%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Constant LOVER: / OR, / Celia's Glory exprest to the Life. / A pleasant new Song (as it's sung after the Italian manner) and great in Request at / Court, and in the City. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1685-1685 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 06/19/2014 34068

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R41942 1 Why are my Eyes still flow----------ing Why Are My Eyes Still Flowing Why are my Eyes still flowing WHy are my Eyes still flow------------ing? / why do's my Heart thus trembling move? Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1341 The Constant LOVER: / OR, / Celia's Glory exprest to the Life. / A pleasant new Song (as it's sung after the Italian manner) and great in Request at / Court, and in the City. The Constant LOVER: OR, Celia's Glory exprest to the Life. A pleasant new Song (as it's sung after the Italian manner) and great in Request at Court, and in the City. The Constant LOVER: OR, Celia's Glory expressed to the Life. A pleasant new Song (as it's sung after the Italian manner) and great in Request at Court, and in the City. 1685-1685 J. Conyers

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WHy are my Eyes still flow------------ing? why dos my Heart thus trembling move? Why do I sigh when go---------ing to see the Darling-Saint I love? Ah! shes my Heaven, and in my Eye Loves Dei---------ty: There is no Life like to what she can give, Nor any Death like taking my leave. Tell me no more of Glo---------ry, to Courts Ambition Iave resignd; But tell a long long sto---------ry of Celias Face, her Shape and Mind; Spake too of Raptures that woud Life destroy, To en---------joy: Had I a Diadem, Scepter and Ball, For that dear minute Id part with em all. For that woud be a Trea---------sure, beyond what eer the World can give; A joy beyond all mea---------sure, must needs in such Endearments live:
Such tender Blessing, who too much can prize? which---------arise Beyond the reach of mortals tell, And in themselves all pleasures excell. Tell her those Roses blow---------ing that in her Face create a spring, Those Lillies that are grow---------ing, at eery sight fresh Raptures bring; Which breathe into my heart Loves Gentle fire make me---------desire The dear enjoyment that I long to gain To which I wade even in a Sea of Pain. Yet pains to me a Plea---------sure since tis for her whom I adore Ile wait till shes at lea---------sure hers with thy Captive heart restore Ill scorn to think I suffer when such bliss such---------happiness Aa with a Glance can banish dispair, Is still at hand my drooping soul to cheer.
As when the Sun by Beam---------ing upon the frozen Earth unbinds; Her Icey Chains she seem---------ing dead to mankind new Life soon finds, Killd by the warmer Rays, she pregnant grows, And be---------stows, Her Plenty on the long expecting Swain, To let him see his hopes were not in vain. Go bear ye Winds, my sigh----------ing in gentle Gales to her relate; I languish, and am dy---------ing, tell her, tis she must stay my Fate:
Tell her, her eyes have given me a Wound, that---------uncrownd All happiness that the world did yield, And from the Conqueror won the field. Loves harvest is exceed---------ing when his soft Fires do gently move When his Kindness is a breed---------ing in the kind hearts of those we Love: Breathe, breathe, these Fires into my Celias breas[t] To make---------me blest, But let the gentle flame move calmly there, Calm as the thoughts of new born Infants are.
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WHilst Strephon was bewail---------ing, the absence of his charming fair, And thou twas nought avail---------ing, the Beauteous Celia she drew near: All gay as new blown Roses are She did ap---------pear; And hearing from the cool Grove his moan, She in pitty made this kind return. Come cease your eyes from flow---------ing, and let not my poor beauties move A Shepherd thats so know---------ing in all the secret ways of Love: Ah! sigh not after me for I, No Dei---------ty Can boast, nor give the pleasure you feign, Nor make you feel a moment of Pain. Resine not then the Glo---------ry that blooming youth bids you embrace, For things more Transi---------tory to dote upon a fading Face: Great things pursue and lay Raptures by Which de---------stroy What honours building in a mighty mind, Cease then to love, to your Fame be more kind.
Where merit is command---------ing, and Constancy dos bear its part, Alass theres no withstand---------ing For why they storm the hardest heart. Long time I did a Siege sustain, But all in---------vain, For like the Winter by the Spring oerthrown, I melt dear Strephon and am thy own. If Roses they are blow---------ing for you theyre blooming in my Face, For you they there are grow---------ing For you the Lillies all take place; To please my Strephon all Conspire, To raise high---------er Loves charming Power to ravish the Mind, When to my dearest I strive to be kind. My Strephon then leave sigh---------ing to Winds no more your Passion breath; Nor speak as if a dy---------ing be you but constant and still live; Live in your kindest Celias heart let there Love de---------clare The mighty Empire you oer her have gaind And now a Virgins kind Heart you have chaind.
Printed for J. Conyers at the Black Raven a little above St. Andrews Church in Holbourn.