%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The BIRDS Harmony. / The Silvan woods seem'd to complain / of gross inconstancy, the Birds in vain / Did warble forth their griefs to ease their minds, / and all did Sympathize, though ease none finds. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1680-1682 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/14/2008 21929

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4.268 R232880 1 The delights of the bottle, &c. The delights of the bottle The Delights of the Bottle, etc. AS I was walking in the shade / which Summers heat with leaves has made final comma inverted in tune; imprint unclear: no first initial before Clark. Pepys 4.268 Wing B2956A 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: 268 The BIRDS Harmony. / The Silvan woods seem'd to complain / of gross inconstancy, the Birds in vain / Did warble forth their griefs to ease their minds, / and all did Sympathize, though ease none finds. The BIRDS Harmony. The Silvan woods seem'd to complain of gross inconstancy, the Birds in vain Did warble forth their griefs to ease their minds, and all did Sympathize, though ease none finds. The Birds' Harmony. The Sylvan Woods Seemed to Complain of Gross Inconstancy, the Birds in Vain Did Warble Forth Their Griefs to Ease Their Minds, and All Did Sympathize, Though Ease None Finds. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 190 x 328 cropped right and bottom edges, torn bottom edge vertical rules and cast fleurons. 1680-1682 LONDON/ Printed for M. Coles. T. Vere. J. Wright. / Clark, W Thackery, and T. Passenger. M. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, Clark, W Thackery, T. Passenger 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 8/14/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Various Subjects advice animals/nature infidelity love virtue 08/14/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created, ESTC # recorded / found in bl.uk 07/10/07 Checker Rachel Mann Ballad Checked : ESTC # R232880 09/07/06 Transcriber Simone Chess Original Transcription 9/1/2004 Bibliographer Maggie Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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AS I was walking in the shade which Summers heat with leaves has made The Birds did seem for to lament. and did complain of grief and discontent; But as they fled from Tree to Tree, they made such moan as sorely troubled me. Then came the Cookooe bold and stout, flying the Country round about, While other birds her young ones feed, and they for help of others stand in need, The Syre unkind no care doth take, but leaves the young ones some strange shift to make.
Then said the Black-bird as she fled, I had a Love but now she's dead, And now my love I dearly lack, which is the cause that I do go in black, And by my self I sadly mourn, like one forsaken, helpless, and forlorn. Then said the pretty Nightingale, attend and hear my mournful tale, Whilst other Birds do sleep, I mourn, leaning my brest against some prickly thorn, And in the silent darksome night, to send forth mournful Notes I take delight.
Then said the Sparrow from her Nest, I had a Love but 'twas in jest, And ever since for that same thing I made a promise I would never sing, Which I intend for my loves sake, that I will keep, and will by no means break. Then said the Lark upon the grass, once I did love a pretty Lass, But she'd not hear her true love sing, although she had a voice would please a King; And since on high into the Air I fly, that none my warbling voice may hear, Then next poor Robin she exprest, what chang'd the colour of her brest Because her love he would not yield: she would desert the Grove and flowry field? And near the Houses there complain in Winter Morn, how she did love in vain. The Swallow with the wings so long, complain'd that she received wrong, And being past all kind of hopes of love, complain'd in strange confused Notes: No one can understand her tale, in such disorder she doth brawl and raile. The Thresh also did make her moan, and sayes that kindness she found none, But love to be in silent holes, where none may hear how she her case condoules. Far from th[?] [?]ood she ch[?] [?]ood.
The little Renn whose love unkind did cause those griefs to cease her mind: Which hindred her to grow or thrive, because her love no longer could survive; This was the cause she was so small, her love being dead she could not thrive at all. Thus may you see how little Birds do grieve for love in mournful woods, Let men and women then be true and constant to each others, so that you In peace may live, and when you die, you then may boast of Truth and Loyalty. Let not your minds be discompos'd when your poor eyes must needs be clos'd, But rather let your faithful mind be such as you from thence may comfort find Be kind, be true, that so you may find peace on Earth, comfort another day. Who so proves faithful, firm, and true, shall have no reason for to rue, But Triumph over grim fac'd death, when he shall come to stop his latest breath; Young people all let this you move, for to be true and loyal in your love.
LONDON Printed for M. Coles. T. Vere. J. Wright. [?] Clark. W Thackery, and T, Passenger.