The crost couple, or A good misfortune. Which in a pleasant ditty discovers, the fortunate cross of a couple of lovers. To a new Northern tune, much in fashion.

1674-1679?

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The crost Couple, OR A good Misfortune.Which in a pleasant Ditty discovers,
The fortunate cross of a couple of Lovers.
To a New 
Northern Tune, much in fashion.

 [...]
ILle tell you a tale no stranger than true,

of a fa la la la la la
The sport on't is old, but the Sonnet is new

'tis a fa la la &c
The story sprung from under a Bush
From a tongue & a tune as sweet as a thrush
But I fear it will make a fair Lady to blush

with a fa &c.
Nay do not turn your faces away

with a fa &c.
Here's nothing that can your Vertue betray

with a fa &c.
Let not your fancies look a squint,
The Author would never have put it in Print
If there had béen any uncivil word in't

but a fa &c.
I tell you no tales of Battels & fights

with a fa &c.
Of wonders, of Monsters of Goblins or sprights,

with a fa &c.
Nor yet of a Thief that got a reprieve
I do not intend your spirits to grieve
My story's as old as 
Adam & 
Eve

with a fa &c.
I went to walk one Evening-tide

with a fa &c.
My fancy did lead me by a Wood side

with a fa &c.
'Twas in the prime of all the spring
Which giveth delight to every thing,
I saw a Maid li
 [...]en to hear a man sing

to her fa &c.
The tempting dressings that she was in

with a fa &c.
Would almost seduce a new Saint to the sin

with a fa &c.
She was a fair & lovely maid
About her wast his Arm he laid
The beautiful'st baggage is soonest betrai'd

to a fa &c.
I got me strait up into a tree

with a fa &c.
Where I might see all, and no man see me

with a fa &c.
The tree was thick and full of growth
The top on't did hover so over them both
That if I had 
 [...]ell, I had dropt in her mouth

or her fa &c.

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There many amorous glances they cast

with a fa &c.
But that was not all, the best is at last

with a fa &c.
Something it seems the youth would do
Which she would not consent unto
Have patience, & you shall know e're you go

with a fa &c.
When laid on her side, she turn'd to the tree

with her fa &c.
I durst have sworn she had look'd upon me

with her fa &c.
He many points of division did run
But she cryd out no, I shall be undone
He tun'd up his pipes though, & thus he begun

to her fa &c.
Oh come my own dear let's dally a while

with a fa &c.
Thou hast quicken'd my spirits now with a smile

and 
 [...]hy fa &c.
The trembling of thy lips do show
Thou hast no power to say me no
Which makes me have a moneths mind unto

thy fa &c.
This hearty kisse is a sign thou wilt yield

to thy fa &c.
The white of thy eyes speak peace in the field

with a fa &c.
Their for a Vail to hide thy face
Ile cloud thee with a sweet embrace
There's many would with that they were in thy place

with their fa &c.
Oh do not sigh to hear me intice,

with a fa &c.
Thou ne'r hadst béen got hath thy mother been nice

with her fa &c.
Then prethée put me out of my pain
For I am now in a merry vain
Let's play at that game, where the losers do gain

with their fa &c.
But oh my own dear why lyest thou so still

with thy fa &c.
Art thou in a swound or what is thy will

with thy fa &c.
I prethee joy take no such grief,
Since I am so ne
 [...]r to thy relief
Oh let me play the amorous Thief

with thy fa &c.
My dearest of all, why hold'st thou so fast

with a fa &c.
Ile swear we will marry if thou wilt make hast

with thy fa &c.

Cupid doth give us leave to play
Thy very blushes do betray
That thou dost interpret what I have to say

with a fa &c.
Then on her brow her vail she spread

with a fa &c.
As if he had been going to cut off her head

with his fa &c.
He with his Lips her mouth did wipe,
And gave her many an earnest gripe
For just now my Lady was yielding ripe

with her fa &c.
In what a fret was I in the tree

with a fa &c.
That I had not then another by me

with her fa &c.
Then I perceiv'd they whisper'd a while
With many fair pleadings he did her beguile
Sure something he shew'd her which made her to smile

with a fa &c.
He said he was sure he could not be spy'd

with a fa, &c.
But I if I durst could have told him he ly'd

with his fa &c.
I feard I should be brought to light
She so often cast up her Eyes so bright
The pleasures of Love did so dazle her sight

and her fa &c.
My Gamester could no longer forbear

her fa &c.
No more should I if I had been there

by her fa &c.
I turn'd and scrued my body round,
To sée my gallant scale the Town
But his getting up made me tumble down

with a fa &c
Such was my fate, no mischief I had

with a fa &c.
My Lovers both run as if they'd béen mad

with their fa &c.
And now I hope a warning 'twill be
How they in such sinful pleasures agree
For fear of the Devil that fell from the tree

with his fa la la la la la la.

Printed for F. Coles T Vere J. Wright and J Clarke.

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