%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Oh! how I sigh when I think on the Man, &c. / OR, / The Amorous Virgin. / Who never till this time did fancy man, / But she must love, let her do what she can: University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer 1681-1681 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 07/14/2014 34072

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1 To a dainty new Tune, much Sung in the Duke of Yorks Play-House. UNKNOWN To a dainty new Tune, much Sung in the Duke of Yorks Play-House. TO little or no purpose, / I spent many a day, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1194 Oh! how I sigh when I think on the Man, &c. / OR, / The Amorous Virgin. / Who never till this time did fancy man, / But she must love, let her do what she can: Oh! how I sigh when I think on the Man, etc. OR, The Amorous Virgin. Who never till this time did fancy man, But she must love, let her do what she can: Oh! how I sigh when I think on the Man, etc. OR, The Amorous Virgin. Who never till this time did fancy man, But she must love, let her do what she can: 1681-1681 I. Wright, I. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger

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TO little or no purpose, I spent many a day, In ranging the Park, the Exchange and the Play: For ne'r in my Ramble, till now did, I prove, So lucky to meet with the man I cou'd love: But Oh! how I sigh when I think of the Man, I find I must love, let me do what I can. How long I shall love him, I can no more tell, Then had I a Feavour, when I should be well: My passion shall kill me before I will show it,
And yet I would give all the world he did know it: But Oh! how I sigh, when I think he should wooe me, I cannot deny what I know wou'd undo me. I always did wonder how Maids could love Men, How Ladies fell sick, when men lov'd not agen: I could not tell where the blind Boy then did lurk, Or how the inticing temptations did work: But now I cry out, I dye for the man, Let wisdom and Reason, do all what they can.
HE is the most handsom'st, that ever I saw, For love hath no reason, and fancy no Law: Were all mens perfections contracted in one, Accomplished Gallant, himself alone: For Cupid I see is a very trappan, And I must love Charles, let me do what I can. When first I espy'd him, he dazel'd my eye; And flashes like Lighting, did thorow him flye: I blush'd, sigh'd and panted my Pulses did move, I am of opinion there's Witchcraft in love: But let love and reason, do all what they can, The Grave will have me, if I have not the man: I am so much perplext, sometimes I could find In my heart to go to him; and tell him my mind:
Why if I did so, what could he say then? Such boldness would make him not love me agen: A woman is strengthned much more then a man, But yet I love him, do all what I can. This amorous Virgin, was lying alone, Hid in a close Arbour and singing this Song. And lay in a posture, attired in a Dress, Would tempt a Percision unto Wickedness: But all her complaint was I must have the man, Or I shall be ruin'd, do all what I can. The man whom she fancy'd was upto the brim In love with her Person, as she was with him: And being i' th next arbour, where she made her moan, He scal'd a strong Wall, that was built all of Stone
And there he presents her the very same man, That must be her lover, do all what he can. They clung so together, no power could unloose 'um She hid her fond Blushes, in 's neck, and his bosome And there to each other their Hearts they reveal, And tell those kind secrets, they cannot conceal: At last she is like to be blest with the man, That she must love do all what she can. They vow their affections, and there plight their troth They make up a Contract bound fast by an Oath: They wedded, they bedded, by her parents consents, The Maid hath her wishe, The Man his content: When providence orders, a maid and a man, They shall have each other, do all what they can.
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