%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE / Scotch Lover's Complaint: / OR, / Jockey's Lamentation / FOR / His unkind Usage by his coy Lady, / AT / EPSOM-WELLS. D'Urfey, Thomas University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1671-1702 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 02/26/2008 22183

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5.356 R234519 1 a new Tune, much in Request Woe is Me A New Tune, Much In Request WAe's me! what mun I do? / Drinking water I may rue, author noted by Simpson as the author from whose song this ballad is expanded; date from Simpson (c.1695) Pepys 5.356 Wing S955[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: 356 THE / Scotch Lover's Complaint: / OR, / Jockey's Lamentation / FOR / His unkind Usage by his coy Lady, / AT / EPSOM-WELLS. THE Scotch Lover's Complaint: OR, Jockey's Lamentation FOR His unkind Usage by his coy Lady, AT EPSOM-WELLS. The Scotch Lover's Complaint: Or, Jockey's Lamentation for His Unkind Usage by His Coy Lady, at Epsom-wells. D'Urfey, Thomas 1/2 sheet folio, 255 x 155 cropped right and bottom edges 1671-1702 London: Printed for J. Deacon. at the Angel in Guiltspur-street, without Newgate. J. Deacon Spufford and BBTI

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WAe's me! what mun I do? Drinking water I may rue, Since my heart so muckle harm befel, Wounded by a bonny Lass at Epsom-well: Ise have been at Dalking Fair, See'ng the charming faces there: But aw Scotland now geud Faith defie Sike a lip to she, and a lovely rowling eye; Jenny's skin was white, her fingers small; Moggy she was slender. strait and tall, But my Love here bears away the bell from all: For her I sigh, for her I die in despair; Never Man in Woman took such joy, Never Woman was to Man so coy: She'll not be my Hony, For my love nor mony; Well-a-day! what torment mun I bear? When Ise came to Epsom-wells, Where this charming Beauty dwells, Ise began to cast my eyes a-round, Then Ise quickly did receive this fatal wound, From her straight there flew a dart, Which did pierce me to the heart; Then to her Ise made my humble suit, With a most graceful carage and a sweet salute; Then Ise whisper'd in my Lady's ear, Ise had house and land with muckle geer, But away she flew, and would not me come near, Ise follow'd her, with cap in hand, to obtain Favour, if so kind a thing might be, But she flew the swifter still from me; Yet at length Ise seiz'd her, Thinking to have pleas'd her, She return'd a frown of high disdain.
Bonny Lady, then Ise cry'd, Sit thee down by Jockey's side, Who has somthing more, my Dear, to say, Let us kiss and pass the pleasant time away, Underneath this bower green; Thou art like a beautious Queen, Scotland never bred the like of thee, Then as I am a Lord of muckle high degree, Ise will thee maintain in sattins fine, Nay, thou shalt in gold and silver shine, Tell me, bonny Lady, wilt thou then be mine? But she reply'd, I need not talk any more, For my proffers great the vallu'd not, Nor would she embrace a High-land Scot: Oh! that killing story Blasted all my glory, Never did Ise feal such grief before. Ise got up and gang'd away, Having nothing more to say, But Ise ever since have felt such grief, Which has carry'd me, alas! beyond relief; Had I stay'd in Aberdene, Ise this Lady had no seen, Which is the cause of all my woe, And I fear will prove Jockey's final overthrow: Epsom-wells, this day, I bid adieu, Since my coming there I needs must rue, You have Beauties fair but they are cruel too: Home Ise return with the torment Ise endure, Where Ise court young Jenny to be kind, For to ease the anguish of my mind; She's better then a Beauty, That will not own her duty, Such a one my wounded heart may cure.
London: Printed for J. Deacon at the Angel in Guiltspur-street, without Newgate.