%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Constant Lover, / Who his affection will not move, / Though he live not where he love. Lowberry, Peter University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer 1601-1601 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 09/08/2014 33933

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1 Shall the absence of my Mistresse. I Live Not Where I Love Shall the absence of my Mistresse. YOu loyall Lovers that are distant, / from your Sweet=hearts many a mile, I To her will be like Leander, / if Hero like shee'le prove to me, though I live not where I love. [with variation] though I live not where I love. [with variation] Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1407 The Constant Lover, / Who his affection will not move, / Though he live not where he love. The Constant Lover, Who his affection will not move, Though he live not where he love. Lowberry, Peter 1601-1601 Henry Gosson

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YOu loyall Lovers that are distant, from your Sweet-hearts many a mile, Pray come-helpe me at this instant, in mirth to spend away the while, In singing sweetly and compleately, in commendation of my love, Resolving ever to part never, though I live not where I love. My love shee's faire and also vertuous, God grant to me she may prove true, Then there is naught but death shall part us, and Ile ne're change her for a new, And though the fates my fortunes hates, and me from her doe farre remove, Yet I doe vow still to be true, though etc. My constancy shall ne're be failing, whatsoe're betide me here, Of her vertue Ile be telling, be my biding farre or neere, And though blind fortune prove uncertaine, from her presence me to remove, Yet Ile be constant every instant, though etc.
Though our bodies thus are parted, and asunder many a mile, Yet I vow to be true hearted, and be faithfull all the while; Though with mine eye I cannot spye, for distance great my dearest Love, My heart is with her altogether, though etc. When I sleepe I doe dreame on her, when I wake I take no rest, But every moment thinke upon her, she's so fixed in my brest, And though farre distance may be assistance, from my mind her love to move, Yet I will never our love dissever, though etc. To thinke upon the amarous glances, that have beene betwixt us twaine, My constancy and love advances, though from her presence I remaine, And makes the teares with groanes & feares, from watery eyes and heart to move, And sighing say both night and day, alas I live etc.
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I To her will be like Leander, if Hero like shee'le prove to me, For her sake through the world Ile wander, no desperate danger I will flee, And into the Seas with little ease, the mountains great themselves shal move, Ere faith I breake, let me ne're speake, though etc. Penelope shall be unconstant, and Diana prove unchaste, Venus to Vulcan shall be constant, and Mars farre from her shall be plac't, The blinded boy no more shall joy, with Arrowes keene lovers so move, Ere false I be sweet-heart to thee, though etc. The Birds shall leave their Airy region, the fishes in the aire shall fly, All the world shall be at one religion, all living things shall cease to dye, Al things shal change to shapes most strange, before that I disloyall prove, Or any way my love decay, though etc.
If you lines doe come before her, or doe deigne to touch her hand, Tell her that I doe adore her, above all Maidens in the land, Remaining still at her good will, and alwayes to her loyall prove, Tell death with dart doe strike my heart, though etc. And tell my mistresse that a Lover, that loves perfect image beares, As true as love it selfe doe love her, witnesse his farre fetcht sighes and teares, Which forth he groanes with bitter moanes, and from his troubled breast he moves, And day nor night takes no delight, because etc. So with my duty to her commended, her loyall servant Ile be still, Desiring I may be befriended, with love againe for my good will, And wish that she as true may be, as I to her will constant prove, And night and day I still will pray, and wish I may live where I love
FINIS. P. L. London Printed for Henry Gosson.