%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Celia's Kind Answer to/ Corydon's Complaint:/ Poor Corydons Complaint doth Celia move,/ A little by degrees to yield to Love;/ His melting words doth make her heart relent/ And her unkindness she doth much repent:/ And now she is resolved at the last,/ To give him comfort for his Sorrows past. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1678-1680 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/13/2007 21713

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4.47 R176356 1 Corydon's Complaint Corydon's Complaint O What's the matter/ with this Shepherd Swain, STay Iolly Shepherd,/ prethee turn again, Pepys 4.47 Wing C1656 [B]; Rollins (2) 274 (Jan.27, 1673. ii, 453, Jno. Clark). 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. 4: 47 Celia's Kind Answer to/ Corydon's Complaint:/ Poor Corydons Complaint doth Celia move,/ A little by degrees to yield to Love;/ His melting words doth make her heart relent/ And her unkindness she doth much repent:/ And now she is resolved at the last,/ To give him comfort for his Sorrows past. Celias Kind Answer to Corydon's Complaint: Poor Corydons Complaint doth Celia move, A little by degrees to yield to Love; His melting words doth make her heart relent And her unkindness she doth much repent And now she is resolved at the last, To give him comfort for his Sorrows past. Celia's Kind Answer to Corydon's Complaint: Poor Corydon's Complaint Does Celia Move, a Little by Degrees to Yield to Love; His Melting Words Does Make Her Heart Relent and Her Unkindness She Does Much Repent: And Now She is Resolved at the Last, to Give Him Comfort for His Sorrows Past. The second part, The second part, The Second Part, 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?195 x 320 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?195 x 320 cropped right and bottom edges cropped right and bottom edges vertical rule and cast fleurons vertical rule and cast fleurons 1678-1680 Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke, T. Passenger, and W. Thackeray. F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clarke, T. Passinger, W. Thackeray. 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 8/13/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant and Unfortunate death love mythology/Classicalworld rurallife 08/13/07 Checker Rachel Mann Transcription checked, Metadata added, XML completed 09/1/06 Transcriber Kris McAbee Original Transcription 9/8/2004 Bibliographer Liberty Stanavage Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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O What's the matter with this Shepherd Swain, That in this manner he should so complain; Some scornful Nymph that stole his heart, and lockt it in her breast, And he poor Lover feels the smart, and is with grief opprest; That night nor day, as he doth say, he now can take no rest.
But yet his Mourning doth so pierce my heart, That in his sorrows I must bear a part; Alas it is my Coridon, I know him by his voice, That doth for Coelia make this Moan, I am his onely choice; Therefore I will some comfort yield and make him to rejoyce.
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STay Jolly Shepherd, prethee turn again, Walk not so pensive for a Maids disdain: Although you do me fickle call, and wavering as the wind; Chear up thy heart, be sure I shall hereafter prove more kind; And bring Relief for all thy grief, unto thy troubled mind. Then sit down by me in this Mirtle shade, And do not flye me since I am betraid; The Cyprian Boy, Dame Venus joy, hath pierced my poor heart, And now in all thy troubles I will bear the greatest part; Because in Love, so lately I have learnt the onely Art. How it doth grieve me that I was unkind, But now believe me I have chang'd my mind; Disdain shall never touch my heart, nor lodge within my breast: All by the power of Cupids Dart as I before confest; My mind I freely will impart to thee whom I love best. Faint-hearted Shepherd do not droop and die, But for the Celia, cease to mourn and cry; Arcadia's coast could never boast of one more kind and true, My Coridon then I will prove for ever unto you; Because it is no more but meer, true love should have its due.
Thou shalt not fail unto the Indian coast, For in such dangers my love might be lost And then what should poor Celia do, if Coridon were gone: But live in woe continually, and sigh, lament, and mourn; And dye with grief, without relief, when I am left alone. Call me not cruel, pirthee Love forbear, I'le be thy Jewel, and will love thee dear; No Shepherd Swain upon the Plain shall take so much delight, As thou shalt from thy Celia find, by day and eke by night; Because it is my onely joy, to have thee in my sight. Pardon my strangeness, and my fond disdain, Since I am willing thy love to entertain: It was but for to try thy Love that I did seem so coy, But for to make a full amends my Love thou shalt enjoy; And I will be thy dearest friend. to keep thee from annoy. Then banish sadness, and let us now imbrace, Being met with gladness, in this pleasant place; And let all Loyal Lovers that doth hear of our welfare, Say Coridon and Celia, doth live without compare; Both being free from jealousie, and also void of care.
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