%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Distracted/ Young MANS Answer/ To/ His Injured Mistress./ Shewing the Cruelty of his Parents, in forcing him to marry ano-/ther, because she had a better Fortune, which proved the Ruine/ of the young Man and his former Mistress. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1697 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/16/2007 22122

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5.288r R174668 1 Languishing Swain He That Loves Best Must Suffer Most Languishing Swain IT's true, thou justly maist complain,/ On thy unfaithful perjur'd Swain, hinged broadsheet with verso: Mr. MOOR the TRIPE-MAN's/ Sorrowful Lamentation/ FOR/ Clipping and Coyning;/ With an Account of his Contrivance at his Country-House at Tripe-Hall/ near Hounsloe; where, in his Garden, he had made a Trap-door, whereon grew both/ Goosberry-Trees and Currant-Trees to prevent the discovery thereof, but his Tongue/ afterwards made known what he had cunningly contrived; wherein was found an En-/gine or Money-Mill for Coyning, for which he was Tryed this Sessions, and found/ Guilty thereof.; answer to 5.287, dated 1697 in imprint Pepys 5.288r Wing D1697[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: 288r The Distracted/ Young MANS Answer/ To/ His Injured Mistress./ Shewing the Cruelty of his Parents, in forcing him to marry ano-/ther, because she had a better Fortune, which proved the Ruine/ of the young Man and his former Mistress. The Distracted Young MANS Answer TO His Injured Mistress. Shewing the Cruelty of his Parents, in forcing him to marry ano-ther, because she had a better Fortune, which proved the Ruine of the young Man and his former Mistress. The Distracted Young Man's Answer to His Injured Mistress. Showing the Cruelty of His Parents, in Forcing Him to Marry Another, Because She Had a Better Fortune, Which Proved the Ruin of the Young Man and His Former Mistress. 1/2 sheet folio, hinged, 260 x 152 cropped left edge, uneven inking, verso shows through Printer A. M. 1697 Printed by and for A. M. A. M. Weinstein: imprint

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IT's true, thou justly maist complain, On they unfaithful perjur'd Swain, But yet at first I did design, To marry you, to marry you, In little time. I found you beautiful and fair, Delightful with a pleasing air; Endow'd with all the charms of love, And I believ'd, and I believ'd, You'd constant prove. My father told me o're and o're, Of one who riches had great store; He said, If I did not agree, To court that lass, to court that lass, He'd own not me. I went as he did give command, Altho' you had my heart and hand; The God above do know it's true, I always meant, I always meant; To marry you. Our Parents straightways did agree, And said, That I must married be; To her they lately wish'd me to. Then I reply'd, then I reply'd; what shall I do? My father said, To Church now go, A thousand pound this has I know; For her you courted just before, She has not half, she has not half; So much in store.
I answer'd yea, she has my heart, Besides me vow'd never to part; Therefore dear father, do not make Me break this vow, me break this vow; which I did take. He said, If I a thousand took, I should no more upon her look; But straight he made me for to go To Church and wed, to Church and wed, I know not who. Altho' I have a rich young wife, I have no comfort of my life; For she that had my heart before, Will keep the same, will keep the same. For evermore. I do implore the God above, To look upon my injur'd love, Who justly does complain on me, And help her in, and help her in Her misery. Then young men all a warning take, Ne'er break those vows in love you make If she you love does prove but kind, Be not like me, be not like me; To change your mind Since I have proved thus untrue; I bid unto the world adieu, For I no comfort now can have; Then death come send, then death come send, Me to my grave.
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