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R227873 2 To a pleasant new Tune [unknown] To a Pleasant New Tune to the same tune [unknown] To the Same Tune YOu young Maids that would live (chary / And live single and not marry, YOung=men they be much blinded. / Onely to know a Maidens mind, For the Maid is the best that lies alone. [with variation] The Maid is the best that lies alone. [with variation] 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: 20 The Maids Chastity that is troubled in mind, / Against Young-mens unconstancy, who proveth unkind: / She gives warning to all Maidens that are in the Row, / To take heed of false young men wheresoere they goe, The Maid's Chastity that is troubled in mind, Against Young men's inconstancy, who proveth unkind: She gives warning to all Maidens that are in the Row, To take heed of false young men wheresoever they go, 1650-1650 Richard Burton

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YOu young Maids that would live chary And live single and not marry, Nor contract yourselves to none, For the Maid is the best that lies alone. Cupid, Cupid, thou hast done me wrong I have been thy servant now too long. My heart was never free from care, Since I was intangled in thy snare. In thy snare I have been fettered, And often have my businesse letted, In following after Venus train, But the Maid is the best that lies alone. Young-men they will cog and lye, Maidens they may weep and cry, Truth and Conscience they use none, But the Maid is the best that lies alone.
In this Breast a heart I bear, It's none of mine, I wish it were, Once it was mine, if I could but a kept it, But now where it is, it's not respected. Now I hope to have my heart again, And keep it fast from Venus Chain, Lock it in this Breast of my own, But the Maid is the best that lies alone. When I have gain'd it safe again, Then I am free from all Young-men, And never like to make this moan, But live a single Maid alone. Love is a torment, who can abide it, who better knows than them that has try'd it I count her a mad Woman shill, That seeks for to humour a young-mans will.
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YOung-men they be much blinded. Onely to know a Maidens mind, Maidens do not believe them if they swear, Lest after they leave you in a snare. But try their hearts and if you can, Before that you love any Man, Love it is fond and fickle still. Then do not humour a young-mans will. If a Lover be humoured in his condition, Then he pleads with a strong Commission, To get his intention if he can, The Maid is the best that lies alone. For in lying alone there's no harm taken. And being of an unconstant Love forsaken. Is better than Gold and Silver store, If that she do never see him more. A Maid that lives in an honest carriage, Must be careful in her Marriage, Young-men are so deceitful grown; The Maid is the best that lies alone.
True Lovers knot may soon be tyed. And a Maid too soon may be made a Brid, That's not all in the conclusion shown, But the Maid is the best that lies alone. There is many things for to consider. If a Man and a Woman goe together: If Love be wanting between them twain, She had better still to lie alone. When they come to a Maid a wooing. They mak no conscience of their doing, But use all the deceit that ever they can, But the Maid is the best that lies alone. There is false young-men in my mind, Some proves crosse, and some proves kind, I will not condemn them all for one, The Maids are best that lies alone. Now I would have you consider my song, I write to Maids ile do them no wrong And still I do tell them every one, The Maid is the best that lies alone.
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