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3.383 R187645 2 Long Sporting on the Flowery Plain, Or, Young Strephon fain the Bliss would Tast Young Phaon Young Strephon fain the Bliss would Taste Ienny Ginn Jenny Gin Jenny Gin LOng Sporting on the flowery plain,/ whilst I obedient stood, Ambition has undone. [with variations] tune unclear: To the Tune of, Long Spo[r]ting on the Fl[o]wery Plain, Or, Young Strephon/ fain the Bliss would Tast, &c. or, Ienny Ginn.; date from license Pepys 3.383 Wing U58D 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: 383 Unfortunate Strephon,/ OR,/ The Unhappy Shepherds last LEGACY/ to the WORLD./ It Being a Pleasant and Delightful New Song. Unfortunate Strephon, OR, The Unhappy Shepherds last LEGACY to the WORLD. It Being a Pleasant and Delightful New Song. Unfortunate Strephon, or, the Unhappy Shepherd's Last Legacy to the World. It Being a Pleasant and Delightful New Song. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?205 x 300 creased and damaged surface, uneven inking vertical rules 1685 Printed for I. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger. J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, T. Passinger Weinstein: license

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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 8/27/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Unfortunate death love mythology/Classicalworld 8/27/07 Checker Rachel Mann Transcription checked, metadata updated, XML created 8/17/06 Transcriber Summer Star Original Transcription 9/9/04 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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LOng Sporting on the flowery plain, whilst I obedient stood, Whilst I was found a Loyal Swain, and sought Arcadia good: Each Shepherd and each Shepherdess, my worthy deeds made known, But now poor Strephon now at last, Ambition has undone. Each Nymph did wish her silent charms [?] might so alureing prove, To win me to her tender arms, and make me yield to Love:
Each chearful face did joy express, by smiles that hung thereon, For me poor Strephon whom alas Ambition has undone. Lov'd and admir'd long time I was, 'till fatal to my fame, The feavorish breath of fond aplause, to my warm breast gave flame: 'Twas future greatness was the glass, I fondly gaz'd upon, 'Tul me poor Strephon whom alass Ambition has undone.
What other Shepherds well cou'd please Shepherds of my degree. My labouring thoughts could nothing ease, nor no contentment be: But Courting flatry's witching face, which slyely drew me on, 'Till me poor Strephon me alas Ambition had undone. Regardless of that tender care, which my dear safety sought, Safe counsel I refus'd to hear, such as had made me great: And following flying shades apace, shades that have lead me on, 'Till me poor Strephon me alas Ambition has undone. My greatest foes in friendships dress, I rashly did believe, Who having brought me to distress, my swelling hopes deceive: Belief and Ruine did embrace, ruine my self call'd on, 'Till me poor Strephon me alas Ambition hath undone:
To urge the foreign fates I durst, in an unhappy time, And in false fortune puting trust, to greatness strove to climb: Which then I thought in prospect was though by delusion shown, 'Till me poor Strephon me alas Ambition had o'rethrown. Forsaking those most happy Plains, where I long time had been, And following false and treacherous swains, at last they drew me in: To prove ungrateful to the place where I such fame had won, Till me poor Strephon, me alas! Ambition had undone. Successless in my enterpr[ise] unfortune and crost, Let others by my fall advise, lest they likewise are lost: Let Loyalty your actions Grace, to keep the fame yovu'e won, Least you should fall like him alas! Ambition has undone.
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