Loves up to the elbowes.
To the tune of Codlings.
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YOu men that loving be, love not too fondly,
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Let still your mind live free, yet use them kindly.
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Use not in love excesse,
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For here I will expresse
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I am in love no lesse
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then up to th' elbowes
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I spide a daintie Dame of fayrest feature
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She was of natures frame a comely creature,
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Her beauty did excell.
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And her sight pleasd me well
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With her in love [I] fell
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up to the elbowes.
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Oft have I meet this maid yet neere spoke to her,
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Bashfulnes did perswade, I should not wooe her,
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Still this most beautious prize
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So dazeled mine eyes,
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I fell in wofull wise
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in love to the elbowes.
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Once at a Wake I met my lovely sweeting
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When I did cleane forget the use of greeting,
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She mery made with Ale,
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Whose acquaintance was but small,
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In love I further fall
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up to the elbowes.
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Dancing upon a Greene next time I spide her,
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She seem'd like Flora's Queene all th'time I ey'd her
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Such frolicke roundelaies
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She danst to winne the Baies
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I fell: while she got the praise
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in love to th' elbowes.
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Trasing the fragrant fields one morning early,
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To see what nature yeeldes, Wheat Rie and barly.
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A milking I did finde
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This maid of Venus kind
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Fate hath my love assignde
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up to the elbowes.
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Selling of Apricokes I spide her standing
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Laid out with golden lockes my heart commanding
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I cheapned her ware
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It lookt so passing faire
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But her lookes cast care on care
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being up to th' elbowes.
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Once I occasion tooke to speake unto her,
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Such was her Beautious looke I faine would wooe her
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But speech was spent in vaine
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Such wordes of coy disdaine
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From her: my heart hath staine
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being up to th' elbowes.
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The second part. To the same tune.
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ONce at a mariage feast wee dinde together,
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I view'd her mongst the rest though minds did souer
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I feasted on her sight
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She would not lookes requite
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Yet still I tooke delight
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being up to th' elbowes.
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Like Helens is her face with Golden tresses,
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Which showes suoh splendant grace like young Narcissus
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Her eyes like Lampes doe shine
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Her lookes are so Divine
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She doth my love confine
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up to the elbowes
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Her pretty Dimple Chin, Cheekes red as Cheries
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Her necke like Ivory thinne with Amber Berries
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Wast short and body tall
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And fingers long and small
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Forst me in love to fall
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up to the elbowes.
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From wast unto the foote compleat of nature
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None sees but still doth praise this comly creature
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Did face and mind agree
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She then would pitty me
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That by loves cruelty
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am up to the elbowes
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Once more Ide court this dame but am asha[med]
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And by my rash attempt I might be blamed
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My loving heart doth ake
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For my faire Mistris sake
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What course should lovers take
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being up to the elbowes.
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I have seene lovers pine for such like crosses,
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I have seene lovers die for such like losses
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But in extreames of woe
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I neever yet [I] know
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In love, a young man so
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up to the elbowes.
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Will man that is a man be slaved by woman
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But tis a fault in man growne too too comm[on]
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To love, yet love in vaine
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And be not belov'd againe
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I plungd am in loves paine
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up to the elbowes
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Vanish all feareful feare I wil unto her
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Vanish al careful care for I must wooe her
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If we can wel agree
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And she can fansie me
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No longer love shal be
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up to the elbowes.
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