%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> An Excellent new Playhouse SONG, Call'd, / The Faithful LOVERS / Or, The Young Man's Earnest Request / To His Mistress. / VVith her kind Answer to her LOVER. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1694 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 03/11/2008 22041

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5.206 R176861 1 Fond Boy Fond Boy Fond Boy SUch commands ore my fate has your love or your hate / That nothing can make me more wretched or great, date from imprint Pepys 5.206 Wing E3811 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. 5: 206 An Excellent new Playhouse SONG, Call'd, / The Faithful LOVERS / Or, The Young Man's Earnest Request / To His Mistress. / VVith her kind Answer to her LOVER. An Excellent new Playhouse SONG, Call'd, The Faithful LOVERS Or, The Young Man's Earnest Request To His Mistress. With her kind Answer to her LOVER. An Excellent New Playhouse Song, Called, the Faithful Lovers or, the Young Man's Earnest Request to his Mistress. With her Kind Answer to her Lover. 1/2 sheet folio, 250 x 180 cropped right edge, uneven inking horizontal and vertical rules 1694 Printed for Charles Barnet, 1694. Charles Barnet Weinstein: imprint

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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 3/11/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant gender love mythology/Classicalworld virtue 03/11/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created 07/16/07 Checker Summer J. Star Ballad checked 07/2006 Transcriber Liberty Stanavage Original transcription 9/21/2004 Bibliographer Margaret K. Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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SUch commands ore my fate has your love or your hate That nothing can make me more wretched or great, Whilst expecting I lye to live or to dye, Thus doubtful the Sentance on which I relye, Your tongue bids me go, tho your Eyes say not so, But much kinder words from their Language does floe. Then leave me not here thus betwixt hope and fear, Where your love cannot come let your pitty appear; But this my Request you must grant me at least, And more I'll not ask but to you leave the rest, If my Fate I must meet let it be at your Feet, Death there with more joy then life elswhere I'd greet. Be quick in my doom, whether Blest or Undone, And leave me not here for to perish alone; If I dye with the pain, look but kindly again, And I doubt not but of new life to obtain: For your goodness is such you can nere do too much To keep from all harms a poor languishing wretch.
For the torment I bear is beyond all compare, Till your whispering tongue shall bid me not dispair, Then the sufferings gone will nere be thought on, But will be imployd on the Joy that's to come, Did but Cupid's love dart gently once touch your heart You'd say it were pleasing though it caused a smart. The Young Lady's Answer. SInce my love or my hate does command ore your Fate; Tis Love I must own if it comes not too late, In what sorrow I lye for fear you should dye, O where's all my hopes then on which I relye, Tho my tongue bid you go, still my Eyes cryed no, While my Heart for your troubles with sorrow did flow. Our Sex oft do cry, we the Man do defie, Tho' we know the same minute our tongue gives the lye, But now I do own in the World there is none But your self that has gained my heart for your o[wn]: Then here while I live you may freely [re]ceive Whatere in my power I am able to give.
Printed for Charles Barnet, 1694.