%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The VIRGIN's COMPLAINT / AGAINST / Young MEN's Unkindness. / Of young Mens falshood she doth much complain, / Resolving never to love Man again: / Experience tells her Men love but for Fashion, / That makes her rail against 'em in such passion. 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 03/18/2016 35448

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1 Cupid's Courtesie Cupid's Courtesy Cupid's Courtesy I Am so deep in Love, / I cannot hide it, Houghton Library Hazlitt EC65 Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 11 1: 12 The VIRGIN's COMPLAINT / AGAINST / Young MEN's Unkindness. / Of young Mens falshood she doth much complain, / Resolving never to love Man again: / Experience tells her Men love but for Fashion, / That makes her rail against 'em in such passion. The VIRGIN’s COMPLAINT AGAINST Young MEN’s Unkindness. Of young Mens falshood she doth much complain, Resolving never to love Man again: Experience tells her Men love but for Fashion, That makes her rail against ‘em in such passion. The VIRGIN's COMPLAINT AGAINST Young MEN's Unkindness. Of young Men's falsehood she doth much complain, Resolving never to love Man again: Experience tells her Men love but for Fashion, That makes her rail against them in such passion. ?-? R. Raikes and W. Dicey

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I Am so deep in love, I cannot hide it, It breaks me of my rest, and of my quiet; For when I see his his Face, it so inflames me, That I must love him still, tho' the world blame me. O fye upon this Love, it will undo me, I'll ne'er love Man again, should the Gods woe me; For if once I can shake off this passion, I'll ne'er love man again, only for fashion.
There's no belief in man, though they seem civil, For when they sit like saints, they think most evil. Therefore be rul'd by me, never trust no Man, But if you needs must love, pray love a Woman. I wish blind Cupid had been soudly sleeping, When like a crafty Lad he came so creeping, To wound my tender heart, and pierce my Marrow, I felt his fatal Dart, to my great sorrow.
Never poor Virgin was in such a taking, I oft look'd in my glass, pleasure forsakink, My Cheeks were pale and wan my lips did tremble, Because I lov'd a man, that did dissemble. O what a simple Girl I was for certain, For to love Lord or Earl, I will not hearken; Not one in twenty score but is deceitful, Therefore I'll love no more, men are ungrateful. It is their constant Trade to cog and flatter, Or to delude a Maid, her for to banter; But if they prate and lye, I'll not believe them, Such Love I'll never try, altho' it grieve them. They'll profess and pretend much of affection, Until they make you bend to Love's subjection: Of your hearts craftily they will bereave you, Till a new Force they spy, then they will leave you.
Their Words are all but Wind, like Winter Weather, Unconstant and unkind, light as a feather: I tell you flat and plain, I'll not abide it, To love a Man again, once having try'd it. Blame me not though I be something in passion, For now I plainly see it is the fashion; For such false-hearted men are grown so common, That when I love again, I'll love a Woman. Why should a Woman doat on such a buble, That's good for nothing but to procure trouble: Every Day I will pray for to live single, That my affection may with no man's mingle. Ladies, take my advice, you have rare features, Always be coy and nice to such false creatures; No man will constant prove, no, not my Brother; Then if you needs must love, love one another.
Printed for R. Raikes and W. Dicey at Northampton: Where Chapmen may be supply'd with all sorts of old Ballad.