%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Iohn Robinsons Park, Or a merry fit of Wooing. / Within a Park a young Man met a Maid / With courting and sporting the Damsel with him staid / In pastime and pleasure she uttered her mind / Saying pray thee sweet hony be loving and kind. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1700-1700 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 03/01/2012 31852

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R179101 AS I went through / John Robinsons Park, CAll Herpin and Terepin, / and bonny Blew Bell, Saying pray thee sweet hony / be loving and kind. [with variation] And I pray thee sweet hony / be love and kind. [with variation] Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 144 Iohn Robinsons Park, Or a merry fit of Wooing. / Within a Park a young Man met a Maid / With courting and sporting the Damsel with him staid / In pastime and pleasure she uttered her mind / Saying pray thee sweet hony be loving and kind. Iohn Robinsons Park, Or a merry fit of Wooing. Within a Park a young Man met a Maid With courting and sporting the Damsel with him staid In pastime and pleasure she uttered her mind Saying pray thee sweet hony be loving and kind. John Robinson's Park, Or a merry fit of Wooing. Within a Park a young Man met a Maid With courting and sporting the Damsel with him staid In pastime and pleasure she uttered her mind Saying pray thee sweet honey be loving and kind. 1700-1700

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AS I went through John Robinsons Park, I heard a Bir[d] singing which pleased my heart: It pleased my heart and contented my mind, Saying pray thee sweet hony be loving and kind. Be loving and kind Love and take my advice, And be no more cheated at Cards or at Dice, For the Cards and the Dice Love, will do the much harm, Then stay at home Honey to keep thy love warm. Sweet hony make much of thy Fallow Deer, To hunt them and chase them thou needst not to fear; Take pleasure at home to content thy mind, And I pray thee sweet hony be loving and kind.
To take my advice, it will do thee good, To encrease thy health and nourish thy blood, It will be to thy pleasure and content thy mind. Then pray thee sweet hony be loving and kind. Within thy own Park, Love thou hast a pure Doe, To hunt at thy pleasure full well thou dost know, Then take thy fill to content thy mind, Then I pray thee sweet hony be loving, etc, Uncouple your Dogs and sound up thy horn, And lay them on closely thy Doe for to chase, For better thou may hunt her from Evening till Morn, While I in my arms love Thy body imbrace.
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CAll Herpin and Terepin, and bonny Blew Bell, Call Terrylug and Malkin to sound up the Knell: Call Prickears and Primrose the game for to mind, And I pray thee sweet hony be loving and kind. Call D[r]ummer and Plummer and Ginger deline; Call [?]aller and Waller the gams at the prime And see the Beugle horn soundly you blow, So meerily ran the hounds all on a row. Heres Nector and Hector and Sampson so strong, And Lilly white Larkin laid the Doe all along, Yet had no great hurt which pleased my mind, And I pray thee sweet hony be loving and kind. The game being ended the truth for to tell, He took his Dogs which ran passing well; The pleasure and pastime well pleased my mind, Saying pray thee sweet hony be, etc: Well now my swyet hony thy counsel Ile take, The Cards and the Dice, Love, I mean to forsake, And stay at home hony to content thy mind. And I vow evermore to be, etc. For many a time abroad I did go To see my Hounds run after a wild Doe, Though now I confess it hath done me much harm, Now Il stay at home hony to keep my love warm.
At Cards and at Dice I have many a day Delighted my self to sport and to play, And when the night came I have chast the wild Doe But now I intend Love to do no more so. Come all you brave Huntsmen, that loves Fallow Deer Unto this my story I pray lend an ear. If hunting the Doe come to you by kind, The sound of the Horn will run still in your mind. Your Dogs and your horn I and your Cross Bow Is all your delight where ever you go And the quarter staffe must not stay behind; Saying pray thee sweet hony be loving and kind. Concluding if any desire to know What is the true me[a]ning of this Fallow Doe; Or why this Theam doth run so in mind To say pray the sweet, etc. As late in an evening I chanced to walk I heard a young couple most lovingly talk. But what they did else It must stay behind, Saying, etc. Their sport being ended a way they did go This gallant brave Keeper and his Fallow Doe. For sporting and courting he had pleased her mind, Saying pray thee sweet honey be loving and kind.
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