%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The vvandering Virgin: / Or, The Coy Lass well Fitted. / Virgins whose coyness & disdain does prove / The fatal ruine of cemented Love, / Learn, and beware, lest you like me cry out / I'le find my Love, or search the world about 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 03/16/2016 34732

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R227458 1 Cloris Awake Ah! Chloris Awake Chloris Awake YOu Virgins so pretty / hear what I relate, My Love was a seemly / and proper young youth, But i'le travel the world o're / to find my Love out. [with variation] But ide give all the world / I could search my Love out. [with variation] Houghton Library Huth EBB65H Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 290 The vvandering Virgin: / Or, The Coy Lass well Fitted. / Virgins whose coyness & disdain does prove / The fatal ruine of cemented Love, / Learn, and beware, lest you like me cry out / I'le find my Love, or search the world about The wandering Virgin: Or, The Coy Lass well Fitted. Virgins whose coyness & disdain does prove The fatal ruine of cemented Love, Learn, and beware, lest you like me cry out I’le find my Love, or search the world about The wandering Virgin: Or, The Coy Lass well Fitted. Virgins whose coyness and disdain does prove The fatal ruin of cemented Love, Learn, and beware, lest you like me cry out I'll find my Love, or search the world about ?-? P. Brooksby

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YOu Virgins so pretty hear what I relate, My case you may pitty, take heed of my fate: How I was forsaken you'l hear it throughout, But I'le travel the world o're to find my Love out. Since I was the cause that he first did disdain, My overmuch coyness doth make him refrain: But now I must blush that it so comes about, I would give all the world I could find my Love out.
Then straight my green gown into breeches i'le make, And my long yellow Locks much shorter i'le take: I'le wander, i'le wander, i'le wander about, And i'le search all the world for to find my Love out. I'le get me a switch and a sword by my side, A Horse, Boots and Spurs, and i'le get up and ride: I'le wander, ile wander, i'le wander about, Ile search all the world for to find my Love out.
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My Love was a seemly and proper young youth, Though he did dissemble I took all for truth, So crafty in courtship I never did doubt But ide give all the world I could search my Love out. His forehead was smooth and his locks they were curld And him I ador'd above all in the world: His tongue went so smoothly in Courtship profound That I must have my Love though I search the world round. His Musical voice it did make me admire His courtship and carriage did set me on fire: I lov'd him so dearly which makes me cry out Il find him, or wander the world all about. What fancy hath took him I much do admire That he should reject the Love he did require: And since he is gone I will wander about And ile search all the world but ile find my Love out. My breath it grows short and my face pale and wan Which makes me admire the power of the man:
My heart it doth tremble, which makes me to doubt I shall want of my wits if I find him not out. Since Love I adore thee, why shouldst thou disdain The suit of thy Lover; that's subject to pain? Be kinder unto me, and ease all my doubt, For I'le search all the World, but I'le find my Love out. I'le travell the Desarts, where fancy me leades, Through Groves, Fields, & Forrests through Fountains, & Medes, To find out my Dearest i'le gallop about, And I'le range the wide world, for to find my Love out. I'le search over England, to see if 't contain; If not, i'le turn Sailor, and search on the Main, The Ocean, so boundless, i'le travell about, I'le range the wide world, but i'le find my Love out. My Maidenhead-Jewell it still is my own; But if he had ask'd me, be sure it had gone: Then Maids have a care; lest like me you cry out, I'le find him, or wander the world all about.
Printed for P. Brooksby at Golden Ball in West Smithfield.