%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Sweet Williams Answer to Amorous Bettys delight / Wherein he shews his heart and mind is true, / And he will never change her for a new, / While life doth last, most faithful will I be, / 'Cause amorous Betty is the Girl for me. Wade, John 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 09/01/2021 37519

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R186136 1 To the same Tune, Or; The Waterman's Delight [unknown] To the Same Tune, or, The Waterman's Delight OH what rare musicks this, / that doth sound in mine ear, Cause amorous Betty, none so pritty, / will my true Love be. [with variation] British Library - Bagford Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 162 2: 163 Sweet Williams Answer to Amorous Bettys delight / Wherein he shews his heart and mind is true, / And he will never change her for a new, / While life doth last, most faithful will I be, / 'Cause amorous Betty is the Girl for me. Sweet William's Answer to Amorous Betty's delight Wherein he shows his heart and mind is true, And he will never change her for a new, While life doth last, most faithful will I be, Because amorous Betty is the Girl for me. Wade, John ?-? R. Burton

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OH what rare musicks this, that doth sound in mine ear, Or what greater bliss can be to kiss my joy and only Dear: How happy now am I, the days my own I see, Cause amorous Betty, none so pritty, will my true Love be. And since that it is so, that she will be my Love, Most faithfully until I dye, and true to her will prove: Though sweet-hearts i've had store, yet i'le love none but she, Cause amorous Betty, none so pritty, is the Girl for me. There's pritty simpering Sue, and Frances at the Bell For to give them both their due,
loves me exceeding we[l]l: And Joan that lives i'th Strand, fain would my true love be. But amorous Betty, etc. And likewise smiling Kate, doth love my company, And Doll my person doth not hate, but fain would it injoy: Mary would me imbrace, yet i'le have none of she, Cause amorous Betty, etc. Also there is bonny Nell, doth love me as her Life, And lovely Nancy would me fancy if i'de make her my Wife: But I have forsook them all and for the love of thee: Cause amorous Betty, none so pretty, will my true Love be.
WHerefore my own true Love, provide to be my Wife, My mind from thee shall ne'r Remove so long as I have Life: Wild horses shall me tear e're Ile prove false to thee: Cause amorous Betty, none so pritty will my true Love be. In Summertime we'l walk to hear the sweet Birds sing; Hand in hand we two will talk, to welcome in the Spring: The sweetest flowers that grows my Dear i[']le pluck for thee: Cause amorous Betty, etc. No beauty though ne[']r so bright, shall cause me from thee to part, For thou shalt know wheree're thou go thou hast both hand and heart: And both at thy command and service shall they be: Cause amorous Betty, etc. Search the City round about, and eke the Country too; You cannot see one like to she that doth so decent go: She wears no beauty-spots, and yet she's fair you see: So amorous Betty, etc. She bares no lofty mind, as many Maidens do, She is of a nature true and kind, as all her Neigbors know: She's modest and she's chast, and yet she'l merry be, So amorous Betty, etc.
Though Hellen she was fair, and Diana she was bright, Yet none of them could compare unto my hearts delight: For flesh, blood, and for bone, there's none out-passed she; So amorous Betty, etc. Of all the Maids i'th Land, give me one that is fair: And so i'de have you understand that she's good Market-ware: Hang money what care I, it buys no Love you see: So amorous Betty, etc. Beauty out-passeth Wealth, he that gains them both is Rare, But a constant Love will ne'r Remove, nor fill thee full of care: I have gained such a one for ought that I do see, So amorous Betty, etc. And to her I as true will prove either by day or night, For she shall be my dearest Love and eke my hearts delight: My mind shall never change, but constant still i'le be: Cause amorous Betty, etc. And so farewel my dear, ten thousand times adieu, Next Holly-day I vow and swear, no longer we'l be two: Till then bear me in mind, and so I will have thee, Cause amorous Betty, none so pritty is the Girl for me.
Printed for R. Burton, at the Horse-shooe in West-smithfield.