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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>Northern Nanny,
<Q><L>Or: the loving La&s;&s;es lamentation,</L>
<L>In this &s;ame Sonnet &s;he doth plain di&s;cover</L>
<L>The true affection of a &s;aithful Lover,</L>
<L>Wailing his ab&s;cence &s;ince by fortune cruel</L>
<L>She was deprived of her deare&s;t Jewel,</L>
<L>Which may a pattern to all lovers be</L>
<L>To take example by this maiden free.</L></Q> Tune of, <HI>In January la&s;t, &amp;c.</HI><FIGURE>
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<LG>
<L>ON <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI> Monday la&s;t</L>
<L>when Ladds and La&s;&s;es play</L>
<L>As o're the green I pa&s;t,</L>
<L>near non time of the day,</L>
<L>I heard a pen&s;ive Maiden mourn</L>
<L>tears trickling down amain,</L>
<L>Quoth &s;he ala&s;s why was I born</L>
<L>to live in mickle pain.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Why did my love depart</L>
<L>and leave me hird alone,</L>
<L>To wail and break my heart</L>
<L>with making of my moan,</L>
<L>The marble Rocks with me lament</L>
<L>&s;in e I have lo&s;t my dea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>As if with me they were c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ntent</L>
<L>to drop a m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ul <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ear.</L>
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<LG>
<L>You La&s;&s;es of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">orth</L>
<L>come hear me tell my tale,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t I the prai&s;e &s;et forth</L>
<L>of him for whom I wail,</L>
<L>Come &s;it ye down upon this gr&eacute;en</L>
<L>and patiently give ear,</L>
<L>A true de&s;cription I will give</L>
<L>of him I love &s;o dear.</L>
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<LG>
<L>He hath a plea&s;ant countenance</L>
<L>and eke a rolling eye,</L>
<L>Sike charms of love ligs in his &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">e,</L>
<L>will make a maiden dye,</L>
<L>His comly per&s;on finely made</L>
<L>well &s;hap't in every part,</L>
<L>Wit tempting language to per<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">wade</L>
<L>the mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">t obdurate he art.</L>
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<L>When fir&s;t it was my chance</L>
<L>his per&s;on for to view,</L>
<L>Each luek and &s;miling glance</L>
<L>my love it would renew:</L>
<L>I thought my &s;elf the happie&s;t la&s;s</L>
<L>when I his love did win,</L>
<L>For all the trea&s;ure of the earth</L>
<L>I valued not a pin.</L>
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<LG>
<L>True love on either &s;ide</L>
<L>Did in our hearts take place,</L>
<L>But this our joy and happine&s;s</L>
<L>did la&s;t but little &s;pace:</L>
<L>For fortune &s;he was always blind</L>
<L>and cro&s;&s;es lovers true,</L>
<L>And that's the rea&s;on that I find</L>
<L>I now have cau&s;e to rue.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Our Daddys and our Mammys beath</L>
<L>to us did cruel prove,</L>
<L>And would not let us wedded be</L>
<L>but &s;ought to break our love,</L>
<L>Which made my love and I lament</L>
<L>things falling out &s;o cro&s;s,</L>
<L>So that for travel he was bent</L>
<L>which grieves me for his lo&s;s.</L>
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<LG>
<L>To cro&s;s the Seas he now is gone</L>
<L>his &s;orrows to a&s;&s;wage,</L>
<L>And left poor harmle&s;s me alone</L>
<L>in this my tender age,</L>
<L>My love &s;ick heart is fill'd with woe</L>
<L>which cau&s;eth me to mourn,</L>
<L>O whither &s;hall poor <HI>Nanny</HI> go</L>
<L>untill my love return.</L>
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<LG>
<L>In mans attire i'le venture</L>
<L>to find my love again,</L>
<L>Among&s;t the &s;trangers I will go</L>
<L>through <HI>Holland, France,</HI> and <HI>Spain,</HI></L>
<L>No hard&s;hip &s;hall a burden be</L>
<L>my chance i'le never rue</L>
<L>To &s;et my love at liberty</L>
<L>my fancy i'le pur&s;ue.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Or in &s;ome noble man of Warr</L>
<L>as Cabbin-Boy i'le go,</L>
<L>To find my love in countrys far</L>
<L>to ea&s;e me of my woe,</L>
<L>Was ever harmle&s;s la&s;s &s;o cro&s;t</L>
<L>and &s;o with love perplext.</L>
<L>For fear my <HI>Johnny</HI> &s;hould be lo&s;t</L>
<L>I am &s;o griev'd and vext.</L>
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<LG>
<L>My fathers frown I will not fear</L>
<L>nor mothers anger mind,</L>
<L>Since they have made me lo&s;e my dear</L>
<L>by being &s;o unkind,</L>
<L>If they had granted their con&s;ent</L>
<L>how happy had we been,</L>
<L>To pa&s;s the time in merryment</L>
<L>among&s;t the leaves &s;o green.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But now ala&s;s it is too late</L>
<L>and all my hope is vain,</L>
<L>My &s;orrow it will not abate</L>
<L>till he return again,</L>
<L>Vnle&s;s I f om my love do hear</L>
<L>within a little &s;pace,</L>
<L>Through de&s;arts wild my cour&s;e i'le &s;teer</L>
<L>to find a re&s;ting place.</L>
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<P>London Printed for F. Coles. T. Vere. J. Wright. and J. Clark.</P>
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