%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Constant LOVER: / OR, / Celia's Glory exprest to the Life. / A pleasant new Song (as it's sung after the Italian manner) and great in Request at / Court, and in the City. D'Urfey, Thomas 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 07/12/2021 37713

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R41942 2 To the same Tune Why Are My Eyes Still Flowing To the Same Tune Why are my Eyes still flow----------ing Why Are My Eyes Still Flowing Why Are My Eyes Still Flowing WHy are my Eyes still flow-------------ing? / why do's my Heart thus trembling move? VVHilst Strephon was bewail------------ing, / the absence of his charming fair, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 93 The Constant LOVER: / OR, / Celia's Glory exprest to the Life. / A pleasant new Song (as it's sung after the Italian manner) and great in Request at / Court, and in the City. The Constant LOVER: OR, Celia's Glory expressed to the Life. A pleasant new Song (as it's sung after the Italian manner) and great in Request at Court, and in the City. D'Urfey, Thomas ?-? J. Conyers

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WHy are my Eyes still flow-------------ing? why do's my Heart thus trembling move? Why do I sigh when go---------ing to see the Darling-Saint I love? Ah! she's my Heaven, and in my Eye Love's Dei---------ty: There is no Life like to what she can give, For any Death like taking my leave. Tell me no more of Glo---------ry, to Courts Ambition I'ave resign'd; But tell a long long sto---------ry of Celia's Face, her Shape and Mind; Spake too of Raptures that wou'd Life destroy, To en---------joy: Had I a Diadem, Scepter and Ball, For that dear minute I'd part with 'em all. For that wou'd be a Trea---------sure, beyond whate'er the World can give; A joy beyond all mea---------sure, must needs in such Endearments live:
Such tender Blessing, who too much can prize? which---------arise Beyond the reach of mortals tell And in themselves all pleasures excell. Tell her those Roses blow---------ing that in her Face create a spring, Those Lillies that are grow---------ing, at e'ery sight fresh Raptures bring; Which breathe into my heart Love's Gentle fire make me---------desire The dear enjoyment that I long to gain To which I wade even in a Sea of Pain. Yet pain's to me a Plea---------sure since 'tis for her whom I adore I'le wait till she[']s at lea---------sure her's with thy Captive heart restore I'll scorn to think I suffer when such bliss such---------happiness Aa with a Glance can banish dispair, Is still at hand my drooping soul to cheer.
As when the Sun by Beam---------ing upon the frozen Earth unbinds; Her Icey Chains she seem---------ing dead to mankind new Life soon finds, Kill'd by th[e] warmer Rays, she pregnant grows, And be---------stows, Her Plenty on the long expecting Swain, To let him see his hopes were not in vain. Go bear ye Winds, my sigh---------ing in gentle Gales to her relate; I languish, and am dy---------ing, tell her, 'tis she must stay my Fate:
Tell her, her eyes have given me a Wound, that---------uncrown'd All happiness that the world did yield, And from the Conqueror won the field. Love's harvest is exceed---------ing when his soft Fires do gently move When his Kindness is abreed---------ing in the kind hearts of those we Love: Breathe, breathe, these Fires into my Celia's brea[st] To make---------me blest, But let the gentle flame move calmly there, Calm as the thoughts of newborn Infants are.
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WHilst Strephon was bewail---------ing, the absence of his charming fair, And thou 'twas nought avail---------ing, the Beauteous Celia she drew near: All gay as new blown Roses are She did ap---------pear; And hearing from the cool Grove his moan, She in piety made this kind return. Come cease your eyes from flow---------ing, and let not my poor beauties move A shepherd that's so know---------ing in all the secret ways of Love: Ah! sigh not after me for I, No Dei---------ty Can boast, nor give the pleasure you feign, Nor make you feel a moment of Pain, Resine not then the Glo---------ry that blooming youth bids you embrace, For things more Transi---------tory to dote upon a fading Face: Great things pursue and lay Raptures by Which de---------stroy What honours building in a mighty mind, Cease then to love, to your Fame be more kind.
Where merit is command---------ing and Constancy do's bear it's part, Alass there's no withstand---------ing For why they storm the hardest heart. Long time I did a Siege sustain, But all in---------vain, For like the Winter by the Spring o'erthrown, I melt dear Strephon and am thy own. If Roses they are blow---------ing for you they're blooming in my Face, For you they there are grow---------ing For you the Lillies all take place; To please my Strephon all Conspire, To raise high---------er Love's charming Power to ravish the Mind, When to my dearest I strive to be kind. My Strephon then leave sigh---------ing to Winds no more your Passion breath; Nor speak as if ady---------ing be you but constant and still live; Live in your kindest Celia's heart let there Love de---------clare The mighty Empire you o'er her have gain'd And now a Virgins kind Heart you have chain'd.
Printed for J. Conyers at the Black Raven a little above St. Andrews Church in Holbourn.