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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<VID>181868</VID>
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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
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<HEAD>Give me the Willow-Garland, <HI>Or,</HI> The Maidens Former Fear, and Latter Comfort.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<L><HI>As fir&s;t &s;he for a Husband made great moan,</HI></L>
<L><HI>But at the la&s;t &s;he found a loving one.</HI></L>
</ARGUMENT>
<OPENER><HI>To a dainty new Tune, called, <HI>Give me the willow-garland.</HI></HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>AS I walked forth</L>
<L>in the merry month of June,</L>
<L>To hear the Nightingale</L>
<L>&s;ing her be&s;t tune:</L>
<L>I &s;py'd a young Maid,</L>
<L>which &s;ighed and &s;aid,</L>
<L>My time I have wa&s;ted in vain,</L>
<L>much lov<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> I have &s;pent,</L>
<L>which makes me repent,</L>
<L>Do them that holds me in d<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;dain:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Take pitty, quoth &s;he,</HI></L>
<L><HI>&s;ome gentle body,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Give me the Willow-Garland,</HI></L>
<L><HI>for none will have me.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I am in my con&s;cience</L>
<L>full &s;ixteen years old,</L>
<L>Yet &s;till go unmarried</L>
<L>which makes my heart cold:</L>
<L>there's many you &s;ee</L>
<L>that's younger then me,</L>
<L>That &s;uckles &s;weet babes at the bre&s;t</L>
<L>that lives at their ea&s;e,</L>
<L>and carries the Keys</L>
<L>Of many fair Cupboard and Che&s;t:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Take pitty, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Some men will give handkerchiefs</L>
<L>&s;ome will give gloves,</L>
<L>And &s;ome will give Bodkins,</L>
<L>to purcha&s;e maids loves:</L>
<L>but I like a friend,</L>
<L>my money did lend,</L>
<L>And never did ask it again:</L>
<L>and them that received,</L>
<L>in whom I believed,</L>
<L>Have put me to &s;orrow and pain:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Take pitty, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When William at fir&s;t,</L>
<L>come a wooing to me,</L>
<L>Good Lord then how jocond,</L>
<L>and frolick was he?</L>
<L>he clip'd me, he kis'd me,</L>
<L>he hug'd me in his arms,</L>
<L>He promis'd to make me his wife:</L>
<L>but he was mi&s;taken,</L>
<L>and I am for&s;aken,</L>
<L>Which cau&s;es much &s;orrow it &s;trife:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Take pitty, quoth &s;he,</HI></L>
<L><HI>&s;ome gentle body,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Give me the Willow-Garland,</HI></L>
<L><HI>for none will have me,</HI></L>
</LG>
<P><FIGURE>
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<LG>
<L>THe next that came to me</L>
<L>was &s;mirking fine Thomas,</L>
<L>and like &s;weet William,</L>
<L>did make me a promi&s;e,</L>
<L>but when this young Lad,</L>
<L>his will of me had</L>
<L>He gave me a Judas-like ki&s;s,</L>
<L>&s;o parted away,</L>
<L>the truth 'tis to &s;ay,</L>
<L>I ne'r &s;aw him from that time to this:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Take pitty, quoth &s;he,</HI></L>
<L><HI>&s;ome gentle body;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Give me the Willow-Garland,</HI></L>
<L><HI>for none will have me.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then John the brave Gallant,</L>
<L>with a Sword by his &s;ide,</L>
<L>Came to me and told me,</L>
<L>he'd make me his bride:</L>
<L>but in this brave youth.</L>
<L>I found but &s;mall truth,</L>
<L>although he did vow and prote&s;t,</L>
<L>to me to prove true,</L>
<L>yet he bad me adieu,</L>
<L>and prov'd quite as bad as the re&s;t:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Take pitty, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There was Richard and Robert,</L>
<L>c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">me both on one day,</L>
<L>But they like the others</L>
<L>&s;oon vani&s;h'd away:</L>
<L>and &s;ince that time,</L>
<L>whil&s;t &s;pring was in prime,</L>
<L>I have had of &s;uitors great plenty,</L>
<L>I dare to be bold,</L>
<L>if they were all told,</L>
<L>That they were at lea&s;t 3 &amp; twenty,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Take pitty, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now &s;eeing that fortune</L>
<L>hath me &s;o much cro&s;t,</L>
<L>That all my old &s;weet-hearts,</L>
<L>are quite gone and lo&s;t,</L>
<L>my &s;elf i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">e commend</L>
<L>to God Cupid my friend,</L>
<L>And to him will heartil<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> pray,</L>
<L>to &s;end me a love</L>
<L>that con&s;tant will prove,</L>
<L>And never to &s;traggle away.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Take pitty, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There's nothing at all</L>
<L>that belongs to a man,</L>
<L>But in a &s;hort warning</L>
<L>well fit him I can:</L>
<L>I have &s;ilver and gold,</L>
<L>which my Father never told,</L>
<L>I have very good cloaths to my back</L>
<L>I have hou&s;e and land,</L>
<L>and good goods at command,</L>
<L>Tis only a husband I lack;</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Take pitty, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>You &s;ee how my Vi&s;age,</L>
<L>is grown pale and wan,</L>
<L>You well may perceive</L>
<L>'tis for want of a man:</L>
<L>my Pul&s;es do beat,</L>
<L>and my body doth &s;weat,</L>
<L>and my &s;ences are all at great &s;trife</L>
<L>my belly doth ake</L>
<L>&amp; my heart-&s;trings will break</L>
<L>If I cannot be made a Wife.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>And therefore, quoth &s;he,</HI></L>
<L><HI>&s;ome gentle body,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Make me a Willow-Garland,</HI></L>
<L><HI>or el&s;e marry me,</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At la&s;t came a young-man</L>
<L>of courage mo&s;t bold.</L>
<L>Saying, &s;weet-heart, I care not</L>
<L>for Silver nor Gold:</L>
<L>but if thou w<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">lt prove</L>
<L>like the Turtle-Dove,</L>
<L>Right faithful &amp; true to thy friend,</L>
<L>then will I be thine,</L>
<L>and thou &s;halt be mine,</L>
<L>And i<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">le love th&eacute;e unto my lives end</L>
<L><HI>Your Servant, quoth &s;he,</HI></L>
<L><HI>my True love, quoth he,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Clap hands on the bargain,</HI></L>
<L><HI>and &s;o w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">'l agree.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And now this young woman</L>
<L>is eas<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">d of her pain,</L>
<L>For &s;he never after</L>
<L>was known to compl<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">in:</L>
<L>he made her his wife,</L>
<L>and &s;he lives a br<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ve life,</L>
<L>Attyred in garments mo&s;t brave,</L>
<L>and all things at will</L>
<L>her mind to fulfil,</L>
<L>at every command &s;he'l now have,</L>
<L><HI>Her Husband is kind,</HI></L>
<L><HI>they are both of a mind,</HI></L>
<L><HI>According as Nature,</HI></L>
<L><HI>and Love doth them bind,</HI></L>
<L>Farewel now, quoth &s;he,</L>
<L>to the green Willow-tree,</L>
<L>I have got a Husband</L>
<L>that well plea&s;eth me.</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>L. P.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P>Printed for <HI>F. Coles, T. Vere, J. VVright,</HI> and <HI>F. Clarke,</HI></P>
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