%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Frantick 'Squire:/ Whose passionate Love for a Young Lady caused his Distraction,/ and since the restoration, of his Senses, he, with his own hand, writ this/ Excellent new Ditty. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1675-1696 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/01/2008 21262

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3.248 R228229 1 Let Mary Live Long Let Mary Live Long Let Mary Live Long MElpomene now/ assist a meek Lover, [repetition of 9th line of each stanza] Pepys 3.248 Wing ?F2093 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: 248 The Frantick 'Squire:/ Whose passionate Love for a Young Lady caused his Distraction,/ and since the restoration, of his Senses, he, with his own hand, writ this/ Excellent new Ditty. The Frantick 'Squire: Whose passionate Love for a Young Lady caused his Distraction, and since the restoration, of his Senses, he, with his own hand, writ this Excellent new Ditty. The Frantic Squire: Whose Passionate Love For a Young Lady Caused His Distraction, and Since the Restoration, of His Senses, He, With His Own Hand, Wrote This Excellent New Ditty. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 194 x 322 cropped right edge, creased, uneven inking horizontal and vertical rules 1675-1696 Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon,/ J. Blare, J. Back. P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back. PBA

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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 4/1/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant affliction/health love travel 04/01/2008 Checker Patrick Ludolph metadata added, xml created 02/20/2008 Checker Patrick Ludolph transcription checked 10/22/2007 Checker Catherine Zusky transcription checked 06/23/2007 Transcriber Pavneet Aulakh original transcription 08/30/2004 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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MElpomene now assist a meek Lover, whose Tears will discover, How false to her Vow fair Cynthia hath been: While I sigh and complain She return'd me disdain, and would not expel My languishing passion, My languishing passion, but bid me far [?]
From morning to night, I wander'd distracted ah! what have I acted Which made her delight to torture me so: Through the Shades did I post, Like a hovering Ghost bereaved of rest; With sad Lamentation, With sad Lamentation [in ?]
My Riches I left, with dear Habitation, each Friend and Relation, Of Comforts bereft, Distracted I run; That a place I might find That was free from mankind, (fair women I mean;) Whose conquering Beauty, Whose conquering Beauty, too late I have seen. My Pillow I made on banks of green Rushes, near Brambles and Bushes, Where weeping I laid my sorrowful Head, As I closed my Eyes, The kind watery Skies, would weep to behold A Lover exposed A Lover exposed to sorrow and cold. I valu'd not Crowns, with Kingdoms of Treasure, and wealth out of measure, Or fortifi'd Towns, for which they contend; There was Cynthia my Love, Which I valu'd above an Emperor's Throne, Her amorous beauty, Her amorous beauty [wa]s Riche[s] [?]
To Bedlam bound, at length they convey'd me, And there having laid me Upon the hard Ground, I took my repose; And my rich silken Bed, Where I once laid my Head, was turned to Straws Of this my Distraction, Of this my Distraction, was Cynthia the Cause? My Senses once more, the hand of kind Heaven, in pity hath given, And now I'll adore no woman alive: Since my Heart is at ease, Let 'em frown if they please I scorn their disdain, They never shall make me, They never shall make me, a Captive again.
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