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5.37 R187944 1 Ah! how pleasant 'tis to Love, &. Ah! How Pleasant It Is to Love, etc. HArk! how sweet the Birds do sing / T'usher in the Pleasant Spring: date from content (1689) Pepys 5.37 Wing E2988[c]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: 37 ENGLAND's Joy / in the merry month of MAY; / OR, / The Various delights of the Spring. ENGLAND's Joy in the merry month of MAY; OR, The Various delights of the Spring. England's Joy in the Merry Month of May; or, the Various Delights of the Spring. 1/2 sheet folio, 263 x 160 cropped top and bottom edges vertical rules 1682-1703 Printed for A. Milbourn, in Green-Arbour-Court in Little-Old Baily. A. Milbourn 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 2/5/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America State & Times 02/05/08 Checker Rachel Mann Updated metadata, created xml 08/02/07 Checker Pavneet Aulakh Checked ballad, created metadata Summer 2006 Checker Laura Miller Transcribed ballad 07/24/06 Transcriber Paxton Hehmeyer Original transcription 9/13/04 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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(1) HArk! how sweet the Birds do sing T'usher in the Pleasant Spring: now King and Queen are Crowned, Winter storms are blown a way, Now we are with chearful May; most pleasantly sourrounded. (2) If we walk into the Fields, Every Flower a pleasure yeilds; and so we are delighted, With the Vestal Flora's Train: That we see upon the Plain, in order so posited, (3) How Harmonious are the Notes, Warbl'd from the pritty Throats; of the inchanting Forristers: Unconstrained they rejoyce, Sing like Birds of Paradice, Apeing those sweet Choristers. (4) Let us but return again, We shall see the martial Train: dancing to the Fife and Drum, Musick such as will invite; Ladies to a sweet delight, and terrify the Bulls of Rome. (5) Modest Virgins, Dance and Sing, To the sprightly Violin: wellc'ming in the pleasant Spring, Sparks, and Bullies of the Town; All their Witts in liquour drown, drinking Healths unto the King.
(6) Grave and wise together meet, Bowing at the Royal feet; of our Gracious King, and Queen, Wish'em health, long life and peace: That their Joyes may still increase, in a long and happy Reign. (7) Now fair Venus, and her Train, Follow'd by the Am'rous Swain; Take their pleasure in the Groves, Twist Embraces, and Carress, To the height of happiness; as their Inclination moves. (8) Poets Muses, all the Nine, And their Off-spring so divine; chant it out melodiously: And (like Eastern Natives) down, Fall before the Rising Sun, that now shines so Gloriously. (9) Mists and Vapours of the night, That disturb'd our clear Eye-sight; are dispel'd, and Vanished; All things now too gay appear, In this spring time of the Year; as if they'd ne'r Languished. (10) We admire the sceen and cry, It is all Variety: charming the beholders Eye, Still producing somthing new: Pleasures that we never knew in a spring of Liberty.
Printed for A. Milbourn, in Green-Arbour-Court in the Little-Old-Baily.