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<DATE>2008-06-02</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B080512.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD><HI>An Excellent New SONG,</HI> CALLED, The Ruined Virgin, OR, <HI>The Hard-hearted Young-man.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>To an Excellent new <HI>Play-hou&s;e Tune.</HI></OPENER>
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<P><HI>With Allowance.</HI></P>
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<LG N="1">
<HEAD>I.</HEAD>
<L>YOu pretty Maidens all I pray give Ear,</L>
<L>Unto my Downfall which I declare,</L>
<L>Of Parentage I am</L>
<L>Near to a Gentleman,</L>
<L>As &s;ome now witne&s;s can the date of Year.</L>
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<HEAD>II.</HEAD>
<L>At fourteen years of Age with griefs I tell,</L>
<L>Many a young man fair loved me well,</L>
<L>I being Childi&s;h young,</L>
<L>Believ'd a flatt'ring tongue,</L>
<L>And fix'd my mind upon a brisk young man.</L>
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<HEAD>III.</HEAD>
<L>He &s;aid if I would not yield with him to dwell,</L>
<L>He would go hang him&s;elf what e're befell,</L>
<L>He rung and tore his hair,</L>
<L>And wickedly did &s;wear,</L>
<L>His &s;word &s;hould end the care before me then.</L>
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<LG N="4">
<HEAD>IV.</HEAD>
<L>I hearing what he &s;aid grieved me &s;ore,</L>
<L>I took him for my Friend not for my Foe,</L>
<L>Young man, &s;aid I, forbear,</L>
<L>I pray let go your hair,</L>
<L>I'll ea&s;e you of your care, and be your Bride.</L>
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<LG N="5">
<HEAD>V.</HEAD>
<L>O how he Jumpt for joy before me then,</L>
<L>My love and only joy happies the man,</L>
<L>He kindly me embrac'd,</L>
<L>And hung about my Wa&s;te,</L>
<L>And then my love I plac'd on this young man.</L>
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<HEAD>VI.</HEAD>
<L>For two months &s;pace &amp; more he Courted me</L>
<L>Day by Day, Night by Night he &s;et by me,</L>
<L>He let me take no re&s;t</L>
<L>I mu&s;t &s;leep on his Brea&s;t,</L>
<L>And then my Love I plac'd on this young man.</L>
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<HEAD>VII.</HEAD>
<L>The appointed day was &s;et we were to wed,</L>
<L>But fir&s;t of all he &s;tole my maiden-head,</L>
<L>My Parents did not know,</L>
<L>I lov'd this young man &s;o,</L>
<L>Which prov'd my overthrow, ruin'd me quite</L>
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<HEAD>VIII.</HEAD>
<L>When I with Child did prove &amp; him had told,</L>
<L>He call'd me twenty Whores brafen and bold</L>
<L><HI>I know you not,</HI> &s;ays he,</L>
<L><HI>Therefore be gone from me,</HI></L>
<L>This prov'd my mi&s;ery, his love was cold.</L>
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<HEAD>IX.</HEAD>
<L>I was a&s;ham'd to &s;tay where I was known,</L>
<L>For &s;traight away I went from my own home,</L>
<L>I wander'd up and down</L>
<L>From <HI>Sea-port town</HI> to <HI>town,</HI></L>
<L>Till in travel I fell down in the high-way.</L>
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<HEAD>X.</HEAD>
<L>Then taken up I were by women kind,</L>
<L>who&s;e friend&s;hip they did &s;how nature did bind</L>
<L>Delivered then I were</L>
<L>Of two fine Babies fair,</L>
<L>which cau&s;ed me much care bewarn'd by me.</L>
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<P>Printed for, and Sold by <HI>Charles Barnet;</HI></P>
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