%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The honest Maydens loyalty / OR, / The young mans faithfull constancy. / He vowes to endure the Wrack and the [?] / And suffer dearly for his true loves sake. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer 1660-1660 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 10/16/2018 36256

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R227898 1 wert thou more fairer Wert Thou More Fairer Than Thou Art Wert Thou More Fairer MOst early in a morning faire / a young man sung this solemn quire Farewel sweet heart, for I must be gone, / but ile have my love, or ile have none. [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: 34 The honest Maydens loyalty / OR, / The young mans faithfull constancy. / He vowes to endure the Wrack and the [?] / And suffer dearly for his true loves sake. The honest Maiden's loyalty OR, The young man's faithful constancy. He vows to endure the Wrack and the [?] And suffer dearly for his true love's sake. 1660-1660

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MOst early in a morning faire a young man sung this solemn quire Where his deare sweeting did use to lie, and thus lamenting he did cry, Farewel sweetheart, for I must be gone, but ile have my love, or ile have none. Set forty thousand all arow there's none can make so fair a shew, For in the Pallace of her twinkling eyes, I see how amorous Cupid flyes. As for my part I have chosen one, And ile have my love, or ile have none. No rack nor track with tortures great that shall my love entire defeat, I doe not waver like the turning wind, but bare a lovers constant mind. As for my part, etc. Then w[ho] can love so true as I, that am so sick, yet cannot dye. Her cordial kisse can my heart revive,
and make a love-sick man alive. As by experience is wel known, And ile have etc. A Lady in her high degree, her lofty mind cannot fancy me: For many are ambitious in their waies, but maydens chaste young men should praise. I wil be faithful to mine own. For ile have etc. Your City Dames with mincing feates have many tricks, and fine conceits: But my true love is vertuous, chaste, and wise, and like an Angel in my eyes. As for my etc. Into some far Country ile goe, confine myselfe to care and woe, Til fickle fortune doe please to smile, that has so loured all this while. As for my part I have chose[n] one, And ile have my love, [or] ile have none[.]