The Lovers Joy and Griefe:
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A young mans relation
In a pitifull fashion,
Being from his Love hindred
By Locks, Bolts, and Kindred.
To the tune of Yongmen and Maids.
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AMong the nine, all Nymphes divine,
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that haunt the forked mountaine,
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If any will bring me a Quil,
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dipt in Castalias fountain
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Ile shew (in briefe) my joy and griefe,
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and her due praises render,
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To whom I would come if I could,
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but locks and bolts doe hinder.
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My joy, in that I had the fate,
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to chuse so rare a jewell,
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My griefe in this, that she (my blisse)
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is kept by kindred cruell,
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Out of my sight, which day and night
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doth pierce my heart so tender,
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Tis she to whom I faine would come,
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but locks and bolts doe hinder.
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She is a Lasse that doth surpasse,
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her neighbours round about her,
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Her worth is such, it grieves me much,
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to live so long without her:
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With strong desire in Cupids fire,
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my heart burnes to a cinder,
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I would possesse my happinesse
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but locks and bolts doe hinder.
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As Thisbe faire by Parents care
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from Pyramus was hidden,
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So she to come abroad from home
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is earnestly forbidden:
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She dares not stir, nor I to her,
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so closely they have pennd her,
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She would come out I make noe doubt,
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but locks and bolts doe hinder.
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As Danae was ith Tower of brasse,
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inclosed by her Father,
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So she (my sweet) lest we should meet,
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is kept more closely rather:
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Yet as great Jove got to his Love,
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though walls did comprehend her,
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So I doe hope to have free scope,
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though locks and bolts doe hinder.
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Ith interim I must patiently
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expect that happy season,
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I dare not thinke that she will shrinke,
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for in truth I have no reason,
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I find that she is true to me,
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in that I must commend her,
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She would not be so long from me.
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but locks and bolts do hinder.
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It grieves my heart to think what smart
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(poore creature) she endureth,
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What meanes her kindred use to winne
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her heart, which she assureth
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Is fixed fast, while life doth last,
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no policie can bend her,
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To any course love hath such force,
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but locks and bolts doe hinder.
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The second part To the same tune.
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SHee hath (tis true to speake whats due)
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too great a marriage portion,
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This may I vow, for Cupid now,
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is bent unto extortion:
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I would therefore her friends were poore,
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or else in heart more tender,
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For poor or rich weed go through stitch,
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but locks and bolts doe hinder.
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Although my selfe want worldly pelfe,
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unto their expectation,
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Yet if I may the truth display,
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without any ostentation,
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My birth and parts and due deserts
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are not so weake and slender,
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But that I might earne my delight,
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though locks and bolts doe hinder.
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Were I a Prince of eminence,
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and shee a peasants daughter,
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Had she no more of learnings store,
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then what wise nature taught her,
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Her peerelesse face and inward grace,
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shewes in my heart such splendor,
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Shee mine should be, the like sayes she,
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but locks and bolts doe hinder.
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Tis not her pelfe but her sweet selfe,
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that I (in heart) doe covit
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Necessity let wealth supply,
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for nothing else I love it,
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Her onely love is that doth move
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my heart and makes it tender,
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I mourne in griefe without reliefe,
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for locks and bolts doe hinder.
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No ease of mind at all I find,
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but onely this assurance,
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That my deare wench will never flinch,
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though she be kept in durance,
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Shee hath her share of woe and care
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for which I must commend her,
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On me she hath bestowd her faith,
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though locks and bolts doe hinder.
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Continue still in thy good will,
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thou Paragon of beauty,
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And I to thee as true will bee
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(so am I bound in duty)
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Though fortune frowne, yet the renowne
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of our affections tender,
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Abroad is flowne, we two are one,
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though locks and bolts doe hinder.
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With patience weell expect to feele,
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the fruit of all this sorrow,
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Though sorrow may indure this day,
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I shall have joy to morrow,
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In the meane while, I in exile
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will be thy true defender,
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And spread thy name, which is my claime,
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though locks and bolts doe hinder.
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Oh cruell fate, expire the date,
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of two deare Lovers trouble,
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If once our griefe doe finde reliefe,
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our joyes wil then be double
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And all our teares, our cares and feares,
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will to our names add splender
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Thy heart is mine, and mine is thine,
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though locks and bolts doe hinder.
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