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3.362 R188420 1 Farewel my dear Johnny, &c. Farewell my dear Johnny, etc. FArewel my dear Peggy, whom I loved so,/ Your absence to me has created my woe, Pepys 3.362 Wing L483[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: 362 The last Dying Words of/ Robert Boxall, of Petworth,/ TO HIS/ False=hearted Lover, Margaret Mills. The last Dying Words of Robert Boxall, of Petworth, TO HIS False-hearted Lover, Margaret Mills. The Last Dying Words of Robert Boxall, of Petworth, to His False Hearted Lover, Margaret Mills. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 200 x 293 cropped bottom edge 1664-1703 London: Printed for J. Blare, on London-bridge. J. Blare BBTI

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FArewel my dear Peggy, whom I loved so, Your absence to me has created my woe, Because I believed your flattering Tongue, Which deceitfully left me in Sorrow undone; But I will forgive you with all my whole Heart, Yet curst be the Minuit & and Time we did part; Of all Women living, your false as God's true, And so, my dear Peggy, I bid you adieu: For since I do find you both false and unkind, I'll set it as light as the wavering Wind: My Means, it seems, was too slender, therefore You married Ned Slarkes, that Son of a Whore.
God send you more Means, and I better Grace, I hope to prepare for a far better place, Where flattering Lovers can never molest My Happiness, being for ever at rest. Remember, dear Peggy, there is a day to come, On which you must answer for all you have done, In making such large Protestations to me; Oh! pardon, good Lord, for I can't pardon she. Oh! pity Peggy for her covetuous Mind, Which was the first cause of her proving unkind; Her Promise she broke for a hump-bak'd Mate, I wish that she does not repent it too late.
If Peggy so true unto me had been, Then all these Sorrows I never had seen; But I must complain of her being unjust, For where is the Maid that a Man now can trust? I strive to forget it as well as I can; Yet, nevertheless, when I think of the Woman, How she with her flattering Tongue did deceive My innocent Heart, now in Sorrow I grieve. As I do Work, there Weeping I sit, And find that I cannot my Peggy forget; That Love which is rooted and lack'd in my Heart, 'Twas a pleasure to meet, but a sorrow to part. Could I but be freed from the pleasures of Love, I solemnly swear, by the Powers above, This firm Resolution I'll readily make, Ne'er to believe a young Maid for her sake. But Peggy may grow wealthy & flourish a while, So long as kind Fortune is pleased to smile; But if I should die for you, now after all, You then may be sorry to think of my Fall. Be careful young Men, what ever you do, Lest flattering Maidens, they ruinate you; By woeful experience, alas! I may say, She studied my innocent Heart to betray.
London: Printed for J. Blare, on London-bridge.