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<HEAD><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> of the princely wooing of the fair Maid of London, by King Edward.</HEAD>
<OPENER>The Tune is, Bonny &s;weet Robin.</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>FAir Angel of <HI>England</HI> thy beauty mo&s;t bright,</L>
<L>Is all my hearts plea&s;ure, my joy and delight,</L>
<L>Then goant me &s;wett Lady thy true love to be,</L>
<L>That I may &s;ay welcome good fortune to me.</L>
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<LG>
<L>The Turtle &s;o cha&s;t and true in her love,</L>
<L>By gentle per&s;wa&s;ions her fancy will move,</L>
<L>Then be not intreated fair Lady in vain,</L>
<L>For nature require<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">h what I &s;hould obtain&punc;</L>
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<LG>
<L>The <HI>phoen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">x</HI> &s;o famous that liveth alone,</L>
<L>Is vowed to cha&s;tity being but o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</L>
<L>But he not my darli<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">g &s;o ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t in de&s;ire,</L>
<L>Le&s;t thou like the <HI>phoenix</HI> do&s;t penance in fire.</L>
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<LG>
<L>But alas gentle L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">dy I pi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ty thy &s;tate,</L>
<L>In being re&s;olved to live without Male,</L>
<L>For if of our coursing the plea&s;ure thou knew,</L>
<L>You would have a liking the &s;ame to en&s;ue.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Long time I have &s;ued the &s;ame to obtain,</L>
<L>Yet I am req<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">d with &s;cornful di&s;tain,</L>
<L>But if you will grant your good will unto me,</L>
<L>You &s;hall be advanced to Princely degree:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Promotions and honour may often en<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ice,</L>
<L>The cha&s;te&s;t that liveth, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">hough never &s;o nice,</L>
<L>What woman &s;o worthy but could be content</L>
<L>To live in a Pallace where Princes frequent.</L>
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<LG>
<L>To brides young and princely to church I have l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d</L>
<L>Two Ladies now lately have becked my bed,</L>
<L>Yet hath thy love taken more root in my heart,</L>
<L>Then all their contentments whereof I have part.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Your gentle heart cannot mens tears much abide,</L>
<L>And women lea&s;t angry when mo&s;t they do chide,</L>
<L>Then yield to me kindly and &s;ay that at length</L>
<L>Men do want mercy and poor women &s;trength.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I grant that fair Ladies may poor men re&s;i&s;t,</L>
<L>And Princes may conquer and Love who they li&s;t</L>
<L>A King may co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">and her to lye by his &s;ide.</L>
<L>Who&s;e feature de&s;erveth to be a Kings bride.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In granting your love you &s;hall purcha&s;e ren<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">wn,</L>
<L>your head &s;hal be deck'd with <HI>Englands</HI> fair crown</L>
<L>thy garments mo&s;t gallant of gold &s;hall be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ought,</L>
<L>If true love with trea&s;ure with th&eacute;e may be boght</L>
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<LG>
<L>Great Ladies of honour &s;hall tend on thy train,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t richly attired with Scarlet in grain,</L>
<L>My Chamber mo&s;t princely thy per&s;on shall keep,</L>
<L>Where Virgins with mu&s;ick shall r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">k th&eacute;e a&s;l&eacute;ep.</L>
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<LG>
<L>If any more plea&s;ures thy heart can invent,</L>
<L>Command them &s;weet Lady thy mind to content,</L>
<L>For Kings gallant courts where princes do dwell</L>
<L>Affords &s;uch &s;weet pa&s;time as Ladies love well.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Then be not re&s;olved to dye a true M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">id,</L>
