%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Womens just Complaint: / OR, / Mans Deceitfulness in Love. / Being a most Pleasant New Play-house Song. / Long time deceiv'd with feigned Vows, at last, / The Females find their Coyness holds not fast; / For Man, that Noble Creature, cannot Love, / Nor fix his Soul on ought but what's above: / 'Tis Everlasting joy he Centers on, / And leaves soft Fools, Women to dote upon; / Which once they finding, seem to loose their Care / Of hopes they had, and fall to flat dispair. 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 04/01/2016 35420

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R234135 O Love thou art a Treasure, / could Constancy remain, Poor Women to discover, / the vow of Men are vain: / Poor Women, &c. [with variation] Houghton Library 25242.67 Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 216 The Womens just Complaint: / OR, / Mans Deceitfulness in Love. / Being a most Pleasant New Play-house Song. / Long time deceiv'd with feigned Vows, at last, / The Females find their Coyness holds not fast; / For Man, that Noble Creature, cannot Love, / Nor fix his Soul on ought but what's above: / 'Tis Everlasting joy he Centers on, / And leaves soft Fools, Women to dote upon; / Which once they finding, seem to loose their Care / Of hopes they had, and fall to flat dispair. The Womens just Complaint: OR, Mans Deceitfulness in Love. Being a most Pleasant New Play-house Song. Long time deceiv’d with feigned Vows, at last, The Females find their Coyness holds not fast; For Man, that Noble Creature, cannot Love, Nor fix his Soul on ought but what’s above: ‘Tis Everlasting joy he Centers on, And leaves soft Fools, Women to dote upon; Which once they finding, seem to loose their Care Of hopes they had, and fall to flat dispair. The Women's just Complaint: OR, Man's Deceitfulness in Love. Being a most Pleasant New Playhouse Song. Long time deceived with feigned Vows, at last, The Females find their Coyness holds not fast; For Man, that Noble Creature, cannot Love, Nor fix his Soul on aught but what's above: 'Tis Everlasting joy he Centers on, And leaves soft Fools, Women to dote upon; Which once they finding, seem to loose their Care Of hopes they had, and fall to flat despair. ?-? P. Brooksby

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O Love thou art a Treasure, could Constancy remain, But for an hour of Pleasure, we feel an Age of Pain: Now eager is the Lover. But when his Joys are over, Poor Women to discover, the vow of Men are vain: Poor Women, etc. In vain are all their Swearings, but your Love to gain, In vain their promis'd Fairings, their Lusts for to obtain:
Their Cringing and their Bowing, Is worse then Thee and Thouing, Poor Women find the Vowing of men, is all but vain: Poor Women, etc. In v[ai]n their mean and Carriage, their promis'd Love they feign, In vain they promise Marriage, maids honours for to stain: In vain their Songs and Dances, Plays Masquerades Romances, Poor Women find the Fancies, and vows of men are vain: poor Women, etc.
All Wedlock tyes Defieing, when once their Wills they gain, Scoffing at, or denying, what once did cause their pain: When with a thousand Kisses, And with as many Wishes, Poor Women they with blisses, deceiv'd, which vows are vain: Poor women, etc. And whosoe're believes them, they snare them 'tis most plain, And when they'r took, deceive them, and leave them to complain: Whilst we poor Fools sit Mourning, They our Griefs are scorning, Poor Women then take warning, for men are false and vain: Poor Women, etc. They breath false sighs to win us, and Counterfeit Loves pain, And into Bonds they bring us, with Flatteries so vain By praising of our beauties, And Swearing 'tis their Duties, Poor Woman while she mute is, but find at last all vain: Poor woman, etc. Much like to Airy Vapours, are all the Vows they feign, Or like Expiring Vapours, that ne'r will burn again:
But leave us in deep Sorrow, For joys we did but borrow, Poor Women bid Good-morrow, and leave us to Complain: Poor Women, etc. 'Tis sure the God of Lovers, made not his Laws in vain, He better joys discovers, and makes his precepts plain: Why then should man delude us, When he has so Judas'd us, Poor Women why be screw'd thus, on things we can't obtain: Poor women, etc. Let us then be contented, let Lordly still remain, For him he was invented, let us not wish in vain: For what though we endeavour, Yet can deserve him never, Poor Women wishing ever, yet all our wishes vain: Poor women, etc. Then let us be contented, and strive no more with pain, Least we at last repent it, and past all hopes, Complain: When there is no Relieving, But still we must be grieving Poor Women, by deceiving, men shew their vows are vain: Poor Women, etc.
Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Hospital-gate, in West-smithfield.