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5.297 R187638 1 an Excellent New Scotch Tune Bonny Lad, Prithee Lay Thy Pipe Down An Excellent New Scotch Tune BOnny Lad, prithee lay thy Pipe down,/ tho' blith are thy Notes they have now no power, author noted by Simpson as the author from whose song this ballad is expanded Pepys 5.297 Wing U35C 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: 297 Unconstant PEGGY:/ OR,/ Scotch JEMMY's sorrowful Lamentation for the Loss of his/ Love, who left him Languishing for her sake. Unconstant PEGGY: OR, Scotch JEMMY's sorrowful Lamentation for the Loss of his Love, who left him Languishing for her sake. Unconstant Peggy: or, Scotch Jemmy's Sorrowful Lamentation for the Loss of His Love, Who Left Him Languishing for Her Sake. 1/2 sheet folio, 298 x 180 cropped top edge, uneven inking horizontal and vertical rules 1675-1696 Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back. P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back 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 8/22/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Unfortunate appearance infidelity love sex/sexuality 08/21/2007 Checker Summer J. Star Ballad Checked; X-Ballad Performed 09/2006 Transcriber Jeffrey P. Hehymeyer Ballad Transcribed 10/18/2004 Bibliographer Margaret K. Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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I. BOnny Lad, prithee lay thy Pipe down, tho' blith are thy Notes they have now no power, Since my joy my dear Peggy is gone, and banish'd quite from me, Love now no more: My good Friends that do ken my grief, with Songs and Stories, a Cure would find; But alas! they bring no Relief, For Peggy still runs in mind. II. When I visit the Park or Play, they aw without Peggy a Desart seem, She's still in my sight aw the Day and aw the long Night too she haunts my Dream: Sometimes, fancying a Heaven of Charms, I wake, and robb'd of my dear delight, Find she ligs in another Man's Arms, oh! then 'tis she kills me out-right. III. On her I placed aw muckle joy, she being a bonny Lass, blith and gay, Yet all my Wishes she does destroy, another hath stolent her heart away; My sweet Peggy, dear Peggy, Ise cry, return to they Jemmy once again, And do not my proffered Love deny, for fear my poor Heart should break in 'twain. IV. She's not regard the moan I make, tho' passionate Letters to her send; But does all solemn Vows forsake, and proves a False-hearted deceitful Friend; She was my joy, and my chief delight, Ise swear by all the Powers above, But all my joys have taken their flight, and Peggy will ruine her Love.
V. Methinks I see her where she lies, on Jockey's soft Pillow and Downy Bed, He having gain'd the Golden Prize, while I have a Heart more heavy than Lead; The Torment which I now undergo, geud faith I can no longer conceal, Since she delights to torture me so, the Arrows of Cupid I feel. VI. The which has made so deep a Wound, that no one but she is able to Cure, Besides I lye a Captive Bound, in Languishing Fetters of Love secure; I from these Chains shall never get Free, but must I fear, this Grief undergo, For I can love no Creature she tho' Peggy does torture me so. VII. I had the choice of Ladies fair, all born in the Town of bonny Dundee, Adorn'd in Gold and Silken hair, and they had a love and kindness for me: Yet I could these sweet Ladies forsake, Peggy alone ran still in my Mind, Resolv'd I was my Vows I'd not break but Peggy has done it I find. VIII. There's none more false then Women-kind, whose beautiful Charms young Gallants adore, They in a moment change their mind, denying all Vows they had made before; The Truth of this I find to my Cost, my Love she sleeps in anothers Arms, And since I have thus her favour lost, I'll never more Dote on their Charms.
Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back.