%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE REDEEMED CAPTIVE. / The Free Unchain'd Lover boasts / That he is now at Large. / The other men should keep so too / He gives this frieudly charge. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 06/18/2014 33835

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R228499 1 When Aurelia first was When Aurelia First I Courted? When Aurelia first was SUrely now I'm out of danger / I'l defie blind Cupids Dart Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1097 THE REDEEMED CAPTIVE. / The Free Unchain'd Lover boasts / That he is now at Large. / The other men should keep so too / He gives this frieudly charge. THE REDEEMED CAPTIVE The Free Unchained Lover boasts That he is now at Large. The other men should keep so too He gives this friendly charge. ?-?

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SUrely now Im out of danger Il defie blind Cupids Dart Love to me is grown a stranger Therefore ile not break my heart. Yet all the graces of their faces They may keep, since I am free Some are witty, some are pretty For Il keep my Liberty.
Once I lovd my Mistriss dearly Counting her my chiefest friend Then I waited late and early My true Love to recommend. I quencht the fire of desire That did burn so cruelly Then farwel Beauty, tis my duty For to prize my Liberty.
Once to me she was so cruel She laught to see me swim in blood And when I burnd I burn[]d like fuel Grief came on me like a flood, Sighs & groanings, sobs & mournings Were my chief companions still When I lay panting, for love wanting Then she had me at her will The grief and sorrow I went thorow Made my life a burthen seem I thought twas time, while in my prime My Liberty for to redeem. Im now compliance, with defiance And scorn a captive still to be No charming eyes shall me surprize Since I have gaind my Liberty. I pitty Lovers who discovers To their Idols all their pain Who soon can cure, what they endure And yet they stubborn will remain. Count it not duty, when a beauty You do see, it to adore If once they find it, do but mind it Your enslavd for evermore. Do but mind me, & youl find me For to be your chiefest friend When yor taken, and forsaken Griefs and sorrows will attend. Oft their smilings prove beguilings And poor men are strangely caught They prove like Treason to your reason And lay Embargoes on each thought. Never heed em, for your freedome Is of greater value, then Why should women, captive freemen Or make slaves of loving men. Dote no more then, nor adore them Whose great beautis make them proud Do but fly them, or defie them Favours on you they will croud.