%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Joys of Vertuous Love: / Or, An Invitation to the / Happy State of Marriage. / A Pleasant New SONG, much in Request. 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 05/19/2021 37752

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JOy to the Bridegroom, fill the Sky With pleasing sounds of welcome Joy: Joy to the Bride, may lasting Bliss, And every Day prove like to this. Joy to the Bride may lasting bliss, And every day prove like to this. Never were Marriage Joys Divine, But where two constant Hearts combine, He that proves false, himself does cheat.
Like Sick-Men taste, but cannot eat. He that proves false, himself does cheat, Like Sick-men taste, but cannot eat. True Love on Vertue fix'd, is that Which must give Love a lasting State, 'Tis happy Marriage makes us blest, In that all Earthly joy's possest. happy Marriage makes us blest, In that all Earthly Joy's possest.
Than that blest state, theres nothing can More soon accomplish happy Man, Who 'midst a thousand transports may Then pass the flying hours away. Who midst a thousand transports, may Then pass the flying hours away: Who then wou'd so unhappy prove, As not to seek for chastest love? Which far exceeds all we can tell, And to the heighth our joys does swell. Which far exceeds all we can tell, And to the heighth our Joys does swell: Let not fond fear, nor blushes, fright Lovers, though young, from such delight, But early let them seek their bliss, In the soft Arms of Loves excess. But early let them seek their Bliss, In the soft Arms of Loves Excess: There tender joys they still will find, Where each to Vertue is inclin'd, And in a thousand pleasures try, What 'tis in Love to live and dye. And in a thousand pleasures try, What 'tis in Love to Live and Dye:
What pitty 'tis to sigh and moan, What cruel Fate to lye alone? When those Joys they may be had, That upon Earth can make us glad. When those Joys they may be had, That upon Earth can make us glad: What is a Maiden-head? ah! what? Of which weak Fools so often prate? 'Tis the young Virgins pride and boast, Yet ne[']r was found but when 'twas lost. the young Virgins Pride and Boast, Yet ne'r was found but when 'twas lost: Fill me a Glass then to the brink, And it's Confusion here I'le Drink, And he that baulks the Health I nam'd, May he dye young, and then be blam'd. And he that Baulks the Health I nam'd May he dye young, and then be blam'd
FINIS. Printed for C. Dennisson at the Stationers-Armes within Aldgate.