Selected quad for the lemma: love_n
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A49275
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Love and loyalty well met
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1685
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Wing L3202; ESTC R213725
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Love and Loyalty Well met The Faithful Young-man Loved well This Damsel Fair and bright Whose beauty did so much excell She prov'd his hearts delight To the Tune of State and Ambition Young-Man Faeirest of Fair ones if thou should'st prove cruel my Love to requite with scorn and disdain And to my flaming heart Add cumbustible Fuel it would much increase both my sorrow and pain Thy beauty it is that I do so desire and on thee I think both by day and by night There 's none but thy self that I Love and admire for thou art my true love my joy and Delight Maids Answer You young men of late are so false and deceitful poor innocent maids know not who to believe Much Love you pretend but do oft prove ungrateful and leave us poor Damsels to mourn and to grieve Such pretty Court Fashions of late you have learned you 'l vow and protest your base mind to fulfill To Credulous Damsels it is not discerned and so wrong young Maiden that never thought ill Young-man I 'me none of that number I prethee dont doubt me my heart in thy breast is imprisoned sure And for my affection I prethee don't flout me for my Love shall last while my Life doth endure To this my poor suit do not give a denyal nor seem in the least thy true Lover to slight Thou plainly wilt find when it comes to the tryal that thou art my true love my joy and Delight Maid If thou wouldst be faithful and real unto me Oh! then I would tell thee a piece of my mind It would be no trouble at all for to wooe me to one that is constant I soon could be kind But if I should venture to come to a tryal and grant your desire your mind to fulfill If in the conclusion thou shouldst be Disloyal ' would wrong a poor maiden that never thought ill Young-Man No no by the power that governs poor creatures I will be as Loyal as mortal can be For I am enamoured with thy pretty features and thou like an Angel appearest to me In thy Rosie cheeks my delights I have fixed and nothing is welcome but thee in my sight When thy Love with my Love together are mixed thou art my true love my joy and Delight Maids Answer These pretty kind speeches I fear will perswade me to tender good nature to Love and admire Blind Cupid already begins to invade me and now I‘me possess with Loves amorous fire Come give me thy hand with a large protestation that what I desire thou wilt freely fulfill For thou art the man I love best in the Nation then wrong not a Maiden that never thought ill Young-Man These tydings my dearest exceedingly please me my heart thou hast won I 'le for ever be thine Of my pains and torments my Love thou dost ease me as I am thy true Love I hope thou art mine Let us two together lye close in embraces in Love we will sollace by day and by night Thou art so adorned with beautiful graces that thou art my true love my joy and Delight Maid Come come then my true Love no longer we‘l tarry but finish the rites that poor Lovers enjoy we‘l go to the Church and with speed we will marry to show that at first ‘ t was my real design Though it seemed strange it was onely to try thee and yet seemed loath thy mind to fulfill I knew in my heart that I could not deny thee for I am a Maiden that never thought ill The AVTHOR Fair Maidens take pattern by these faithful Lovers who now are fast linked in Cupids strong Chains For when Tell-tale eyes a true passion discovers they soon put an end unto torturing pains And young-men no more do you now prove deceitful bnt constant and Loyal by day and by night For 't is no small trespass to be so ungrateful to her who accounts you her Joy and delight FINIS Printâ—â— for J. Blare at the Sign of the Looking-glass on London-Bridge