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<HEAD>The Vermous MAID's RESOLUTION: OR, The two Hone&s;t LOVERS.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<L>Showing what Uncon&s;tant Men there be,</L>
<L>That oft Deceit and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">la<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">tery</L>
<L>They'll cog, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;&s;emble, &s;wear and lye,</L>
<L>A Harmle&s;s MAIDEN's Life to try;</L>
<L>To all &s;uch Lovers &s;he'll be coy</L>
<L>And &s;ays. <HI>My Freedom's all my Joy.</HI></L>
</ARGUMENT>
<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>I am a poor and harmle&s;s Maid,</HI> &amp;c.</OPENER>
<P><FIGURE>
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<LG>
<L>In a melancholy pa&s;&s;ion I</L>
<L>was walking <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;ide,</L>
<L>A gallant Dam&s;el I did &s;ay,</L>
<L>a lute the ha lay by her &s;ide,</L>
<L>Which up &s;he took and did &s;ing and play,</L>
<L>That in her freedom was all her joy,</L>
<L>O in my freedom's all my joy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I &s;tept a&s;ide becau&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> hear</L>
<L>the full conclu&s;ion of her Song</L>
<L>Her mu&s;ick <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> mine ear.</L>
<L>as on the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> I lay along,</L>
<L>Then did &s;he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> play.</L>
<L>O in my freedom's all my joy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I am <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> and harmle&s;s Maid</L>
<L>and &s;ome are pleas'd to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> me fair,</L>
<L>There's <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Man yet hath ambu&s;h laid,</L>
<L>to catch me, but I break the &s;ame:</L>
<L>What though they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">unt <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">oy,</L>
<L>Yet in my freedom's all my joy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> young Men have alluring words.</L>
<L>poor al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Maidens to betray,</L>
<L>Such complements they can afford,</L>
<L>that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> can hardly &s;ay them nay:</L>
<L>But <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> them <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> me and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>O in my freedom's all my joy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With oathe and prote&s;tations great,</L>
<L>&s;ometimes they &s;eek to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">,</L>
<L>When all the while their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span">,</L>
<L>for to obtain their wanton will:</L>
<L>And &s;eek their utmo&s;t to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>Our utmo&s;t all and our chiefe&s;t joy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With amorous words and &s;peeches fair,</L>
<L>they'll promi&s;e that they ne'r will do,</L>
<L>But of &s;uch <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">oun <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>for fear I afterwards</L>
<L>What though <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> and coy</L>
<L>Yet in my freedom's all my joy,</L>
<L>Yet in my freedom's all my joy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Alluring baits al&s;o they have,</L>
<L>as &s;ilver bodkins, gloves, and rings,</L>
<L>Wich girdles, features, and jewels brave,</L>
<L>and many other co&s;tly things:</L>
<L>But tho&s;e &s;ilver hooks &s;hall ne'r de&s;tro</L>
<L>For in my freedom's all my joy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What&s;oever they give, talk, or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">an,</L>
<L>I'll ne'r believe them e'er the more,</L>
<L>The&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">hing words &s;hall not me betray</L>
<L>I'll &s;tand to what I &s;aid before,</L>
<L>Although they count me nice and coy, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet I could quickly be in love,</L>
<L>if I an hone&s;t Man could find,</L>
<L>That would once true  and con&s;tant prove</L>
<L>and not be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> live the wind;</L>
<L>A little time I will be coy, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Here in this &s;econd Part you'l find,</L>
<L>a Husband plea&s;ing to her mind;</L>
<L>This <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Maid hath one obtain'd,</L>
<L>though long, at la&s;t her love was gain'd,</L>
<L>She faith her <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> obey,</L>
<L>And in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> love &s;hall be her joy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And thus &s;he did conclude her Song,</L>
<L>which having done, I up did ri&s;e,</L>
<L>My heart was &s;truck with love &s;o &s;trong,</L>
<L>her beauty dazled doth mine eyes,</L>
<L>My freedom then &s;hould de&s;troy,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> her love was all my joy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When &s;he e&s;py'd me where I was,</L>
<L>&s;he ro&s;e and would no longer &s;tay,</L>
<L>I &s;rept unto then, becau&s;e</L>
<L>my heart &s;he bore with her away:</L>
<L>Fair Maid, &s;aid I, do not de&s;troy</L>
<L>My freedom, and my th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">efe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> joy,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She blu&s;hing then, to me did &s;ay,</L>
<L>I do <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> no company.</L>
<L>Fair Maid, &s;aid I, O &s;ay not nay,</L>
<L>to him that means no <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">:</L>
<L>You have my heart, O be not coy,</L>
<L>In you is all my earthly joy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sweet heart, &s;aid I, few words I u&s;e,</L>
<L>but what I &s;peak is from my heart</L>
<L>I &s;corn your vertue to abu&s;e,</L>
<L>then grant me love e'er I depart:</L>
<L>Your freedom <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> not de&s;troy,</L>
<L>For in your love is all my joy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>with that &s;he took me by the hand,</L>
<L>and led me <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> by the river &s;ide,</L>
<L>If that you <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span">,</L>
<L>quoth &s;he, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> I'll be your Bride.</L>
<L>Then <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> did &s;ing and play,</L>
<L>Be con&s;tant, and all be the joy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I then made bold to crave a ki&s;s,</L>
<L>which mode&s;tly &s;he to me gave.</L>
<L>I took it for a heavenly bli&s;s,</L>
<L>her comely <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ure was &s;o brave:</L>
<L>I thought it long to &s;ee the day,</L>
<L>Wherein I might my Love enjoy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But to conclude, we married were.</L>
<L>I have obtain'd a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> Wife,</L>
<L>And at the la&s;t I <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>what the to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> at <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> coy,</L>
<L>She calls me now her <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> joy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Young Men and Maids where e'er you be,</L>
<L>that hear this song, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> you <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>A Pattern by our civility</L>
<L>then Love is true, you may di&s;cern,</L>
<L>For them that &s;eek for to de&s;troy</L>
<L>Your freedom, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Vertue beyond all <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Only for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>for <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>A vertuous <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>Your freedom, but will be your joy.</L>
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<P><HI><HI>LONDON</HI>: Printed by and for <HI>W. O.</HI> for <HI>A. M.</HI> and are &s;old by <HI>J. D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="5 letters"></HI></HI></P>
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