The honest Maydens loyalty
OR, The young mans faithfull constancy.
He vowes to endure the Wrack and the
[...]
And suffer dearly for his true loves sake.
To a pretty new Tune, Or,
wert thou more fairer.
MOst early in a morning faire
a young man sung this solemn quire
Where his deare swéeting did use to lie,
and thus lamenting he did cry,
Farewel sweet heart, for I must be gone,
but ile have my love, or ile have none.
Set forty thousand all arow
there's none can make so fair a show
For in the Pallace of her twinkling eyes,
I see how amorous
Cupid flyes.
As for my part I have chosen one,
And ile have my love, or ile have non.
No rack nor
stack[?] with tortures great
that shall my love entire defeat,
I doe not waver like the turning wind,
but bare a lovers constan
[...] mind.
As for my part, &c.
[...] can love so true as I,
[...] so sick yet cannot dye.
[...]
kiss[?] can
[...] heart
[...]
and make a lov
[...]-sick man alive.
As by experience is wel known,
And ile have &c.
A Lady in her highdegrée,
her lofty mind cannot fanc y me:
For many are ambitious in there waies,
but maydens chaste young men should praise.
I wil be faithful to mine own
For ile have &c.
Your City Dames with mincing feates
have many tricks, and fine conceits:
But my true love is vertuous, chaste and wise
and like an Angel in my eyes.
As for my &c.
Into some far Country ile goe,
confine myselfe to care and woe.
Til fickle fortune doe please to smile,
that has so lo
[...]red all this while.
As for my part I have chose one,
And ile have my love
[...] ile have non.
The second part,
to the same tune.
BVt marke how
Bateman dy'd for love▪
he finisht up his life,
The very day she married was,
and made old
Jermans Wife.
For with a strangling Cord, God wot,
great moane was made ther fore.
He hang'd himselfe in desperate sort,
before the Brides owne doore.
Whereat such sorrow pierc'd her heart
and troubled sore her mind
That she could never after that,
one day of comfort find:
For wheresoever that she went,
her fancy did surmise,
Young
Batemans pale and gastly ghost,
appear'd before her eyes.
When she in bed a nights did lye,
betweene her Husbands armes,
In hope thereby to sleepe and rest,
in safety without harmes:
great crys & grievous groans she heard
a voyce that sometimes said,
O thou art she that I must have,
and must not be denay'd.
But she then being big with Child,
was for the Infants sake
Preserved from the Spirits power,
no vengeance could it take:
The Babe unborne did safely keepe,
as God appoynted so
His Mothers body from the Fiend,
that sought her overthrow.
But being of her burthen eas'd,
and safely brought to bed,
Her cares and griefs began anew,
and further sorrowes bred:
And of her friends she cid increase,
desiring them to s
[...]ay,
Out of my bed quoth she this night
I shall be borne away.
Here comes the Spirit of my Love,
with pale and gastly face
Who till he takes me hence with him,
will not depart this place:
Alive or dead I am his right,
and he will surely have,
In spight of me and all the World,
What I by promise gave.
O watch with me this night I pray,
and see you doe not sleepe ,
No longer that you be awake
my body can you keepe:
All promised to doe the best,
yet nothing could suffice,
At middle of the night to ke
[...]pe
sad slumber from their eyes,
So being all full fast asleepe,
to them unknowne which wayes
The Child-bed Wife that wofull night,
from thence was borne away:
But to what place no cre
[...]ture knew,
nor to this day can tell,
As strange a thing as ever yet
in any age befell
You Maidens that desire to love,
and would good Husbands chuse,
To him that you have vow'd your love.
by no meanes doe refuse:
For God that heares all secret Oaths
Will dreadfull vengeance take
On such as of a
[...] Vow
doe slender rekoning make,
Finis.
London, Printed for W. G. dwelling in Gilt-spur-street.