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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD><L>A PATTERN of true LOVE to you I will recite.</L> 
<L>Between a Beautiful Lady and a Courtious Knight.</L></HEAD>
<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>Dainty come thou to me,</HI> &amp;c.</OPENER>
<HEADNOTE>
<P>Licensd and Entred according to Order.</P>
</HEADNOTE>
<P><FIGURE>
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<P><FIGURE>
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<LG>
<L>DEar Love regard my grief,</L>
<L>do not my &s;uit di&s;dain,</L>
<L>O yield me &s;ome relief,</L>
<L>that am with &s;orrow &s;lain:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>The&s;e long &s;even years and more</L>
<L>have I &s;till loved thee,</L>
<L>Do thou my ioys re&s;tore,</L>
<L>fair Lady pity me.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Pity my greivous pain.</L>
<L>long &s;uffered for thy &s;ake,</L>
<L>Do not my &s;uit di&s;dain,</L>
<L>that no time re&s;t can take;</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>The&s;e &s;even long years and more.</L>
<L>have I &s;till loved th&eacute;e:</L>
<L>Do thou my joys restore</L>
<L>fair Lady pity me.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>How &s;hould I pity th&eacute;e?</L>
<L>this Lady then reply'd,</L>
<L>Thou art no match for me,</L>
<L>thy &s;uit mu&s;t be deny'd:</L>
<L>I am of noble blood,</L>
<L>you but of mean degr&eacute;e,</L>
<L>It &s;tands not for my good</L>
<L>f<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">ly to match with th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This an&s;wer had he mo&s;t,</L>
<L>which cut his heart &s;o d&eacute;ep,</L>
<L>That on his bed full oft</L>
<L>would he lye down and w&eacute;ep,</L>
<L>With tears he did lament</L>
<L>his froward de&s;tiny;</L>
<L>With &s;ights yet would be &s;ay,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>Fair Lady pitty me.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>While I live, I mu&s;t love,</L>
<L>&s;o fancy urgeth me,</L>
<L>My mind cannot remove,</L>
<L>&s;uch is my con&s;tancy:</L>
<L>My mind is nobly bent</L>
<L>though I of low degr&eacute;e,</L>
<L>Sweet Lady give con&s;ent</L>
<L>to love and pity me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Lady hearing now</L>
<L>the moan that he did make,</L>
<L>Did of his &s;uit allow,</L>
<L>and thus to him &s;he &s;pak,</L>
<L>Ser Knight, mourn thou no more,</L>
<L>my faith I plight to thee,</L>
<L>May this thy joys re&s;tore,</L>
<L>thou ha&s;t thy wi&s;h of me,</L>
</LG>
<P><FIGURE>
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<LG>
<L>But fir&s;t &s;weet Love (quoth &s;he)</L>
<L>what &s;hift then wilt thou make,</L>
<L>With &s;peed to marry me,</L>
<L>and thy delight to take:</L>
<L>It were a bargain bad</L>
<L>to get a wanton VVife,</L>
<L>And lo&s;e with &s;orrow great</L>
<L>thy &s;weet di&s;tre&s;&s;ed life.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If that my Father knew</L>
<L>the love I bear to thee,</L>
<L>VVe both the &s;ame &s;hould rue,</L>
<L>therefore be rul'd by me:</L>
<L>VVhen my Father is in bed</L>
<L>and all his waiting-men,</L>
<L>Throught the window will I get</L>
<L>&s;ee that you meet me then.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Content Lady, (he &s;aid):</L>
<L>he's but a Coward knight</L>
<L>VVhom ought &s;hall make afraid</L>
<L>to win a Lady bright:</L>
<L>Thus then they went away</L>
<L>but by the ma&s;ter-cook</L>
<L>Coming thought the window wide,</L>
<L>was this fair Lady took.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O gentle cook, (quoth&s;he)</L>
<L>do not my deed bewray.</L>
<L>Some favour to me &s;how</L>
<L>and let me pa&s;s away:</L>
<L>Love that doth conquer Kings</L>
<L>forc'd me to do this deed,</L>
<L>VVil&s;t others &s;its and &s;ings</L>
<L>make not my heart to bleed</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Not &s;o, (then &s;aid the cook)</L>
<L>fair Lady pardon me,</L>
<L>VVho can this tre&s;pa&s;s brook,</L>
<L>committed thus by thee:</L>
<L>My Lord, your Father &s;hall</L>
<L>the matter under&s;tand,</L>
<L>For fal&s;e I will not be,</L>
<L>neither for hou&s;e nor land.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then from the Lady's face,</L>
<L>fell down the tears amain</L>
<L>She was in wofull ca&s;e</L>
<L>and thus &s;he made her moan:</L>
<L>Ah, my own dear Love,</L>
<L>little know'&s;t thou my grief,</L>
<L>Great &s;orrows mu&s;t we prove,</L>
<L>hope yielding no relief.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Her Father in a &s;pleen,</L>
<L>lock'd up his Daughter bright</L>
<L>And &s;ent forth armed men</L>
<L>to take this worthy <UNCLEAR>Knight</UNCLEAR>.</L>
<L>VVho then was judg'd to be</L>
<L>quite bani&s;h'd from the land.</L>
<L>Never his Love to &s;ee</L>
<L>&s;o &s;trict was the command.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And at the &s;e&s;&s;ions next,</L>
<L>after the Knight was gone,</L>
<L>To his Daughter, full of woe,</L>
<L>they brought a <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">anged man,</L>
<L>VVho&s;e head was &s;mitten off,</L>
<L>the Maiden's truth to prove,</L>
<L>Quoth her Father, VVanton Dam<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>now take thee here thy Love.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Her tears fell down amain,</L>
<L>when this &s;ight &s;he did &s;&eacute;e</L>
<L>And &s;orely did complain</L>
<L>of Father's cruelty&punc;</L>
<L>His body &s;he did wa&s;h</L>
<L>with tears that &s;he did &s;hed,</L>
<L>An hundree times &s;he ki&s;t</L>
<L>his body being dead.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Alas, my Love, (&s;he &s;aid)</L>
<L>dear ha&s;t thou paid for me.</L>
<L>Would God in heaven's bli&s;s,</L>
<L>my &s;oul were onw with th&eacute;e</L>
<L>But whil&s;t that I do live,</L>
<L>a vow I here do make,</L>
<L>Seven years to live unwed</L>
<L>for my true Lover's &s;ake</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Her Father hearing this,</L>
<L>was grieved inwardly,</L>
<L>He pardon'd her ami&s;s,</L>
<L>and prais'd her con<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ancy:</L>
<L>And to this courteous Knight,</L>
<L>her Father did her wed.</L>
<L>God grant the like &s;uc<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;s:</L>
<L>where perfect love is breed.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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