LOVING JOHN:
OR,
Yielding JOAN:
Being a pleasant Song between two Country Lovers
while they were making of Hay. To a pleasant new Tune.
Licensed and Entred according to Order.
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PRithee sweet Joan let us have a kiss,
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let us enjoy ourselves while we may,
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Time and the place is as kind as you'd wish,
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let us go to it and make no delay;
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Oh, ne'er denys, but now be wise,
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and taste of those pleasures I've left in store,
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I'll kiss thee, I'll hug thee, I'll love thee, I'll smug thee,
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I'll do what I never have done before.
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No, sir, no, for you will do me harm,
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therefore excuse me if I deny,
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Should I do so, you'd get me with bearn,
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then, sir, for shame where should I fly?
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Oh, no, no, no, I'll ne'er do so,
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I'll keep my virginity till I'm wed;
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Then pray sir leave me me, and do not deceive me,
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but let me alone, and no more be said.
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Prithee sweet Jean, take this in thy hand,
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then you may leave it, if you think fit;
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This and myself, is at your command,
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prithee, sweet Joan, make use of it:
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Oh! ne'er say no, but let it go,
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for nature will guide it where it should be;
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Then prithee love take it, and do not forsake it,
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until all your senses about do flee.
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Pish, fye, naughty man, what do you mean?
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I never thought you'd a served me so;
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I have deny'd you as long as I can,
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but now I find that will not do,
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Then so, so, so, go, go, go, go,
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your charms has kill'd me, I'm slain, I'm slain;
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Then farewel pretences, they'r gone with my senses,
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I'm sure I shall never say no again.
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The wiser thee my amorous Joan,
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thou art my jewel and hea[r]t's delight,
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Longer thou shalt not languish alone,
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for I will visit thee e'ry night,
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Where in my arms, a thousand charms
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shall tickle thy fancy in e'ry vein,
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For tasting this pleasure, and joy out of measure,
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thou'lt never wish to be a maid again.
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Joh[n]ny you have a flattering tongue,
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for when you came with weapon in hand,
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What could I do? alas, I was young,
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such a temptation who could withstand?
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Tho' I deny'd, soon I comply'd,
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'Tis usual with lasses you know for why,
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They say nay and take it, we cannot forsake [i]t,
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there's thousands have done it as well as I.
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Love, what a comfort d[i]dst thou receive,
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for maiden-heads are burdens you know,
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Chear up, for tis a folly to grieve,
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Since it is gone, I'faith let it go,
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For why my dear, thou needst not fear
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but still I'll admire thy lovely brown;
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Above any other, thou shalt be a mother,
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and here's a good health to the best in town.
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These pleasures of love I do adore,
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sweet Johnny thou hast done me no wrong,
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If I had but known but as much before,
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I'd ne'er a carry'd it half so long:
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No girl would miss, the charming bliss,
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nor any young lover the least deny;
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They'd soon be for sporting, for kissing and courting,
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if ever they knew but as much as I.
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