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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>The true Lovers Happine&s;s <HI>Or, Nothing venture, Nothing have.</HI></HEAD>
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<P><HI>Shewing how an Apprentice made bold to court his Ma&s;ters Daughter, got her good will, and married her unknown to her Parents yet afterwards her father &s;eeing they loved each other &s;o intirely, he gave them a con|&s;iderable portion of money to &s;et up with, and now they live in a happy condition; this may &s;erve for a pattern for others.</HI></P>
<LG>
<L><HI>Their complements to you I will rehear&s;e.</HI></L>
<L><HI>According as they are printed down in ver&s;e.</HI></L>
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<OPENER>Tune of <HI>Amintas</HI> on the new-made Hay, <HI>or</HI> Loyal Lovers.</OPENER>
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<SPEAKER>Man.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>OH my Deare&s;t come away,</L>
<L>and hearken what thy love doth &s;ay</L>
<L>As I am here I vow and &s;wear</L>
<L>I kindly will embrace thee;</L>
<L>Thou need not fear my only dear</L>
<L>that I &s;hall e'er di&s;grace thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I'le be as hone&s;t as the day,</L>
<L>thy vertues I will not bewray,</L>
<L>No face alive &s;hall e're deprive</L>
<L>me of my deare&s;t jewel,</L>
<L>If thou deny I &s;ure &s;hall dye,</L>
<L>then ve not thou &s;o cruel.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>many years I loved thee,</L>
<L>therefore deare&s;t pitty me,</L>
<L>Thy very frown doth ca&s;t me down,</L>
<L>thy &s;miles again revive me:</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t my heart where'r thou art</L>
<L>then don't of love d<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">prive me.</L>
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<SPEAKER>Maid.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>O fle thou &s;imple Prentice boy,</L>
<L>how dur&s;t thou with me tick &amp; toy,</L>
<L>Or be &s;o bold this to unfold</L>
<L>unto thy ma&s;tes Daughter.</L>
<L>If he &s;hould know, 'twould breed thy woe</L>
<L>then what will follow after.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>I am my Fathers own delight</L>
<L>This you may under&s;tand aright,</L>
<L>No Daughter he hath el&s;e but me,</L>
<L>which makes him highly prize me;</L>
<L>Therefore be mute, leave off thy &s;uit</L>
<L>I friendly do advi&s;e thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My Fathers anger pray you &s;hun,</L>
<L>Lea&s;t you are utterly undone,</L>
<L>The pri&s;on-grate will be your fate,</L>
<L>if you run &s;uch adventures,</L>
<L>Be&s;ides all this, if maids you ki&s;s</L>
<L>you forfeit your indentures.</L>
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<SPEAKER>Man.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>Prithee deare&s;t do not flout,</L>
<L>At <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI> next my time is out,</L>
<L>And then I &s;wear I will not care</L>
<L>for ma&s;ter nor &s;uch Hi&s;tories:</L>
<L>But a wife i'le have my life to &s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</L>
<L>and you'r my only mi&s;tri&s;s.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Blame me not for &s;aying &s;o,</L>
<L>For love will creep where it cannot go</L>
<L>Had I not &s;poke, my heart had broke</L>
<L>I could indure no longer:</L>
<L>Though I did fight both day &amp; night</L>
<L>yet <HI>Cupid</HI> grew the &s;tronger.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Me thinks I &s;ee thy lovely face</L>
<L>As I do walk in any place,</L>
<L>Thy chry&s;tal eyes where <HI>Cupid</HI> lies,</L>
<L>thy cheeks are like to Ro&s;es:</L>
<L>Thy lips are &s;weet, when as we meet</L>
<L>all vertue there inclo&s;es.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Though I am poor and thou art rich</L>
<L>Slight me not I thee be&s;eech,</L>
<L>You know my trade will keep a maid</L>
<L>as well as yeoman <HI>Jarvis,</HI></L>
<L>If I get Pearl my deare&s;t Girl,</L>
<L>it &s;hall be at thy &s;ervice.</L>
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<SPEAKER>Maid.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>Thy &s;peeches I do much commend,</L>
<L>Yet dare I not to conde&s;cend</L>
<L>For fear I lo&s;e as I &s;uppo&s;e,</L>
<L>my fathers dear affection.</L>
<L>Or else i'd yield to you the field,</L>
<L>if I might have my election.</L>
</LG>
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<SPEAKER>Man.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>Never &s;tand to complement,</L>
<L>This doth give me no content,</L>
<L>Tho' father frown &amp; mother frown,</L>
<L>yet none of them &s;hall rout me,</L>
<L>I am not in je&s;t I do prote&s;t</L>
<L>I cannot live without th&eacute;e.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>Thus he gain'd the Dam&s;els love,</L>
<L>And hone&s;t to her he did prove,</L>
<L>He wedded her and bedded her</L>
<L>although his Ma&s;ter's Daughter;</L>
<L>He pleas'd her well t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="under-inked" EXTENT="1 letter">truth to tell,</L>
<L>and parents love came after.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For they gave them eight&s;core pound</L>
<L>wherby this couples joys were crownd</L>
<L>Thus may you &s;ee in each degree</L>
<L>this youth was well be-friended,</L>
<L>They live in peace, their goods increa&s;e</L>
<L>and thus my Song is ended.</L>
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