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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>The Faithful FARMER,
OR,
The Down-right VVooing betwixt
ROBIN and NANCY.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<L>When he had told her of his &s;tore,</L>
<L>&s;he could not him deny;</L>
<L>Alas, what could &s;he wi&s;h for more,</L>
<L>then Goods and Loyalty.</L>
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<OPENER>To the Tune of <HI>O Mother,</HI> Roger, &amp;c.</OPENER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="license">
<P>This may be Printed,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>R. P.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<LG>
<L>M<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ittle pritty youthful <HI>Nancy,</HI></L>
<L>prithee &s;it down by my &s;ide,</L>
<L>There is none but thee I fancy,</L>
<L>for to make my Lawful Bride:</L>
<L>I will make it well appear,</L>
<L>There's no Farmer far or near,</L>
<L>Has &s;uch dainty curious Geer,</L>
<L>Is I have for thee my Dear:</L>
<L>Then prithee <HI>Nancy</HI> be not Coy,</L>
<L>Then alone &s;halt be my joy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Give me thy Love, or el&s;e an An&s;wer,</L>
<L>thou! art &s;he whom I adore,</L>
<L>Did not you know my good old Grand&s;ir,</L>
<L>he has left me all his &s;tore:</L>
<L>Love, I do prote&s;t and vow,</L>
<L>I have got a Cart and Plow,</L>
<L>Seven Pigs, be&s;ides a Sow,</L>
<L>Deare&s;t, can you love me now?</L>
<L>Then prithee make no more ado,</L>
<L>If thou can&s;t love me tell me, true.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I have not told you half my trea&s;ure,</L>
<L>love, my portion is not &s;mall,</L>
<L>I have riches out of mea&s;ure,</L>
<L>thou &s;halt be the Dame of all:</L>
<L>There's a Coffer cram'd with Gold,</L>
<L>Be&s;ides Silver &s;till untold,</L>
<L>Al&s;o Sheep and Lambs in fold,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t delightful to behold;</L>
<L>If thou to love art now inclind,</L>
<L>I prithee let me know thy mind.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He loved me his darling <HI>Robin,</HI></L>
<L>making me his only heir,</L>
<L>Likewi&s;e left me <HI>Roan</HI> and <HI>Dobbin,</HI></L>
<L>with his little bob-tail Mare,</L>
<L>When my Graud&s;ir dy'd in peace,</L>
<L>Here he left me ten years lea&s;e,</L>
<L>With a flock of Ducks and Gee&s;e,</L>
<L>Which does daily &s;till increa&s;e,</L>
<L>And therefore now before you go,</L>
<L>If thou can&s;t love me tell me &s;o.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Be&s;ides, this is not all my Riches,</L>
<L>there's his good old Coat of Buff,</L>
<L>Mounteer Cap, and Buff-Skin Breeches</L>
<L>be&s;ides all his Hou&s;hold-&s;tuff:</L>
<L>Pot and Pans, with Piggans too,</L>
<L>All I have i'le give to you,</L>
<L>Let us make no more ado,</L>
<L>For I hau't much time to wooe:</L>
<L>And therefore now before I go,</L>
<L>If thou can&s;t love me tell me &s;o.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But <HI>Robin,</HI> wherefore &s;hould you &s;ettle,</L>
<L>love upon &s;o mean a Bride?</L>
<L>Here you talk of Corn and Cattle,</L>
<L>and of twenty things be&s;ide:</L>
<L>Therefore when your friends &s;hall know</L>
<L>That you do your &s;elf be&s;tow,</L>
<L>On a fortune mean and low,</L>
<L>They will &s;eek my overthrow,</L>
<L>Foe rather be a poor mans wife,</L>
<L>Then live a di&s;contented life.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sweet love, my Father and my Mother,</L>
<L>they to this will now agree,</L>
<L>For they &s;ay above all other,</L>
<L>thou wilt make a Wife for me:</L>
<L>Therefore deare&s;t be not coy,</L>
<L><FIGURE>
</FIGURE></L>
<L>Let me now thy love enjoy,</L>
<L>As I am an hone&s;t Boy,</L>
<L>There is none &s;hall thee annoy,</L>
<L>I'le tender thee both day and night,</L>
<L>And thou &s;halt have thy hearts delight.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I prithee <HI>Nancy</HI> don't deny me,</L>
<L>why are you &s;o mild and mute,</L>
<L>If you are re&s;olv'd to try me,</L>
<L>let us make no more di&s;pute;</L>
<L>Love though I have this E&s;tate,</L>
<L>As I freely do relate,</L>
<L>If thou wilt but be my Mate,</L>
<L>I'le for&s;ake both <HI>Jone</HI> and <HI>Kate;</HI></L>
<L>though they have Hou&s;e &amp; Land withal,</L>
<L>Yet thou art more to me then all.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Dam&s;el then that very hour,</L>
<L>her dear <HI>Robin</HI> did adore,</L>
<L>For &s;he then had not the power,</L>
<L>to deny him any more:</L>
<L>Then his <HI>Nancy</HI> he did lead</L>
<L>To his Fathers hou&s;e with &s;peed,</L>
<L>Then their Parents all agreed,</L>
<L>That they &s;hould in Love proceed:</L>
<L>Now they no more di&s;puting &s;tand,</L>
<L>Re&s;olve to Marry out of hand.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P>Printed for <HI>I Blare,</HI> at the Sign of the
<HI>Looking-Gla&s;s</HI> on <HI>London-Bridge.</HI></P>
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