%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE / Mournful Lover, / SHEWING / How Celia, a London Lady, proved false to Strephon a Lieutenant / of a Ship, and in his Absence at Sea, Married Thirsis a Country Gentleman, / For which Strephon Dyed. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1677-1703 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 02/26/2008 22193

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5.369 R188599 1 Royal and Fair, &c Royal and Fair, etc HEavens look down and pity my Crying, / Heavy with Care thus sadly opprest, She will not be mine. [with variations] Pepys 5.369 Wing M2987[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: 369 THE / Mournful Lover, / SHEWING / How Celia, a London Lady, proved false to Strephon a Lieutenant / of a Ship, and in his Absence at Sea, Married Thirsis a Country Gentleman, / For which Strephon Dyed. THE Mournful Lover, SHEWING How Celia, a London Lady, proved false to Strephon a Lieutenant of a Ship, and in his Absence at Sea, Married Thirsis a Country Gentleman, For which Strephon Dyed. The Mournful Lover, Showing How Celia, a London Lady, Proved False to Strephon a Lieutenant of a Ship, and in His Absence at Sea, Married Thyrsis a Country Gentleman, for Which Strephon Died. 1/2 sheet folio, 274 x 168 cropped left edge, uneven inking Printer J. Wilkins 1677-1703 Printed by J. Wilkins, in White-Friers. PBA

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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 2/26/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Sea affliction/health death infidelity love maritime marriage 02/26/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created 08/02/07 Checker Rachel Mann Transcription checked 09/18/06 Transcriber Paxton Hehmeyer Original transcription 10/24/2004 Bibliographer Maggie Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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[1] HEavens look down and pity my Crying, Heavy with Care thus sadly opprest, My Soul is in pain, and still I am Dying, And never find Ease in my Love-sick Breast. In torture I lye, And hourly dye; Celia's unkind, and deaf to my Cry, She's fickle as Wind, As I to my Sorrow find, I'm left to repine, Because she's Divine, She will not be mine. [2] Think Celia, how oft with Wishes and Curses, You vow'd to love your Strephon alone, Yet forsake me, and only love Thirsis, And leave me weeping, and making my Moan. But fair one know, Tho' for you I go, Down to the gloomy dark Shadows below, Yet when I am dead, My pale Ghost shall haunt your Bed; None shall define, What I design. For Celia is mine. [3] Thirsis may boast for a Time of the Blessing, And laugh to see me robbed of all, Celia is false, and not worthy possessing, Tho' for her sake a Martyr I fall. But Heaven is just, Tho' hence I must; Yet when I'm converted to Attoms and Dust, Each tatling Wind, Shall puff 'em up to make her blind; Tho' she's Divine, The Gods Combine, To show she's mine.
[4] With my own Blood I made her a Writing, And there I bound my self to be true, She gave me the same of her own Inditeing, When into my Arms like Lightning she flew. In raptures I blest, What I possest, As I lay promising on her dear Breast, Which now she denies, And looks upon me with scornful Eyes; I'll not resign, What is Divine, For Celia is mine. [5] I crossed the Sea to gain my self Honour, A Piece of Gold we then did part, I thought I was happy because I had wone her, That was the Time she gave me her Heart. But the false Maid, Denies what she said; Thus my false Celia, poor Strephons betray'd, And here I am left, Of all Joy, forever bereft: I can't Divine, At her Design, But Celia is mine. [6] My Glass it is run, & my Sands have done passing Death waits for me, and I must go, Adieu to false Celia, and all her Embracing, I must go to, the dark Dawning below. Lovers farewel, My Story go tell, Go fetch my cold Shroud, and ring my last Bell That a Tear she may shed, When she hears poor Strephon's dead, E'er may she pine, And still decline, False Celia is mine.
Printed by J. Wilkins, in White-Friers.