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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B080514.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
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<HEAD>THE Shepherds Complaint: AND THE <HI>Comforting Shepherde&s;s.</HI></HEAD>
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<LG>
<L>Poor <HI>Coron</HI> making his Complaint</L>
<L>was comforted at la&s;t;</L>
<L>But when he thought him&s;elf half dead,</L>
<L>his <HI>Silvia</HI> held him fa&s;t.</L>
</LG>
</ARGUMENT>
<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>Maggys Jealou&s;ie.</HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>OH Cupid thou now art too cruel,</L>
<L>to u&s;e a poor Lover &s;evere</L>
<L>Thou do&s;t to my flame add a fuel,</L>
<L>that co&s;ts me full many a tear:</L>
<L>Then cea&s;e to be &s;o out of rea&s;on;</L>
<L>and let me no longer complain,</L>
<L>But grant me &s;ome ea&s;e for a &s;ea&s;on,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>and ea&s;e all my &s;orrow and pain.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whil&s;t others do &s;weetly lye &s;leeping,</L>
<L>I &s;igh by my &s;elf all alone,</L>
<L>My eyes they are &s;welled with weeping,</L>
<L>no &s;orrows like mine e're was known:</L>
<L>But whil&s;t to my &s;elf I do pine,</L>
<L>I do find all my &s;orrow in vain,</L>
<L>For my love &s;he will ne'r be &s;o kind,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>as to bani&s;h my &s;orrow and pain.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ah! <HI>Silvia,</HI> be cruel no longer,</L>
<L>to him that thy beauty adores,</L>
<L>Thy Charms they grow &s;tronger &amp; &s;tronger,</L>
<L>then let thy &s;oft tears wa&s;h my &s;ores:</L>
<L>Which I for thy &s;ake have endur'd</L>
<L>though thou do&s;t my &s;ervice di&s;dain,</L>
<L>I'm certain they cannot be Cur'd,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>but I mu&s;t e'ne dye of my pain.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What profit Love is it unto thee,</L>
<L>to frown a poor Lover to death?</L>
<L>And murder the man that doth wooe thee,</L>
<L>thus &s;trangely to &s;tiffle his breath?</L>
<L>My dear I do humbly intreat thee,</L>
<L>to grant me my freedom again,</L>
<L>For certainly if thou do&s;t cheat me,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>I langui&s;h 'twixt &s;orrow and pain.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But in vain do I beg for a freedom,</L>
<L>when Cruelty locks up the door,</L>
<L>If young-men they once would but heed'um</L>
<L>they'd never love Beautys no more:</L>
<L>Then he but as kind as you are fair,</L>
<L>and we &s;hall no longer complain,</L>
<L>But now we for death mu&s;t prepare,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>and dye with extreams of our pain.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<HEAD>The Womans An&s;wer.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>What makes my dear &s;hepherd to langui&s;h</L>
<L>and &s;igh out his pittiful moan</L>
<L>I bleed at the thoughts of his angui&s;h,</L>
<L>he knows that I love him alone:</L>
<L>But yet he doth &s;eem to be jealous,</L>
<L>of &s;ome that do graze on the Plain,</L>
<L>But I think he hath very few fellows,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>and therefore i'le con&s;tant remain.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He talks of the pains he endured,</L>
<L>and &s;uffered all for my &s;ake,</L>
<L>I'm wounded and cannot be cured,</L>
<L>and my heart it is ready to break;</L>
<L>But <HI>Coron</HI> is &s;till a reviling,</L>
<L>the true&s;t that lives on the Plain,</L>
<L>No longer then I am a &s;milling,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>but he feels a terrible pain.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If I &s;hould be-always a Ki&s;&s;ing,</L>
<L>the world would my folly admire,</L>
<L>The Shepherds at us would lye hi&s;&s;ing,</L>
<L>and hinder what he doth de&s;ire:</L>
<L>But i'le in a corner imbrace him,</L>
<L>that he may no longer complain,</L>
<L>At night in my bo&s;om i'le place him,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>for to bani&s;h his &s;orrow and pain.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Was ever poor Shepherde&s;s kinder,</L>
<L>then now I do promi&s;e to be?</L>
<L>How can he then chu&s;e but mind her,</L>
<L>that loves &s;o unchangeably?</L>
<L>He cannot enjoy greater bli&s;s,</L>
<L>then with his true Love to remain,</L>
<L>That each minute will give him a ki&s;s,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>for to bani&s;h his &s;orrow and pain.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>You Lovers take pattern by me then,</L>
<L>that hath vow'd to be con&s;tant till death</L>
<L>For all Loyal Shepherds to &s;ee then,</L>
<L>that I at the lo&s;ing my breath,</L>
<L>Was free from all kind of deceit,</L>
<L>and a wavering mind did di&s;dain,</L>
<L>Now kindne&s;s I once more repeat,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>and I wa&s;te with my horrible pain.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P>Printed for <HI>J. While,</HI> at the <HI>Black Swan,</HI> at the <HI>Bridge-foot,</HI> near <HI>Southwark.</HI></P>
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