An ANSWER to the
Bonny SCOT;
Or, The Sorrowfull Complaint of the Yielding LASS;
In Care, and Grief, without Relief,
this yielding Lass was left;
In this Distress, and Heaviness
she was of Hopes bereft.
To the Tune of The Spinning-Wheel. Licensed according to Order.
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BEhold, I pray, whats come to pass,
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when twenty Weeks was come and gone,
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This bonny youthful yielding Lass,
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did sigh, and bitterly take on,
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Saying, My Grief I may reveal,
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Too soon I left my Spinning-wheel.
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With honey words, both soft and sweet,
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alas! he has deluded me,
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My Heart within my Breast does beat
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to see my woful Destiny:
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My Virgin Treasure he did steal;
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Too soon I left my Spinning-wheel.
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Each Complement I did believe,
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so Serpent-like he did betray,
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That had there been a second Eve,
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she hardly could have said him nay:
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The sad effects of this I feel,
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Too soon I left my Spinning-wheel.
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He utterd not one word of Truth,
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but with Delusions led me on;
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And cropt the Rose-bud of my Youth;
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so that my splendid Glorys gone:
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My wounded Heart no one can heal,
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Too soon I left my Spinning-wheel.
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I Am a Damsel now defild;
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and am exposd to open shame,
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For here I find my-self with Child,
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and have no Father for the same:
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My very Tears dos Grief reveal,
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Too soon I left my Spinning-wheel.
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For my young Scot sad moan I make,
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whose Beauty did my favour win;
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I find him like a painted Snake,
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thats fair without, and false within:
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His cruel Sting I yet do feel,
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Too soon I left my Spinning-wheel.
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He came with a most noble Grace,
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so sweet, so charming, fair and trim,
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That I no sooner see his Face,
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but streight I did consent to him:
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Such flames of Love I then did feel,
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Which made me leave my Spinning-Wheel.
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My Love no favour will allow,
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hes gone, and yields me no relief;
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For that small dram of Pleasure, now
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I feel a Hundred weight of Grief:
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My Sorrows I cannot reveal,
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Too soon I left my Spinning-wheel.
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Some Gallants most deceitful are,
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as by Experience I may say,
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Theyll call a Damsel charming Fair,
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until their Hearts they do betray:
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In grief I may this truth reveal,
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Too soon I left my Spinning-wheel.
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