%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Joy to the Person of my / Love. / Or, A Lovers Complaint for the unkind= / ness of his Mistriss. 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 08/17/2021 36870

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R229211 JOY to the person of my Love, / altho that she doth me disdain. Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 51 Joy to the Person of my / Love. / Or, A Lovers Complaint for the unkind= / ness of his Mistriss. Joy to the Person of my Love. Or, A Lover's Complaint for the unkindness of his Mistress. ?-?

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JOY to the person of my Love, altho that she doth me disdain. Fix'd are my Thoughts and cannot move, but yet alas! I love in vain. Shall I lose the sight Of my joy and hearts delight? Or shall I leave my suit? Shall I strive to touch? Oh no! it were too much, She is forbidden Fruit. Oh! wo is me, that ever I did see the beauty that did me bewitch; Yet ne're, alas! I must forego that face, the Treasure I esteem'd so much. O! shall I range into some Dale? or to the Mountains mourn: Sad Echo's shall resound my Tale; or whither shall I turn? Shall I buy that Love No life to me will give, But deeply wounds my heart? If I fly away, She will not cry, stay, My sorrows to convert. Oh! no, no, she will not say so, but confortless I must be gone; Yet though she be so froward unto me, I'le love her, or I will love none. O! that I might but understand the reason of her hate To him that would be at her Command, in Love, in Life, in State: Then should I no more In heart be griev'd so sore, Nor sad with Discontent; But since that I have lov'd A Maid that so has prov'd Unkind, I do repent: Something unkind hath settled in her mind that caused her to leave me so: Sweet seem to me, but half so kind to be, or let me the occasion know. A thousand Fortunes fall ever to her share although she hath rejected me, And fill'd my heart with sad despair, yet will I ever constant be For she is the Dame My Tongue shall ever name, Fair Branch of Modestie, Chast in Heart and Mind; O! were she half so kind, Then would she pity me. Sweet turn at last, be kind as thou are chast and let me in thy bosom dwell; So shall we gain, the pleasures of Loves pain; Till th[en] my dearest dear farewel.
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