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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
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<HEAD>The Secret Lover.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">OR: <HI>The Jealous Father Beguil'd.</HI></HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<LG>
<L><HI>Loves pa&s;&s;ion is not ea&s;ily kept under,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Nor faithful Lovers to be kept a&s;under;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Becau&s;e you know the Proverb it is &s;o,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That love will creep, when as it cannot go.</HI></L>
</LG>
</ARGUMENT>
<OPENER>To a We&s;t-Countrey Tune; Or, <HI>A lack for my love I mu&s;t dye.</HI></OPENER>
<P><FIGURE>
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<LG>
<L>A Dainty &s;pruce young Gallant,</L>
<L>that lived in the We&s;t,</L>
<L>He courted a young Lady,</L>
<L>and real love profe&s;t:</L>
<L>And coming one night to her,</L>
<L>his mind he thus expre&s;t;</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>And &s;ing go from my Window love go.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What is my Love a &s;leeping,</L>
<L>or is my Love awake?</L>
<L>who knocketh there &s;o late?</L>
<L>It is your true love Lady,</L>
<L>that for your &s;ake doth wait,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>And &s;ing go from the Window love go.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then open me your Fathers Gate,</L>
<L>and do not me deny;</L>
<L>But grant to me your true love,</L>
<L>or &s;urely I &s;hall dye:</L>
<L>I dare not open now the Gates,</L>
<L>for fear my Father &s;py;</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>And &s;ing go from my window love go.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O Deare&s;t be not daunted,</L>
<L>thou neede&s;t not to fear;</L>
<L>Thy Father may be &s;l&eacute;eping,</L>
<L>our loves he &s;hall not hear:</L>
<L>Then open it without delay,</L>
<L>my joy and only Dear;</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>And &s;ing go from the window go.</HI></L>
</LG>
<P><FIGURE>
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<LG>
<L>MY Father be doth watch me,</L>
<L>his jealou&s;ie is &s;o:</L>
<L>If he &s;hould chance to catch me,</L>
<L>O then what &s;hould we do;</L>
<L>Therefore I dare not venture,</L>
<L>my dear to open now,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>And &s;ing go from my window love go.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I wi&s;h there were no Hinges,</L>
<L>nor yet no Key nor Lock;</L>
<L>That I might come unto my love,</L>
<L>now &s;he is in her Smock:</L>
<L>O peace and be contented,</L>
<L>I hear my Father knock:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>And &s;ing go from my window go.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O Daughter dear why are you,</L>
<L>out of your Bed &s;o late;</L>
<L>O Father I am very &s;ick,</L>
<L>and in di&s;tre&s;&s;ed &s;tate:</L>
<L>Methinks I hear &s;ome body</L>
<L>under pour Window prate:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>And &s;ing go from my window go.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O Father 'tis the Watch-men,</L>
<L>this Evening pa&s;&s;ing by;</L>
<L>Hark-how a faithful Lover,</L>
<L>can frame a pritty lye:</L>
<L>O Daughter I command you</L>
<L>unto pour Bed to hye:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>And &s;ing go from, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Dear Father I obey you,</L>
<L>and quickly I am gone;</L>
<L>But yet I am not willing</L>
<L>to leave my Love alone:</L>
<L>So &s;oon as you are Sleeping,</L>
<L>I down again will come:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>and &s;ing go from, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And then &s;he &s;ent her Maiden</L>
<L>unto her Chamber &s;traight;</L>
<L>And came unto her true Love,</L>
<L>who at the Door did wait:</L>
<L>And open'd him the Wickit,</L>
</LG>
<L>for all it was &s;o late:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>And &s;ing go from, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then &s;oftly he did enter,</L>
<L>and to the Lady &s;aid:</L>
<L>My Love there is no Danger,</L>
<L>we cannot be betray'd:</L>
<L>Let us enjoy our Plea&s;ure,</L>
<L>and never be afraid:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>And &s;ing go from, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And thus this Faithful Couple;</L>
<L>their wi&s;hes had at la&s;t,</L>
<L>For all her Jealous Father,</L>
<L>the &s;weets of love they ta&s;te:</L>
<L>And when the day appeared,</L>
<L>her Love away did ha&s;te:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>And &s;ing go from my window love go.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<DIV1 TYPE="colophon">
<P>Printed foar <HI>Brooksby,</HI> at the Golden-ball near the Ho&s;pital-gate; in <HI>We&s;t-&s;mithfield</HI></P>
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