%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Languishing Young Man:/ OR,/ The Love-sick Sail-man's sorrowful Lamentation for the Loss of his Beautiful/ Maria, who left him languishing at the Point of Despair. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1671-1702 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/23/2007 22149

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5.312 R234512 1 If Love's a Sweet Passion If Love's a Sweet Passion If Love's a Sweet Passion OH! Why does my true Love so sadly disdain / All the Gifts I afford her? Yet sure 'tis in vain, Pepys 5.312 Wing L420 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: 312 The Languishing Young Man:/ OR,/ The Love-sick Sail-man's sorrowful Lamentation for the Loss of his Beautiful/ Maria, who left him languishing at the Point of Despair. The Languishing Young Man: OR, The Love-sick Sail-man's sorrowful Lamentation for the Loss of his Beautiful Maria, who left him languishing at the Point of Despair. The Languishing Young Man: Or, The Lovesick Sailman's Sorrowful Lamentation for the Loss of His Beautiful Maria, Who Left Him Languishing at the Point of Despair. 1/2 sheet folio, 253 x 180 cropped left, right and bottom edges, uneven inking horizontal and vertical rules 1671-1702 Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Gilt-spur-street, without Newgate. J. Deacon Spufford and 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 8/23/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Unfortunate death infidelity love mythology/Classicalworld 08/22/2007 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. OH! Why does my true Love so sadly disdain All the Gifts I afford her? Yet sure 'tis in vain For to offer her any; she's grown so unkind, That I'm least in her Fancy, and least in her Mind, Who before was her Darling, yet now she doth turn Her Affections to Hatred, which daily doth burn. II. Oh! Why do ye Fates me so hardly regard, That a Smile from my true Love I cannot be spar'd; But must like a poor languishing Swain be confin'd, For the loss of Maria, to torment my Mind With the fiery Arrows that Cupid doth send, And the cold leaden Comforts I have from my Friend. III. Look down, Oh, fair Venus, thou Goddess of Love, And send Cupid, that he may these Arrows remove, With which I this present am wounded so sore, For the fear I shall see dear Maria no more. I'm sinking, I'm swooning, I'm fainting away, For the loss of Maria: Oh! what shall I say? IV. Now the Sun-shine is past in the which I enjoy'd The sweet sight of Maria, both at home and abroad: But the Times are now changed; in Visions I find I have none but Denyings, which torment my Mind: For Maria is gone, and she cannot be found By poor Willy; which constantly is my Hearts Wound. V. Why was I so foolish, to settle my Love Or Affections on any? since falsely they prove? Above all, dear Maria, she has prov'd so untrue, That the Hour of Birth I am forced to rue. I'm wounded, I'm bleeding, I'm stuck to the Heart; Come, my dearest Maria, ease me of this smart.
VI. Oh! What is the reason that you do me leave So dispairing of Comforts? I hardly believe That there ever was Swain that's more wounded than I, More unwilling to live, or more willing to die. O Maria! Maria! yield me some relief, And my Heart from this Thraldom thou then wilt reprieve. VII. Oh! Where are ye Gods that are wonted to be Great help unto Mortals? Why help ye not me, Against this fierce, fiery, powerful Dart, Which is shot by fierce Cupid into my poor Heart. Oh! help me! Oh! help me this moment! I cry, Or else, for the loss of Maria, I die. VIII. Come here, Oh! thou Charon, and make no delay, And bring here thy Ferry; I no longer can stay: Make haste with me over unto the dark Grove Of Elizia, that there I may mourn for my Love? Come quickly, come quickly; Why dost thou delay, Ev'ry Moment's a Year, that I here have to stay. IX. Now unto Maria all Joy may God send, Tho' she's brought me with sorrow unto my last end: Let her Joy be encreas'd, tho' she has bereav'd quite Me of Freedom, of Comfort, of Joy and Delight. Let me die now: Why should I my Sorrow relate? Since ill Fortune doth frown on my desperate state. X. Adieu to my Kinsfolks, and Parents most dear; Adieu to my Brother and Sister most near: Farewell you my Unkle, above all the rest, For of Parents and Kinsfolks, you have been the best Adieu to you all that my Moans now do hear, Be ye witness, I die for the loss of my Dear.
Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Gilt-spur-street, without Newgate.