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B06248
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The true-lovers good-morrow. A brace of valentines I here present, who now together live in hearts content: these luckily did meet upon the way, in February on the fourteenth day. The tune is, As at noon Dulcina rested.
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1689-1692?
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Wing T2745; Interim Tract Supplement Guide EBB65H[115]
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The True-Lovers Good-morrow A brace of Valentines I here persent Who now together live in hearts content These luckily did meet upon the way In February on the fourteenth day The Tune is As at Noon Dulcina rested Batchelor In the month of February the green leaves begin to spring Pretty Lambs trip like a Fairy Birds do couple bill and sing All things on earth That draweth breath In love together then do joyn Why should not I. My fortune try And seek me out a Valentine Thanks kind fate I have my wishes for I have now met my dear Whom I greet with honey kisses her sweet sight my heart doth chear My dearest love And Turtle-Dove O let my arms about thee twine For thou art she I first did see Good morrow my fair Valenine Maid Surely Sir you are mistaken for you met some other Maid Young-men they are given to scoffing and as much to her you said Then do not stay Me on the way with your swéet words that you do coyn Let me alone I must be gone Pray seek some other Valentine Batchelor If true faith may be believed on you first I did set sight Sweet let not my heart be grieved who doth love your beauty bright Oft have I wisht I might be blest With your sweet presence for to joyn And case my mind Maids should be kind And loving to their Valentine Maid SIr to me you are a stranger Maids must look before they leap In fair specehes oft there 's danger snakes under sweet flowers Creep maids often find mens words but wind The Sun shall set that bright did shine after a calm there comes a storm Go seek some other Valentine Batchelor Fortune fair hath now decreed it that none but you I should meet Dearly I do love believe it for you are my only sweet my grieved breast can take no rest Which doth my love-sick heart conjoyn Love I require Love I desire Of thee my beautious Valentine Maid For your affection Sir I thank you being more then my desert Sure I cannot be so cruel to procure a Lovers smart 'T is modesty for to deny Yet from my words I may decline then banish pain take heart again For I will be thy Valentine Batchelor Now thou speakest like an Angel and my drooping heart revive For to give all contentment day and night I 'le ever strive thy courteous words much joy affords And thy rare beauty so divine sweet let me kiss my fair mistris My only joy and Valentine Maid If you intend what you have promis'd and do love me as you say I may yield but if you flatter I can my affection stay now I am free as you may see No man can say that I am thine but being bound no help is found And then no more sweet Valentine Batchelor When I from my promise alter let me then no longer thrive And let nothing with me prosper while that I remain alive pains I 'le not spare but still take care For to maintain thee neat and fine and for the best that can be drest Then thou shalt eat sweet Valentine Maid Seeing you are so kind hearted I have freely given consent And my love to thee imparted hoping never to repent I 'le constant prove to thee my Love For I am thine and thou art mine I 'le saving be as thou shalt see Sweet Husband friend and Valentine Batchelor A thousand thousand thanks I render back again to thee my love Who above the world I tender my firm faith shall ne'r remove then presently to Church let 's hye Where in Hymens band 's let 's joyn take hand and heart till death depart My life my Wife and Valentine Printed for VV. Thackeray at the Angel in Duck-Lane I. M. and A. M.