The Damsels Dream:
OR, HER
Sorrowful Lamentation for her most unhappy Disappointment.
To the Tune of I often for my Jenny strove. Licensed according to Order.
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I Once lay slaping on my Bed
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in a most joyfull Extasie,
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No Creature but my Maidenhead
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all night to bear me Company;
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There I dream't of Golden Pleasures,
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which did most delightfull seem;
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My Friends believe me, it did grieve me,
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When I found it but a Dream.
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A youthfull Gallant tall and trim
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to me did perfect kindness show,
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My Heart was soon enflam'd with him,
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and Love in e'ery Vein did flow;
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Twenty thousand times he Kist me
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which did most delightful seem:
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Yet Friends believe me it did grieve me,
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When I found it but a Dream.
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He talked of a Married State
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and bid me then appoint the Day;
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To which I condescended strait
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having not power to say nay;
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I thought e'ery Minute seven,
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Marriage Life so sweet did seem
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Yet Friends believe me, it did grieve me,
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When I found it but a dream.
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The wish'd for Morning came as last,
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wherein I should be happy made,
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And through the Street I thought I past,
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with Bride-maids sumptuously array'd.
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And my Heart with Joys transported,
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this blest day did pleasant seem:
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Yet Friends believe me, it did grieve me,
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When I found it but a Dream.
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When Dinner came my Joys was crown'd,
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my Heart was lifted up in Pride,
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To see the smiling Bowl go round,
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with Healths to the beloved Bride,
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And therewith they often joy'd me,
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this did most delightfull seem;
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Yet Friends believe me, this did grieve me,
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When I found it but a Dream.
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I after Dinner was convey'd,
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into a fair and spacious Hall,
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Where most delgihtful Music play'd,
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we for the sweetest Tunes did call;
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But I wish'd the day soon ended,
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the night would more pleasant seem:
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Yet Friends believe me, it did grieve me,
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When I found it but a Dream.
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I thought it then a tedious day,
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wishing for the approaching night:
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I to my self did often say
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I then shall have my Hearts delight;
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In the Arms of my sweet Bridegroom
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thus did most delightfull seem:
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Yet Friends believe me, it did grieve me,
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When I found it but a Dream.
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Now when the tedious day was past,
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and I was in my Chamber lead
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Thought I long look'd for's come at last
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oh! now Farewell my Maidenhead:
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This no longer shall torment me,
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Married State do's pleasant seem:
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Yet Friends believe me, it did grieve me,
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When I found it but a Dream.
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I was unstripp'd, to Bed I went,
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then came to me my sweet Bridegroom,
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After short time in laughter spent,
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our Friends did all depart the Room;
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In his Arms he then embrac'd me,
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this did most delightfull seem;
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Yet Friends believe me, it did grieve me,
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When I found it but a Dream.
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His Arms was round my slender Waste,
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the pleasant Joys of Love did reap;
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E'er I those pleasant Charms could taste
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alas! I waken'd from my Sleep:
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Would my Sleep had longer lasted,
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for it did most pleasant seem;
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Young-men believe me, it did grieve me,
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When I found it but a Dream.
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