EBBA 38259
Chapin Library, Williams College - Huth Ballads
| Maids Lamentation, / That lives in great distress / Her Sweet-heart hath forsaken her, / Now she lives in weariness, / She's almost spoil'd for Cure, / And makes such mighty moan / That she no longer can endure / Herself to lie alone, / But wisheth for a Man / To ease her of her Woe: / Her Maidenhead does trouble her, / That She's not able for to go. | ||
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| Date Published | 1680? | |
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| Imprint | Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in Pye-Corner. | |
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| Collection | Chapin Library, Williams College - Huth Ballads | |
| Location | Chapin Library, Williams College | |
| Shelfmark | Ballads | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | Maids Lamentation, / That lives in great distress / Her Sweet-heart hath forsaken her, / Now she lives in weariness, / She's almost spoil'd for Cure, / And makes such mighty moan / That she no longer can endure / Herself to lie alone, / But wisheth for a Man / To ease her of her Woe: / Her Maidenhead does trouble her, / That She's not able for to go. | The second Part |
| Tune Imprint | The Tune is, The Lass that comes to Bed to / me, Or, Sawney is gone. | to the same Tune. |
| First Lines | MY Love is gone alack a day. / and he heath left me all a alone, | FOr I am pained very sore / it brings upon me very Strife, |
| Refrain | It lyes a little above my Knee, / im'e so tormented I cannot go. [with variation] | That I might have ease above my knee, / I scarce am able for to go. [with variation] |
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