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<DATE>2008-04-05</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
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<HEAD>The True-Lovers Good-morrow.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<L>A brace of Valentines I here per&s;ent,</L>
<L>Who now together live in hearts content:</L>
<L>The&s;e luckily did meet upon the way,</L>
<L>In <HI>February</HI> on the fourteenth day.</L>
</ARGUMENT>
<OPENER>The Tune is, <HI>As at Noon</HI> Dulcina re&s;ted.</OPENER>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Batchelor.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>In the month of <HI>February,</HI></L>
<L>the green leaves begin to &s;pring;</L>
<L>Pretty Lambs trip like a Fairy,</L>
<L>Birds do couple, bill, and &s;ing;</L>
<L>All things on earth,</L>
<L>That draweth breath,</L>
<L>In love together then do joyn,</L>
<L>Why &s;hould not I.</L>
<L>My fortune try,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>And &s;eek me out a Valentine.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thanks kind fate I have my wi&s;hes,</L>
<L>for I have now met my dear,</L>
<L>Whom I greet with honey ki&s;&s;es,</L>
<L>her &s;weet &s;ight my heart doth chear,</L>
<L>My deare&s;t love,</L>
<L>And Turtle-Dove,</L>
<L>O let my arms about thee twine,</L>
<L>For thou art &s;he,</L>
<L>I fir&s;t did &s;ee,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Good morrow my fair Valenine.</HI></L>
</LG>
</SP>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Maid.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>Surely Sir you are mi&s;taken,</L>
<L>for you met &s;ome other Maid,</L>
<L>Young-men they are given to &s;coffing,</L>
<L>and as much to her you &s;aid;</L>
<L>Then do not &s;tay</L>
<L>Me on the way,</L>
<L>with your &s;w&eacute;et words that you do coyn</L>
<L>Let me alone,</L>
<L>I mu&s;t be gone,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Pray &s;eek &s;ome other Valentine.</HI></L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Batchelor.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>If true faith may be believed,</L>
<L>on you fir&s;t I did &s;et &s;ight,</L>
<L>Sweet let not my heart be grieved,</L>
<L>who doth love your beauty bright,</L>
<L>Oft have I wi&s;ht</L>
<L>I might be ble&s;t,</L>
<L>With your &s;weet pre&s;ence for to joyn</L>
<L>And ca&s;e my mind,</L>
<L>Maids &s;hould be kind,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>And loving to their Valentine.</HI></L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
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<SPEAKER>Maid.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>SIr, to me you are a &s;tranger,</L>
<L>Maids mu&s;t look before they leap</L>
<L>In fair &s;pecehes oft there's danger,</L>
<L>&s;nakes under &s;weet flowers Creep,</L>
<L>maids often find</L>
<L>mens words but wind,</L>
<L>The Sun &s;hall &s;et that bright did &s;hine,</L>
<L>after a calm,</L>
<L>there comes a &s;torm,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Go &s;eek &s;ome other Valentine.</HI></L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Batchelor.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>Fortune fair hath now decreed it,</L>
<L>that none but you I &s;hould meet,</L>
<L>Dearly I do love, believe it,</L>
<L>for you are my only &s;weet,</L>
<L>my grieved brea&s;t</L>
<L>can take no re&s;t,</L>
<L>Which doth my love-&s;ick heart conjoyn</L>
<L>Love I require</L>
<L>Love I de&s;ire,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Of thee my beautious Valentine.</HI></L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Maid.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>For your affection Sir I thank you,</L>
<L>being more then my de&s;ert,</L>
<L>Sure I cannot be &s;o cruel,</L>
<L>to procure a Lovers &s;mart,</L>
<L>'Tis mode&s;ty</L>
<L>for to deny,</L>
<L>Yet from my words I may decline,</L>
<L>then bani&s;h pain,</L>
<L>take heart again,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>For I will be thy Valentine.</HI></L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Batchelor.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>Now thou &s;peake&s;t like an Angel,</L>
<L>and my drooping heart revive,</L>
<L>For to give all contentment,</L>
<L>day and night i'le ever &s;trive,</L>
<L>thy courteous words,</L>
<L>much joy affords,</L>
<L>And thy rare beauty &s;o divine,</L>
<L>&s;weet let me ki&s;s,</L>
<L>my fair mi&s;tris,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>My only joy and Valentine.</HI></L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Maid.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>If you intend what you have promis'd</L>
<L>and do love me as you &s;ay,</L>
<L>I may yield, but if you flatter,</L>
<L>I can my affection &s;tay:</L>
<L>now I am free</L>
<L>as you may &s;ee,</L>
<L>No man can &s;ay that I am thine.</L>
<L>but being bound,</L>
<L>no help is found,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>And then no more &s;weet Valentine.</HI></L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Batchelor.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>When I from my promi&s;e alter,</L>
<L>let me then no longer thrive,</L>
<L>And let nothing with me pro&s;per,</L>
<L>while that I remain alive.</L>
<L>pains I'le not &s;pare,</L>
<L>but &s;till take care,</L>
<L>For to maintain thee neat and fine,</L>
<L>and for the be&s;t</L>
<L>that can be dre&s;t,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Then thou &s;halt eat &s;weet Valentine.</HI></L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Maid.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>Seeing you are &s;o kind hearted,</L>
<L>I have freely given con&s;ent,</L>
<L>And my love to thee imparted,</L>
<L>hoping never to repent:</L>
<L>i'le con&s;tant prove,</L>
<L>to thee my Love,</L>
<L>For I am thine, and thou art mine,</L>
<L>i'le &s;aving be,</L>
<L>as thou &s;halt &s;ee,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Sweet Husband, friend and Valentine.</HI></L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Batchelor.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>A thou&s;and thou&s;and thanks I render</L>
<L>back again to thee my love,</L>
<L>Who above the world I tender,</L>
<L>my firm faith &s;hall ne'r remove,</L>
<L>then pre&s;ently</L>
<L>to Church let's hye,</L>
<L>Where in <HI>Hymens</HI> band's let's joyn,</L>
<L>take hand and heart,</L>
<L>till death depart,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>My life, my Wife, and Valentine.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<P>Printed for <HI>VV. Thackeray,</HI> at the Angel in <HI>Duck-Lane, I. M.</HI> and <HI>A. M.</HI></P>
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