%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Wandring Virgin; / OR, The Coy Lass well fitted; or, the Answer / to the wand'ring Maiden. / Virgins whose coyness and disdain does prove / The fatal ruin of cemented Love, / Learn and beware lest you like me cry out / I'le find my Love, or search the world about University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1672-1672 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 05/02/2011 31011

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R228648 2 a pleasant New Tune UNKNOWN A Pleasant New Tune Over Hill and High Mountains UNKNOWN Over Hill and High Mountains YOu Virgins so pretty / hear what I relate, But i'le travel the world o're / to find my Love out. [with variation] Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 508 2: 509 The Wandring Virgin; / OR, The Coy Lass well fitted; or, the Answer / to the wand'ring Maiden. / Virgins whose coyness and disdain does prove / The fatal ruin of cemented Love, / Learn and beware lest you like me cry out / I'le find my Love, or search the world about The Wandring Virgin; OR, The Coy Lass well fitted; or, the Answer to the wand’ring Maiden. Virgins whose coyness and disdain does prove The fatal ruin of cemented Love, Learn and beware lest you like me cry out I’le find my Love, or search the world about The Wandering Virgin; OR, The Coy Lass well-fitted; or, the Answer to the wandering Maiden. Virgins whose coyness and disdain does prove The fatal ruin of cemented Love, Learn and beware lest you like me cry out I’ll find my Love, or search the world about 1672-1672 P. Brooksby

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YOu Virgins so pretty hear what I relate, My case you may pitty, take heed of my Fate: How I was forsaken youl hear it throughout, But ile travel the world ore to find my Love out. Since I was the cause that he first did disdain, My overmuch coyness doth make him refrain: But now I must blush that it comes so about, I would give all the world I could find my love out.
Then straight my green Gown into breeches ile make, And my long yellow Locks much shorter ile take: Ile wander, ile wander, ile wander about, And ile search all the world for to find my Love out. Ile get me switch and a sword by my side, A Horse, Boots and Spurs. and ile get up and ride: Ile wander, ile wander ile wander about, Ile search all the world for to find my Love out.
MY Love was a seemly and proper young youth Though he did dissemble I took all for truth, So crafty in courtship I never did doubt But ide give all the World I could search my Love out. His forehead was smooth and his locks they were curld And him I adord above all in the world: His Tongue went so smoothly in Courtship profound That I must have my Love. though I search the world round. His Musical voice it did make me admire His courtship and carriage did set me on fire: I lovd him so dearly which makes me cry out I find him, or wander the world all about. What fancy hath took him I much do admire That he should reject the Love he did require: And since he is gone I will wander about And ile search all the world but ile find my love out. My breath it grows short and my face pale and wan Which makes me admire the power of the Man:
My heart it doth tremble, which makes me to doubt I shall want of my Wits if I find him not out. Since Love I adore thee, why shouldst thou disdain The suit of thy Lover, thats subject to pain? Be kinder unto me, and ease all my doubt For ile search all the world but ile find my Love out. Ile travel the Desarts, where fancy me leads, Through Groves, Fields, & Forrests through Fountains and Moats, To find out my dearest ile gallop about, And Ile range the wide world, for to find my Love out. Ile search over England, to see ift contain; If not, ile turn Sailor, to search on the Main, The Ocean, so boundless, ile travel about, Ile range the wide world, but ile find my Love out. My Maidenhead Jewel it is still my own; But if he had askd me, be sure it had gone: Then Maids have a care, lest like me you cry out, Ile find him, or wander the world all about.
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