%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Unconstant WILLIAM, / OR, / The Damosels Resolution to Love Indifferently all Men alike, / from her Experience of his Disloyalty. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1683-1703 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/04/2008 22420

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5.155 R185855 1 an Excellent New Tune Here I Love, There I Love An Excellent New Tune COnstancy I am sure is not my Fate, / For him I lov'd yesterday to day I hate: For here I love, there I love, thus I love now; / For Love has intangl'd me I know not how. see also 5:156 Pepys 5.155 Wing U38 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: 155 Unconstant WILLIAM, / OR, / The Damosels Resolution to Love Indifferently all Men alike, / from her Experience of his Disloyalty. Unconstant WILLIAM, OR,The Damosels Resolution to Love Indifferently all Men alike, from her Experience of his Disloyalty. Unconstant William, or, The Damsel's Resolution to Love Indifferently All Men Alike, from Her Experience of His Disloyalty. 1/2 sheet folio, 275 x 183 cropped bottom edge, creased, uneven inking horizontal and vertical rules 1683-1703 Printed for C. Bates, near Duck-Lane-end in West-Smithfield. C. Bates BBTI

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1. COnstancy I am sure is not my Fate, For him I lov'd yesterday to day I hate: For here I love, there I love, thus I love now; For Love has intangl'd me I know not how . 2. Of all the Young-men that ever I did see, I lov'd William best, till he prov'd false to me: For here I love, there I love, thus I love now; For Love has intangl'd me I know not how . 3. I loved him well, but his love it was small, And now for the future I swear to love all: For here I love, etc. For Love has intangl'd, etc. 4. For now I love Richard , Charles , Thomas and John ; I likewise love Robert that pretty Young-man: For here I love , etc. For Love has intangl'd , etc. 5. Tho' once I was Constant, yet now I am free, And I am resolv'd ever so for to be: For here I love , etc. For Love has intangl'd , etc. 6. Might I have a Miser with thousands, and more, I'd slight him, altho' he my Charms would adore: For here I love , etc. For Love has intangl'd , etc. 7. I never will value the name of a Bride, To one Huffing Gallant I'll never be ty'd: For here I love , etc. For Love has intangl'd , etc. 8. I now can be Coach'd to a Ball or a Play, And with a young Spark be Conducted away: For here I love , etc. For Love has intangl'd , etc.
9. With Twenty or more, I will reap my Delight, It is not one Strephon shall ruin me quite: For here I love , etc. For Love has intangl'd , etc. 10. My heart now will never be subject to break, Like other young Maids whom their Gallants forsake: For here I love , etc. For Love has intangl'd , etc. 11. To Lawyers, nay Schollars, and Merchants also, My equal affections and kindness I show: For here I love , etc. For Love has intangl'd , etc. 12. I'll never be subject to any ones Frown, While I am belov'd by the best in the Town; For here I love , etc. For Love has intangl'd , etc. 13. When leaving the City I rang'd to the Court, And there with young Gallants in Pleasure I sport: For here I love , etc. For Love has intangl'd , etc. 14. I could have been Loyal to one and no more, Had I not been slighted by William before: For here I love , etc. For Love has intangl'd , etc. 15. I find by experience, Young-men are unjust, Therefore I will now be as false as the rest: For here I love , etc. For Love has intangl'd , etc. 16. If Batchelors they, through an evil design, Let their Fancy waver, pray why may not mine? For here I love,there I love, thus I love now; For Love has intangl'd me I know not how.
Printed for C. Bates , near Duck-Lane-end in West-Smithfield .