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5.290 R188530 1 As May was in her youthful dress As May in All Her Youthful Dress As May Was In Her Youthful Dress AS a Maid was walking in a Grove,/ She to Cupid did complain, Pepys 5.290 Wing M271[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: 290 THE/ MAIDENS MOAN/ For the Loss of/ Her Unkind Lover. THE MAIDENS MOAN For the Loss of Her Unkind Lover. The Maiden's Moan for the Loss of Her Unkind Lover. 1/2sheet folio, 253 x 150 cropped left and right edges, creased surface, uneven inking vertical rules 1682-1703 Printed for A. Milbourn in Green-Arbor-Court in the Little-Old-Baily, A. Milbourn PBA

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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 4/22/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Unfortunate love sex/sexuality trickery/deceit violence 04/22/2008 Checker Patrick Ludolph metadata added, xml created 04/20/2008 Checker Patrick Ludolph checked transcription 02/22/2008 Checker Kris McAbee checked transcription 08/18/2006 Transcriber Paxton Hehmeyer original transcription 10/18/2004 Bibliographer Maggie Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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(1.) AS a Maid was walking in a Grove, She to Cupid did complain, Because her true Love was so unkind, And minded not her bitter pain; Whilst Love doth torter in her Breast, Each Night I spend in misery, Whilst Love regardeth not my Pain, And Cupid would not set me free. (2.) And when the Sun from the Grove declin'd, Where true Lovers doth abide, Then all their Secrets they relate To the twinkling stars that rules by night, But whilst in Love they do agree, Each Minute then we think a Day, But when the time I lost my Love, I thought my eyes would have dropt away. (3.) All Charms of Love lay in my Heart, And Love, a sickly Appetite, Like one that hath a death-ful stroak, And in the World takes no delight; But if that Cupid can confine, My Dear and I for to agree, Into the Woods then I will go, And there will end my misery. (4.) Teach me, if that you then have Love, And help a Virgin in distress, I call unto the powers above, To send some sickness in his Breast, That he to me might but prove true, And he my Joys for to restore, Or else within the Grave I'll lie, And in this World be seen no more.
(5.) Come Death, come ease me of my smart, Because my Love hath prov'd unkind, Unto the Eleziums I will go, And leave my unkind Love behind; Because that I have loved one, And he to me has prov'd untrue, O Death, come ease me of my smart, Unto the World I bid adieu. (6.) With that her Pen-knife then she drew, As she sate by a silent Spring, And then the Nightingale appear'd, And unto her did sweetly sing, This pretty Bird that cometh now, Is witness of my fatal stroak, And unto Death she would have bow'd, Had not then her True Love spoke. (7.) O cease my Dear, don't yield to Death, Nor think upon the fatal stroak, For Arrows they have pierc't my breast, And Cupid he these words hath spoke, That I the World should rainge about, Because I was unkind to thee, Therefore my Dear, pray pardon me, And I will live and die with thee. (8.) With that he Embrac't her in his Arms, Her Sorrows then were turn'd to joy, In love then they did both agree, And the little birds did sing for joy, That the Powers above might them befriend, And they might live in Loyalty; Now in true Love may they abide, And so continue till they die.
Printed for A. Milbourn in Green-Arbor-Court in the Little-Old-Baily