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3.59 R188098 2 Lady lie neer me: or, the Green Garter Lady Lie Near Me Lady Lie Near Me, or, the Green Garter the Green Garter The Green Garter ALL in the Month of May,/ when all things blossom, I heard a voice to say,/ Sweet-heart come chear me,/ Thou hast been long away,/ Lady lye neer me. (stanzas 1-5, 13; with variations); Be not so sad, I am glad/ that I did hear thee,/ And what as can be had,/ thouse have to chear thee. [stanzas 7-12; with variations] Author is Robert Guy according to Wing. Pepys 3.59 Wing G2277A 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: 59 The Longing Shepherdess:/ OR,/ LADY lie neer me. The Longing Shepherdess: OR, LADY lie neer me. The Longing Shepherdess: Or, Lady Lie Near Me. Guy, Robert 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 210 x 290 cropped bottom edge, creased cast fleurons 1663-1674 Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, / and J. VVright. F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright. 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 love mythology/Classicalworld sex/sexuality 09/10/2007 Checker Patrick Ludolph metadata added, xml created 09/07/2007 Checker Patrick Ludolph transcription checked 08/03/2006 Transcriber Summer Star Original Transcription 08/19/2004 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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ALL in the Month of May, when all things blossom, As in my bed I lay sleep it grew Loathsome: Up I Rose and did walk over yon Mountains, Through Mountains & through Dales over Rocks and Fountains, I heard a voice to say, Sweet-heart come chear me, Thou hast been long away, Lady lye neer me. Down by yon River side, and surging billows, A pleasant Grove I spide, will set with willows: In it a Shepherdesse singing most clearly, And still her note it was, Lady lye neer me. Come away do not stay, etc.
Sweetheart thou stayst too long Phebus is watching, Aurora with her steed, is fast approaching: She doth her chariot mount which much do fear me, Each hour a year I count till you lye neer me: Come away do not stay sweat-heart and chear me, Thou hast been long away, Lady lye neer me. Hymen keeps holy day Love take thy pleasure, Cupid hath thrown away his Bow and Quiver: B[o]reas doth gently blow least I should fear him, Yet dare I not stay alone to hear him. Come away, etc.
DId not Adonis like sweet-heart fly from me, For careful I will be as doth become me. Both of my flock and thine whilst they are feeding, Dear is my love to thee, as is exceeding, Come away, etc. I may sing welladay my joys are ended, The hour of my approach is almost spended: My Parents will me misse, and Swains will jeer me, Thus still her note it was, Lady lye neer me: Come away, etc. She had no sooner spoke but her true Lover, Neer to her did approach her grief to smother: Hearing thy mone my sweet, I came to chear thee, And will before I part, dearest lye neer thee: Be not sad, I am glad that I did hear thee, And what as can he had thouse haye to chear thee.
No cost that I will spare, for to content thee, Junkets the best that are, they shall be sent thee, The chiefest I can get, and best Canary, Then do not sweet-heart sit so solitary, Be not sad, etc. I hate to bear the mind of a base peasant, Thou still shalt find me kind, Partridge and Phesant, Butchers meat is but gross, fair that is dainty, For thee my loving Lasse, we will have plenty, Be not sad, etc. Adonis like to prove that were so cruel. To one so dear I love, the Richest jewel: I do not estimate like thee my sweeting, I in my heart will hate for to be fleeting, Be not sad, etc. The time we'l passe away Histories Reading, Whilst our flock day by day,
gently are feeding: And on my Oaten Reed Love to Requite thee, Care away I will play for to delight thee. Be not sad, etc. The birds with their sweet notes chearfully singing, Also will thee delight, contentment bringing: Whose pleasant Harmony from them Resounding, Still will delightful be, most sweetly sounding. Be not sad, etc. Though I my self am absent, and sometimes leave thee, To work thy discontent let nothing Grieve thee, But merry be sweet-heart till my Returning, Alone my dear thou art then cease thy mourning: For I will still be kind always to chear thee, And so to ease thy mind, I will be neer thee,
FINIS. R.G.
Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, and J. Wright.