%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Cupid's Revenge: / OR, / An Account of a King who slighted all Women, at length was constrained to Mar- / ry a Beggar, who proved a very fair and vertuous Queen. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1675-1696 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 09/04/2007 21038

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3.42 R174464 1 I often for my Jenny strove I Often for My Jenny Strove I Often for My Jenny Strove A King once Reign'd beyond the Seas, / as we in ancient Stories find, Pepys 3.42 Wing ?C7611A 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: 42 Cupid's Revenge: / OR, / An Account of a King who slighted all Women, at length was constrained to Mar- / ry a Beggar, who proved a very fair and vertuous Queen. Cupid's Revenge: OR, An Account of a King who slighted all Women, at length was constrained to Mar- ry a Beggar, who proved a very fair and vertuous Queen. Cupid's Revenge: Or, an Account of a King Who Slighted All Women, at Length Was Constrained to Marry a Beggar, Who Proved a Very Fair and Virtuous Queen. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?200 x 315 cropped top, left and bottom edges, holed surface vertical rules 1675-1696 Printed for P. Brooksby. I. Deacon. I. Blare. I. Back. P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back PBA

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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 9/4/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant class love marriage nobility/court royalty 12/07/2007 Checker Kris McAbee Corrected transcription errors 09/04/2007 Checker Patrick Ludolph Transcription and Metadata checked, xml created 07/27/2006 Transcriber Summer Star Original Transcription 08/19/2004 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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A King once Reign'd beyond the Seas, as we in ancient Stories find, Who no fair Face could ever please, he cared not for Women-kind; he despis'd the sweetest Beauty, and the greatest Fortune too, At length he Marry'd to a Beggar, see what Cupid's Dart can do. The blinded Boy that shoots so trim, did to his Closet Window steal, And drew a Dart, and shot at him, and made him soon his Power feel:
He that never car'd for Women, but did Females ever hate, At length was smitten, wounded, sounded, for a Beggar at his Gate. For mark what happen'd on a day, as he look'd from his Window high, He spy'd a Beggar all in gray, with two more in her Company; She his Fancy soon enflamed, and his Heart was grieved sore; What! must I have her, court her, crave her, I that never lov'd before.
This noble Prince of high Renown, did to his Chamber straight repair, And on his Couch he laid him down, opprest with Love-sick Grief and Care; Ne'er was Monarch so surprized, here I lye her Captive Slave, While I will too her, court her, wooe her, she must heal the Wound she gave. Then to his Palace Gate he goes, the Beggars crave his Charity, A Purse of Gold to them he throws, with thankfull Hearts away they hye: But the King he call'd her to him, tho' she was but poor and mean, His hand did hold her, while he told her, she should be his stately Queen. At this she blushed scarlet red, and on this mighty King did gaze, Then strait again as pale as Lead, alas! she was in such a maze: Hand in hand they walk'd together, and the King did kindly say, That he'd respect her, strait they deck'd her in most sumptuous rich array.
He did appoint the Wedding-day, and likewise then commanded strait The noble Lords and Ladies gay, upon his gracious Queen to wait: She appeared a splendid Beauty, all the Court did her adore, And in a Marriage with a Carriage, as if she had been a Queen before. Her Fame through all their Realms did Rin[g] although she came of Parents poor; She by her Sovereign Lord the King, did bear one Son, and eke no more: All the Nobles were well pleased, and the Ladies frank and free, For her Behaviour always gave her Title to her Dignity. At length the King and Queen was laid together in a silent Tomb, Their Royal Son their Sceptre sway'd, who Govern'd in his Fathers Room: Long in Glory did he flourish, Wealth and Honour to encrease, Still possessing such a Blessing, that he Liv'd and Reign'd in Peace.
Printed for P. Brookshy. J. Deacon. J. Blare. J. Back.