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5.189 R187442 1 an Excellent new Tune Much in Request How Blest are Shepherds An Excellent New Tune Much In Request HOw blest are Sheperds how happy their Lasses, While Drums & Trumpets are sounding Alarms! date from imprint Pepys 5.189 Wing S3154A 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: 189 The Shepherds Happiness: / OR, / An Advice to Ladies. / Being an Excellent New SONG in the last New OPERA. The Shepherds Happiness: OR, An Advice to Ladies. Being an Excellent New SONG in the last New OPERA. The Shepherd's Happiness: Or, an Advice to Ladies, Being an Excellent New Song in the Last New Opera. 1/2 sheet folio, 270 x 180 cropped top, right, and bottom edges, uneven inking vertical rules Printer 1691 Printed for J. Conyers at the Black Raven in Holbourn, 1691. J. Conyers Weinstein: imprint

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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 1/17/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant advice appearance entertainment love mythology/Classicalworld virtue 1/17/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created 7/11/7 Checker Summer Star Transcription checked, metadata created 7/6 Transcriber Liberty Stanavage Original transcription 11/2/2004 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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2. Bright Nimphs of Britain with graces Attended, let not your days without pleasure expire, Honours but empty, when your youth is ended, all men will praise you, but none will desire, Let not youth fly away without contenting, Age will come time enough for your Repenting. 3. Princes of high Renown in foreign Nations, they a sweet pastoral life did admire, And left vain glory and all the court fashions, to live like Shepherds it was there desire, For in the Fields and Groves there is more pleasure, Then in great Princes Courts with Golden treasure. 4. Bright lovly Ladies of high birth and fortune, let not your beauty make you be disdaining, For all the pleasures at Court is uncertain, some there are joyful yet others complaining, come then unto the plain's see our employment, Of your sweet presence give us the enjoyment.
5. Tho' you are stored with Wit, Youth and Beauty, those are but treasures that lasts for a moment, Be not unkind then to those makes it duty for to adore you, but ease all their Torment; Let not your Lovers thus live discontented, When Youth and Beauty's gone you may Repent it. 6. The pleasures wee injoy is past expresing, with Nimphs and Shepherds theirs none can compar[e] They sport's are inocent they are posesing, each swain enjoy's both the witty and fair, Like constant turtles we still live together, And thus could be content to live for ever. 7. Wee'll not aspire for glory or splendour, but live contented and love one another, To the ambitious vain glory surender, and still together new joyes will discover, Then we shall never have cause of Repenting, But will be ever each other contenting.
Printed for J. Conyers at the Black Raven in Holbourn, 1691.