%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Pretty Nannie: / OR, / A dainty delicate new Ditty, fit for the Contry, Town, / or Citty, which shewes how constant she did prove unto / her hearts delight and onely Love. Crimsal, Richard 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 04/20/2011 30221

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S108787 6 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN Northerne Nannie Northern Nancy Northern Nannie the same tune Northern Nancy The Same Tune I HAue a Love so faire, / so constant, firme, and kind, HEr fauour and her face, / doe set my heart on fire, Pretty Nanny, / My Mistris of true constancy / I am thine owne and shall be. | Thou plaine shalt see that I love thee / And will yeeld to thy desire. Pretty Nannie, / My Mistris of true constancy / I am thine owne and shall be. [with variation] Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 322 1: 323 Pretty Nannie: / OR, / A dainty delicate new Ditty, fit for the Contry, Town, / or Citty, which shewes how constant she did prove unto / her hearts delight and onely Love. Pretty Nannie: OR, A dainty delicate new Ditty, fit for the Contry, Town, or Citty, which shewes how constant she did prove unto her hearts delight and onely Love. Pretty Nanny: OR, A dainty delicate new Ditty, fit for the Country, Town, or City, which shows how constant she did prove unto her hearts delight and only Love. Crimsal, Richard 1633-1633 Tho: Lambert

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I Have a Love so faire, so constant, firme, and kind, She is without compare, whose fancies me doth blind. She is the flower of Maids, that ever was or can be, Faire Nymphs lend me your ayds to sing of my sweet Nannie: Her golden hair, her face so faire, her glancing eye hath wounded me, Her cheeke like snow where Roses grow, Pretty Nanny, My Mistris of true constancy I am thine owne and shall be. If Venus would defend, and grant to grace my bed, I would not wrong my friend, by no inticements led: No not the fairest dame, shall win her favour from me, For in the mind I am, Ile honour none but Nannie: For she may command my heart, my hand my body too for to ride or goe, If she but say by night or day, Pretty Nannie, My Mistris of true constancy, I am thine owne and shall be.
My love I will not change for Croesus gold and treasure, Nor will I seem to range from thee my joy and pleasure: Though some doe count our sex to waver in affection, Yet doe not thou suspect, for I doe hate that action: My love is set, none shall me let, nor me perswade, be not afraid, From thee to turne, Ile rather burne with fire, Thou plaine shalt see that I love thee, And will yeeld to thy desire. She is so rare and wise, and prudent in her cariage, That gallants did devise to win her unto mariage: But she denies all those that doe aske such a question, And to me she doth disclose her constant true affection: She will not lie nor falsifie, but true doth prove like the turtle-dove As I doe find to me shees kind, Pretty Nannie, My Mistris of true constancy, I am thine owne and shall be.
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HEr favour and her face, doe set my heart on fire, When I doe her imbrace, I have my hearts desire, Her pretty lisping tongue, doth joy my heart in speaking, I thinke no time too long, while I with her keepe waking: Her lips so soft I kisse full oft, yet sheel deny immodestie, My mothers come, O I must be gone Pretty Nannie, My Mistris of true constancy, I am thine owne and shall be, When I am from her sight, my heart is drownd with sorrow, If I doe misse one night, I see her the next morrow: She is my onely deare, my joy and my sweet pleasure, She is a jewel rare, that far surpasseth treasure: Her glistering eyes like starry skies, her dimpled chin I have joyd to see Her neck so white like christall bright Pretty Nannie, My Mistris of true constancie, I am thine owne and shall be. For to sell this bargaine now I leave my heart in pawne, As by a faithful vow, that is betwixt us twaine: Then doe not thou disdaine my Mistris true for to be, Grant love for love againe, my owne sweet pretty Nannie: And with a kisse befriend me this, my Love adieu I pray be true, My heart with faith for ever saith Pretty Nannie, etc.
Then kindly she replide, thou hast thy hearts desire; Ile be thy lovely Bride, my love to thee is intire: As I have constant beene, so Ile remaine for ever, As plainely shall be seene, from thee I will not sever: With hand & heart ile take thy part, in wealth and woe I wil doe so, The world shal see that I love thee, Most kindly, Thy Mistris, etc. Though all my friends doe frowne, and seeme for to prevent me; Not for a thousand pound, that I wil discontent thee: I wil not yeeld to love, nor fansie any other, My mind shall not remove, with father nor with mother, I wil not change nor seeme to range; no, Ile indure for ever sure, My heart is thine and thou art mine, Sweet honey, etc. What saist thou my sweet heart, wilt thou consent unto me? Tis thou must ease my smart, or else thou wilt undoe me: Quoth she I doe consent, to what thou dost require, My selfe I doe present to please thy hearts desire: My love on thee shal setled be, what thou dost crave I grant you have my life, my bloud, to doe thee good; My hony, Then doe not doubt my constancy, I am thine owne and will be.
FINIS. R.C. Printed at London for Tho: Lambert, at the signe of the Horshoo in Smithfield,