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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
<PB N="218" REF="1"><!-- PDF PAGE 21 -->
<HEAD>Love in a MAZE; or, The Young-man put to his Dumps.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<L>Here in this Song you may behold and &s;ee</L>
<L>A gallant Girl obtain'd by Wit and Hone&s;ty;</L>
<L>All you that hear my Song, and mark it but aright,</L>
<L>Will &s;ay true Love's vvorth Gold, and breeds delight.</L>
</ARGUMENT>
<OPENER><HI>To a plea&s;ant Nevv tune,</HI> called, <HI>the true Lovers delight; or, the Cambridge Horn.</HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>LAte in the morning, as I abroad was walking,</L>
<L>All in a Meadow green, I heard two Lovers talking;</L>
<L>With ki&s;&s;es &s;weet the young-man her Saluted,</L>
<L>Then I drew near to hear what they di&s;puted:</L>
<L><HI>Then I drew near to hear what they di&s;puted.</HI></L>
</LG>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Young-man.</SPEAKER>
<L>Fair Maid, qouth he, this merry morning,</L>
<L>Pre&s;ent one &s;mile to me, and be no longer &s;corning:</L>
<L>Him who hath vow'd to be thine own for ever,</L>
<L>O &s;ay but to me, Our loves &s;hall never &s;ever:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>O &s;ay,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Maid.</SPEAKER>
<L>Indeed Sir, quoth &s;he, it is a nu&s;ty morning,</L>
<L>But I would have you to know I alwaies hated &s;corning,</L>
<L>And as for love, as yet I mean to &s;mother,</L>
<L>I know not one as yet I love better than another:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>I know,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Young-man.</SPEAKER>
<L>True love, &s;weet-heart, qd. he, if e'er you change to know it,</L>
<L>It cannot &s;mothered be, but at la&s;t you'll &s;how it;</L>
<L>The fir&s;t time I beheld thy &s;weet and comely carriage,</L>
<L>I ever &s;ince de&s;ired that we were joyn'd in marriage:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>I ever,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Maid.</SPEAKER>
<L>I Love Sir, quoth &s;he, is like a Fi&s;hers Angel,</L>
<L>Which oft hath golden baits fifty Maidens to intangle,</L>
<L>Are cunningly ca&s;t out by Young-mens fal&s;e inventions,</L>
<L>Then marriage they'll pretend where 'tis not their inten|tions.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Then marriage,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Young-man.</SPEAKER>
<L>O 'tis &s;o, my dear, true love is like a fountain</L>
<L>That ca&s;t out water clear out of a Rocky mountain,</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;tream for to &s;top you'll &s;ay it is a wonder,</L>
<L>Likewi&s;e 'tis as &s;trange to cleave the Rocks in &s;under:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Likewi&s;e 'tis as,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</SP>
<LG>
<L>Such is my love to thee, and &s;hall be ever,</L>
<L>No uncon&s;tant thoughts or fickle mind can &s;ever</L>
<L>My heart from thee, which alwaies &s;hall be bringing</L>
<L>Fountains clear &amp; fre&s;h, that from true love is &s;pringing,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Fountains clear and fre&s;h,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Maid.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your compari&s;ion, &s;aid &s;he, I mu&s;t confe&s;s is witty,</L>
<L>To &s;tay the &s;tream of love it were a pitty;</L>
<L>But your heart you compare indeed to rocky mountains,</L>
<L>For &s;tony oft they are, and ca&s;t our &s;everal fountains.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>For &s;tony,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</SP>
<LG>
<L>As from &s;ome fountain &s;everal &s;treams are running,</L>
<L>So many &s;eigned loves you oft have by your cunning;</L>
<L>'Tis hard to pierce your &s;linty heart a&s;under,</L>
<L>and &s;top your fickle &s;treams, it is a wonder:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>And &s;top,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Young-man.</SPEAKER>
<L>Fie, fie, &s;weet-heart, your wit doth over-match me,</L>
<L>No words I can impart but pre&s;ently you catch me:</L>
<L>You maidens now each day do grow &s;o coy and witty,</L>
<L>Let Young-men beg and pray, you'll take of them no pitty.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>let Young-men,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Maid.</SPEAKER>
<L>Fie, away for &s;hame, you Young-men can de&s;&s;emble,</L>
<L>Your wits are ripe, your tongues are quick and nimble,</L>
<L>Indeed you'll beg and pray &s;ometimes to get your plea&s;ure,</L>
<L>Then leave us in the lurth, and we may repent at lei&s;ure:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Then leave,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Young-man.</SPEAKER>
<L>Confe&s;t it is, there's many are &s;o minded,</L>
<L>But it thou would&s;t prove my Con&s;tancy, thou'lt find it,</L>
<L>Do thou but command, through danger I will enter,</L>
<L>and for to gain thy love, through an army I would ventre:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>And for to gain,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>SWeet-heart i'd you know I never could di&s;&s;emble,</L>
<L>and my complements are &s;low, my tongue was never nimble;</L>
<L>'Tis none but loyal love makes me come unto thee,</L>
<L>It is not for thy wealth but vertue that I love thee.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>it is not for,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<LG>
<L>With that a bu&s;h of May this lovely maid e&s;pyed,</L>
