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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
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<HEAD>The Young-Mans Complaint for The Lo&s;s of his Mi&s;tris.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<L><HI>Young-men you &s;ee my Fortune is &s;uch,</HI></L>
<L><HI>I have lo&s;t my Love by loving her too much:</HI></L>
<L><HI>My fortune's bad as other Young mens be,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Read but the&s;e Lines, and you &s;hall Plainly &s;ee:</HI></L>
<L><HI>I being ba&s;hful, &s;he was &s;omething coy,</HI></L>
<L><HI>I have lo&s;t my Love, which &s;hould have been my joy.</HI></L>
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<OPENER>To an Excellent New Tune, <HI>I have lo&s;t my dear Mi&s;tris.</HI></OPENER>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<LG>
<L>COme hearken <HI>Apollo</HI> my pittiful groan,</L>
<L>Of all loyal Lovers that is left here alone;</L>
<L>I'le fight for my true Love though <HI>Mars</HI> be my Foe,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>For I've lo&s;t my dear Mi&s;tris by being too Slow.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>How Lovers are often tormented in mind</L>
<L>when as their own &s;weet-hearts proves to them unkind</L>
<L>Though many that hears me the &s;ame would forgoe,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>I have lo&s;t my dear Mi&s;tris by being too Slow.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I would I had ne'r &s;een her, that I had ne'r been,</L>
<L>That I for her Love now &s;orrow have &s;een:</L>
<L>But my heart it with &s;orrow my &s;en&s;es or'e-go,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>That i've lo&s;t my dear Mi&s;tris by being too Slow.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When as we were Children we loved mo&s;t dear,</L>
<L>But now of that Love I am never the near:</L>
<L>My heart is &s;o &s;ad and oppre&s;&s;ed with woe,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>That i've lo&s;t my dear Mi&s;tris by being too Slow.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When unto years elder our Youth did it &s;pring,</L>
<L>Then to Complementing I &s;traight did begin:</L>
<L>Yet ba&s;hfulne&s;s daunted and &s;hamed me &s;o,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>That I lo&s;t my dear Mi&s;tris by being too Slow.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Quoth I my dear Honey though I cannot wooe,</L>
<L>Yet &s;light me not for it for loving of you:</L>
<L>Intirely I Love thee, the truth it is &s;o,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Then do not refu&s;e me by being too Slow.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At Fairs and at Markets you know it right well,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">hat I in your Company &s;till did excel:</L>
<L>Neither car'd I for Money nor time it is &s;o,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Then let me not loo&s;e you by being too Slow.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But &s;he gave me Denial and bid me be gone,</L>
<L>For all I lamented and to her made moan,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">aying, I would not have you any more to do &s;o,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>For you have lo&s;t me plainly by being too Slow.</HI></L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The Maidens An&s;wer.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THough company together long time we have kept.</L>
<L>One another, my mind and my heart is &s;et,</L>
<L>Though one not &s;o hand&s;om as your &s;elf mu&s;t go</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Away with me, and leave you by being too &s;low.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>You are young and youthful, and may be may have</L>
<L>A mind on a woman, but do not deceive</L>
<L>Your &s;elf any more by neglecting it &s;o,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>For you have lo&s;t me plainly by being too &s;low.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I would have been married before now e're long,</L>
<L>At fourteen in truth I could wi&s;h't had been done:</L>
<L>If thou'd willing been then to Church with me go,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>You need not have lo&s;t me by being too &s;low.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But you did neglect your time &s;ore in that ca&s;e,</L>
<L>For a woman can tarry but while time doth la&s;t:</L>
<L>For at fourteen &s;he is ripe, there is few but doth know</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>So you fool'd your &s;elf then by being too &s;low.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>So adieu to you young-men, you hear how it is,</L>
<L>And all the frail ways how my fortune I mi&s;s:</L>
<L>But it &s;hall be a warning unto me I trow,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>That i'le never lo&s;e more by being too &s;low.</HI></L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<LG>
<L>O Cupid thy Arrows are tip'd with pure Gold,</L>
<L>And it &s;trikes me quite thorow when thee I behold;</L>
<L>But like to <HI>Amintas,</HI> I made my Moan &s;o,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>When I lo&s;t my dear Mi&s;tris by being too &s;low.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But like to <HI>Leander</HI> i'le mourn for my love,</L>
<L>Through new lands &amp; countries, &amp; con&s;tant i'le prove</L>
<L>I'le Drink and i'le Fuddle 'gain&s;t who dares &s;ay no,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Since I've lo&s;t my dear Mi&s;tris, by being too Slow.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>You Gode&s;&s;es a&s;&s;i&s;t my Fortune being &s;uch,</L>
<L>For I have lo&s;t my Sweet-heart by Loving too much:</L>
<L>But it &s;hall ne'r fret me although it be &s;o,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>That I have lo&s;t my Sweet-heart by being too &s;low.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Good <HI>Cupid</HI> a&s;&s;i&s;t me that now I may mend,</L>
<L>And cau&s;e my heart &s;trong to continue to th'end:</L>
<L>And go along with me I will bear thy Bow,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>So <HI>Cupid</HI> but hit them that they'l with me go.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>So Young-men if that they &s;tand, you mu&s;t &s;trike,</L>
<L>Not one way in forty that more they will like:</L>
<L>That they'l call you honey and with you will go,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>And love you mo&s;t dearly for u&s;eing them &s;o.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P><HI>Printed for <HI>F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright,</HI> and <HI>J. Clarke.</HI></HI></P>
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