%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Unkind Parents: / OR, / The Languishing Lamentation of two Loyal Lovers. 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 07/05/2021 36732

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R227522 NOw fare thou well my Dearest Dear, / and fare thou well a while, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 9 The Unkind Parents: / OR, / The Languishing Lamentation of two Loyal Lovers. The Unkind Parents: OR, The Languishing Lamentation of two Loyal Lovers. ?-? C. Bates

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(1.) NOw fare thou well my Dearest Dear, and fare thou well a while, Altho' I go, I'll come again; if I go ten thousand mile, Dear Love, if I go ten thousand mile. (2.) Ten thousand miles is far, dear Love, for you to come to me, Yet I could go full ten times more, to have thy company, dear Love, to have thy, etc. (3.) Thou art my Joy and chief delight, Love, leave me not behind, If from my presence you take flight, then are you most unkind, dear Love, then are, etc. (4.) I cannot be unkind, my Dear, my heart is link'd to thee; But while on Shore I tarry here, thy Friends does frown on me, dear Love, thy Friends, etc. (5.) For they in Riches so abound, that I am held in scorn; This gives my heart a fatal wound, which makes my life forlorn, dear Love, which makes, etc. (6.) O cruel Parents, most unkind, the cause of all my woe; This parting to my grief I find, will prove my overthrow, dear Love, will prove, etc. (7.) If thou dost cross the roaring Seas, into a Forreign Land, My heart will never be at ease, destruction is at hand, dear Love, destruction, etc. (8.) O say not so, let patience guide thy heart, and don't complain; For tho' I cross the Ocean wide, I may return again, dear Love, I may, etc.
(9.) Thy Parents that are so unkind, who does our peace annoy, May then be of another mind, and Crown our days with Joy, dear Love and Crown, etc. (10.) Maid.) If thou shouldst languish in distress in Forreign parts alone; Thy grief in Tears thou might'st express, and I not hear thy moan, dear Love and I, etc. (11.) If solemnly you do ingage to range perpetually, I will in habit of a Page, go through the world with thee, dear Love, go through, etc. (12.) Ah! say not so my Charming Fair; for why sweet Saint behold, Thy tender nature cannot bear the melting heat and cold, dear Love, the melting, etc. (13.) Altho' I may in Deserts range, my heart is linked fast; Therefore my mind shall never change, so long as life does last, dear Love, so long, etc. (14.) Mountains and Rocks on wings shall fly, and roaring Billows burn. E're I will act Disloyalty; then wait for my return, dear Love, then wait, etc. (15.) Love, might I have a Lord or Earl, the chief Nobility, Who would deck me with Orient Pearl, I'd slight them all for thee, dear Love, I'd slight, etc. (16.) And even as the Turtle Dove sits Cooing on a Tree, For the return of her true Love, so will I wait for thee, dear Love, so will I wait for thee.
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