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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>Flora's Farewel: Or, The Shepherds Love Pa&s;&s;ion Song.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<L><HI>Wherein he doth greatly Complain</HI></L>
<L><HI>Becau&s;e his Love was &s;pent in vain.</HI></L>
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<OPENER><HI>To a Delicate Tune; Or, <HI>A thou&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">mes my love commend.</HI></HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>FLora farewel, I needs mu&s;t go,</L>
<L>for if with thee I longer &s;tay,</L>
<L>Thine eyes prevail over me &s;o,</L>
<L>I &s;hall grow blind and loo&s;e my way.</L>
<L>Fame of thy beauty and thy Fame,</L>
<L>to &s;eek for love me hither brought,</L>
<L>But when in thee I found no truth,</L>
<L>it was no boot for me to &s;tay.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Now i<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">m ingag'd by word and Oath,</L>
<L>a &s;ervant to anothers will,</L>
<L>Yet for thy &s;ake would forgo both,</L>
<L>would&s;t thou be &s;ure to love me &s;till.</L>
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<LG>
<L>But what a&s;&s;urance can I have,</L>
<L>of thee who &s;eeing my abu&s;e,</L>
<L>In that which Love de&s;ires to crave,</L>
<L>may leave me with a ju&s;t excu&s;e.</L>
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<LG>
<L>For thou mu&s;t &s;ay, 'twas not thy fault,</L>
<L>th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t thou did&s;t &s;o uncon&s;tant prove,</L>
<L>Thou wert by mine example caught,</L>
<L>to break thy Oath and leave thy Love.</L>
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<LG>
<L>No <HI>Flora,</HI> no, I will recall</L>
<L>the former words which I have &s;poke,</L>
<L>And thou &s;halt have no cau&s;e at all,</L>
<L>to hamper me in Cupids Yoak.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But &s;ince thy Honour is to range,</L>
<L>and that thou bear'&s;t a wavering mind,</L>
<L>Like to the Moon with thee il'e change.</L>
<L>and turn I can with every wind.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Hence forth blind fancy i'le remove,</L>
<L>and ca&s;t all &s;orrow from my heart,</L>
<L>Young men to dye for doting love,</L>
<L>I hold it but a fooli&s;h part.</L>
</LG>
</SP>
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<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The &s;econd part</HEAD>
<OPENER>to the &s;ame Tune.</OPENER>
<SP>
<LG>
<L>Why &s;hould I to one love be bound,</L>
<L>and fix my thoughts on none but thee</L>
<L>When as a thou&s;and may be found,</L>
<L>that's far more fair and fit for me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Though I am but a Shepherd &s;wain,</L>
<L>my mind to me doth comfort bring,</L>
<L>Feeding my flock upon a plain,</L>
<L>I triumph like a petty King.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>No Female Rat &s;hall me deceive,</L>
<L>nor catch me by a crafty wild,</L>
<L>Though I do love, yet I can leave,</L>
<L>and will no longer be beguil'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Flora,</HI> once more, farewel adieu,</L>
<L>I &s;o conclude my Pa&s;&s;ion &s;ong:</L>
<L>To thy next love &s;ee that thou prove true,</L>
<L>for thou ha&s;t done me double wrong.</L>
</LG>
</SP>
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<ARGUMENT>
<L><HI>Fair Flora's An&s;wer to the Shep|herds Song,</HI></L>
<L><HI>VVherein &s;he &s;hows that he hath done the wrong</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>FYE Shepherd, fye thou are to blame,</L>
<L>to rail again&s;t me in this &s;ort,</L>
<L>Thou do&s;t di<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">grace a Sweet-hearts name,</L>
<L>to give thy Love &amp; fal&s;e report.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There was a Proverb u&s;ed of old,</L>
<L>and now I find it is no lye,</L>
<L>One tale is good till another's told,</L>
<L>&s;he that loves mo&s;t is lea&s;t &s;et by.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A brief De&s;cription I will tell,</L>
<L>of thy favour, love and flattery;</L>
<L>And how at fir&s;t thou did&s;t excel,</L>
<L>with cunning tricks and pollicy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But O that flattering tongue of thine,</L>
<L>and tempting eye fought to entice,</L>
<L>And to en&s;nare the heart of mine,</L>
<L>and bring me in fools Paradice.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>VVhen thou at fir&s;t began to VVooe,</L>
<L>and with thy skill my patience try'd;</L>
<L>You thought there was no more to do,</L>
<L>but pre&s;ently to up and ride.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thou &s;aid'st that I was fair and bright,</L>
<L>and fitting for thy Marriage Bed;</L>
<L>Thou fed'&s;t my fancy with delight,</L>
<L>thinking to have my Maiden-head:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But when thou &s;aw'&s;t thou could'&s;t not get</L>
<L>the jem that thou di&s;tre&s;t to have,</L>
<L>By company thou did&s;t refrain,</L>
<L>like to a fal&s;e di&s;&s;embling Knave.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Where by I an&s;wered thus and &s;aid,</L>
<L>to &s;hun the cau&s;e of further &s;trife;</L>
<L>I would contain my &s;elf a Maid,</L>
<L>until &s;uch time I was made a wife.</L>
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<LG>
<L>And &s;ince you my mind have cro&s;t,</L>
<L>you may be&s;tow you as you will,</L>
<L>Shepherd farewel, there's nothing lo&s;t,</L>
<L>I am re&s;olv'd to &s;ay &s;o &s;till.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Blind <HI>Cupid</HI> with his wounding Dart,</L>
<L>could never make me &s;orrow feel,</L>
<L>I'le not lay that unto my heart.</L>
<L>as others &s;hake off with their heel.</L>
</LG>
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<P><HI>Printed for</HI> A. Milbourn, W. Onley, <HI>and</HI> T. Thackeray, <HI>at the</HI> Angel <HI>in</HI> Duck-Lane</P>
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