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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
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<HEAD>Fancies Favourite: OR, The Mirror of the Times.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<P>Being a young Ladies commendation of a young Gallant, which hath a long time &s;hewed her much love; which by his civil carriage, and long patience in waiting on her, at la&s;t conquered her, who was once re&s;olved to lead a &s;ingle life, and therefore he termed her the <HI>Phoenix</HI> of the Times.</P>
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<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>Fancies Phoenix.</HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>COme, come, away you Maidens fair</L>
<L>this Song to you I will indite,</L>
<L>'Tis of a Young Man I'll declare.</L>
<L>who in his prai&s;e I needs mu&s;t write:</L>
<L>The City if I &s;earch about,</L>
<L>I &s;carce &s;hall find his fellow out.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>He hath been con&s;tant now to me,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The mirrour of the times is he.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I mu&s;t confe&s;s, <HI>I</HI> once did mind,</L>
<L>a &s;ingle life to live and dye;</L>
<L>But &s;uch rare parts in him <HI>I</HI> find,</L>
<L>his civil Suit <HI>I</HI> can't deny,</L>
<L>But am re&s;olved to &s;et him free,</L>
<L>And grant him love and libertie:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>So civil he hath been to me, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I once did think <HI>I</HI> never &s;hould</L>
<L>&s;o much as know what love &s;hould be,</L>
<L>Nor did <HI>I</HI> dream he ever could</L>
<L>with patience &s;o have conquered me:</L>
<L>His comely ge&s;ture <HI>I</HI> did &s;pie</L>
<L>Made me delight in's company.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>That all may &s;ay that doth him &s;ee, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Did you e'r &s;ee that glorious Star</L>
<L>that u&s;hers in the morning bright,</L>
<L>How he exceeds all other far</L>
<L>by ca&s;ting forth his &s;parkling light,</L>
<L>So all do &s;ay as much by he,</L>
<L>That e'r did keep his company.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>His carriage doth his ge&s;ture &s;how,</HI></L>
<L><HI>he is admired where-e'r he go.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He ba&s;hful is, yet bold al&s;o,</L>
<L>and &s;hews it with a gallant grace,</L>
<L>All vaporing Blades he &s;corns to know,</L>
<L>yet &s;corns he for to hide his face,</L>
<L>He'll take no wrong, nor quarrels br&eacute;ed,</L>
<L>but &s;tick to's friend in time of need:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>He's civil, yet he'll merry be, &amp;c.</HI></L>
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</LG>
<LG>
<L>If any where you &s;hould him &s;py,</L>
<L>in Maids or Womens company,</L>
<L>No wanton looks comes from his eye,</L>
<L>at any time as you e'r &s;hall &s;ee,</L>
<L>He'll court, he'll ki&s;s, he'll &s;ing or play,</L>
<L>but it &s;hall be in a mode&s;t way,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>For Men or Womens company, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<P><FIGURE>
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<LG>
<L>BVt &s;tay, my Pen doth run too fa&s;t,</L>
<L>in &s;etting forth his gallantrie,</L>
<L>For Fear <HI>I</HI> lo&s;e him at the la&s;t,</L>
<L>then cau&s;e you'll have to laugh at me,</L>
<L>When &s;ome do hear of him they may</L>
<L>per&s;uade his love from me away:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>But if they gain his love from me,</HI></L>
<L><HI>None con&s;tant then I think there be.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But his name <HI>I</HI> have not told,</L>
<L>nor will not yet, you may be &s;ure</L>
<L>Till of him <HI>I</HI> can get fa&s;ter hold,</L>
<L>there's no one here &s;hall it procure.</L>
<L>You Maidens all that hear my Song,</L>
<L>I would not have you for him long.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>But if you do, per&s;uaded be,</HI></L>
<L><HI>You may find &s;ome as good as he.</HI></L>
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</LG>
<LG>
<L>A <HI>Phoenix</HI> he hath termed me,</L>
<L>becau&s;e I thought to lie alone,</L>
<L>But if that &s;uch a Bird there be,</L>
<L>out of this Climate &s;ure &s;he's flown,</L>
<L>Our Land is cold, and therefore I,</L>
<L>re&s;olve no <HI>Phoenix</HI> for to die.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>But though I don't his Phoenix prove,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Yet I will be his Turtle Dove.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There's many maiden that doth &s;ay,</L>
<L>a &s;ingle life is be&s;t at ea&s;e,</L>
<L>How oft I peay will you &s;ay nay,</L>
<L>if once a Young man doth you plea&s;e,</L>
<L>I mu&s;t confe&s;s &s;ometimes you'll prove,</L>
<L>mo&s;t coy to him you mo&s;t do love.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>What by experience I find true,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Pray blame not me to tell it you.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let me advi&s;e you Maidens fair,</L>
<L>not to be coy, nor proud at all,</L>
<L>For tho&s;e that count them&s;elves mo&s;t rare</L>
<L>mo&s;t times doth get the greate&s;t fall:</L>
<L>You &s;eldom &s;ee a &s;cornful maid,</L>
<L>but at the la&s;t &s;he is betray'd:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Be courteous, yet be vertuous &s;till,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And let not young men have their will.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Chu&s;e not a Husband for e&s;tate,</L>
<L>unle&s;s you fancy him be&s;ide,</L>
<L>You may repent when 'tis too late,</L>
<L>'tis for a life time you are ty'd:</L>
<L>No Ranter take, if you be wi&s;e,</L>
<L>nor yet none of the new preci&s;e:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>The one will rant and &s;pend thy means,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The other clo&s;ely may love queans.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But now my Song grows to an end,</L>
<L>I mu&s;t be gone, my love doth &s;tay,</L>
<L>La&s;t night I did unto him &s;end</L>
<L>to meet me at a place to day;</L>
<L>Where we intend &s;o to agree,</L>
<L>in what Church we will Married be:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Then Phoenix like we'll live and dye</HI></L>
<L><HI>In the pure flames of Cha&s;tity.</HI></L>
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</LG>
<LG>
<L>One Love, one Faith, we do expre&s;s,</L>
<L>and therefore we one name will have,</L>
<L>Our love &s;o great is I confe&s;s,</L>
<L>we likewi&s;e do de&s;ire one grave;</L>
<L>To his de&s;ire I will incline,</L>
<L>his a&s;hes &s;hall be joyned with mine,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>So Phoenix like we mean to lie,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And Turtle like we'll live and dye.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>C. H.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London <HI>Printed for</HI></HI> F. Coles, T. Veres, J. Wright, and J. Clarke.</P>
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