The Valiant Trooper and pritty Peggy:
Being a pretty new Ditty, of a gallant brave Trooper, and Peggy so pritty.
He oft did complain of her unconstancy,
Yet afterward she proved his loving Wife to be.
To a pretty new Tune: Or, though I live not where I Love.
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HEard you not of a valiant Trooper,
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that had his pockets well lin'd with gold
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He was in love with a gallant Lady,
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as I to you shall hear unfold;
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With a kind salute and fierce dispute
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he thought to make her his only one,
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But unconstant woman, true to no man,
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is gone and left me her bird alone,
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O pretty Pegg dost thou remember,
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since thou and I together pass,
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And what I gave thee for a token,
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thou didst kindly take it as it was;
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thou didst kindly take it, and not forsake it,
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and said it was thy only one:
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But unconstant woman true to no man,
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is gon and left me here alone.
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I tell thee Pegg I will remember,
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the vow and promise thou madest to me,
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When thou and I were in my chamber,
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thou much delighted in my company;
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Why wilt thou change and from me range,
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thou knowest I am thy only one.
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Unconstant woman true to no man,
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why wilt thou leave me thy bird alone?
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O do not think I take it kindly
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that thou shouldst leave me in disdain,
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Stealing away from me thus finely,
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and leave me in tormenting pain;
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Yield me reilef, or else with grief
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my heart will burst my only one.
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O unconstant woman true to no man,
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why wilt thou leave me thy bird alone.
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The second Part, To the same Tune,
Being pretty Peggs answer to her only one,
And she vows never to leave her Bird alone.
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If Gold thou want I have great plenty,
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demand of me and thou shalt have,
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Or any thing thou thinkest dainty,
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what heart can think or tongue can crave,
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With heart and hand do but command,
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and i'le yield to thee my only one,
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O unconstant woman true to no man
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why wilt thou leave me thy bird alone?
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My pretty Pegg speak unto me,
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return to me with chearful voice;
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With coy disdain seek not to kill me,
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seeing of thee I have made my choice:
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With a kind reply do not deny
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to say thou art my only one.
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O unconstant woman true to no man
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why wilt thou leave me thy bird alone?
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Pegs Answer.
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MY only joy be thou contented,
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and do not seem on me to frown,
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What I have done is not repented
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my only dear of high Renown;
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I will not deny thee, for all I try thee;
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it grieves my heart thou shouldst make mone
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Come take thy pleasure, at thy leasure
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my little pretty bird alone.
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The promise that I made unto thee,
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I scorn a word for to deny,
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And I vow my heart is true unto thee,
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and all other men I doe defie;
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Its not the Gold that thou hast told
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shall win my love thou prety one;
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I will not deny thy company,
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my little pretty bird alone.
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Thou dost complain that I did leave thee,
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and said it did thee sore torment,
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But what I did was for to try thee,
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and now I hope to give content;
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Both night and day I will thee obey,
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and vow to be thy only one,
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A constanter woman never had no man,
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then I will be to my bird alone.
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Therefore sweet Willy be contented,
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despair not in thy love at all,
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Though I thy company have neglected,
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I now am willing at a call:
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If thou wilt me marry, then i'le not tarry,
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for I vow I am thy only one;
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A constanter woman never had no man
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than I will be to my bird alone.
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My pretty Pegg then thou art welcome,
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I am the man that before I was,
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Though I thy company had but seldome
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yet now I hope it is come to pass:
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I shall thee enjoy without annoy,
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in marriage bed my only one;
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I will constant prove, my turtle dove,
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to thee my pretty bird alone.
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You pretty Maidens in Town or City
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that Cupid doth invite to love,
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Take pattern by this new made ditty,
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and to your sweet-hearts constant prove;
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Be true and Loyal without denyal,
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and truely love your only one;
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A constant woman will prove false to no man
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nor leave her pretty bird alone.
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T.R.
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