%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> ARTHUR'S-SEAT, / Shall be my BED, &c. / OR, / LOVE IN DESPAIR / A New Song much in Request, 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 06/26/2014 34286

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T180098 COme lay me soft, and darw me near, / and lay thy white hand over me, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 56 ARTHUR'S-SEAT, / Shall be my BED, &c. / OR, / LOVE IN DESPAIR / A New Song much in Request, ARTHUR'S SEAT, Shall be my BED, etc. OR, LOVE IN DESPAIR A New Song much in Request, ?-?

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COme lay me soft, and draw me near, and lay thy white hand over me, For I am starving in the cold, and thou art bound to cover me. O! cover me in my Distress, and help me in my Miserie, For I do wake when I should sleep, all for the love of my Dearie. My Rents they are but very small for to maintain my Love withall; But with my Labour and my Pain, I will maintain my Love with them. O Arthur's Seat shall be my Bed, and the Sheets shall never be fil'd for me St. Anthonys well shall be my Drink, since my true Love's forsaken me. Should I be bound that may go free? should I Love them that Loves not me? I'le rather travel into Spain, where I'le get love for love again. And I'le cast off my Robs of Black, and will put on the Robs of Blue? And I will to some other Land, till I see my Love will on me rue. It's not the Cold that makes me cry, nor is't the Weet that wearies me? Nor is't the Frost that freezes fell: but I love a Lad, and I dare not tell. O Faith is gone, and Truth is past: and my true Love's forsaken me, If all be true that I hear say, I'le mourn until the day I die. Oh! if I had ne're been born, than to have dy'd when I was young, Then I had never wet my Cheeks, for the Love of any Womans Son. Oh, oh! if my young Babe were born, and set upon the Nurses Knee, And I my self were dead and gone, for a Maid again I'le never be. Martinmass wind when wilt thou blow, and blow the green leafs off the Tree, O! gentle Death when wilt thou come; for of my Life I am wearie.
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