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<HEAD>The Young-Mans A. B. C.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Or, Two Dozen of Ver&s;es which a Young-Man &s;ent his Love, who proved unkind.</HEAD>
<OPENER>The Tune is, The Young-mans A. B. C.</OPENER>
<P><FIGURE>
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<LG>
<L>_ACcept, dear love, the&s;e</L>
<L>&s;hadows of my grief,</L>
<L>And let thy pitty yield</L>
<L>me &s;ome relief!</L>
<L>A Captive to thy will</L>
<L>I mu&s;t remain;</L>
<L>For thou art only &s;he</L>
<L>mu&s;t ea&s;e my pain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>_BE kind to me as I am</L>
<L>kind to thee;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">la&s;t not thy fame,</L>
<L>with cruelty to me:</L>
<L>but let thy inward parts thy</L>
<L>features grace,</L>
<L>beauty in heart ado<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ns</L>
<L>the outward face.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>_COn&s;ider how my</L>
<L>&s;ervice hath been bent</L>
<L>Continually to gain</L>
<L>thy &s;weet content:</L>
<L>Can&s;t thou, my Dear</L>
<L>be &s;o obdure to me?</L>
<L>Cro&s;s unto him that</L>
<L>is &s;o true to thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>_DEfer no time to</L>
<L>under&s;tand my grief,</L>
<L>but with &s;ome &s;peed</L>
<L>come ea&s;e me with relief:</L>
<L>Thy beauty rare hath</L>
<L>&s;truck my heart &s;o deep,</L>
<L>That all my daies I</L>
<L>mean to wail and weep.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>_EXcept thou d<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t &s;ome</L>
<L>fauour to me yield,</L>
<L>I shall be &s;la<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n with</L>
<L>love in <HI>Venu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> field:</L>
<L>I am &s;o di&s;content in</L>
<L>mind and heart,</L>
<L>That neither means</L>
<L>nor time can cure my &s;mart.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>_FOrget thou not the</L>
<L>woe wherein I dwell,</L>
<L>My torments do all</L>
<L>all other griefs excell;</L>
<L>Con&s;ider well my woful</L>
<L>&s;able nights,</L>
<L>and days I &s;pend away</L>
<L>without delights.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>_GRant me thy love to</L>
<L>mitigate my pain,</L>
<L>The like thou &s;halt</L>
<L>receive from me again.</L>
<L>So love will we as</L>
<L>doth the turtle-dove,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">o&s;e firm affection</L>
<L>ever con&s;tant prove.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>_HAve you re&s;pect on this</L>
<L>the grief I take,</L>
<L>Which out of &s;leep</L>
<L>doth &s;ometimes me awake;</L>
<L>In Dreams I &s;ee that</L>
<L>which I mo&s;t de&s;ire;</L>
<L>But waking &s;ets</L>
<L>my &s;en&s;es all on fire.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>_IN doleful &s;ort the&s;e</L>
<L>words I now relate,</L>
<L>which makes me think</L>
<L>my &s;elf unfortunate;</L>
<L>To &s;et my heart where</L>
<L>I had nought but &s;corn,</L>
<L>which makes me rue</L>
<L>the time that I was born</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>_KIll me not in this</L>
<L>de&s;peration deep,</L>
<L>To think how I neither</L>
<L>eat, nor drink, nor &s;leep;</L>
<L>To think of that which</L>
<L>I cannot obtain,</L>
<L>The which hath near</L>
<L>my heart with &s;orrow &s;lain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
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<L>_LEt tender pitty move thy</L>
<L>gentle heart,</L>
<L>And &s;o from thee</L>
<L>my love &s;hall never &s;tart,</L>
<L>To gain thy love</L>
<L>i'll venture life and limb,</L>
<L>And for thy &s;ake the</L>
<L>Ocean I will &s;wim.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>_MY life I loath becau&s;e</L>
<L>my woes increa&s;e,</L>
<L>Therefore my to<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ments cea&s;e</L>
<L>and me relea&s;e:</L>
<L>then be not har&s;h whereas</L>
<L>thou would&s;t be kind,</L>
<L>but for my love</L>
<L>let me no hatred find.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>_NEither deny to grant</L>
<L>me this reque&s;t,</L>
