A Paire of Turtle Doves, Or,
A dainty new Scotch Dialogue between a Yong-man and
his Mistresse, both correspondent in affection, etc.
To a pretty pleasant tune, called the absence of my Mistresse, or
I live not where I love.
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Yong-man.
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MUst the absence of my Mistresse
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gar me be thus discontent,
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As thus to leave me in distresse,
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and with languor to lament:
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Nothing earthly shall divorce me
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from my deerest, but disdaine,
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Nor no fortune shall enforce me,
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from my fairest to refraine.
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O my deerest,
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My heart neerest:
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When shall I so happy bee
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To embrace thee,
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And to place thee,
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Where thou nere maist part from me.
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Maide.
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Since my absence doth so greeve thee,
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it doth wound me to the heart:
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If my presence could releeve thee,
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I would play a loyall part:
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But I prethee be contented,
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sith the Fates will have it so,
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Though our meeting be prevented,
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thou my constancy shalt know.
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O my sweetest,
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The compleatest
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Man alive in my conceite,
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Lady Fortune
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Ile importune,
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Soone to make our Joyes compleate.
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Yong-man.
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Since thy absence doth conjure me
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with perplexity and paine,
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What would thy presence then allure me,
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for to see thee once againe:
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As thy absence sends such sadnesse
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that it scarcely can be told:
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So thy presence yeeldeth gladnesse,
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to all eyes that thee behold.
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O my deerest, etc.
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Maide.
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What reward then shall I render,
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to him that me doth so respect,
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But my constancy to tender,
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With like favour to affect:
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And since thy love to me is fervent,
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so my heart shall be to thee,
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And as thou provst my loyall servant,
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thy true Mistresse I will be,
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O my sweetest,
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The compleatest
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Man alive in my conceite,
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Lady Fortune
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Ile importune,
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Soone to make our Joyes complate.
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Yong-man.
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Then my Love, my Dove, my fairest,
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sith I may repose such trust,
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In my heart thou only sharest,
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none else crave a portion must:
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Thou hast setled thy affection
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upon me and none beside,
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And I of thee have made election,
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thou alone shalt be my Bride.
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Come my deerest,
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My heart neerest,
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When shall I so happy bee,
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To embrace thee,
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And to place thee,
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Where thou nere maist part from me.
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Maide.
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My hearts Joy, more sweet than honey,
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or the odoriferous rose,
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I have laid such hold upon thee,
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as the world can nere unlose
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The Gordian knot, which though as yet
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is not by Hymen tyed fast,
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Yet Heaven knowes my heart is set
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on thee my choice, while breath doth last.
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Come my sweetest, etc.
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The second part To the same tune.
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Young-man.
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When Hyperion doth for ever
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from the Skye obscure his rayes,
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When bright Luna (constant never)
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leaves to sever nights from dayes:
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When the Sea doth cease from running,
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when all thus change preposterously,
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Then that firme vow which I once made,
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(and not till then) Ile breake with thee.
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Come my deerest,
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My heart neerest,
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When shall I so happy be,
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To embrace thee,
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And to place thee,
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Where thou nere maist part from me.
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Maide.
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When rich mizers throw their mony
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in the streetes, and hoord up stones,
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When my Fathers Nagge so bonny,
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leaves good hay to picke dry bones:
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And when the dogge conforme to that,
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doth change his food for Oates and hay,
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Then shall my oath be out of date,
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or else last till my dying day.
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Come my sweetest,
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The compleatest
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Man alive in my conceite,
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Lady Fortune,
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Ile importune,
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Soone to make our joyes compleate.
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Young-man.
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When the Bucke, the Hare, or Cony
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doe pursue the Dogge to death,
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When a rocke so hard and stony,
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can dissolvd be with mans breath:
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When turtles make a second chusing,
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then will I a new Love seeke,
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Till then all but thee refusing,
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though I might change every weeke.
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Come my deerest, etc.
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Maide.
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When both toads, with snakes and adders,
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breed upon the Irish ground,
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When men scale the Skie with Ladders,
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when two Phoenixes are found:
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When the Goose the Fox doth follow,
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or seeke to hunt him forth his den,
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Or swine in dirt refuse to wallow,
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Ile not forsake my love till then.
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Come my sweetest, etc.
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Young-man.
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Then sweet Love sith both agree thus,
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having hearts reciprocall,
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Long I hope we shall not be thus
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barred from the principall
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Of all our joy, which is blest marriage,
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Hymen haste to knit the knot,
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Ith meane time our constant carriage,
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will ith world nere be forgot.
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Come my deerest,
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My heart neerest,
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When shall I so happy be,
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To embrace thee
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And to place thee,
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Where thou nere maist part from me.
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