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R227869 1 To a pleasant new tune [unknown] To a Pleasant New Tune POore Harpalus, opprest with love, / sate by a Chrystall Brooke, Manchester Central Library Blackletter Ballads Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 16 The complaint of the Shepheard Harpalus The complaint of the Shepherd Harpalus Printer E.P. 1645-1645 Francis Coles

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POore Harpalus, opprest with love, sate by a Chrystall Brooke, Thinking his sorrowes to remove, ofttimes therein did looke: And hearing how on pibble stones, the murmuring River ran, As if it had bewaild his grons, unto it thus began: Faire streames (quoth he) that pitties me, and heares my matchlesse mone, If thou be going to the Sea, as I doe now suppone: Attend my plaints past all reliefe, which dolefully I breath Acquaint the Sea-nymphs with the griefe which still procures my death. Who sitting in the cliffy Rocks, may in their songs expresse, While as they combe their golden locks, poore Harpalus distresse: And so perhaps some Passenger, that passeth by the way, May stay and listen for to heare, them sing this dolefull Lay. Poore Harpalus a Shepheard Swaine, more rich in youth than store, Lov'd faire Philena, haplesse man, Philena, oh therefore!
Who still remorecelesse hearted Maid, tooke pleasure in his paine, And his good will, poore soule, repaid with undeserv'd disdaine. Nere Shepheard loved Shepheardesse more faithfully then he, Nere Shepheard yet beloved lesse of Shepheardesse could be: How oft did he with dying lookes, to her his woes impart? How oft his sighes did testifie the dolour of his heart? How oft from Valleys to the Hills, did he his griefe rehearse? How oft re-ecchoed they his ills, aback againe (alas?) How oft on Barkes of stately Pines, of Beech, of Holly-greene, Did he ingrave in mournfull lines, the griefe he did sustaine? Yet all his plaints could have no place, to change Philena's mind, The more his sorrowes did increase, the more she prov'd unkind: The thought thereof with wearied care poore Harpalus did move, That overcome with high despaire, he lost both life and love.
Finis. London, Printed by E.P. for Francis Coles in the Old-Bayley.