%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE / LONDON Lasses Lamentation: / OR, / Her Fear she should never be MARRIED. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 06/18/2014 32659

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R228339 1 I marry and thank ye too Aye, Marry, and Thank You Too I marry and thank ye too ALas I am in a Rage, / and bitterly weep and cry, yet cannot be married not I. Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 17 THE / LONDON Lasses Lamentation: / OR, / Her Fear she should never be MARRIED. THE LONDON Lasses Lamentation: OR, Her Fear she should never be MARRIED. THE LONDON Lass's Lamentation: OR, Her Fear she should never be MARRIED. ?-? P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, and J. Back.

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ALas I am in a Rage, and bitterly weep and cry, Because I'm nineteen years of age; yet cannot be married not I. No Gallant regards my moan, for Love I am like to dye, It grieves my Heart to lye alone, yet cannot be Marry'd not I.
Mine Eyes do's like Fountains flow, as I on my Pillow lye, There's none knows what I undergo, yet cannot be married not I. There's Margery, Sue, and Kate, has Husbands with them to lye, Yet none regards my wretched State, yet cannot be married not I.
Young-men I must tell ye true, I scorn to report a Lye, I am both fair and handsome too, yet cannot be married not I. My Father is gray and old, And surely e'er long will dye, and though he'll leave me all his Gold, I cannot, etc. Oh! this is my Grief and Care, the which I cannot pass by, To think I am my Father's Heir, yet cannot, etc. I am in Distraction hurl'd, and do for a Husband cry, It's more to me than all the World, yet cannot, etc. I am a poor Love-sick Girl, and ready with Grief to Dye, I proffer'd Jewels, Gold and Pearl, yet cannot, etc.
In Silks I am still array'd, and e'ery New Fashion buy, Because I'm loth to dye a Maid, yet cannot, etc. As fine as the Queen of May, I flourish with gallantry, I wear my Top-knot e'ery day, yet cannot, etc. I paint, and I powder still, to tempt all that I come nigh; But yet let me do what I will, yet cannot, etc. There's never a Lass in Town, for Beauty, can me come nigh; But Fortune she has sent a Frown, I cannot be married not I. The Gold which I have in store, I value no more than Clay, I'd give all, had I ten times more, so I might be Married today.
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