%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Labour in vaine. / OR / An imperfect description of Love. / Imperfect I well call it may, / For who can all Loves parts display? Parker, Martin University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1633-1633 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/18/2011 30134

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R214393 2 Ienkinson UNKNOWN Jenkinson the same tune UNKNOWN The Same Tune FIe upon loue, fond loue, / false loue, LOue is a hill, high hill, / great hill, shall be call'd Labour in vaine. [with variation] And this is right Labour in vaine. [with variation] Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 192 1: 193 Labour in vaine. / OR / An imperfect description of Love. / Imperfect I well call it may, / For who can all Loves parts display? Labour in vaine. OR An imperfect description of Love. Imperfect I well call it may, For who can all Loves parts display? Labor in vain. OR An imperfect description of Love. Imperfect I well call it may, For who can all Loves parts display? Parker, Martin 1633-1633 Thomas Lambert.

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FIe upon love, fond love, false love, Great are the torments that Lovers endure: It is a snare, brings care, bones bare, None can a remedy for it procure: Of all the afflictions that are incident To us while we march under Times regiment, Theres nothing to man brings so much discontent as love unbeloved againe. It breaketh our sleep, it distracteth the wit, It makes us doe things that for men are unfit: If I may but give It a true censure on it, shall be calld Labour in vaine.
Love is a fire, hot fire, fierce fire, Who can abide? the extremity ont! It burnes the reines, great pains, small gaines Shall a man get after beauty to hunt: Tis that which the learned by right doe name (As I doe conjecture) the Idalean flame, Jove grant that I never doe feele the same. so neer as I can Ile refrain: Yet if the blind rascall at me shall shoot, I know to withstand him it were no boot, Both young men and maidens with you look tot, For this is right Labour in vain.
Love is a well, deepe well, steep well, No man can sound its profundity right: The water int, melts [fl]int sets stint Both to the Pesant, the Lord, and the Knight: It is Aganipe, or Helicon, It gives him invention that erst had none: It yeelds enough matter to worke upon For every illiterate swaine: Tis like to that water where Tantalus stood, A man may be starvd among plenty of food, I had rather taste of the coole running flood, Then drink at this Labour in vain.
<seg n="1" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">The second part, To the same tune.</hi></seg>
LOve is a hill, high hill, great hill, No man ere climbd to the top of the same: He that aspires, it tyres, with bryers It is invironed wilde men to tame. Tis that against which poore Sisiphus strives To roule up a stone, which downward drives, This restlesse toyle costs many mens lives, & few by the journey do gain: The paths are so difficult to find out, The best Cosmographer his skill may doubt, Twill daunt him if he thinks himselfe most stout, And this is right Labour in vain. Love is a chaine, strong chaine, long chaine, He who is bound in it seldome gets free, Twill hold him fast, till thlast, houres past, Though strong as Hector, or Ajax he be, Tis that wherewith lusty Alcides bound The three headed Cerberus,
that hell-hound, When he did Don Plutoes power confound, and got Proserpina againe. Tis that wherewith Sampson, bythPhilistims was Bound to the mill where he ground like an asse: Tis stronger then iron, steele, or brasse, And this is calld Labour in vain. Love is a wheele, round wheele, swift wheele, Which when tis turning nones able to stop: In circle wise, it flyes, and hyes Swiftly to bring what was lowest toth top: Tis that which unfortunate Ixion turnes, While at his nere ending labour he mournes, The axletree of it perpetually burnes, because it no liquor can gaine: In briefe, Love is any thing thats without rest, A passion that boileth and scaldeth the breast, Yet he who loves lovd againe (fo[r] all this jest) Dwellsr not at the Labour in vain.
Printed at London for Thomas Lambert. Finis. M.P.