%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> JOHN ROBISONS 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. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/26/2011 32068

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N69977 AS I went through / John Robinsons Park, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1 JOHN ROBISONS 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. JOHN ROBISONS 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. 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. ?-?

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AS I went through John Robinsons Park, I heard a Bird singing what pleased my heart, It pleased my heart, and contented my mind, Saying, pray thee sweet honey 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 Dice, Love, wil do thee much harm: Then stay at home, honey, to keep thy Love warm. Sweet Honey make much of thine own 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 honey be loving and kind. To take my advice, it wil do thee good, To increase thy health, and nourish thy blood, It wil be to thy pleasure, and content thy mind: Then pray thee sweet honey, be loving and kind. Within thy own Park, Love thou hast a poor Doe, To hunt at thy pleasure, full well thou dost know, Then take thou thy fill, to content thy mind, And I pray thee sweet hony, be loving and kind. Uncouple your Dogs and sound up thy horn, And lay them on closely from even to morn: For better thou may hunt here thy Doe for to chase, While I in my arms Love, thy body imbrace. Call Herepin and trepin, and bonny Blew Bell,
Call Terrlyng and Malk to sound up the Knell, Call Prickears and Primrose the game for to mind, And I pray thee sweet honey, be loving and kind. Call Drummer and Plummer, and Ginger decline: Call Baller and Waller, the Games at the prime: And see the Bougle horn soundly you blow. So merrily ran the hounds all on a row. Heres Nector and Heactor and Sampson so strong, And Lilly white Larkin, laid the Doe along, Yet had not great hurt, which pleased my mind, And I pray thee sweet honey be loving and kind. The game being ended, the truth for to tell, He took up his Dogs, which ran passing well; The pleasure and pastime well pleased my mind, Saying, pray the sweet honey be loving and kind. Well now my sweet honey, thy counsel Ile take The Cards and Dice, Love, I mean to forsake: And stay at home honey to content thy mind, And I vow evermore to be loving and kind. For many a time abroad I do go To see my Hunds run after a wild Doe: Though now I confesse it hath done me much harm, Now Ile 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 chaste the wild Doe, But now I intend, Love, to do no more so. Come all you brave huntsmen, that love 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 Crosse-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 meaning of this Fallow Doe. Or why this Theam do run so in mind To say, pray thee sweet Hony be loving and kind. As late in the evening, I chanced to walk, I heard a young couple most loving talk, But what they did else, it must stay behind, Saying, pray thee sweet honie, be loving and kind. Their sporting being ended, away they did go, This gallant brave Keeper, and his Fallow Doe. For sporting and courting, he pleased her mind: Saying, pray thee sweet honie, be loving and kind.
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