%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE / Complaining Shepherdess / Satisfied at last: / OR, / Love lost and found again, / Being a most pleasant New Play=Song. / Phillis mourning long, at last does find / A Lover far more then her former kind, / Who to her dear Embraces is assign'd, / Which unto Virgins may a Maxim be, / Not to lament tedious Virginity, / For if one fails the next more kind and free. 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 07/11/2021 37503

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R232920 1 Ah! Jenny Gin, &c. Jenny Gin Ah! Jenny Gin, etc. ONe Summers night when all alone / I wandred o're the Plain, British Library - Bagford Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 148 2: 149 THE / Complaining Shepherdess / Satisfied at last: / OR, / Love lost and found again, / Being a most pleasant New Play=Song. / Phillis mourning long, at last does find / A Lover far more then her former kind, / Who to her dear Embraces is assign'd, / Which unto Virgins may a Maxim be, / Not to lament tedious Virginity, / For if one fails the next more kind and free. THE Complaining Shepherdess Satisfied at last: OR, Love lost and found again, Being a most pleasant New Play Song. Phyllis mourning long, at last does find A Lover far more than her former kind, Who to her dear Embraces is assigned, Which unto Virgins may a Maxim be, Not to lament tedious Virginity, For if one fails the next more kind and free. ?-? I. VVright, I. Clarke, VV. Thackeray and T. Passenger

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ONe Summers night when all alone I wandred o're the Plain, I heard a Nymph that made sad moan for loss of her dear Swain: Alas! she cry'd, my Strephons gone, what must poor Phillis do, When sadly thus she's left forlorn, her harder Fate to rue? How oft he swore he wou'd be kind, and constant to his Love, But now like to the flying wind, his deepest vows do prove: For he alas! is fled and gone, with one he loves more dear, Then why should I poor Phillis mourn, and keep such heavy chear?
Whilst he does Revel with his Joy, whom more then me he loves, Whilst they rejoyce shall I destroy myself 'cause false he proves? No, no, I now have griev'd so long, too long I sad have been, But he forsworn wretch did me wrong, yet pardon Gods his sin. I envy her no happiness who has him in her arms, Yet let her look to it, unless at last he slights her Charms: For he's unconstant as the wind, or wandering Clouds that flye, To any Nymph can prove unkind, and let her sigh and dye.
What if he be a comely Youth, there's falshood in him still, And hence I will be kind and true if I may have my will: Be he ne'r so mean a Swain, that feeds his blating Sheep, In the Woods or flowery Plain, that man my heart shall keep. If he an honest meaning have, and constant still will prove, For I too long have been a slave, to one that could not love: Farewel my falsest Damon now, I throw thee from my breast, No more of grief for thee allow, but take my quiet rest. And wish all Maidens to beware, how they too smooth tongues trust, Who to break vows do never fear, and prove but seldom just: But to a down-right honest Swain, rather incline their mind, Who being lov'd can love again, and evermore prove kind.
These words she hardly did express, but Hylas he came by, And on the pritty Shepherdess, he cast an amorous eye: And little Cupid at with his Bow, was ready at that time, Who straight a Golden Shaft let go, which caus'd loves flames to climb. And fir'd the homely Shepherds breast he could no farther move, Till he himself to her addrest, and told her of his Love: Which the faint Nymph at first deny'd, yet longing to be Wed, Alas! can you prove true, she cry'd, if you enjoy my Bed. Fear not that my lovely Maid, the Swain did then reply If that my Love with Love be paid, you'l find my constancy: I'le trust thee once, kind Swain, she said let us to love proceed, And whilst they tript it o're the plain, I could their Wishes read.
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