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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140530.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<STC T="G">C.20.f.10[19]</STC>
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<VID>193161</VID>
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<DIV1 TYPE="song">
<PB REF="1">
<HEAD>Love and Con&s;tancy OR The true Lovers welcome home from France,</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<Q><L>De&s;cribing of the joy and friendly greeting,</L>
<L>Betwixt two Lovers at their happy meeting,</L>
<L>By cruel Fate long time they were devided,</L>
<L>But to their comfort now they are united.</L>
<L>VVhich makes them to rejoyce beyond expre&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>As you may finde by both their own confe&s;&s;ion.</L></Q>
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<OPENER>Tune of, <HI>Digby's</HI> farewel, or the <HI>Tyrant</HI> &amp;c. VVith Allowance.</OPENER>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a man and a woman holding hands</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The Maids part.</HEAD>
<L>COme all loyal Lovers &s;o courteous and free.</L>
<L>come lend your attention and li&s;ten to me,</L>
<L>With gladne&s;s my heart doth abound at this tide</L>
<L>now I am in hopes that I &s;hall be a bride:</L>
<L>Long time I have waited with patience to &s;ees</L>
<L>the face of my deare&s;t &s;o plea&s;ing to me,</L>
<L><HI>And now to my comefort my joyes to advance,</HI></L>
<L><HI>My Love he is &s;afely return'd out of <HI>France.</HI></HI></L>
<L>Then vvelcome my deare&s;t my joy ynd delight,</L>
<L>no more to the Wars &s;halt thou go for to fight,</L>
<L>My arms &s;hall &s;ecure thee from dangers &s;o free</L>
<L>thrice vvelcome my true Love thou art unto me:</L>
<L>Full often I vvi&s;h't for to &s;ee thee again,</L>
<L>vvhil&s;t I vvith a &s;orrowful heart did remain,</L>
<L><HI>But now for my comfort my joyes to advance,</HI></L>
<L><HI>My Love he is &s;afely return'd out of <HI>France.</HI></HI></L>
<PB REF="1">
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a man extending his hand to a woman</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a woman holding a fan</FIGDESC>
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<FIGDESC>a man extending his hand to a woman</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a woman holding a fan</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<LG>
<L>SInce that thou did&s;t leave me to langui&s;h &amp; mourn,</L>
<L><HI>I</HI> like the cha&s;te Turtle did wait thy return,</L>
<L>The choice&s;t of company could me not plea&s;e,</L>
<L>while&s;t thou wer't in danger beyond the &s;alt Seas,</L>
<L>To li&s;ten for tydings it was my cheif care,</L>
<L>and all for to hear how my Deare&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">id fare.</L>
<L><HI>But now to my comefort my joyes to advance.</HI></L>
<L><HI>My Love he is &s;afely return'd out of <HI>France.</HI></HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What maiden in <HI>England</HI> more happy can be,</L>
<L>now my hearts delight is from dangers &s;et free,</L>
<L>No grief nor no &s;orrow &s;hall trouble my minde,</L>
<L>provided that thou will be con&s;tant and kinde,</L>
<L>I'le plea&s;e th&eacute;e in all things that thou can&s;t de&s;ire,</L>
<L>nothing &s;hall be wanting that thou doe&s;t require,</L>
<L><HI>For now to my comfort my joyes to advance,</HI></L>
<L><HI>My Love he is &s;afely return'd out of <HI>France.</HI></HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And now my own deare&s;t take heart and take hand</L>
<L>for I am re&s;olved to obey thy command;</L>
<L>Therefore &s;peak thy plea&s;ure and utter thy mind,</L>
<L>thou can'&s;t not be cruel when I am &s;o kind,</L>
<L>Be &s;ure in thy an&s;wer thy love to unfold,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hich will be more welcome then &s;ilver or gold,</L>
<L><HI>Since now for my comfort my joyes to advance,</HI></L>
<L><HI>My love he is &s;afely rrturn'd out of <HI>France.</HI></HI></L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The young Mans kind An&s;wer:</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>O how it rejoyceth my heart for to hear,</L>
<L>this loving kind wellcome from my deare&s;t dear.</L>
<L>No happine&s;s greater could fall to my &s;hare,</L>
<L>therefore my true meaning i'le freely declare,</L>
<L>To thee i'le prove con&s;tant what ever betide,</L>
<L>and in a &s;hort time I will make thee my bride,</L>
<L><HI>The fame &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For all thy pa&s;t &s;orrow thy pain and thy grief,</L>
<L>I now am come over to bring the relief,</L>
<L>I'le throw in thy apron of good yellow gold,</L>
<L>a hundred good pieces as ever was told,</L>
<L>Be&s;ides i'le maintain thee mo&s;t bra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ely in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word">.</L>
<L>no one in the Pari&s;h thy garb &s;hall e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ceed,</L>
<L><HI>The fame of thy thy beauty likwi&s;e i'le advance,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Since that I am &s;afely return'd out of <HI>France.</HI></HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My &s;word and my armour I now will ca&s;t by,</L>
<L>to live in true plea&s;ure with thee till I dye,</L>
<L>Thou &s;halt be my <HI>Venus</HI> with whom I will play,</L>
<L>and walk in the meadows on each holy day.</L>
<L>Young Ladies &s;hall envy thy happine&s;s now,</L>
<L>that I have been con&s;tant and kept to my vow,</L>
<L><HI>Be&s;ides i'le endeaver thy joys to advance,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Since that I am &s;afely return'd out of <HI>France.</HI></HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The young men and maidens &s;hall frolick &amp; play,</L>
<L>and dance at our wedding the next holy-day,</L>
<L>Wee'l have good provi&s;ion of wine and good cheer,</L>
<L>and like to the Queen of May thou &s;halt appear,</L>
<L>Rare Mu&s;ick i'le have for to lighten thy heart,</L>
<L>and for to content thee i'le u&s;e my be&s;t Art,</L>
<L><HI>For now ile endeavor thy joyes to advance,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Since that I am &s;afely return'd out of <HI>France.</HI></HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then come my own deare&s;t and give me a ki&s;s,</L>
<L>now we are united I count i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> a blis,</L>
<L>And here for the pre&s;ent accept of this Ki<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g,</L>
<L>ere long I w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll plea&s;e thee with a better thing,</L>
<L>I'le make it my bu&s;ine&s;s in time to provide,</L>
<L>and at our next meeting i'le make thee my bride,</L>
<L><HI>For now i'me re&s;olv'd thy joyes to advance,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Since that I am &s;afely return d out of <HI>France.</HI></HI></L>
</LG>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P>London, Printed for <HI>John Ho&s;e</HI> over again&s;t <HI>Staple-Inn</HI> in <HI>Holbourn</HI> near <HI>Grayes-Inn-lane</HI></P>
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