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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>The Faithful Shepherde&s;s.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<P>Relating how a young Maid by her con&s;tant love, turned the heart of a faithful Lover: who &s;ee|ing
the truth of her affections, after a tedious ab&s;ence, came and married her, and liv'd very hap|pily
with her.</P>
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<OPENER>To a very new Tune: or, <HI>Farewel fair <HI>Armeda:</HI> or, Captain Digby's Farewel.</HI></OPENER>
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<L><HI>AMintas</HI> was walking one evening alone</L>
<L>I heard a fair Shepherde&s;s making her mean</L>
<L>In &s;ighs &s;he lamented again and again</L>
<L><HI>Amintas</HI> would kill her by too much di&s;dain,</L>
<L>O cruel hard hearted <HI>Amintas</HI> &s;he cry'd</L>
<L>To &s;light my true love and reward it with pride,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Per&s;i&s;t in your hatred and &s;till be unkind</HI></L>
<L><HI>My heart you may break, but not alter my mind.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Remember the Vows that you &s;olemnly made,</L>
<L>And likewi&s;e remember how I was afraid,</L>
<L>You ne'r can forget it how oft you were told</L>
<L>Your love was too hot it would quickly grow cold</L>
<L>But &s;till you prote&s;ted you d ever be true</L>
<L>And yet &s;o unkindly have bid me adieu,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Per&s;i&s;t, &amp;c.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Be witne&s;s for <HI>Celia</HI> you powers above</L>
<L>I ever am con&s;tant and &s;o is my love,</L>
<L>Since fir&s;t to <HI>Amintas</HI> I plighted my truth</L>
<L>I never have broken my Vow nor my Oath,</L>
<L>Though you are unkind to an innocent maid</L>
<L>Have per&s;ur'd your &s;elf and my love have betraid,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Per&s;i&s;t, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet grant, O ye powers that long he may live,</L>
<L>And repent of the injuries I do forgive,</L>
<L>'Tis all I reque&s;t that at length he may know</L>
<L>I always am con&s;tant though he be not &s;o,</L>
<L>Perhaps he will then be a&s;ham'd of his pride</L>
<L>And pitty a maid whom he now doee deride,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>But if he per&s;i&s;t and &s;till be unkind</HI></L>
<L><HI>My heart he may break, but not alter my mind,</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>AMintas</HI> who under a Sick-a-more &s;taid</L>
<L>Heard every word that his Shepherde&s;s &s;aid,</L>
<L>And &s;trait fell a weeping his &s;orrow was &s;uch</L>
<L>To think he had wrong'd her that lov'd him &s;o much</L>
<L>He pre&s;ently ran and imbracing her fa&s;t,</L>
<L>Cry'd Deare&s;t forgive me for all that is pa&s;t:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>But break not your heart I am not unkind,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Your &s;ong you may alter, but never your mind.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This &s;trook her with wonder, as well as with fear,</L>
<L>She little expected <HI>Amintas</HI> &s;o near,</L>
<L>But &s;tarting at fir&s;t, and then blu&s;hing a while,</L>
<L>At la&s;t &s;he di&s;covered her joy in a &s;mile:</L>
<L>fie &s;hepherd &s;he cry'd you have done me the wrong</L>
<L>To &s;light me &s;o much, and be ab&s;ent &s;o long;</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Yet if you re&s;olve you will ever be kind,</HI></L>
<L><HI>My &s;ong I will alter, but never my mind.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I cannot repeat all the Vows of the Swain,</L>
<L>How joyful he was for to &s;ee her again,</L>
<L>By many new thought on excu&s;es he &s;trove</L>
<L>To hide all his errors and breaches of Love:</L>
<L>But &s;he in a frown cry'd <HI>Amintas</HI> for &s;hame,</L>
<L>Excu&s;e not your &s;elf, ou are too much to blame:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Yet, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Shepherd repeated his vows all anew,</L>
<L>And &s;wore by his troth he would ever be true,</L>
<L>And &s;ince &s;he forgave him for what was ami&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>He beg'd her to &s;eal his relea&s;e with a ki&s;s:</L>
<L>She kindly con&s;ented to this his reque&s;t,</L>
<L>And then to each other their love they confe&s;t;</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>For now they are fully agreed to be kind,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Their Love they did alter, but never their mind,</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The gr&eacute;eting betw&eacute;en them no tongue can expre&s;s</L>
<L>Their joy did increa&s;e as their &s;orrow grew le&s;s,</L>
<L>And oh the next morning to end all the &s;trife,</L>
<L>They went to the Par&s;on who made her his wife;</L>
<L>And there to each other their faith they did give,</L>
<L>To be con&s;tant as long as ever they &s;hould live:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>For, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus you may perceive how y^e young-man at la&s;t,</L>
<L>Did make her amends for his &s;aults that were pa&s;t&punc;</L>
<L>You young men that hear me, you all are to blame</L>
<L>If you are thus guilty, and do not the &s;ame:</L>
<L>If there be a Virgin that you betraid,</L>
<L>Go now and fulfil all the vowe you made&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>For if you repent and will ever be kind,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Your &s;ong you may alter as well as your mind.</HI></L>
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<P>Printed for <HI>Phillip Brooksby,</HI> next door to the ball in <HI>W<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t-&s;mithfield.</HI></P>
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