<L>Nor &s;eek thou not to</L>
<L>work me more unre&s;t,</L>
<L>For if you do the</L>
<L>wo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t &s;hare full to thine.</L>
<L>the wor&s;e can come</L>
<L>ends but one life of mine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>_OH that thou would&s;t but</L>
<L>now conceive aright,</L>
<L>then would my darkne&s;s &s;oon</L>
<L>be turn'd to light:</L>
<L>My greate&s;t &s;orrows</L>
<L>I &s;hould then de&s;troy</L>
<L>And all my grief and care</L>
<L>exchange to joy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>_PIerce then no deeper</HI></L>
<L><HI>to my bleeding heart,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The which is ready</HI></L>
<L><HI>now for to depart:</HI></L>
<L><HI>He &s;till that loves and</HI></L>
<L><HI>is not lov'd again,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Had better die than</HI></L>
<L><HI>&s;till to live in pain</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>_QUench thou the flames</HI></L>
<L><HI>of this my burning brea&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>which for thy &s;ake</HI></L>
<L><HI>no time nor tide can re&s;t:</HI></L>
<L><HI>My love to thee hath</HI></L>
<L><HI>evermore been true,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Therefore the &s;ame</HI></L>
<L><HI>&s;ee that I have from you.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>_REgard my grief how</HI></L>
<L><HI>&s;till it more exceeds,</HI></L>
<L><HI>My life is like the Herb</HI></L>
<L><HI>that's &s;poil'd with weeds:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Among the fine&s;t wheat</HI></L>
<L><HI>the tares do grow,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And thou my love hath</HI></L>
<L><HI>wrought my overthrow.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>_SVVeet love now take on me</HI></L>
<L><HI>thy friend, &s;ome care,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Regard my grief that</HI></L>
<L><HI>&s;till lives in di&s;pair</HI></L>
<L><HI>Of thy true love, which</HI></L>
<L><HI>is more dear than gold;</HI></L>
<L><HI>My griefs are more</HI></L>
<L><HI>than numbers can be told.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>_TOo long I've liv'd and</HI></L>
<L><HI>yet too late repent,</HI></L>
<L><HI>For why the glory</HI></L>
<L><HI>of my life is &s;pent;</HI></L>
<L><HI>In loving her that</HI></L>
<L><HI>never did love me,</HI></L>
<L><HI>O then what day</HI></L>
<L>of plea&s;ure can I &s;ee?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>_WOuld I had never</L>
<L>liv'd thy face to have &s;een,</L>
<L>O then full happy &s;urely</L>
<L>had I been,</L>
<L>For never any one</L>
<L>under the Sun,</L>
<L>But thou alone,</L>
<L>could me this wrong done.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>_X Thou&s;and times</L>
<L>more cruel is thy mind,</L>
<L>Then Heathens, Jews,</L>
<L>or Turks are in their kind</L>
<L>Or any one that</L>
<L>on the earth doth go,</L>
<L>And woe is me,</L>
<L>for I have found it &s;o.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>_YEt if thy mind be</L>
<L>&s;o perver&s;ly bent,</L>
<L>That nothing can</L>
<L>procure my hearts content,</L>
<L>Know this from me,</L>
<L>that I have learn'd of late,</L>
<L>No more to dote on her</L>
<L>that doth me hate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>_ZEnobia</HI> to <HI>Tamberlain</HI></L>
<L>ne'er was</L>
<L>More dear than thou</L>
<L>to me, but now alas!</L>
<L>I and my toyl, my &s;ighs</L>
<L>and &s;obs in vain,</L>
<L>Why &s;hould I love,</L>
<L>and not be lov'd again?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>_&amp; Now to &s;et a</L>
<L>period to my woe,</L>
<L>If thou wilt have me,</L>
<L>prithee tell me &s;o:</L>
<L>if otherwi&s;e thou mean'&s;t,</L>
<L>thy mind it &s;end,</L>
<L>Re&s;olve me off <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">on,</L>
<L>and there's an end.</L>
</LG>
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<P><HI>Printed by and for</HI> A. Milbourn, <HI>and &s;old by the Book&s;ellers of <HI>Pye-corner</HI> and <HI>London-Bridge.</HI></HI></P>
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