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3.279 R187758 1 The Usurer's Daughter The Usurer's Daughter The Usurer's Daughter LEtt my Fairest Uirgin prove most kind to me,/ gentle Cupid most delightful is, Love is not a Duel cruel and unkind,/ But most soft and sweet to Maidens mind:/ For pleasure in sweet Loving Lovers always find,/ Therefore tender Beauties should be kind. [with variations] Pepys 3.279 Wing W2980B 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: 279 The Windsor GALLANT/ Courting the Country Farmers Daughter'. The Windsor GALLANT Courting the Country Farmers Daughter. The Windsor Gallant Courting the Country Farmer's Daughter. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?215 x 325 cropped and torn right edge 1680-1690 Printed for C. Dennison, at the Stationers-Arms within Aldgate. C. Dennison BBTI

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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 9/12/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant class love sex/sexuality 9/12/07 Checker Liberty Stanavage Liberty Stanavage 7/31/06 Transcriber Eric Nebeker Original Transcription 8/30/04 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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L Et my Fairest Virgin prove most kind to me, gentle Cupid most delightful is, No Swain shall be ever truer unto thee, fairest let me taste one tempting kiss: Beauty like sweet Venus should be kind to men, Prithee let me kiss thee once agen. Love is not a Duel cruel and unkind, But most soft and sweet to Maidens mind: For pleasure in sweet Loving Lovers always find, Therefore tender Beauties should be kind.
Let no fine young Gallant think to conquer me, though you seem to be both young and fair, Such falce hearted Lovers Maids may daily see, though to us devinely men appear, We should not believe Loves soft and pleasing Tale, Least he should upon our hearts prevail. Cupid is a Duel cruel and unkind, Neither soft nor sweet to Maidens mind, For in Loves pleasures Torments lovers often find Therefore Beauties never should be kind.
Mark how Golden Flowers in their bloom & prime, sweetly to our eyes appear all gay, But must loose their beauties in a little time, let not youth and beauty post away: Now while we have time let us advantage take, For Old Age young Cupid does forsake. L ove is not a Duel cruel and unkind, But most soft and sweet to Maidens mind; For pleasure in sweet Loving Lovers always find Therefore tender Beauties should be kind. Men are false as Dice, as vows they make in Wine maidens may not trust their hearts with these, For although they court with words most kind & fair yet like wind they flye away with ease: Nothing can be certain that you men relate, For where you pretend to Love you hate. Cupid is a Duel cruel and unkind, Neither soft nor sweet to Maidens mind, For in Loves pleasures, torments lovers often find Therefore Beauties never should be kind, These are words become Old dull and frosty age, let us think of all true Lovers joys, Let us now our tender hearts to each engage, that we may have a young race of Boys; Beauty is a Banquet that young Love should feast,
That Old crazy Time should never taste. Love is not a Duel cruel and unkind, But most soft and sweet to Maidens mind, For pleasure in sweet Loving Lovers always [find ] Therefore tender Beauties should be kind. Wisely Ile take warning and those pleasure fe[ar] Cupid in Maids ruine takes delight, Therefore his sweet Banquet I must needs forb[ear] and not think upon the tempting night; Least like some young Bird I fall into the net, Which I wisely have avoided yet: Cupid is a Duel cruel and unkind, Neither soft nor sweet to Maidens mind, For in loves pleasures torments lovers often [find ] Therefore B eauties never should be kind. If you fall tis in your Lovers tender arms, nothing can more soft and easie be, There i'le keep my dear secure and safe from ha[rm] till we both the morning day-light see: These are harmless pleasures which the Swain [?] pr[?] And forsakes his Flock to feast with Love. Love is not a Duel cruel and unkind, But most soft and sweet to Maidens mind, For pleasure in sweet Loving Lovers always fi [nd ] Therefore tender Beauties should be kind.
Printed for C. Dennisson, at the Stationers-Arms within Aldgate.