%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Dispairing Shepherds Advice to Rash Lovers:/ OR,/ A Caution against Flattery./ Being a most pleasant and delightful New Play=Song./ Kind Strephons love makes scornful Phillis flye,/ And look on him with a Disdainful Eye;/ 'Tis so with all young Virgins, when they prove/ Their youthful Suitors both admire and love;/ Then Youths beware that when you love most dear,/ Let then the least love outwardly appear. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1681-1684 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 09/13/2007 21377

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3.361 R174522 1 Hail to the Mirtle Shades Hail to the Myrtle Shades Hail to the Myrtle Shades IN a Grove where fair Nymphs dwell,/ young Strephon the pride of the Plain; Pepys 3.361 Wing D1197[B] 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: 361 The Dispairing Shepherds Advice to Rash Lovers:/ OR,/ A Caution against Flattery./ Being a most pleasant and delightful New Play=Song./ Kind Strephons love makes scornful Phillis flye,/ And look on him with a Disdainful Eye;/ 'Tis so with all young Virgins, when they prove/ Their youthful Suitors both admire and love;/ Then Youths beware that when you love most dear,/ Let then the least love outwardly appear. The Dispairing Shepherds Advice to Rash Lovers: OR, A Caution against Flattery. Being a most pleasant and delightful New Play-Song. Kind Strephons love makes scornful Phillis flye, And look on him with a Disadainful Eye; 'Tis so with all young Virgins, when they prove Their youthful Suitors both admire and love; Then Youths beware that when you love most dear, Let then the least love outwardly appear. The Dispairing Shepherd's Advice to Rash Lovers: Or, a Caution Against Flattery. Being a Most Pleasant and Delightful New Play Song. Kind Strephon's Love Makes Scornful Phillis Fly, and Look on Him With a Disdainful Eye; It is so With All Young Virgins, When They Prove Their Youthful Suitors Both Admire and Love; Then Youths Beware that When You Love Most Dear, Let then the Least Love Outwardly Appear. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 200 x 310 cropped left and bottom edges cast fleurons 1681-1684 Printed for J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thac-/ keray, and T. Passinger. J. Wright, J. Clarke, 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 9/13/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Unfortunate advice appearance love 9/13/07 Checker Rachel Mann Transcription checked, metadata updated, XML created 8/22/06 Transcriber Summer Star Original transcription 9/9/04 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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IN a Grove where fair Nymphs dwell, young Strephon the pride of the Plain; His love-sick Story did tell, how the Nymph did his suit disdain: Ah cruel! he cry[']d away, fond Cupid now torture no more; You see I your Laws obey, though I all in vain do adore. Ah! Phillis is now unkind, and my love does requite with scorn, Ah! Phillis no more I find, thy cruel frowns must be born;
For the more I court, you flye, and crueller still you do grow; And though poor Strephon shou'd dye, yet to him no kindness you'd show. Bear witness you Woods and Springs, you Rocks and you neighbouring Hills, And each pritty Bird that sings, that Phillis has Eyes which kill: When first I beheld her face, her charms did so powerful prove, That all my Manhood gave place, and I was constrain'd for to love.
WHich has caus'd my grief and woe, and many a showre of Tears; To think how my Love did flow, and yet did get nothing but cares: For had I not prov'd so kind, and flatter'd her still with such praise; I far more favour might find, and Venus had Crown'd me with Bays. Then Shepherds a warning take, beware how you flatter the proud; Least that their conceits do make them vanish your hopes to a Cloud: For Women of their own motion, can boast and swell with ambition, And think that our Devotion for them is not half sufficient. For if we praise their features, and say that they'r vertuous and fair; Excelling Mortal Creatures, and beautious beyond all compare: Then they will look with disdain, and think us unworthy to view; Nor pitty, though we complain, though all that we said was untrue. But if we prove coy, they'l be soon ready our favour to wooe; And unto our wish will agree, and what e're we'd have'um do: Had I not shew'd her such love, I ne'r had been serv'd at this rate;
But Cupid does cruel prove, pushing on the rash Lovers fate. But I, poor I must pine, because I can never redeem Those Moments that once were mine, in which I might gain her esteem: For women like wind do change, and when that their quarter they shift; They through the whole compass range, and ship-wrack our passions adrift. Then by sad Strephons complaint, beware how too far you do wade; Least you do find a restraint, and then all your hopes will soon fade: Love is much like a Quick-sand, on which if you stay but to pause, It will soon sink where you stand, and you to stick fast in will cause. The which by experience I tell, and eccho to Woods my sad moan; And here resolve for to dwell, because unkind Phillis is gone: For I'm past Cure now I find, and Death he must ease me of grief; Unless my Phillis prove kind, and bring me a speedy relief.
FINIS.
Printed for J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thac- keray, and T. Passinger.