%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The two Notinghamshire Lovers: or, The Maid of Standon in Notingham- / shire, and the Leicestershire man: Which were linked together contrary to their / Friends minds; but shee was so inflamed in love, that shee requested him from / thence to goe; and he resolved her so to doe, appointing the place where they / should meet; but it proved a heavie meeting as ere was knowne, as in this Ditty / shall be showne. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1601-1601 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/26/2011 30475

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R216129 2 I feare I shall stay too long UNKNOWN I Fear I Shall Stay Too Long the same tune UNKNOWN The Same Tune IN Notinghamshire, / as late I did heare: HE so swore to me, / That true he would be, O this was all her song, / My Love I suffer wrong, / And I feare thou wilt stay too long. [with variation] But this is still my song, / My Love I suffer wrong, / And I feare thou wilt stay too long. [with variation] Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 3: 178 3: 179 The two Notinghamshire Lovers: or, The Maid of Standon in Notingham- / shire, and the Leicestershire man: Which were linked together contrary to their / Friends minds; but shee was so inflamed in love, that shee requested him from / thence to goe; and he resolved her so to doe, appointing the place where they / should meet; but it proved a heavie meeting as ere was knowne, as in this Ditty / shall be showne. 1601-1601 H.G.

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IN Notinghamshire, as late I did heare: there lived two Lovers true: Whose hearts were linked fast, Whilst life did last, but marke what did ensue. O this was all her song, My Love I suffer wrong, And I feare thou wilt stay too long. In Standon she was borne, That lived thus forlorne, and her name was called Anne Hall, But her owne friends did seeke, Her mind for to breake, which caused her great downefall. And this, etc. This young man in Leicestershire, Was borne as I doe heare, and his name was called John Browne: But in his love he was Not so constant as his Lasse, as hereby shall be plainely found. But this, etc. Her friends would not agree That she should married be, to him that she best did love: Though she did them intreat, They her misused and beat, in hope that her mind would move. Oh this, etc. Her friends to her would say, If you will him denay, and marry some other man: Then you shall want for nought, That for money can be bought, take you him that hath house and land. But this, etc. But she was thus resolved, Till death her dissolved, not to change like the wavering wind: Like to the Turtle Dove, So true she did prove, and she was stedfast in her love. [O]h but this, etc.
That when that she did see Her friends would not agree, she moane made unto her Love, Saying she would goe With him in weale or woe, and would prove like the Turtle Dove. Oh but, etc. Thus he replyd againe, My mind I will explaine, and will tell thee what I will doe: Meet me in your Fathers Land, And heres my heart and hand, tomorrow with thee Ile goe. Oh but, etc. To th same she did agree, And appointed presently the place where she should him meet, Then home she went againe, For money to maintaine her selfe and her Lover sweet. Oh but, etc. And when the houre came, Then she returnd againe: to the place where he did appoint: But when that she came there, She saw him not appeare, and then she began to faint. Oh but, etc. Then downe she sate her straight, And thus beganne to write, complaining most pittiously, Of her crosses she Had endured patiently, and then she was resolved to die. Oh but, etc. False-hearted one, That breedest my mone, and dost cause me thus to complaine: Oh I will never trust To one so unjust, For I find that it is in vaine. But this was all her song, My Love I suffer wrong, And I feare thou wilt stay too long.
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HE so swore to me, That true he would be, as the Turtle to her mate: O but him I find Much like to the wind, that blowes in uncertaine state. But this is still my song, My Love I suffer wrong, And I feare thou wilt stay too long. His urging eyes, Like to the pleasant skies, that in April oft do show, Yet ere that you are aware, They changed are to stormy wind, and blow. Therfore, etc. Seeing that thee I find, To be so unkind to me which so deare loved thee, I am resolvd in heart From the world to depart, thou againe shalt me never see. Therfore, etc. To father and mother, I speak above all other, who are the causers of my woe: You would not give consent, Therefore you may repent, you have wrought my overthrow. Therfore, etc. When I did you intreat, Then was I sorely beat, and you said him I should not marry. You stood for worldly gaine, Which breedeth now my paine, for my Love I do now miscarry. Therfore, etc. To you my Love likewise, Who I did once surmize would have proved more true to me: But you I false doe find, And to me so unkind, therefore I here must die. Therfore, etc.
This letter of my woe, With me shall be to show, in the place where you shall me find: For to declare aright The causes of my spight, and the truth of a troubled mind. Therfore, etc. Then with her knife She ended her life, in the place that appointed was: Where her love to see Came thither presently, and found her dead on the grasse. Therfore, etc. Therfore with his Rapier he Himselfe immediately did kill hard by his Love: Straight after they were found Bleeding upon the ground, neare to a pleasant-Grove. Therfore, etc. Her friends when they did heare, Sore grieved they were: yet unto the place did come, And from her pocket they, There pulled out straight way this letter of griefe and mone. Therfore, etc. When this they read and heare, They strucken were with feare, and cryed most pitteously: Confessing of it true; But marke what did ensue, O they did after quickly die. Therfore, etc. Let other Parents now Not seek to breake a vow, that is made betweene lovers true; Lest all too late, I say, They work their lives decay: as by this storie plainly doth appeare. And now to end my song, etc.
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