%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE/ Dispairing Lovers Address/ TO/ CHARON;/ For a Passage to the Elizium Shades: Or,/ The fond Lovers Lamentation for the unkindness of Silvia. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1664-1689 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/23/2007 21391

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3.375 R235041 1 Charon make haste, etc. Charon Make Haste Charon Make Haste CHaron make haste, and ferry me over/ to the Elizium shady Grove; Pepys 3.375 Wing ?D1197A 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: 375 THE/ Dispairing Lovers Address/ TO/ CHARON;/ For a Passage to the Elizium Shades: Or,/ The fond Lovers Lamentation for the unkindness of Silvia. THE Dispairing Lovers Address TO CHARON; For a Passage to the Elizium Shades: Or, The fond Lovers Lamentation for the unkindness of Silvia. The Despairing Lover's Address to Charon; For a Passage to the Elysium Shades: Or, the Fond Lover's Lamentation for the Unkindness of Silvia. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 195 x 325 all edges cropped 1664-1689 Printed for J. Conyers at the Black Raven a little above St. Andrew's Church in Holbourn, and/ J. Bissel at the Bible and Harp near the Hospital-gate in West Smithfield. J. Conyers, J. Bissel BBTI

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CHaron make haste, and ferry me over to the Elizium shady Grove; Where I my passion in sighs will discover, which I have suffered long for Love. I am a weary of my life, and cannot be eased, no, no where, Then put a period unto my life, and carry me where I may know no care.
O, my dear Silvia, 'tis you that have wounded me with the soft glances of your fair eyes; And with your hate you have quite confounded me, and you have made me a Sacrifice: I was a slave to all your charms, and perfectly thought you would comply; But now you leave me in deaths cold arms, and must for your sake a poor Martyr dye.
Tell me, dear Silvia, why you are so cruel thus to disdain a poor loving Swain, And with your Eyes still encrease his fuel, using no means to release his pain: Let not your frowns such beauty cover, hiding the charms of your fair eyes, But take compassion of your kind Lover, or in an amorous rage he dyes. Did you but know what immortal blessing Lovers whose hearts are combin'd enjoy, You'd not deny the delightful possessing of the sweet blisses you now destroy: Let him not live in pains for ever, but with your smiles his passion cure; Love him but once, and his heart shall never vary, but always continue yours. But if you still will continue disdainful, checking my love with perpetual scorn, I shall remain in a passion so painful, cursing the moment that I was born:
Then amongst wild distressed mountains I will alone breath out my cares, And there my eyes like two Crystal Fountains daily shall weep out their brackish tears. I'll in soft Notes to just Heaven discover, you are the cause of my wretched pain; Tell them how you have disdain'd your lover, who has begg'd pitty long time in vain: There will I beg the neighbouring Creatures for to assist and tell my care, And we'll explain against her fair features, who has thus driven me to dispair. But ah my Silvia, when you shall here that I to Elizium shades am gone, Then I am sure you must let fall a tear, since you were the cause of my death alone: Then will you wish, when 'tis too late, that you could revive your loving Swain; When your Unkindness has seal'd my Fate, O then you will wish me alive again.
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Printed for J. Conyers at the Black Raven a little above St. Andrew's Church in Holbourn, and J. Bissel at the Bible and Harp near the Hospital-gate in West Smithfield.