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<VID>181939</VID>
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<HEAD>The Ma&s;ter-piece of Love-&s;ongs:</HEAD>
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<L><HI>A Dialogue betwixt a bold KEEPER and a LADY gay,</HI></L>
<L><HI>He Woo'd his LORD's Daught<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r, and carried the day;</HI></L>
<L><HI>But &s;oon after Marriage was forc'd for to fight,</HI></L>
<L><HI>With his Lord and &s;ix Gentlemen, for his own Right;</HI></L>
<L><HI>He cut them, and hew'd them, and paid them with blows,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And made them his Friends, that before were his Foes.</HI></L>
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<OPENER><HI>To the Tune of, <HI>The Week before</HI> Ea&s;ter, <HI>the Day's long and clear,</HI> &amp;c.</HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>IT was a bold keeper</L>
<L>that cha&s;ed the deer,</L>
<L>Of a &s;touter bold &s;pirit</L>
<L>you never did hear,</L>
<L>And he loved a Lady</L>
<L>of beauty mo&s;t clear.</L>
<L>And now you &s;hall hear of his wooing:</L>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Keeper.]</SPEAKER>
<L>O pitty fair Lady,</L>
<L>the &s;uit which I move,</L>
<L>For I'm deep in affection,</L>
<L>and to&s;&s;ed in love;</L>
<L>For you are the Lady,</L>
<L>the curdle, and dove,</L>
<L>What <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> I have ca&s;t my affection.</L>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Lady.]</SPEAKER>
<L>O Keeper forbear,</L>
<L>I &s;hall thus an&s;wer thee,</L>
<L>I am a match for a Lord</L>
<L>of a high degree;</L>
<L>For my birth and yours</L>
<L>they not equal be,</L>
<L>Therefore Keeper forbear your wooing.</L>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>K]</SPEAKER>
<L>This repul&s;e it maketh</L>
<L>me &s;adly to grieve;</L>
<L>And true 'tis we all came</L>
<L>from <HI>Adam</HI> and <HI>Eve,</HI></L>
<L>One loving word to my life</L>
<L>is a reprieve,</L>
<L>Tho I am linked fa&s;t in <HI>Cupid</HI>'s pri&s;on.</L>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>L.]</SPEAKER>
<L>O why &s;hould you &s;ay</L>
<L>you'r a pri&s;oner to me;</L>
<L>O hold, forbear Keeper,</L>
<L>for that may not be:</L>
<L>We both may have matches</L>
<L>fitter for each degree;</L>
<L>Then forbear, and take this for an an|&s;wer,</L>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>K.]</SPEAKER>
<L>No, not for an an&s;wer,</L>
<L>that I &s;hall it take,</L>
<L>And yet this denial</L>
<L>makes my heart to ake;</L>
<L>And I &s;hall lay down</L>
<L>my life at the &s;take,</L>
<L>T'obtain the favour of my Lady.</L>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>L.]</SPEAKER>
<L>It is a meer madne&s;s</L>
<L>your life to lay down,</L>
<L>What will people &s;ay?</L>
<L>'There&punc;s an end of a clown,</L>
<L>'That pa&s;t many dangers</L>
<L>'till fortune did frown,</L>
<L>And now died a petended lover.</L>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>K.]</SPEAKER>
<L>The name of a clown</L>
<L>in my heart I do &s;corn,</L>
<L>Being nobly de&s;cended,</L>
<L>and a gentleman born:</L>
<L>Yet I am a Keeper</L>
<L>that mu&s;t be forlorn,</L>
<L>Except you can love me fair Lady.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>L.]</SPEAKER>
<L>Well Keeper, I perceive</L>
<L>t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ou ba&s;t a good heart,</L>
<L>Well thou art come</L>
<L>pa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ed in every part:</L>
<L>If my Lord did know,</L>
<L>we &s;hould both &s;uffer &s;mart</L>
<L>My father would be &s;o offended.</L>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>K.]</SPEAKER>
<L>Lady if you will con&s;ent</L>
<L>to be my bride,</L>
<L>I will gird my &s;word</L>
<L>and buckler by my &s;ide,</L>
<L>And then to the Church</L>
<L>in private we'll ride,</L>
<L>Where we will be married fair Lady.</L>
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<LG>
<L>She then gaue con&s;ent,</L>
<L>and away they did ride,</L>
<L>The valiant bold Keeper,</L>
<L>and his lovely bride,</L>
<L>Not fearing of danger</L>
<L>what ever betide,</L>
<L>For &s;he was a vallien young Lady.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Being married, he returned</L>
<L>back &s;p&eacute;edily,</L>
<L>And riding along</L>
<L>her father did e&s;py:</L>
<L>Alack, quoth the Lady,</L>
<L>one or both &s;hall dye.</L>
<L>Fear nothing, quoth the Keeper, fair Lady.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Lord he came po&s;ting</L>
<L>&s;o fa&s;t as he could hie;</L>
<L>And &s;ix lu&s;ty gentlemen</L>
<L>for company:</L>
<L>Quoth he to the Keeper,</L>
<L>Villain thou &s;halt dye,</L>
<L>For deluding away my fair daughter.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Come on quoth the Keeper,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">is no time to prattle,</L>
<L>I &s;ee by your &s;words</L>
<L>you'r prepar'd for battle:</L>
<L>With his &s;word and buckler</L>
<L>he made them to rattle:</L>
<L>The Lady did hold the hor&s;e for the Keeper.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He cut them and hew'd them</L>
<L>on the place he did &s;tand:</L>
<L>O then, quoth the Lord,</L>
<L>bold Keeper hold thy hand.</L>
<L>If you'll give your daughter</L>
<L>thirty thou&s;and in land</L>
<L>You &s;hall not dye by the hand of the Keeper.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Keeper, quoth the Lady,</L>
<L>'tis too &s;mall a portion.</L>
<L>Peace, quoth the Lord, daughter</L>
<L>let your will be done;</L>
<L>I will love thy husband,</L>
<L>and thee ever own.</L>
<L>Thus a Keeper gained a fair Lady.</L>
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<P><HI>Licen&s;ed and Entered.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed for <HI>A. M. W O.</HI> and <HI>Tho. Thackeray</HI> at the <HI>Ang<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">in Duck-lane.</HI></P>
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