%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Shepherds Delight. / Both by Day and by Night. / Describing the Shepherds simplicity; And their Felicity: their birth, / and their mirth: their lives, and their wives: their health, and their / wealth: their ways, and their plays: their diet, and quiet. / And how with their Dam'sels they laugh and lye down, / And to each pretty Virgin, they give a green gown. Shadwell, Thomas University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1674-1679 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 09/10/2007 21052

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3.55 R184071 1 a delightful tune, Sung at the Dukes Play-house to the King, and all the Nobility: Or, Now the Tyrant has stoln my dearest away, &c. Bonny Sweet Robin; My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone Now the Tyrant has stolen my dearest away VVHat an innocent loving life / Shepheards do lead, With our Shepherdesses / we laugh and lye down, / And to each pretty Damosel / we give a green gown. [with variations] WE feel not the cares which/ attend upon crowns Thomas Shadwell noted by Simpson as the author from whose song this ballad is expanded Pepys 3.55 Wing S3153A 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: 55 The Shepherds Delight. / Both by Day and by Night. / Describing the Shepherds simplicity; And their Felicity: their birth, / and their mirth: their lives, and their wives: their health, and their / wealth: their ways, and their plays: their diet, and quiet. / And how with their Dam'sels they laugh and lye down, / And to each pretty Virgin, they give a green gown. The Shepherds Delight. Both by Day and by Night. Describing the Shepherds simplicity; And their Felicity: their birth, and their mirth: their lives, and their wives: their health and their wealth: their ways, and their plays: their diet, and quiet. And how with their Dam'sels they laugh and lye down, And to each pretty Virgin, they give a green gown. The Shepherds' Delight. Both by Day and by Night. Describing the Shepherds' Simplicity; And Their Felicity: Their Birth, and Their Mirth: Their Lives, and Their Wives: Their Health and Their Wealth: Their Ways, and Their Plays: Their Diet, and Quiet. And How With Their Damsels They Laugh and Lie Down, and to Each Pretty Virgin, They Give a Green Gown. The second part, The second part, The Second Part, Shadwell, Thomas 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?190 x 300 cropped top edge, uneven inking 1674-1679 Prinetd for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright; and J. Clarke. F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke. Simpson; 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 9/10/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant class love marriage rurallife sex/sexuality 09/10/2007 Checker Patrick Ludolph metadata added, xml created 09/06/2007 Checker Patrick Ludolph transcription checked 08/02/2006 Transcriber Summer Star Original Transcription 08/19/2004 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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WHat an innocent loving life Shepherds do lead, In Grove, Field, and Forest, on Mountain and Mead: Although our low Cottages are thatch[e]d above, Our hearts are well filled with joys of Love. With our Shepherdesses we laugh and lye down, And to each pretty Damosel we give a green gown. In courting, and sporting we spend all the day, We fear not, nor care not, how time runs away; And yet we can tell ye how nigh 'tis to Noon,
Or Evening, if we do but gaze on the Sun: But every night we do laugh and lye down, And to each pritty Lass we give a green Gown. We live as instructed, by father and mother, Who teach us what we should do to one another: From Frighting with Fighting we care not a Flea, Our innocence is like a Navy at Sea, Which makes us so jocondly laugh and lye down, and to each fair Female we give a green gown.
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WE feel not the cares which attend upon crowns; Live free from the fears of great cities and towns; We fight not for honor with Sword, Pike, and Buff, We all are contented, and that's wealth enough, Not crafty, with a fafty, we laugh and lye down, and think it no treason to give a green Gown. Thus all our life long we are frolick and gay, And instead of Court Rebels we merrily play. At Trap, and at Keel, and at Barley-break run, At Golf, and at Foot-ball, and when we have done, These innocent sports, we do laugh and lye down; and to each pritty Lass, etc. We teach our little Doggs to fetch and to carry, The Patridge, the Hare, and the Phesant's our Quarrey, The nimble Squirrels, with Cudgels we Chase; And the little pretty Lark, we betray with a glass: and when we have done so, we laugh, etc. About the May-pole we dance all a-round, And with Garlands of Pinks, and of Roses are crown'd, Our little kind tributes we cheerfully pay, To the gay Lord, and the bright Lady of May, And when we have done so we laugh and lye down; And to each pritty Lass do we give a green grown.
With our delicate Nymphs we kiss and we toy; What others but dream of, we daily enjoy: With our sweet-hearts we dally so long till we find; Their pritty eyes say that their hearts are grown kind, and when we have done so, etc. To make men revive with singing and dances, There's no flesh alive like Fedilia and Francis, At trap-ball, and stool-ball Rebecca and Rachel; Saphania doth stoop well, and Katey can catch well; They trip it, and lip it, and laugh and lye down, and freely accept of a Lovers green gown. With wild Curds and Custards, with Chees-cakes and Pyes, With Sider and Sugar, Cream and Stawberries, Green Tanseys and White-pots, with Fish, Fowl, and Beasts, Our table is spread at a Sheep-shearing Feast. And when we are filled we laugh and lye down: Embrace one another, and give a green Gown. With Bagpipes and taber, and Hoby sometimes, We dance and skip and sing, and our natural Rymes; Two Jews-trumps well play'd on, with Violin soft, Makes spirits to rise, and our bloods mount aloft. And when they are up, and our Lasses lye down; Each Shepheard turns Taylor, and gives a green gown.
We multiply not with unnatural cheats, Nor Kiss by the strength of provocative meats: Our lively plump issue that springs from our beds, Are fat, fair, and clear, like young Cherubims heads. For which we do nothing, but kiss and lye down; Sometimes a great belly comes by a green gown. This is the true trade that each good Shepheard drives, We none of us mingle with other mens Wives: Our rules of propriety is so well known, That every man is content with his own. Though merrily, yet lawfully, etc. He that begets Boys abroad, at home begets strife, And sometimes can ne'r get an heir by his Wife: We therefore in loyalty do lead our lives, Are just to our friends, and as true to our Wives. Although we do merrily kiss and lye down, Young men to their sweet-hearts may give a green gown. And thus have I giv'n ye a taste of our lives, Our breeding, our feeding, our sports, and our wives: Our innocency, honesty, musick, and mirth, That waits upon us, from the day of our birth: If any maid here would fain laugh and lye down, Let her go amongst Shepherds, and get a green gown.
Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke.