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1 I Often for My Jenny Strove I Often for My Jenny Strove I Often for My Jenny Strove A King once reign'd beyond the Seas / As we in antient Stories find Houghton Library Hazlitt EC65 Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 9 1: 10 CUPID's REVENGE / An Account of a King who slighted all Women, at / length was constrain'd to marry a Beggar, who / proved a very fair and virtuous Queen. CUPID’s REVENGE An Account of a King who slighted all Women, at length was constrain’d to marry a Beggar, who proved a very fair and virtuous Queen. CUPID's REVENGE An Account of a King who slighted all Women, at length was constrained to marry a Beggar, who proved a very fair and virtuous Queen. ?-? Mary Deacon

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A King once reign'd beyond the Seas As we in antient Stories find Who no fair Face could ever please He car[e]d not for Women-kind. He despised the sweetest Beauty And the greatest Fortune too, At length he marry'd to a Beggar, See what Cupid's Dart can do. The blinded Boy that shoots so trim, Did to his Closet Window steal, And drew a Dart and shot at him, And made him soon his Power feel
He that never car'd for Women, But did Females ever hate, At length was smitten, wounded, swooned, For a Beggar at his Gate. For mark what happen'd on a Day As he look'd from his Window high, He espy'd a Beggar all in gray With two more in her Company She his Fancy soon enflamed And his Heart was grieved sore, What must I have her, court her, crave I that never lov'd before.
This noble Prince of high Renown Did to his Chamber strait repair, And on his Couch he laid him down Opprest with love-sick Grief and Care; Ne'er was Monarch so surprised, Here I lie her captive Slave, While I will to court her wooe her, She must heal the Wound she gave. Then to his Palace-gate he goes The Beggar crav'd his Charity, A Purse of Gold to them he throws, With thankful hearts away they hye, But the King call'd her to him, Tho' she was but poor and mean, His hand did hold h[e]r, while he told her She should be his stately Queen. At this she blushed scarlet red, And on this mighty King d[i]d gaze; Then strait again as pale as Lead Alas she was in such amaze, Hand in hand they walk'd together, And the King did kindly say, That he'd respect her, strait they deck'd her In most sumptuous rich Array.
He did appoint the Wedding day. And likewise then commanded strait, The noble Lords and Ladies, Upon his gracious Queen to wait, She appear'd a splendid beauty, All the Court did her adore, And in Marriage with a Carriage, As if she had been Queen before. Her Fame thro' all their Realms did ring, Although she came of Parents poor She by her Sovereign Lord the King Did bear one Son, and yet no more. All the Nobles were well pleased, And the Ladies frank and free For her behaviour always gave Title to her Dignity. At length the King and Queen was laid Together in a silent tomb, Their Royal Son their Sceptre sway'd Who govern'd in his father's room, Long in glory did he flourish, Wealth and honour to encrease Still possessing such great blessing, That he liv'd and reign'd in Peace,
London: Printed for Mary Deacon, in Giltspur-Street.