%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Young=Mans Lamentation: / BEING / An Answer to the Maid that Dy'd for Love in Wood's-Close, near / St. John's-street: Together with his earnest desire to leave this Life, and / follow his Love to the Grave. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1683-1716 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 09/09/2008 22174

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5.337 R234517 1 Celia, &c. Celia, That I Once Was Blest Celia That I Once Was Blessed IS my sweetest Creature Dead, / With whom I did engage to Wed? [last 2 lines of each stanza repeated] see also 5.348 Pepys 5.337 Rollins (1) VII:153-156; Wing Y121[a]B 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: 337 The Young=Mans Lamentation: / BEING / An Answer to the Maid that Dy'd for Love in Wood's-Close, near / St. John's-street: Together with his earnest desire to leave this Life, and / follow his Love to the Grave. The Young-Mans Lamentation: BEING An Answer to the Maid that Dy'd for Love in Wood's-Close, near St. John's-Street: Together with his earnest desire to leave this Life, and follow his Love to the Grave. The Young Man's Lamentation: Being an Answer to the Maid that Died for Love in Wood's-close, Near St. John's-street: Together with His Earnest Desire to Leave this Life, and Follow His Love to the Grave. 1/2 sheet folio, 300 x 170 creased surface, uneven inking horizontal and vertical rules, framed with funerary borders 1683-1716 Printed for C. Bates, near the Crown=Tavern in West=Smithfield. C. Bates 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 9/9/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Unfortunate death infidelity London love trickery/deceit 09/09/2008 Checker Jessica C. Murphy metadata checked, transcription rechecked and reloaded 07/31/07 Checker Rachel Mann Ballad Checked 09/17/06 Transcriber Paxton Hehmeyer Original Transcription 10/22/2004 Bibliographer Maggie Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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I. IS my sweetest Creature Dead, With whom I did engage to Wed? Did I leave her, and deceive her, is she to Elizium fled? Then farewel all Joy and Pleasure, I have wrong'd her out of measure: Then farewel, etc. II. Conscience now afflicts me so, And tell me still where e're I go, I was Cruel to my Jewel, which has prov'd her overthrow: She is Dead and gone before me, Who so dearly did adore me. She is Dead, etc. III. Here I live in Grief and Pain, And am not able to contain This sharp sorrow, which flows thorow my poor heart, and e'ry Vein; O that I had ne'r offended, Then our Glory had not ended. O that I had, etc. IV. Let me Dye, and come to thee, For here no Comfort can I see, Dearest Mary, I am weary of my wretched Life, said he; No one knows what I lye under, Stubborn heart now break in sunder. No one knows, etc. V. To the World I do declare, This Torment I can never bear; I that fill'd thee, nay, and kill'd thee, with the Dart of sad Dispair; And am guilty of thy Ruin, Therefore Sorrows are ensuing. And am guilty, etc.
VI. Still the more I call to mind, How once I was to Love inclin'd, When I Woo'd her, to delude her, 'tis as if I then design'd, By Delusion to deceive her, And in grief and sorrow leave her. By Delusion, etc. VII. Here I wander too and fro, While melting Eyes like Fountains flow Heart relenting, still lamenting, while my Lover lies full low: I am Night and Day Tormented, All this I might have prevented. I am Night and Day, etc. VIII. When I took another Bride, Poor heart, her grief she could not hide, But in Anguish, did she languish, till at length, alas! she Dy'd: Often Weeping, Sighing Crying, Love, I for thy sake my Dying. Often Weeping, etc. IX. In my Chamber all alone, Methinks I hear her piteous Moan: Often crying, Life is flying, saying, with a Dying Groan, 'Tis too late, I now am going, While my Dying Eyes are flowing, 'Tis too late. etc. X. Many frightful Slumbers too, My grief and sorrow does renew; Death attend me, and befriend me, let my Days and Months be few: Fain I would, alas! Expire, And i'th Grave be Bury'd by her. Fain I would, alas! etc.
Printed for C. Bates, near the Crown-Tavern in West-Smithfield.