%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The courteous Shepherdesse. / Who, though her Love so often denies, / The Northern Lad, at last, obtaines the Prize. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer 1639-1639 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 10/22/2018 36209

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S95188 2 Laddy lye neere me Lady Lie Near Me Laddy Lie Near Me To the same Tune Lady Lie Near Me To the Same Tune BLith Lad, I prethee goe, / thou wilt deceive me: NOw let us sit and heare / the feather'd Singers: Flye away, flye away, / come no more to me; / If here you longer stay, / faith you will undo me. Flie away, flie away, / come no more to me: / If here you longer stay, / faith you will undo me. [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. 2: 35 The courteous Shepherdesse. / Who, though her Love so often denies, / The Northern Lad, at last, obtaines the Prize. The courteous Shepherdess. Who, though her Love so often denies, The Northern Lad, at last, obtains the Prize. 1639-1639 F. Grove

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BLith Lad, I prethee goe, thou wilt deceive me: If long thou flatter so I shall beleeve thee. Flye away, flye away, come no more to me; If here you longer stay, faith you will undo me. Nay fie, you lye too neere, Ile not indure it: All the Art you have here, cannot procure it. Fly away, flie away, etc. Be gone, or as I live, Ile call your Mother: Here's the last kisse Ile give, nay fie, you smother. Flie away, flie away, etc. In troth you strive in vaine, tis but a folly, Twill but procure disdaine and melancholly, Flie away, flie away, come no more to me: If here you longer stay, faith you will undo me.
Harke, hark, I heare a voyce now cease to woo me, Sure tis my Fathers voyce, he's coming to me. Flie away, flie away, come no more to me: If here you longer stay, faith you will undo me. Was ever mayd perplext, thus with a Lover? I swere you'l make me vext, prethee give over. Flie away, flie away, etc. I know I am too kinde, good words may sway me; I finde a yeelding minde that will betray me. Flie away, flie away, etc. Pray keepe your vowes and oaths, I cannot heare you; If thus you spoyle my cloathes, Ile not come neere you. Flie away, flie away, come no more to me: If here you longer stay, faith you will undo me.
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NOw let us sit and heare the feather'd Singers: Faith if you come so neere, Ile pricke your fingers. Flie away, flie away, come no more to me: If here you longer stay, faith you will undo me. Indeed Ile kisse no more, why doe you pull me? You had as good give ore, you shall not gull me. Flie away, flie away. What will the world suppose, when my owne blushes Declares my Virgin Rose pluck'd from the bushes? Flie away, flie away, etc. Then prethee lets depart, I finde the building To weake, that holds my heart, I shall be yeelding. Flie away, flie away, etc. The Virgins all will cry, Oh fie upon her, [?]ld she not once deny, [?]o save her honour? Flie away, flie away, come no more to me: If here you longer stay, faith you will undo me.
And yet I doe beleeve, were they but by him, To heare him plead and grieve, they'd not deny him. Flie away, flie away, come no more to me: If here you longer stay, faith you will undo me. I doe not bid you fly, with will to hurt you: But if you stay so nigh, I feare my vertue. Fly away, flye away. I know I am so weake, should you stay [?]er, You have an Art [?]ake, would make y[?]nger. Fly away, fly away[, etc.] Then let us par[?] to quench the [?] Each wanton kis[s?] enflameth the [?] Fly away, fly away, [etc.] Aye me, that all I say cannot content you: Take love and life away, and then repent you. Never flie, never flie, now you have won me: And I will never cry, faith you have undone me.
Finis, London Printed for F. Grove, dwelling on Snow hill.