%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Flora's Farewell: Or, / The Shepherds Love-Passion Song. / Wherein he doth greatly Complain, / Because his Love was spent in vain. Price, Lawrence 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 05/19/2008 21000

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3.7 R234410 1 a Delicate Tune, Or, A thousand times my love commend A Delicate Tune, or, A Thousand Time My Love Commend FLora farewel, I needs must go, / for if with thee I longer stay, WHy should I to one love be bound / and fix my thoughts on none but thee, author reference from Wing and Rollins; Weinstein lists the first lines of part two as "FYe Shephard, fye, thou art to blame/ to rail against one in this sort:" Pepys 3.7 Wing P3364E; Rollins (2) 898 (March 12, 1656, ii, 35, Fran. Grove); Rollins (2) 899 (March 1, 1675, ii, 499). 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. 3: 7 Flora's Farewell: Or, / The Shepherds Love-Passion Song. / Wherein he doth greatly Complain, / Because his Love was spent in vain. Flora's Farewell: Or, The Shepherds Love-Passion Song. Wherein he doth greatly Complain, Because his Love was spent in vain. Flora's Farewell: Or, The Shepherd's Love-Passion Song. Wherein He Doth Greatly Complain, Because His Love Was Spent in Vain. The second Part, to the same Tune: The second Part, to the same Tune: The Second Part, to the Same Tune Price, Lawrence 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 200 x 320 guard pasted over right edge, cropped top edge vertical rules and cast fleurons 1681-1684 Printed for I, Wright, I, Clark, W, Thackeray. and T, Passinger. J. Wright, J. Clark, W. Thackeray. and 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 5/19/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant love sex/sexuality virtue 05/19/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created, ESTC # R234410 found in bl.uk 07/23/2007 Checker Laura Miller Ballad checked, ESTC R227150 12/22/2006 Transcriber Cat Zusky Original Transcription 2004 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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FLora farewel, I needs must go, for if with thee I longer stay, Thine Eyes prevail over me so, I shall grow blind and loose my way. Fame of thy beauty and thy Youth, to seek for Love me hither brought, But when in thee I found no truth it was no boot too stay I thought. Now i'm ingag'd by word and oath, a servant to anothers will, Yet for thy sake would forgo both, wouldst thou besure to love me still. But what assurance can I have of thee, who seeing my abuse, In that which Love desires to crave, may leave me with a just excuse.
For thou must say, 'twas not thy fault, that thou didst so unconstant prove, Thou wert by mine example taught to break thy Oath and leave thy love. No Flora, no, I will recall, the former words which I have spoke, And thou shalt have no cause at all, to hamper me in Cupids Yoak. But since thy humour is to range, and that thou bear'st a wavering mind, Like to the Moon with thee i'le change, and turn I can with every wind. Henceforth blind fancy i'le remove, and cast all sorrow from my heart, Young men do dye for doting love, I hold it but a foolish part,
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W Hy should I to one love be bound and fix my thoughts on none but thee, When as a thousand may be found, that's far more fair and fit for me. Though I am but a Shepherd Swain, my mind to me doth comfort bring, Feeding my Flocks upon a Plain, I triumph like a petty King. No female Rat shall me deceive, nor catch me by a crafty wild, Though I do love, yet I can leave, and will no longer be beguil'd. Flora, once more, farewel adieu, I so conclude my Passion Song: To thy next love see that thou prove true, for thou hast done me double wrong. Fair Flora's answer to the Shep- herds Song Wherein she shews that he hath done the wrong. F Ye Shepherd, fye, thou art to blame to rail against me in this sort: Thou dost disgrace a sweet-hearts name to give thy love a false report. There was a Proverb used of old, and now I find it is no lye: One Tale is good till anothers told she that loves most is least set by.
A brief Description I will tell of thy favour, love and flattery: And how at first thou didst excell, with cunning tricks and pollicy. But O that flattering tongue of thine, and tempting eye sought to entice, And to ensnare the heart of mine, and bring me in fools Paradise. When thou at first began to wooe, and with thy skill my patience try'd: You though there was no more to do, but presently to up and ride. Thou said'st that I was fair and brigh[t] and fitting for thy Marriage bed: Thou fed'st my fancy with delight, thinking to have my Maiden-head. But when thou saw'st thou could'st not g[ain] the jem that thou desirest to have, My company thou didst refrain, like to a false dissembling Knave. Whereby I answered thus and said, to shun the cause o[f] further strife, I would contain my self a Maid, until such time I was made a Wife. And since you my mind have crost, you may bestow you as you will Shepherd farewell, there's nothing lost, I am resolv'd to say so still. Blind Cupid with his wounding Dart could never make me sorrow feel, I'le not lay that unto my heart as others shake off with their heel.
Printed for J. Wrighe, J. Clark, W. T hackeray[,] and T. Passenger.