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3.266 R188273 1 O no, no, no, not yet I'll Never Love Thee More O No, No, No, Not Yet MY dear and only love take heed,/ how you your self dispose Ile never love thee more, {with variations; cols 1-2}; oh no, no, no, not yet {with variations; cols 3-4} Pepys 3.266 Wing I49[C] 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: 266 Ile never Love thee more/ being a true Love Song between a young/ Man and a Maid. Ile never Love thee more being a true Love Song between a young Man and a Maid. I'll Never Love Thee More Being a True Love Song Between a Young Man and a Maid. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 210 x 267 cropped left and right edges, ?cropped bottom edge, damaged surface cast fleurons 1674-1679 Printed for F. Coles. T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke. F. Coles. T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke 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 8/29/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant advice love virtue 8/29/07 Checker Liberty Stanavage Checked transcription, x-balladed 7/26/06 Transcriber Eric Nebeker Original Transcription 8/30/04 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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M Y dear and only love take heed, how you your self dispose And let no wandring lovers feed, on such like looks as those, Ile marble wall thee round about, being built without a door, Where if thy heart but once break out Il never love thee more, Let not their oaths (like Gollies shot) make any breach at all, For smoothness of their cunning plots which way to scale the wall: For balls of wild fire loud consume, the shrine that I adore, But if such smoak about thee fume, Ile never love thee more . I know thy vertues are so strong, theyle suffer no surprise, Maintained by my love so long, at last the siege must rise, And leave the ruler in such health, and state it was before, But if thou prove a common wealth, Ile never etc. Or if by fraud or by consent, my heart to ruine come, Ile nere sound Trumpet as I meant, nor march by sound of Drum, But hold mine arms and Ensigns up, thy falshood to deplore, And after such a common cup, Ile never. etc.
Ile do by thee as Nero did when Rome was set on fire, Not only all releif forbid, but backwards quite retire: And scorn to shed a tear to see, thy spirit grown so poor, But smileing sing thus unto thee, Ile never etc. But if thou wilt continue true, Leander I will prove, As he to Hero I to you, will (swimming) drown for love O be not like to Cressida as now be lovers store, That I no cause may have to say, Ile never etc . If thou like Helena of Greece , wilt falsifie thy word, Thy Jason for the golden Fleece like measure will afford, And choose some rare Penelope, with vertues to adore, That I may justly say to thee, Ile never etc. But if thy heart like milk white snow will melt and mollifie, Or as the Turtle true love show and for our parting dye, Then shall our loves fast setled be upon no sandy shore, And I will say my dear to thee, Ile love thee evermore.
A Young man walked once alone abroad to take the Air It was his chance to meet a maid of beauty passing fair, He asked her in secrecy, down by him for to sit, She answered him with modesty oh no, no, no, not yet Forty Crowns I will give thee sweet heart in good red gold, To live with me and be my love say shall the bargain hold, She answered him most modestly and with a pregnant wit: A married wife I will not be, oh no etc. Gold and Silver are but dross, and soon will fade away, While vertue in a virgins breast, will have a longer stay, Then think me not to be so fond, and of so little wit: To sell away my liberty, oh no, etc. Some of our sex you say are weak and easie to be woon, But you shall find in all my way, your sugred words Ile shun I will not overtaken be, in any thing unfit Nor trust unto a tempting tongue oh no etc.
Oh be not so unkind my dear, the young man then replide The tongue doth tell what pain & grief we lovers do abide, If hand and heart but once agree, commanded is the wit Then say no more my dear to me, oh no no, etc. If I should trust thy words quoth she, where falshood doth remain, To call my Virgins freedom back, I think it be but vain: Therefore to chuse a man to wed, requires the choycest wit, Then let me have a time to say, oh no, etc. The silver Moon shall shine by day the golden Sun by night Ere I leave (quoth he) the way, that leads me to delight For silence is a grant in love, and for a Maiden fit, Then say no more discourteously, oh no, no, etc. The young man and the maiden then became united friends, She liked of him and he of her, and so their woeing ends, And she the married life did choose, as it was reason fit, where neither of them answered more oh no, no, no, not yet.
London Printed for F. Coles. T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. [Clarke]