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3.103 R188065 1 a Pleasant New Tune A Pleasant New Tune A Week before Easter,/ the days long and clear, Pepys 3.103 Wing F1560[A]; Rollins (2) 907 (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: 103 The Forlorn Lover,/ DECLARING HOW/ A Lass gave her Lover three slips for a Tester,/ And Married another a Week before Easter. The Forlorn Lover, DECLARING HOW A Lass gave her Lover three slips for a Tester, And Married another a Week before Easter. The Forlorn Lover, Declaring How a Lass Gave Her Lover Three Slips for a Tester, and Married Another a Week Before Easter. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 200 x 298 torn left edge vertical rules 1684-1686 Printed for I. Clark. W. Thackeray, and T. Passenger. J. Clark, W. Thackeray, 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 8/14/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant infidelity love trickery/deceit 08/14/2007 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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A Week before Easter, the days long and clear, So bright is the Sun and so cold is the ayr; I went into the Forrest, [s]ome flowers to find there, [An]d the Forrest would yield me no Posies. [T]he Wheat and the Rye that groweth so green, The Hedges and Trees in their several Coats, Small Birds do sing in their changeable notes, But there grows no Strawberries or Roses.
I went in the Meadow some time for to spend, And to come back again, did fully intend: But as I came back I met with a friend, And love was the cause of my mourning. I lov'd a fair Lady this many a long day, And now to requite me, she married away; Here she hath left me in sorrow to stay, But now I begin to consider.
I Loved her dear, and I loved her well, I hated those people that spoke of her ill; Many a one told me what she did say, But yet I would hardly believe them. But when I did hear my love askt in the Church, I went out of my seat, and sat in the porch: I found I should falsly be left in the lurch, And thought that my heart would have broken. But when I did see my Love to the Church go, With all her Bride-Maidens they made such a show; I laught in conceit, but my heart was full low, To see how highly she was regarded. But when I saw my love in the Church stand, Gold Ring on her Finger, well seal'd with a hand: He had so seduc'd her with house and with Land, That nothing but Death can them sever. But when the Bride-Maidens were having her to Bed, I stept in amongst them and kissed the Bride: I wisht I might have been laid by her side, And by that means I got me a favor. When she was laid in bed, (drest up in white) My eyes gusht with water, that drowned my sight: I put off my Hat, and bid them good-night, And adieu my fair sweeting for ever.
Oh dig me a Grave that is wide, large, and deep, With a root at my head, and another at my feet: There will I lye and take a long sleep, I'le bid her farewel for ever. She plighted her faith, to be my fair Bride, And now at last hath me falsly depriv'd; I'le leave off my wrath, and with God be my guide, To save me from such another. I pitty her case, much more then my own, That she should imbrace and joyn hands in one: Whilst I am her true love, and daily do groan, My sorrow I cannot smother. Though Marriage hath bound her, she is much to blame, And though he hath found her, her Husband I am; Hereafter 'twill wound her, that she put them to shame, When Conscience shall be her accuser. Two Husbands she hath by this wild miscarriage, The one by a Contract, the other by Marriage: She doth her whole Family grossly disparage, But I will not plot to misuse her. Beware you young-men, of Arts or of Trades, Chuse warily when you meet with such Maids: You'd better live single alone in the Shades, Then to love such an abuser.
Printed for J. Clark. W. Thackeray, and T. Passenger.