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<NAME>Megan Marion</NAME>
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<VID>181917</VID>
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<HEAD>Loves fortune. OR, <HI>A faint-hearted Souldier will never win the Field.</HI></HEAD>
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<LG>
<L>The Young-mans good fortune in wooing his Love:</L>
<L>She was Rich, and he but poor,</L>
<L>And &s;he vowed &s;he ne'r would love him more,</L>
<L>Yet Day and Night he took great pain,</L>
<L>And for to love her once again.</L>
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<OPENER>Tune is, <HI>Sweet come love me once again.</HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>WAlking mo&s;t early in a morning fair,</L>
<L>I heard a young-man thus did &s;ay,</L>
<L>O how do I live in de&s;pair,</L>
<L>for her that's &s;weeter than the May:</L>
<L>But I will to her once again,</L>
<L>to &s;ee if &s;he'l me entertain,</L>
<L>With ki&s;&s;es &s;weet I will her greet,</L>
<L><HI>and for to love me once again.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Sweet-heart, &s;aid he, tell me thy mind,</L>
<L>why thou &s;hould&s;t thus hard-hearted be:</L>
<L>Or why wilt thou prove thus unkind</L>
<L>to him that is &s;o true to thee.</L>
<L>But for my part, I'm Royal in my heart,</L>
<L>and evermore will &s;o remain;</L>
<L>Sweet kill not me with di&s;loyalty,</L>
<L><HI>but vow to love me once again.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Kind Sir I thank you for your love,</L>
<L>but you are very much to blame,</L>
<L>To &s;eek my thoughts thus for to prove,</L>
<L>pi&s;h fye away be gone for &s;hame.</L>
<L>For many a maid hath been betray'd,</L>
<L>therefore in love I pray give o're,</L>
<L>Hands off be gone, let me alone,</L>
<L><HI>for I vow I ne'r will love thee more.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Alas dear love &s;ome pitty take</L>
<L>on me that loves you &s;o intire;</L>
<L>My life lies bound unto a &s;take,</L>
<L>let me not burn in <HI>Cupids</HI> Fire:</L>
<L>My heart &s;o free in loving thee,</L>
<L>blind <HI>Cupid</HI> hath my &s;ences tane:</L>
<L>Some pitty move my deare&s;t love,</L>
<L><HI>and now, &amp;c.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Content thy &s;elf love &s;ay no more,</L>
<L>for &s;ure thou art no match for me,</L>
<L>My Parents Rich and thine but poor,</L>
<L>and that may cau&s;e great mi&s;ery:</L>
<L>And thus I'le &s;ay both night and day,</L>
<L>a &s;ingle life I'le ne'r give o're,</L>
<L>Therefore be gone, let me alone,</L>
<L><HI>for I vow I'le never love thee more.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>O be content my deare&s;t love,</L>
<L>on worldly means &s;et not thy mind,</L>
<L>Tho thou be Rich and I but poor,</L>
<L>O be not thou to me unkind.</L>
<L>No pains i'le &s;pare, but take great care,</L>
<L>thee for to plea&s;e i'le take great pain;</L>
<L>Be not unkind but change thy mind,</L>
<L><HI>and now come love me once again.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>KInd Sir, I thank you for your love,</L>
<L>and for the pains that you would take;</L>
<L>My mind you never can remove,</L>
<L>I pray you chu&s;e &s;ome other mate:</L>
<L>For words are but wind &amp; may prove-unkind,</L>
<L>therefore leave off I pray give o're;</L>
<L>To live with thee i'le not combine</L>
<L><HI>for I vow I'le never love thee more.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Hard hap had I to &s;et my love</L>
<L>on one that cares &s;o &s;mall for me,</L>
<L>No hopes have I but from above,</L>
<L>to change thy mind and fancy me;</L>
<L>But yet I &s;tand at thy command,</L>
<L>&s;weet kill not me with coy di&s;dain,</L>
<L>Some pitty take and an&s;wer make,</L>
<L><HI>that thou wilt love me again.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Sweet come tell me (if thou can)</L>
<L>the be&s;t way now this &s;ame to carry,</L>
<L>If I &s;hould yield both heart and hand,</L>
<L>to be thy Bride and for to marry:</L>
<L>For friends and kindreds love to get,</L>
<L>or &s;urely it may breed great pain,</L>
<L>Procure the &s;ame, i'le thee re&s;pect,</L>
<L><HI>I vow to love thee once again.</HI></L>
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<L>My deare&s;t dear take thou no care,</L>
<L>but mark the words that I do &s;ay,</L>
<L>What lies in me I will not &s;pare,</L>
<L>if thou wilt love and fancy me.</L>
<L>Let Father frown, let Mother chide,</L>
<L>a heart that's true will never &s;tain,</L>
<L>Come life or death i'le &s;tick to thee,</L>
<L><HI>if thou wilt love me once again.</HI></L>
<L><HI>The Maid.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Five hundred pound my portion is,</L>
<L>and all this on thee I will be&s;tow,</L>
<L>VVith heart and hand take here this ki&s;s,</L>
<L>thou art my own and &s;hall be &s;o:</L>
<L>Come wealth or woe with thee i'le go,</L>
<L>through <HI>England, Scotland, France</HI> or <HI>Spain</HI></L>
<L><HI>Cupid</HI> hath told me it mu&s;t be &s;o,</L>
<L><HI>and I vow to love thee once again.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>All you true Lovers that hear this Song,</L>
<L>let this to you a pattern be:</L>
<L>Seek not your true Love for to wrong,</L>
<L>neither for Gold nor yet for fee.</L>
<L>He is my delight both day and night,</L>
<L>true love is worth a Golden Chain,</L>
<L>All you true Lovers is this not right,</L>
<L><HI>to grant true love for love again.</HI></L>
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<P>Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, J. Clark, W. Thackeray, and T. Pa&s;&s;inger.</P>
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