%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> An Excellent New Song/ Called The/ CRUEL LOVER,/ OR, THE/ Constant Uirgins Lamentation. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1697 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/17/2007 22131

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5.295 R187992 1 a pleasant new tune A Pleasant New Tune OH my dearest Dear, be not so severe,/ do not, do not, do not me disdain; date from imprint Pepys 5.295 Wing E3815[b]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: 295 An Excellent New Song/ Called The/ CRUEL LOVER,/ OR, THE/ Constant Uirgins Lamentation. An Excellent New Song Called The CRUEL LOVER, OR, THE Constant Virgins Lamentation. An Excellent New Song Called The Cruel Lover, or, The Constant Virgin's Lamentation. 1/2 sheet folio, 265 x 174 cropped right edge, damaged surface, uneven inking 1697 Printed for Charles Barnet, 1697. Charles Barnet Weinstein

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OH my dearest Dear, be not so severe, do not, do not, do not me disdain; I do implore, I can love no more, Constant Lovers should be lov'd again. My dear to you my love is true, Therefore do not, do not, me disdain, Here I weeping lye, and for mercy cry, Hoping that you will come to ease my pain. Oh Unhappy Fate, now I mourn too late; I am left my sorrows to deplore, Since my dear is gone whom I doted on, I shall never, never see him more. Oft he swore to be constant unto me, And that he would never cruel prove , But with grief I find he has chang'd his mind, For he now has got another love. My cruel Lover never would give ore, Till that he had got my heart from me: Oh cruel creature to abuse good nature, And to rob me of my liberty.
Cupid shoot an arrow, quickly pierse him thorow, Make him make him feel what I indure, For 'tis only he that caus'd my misery, And tis he alone can kill or cure. He has me forsaken, and has another taken, Cause that she has got more gold that I, O you powers of love that does rule above, Punish punish him for Perjury. M aidens all take care, of men beware, For they will protest most true to be; And if you prove kind, they will change mind And will court the very next they see. I oprest with Grief, can have no Relief, Since my dearest dear is fled from me: Thus I find in vain, still I may complain, For he will not, will not pitty me. Death come shoot your dart , ease me of my smart , Do not do not let me live in pain; Since my dears untrue , to the world I bid adieu , And to all false men thats left behind.
Printed for Charles Barnet , 1697.