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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<HEAD>The loving Lad, and the Coy <HI>La&s;s.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>Being a plea&s;ant and witty Di&s;cour&s;e between a young Man and a Maid.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>To a plea&s;ant New Tune.</OPENER>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Man.</SPEAKER>
<L>ALl haile thou bright and bonny La&s;s,</L>
<L>my joy and onely &s;weeting,</L>
<L>Good Fortune now hath brought to pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>that we &s;hould have a meeting.</L>
</SP>
<LG>
<L>That &s;o I might behold thy face</L>
<L>and &s;peak my mind unto thee,</L>
<L>And &s;ince here is a fitting place,</L>
<L>I do intend to wooe thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For I long time have lov'd the well,</L>
<L>but yet I ne, re did &s;how it,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e indeed the truth to tell,</L>
<L>I dur&s;t not let thee know it.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For fear thou &s;hould&s;t my love di&s;dain,</L>
<L>and &s;o in coyne&s;s &s;hun me,</L>
<L>And not my per&s;on entertain,</L>
<L>which would have quite undone me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But now I have more courage gain'd</L>
<L>and am re&s;olvd to try thee,</L>
<L>For my affection is unfeign'd</L>
<L>how can&s;t thou then deny me.</L>
</LG>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Maid</SPEAKER>
<L>I prethee <HI>Will</HI> be &s;oft and &s;weet,</L>
<L>methinks you are too ha&s;ty,</L>
<L>O talk no more of wooing yet</L>
<L>for fear your Ma&s;ter ba&s;te ye.</L>
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<LG>
<L>You are as yet a Prentice <HI>Will.</HI></L>
<L>then leave &s;uch fond adventures,</L>
<L>And think not of a wife untill,</L>
<L>y'ave &s;erv'd out your indentures.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For why I think there's no time lo&s;t,</L>
<L>but you may longer tarry</L>
<L>Your age is twenty years at mo&s;t,</L>
<L>a little to young to marry.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then take my councel if you plea&s;e,</L>
<L>and re&s;t a while contented,</L>
<L>Forbear &s;uch ra&s;h attempts as the&s;e,</L>
<L>which oft times are repented,</L>
</LG>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Man.</SPEAKER>
<L>Indeed I wi&s;h I able were,</L>
<L>to follow your direction,</L>
<L>But little do&s;t thou know my Dear.</L>
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<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The Second part,</HEAD>
<OPENER>to the &s;ame Tune.</OPENER>
<LG>
<L>For where true love the heart doh &s;way</L>
<L>in any Loyal Lover</L>
<L>He cannot brook one weeks delay,</L>
<L>but mu&s;t his mind di&s;cover.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Love burns &s;o hot within my brea&s;t</L>
<L>that if I &s;hould conceal it,</L>
<L>Be&s;ure 'twould never let me re&s;t,</L>
<L>until; I did reveal it,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Therefore &s;weet loving Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e <HI>Jane,</HI></L>
<L>con&s;ider my condition,</L>
<L>My heart with love is almo&s;t &s;lain,</L>
<L>O! prove a kind Phy&s;itian.</L>
</LG>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Maid.</SPEAKER>
<L>Fye, fye, thou art a flattering youth,</L>
<L>I do not like thy carriage,</L>
<L>Leave off &s;uch toys for in good truth,</L>
<L>they will thee quite di&s;parage.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Think it not &s;trange that I am coy,</L>
<L>or that I have deny'd thee.</L>
<L>I never will affect a Boy,</L>
<L>what ever doth betide me,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Herein I do thee not di&s;grace,</L>
<L>but &s;peak as doth behove me</L>
<L>For thou never had&s;t a Manlike face,</L>
<L>therefore I cannot love thee.</L>
</LG>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Man.</SPEAKER>
<L>Oh my Dear that's a killing word,</L>
<L>I preth&eacute;e henceforth forbear it,</L>
<L>And let thy &s;weet lips &s;ome comfort afford</L>
<L>&s;peak kindly that I may hear it.</L>
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<LG>
<L>I Prize thee more than Gold or Pearl,</L>
<L>thou art my onely Iewel,</L>
<L>Then prethee do not frown my Girle,</L>
<L>why thould&s;t thou be &s;o cruel.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It thou contimte&s;t to deny,</L>
<L>and thus in &s;corn to &s;light me,</L>
<L>Then &s;urely I for love mu&s;t dye,</L>
<L>Oh! do not &s;o requite me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But if thoul't grant me love at la&s;t,</L>
<L>and yield thy &s;elf unto me,</L>
<L>My grief and &s;orrows which are pa&s;t,</L>
<L>no harme at all can do me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For in thy love I &s;hall rejoyce</L>
<L>even as, it will behove me,</L>
<L>And thou &s;halt find (my onely choice)</L>
<L>how dearly I do love thee.</L>
</LG>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Maid</SPEAKER>
<L>It that indeed your words be true,</L>
<L>and you do &s;o affect me,</L>
<L>Grant this reque&s;t and that will &s;hew,</L>
<L>how much you do re&s;pect me,</L>
</SP>
<LG>
<L>Live for my &s;ake a &s;ingle life,</L>
<L>untill &s;even years be ended,</L>
<L>And then for to become your wife,</L>
<L>I fully am intended.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But if the &s;ame you do refu&s;e,</L>
<L>great cau&s;e I have to &s;u&s;pect you,</L>
<L>Another mate you may go chu&s;e,</L>
<L>for I will never affect you.</L>
</LG>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Man</SPEAKER>
<L>My Dear that is a difficult talk,</L>
<L>and yet I tell the truly,</L>
<L>Since thou art plea&s;;d the &s;ame to a&s;k</L>
<L>I will perform it duely,</L>
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<LG>
<L>Full &s;even years &s;pace for thy &s;weet &s;ake</L>
<L>a Batchelor I'le tarry,</L>
<L>And el&s;e all other Maids for&s;ake</L>
<L>with my True-love marry.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now give me leave to ki&s;&s;e thy hand,,</L>
</LG>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Maid</SPEAKER>
<L>my leave is quickly gained,</L>
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<SPEAKER>Man.</SPEAKER>
<L>The &s;weete&s;t Damo&s;el in the Land,</L>
<L>at la&s;t I have obtained.</L>
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