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5.197 R234500 1 a Pleasant new Tune, Sung in the last new Comedy, called Amphytrion Amphitryon A Pleasant New Tune, Sung In The Last New Comedy, Called Amphitryon FOr Iris I sigh and hourly Dye, but not for a Lip nor a languishing Eye; She's fickle and false / and there we agree, Oh! there are the Vertues that captivate me: We neither believe what author noted by Simpson as the author from whose poem this ballad is expanded. Pepys 5.197 Wing I153 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: 197 The Indifferent LOVER, / OR, / The Roving Batchelor. part::start ptitle::start The Indifferent LOVER, OR, The Roving Batchelor. The Indifferent Lover, or, the Roving Bachelor. Dryden, John 1/2 sheet folio, 260 x 170 cropped right edge, creased surface, uneven inking cast fleurons, vertical rules 1683-1703 Printed for Ch. Bates, near Duck-Lane-end, in / West-Smithfield. Ch. Bates BBTI

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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 1/22/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant 1/22/8 Checker Rachel Mann fixed title 1/17/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated 1/17/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created 7/13/07 Checker Summer Star Transcription checked, metadata created 7/06 Transcriber Liberty Stanavage Original transcription 11/2/2004 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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(2) 'Tis civil to swear and say things of Course, We mean not the taking for better for worse, When present we love, when absent agree, I think not of Iris nor Iris of me; The Legend of Love, no Couple can find, So easie to part, and so easily joyn'd. (3) I like not that Lover who'll whimpering stand, And wait a whole day to kiss Celias fair hand, No Beauty i'th' Town, tho' ten times as fair, Can ever, can ever with Celia Compare: How happy am I, who hourly find, Those fair as his Celia , as Iris kind. (4) I am still in the Fashion, or Mode-a-la-France , I think not upon her, unless by a chance, Iris when present I fancy the best, When absent I praise her no more than the rest: Iris and Phillis to me are all one; So soon I can love, and as soon can have done. (5) I can love for an hour, fair Celia and then, I am Cloy'd of the Bliss, and Love Iris agen, Till tyered of Happiness I do depart, Go the next way and give Phillis my Heart: Till Cleo appears, whose delicate Eye, For an hour or two makes me languishing lye.
(6) I love all I see when just in the fit, Yet can in a Moment my Mistriss forget, Now Languish, now Love, now sigh and complain Now love her, now hate her, and love her again. I admire the Charms in Celias fair face, Till Phillis appears to take up her place. (7) But of all the Beauties were ever admir'd, Whose Company many fond Fops have desir'd, Whose every Charm in their Faces so takes, That several Coxcombs have dy'd for their sakes; I never see any whose faces could Charm, So much by their Smiles or Frowns for to harm. (8) If Iris Loves me, then I can Love her, If she loves me not, then I can prefer Another before her; Or her 'fore another, For I can Love one as well as the other; My passion to all alike I'll discover, And always remain an indifferent Lover.
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Printed for Ch. Bates , near Duck-Lane-end , in West-Smithfield .