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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
<PB N="468" REF="1" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 16 -->
<HEAD>THE <HI>True Lovers Knot Vntied,</HI></HEAD>
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<P>Being the right PATH whereby to advi&s;e Princely Vergins how to Behave them&s;elves, by the Example of the Renowned Prince&s;s, the Lady <HI>ARABELLA,</HI> and the Second SON of the Lord <HI><UNCLEAR>Seymovr</UNCLEAR>,</HI> late Earl of <HI>Hartford.</HI></P>
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<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>Frogs Galliard &amp;c.</HI></OPENER>
<P>Licen&s;ed and Entered according to Order.</P>
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<LG>
<L>AS I to <HI>Ireland</HI> did pa&s;s,</L>
<L>I &s;aw a Ship at anchor lay,</L>
<L>Another Ship likewi&s;e there was</L>
<L>which from fair <HI>England</HI> took her way,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This Ship that &s;ail'd from fair <HI>England,</HI></L>
<L>unknown unto our gracious King,</L>
<L>The Lord Chief Iu&s;tice did command,</L>
<L>that they to <HI>London</HI> &s;hould her bring.</L>
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<LG>
<L>I draw more near and &s;aw more plain,</L>
<L>Lady <HI>Arabella</HI> in di&s;tre&s;s,</L>
<L>She wrung her hands and wept amain,</L>
<L>bewailing of her heavine&s;s.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When near fair <HI>London</HI> tower &s;he came.</L>
<L>whereas her landing place &s;hould be,</L>
<L>The King &amp; Queen with all their train</L>
<L>did meet this Lady gallantly:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>How now <HI>Arabella,</HI> &s;aid our King,</L>
<L>unto this Lady &s;traight did &s;ay,</L>
<L>Who hath fir&s;t ty'd ye to this thing,</L>
<L>that you from <HI>England</HI> took your way,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>None but my &s;elf, my gracious lieg,</L>
<L>the&s;e ten long years I've been in love.</L>
<L>With the lord <HI>Seymor's</HI> &s;econd &s;on,</L>
<L>the Earl of <HI>Hartford</HI> &s;o we prove.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="469" REF="1"><!-- PDF PAGE 16 -->
<L>Though he be not the mightie&s;t Man</L>
<L>of goods and livings in the land,</L>
<L>Yet I have lands us maintain,</L>
<L>&s;o much your grace doth under&s;tand:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My lands and livings are well known</L>
<L>unto your books of Maje&s;ty,</L>
<L>Amounts to twelve &s;core pound a week,</L>
<L>be&s;ides what I do give, quoth &s;he.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In Gallant <HI>Darby-&s;hire</HI> likewi&s;e,</L>
<L>I nine &s;core bead&s;men maintain there,</L>
<L>With Hats and Gowns, and Hou&s;e-rent free,</L>
<L>and every man five marks a year.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I never rai&s;ed Rent, &s;aid &s;he,</L>
<L>nor yet oppre&s;t the Tennant poor,</L>
<L>I never took no bribes for <UNCLEAR>fines</UNCLEAR>,</L>
<L>for why, I had enough before.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whom of your Nobles will do &s;o,</L>
<L>for to maintain the Community?</L>
<L>Such multitudes would never grow,</L>
<L>nor be &s;uch &s;tore of Poverty.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I would I had a Milk-maid been,</L>
<L>or born of &s;ome more low Degree,</L>
<L>Then I might have loved where I like,</L>
<L>and no man could have hindred me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Or would I were &s;ome yeoman's Child,</L>
<L>for to Receive my portion now,</L>
<L>According unto my Degree,</L>
<L>as other Virgins as I know.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The highe&s;t branch that &s;oars aloft,</L>
<L>needs mu&s;t be&s;hade the Mirtle-tree,</L>
<L>Needs mu&s;t the &s;haddow of them both,</L>
<L>&s;haddow the third in his degree.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But when the tree is cut and gone,</L>
<L>and from the ground is bore away,</L>
<L>The lowe&s;t tree that there doth &s;tand,</L>
<L>in time may grow as high as they.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Once when I thought to have been Queen,</L>
<L>but yet that &s;till I do deny,</L>
<L>I knew your grace had right to th' crown,</L>
<L>before <HI>Elizabeth</HI> did dye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>you of the elde&s;t Si&s;ter came,</L>
<L>I of the &s;econd in degree,</L>
<L>The Earl of <HI>Hartford</HI> of the third,</L>
<L>a man of Royal blood was he.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And &s;o good-night, my Soveraign Leige,</L>
<L>&s;ince in the tower I mu&s;t lye,</L>
<L>I hope your grace will conde&s;cend,</L>
<L>that I may have my liberty.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Lady <HI>Arabella,</HI> (&s;aid our King)</L>
<L>I to your freedom would con&s;ent,</L>
<L>If you would turn and go to Church,</L>
<L>there to receive the Sacrament.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And &s;o good night, <HI>Arabella</HI> fair,</L>
<L>Our King reply'd to her again,</L>
<L>I will take coun&s;el of my Nobility,</L>
<L>that you your freedom may obtain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Once more to Pri&s;on mu&s;t I go,</L>
<L>Lady <HI>Arabella</HI> then did &s;ay,</L>
<L>To leave my love breeds all my woe,</L>
<L>the which will be our lives decay,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Love is a knot none can unknit,</L>
<L>Fancy a liking of the heart,</L>
<L>Him whom I love I cannot forget,</L>
<L>though from his pre&s;ence I mu&s;t part.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>the meane&s;t people enjoy their Mates,</L>
<L>but I was born unhappily,</L>
<L>For being cro&s;t by cruel fates,</L>
<L>I want both love and liberty.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But death I hope will end the &s;trife,</L>
<L>farewel farewel my love (quoth &s;he)</L>
<L>Once I had thought to have been thy wife,</L>
<L>but now am forc'd to part with thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At this &s;ad Meeting &s;he had cau&s;e,</L>
<L>in heart and mind to grieve full &s;ore,</L>
<L>after that time <HI>Arabella</HI> fair,</L>
<L>did never &s;ee lord <HI>Seymor</HI> more.</L>
</LG>
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<P><HI>Printed by and for <HI>A. M.</HI> and &s;old by the Book&s;ellers of <HI>London.</HI></HI></P>
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