%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> An Excellent new Song, called, / NELLYS Constancy: / OR, / Her Unkind Lover. / VVho after contract of Marriage, leaves his first Mistress / for the sake of a better Fortune. 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 07/06/2021 37206

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R176865 1 To an Excellent New Tune He That Loves Best Must Suffer Most To an Excellent New Tune I Lov'd you dearly I lov'd you well, / I lov'd you dearly no tongue can tell; Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 35 An Excellent new Song, called, / NELLYS Constancy: / OR, / Her Unkind Lover. / VVho after contract of Marriage, leaves his first Mistress / for the sake of a better Fortune. An Excellent new Song, called, NELLY'S Constancy: OR, Her Unkind Lover. Who after contract of Marriage, leaves his first Mistress for the sake of a better Fortune. Printer A.M. ?-? A.M.

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I Lov'd you dearly I lov'd you well, I lov'd you dearly no tongue can tell; You love another you love not me, You care not for my company. You love another ile tell you why, Because she has more means than I; But means will waste love and means will fly, In time thou mayst have no more than I. If I had Gold Love thou shouldst have part, But as i've none love thou hast my heart; thou hast my heart and free good-will, And in good truth I love you still. How often has your tongue this told, You loved not for Silver nor Gold; And this to me you did impart, All you desired was my heart. Your tongue did so inchant my mind, Yet I forever must be kind, though you prove false yet I am true, And own I am undone by you. What makes young men be thus unkind, to gain Maids loves then change their mind, As here I find it to my grief, He's stole my heart Stop thief stop thief.
My heart you have, go where you will, And though you leave me I love you stil, But had I sums of Gold in store, You'd Court me as you did before. It is money is your chiefest Aim, All Women else would be the same, Oh what a world is't we live in, No true love can be found in men. Although you do another take, And leave your first loves heart to break, It pleases me to die for love, And do a faithful Virgin prove. Then my advice is to each maid, be careful least your hearts betray'd: believe not all Young men do say, they'll vow they'll love, yet go their way. Like my dear love that Courted me, Who's wed another, and gone to Sea, Yet I a Sailor Boys love still, And none but such shall gain my will. then call a boat, boys, unto the Ferry, For we are come, boys, for to be merry, It shall nere be said, boys, when we are dead, But the jolly Sailors are rarely bred.
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