%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> LOVING JOHN: / OR, / Yielding JOAN: / Being a pleasant Song between two Country Lovers / while they were making of Hay. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1683-1703 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 03/06/2008 22057

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5.222 R188507 1 a pleasant new Tune A Pleasant New Tune PRithee sweet Joan let us have a kiss, / let us enjoy ourselves while we may, Pepys 5.222 Wing L3293[A] 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: 222 LOVING JOHN: / OR, / Yielding JOAN: / Being a pleasant Song between two Country Lovers / while they were making of Hay. LOVING JOHN: OR, Yielding JOAN: Being a pleasant Song between two Country Lovers while they were making of Hay. Loving John: Or, Yielding Joan: Being a Pleasant Song Between Two Country Lovers While They Were Making of Hay. 1/2 sheet folio 282 x 185 cropped and torn top left corner, creased, damaged surface 1683-1703 LONDON: Printed for C. Bates, at the White-hart in West-smithfield. C. Bates BBTI

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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 3/6/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant family/procreation infidelity love rurallife sex/sexuality virtue 03/06/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created 07/19/07 Checker Summer 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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PRithee sweet Joan let us have a kiss, let us enjoy ourselves while we may, Time and the place is as kind as you'd wish, let us go to it and make no delay; Oh, ne'er denys, but now be wise, and taste of those pleasures I've left in store, I'll kiss thee, I'll hug thee, I'll love thee, I'll smug thee, I'll do what I never have done before. No, sir, no, for you will do me harm, therefore excuse me if I deny, Should I do so, you'd get me with bearn, then, sir, for shame where should I fly? Oh, no, no, no, I'll ne'er do so, I'll keep my virginity till I'm wed; Then pray sir leave me me, and do not deceive me, but let me alone, and no more be said. Prithee sweet Jean, take this in thy hand, then you may leave it, if you think fit; This and myself, is at your command, prithee, sweet Joan, make use of it: Oh! ne'er say no, but let it go, for nature will guide it where it should be; Then prithee love take it, and do not forsake it, until all your senses about do flee. Pish, fye, naughty man, what do you mean? I never thought you'd a served me so; I have deny'd you as long as I can, but now I find that will not do, Then so, so, so, go, go, go, go, your charms has kill'd me, I'm slain, I'm slain; Then farewel pretences, they'r gone with my senses, I'm sure I shall never say no again.
The wiser thee my amorous Joan, thou art my jewel and hea[r]t's delight, Longer thou shalt not languish alone, for I will visit thee e'ry night, Where in my arms, a thousand charms shall tickle thy fancy in e'ry vein, For tasting this pleasure, and joy out of measure, thou'lt never wish to be a maid again. Joh[n]ny you have a flattering tongue, for when you came with weapon in hand, What could I do? alas, I was young, such a temptation who could withstand? Tho' I deny'd, soon I comply'd, 'Tis usual with lasses you know for why, They say nay and take it, we cannot forsake [i]t, there's thousands have done it as well as I. Love, what a comfort d[i]dst thou receive, for maiden-heads are burdens you know, Chear up, for tis a folly to grieve, Since it is gone, I'faith let it go, For why my dear, thou needst not fear but still I'll admire thy lovely brown; Above any other, thou shalt be a mother, and here's a good health to the best in town. These pleasures of love I do adore, sweet Johnny thou hast done me no wrong, If I had but known but as much before, I'd ne'er a carry'd it half so long: No girl would miss, the charming bliss, nor any young lover the least deny; They'd soon be for sporting, for kissing and courting, if ever they knew but as much as I.
LONDON: Printed for C. Bates, at the White-hart in West-smithfield.