%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Languishing Young Man: / Or, The Love-sick Sail-man's sorrowful Lamentation for the Loss of his Beautiful / Maria, who left him languishing at the Point of Despair. / To which is added. / Maria's Kind Answer at the last time of Distress. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer 1671-1671 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 11/14/2016 30733

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R228319 1 If Love's a Sweet Passion, &c. If Love's a Sweet Passion If Love's a Sweet Passion, etc. Oh! Why does my true Love so sadly disdain / All the Gifts I afford her? Yet sure 'tis in vain Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 274 The Languishing Young Man: / Or, The Love-sick Sail-man's sorrowful Lamentation for the Loss of his Beautiful / Maria, who left him languishing at the Point of Despair. / To which is added. / Maria's Kind Answer at the last time of Distress. The Languishing Young Man: Or, The Love-sick Sail-man’s sorrowful Lamentation for the Loss of his Beautiful Maria, who left him languishing at the Point of Despair. To which is added, Maria’s Kind Answer at the last time of Distress. The Languishing Young Man: Or, The Lovesick Sail-man’s sorrowful Lamentation for the Loss of his Beautiful Maria, who left him languishing at the Point of Despair. To which is added, Maria’s Kind Answer at the last time of Distress. 1671-1671

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OH! Why does my true Love so sadly disdain All the Gifts I afford her? Yet sure 'tis in vain For to offer her any; she's grown so unkind, That I'm least in her Fancy, and less in her Mind, Who before was her Darling, yet now she doth turn Her Affections to Hatred which daily doth burn. Look down, Oh, fair Venus, thou Goddess of Love, And send Cupid, that he may these Arrows remove, With which I this present am wounded so sore, For the fear I shall see dear Maria no more: I'm sinking, I'm swooning, I'm fainting away, For the loss of Maria: Oh! what shall I say?
Why was I so foolish to settle my Love, Or Affections on any, since falsely they prove? Above all, dear Maria, she has prov'd so untrue, That the Hour of Birth I am forced to rue. I'm wounded, I'm bleeding, I'm struck to the Heart; Come, my dearest Maria, ease me of this smart. Oh! Where are ye Gods that are wonted to be Great help unto Mortals? Why help ye not me, Against this fierce. fiery, powerful Dart, Which is shot by fierce Cupid into my poor Heart. Oh! help me! Oh! help me this moment! I cry, Or else, for the loss of Maria I dye.
Come here, Oh! thou Charon, and make no delay, And bring here thy Ferry; I no longer can stay: Make haste with me over unto the dark Grove Of Elizium, that there I may mourn for my Love? Come quickly, come quickly, why dost thou delay? Ev'ry Moment's a Year that I here have to stay Adieu to my Kinsfolks, and Parents most dear; Adieu to my Brother, and Sister most near; Farewel youmy Unkle, above all the rest, For of Parents and Kinsfolks, you have been the best Adieu to you all that my Moans now do hear, I am ready to dye for the Loss of my Dear. Marias Kind Answer. NO sooner had Willy thus utter'd his Grief, But Maria she came with a speedy Relief; Who declar'd that her Dearest should never complain For the Loss of his Love, who wou'd Loyal remain: I adore thee, said she, the true Joy of Thy Heart, And as long as we live, Love, we never will part. 'Tis true, my Relations would have me deny All the Vows which I made thee, sweet Willy; for why? There's a wealthy young Squire provided for me, Who has promis'd to make me a Lady, said she; But my Love, and dear Willy, thou, thou hast my Heart, And as long as we live, Love, we never will part. My Parents, I tell thee, has been so unkind, That a Month in my Chamber I have been confin'd; But so soon as I e'er did any Freedom obtain, I came running to thee my sweet Willy again: Thou are lodg'd in my Breast, and art Lord of my Heart, And as long as we live, Love, we never will part. I value not Riches, true Love I adore, And I therefore am come all thy Joys to restore; Let my Friends and Relations all grieve and repine, Thou shalt be my sweet Jewel, and I will be thine: Thou art lodg'd in my Breast, and art Lord of my Heart, And as long as we live, Love, we never will part.