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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
<PB REF="1">
<PB REF="2">
<PB REF="3">
<HEAD>The two Ioyful Lovers, OR, A true pattern of Love.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<LG>
<L>The Maid at fir&s;t was mo&s;t unkinde,</L>
<L>Yet bore at la&s;t a faithful minde:</L>
<L>For Cupid with his Bow and Shield.</L>
<L>At la&s;t did force her for to yield.</L>
</LG>
</ARGUMENT>
<OPENER>The Tune is, Fancies Phoenix.</OPENER>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="part">
<P><FIGURE>
<P>R I</P>
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<LG>
<L>AWake, awake from &s;lumbring &s;leep,</L>
<L>O heart why art thou fir'd &s;o &s;ure?</L>
<L>Why doth thou thus for fancy weep,</L>
<L>for tho&s;e that cannot th&eacute;e endure,</L>
<L>Or why &s;hould I my &s;elf di&s;grace</L>
<L>With doting on a Maidens face;</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>O no, O no, I will break that &s;trife,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And live and dye a &s;ingle life.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If &s;he had prov'd as true to m&eacute;e,</L>
<L>as I in heart did vow to be,</L>
<L>No cau&s;e &s;he would have had to rue</L>
<L>my heart &s;o &s;tedfa&s;t is and true:</L>
<L>And &s;till I &s;corn to change my minde,</L>
<L>What though &s;he prove to me unkinde;</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>'Tis onely &s;he mu&s;t be my Wife,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Or e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e I'le live a &s;ingle life.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O <HI>Cupid</HI> now, come let m&eacute;e know,</L>
<L>Why I &s;hould thus abu&s;ed be,</L>
<L>The truth unto m&eacute;e now come &s;how,</L>
<L>I am &s;ure the fault is all in th&eacute;e,</L>
<L>And cau&s;e of this my mournful cry,</L>
<L>Therefore come ea&s;e my mi&s;ery;</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>And rid me of this home-bred &s;trife,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Or I vow to live a &s;ingle life.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Go tell my Mi&s;tri&s;s it is I,</L>
<L>&s;he mu&s;t and cannot chu&s;e but love,</L>
<L>I pray th&eacute;e let thy arrows fly;</L>
<L>that &s;he may true and con&s;tant prove,</L>
<L>For I no cau&s;e at all can &s;&eacute;e</L>
<L>I &s;hould go bound, and &s;he go fr&eacute;e,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Per&s;wade her for to end the &s;trife,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Or I vow to live a &s;ingle life.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>No man can tell except he try</L>
<L>the grief, and care, and mi&s;ery:</L>
<L>A man in love may &s;oon obtain.</L>
<L>and be rewarded with di&s;dain:</L>
<L>So hard in heart &s;ome Maidens are,</L>
<L>Young men I pray you have a care:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>For fear your heart be fill'd with &s;trife,</HI></L>
<L><HI>No, rather chu&s;e a &s;ingle life.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But &s;tay, m&eacute;e-thinks, I hear a voice,</L>
<L>and harmony within mine ear,</L>
<L>I think it is my onely joys,</L>
<L>the voice of her I love mo&s;t dear,</L>
<L>Forbear a while and you &s;hall &s;&eacute;e,</L>
<L>My love and I in unity.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>I hope that &s;he will end the &s;trife,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And yeeld now for to be my Wife.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The &s;econd part, Being the Maidens an&s;wer to her &s;elf, being alone as &s;he &s;up|po&s;ed, having a Cittern in her hand, &s;he began to &s;ing as followeth:</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the &s;ame Tune.</OPENER>
<P><FIGURE>
</FIGURE></P>
<LG>
<L>COme, come away, my deare&s;t Dear,</L>
<L>make ha&s;te methinks thou &s;tayes too long,</L>
<L>I am in fault I greatly fear,</L>
<L>blinde <HI>Cupid</HI> he hath done this wrong,</L>
<L>But now I fear with grief and pain,</L>
<L>A love-&s;ick-heart with &s;orrow &s;lain:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Would God I were his Marryed wife,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Or el&s;e for love I lo&s;e my life.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I &s;everal &s;orts of Suitors have,</L>
<L>that doth de&s;ire my company,</L>
<L>And all of them my love doth crave,</L>
<L>yet I to them make this reply,</L>
<L>Forbear your &s;uite trouble not me,</L>
<L>A &s;ingle life from care is free:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>But yet to end up all the &s;trife,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Would God I were my True-loves Wife.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>'Tis he I vow and onely he,</L>
<L>that be&s;t de&s;erves the fruits of Love,</L>
<L>I vow to him con&s;tant to be,</L>
<L>while life doth la&s;t, I true will prove,</L>
<L>Would God that he were &s;tanding by,</L>
<L>To hear my doleful harmony,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>He would have then his heatts de&s;ire,</HI></L>
<L><HI>What civilly he could require.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Therefore content thy &s;elf dear friend,</L>
<L>my heart is fired now for ever,</L>
<L>And &s;hall be while my life doth end,</L>
<L>thy onely joy thou maye&s;t recover,</L>
<L>Therefore I once again reply,</L>
<L>Would God my Dear were &s;tanding by,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>For I am re&s;olved to end the &s;trife,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Would God I were his married Wife.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I hearing of this kinde reply,</L>
<L>with mu&s;ick &s;w&eacute;et from my deare&s;t Dear,</L>
<L>With courage bold I then drew near,</L>
<L>forgetting all my former care;</L>
<L>And with a &s;alutation &s;w&eacute;et</L>
<L>We did each other kindly gr&eacute;et.</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Shee yeilded what I did require,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And granted me my hearts de&s;ire,</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>So to conclude, we married were,</L>
<L>according unto Gods Decr&eacute;e,</L>
<L>In love we live void of all care</L>
<L>in joy, in peace, and unity:</L>
<L>You Maidens all which hear this &s;ong,</L>
<L>Pray have a care you do no wrong:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>But if your Loves be true and kinde,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Be &s;ure to bear a faithful minde.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>T. R.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P>London, Printed for Sarah Tyus on London-Bridge.</P>
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