%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> True love without deceit/ OR, The Country Girles Happiness./ Where Love and Truth together meet,/ what pleasure do they find!/ Beneath the Sun nothing more sweet/ to a True Lovers 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 08/09/2007 21104

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3.101 R187542 2 The Fair one let me in The Fair one let me in The Fair One Let Me In Hey boys up go we Hey, Boys, Up Go We Hey, Boys, Up Go We VVE that are bonny Country girles/ injoy our hearts delight; they were from Heaven sent. {with variations] Pepys 3.101 Wing T2739A 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: 101 True love without deceit/ OR, The Country Girles Happiness./ Where Love and Truth together meet,/ what pleasure do they find!/ Beneath the Sun nothing more sweet/ to a True Lovers mind. True love without deceit OR, The Country Girles Happiness. Where Love and Truth together meet, what pleasure do they find! Beneath the Sun nothing more sweet to a True Lovers mind. True Love Without Deceit or, the Country Girls' Happiness. Where Love and Truth Together Meet, What Pleasure Do They Find! Beneath the Sun Nothing More Sweet to a True Lover's Mind. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 200 x 310 cropped top edge, torn top left corner 1681-1684 Printed for J. wright. J. Clark, w. Thackery and T. Passenger. J. Wright. J. Clark, W. Thackery, T. Passenger 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 8/9/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant love rurallife 08/09/2007 Checker Patrick Ludolph transcription and metadata checked, xml 07/19/2006 Transcriber Pavneet Aulakh Original Transcription 08/23/2004 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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WE that are bonny Country girles injoy our hearts delight; We matter not the Lords, nor Earls, nor do admire the Knights: For Tom, and Dick, with George, & Will, do give us such content, As if our minds for to fulfill they were from Heaven sent. Though all the day abroad they keep, at night they home return, And in their Lovers Arms do sleep, who all the day did mourn; And with sweet kisses do us please, yea; give us such content, That we count Love a sweet Disease from Heaven for Lovers sent.
When Susan doth her Robin spy, O how her Heart doth leap! She hath him still within her eye, and in her heart doth keep That face she doth so much admire, which breeds her hearts content; And then she cries, that pleasant Fire was for poor Lovers sent. Nell, Bess, and Jone, all love full well, and cannot it deny; Their passions others do excell; in Love-sick flames they fry, While Ned and loving Bartholomew their absence do lament: And Love unto this jovial Crew was sure from Heaven sent.
Oh! that I could express the Charms that do these Lovers seize, When they betwixt each others Arms do lie in perfect ease: While e'ry sigh produceth Love, and gives their hearts content; These pleasures surely from Above were for true Lovers sent. Then Ralph and Daniel by the Plow their passions do record; To constancy they make a vow, all baseness is abhorr[']d: While Jane and Peg as constant prove; and with a joint consent Cry out, that nothing can remove the joys for Lovers sent. But Margery at last comes in, for Hugh she doth expect; She vows that she could dye for him, him she doth so respect: And Hugh her kindness doth repay, theres no Cause to lament; They both long for the joyfull day only for Lovers sent.
How sweetly do those Soules imbrace when they together meet! A Barn seemes like a Princely Pallace, where they each other greet: The silent Medows and the Groves both yeild to them content; And all, to animate their loves, was from the Heavens sent. In Constancy they take delight, as Lovers ought to do, In hearts and souls they do unite, this is most certain true: No Courtly Language they do use, nor flattering Complement; Each others faults they do excuse: This bliss for them was sent. Thus you may see the Country Lass, and eke the Country Lad, Will court and kiss upon the Grass, as if they both were mad: And nothing doth there come amiss, their Pleasures to prevent; Tis their delight to hug and kiss; for them such joys were sent.
Printed for J. Wright. J. Clark, W. Thackery and T. Passenger.