%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Disconsolate LOVER: / OR, THE / Forsaken Damsel's Sad Lamentation / FOR / Her Unkind Lover's Cruelty, / IN / Forsaking her, after many Vows, for one more Wealthy. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1695-1703 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 02/28/2008 22170

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5.333 R174653 1 an excellent new Tune An Excellent New Tune FArewel my dear Johnny whom I loved so, / Your absence to me has created my Woe, Pepys 5.333 Wing D1562[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: 333 The Disconsolate LOVER: / OR, THE / Forsaken Damsel's Sad Lamentation / FOR / Her Unkind Lover's Cruelty, / IN / Forsaking her, after many Vows, for one more Wealthy. The Disconsolate LOVER: OR, THE Forsaken Damsel's Sad Lamentation FOR Her Unkind Lover's Cruelty, IN Forsaking her, after many Vows, for one more Wealthy. The Inconsolable Lover: Or, the Forsaken Damesel's Sad Lamentation for Her Unkind Lover's Cruelty, in Forsaking Her, after Many Vows, for One More Wealthy. 1/2 sheet folio, 274 x 184 cropped bottom edge, torn left edge, uneven inking, slight shadow impression 1695-1703 London: Printed for E. Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-bridge. E. Tracy BBTI

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FArewel my dear Johnny whom I loved so, Your absence to me has created my Woe, Because I believed your flattering Tongue, Which deceitfully left me in Sorrow undone: But I will forgive you with all my whole Heart, [Ye]t curst be the minuit and time we did part, [O]f all Men that's living your false as God's true, [T]herefore my dear Johnny i'll bid thee adieu; For since I do find you both false and unkind, I'll set you as light as the wavering Wind; My Portion, it seems, was too slender, therefore You seek for another with plentiful store. God send you more Mony, and I better Grace, I hope to prepare for a far better place, Where flattering Lovers can never molest My Happiness, being for ever at Rest. Remember, dear Love, there's a Day for to come, On which you must answer for all you have done, In making such large Protestations to me; Oh! pardon dear Jewel, as I pardon thee. No Trouble or Torture my Sorrow excels, Yet God bless my Dearest where-ever he dwells, I wish he may live to repent of the Wrong Which I have sustain'd by his flattering Tongue: I pity my Love for his covetuous Mind, Which was the first cause of his proving unkind, His Promise he broke for a Fortune that's great, I wish that he does not repent it too late: My Love may grow Wealthy and flourish a while, So long as kind Fortune is pleased to smile; But if she should frown upon him after all, He then may be sorry to think of my Fall.
Where nothing but Riches their Hearts doth unite, When these common Blessings shall chance to take flight, Their tender affections does often wax cold, True Love is far better then Pledges of Gold, For where it is rooted, it still will remain Like to a firm Rock, or a powerful Chain, Which no kind of envy or malice shall break, The true Love can die for the true Lover's sake. If Johnny had been but so true to his Dear, Oh! then had my Sorrows not been so severe; But I must complain of his being unjust; Oh! where is the Man that a Maiden can trust? He once did admire my beautiful Charms, But now there's another to lodge in his Arms, While I the green Garland of Willow must wear, And languish almost at the point of despair: I strive to forget it as much as I can, Yet nevertheless when I think on the Man, How he with his flattering tongue did deceive My innocent Heart, then in Sorrow I grieve. Alone in my Closet there weeping I sit, And find that I cannot so easy forget, That love which is rooted and lodg'd in my Heart, 'Twas pleasure to meet, but a sorrow to part. Could I be but free'd from the fetters of Love, I solemnly swear by the Powers above, This firm Resolution I'd readily make, Never to believe a young Man for his sake. Be careful young Lasses what ever you do, Least flattering Batchelors ruinate you; By woful experience, alas, I may say, They study young innocent Maids to betray.
London: Printed for E. Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-bridge.