%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Cook=Maid's Tragedy: / OR, THE / Loyal LOVER's Overthrow: / BEING / An Account of MARY a Cook-Maid in Covent Garden; / who Poyson'd herself in Dispair, for the Love of THOMAS a / Coach-man. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1695 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 03/04/2008 22154

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5.317 R174240 1 If Love's a Sweet Passion If Love's a sweet passion If Love's a Sweet Passion O Treacherous Lovers, what do you intend? / Will your flattering Cruelties ne'er have end? When they felt themselves wounded by Darts of Disdain. [with variations] date from Rollins; see also 5.318. Pepys 5.317 Rollins (1) VII:146-148; Wing C6044[a]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: 317 The Cook=Maid's Tragedy: / OR, THE / Loyal LOVER's Overthrow: / BEING / An Account of MARY a Cook-Maid in Covent Garden; / who Poyson'd herself in Dispair, for the Love of THOMAS a / Coach-man. The Cook-Maid's Tragedy: OR, THE Loyal LOVER's Overthrow: BEING An Account of MARY a Cook-Maid in Covent Garden; who Poyson'd herself in Dispair, for the Love of THOMAS a Coach-man. The Cook Maid's Tragedy: Or, the Loyal Lover's Overthrow: Being an Account of Mary a Cook Maid in Covent Garden; Who Poisoned Herself in Despair, for the Love of Thomas, a Coachman. 1/2 sheet folio, 304 x ?210 torn top left and right corners, torn bottom left corner, holed, damaged surface horizontal rules, framed with funerary borders 1695 Printed for J. Deacon at the Angel in Guilt-spur-street. J. Deacon Weinstein: Rollins

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O Treacherous Lovers, what do intend? Will your flattering Cruelties ne'er have end? Must we hear of new Tragedies every day, As the innocent Lovers you still do betray? Do but think of the Passion which they do sustain, When they felt themselves wounded by Darts of Disdain. The Grief being more than they're able to bear, Straight they languish and lye at the point of Dispair; Still contriving their sorrowful Lives to distroy, Being certain they ne'er shall the Blessing enjoy. Therefore false-hearted Lovers pray think of their pain, When alas! they lay wounded by Darts of Disdain. Amongst all the Tragical Stories we find, There was never young Lover more false and unkind, Than the Coachman, Brisk Thomas, who woo'd the Cook-maid, Whom he slighted so soon as her heart was betray'd: Let him think of the sorrows which she did sustain, When she felt herself wounded with Darts of Disdain. At fair Covent-garden these Lovers did live, Where he courted kind Mary until she did give Him a promise, That none should enjoy her but he, Then a Treacherous Lover he proved to be: Let him think of that torment which she did sustain, When she found herself wounded with Darts of Disdain. [Alas, my] Dear Thomas, she often would cry, [There's non]e in the World more Unhappy than I: [I'm deserted] and left to bemoan my sad Fate, [Tho' you s]eemed to love and admire of late, [O think of the] Passion which here I sustain, [Thou hast my he]art wounded with Darts of Disdain.
I find that I cannot my Passion endure, I will seek out, with speed, for an absolute Cure. It is better to die, than thus languish in grief, I will hasten my Death, through the hopes of Relief. He too late may remember what I did sustain, While in Love I lay wounded by Darts of Disdain. I hear have prepar'd a sad Portion to take, For, alas, now, the World I can freely forsake. As I hasten my Death through the Torments of Love, Ah! forgive me, forgive me, ye Powers above! And let Thomas remember the grief I sustain, While I here have lain wounded with Darts of Disdain. Thus taking this Dose of strong Poyson she lay In a dismal Condition, till late the next day, When at last, as expiring, with tears she did crave, That they would but afford her, a true Christian Grave. Which at length being granted, her breath she resign'd, And hath left her false Treacherous Lover behind. What Vows he had made to this Creature alone, Unto God and his Conscience, alas, 'tis best known; It is true, he may flourish and laugh for a space, But when Conscience in fury shall flye in his face, He to late may remember what she did sustain, When in Griefs she lay wounded by Darts of Disdain.
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Licensed according to Order. Printed for J. Deacon at the Angel in Guilt-spur-street.