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5.352 R188075 1 an Excellent New Tune: or, Only tell her, &c. An Excellent New Tune: Or, Only Tell Her, etc. MUst I wear the Wreath of Willow, / tell me now you Gods on high? Pepys 5.352 Wing F2092[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: 352 The Frantick Shepherd: / OR, / FLOROMELLO's Matchless Cruelty. The Frantick Shepherd: OR, FLOROMELLO's Matchless Cruelty. The Frantic Shepherd: Or, Floromello's Matchless Cruelty. 1/2 sheet folio, 263 x 163 cropped top and right edges, set-off from opposite page visible horizontal and vertical rules 1683-1703 Printed for C. Bates at the Sun and Bible in Pye-corner. C. Bates BBTI

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I. MUst I wear the Wreath of Willow, tell me now you Gods on high? Or will fairest Floromello love so mean a Swain as I? Can she the cool Shades admire, and my Rural, Oaten Reed? Can she quit her rich Attire, for a homely Shepherd's Weed. II. If she will, I must adore her, for there's none so fair as she: Cupid 's sweets shall fall before her, own for her for a Deity: E'ery Golden Bow and Quiver, at her Feet they low shall lay, Yielding true Submission ever and her awfull Will obey. III. Her desiring youthfull Beauty, make it lawful they should give Floromello Love and Duty while she has a day to live; Who with Love can Man inspire, with the Glances from her Eyes; I her Vertues do admire, more than any Golden Prize. IV. O ye Gods! I do implore you for to stand a Shepherd's Friend; Here in Sighs I fall before you, let my Sorrows have an end. Tell her how I dearly love her, like a faithful Loyal Swain, Let me her sweet Smiles discover, to restore my Joys again.
V. When in Shades I did behold her, like a Saint she did appear; Then when melting Tears I told her, that my Grief was most severe: Captive-like I did intreat her for to give some present ease; For why should so sweet a Creature, let me tell such Griefs as these? VI. When the Shades I first frequented, then my Heart from Tears was free, But I soon to Love consented, then I lost my Liberty: Day and Night I spend in weeping, since I see my Charming Saint, Who has my kind Heart in keeping, seems to laugh at my Complaint. VII. Rather then I would demean her, many Deaths I could endure; Yes would I had never seen her, so should I have liv'd secure, On the Plains with Peace and Pleasure, where my little Lambs I fed, But my Grief is out of measure, all those happy days are fled. VIII. This sad Grief which I lye under, robs me of my Senses quite; Thus in frantick Fits I wander over Mountains day and night. The cold Earth is now my Pillow, when I to a slumber goe, 'Tis my fairest Floromello that has caused all this Woe.
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