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<DATE>2008-05-03</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B080410.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>CELIAS An&s;wer TO The LOVER'S Complaint.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the &s;ame Tune.</OPENER>
<LG>
<L>WHat is this I hear &s;till by all I do meet,</L>
<L>A <HI>complaint again&s;t Celia is Sung in the &s;treet,</HI></L>
<L>Where &s;he &s;cornful is made, and cruel does prove</L>
<L>To <HI>Strephon</HI> who is with <HI>Celia</HI> in Love.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Nay likewi&s;e they &s;ay for Love he will dye,</L>
<L>Unle&s;s that his <HI>Celia</HI> to have does comply,</L>
<L>He further complains that my hearts made of &s;tone,</L>
<L>And yet he'l have <HI>Celia,</HI> or el&s;e he'l have none.</L>
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<LG>
<L>And &s;ince I mu&s;t give him an An&s;wer indeed,</L>
<L>He &s;peak from my Heart as I am a true Maid,</L>
<L>He Courted me long, and I &s;lighted him &s;till,</L>
<L>Tho twas not perhaps for any ill will.</L>
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<LG>
<L>But caution did make me to u&s;e him like one,</L>
<L>That came as a vi&s;it and &s;o to be gone,</L>
<L>Tho he often would &s;igh, then his Eyes they would dart</L>
<L>Which many a time I felt at my heart.</L>
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<LG>
<L>But men are deceitful which made me &s;till &s;hie,</L>
<L>What their tongue often &s;peaks, yet their hearts gives the lye</L>
<L>And few there are found of Men to be true,</L>
<L>VVhich made me always be &s;cornful to you.</L>
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<LG>
<L>For daily I &s;ee that young <HI>Maidens</HI> are wrong'd,</L>
<L>By Batchellors with their fine flattering Tongue,</L>
<L><HI>They &s;wear they do love till they've gain'd their de&s;ire,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Which when once po&s;&s;e&s;t then &s;oon they retire.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Thus Men being fal&s;e cau&s;es me to beware,</L>
<L>Lea&s;t I by &s;uch Men &s;hould be drawn in a &s;nare,</L>
<L>As thou&s;ands there be that by young men's undone,</L>
<L>In believing what's &s;aid by a lying Tongue.</L>
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<LG>
<L><HI>But if that I thought that young</HI> Strephon <HI>was true,</HI></L>
<L>And would love in earne&s;t I would do &s;o too,</L>
<L>I mean not for time, but for ever and ay,</L>
<L>I am not for love that holds but a day.</L>
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<LG>
<L>There fore if you come with intent for to wed,</L>
<L>Nere fear but a loving kind VVife may be had,</L>
<L>I love you tis true, I declare on my life,</L>
<L>And happy &s;hould be if I once were your wife.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Oh what i'&s;t I &s;ay, I have here told my mind,</L>
<L>Oh now I am ruin'd if <HI>Strephon</HI>'s unkind,</L>
<L>My love I cant hide, but mu&s;t let the world know,</L>
<L>Tis <HI>Strephon</HI> I love tho I tortur'd him &s;o.</L>
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<LG>
<L>If he now &s;hould leave me for what I have done,</L>
<L>Then for love of him I di&s;tracted &s;hall run,</L>
<L>Oh why did I u&s;e him &s;o cruel before,</L>
<L>VVhen at the &s;ame time I did him adore.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Now come lovely <HI>Strephon</HI> my Heart is thy own,</L>
<L>VVith grief I have heard all thy &s;orrow and moan,</L>
<L>And if you will wed, then this I will &s;ay,</L>
<L>Since <HI>Strephon</HI> con&s;ents then to morrow's the day.</L>
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<P>Printed for <HI>Charles Barnet.</HI></P>
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