True love without deceit
OR, The Country Girles Happiness.
Where Love and Truth together meet,
what pleasure do they find!
Beneath the Sun nothing more sweet
to a True Lovers mind.
Tune of, The Fair one let me in; or, Hey boys up go we.
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WE that are bonny Country girles
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injoy our hearts delight;
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We matter not the Lords, nor Earls,
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nor do admire the Knights:
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For Tom, and Dick, with George, & Will,
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do give us such content,
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As if our minds for to fulfill
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they were from Heaven sent.
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Though all the day abroad they keep,
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at night they home return,
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And in their Lovers Arms do sleep,
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who all the day did mourn;
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And with sweet kisses do us please,
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yea; give us such content,
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That we count Love a sweet Disease
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from Heaven for Lovers sent.
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When Susan doth her Robin spy,
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O how her Heart doth leap!
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She hath him still within her eye,
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and in her heart doth keep
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That face she doth so much admire,
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which breeds her hearts content;
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And then she cries, that pleasant Fire
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was for poor Lovers sent.
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Nell, Bess, and Jone, all love full well,
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and cannot it deny;
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Their passions others do excell;
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in Love-sick flames they fry,
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While Ned and loving Bartholomew
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their absence do lament:
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And Love unto this jovial Crew
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was sure from Heaven sent.
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Oh! that I could express the Charms
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that do these Lovers seize,
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When they betwixt each others Arms
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do lie in perfect ease:
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While e'ry sigh produceth Love,
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and gives their hearts content;
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These pleasures surely from Above
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were for true Lovers sent.
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Then Ralph and Daniel by the Plow
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their passions do record;
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To constancy they make a vow,
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all baseness is abhorr[']d:
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While Jane and Peg as constant prove;
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and with a joint consent
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Cry out, that nothing can remove
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the joys for Lovers sent.
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But Margery at last comes in,
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for Hugh she doth expect;
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She vows that she could dye for him,
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him she doth so respect:
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And Hugh her kindness doth repay,
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theres no Cause to lament;
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They both long for the joyfull day
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only for Lovers sent.
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How sweetly do those Soules imbrace
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when they together meet!
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A Barn seemes like a Princely Pallace,
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where they each other greet:
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The silent Medows and the Groves
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both yeild to them content;
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And all, to animate their loves,
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was from the Heavens sent.
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In Constancy they take delight,
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as Lovers ought to do,
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In hearts and souls they do unite,
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this is most certain true:
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No Courtly Language they do use,
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nor flattering Complement;
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Each others faults they do excuse:
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This bliss for them was sent.
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Thus you may see the Country Lass,
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and eke the Country Lad,
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Will court and kiss upon the Grass,
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as if they both were mad:
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And nothing doth there come amiss,
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their Pleasures to prevent;
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Tis their delight to hug and kiss;
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for them such joys were sent.
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