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5.316 R172361 1 The Ring of Gold Cupid's Courtesy The Ring of Gold ALl joy I bid adieu, / love, peace, and pleasure; see also 5.311 Pepys 5.316 Wing A3412[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: 316 An Answer to / The Lady's Tragedy: / OR, / The Young Linnen-Draper's Languishing Lamentation, for the Merchant's Daughter, / who lately Dyed for Love An Answer to The Lady's Tragedy: OR, The Young Linnen-Draper's Languishing Lamentation, for the Merchant's Daughter, who lately Dyed for Love An Answer to the Lady's Tragedy: Or, the Young Linen-draper's Languishing Lamentation, for the Merchant's Daughter, Who Lately Died for Love 1/2 sheet folio, 270 x 157 uneven inking horizontal and vertical rules, framed with funerary borders 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 3/4/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Unfortunate death economics/trade infidelity love supernatural/magic 03/04/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created 07/25/07 Checker Rachel Mann Ballad checked 09/14/06 Transcriber Paxton Hehmeyer Original transcription 10/18/2004 Bibliographer Maggie Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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I. ALl joy I bid adieu, love, peace, and pleasure; My torments do's renew, Grief out of measure Here do I undergoe, for being cruel To she who lov'd me so, my sweetest jewel. II. Her yielding Heart she broke when first I left her; Death gave the fatal stroak, and soon bereft her Of all her grief and pain, sorrow and anguish; But I alive remain to lie and languish. III. Still as I call to mind what Vows I made her, New torments do I find: I that betray'd her Into the Arms of Death, where she expires, Now must resign my Breath, it is requir'd. IV. My Conscience tells me plain, how I offended; The sighs are all in vain, her days are ended; The Sorrows which I have, sets me a weeping, While in the silent Grave, my Love lies sleeping. V. With Tears she called me, as she lay dying, Blaming Disloyalty; often replying Ungratefull Man alone, to love and leave me: This was her dying moan which words do's grieve me.
VI. She granted Love to me, when I lamented; Which done, her company, streight I absented: This cut her to the Heart, so that she sounded; But now I feel the smart of Conscience wounded. VII. My sighs, and melting Tears are out of number; Her bleeding Ghost appears, stilll as I slumber, Methinks I hear her say, as she does hover, Make haste, and come away false-hearted Lover. VIII. I Dream my Love I meet, as I lie sleeping, Wrapt in her Winding-sheet, bitterly weeping, As if her Heart she'd break, for being slighted; At which I start and 'wake sorely affrighted. IX. Let me go where I will, yet am I daunted; For why? I fancy still, that I am haunted For my Disloyalty, grief is ensuing, Conscience accuses me of her sad ruine. X. None but sad grief and care am I possing; Kind Death they Dart prepare, life is no blessing; Since I no comfort have, let me expire, That in the silent Grave, I may lie by her.
Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back.