<L>But print in thy bo&s;ome the words I have &s;aid,</L>
<L>And grant a King favour thy true love to be.</L>
<L>That I may &s;ay we<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">come &s;weet Virgin to me.</L>
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<HEAD><HI>The Fair maid of <HI>Londons</HI> an&s;wer to King <HI>Edwards</HI> wanton Love.</HI></HEAD>
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<LG>
<L>OH wanton King <HI>Edward</HI> thy labour is vain,</L>
<L>To follow the plea&s;ure thou can&s;t not attain,</L>
<L>With getting thou loo&s;e&s;t, and having do&s;t wa&s;t it,</L>
<L>the which if thou pure ha&s;t is &s;poil'd if thou ha&s;t it.</L>
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<LG>
<L>But if thou obtaine&s;t it thou nothing ha&s;t won,</L>
<L>And I loo&s;ing nothing yet quite am undone,</L>
<L>But if of that jewel a King do deceive me,</L>
<L>No<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">R can re&s;tore though a Kingdom he give me.</L>
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<LG>
<L>My colour is changed &s;ince you &s;aw me la&s;t,</L>
<L>My favour is vani&s;ht my beauty is pa&s;t,</L>
<L>The Ro&s;e red blu&s;hes that &s;at in my cheeks,</L>
<L>To palene&s;s is turned which all men di&s;likes.</L>
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<LG>
<L>I pa&s;s not what Princes for love do prote&s;t,</L>
<L>The name of a Virgin contenteth me be&s;t,</L>
<L>I have not de&s;erved to &s;leep by thy &s;ide,</L>
<L>Nor yet to be counted for King <HI>Edwards</HI> bride.</L>
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<LG>
<L>The name of a Prince&s;s I never did crave.</L>
<L>No &s;uch tipe of honour thy hand-maid will have,</L>
<L>My brea&s;t &s;hall not harbour &s;o lofty a thought,</L>
<L>Nor be with rich proffers to wantonne&s;s brought.</L>
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<LG>
<L>If wild wanton <HI>Ro&s;amond</HI> one of our &s;ort,</L>
<L>Had neved frequented <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">. <HI>Henries</HI> brave Court,</L>
<L>Such heaps of deep &s;orrow &s;he never had &s;een,</L>
<L>Nor ta&s;ted the rage of &s;o jealous a Qu&eacute;en.</L>
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<LG>
<L>All Men have their freedom to &s;how their intent,</L>
<L>They win noe a woman except &s;he con&s;ent;</L>
<L>Who then can impute to them any fault?</L>
<L>Who &s;till go upright until Men do hault.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Tis counted a kindne&s;s in men for to try,</L>
<L>And vertue in women the &s;ame to deny,</L>
<L>For women uncon&s;tant can never be prov'd</L>
<L>Until by their betters therein they be mov'd.</L>
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<LG>
<L>If women and mode&s;ty once do but &s;ever</L>
<L>Then farewel good name and credit for ever,</L>
<L>And Royal King <HI>Edward</HI> let me be exil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d,</L>
<L>Ere any Man knows my body's defil'd.</L>
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<LG>
<L>If women and mode&s;ty once do but &s;ever,</L>
<L>Too deep an <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">mpre&s;&s;ion within my heart bears,</L>
<L>Nor &s;hall his bright honour that blot <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">y me have,</L>
<L>To bring his gray hairs with grief to the grave.</L>
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<LG>
<L>The heavens forbid that when I &s;hall dye,</L>
<L>That any &s;uch &s;in upon my &s;oul &s;hould lye,</L>
<L>It I have thus kept me from doing this &s;in,</L>
<L>My heart &s;hall not yield with a Prince to begin.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Come rather with pitty and weep on my tomb,</L>
<L>Then for my birth cur&s;e my dear mothers womb,</L>
<L>That brought forth a blo&s;&s;om that &s;tained th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> tree,</L>
<L>With wanton de&s;ires to &s;hame her and me.</L>
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<L>Leave me mo&s;t noble King tempt not in vain,</L>
<L>My m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">lk-white affection with lewdne&s;s to &s;tain,</L>
<L>Though <HI>England</HI> will give me no comfort <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>Yet <HI>England</HI> will give me a &s;ad <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
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