%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Dreaming Virgins Conceited happiness./ OR,/ The Innocent Maidens Hue and Cry/ After the Pleasures of Love./ Here Beauty, Innocence and all, are met,/ As Diamonds are in Gold compleatly set./ Here Love in Native Innocence we paint,/ Such Beauty rais'd, and Gold ne'r yet made faint. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1684-1686 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/15/2007 21119

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3.113 R174747 1 My Life and My Death My Life and My Death My Life and My Death I Am a young Maiden so brisk and so gay,/ A Portion I have, and no longer wou'd stay: Pepys 3.113 Wing D2156[A] 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: 113 The Dreaming Virgins Conceited happiness./ OR,/ The Innocent Maidens Hue and Cry/ After the Pleasures of Love./ Here Beauty, Innocence and all, are met,/ As Diamonds are in Gold compleatly set./ Here Love in Native Innocence we paint,/ Such Beauty rais'd, and Gold ne'r yet made faint. The Dreaming Virgins Conceited happiness. OR, The Innocent Maidens Hue and Cry After the Pleasures of Love. Here Beauty, Innocence and all, are met, As Diamonds are in Gold compleatly set. Here Love in Native Innocence we paint, Such Beauty rais'd, and Gold ne'r yet made faint. The Dreaming Virgin's Conceited Happiness. Or, the Innocent Maiden's Hue and Cry After the Pleasures of Love. Here Beauty, Innocence and All, Are Met, as Diamonds Are in Gold Completely Set. Here Love in Native Innocence We Paint, Such Beauty Raised, and Gold Never Yet Made Faint. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 194 x 274 damaged surface, uneven inking vertical rule and cast fleurons 1684-1686 Printed for J. Clark, W. Thackeray,/ and T. Passinger. J. Clark, W. Thackeray, T. Passinger 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 8/15/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant sex/sexuality 08/15/2007 Checker Patrick Ludolph Transcription and Metadata Checked, XML 08/16/2006 Checker Simone Chess Transcription Checked 07/12/2006 Transcriber Unknown Original Transcription 08/23/2004 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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I Am a young Maiden so brisk and so gay, A Portion I have, and no longer wou'd stay: There's something I long for, 'tis something thats fine For which I oft sigh, and wish it were mine. I dream (it is true) of much pleasure and ease, And ofter to dream so me better wou'd please: But oh! when I awake I find all but a shade, And still I continue a languishing Maid. One night I did fancy young Cupid was nigh, And told me he'd brought me an Ocean of joy: When strait a young gallant approached in charms, And flew with all eagerness into my Arms, Whilst saintly resistance I seemingly made, And coyly I struggl'd as I would have fled, But a thousand soft pleasures methought bid me stay And I cou[']d have wish'd to have slumber'd all day.
But these are faint things, I wou'd further enjoy, The shade of a blessing does blessings destroy: 'Tis strange that such youth and such beauty lies by That Rose-buds in prime so neglected should lye; To dream is a pleasure, but if I guess right, Than dreaming, there yet is a further delight; Earth Bird of the Ayr with its Mate does rejoyce, And creatures of kind of their like so make choice. The Turtle with billing the Turtle does greet, And with their soft cooing their Loves do repeat; The Redbreasts are joyful in pairs on each Bough, Each Lark on the wing does its loving mate know, The Lapwing is weeping when it is alone, And for her lost Mate does the Nightingale mone; The Hind does her Hart with much kindness invite In Forrests and Mountains to take his delight.
THen were there no pleasure united to be, How then would all these in their union agree? Something that my innocence cannot yet scan Does raise a desire for to love the thing man: For oft I observe when I wishfully gaze, My heart it does beat with a blush in my face, I stand as intranced, and cannot remove Those eyes I have fix'd on an object I love. Than thus for to view him there more is I guess, Or else after seeing I should love him less, All objects (at first though they greatly may please) By oft being view'd in their Lustre decrease: But this is not so, but my fancy does move The more I behold it, the more for to love: There's something within me does plead still his cause, And Nature informs me i'm bound by her laws, To love my own likeness, and pleasant to be, Why then shou'd all things and not Mankind agree? Let Parents preach on, for though rigid they prove, There is a Desire does prompt me to love; What though I am young, I the longer shall know Those pleasures I dream of, if Love can bestow Those joys upon one whom his Laws wou'd obey, And squander not idly pleasures away. If Cupid e're pitty'd a languishing Maid, If never true kindness true virtue betray'd, If innocent love that ne'r learn'd to deceive, Can pleasure to Lovers that constant are give: If joys that I know not for me are in store, If Lovers in pleasure can never be poor, Then pitty, ye Powers, and let me be blest With what I in Dreams and so often possest. And all my endeavours shall still be to please In innocent Love for such pleasures as these: Arm, arm gentle Cupid, and let fly thy Dart With flame that is mildest to pierce some ones heart And guide him the way as successful to prove As I am to yield to the charms of Love: Make Feavers so equal to burn in our breast, That both may know Love, and in Loving be blest.
Printed for J. Clark, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger.