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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
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<HEAD><HI>The merry Carele&s;&s;e Lover:</HI> OR, A plea&s;ant new Ditty, called, I love a La&s;&s;e &s;ince ye&s;terday, And yet I cannot get her.</HEAD>
<OPENER><HI>To the tune of, <HI>The Mother beguilde the Daughter.</HI></HI></OPENER>
<P><FIGURE>
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<LG>
<L>OFt have I heard of many men,</L>
<L>which love have &s;ore tormented,</L>
<L>With griefe of heart, and bitter &s;mart,</L>
<L>and mindes much di&s;contented.</L>
<L>Such love to me &s;hall never be</L>
<L>di&s;ta&s;tefull, grievous bitter.</L>
<L>I have loved a La&s;&s;e &s;ince ye&s;terday,</L>
<L>and yet I cannot get her.</L>
<L><HI>But let her chu&s;e, if &s;he refu&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>and goe to take another:</HI></L>
<L><HI>I will not grieve, but &s;till will be</HI></L>
<L><HI>the merry carele&s;&s;e Lover.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I will no fooli&s;h Lover be,</L>
<L>to wa&s;te my meanes upon her:</L>
<L>But if &s;he doe prove firme to me,</L>
<L>in heart I will her honour.</L>
<L>And if &s;he &s;corne my part to take,</L>
<L>I know a way to fit her,</L>
<L>My heart with griefe &s;hall never ake,</L>
<L>what man &s;oever get her.</L>
<L><HI>Then let her chu&s;e, if &s;he refu&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>and goe to take another, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And yet I know not what to thinke,</L>
<L>&s;he makes a &s;hew &s;he loves me,</L>
<L>What n&eacute;ed I feare from me &s;he'l &s;hrinke,</L>
<L>&s;ome fooli&s;h pa&s;&s;ion mooves me,</L>
<L>Sometimes to hope, &s;ometimes to feare,</L>
<L>it hangs upon a Twitter,</L>
<L>Whether &s;he hates or loves me deare,</L>
<L>to lo&s;e her, or to get her.</L>
<L><HI>But let her chu&s;e, if &s;he refu&s;e &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Some women they are in firme in love,</L>
<L>and &s;ome they are uncertaine,</L>
<L>Scarce one in twenty loyall prove,</L>
<L>yet if it were my fortune</L>
<L>To get this La&s;&s;e unto my wife,</L>
<L>I know not one more fitter,</L>
<L>In lawfull love to leade our lives,</L>
<L>i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> 'twere my hap to get her.</L>
<L><HI>But let her chu&s;e, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I am a man indifferent,</L>
<L>whether &s;he will or will not</L>
<L>My Sweet-heart be for to love me,</L>
<L>if &s;he do's not, it skills not.</L>
<L>If &s;he fancy me, Ile con&s;tant be,</L>
<L>this La&s;&s;e &s;he is a Knitter.</L>
<L>And I have her loved &s;ince ye&s;terday,</L>
<L>but yet I cannot get her.</L>
<L><HI>But let her chu&s;e, if &s;he refu&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>and goe to take another,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ile never grieve, but &s;till will be</HI></L>
<L><HI>the merry carele&s;&s;e Lover.</HI></L>
</LG>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="part">
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<HEAD>The &s;econd part,</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the &s;ame tune.</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>THis La&s;&s;e &s;he doth in <HI>Yorke&s;hire</HI> live,</L>
<L>there in a Towne call'd <HI>For&s;et,</HI></L>
<L>Her minde to labour &s;he doth give,</L>
<L>&s;he can knit Silke or Wor&s;et.</L>
<L>I know not well what I &s;hould &s;ay,</L>
<L>in &s;p&eacute;ech &s;he's &s;ometimes bitter,</L>
<L>And I have her loved &s;ince ye&s;terday,</L>
<L>and yet I cannot get he.</L>
<L><HI>But let her chu&s;e, if &s;he refu&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And goe to take another,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ile never grieve, but &s;till will be</HI></L>
<L><HI>the merry carele&s;&s;e Lover.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sometimes &s;he will upon me &s;mile,</L>
<L>and &s;ometimes &s;he is &s;ullen,</L>
<L>As &s;he doth &s;it, and Stockins knits,</L>
<L>of Iar&s;ie and of Wollen,</L>
<L>She gets the prai&s;e above the re&s;t,</L>
<L>to be a curious Knitter:</L>
<L>She loves me, as &s;he doth profe&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>and yet I cannot get her.</L>
<L><HI>But let her chu&s;e, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Her Portion is not very much,</L>
<L>but for the &s;ame what care I,</L>
<L>So &s;he with me will but k&eacute;epe touch,</L>
<L>and not in minde will vary,</L>
<L>For pelfe I doe not pa&s;&s;e a &s;traw,</L>
<L>her beauty likes me better,</L>
<L>For I have her loved &s;ince ye&s;terday,</L>
<L>and yet I cannot get her.</L>
<L><HI>But let her chu&s;e, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I will bethinke me what is be&s;t</L>
<L>a way for to be taken,</L>
<L>Her love to gaine, and her obtaine,</L>
<L>I would not be for&s;aken,</L>
<L>Nor would I have her &s;ay me nay,</L>
<L>nor give me &s;peeches bitter,</L>
<L>For I have her loved &s;ince ye&s;terday,</L>
<L>and yet I cannot get her.</L>
<L><HI>But let her chu&s;e, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I have her Fathers fr&eacute;e con&s;ent,</L>
<L>that &s;he with me &s;hould marry:</L>
<L>Her Mother likewi&s;e is content,</L>
<L>and grieves that &s;he &s;hould carry</L>
<L>So proude a minde, or be unkinde</L>
<L>to me in &s;peeches bitter,</L>
<L>For I beare to her a loving minde,</L>
<L>and yet I cannot get her.</L>
<L><HI>But let her chu&s;e, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With her I at a Wedding was,</L>
<L>where we did dance together,</L>
<L>She is a curious hand&s;ome La&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>and yet like winde and weather,</L>
<L>Her minde doth change, &s;he's kinde, &s;he's &s;trange,</L>
<L>milde, gentle, cruell, bitter,</L>
<L>Yet how&s;oere I love her deare,</L>
<L>and yet I cannot get her.</L>
<L><HI>But let her chu&s;e, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet will I hope upon the be&s;t,</L>
<L>all fooli&s;h feares excluding,</L>
<L>And at her faithfull &s;ervice re&s;t,</L>
<L>thus here in briefe concluding,</L>
<L>With &s;ome deare friend to her Ile &s;end,</L>
<L>a kind and loving letter,</L>
<L>And hope in time her love to gaine,</L>
<L>and for my Wife to get her.</L>
<L><HI>And then Ile &s;ing with merry cheere,</HI></L>
<L><HI>this Ditty and no other,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Whil'&s;t breath doth la&s;t, and life be pa&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>I will be a faithfull Lover.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
<BYLINE>By Robert Guy.</BYLINE>
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<P>Printed at London for F. Coules.</P>
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