An Excellent New SONG; Call'd;
The Young Man
IN
LOVES POUND:
OR THE
Unkind Maiden.
To an Excellent New Tune. With Allowance.
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FRantick Love to what extteams
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does my furious passion drive me,
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Those Iris Lips and golden Streams,
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the one does kill, the other revives me,
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All my Thoughts are idle Dreams.
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Fancy bids me love but one,
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Cupid says 'tis out of season,
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Was ever Man tormented so,
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beyond the bounds of Love or Reason,
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The one says Aye, the other No.
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Ladies I have seen great store
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Beauties I have Courted many,
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I've turn'd them round & look them o're,
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yet never left my Heart with any,
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Till I saw thy Face so fair.
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When a Beauty I have seen,
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I did Court her in my Passion,
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And if she peevish once had been,
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I could as soon be in her Fashion,
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I could Love or let alone.
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But I now have met with one,
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That has set my Heart on Fire,
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Which is the cause I am undone,
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for her that grants not my Desire,
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For no kindness she will own.
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Since her Beauty is so great,
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and her Heart has no Compassion,
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To a youthful Lad whose Fate
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must end his days all in Distraction,
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And die a Victom at your Feet.
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To the Rivers I'll complain,
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to the Rocks, and to the Fountains,
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They're all senseless of my Pains.
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so are the Hills, the Dales, the Mountains,
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And alack what shall I do.
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To some Desart I will go,
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and my Life in Silence languish,
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Where no Creature e're shall know,
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the Pains, the Torments, & the Anguish
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This fair one makes me undergo.
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To Cupid then who flung this Dart,
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and made me be a slavish Lover,
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Wound this fair one to the Heart,
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till she her Passion does discover,
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And owns her Love to ease my Smart.
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Say she'll give but one kind Smile,
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twill cause me live some years the longer
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But if her Love she grants a while,
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instead of Age I must go younger,
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For 'tis her can Save or Kill.
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