<L>Near to a bank of Time, where to &s;he quickly hyed,</L>
<L>Down &s;he pluckt the May that was &s;o green and tender,</L>
<L>and up &s;he pluckt the time with her pretty arms &s;o &s;lender:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>and up &s;he,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>She &s;tuck the bu&s;h of may in time, and did pre&s;ent it</L>
<L>Vnto this Young-man, which was &s;oon di&s;contented;</L>
<L>Here, Sir, quoth &s;he, if that you will be ea&s;ed,</L>
<L>Read but this Riddle, Sir, perhaps you may be plea&s;ed.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Read but,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Young-man.</SPEAKER>
<L>He took it from her hand and receiv'd it as a token,</L>
<L>Then in a dump did &s;tand, &amp; never a word was &s;poken;</L>
<L>blu&s;hing, then at la&s;t he mode&s;tly replyed,</L>
<L>Your Riddle I can read, love, and &s;hall not be denied,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Your Riddle,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<LG>
<L>This may &s;tuck in time, which is to me pre&s;enting,</L>
<L>Shews that I may in time gain your love &amp; not contenting</L>
<L>Which if I may, i'll &s;tay your time and lei&s;ure,</L>
<L>No time i'll think too long, &s;o at la&s;t I gain the trea&s;ure.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>No time,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He took her by the hand and lovingly they walked,</L>
<L>but tied in <HI>Cupids</HI> hands mo&s;t amorou&s;ly they talked,</L>
<L>Then on each other &s;mil'd with inerchanging ki&s;&s;es,</L>
<L>O 'tis pitty time beguiled &s;uch lovers of their bli&s;&s;es.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>O 'tis pitty,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<SP>
<LG>
<L>Perhaps, &s;weet Sir, you by this Riddle reading,</L>
<L>May think you gained me by little or no per&s;wading,</L>
<L>Which if you did, it is yet at my plea&s;ure,</L>
<L>I am not bound to you yet, but you mu&s;t &s;tay my lei&s;ure.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>I am not,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<SP>
<LG>
<L>Then let this heart within this brea&s;t lie panting,</L>
<L>No happine&s;s e're &s;ee, but let joys be ever wanting;</L>
<L>If e're I think an evil thought upon thee,</L>
<L>let mirth be bani&s;ht quite, and &s;orrow wall upon me.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Let mirth,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<LG>
<L>If it be &s;o, quoth &s;he, thou beare&s;t &s;uch true affection,</L>
<L>Hereafter i'll agree to be rul'd by thy direction;</L>
<L>No friend &s;hall &s;ever or break our loves a&s;under,</L>
<L>For loyal loving hearts will be the worlds wonder.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>for loyal,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The time that late was mine to thee &s;hall be pre&s;ented,</L>
<L>all that I have is thine, then re&s;t thy &s;elf contented;</L>
<L>Thy gallant wit, thy mode&s;ty and carriage,</L>
<L>Hath won my heart, we will be joined in marriage,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Hath won,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Young-man.</SPEAKER>
<L>He took her at her word, and mode&s;tly replyed,</L>
<L>Short time I will afford, long time &s;hall be den&s;ded:</L>
<L>This being the fir&s;t of <HI>May,</HI> our hearts being join'd and wedded.</L>
<L>before the fifth day in wedlock we'll be <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">edded.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>before the,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Nine hundred pound with this maiden he obtained,</L>
<L>On marriage day was paid, which by his wit he gained;</L>
<L>altho' no means he had, &s;he never a whit repented,</L>
<L>He was a gallant lad, and &s;he was will contented.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>He was,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now all you pretty maids that live in town or city,</L>
<L>The author you per&s;wades to learn from this his dity,</L>
<L>If a Young-man you love, look not then for his trea&s;ure,</L>
<L>For if he hone&s;t prove in him is wealth and plea&s;ure:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>for if,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>You Young men i'll per&s;wade to hear my motion,</L>
<L>For if you affect a maid, regard not then her portion;</L>
<L>Hang ten pounds, give me the la&s;s that loves me,</L>
<L>If a good wife thou'd found, no joy on Earths above thee.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>if a good,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Young-men and maids that lately went a <HI>Maying,</HI></L>
<L>Mark the Nightingale, one tune he's alwaies playing,</L>
<L>Iug, jug, jug, &s;weet, is all the note &s;he &s;ingeth,</L>
<L>as when loyal lovers meet, no double tongues they bringeth.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>as when,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>all you pretty maids that are civil in Your carriage,</L>
<L>This Song in &s;ent to you to be warie in Your marriage:</L>
<L>Try before you tru&s;t, be careful in con&s;enting,</L>
<L>That when the knot is tied, there may be no repenting.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>that when Knot is,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P>Printed by and for <HI>A. M.</HI> and &s;old by the Book&s;ellers of <HI>London.</HI></P>
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