to me: When man and wife doth live at strife be sure no blessing there can be. But a loving man of me thou'lt find as any lives beneath the Sun, I ever to thee will prove kind, ile ne'r think much of what thou'st done. My promise I will keep and hold so long as life remains in me, if thou wants Silver or good Gold I strait will give it unto thee. Therefore the bargain let us seal with a kiss or two that is so sweet. And so much then he did prevail that lovingly she did him greet. Now she no longer doth seem coy, and this is all the youngmans Song, Now I have gained my love and joy, we will be wedded e're be long. And what he spoke he did fulfill, so far as I can understand, They went to church with friends good will and strait was married out of hand. Thus all young Lovers they may learn where ever they do go or come: Young men if once a bargain you make, be sure that you do strike it home. For long delays does ne'r prove good, a modest and a civile girl, Tho she is poor and thou art rich, yet love out-passes Gold or Pearl,
Printed for J. Wright, J. Clark, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger.