The deceased Maiden-Lover.
Being a pleasant new Court-Song: to an excellent
new tune. Or to be sung to the tune of Bonny Nell
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AS I went forth one Summers day,
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To view the Meddowes fresh & gay
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A pleasant Bower I espide,
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Standing hard by a River side:
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And int a Maiden I heard cry,
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Alas theres none ere lovd like I.
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I couched close to heare her mone,
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With many a sigh and heavie grone,
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And wisht that I had been the might
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That might have bred her hearts delight
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But these were all the words that she
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Did still repeate, none loves like me.
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Then round the Meddowes did she walke
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Catching each Flower by the stalke,
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Such as within the Meddowes grew,
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As Dead-mans-thumb & Hare-bel blew
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And as she pluckt them, still crid she
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Alas theres none ere lovd like me.
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A Bed therein she made to lie,
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Of fine greene things that grew fast by,
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Of Poplers and of Willow leaves,
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Of Sicamore and flaggy sheaves:
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And as she pluckt them still crid she,
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Alas theres none ere loud like mee.
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The little Larke-foot, sheed not passe,
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Nor yet the flouers of Three leavd grasse
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With Milkmaids Hunny-suckles phrase
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The Crows-foot, nor the yellow Crayse,
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And as she pluckt them still cride she,
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Alas theres none ere lovd like me.
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The pretty Daisie which doth show
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Her love to phoebus bred her woe,
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Who joyes to see his chearefull face,
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And mournes when he is not in place.
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Alacke, alacke, alacke, quoth she
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Theres none that ever loves like me.
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The flowers of the sweetest scent,
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She bound them round with knotted Bent
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And as she laid them still in bands,
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She wept she waild, and wrung her hands
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Alas, alas, alas, quoth she.
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Theres none that ever lovd like me.
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False man (quoth she) forgive thee heaven
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As I do with my sinnes forgiven:
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In blest El[i]zium I shall sleep,
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when thou with pe[j]urd soule shalt weepe:
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Who when they lived did like to thee,
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That lovd there loves as thou dost me.
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When shee had fild her apron full
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Of such sweet flowers as she could cull,
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The green Leaves servd her for her Bed
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The Flowers pillowes for her head.
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then down she lay, nere more did speak
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alas with love her heart did breake.
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