Cupids Trappan: Or, Up the green Forrest.
The Scorner Scorned, or Willow turnd into Cornation.
Described in the ranting resolution of a forsaken Maid.
To a pleasant new Northern Tune, Now all in fashon.
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ONce did I love an a bonny bonny Bird,
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thinking that he had been my own;
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But he lovd another far better then I,
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and he has taken his flight, & hes flown, brave boyes
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and he has taken his flight and hes flown.
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Up the green Forrest, & down the green Forrest,
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like one much destressed in mind,
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I hoopt and I hoopt, and I flung up my Hood,
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but my bonny Bird I could not find, brave boys
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but my bonny Bird, etc.
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But she that hath gotten my bonny bonny Bird,
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would the Devil had had her for me,
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It was not a Crown, nor a Noble so round,
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that should have bought my bonny Bird from me, brave boyes
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that should have, etc.
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He set me upon his dissembling knee
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and looked me all in the face,
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He gave unto me and a Judas Kiss,
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but his heart was in another place, brave boyes,
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but his heart was, etc.
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She that hath gotten my bonny bonney Bird,
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let her make as much oft as she can;
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For whether I have him, or I have him not,
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I will quaff with him now and than, brave boys
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I will quaff, etc.
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He told me he lovd me far better then all
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the richest Temptation ith world,
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Then Treasure or Mony, he cald me his Hony;
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but now from his heart I am hurld, brave boys
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but now, etc.
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He could not indure to be out of my sight,
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he lovd me like Silver or Gold;
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His bloud was on fire with the flames of desire,
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but I find his hot love was soon cold, brave boys
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but I find, etc.
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His tongue was so tipd with Temptations that I
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could have sufferd him (without controul)
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To have done what he woud & have humord his bloud,
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had the venture been body and soul, brave boys
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had the venture been, etc.
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And now he requites me with scorn and disdain,
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some other hath got him from me;
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But let her take heed, at the last how she speed,
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least a third do prove better then thee, brave boys
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least a third, etc.
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One Man for one Maid, the Creator hath made,
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he that hath more, hath more then his due;
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Sure two is to many, hel never love any,
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for twenty Maids will be too few, brave boyes.
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for twenty, etc.
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Those Virgins that take him, I think are stark mad,
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for he that proves false unto one
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That loved him like life will be false to his wife
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I have cause to be glad that hes gone, brave boyes.
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I have cause,
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The Witchcraft of love, is enough to undoe
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the hearts of poore credulous Creatures,
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My freedom to me, is far sweeter then he;
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for Freedom is softer then Fetters, brave boys
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for Freedom is, etc.
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If he had continud he mighta had all,
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his Carriage and Wit was so brave;
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Although he had like to have given me a fall,
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yet the Jewel of Jewels I have, brave boyes.
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yet the Jewel of, etc.
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Which still I will keep from such Gamsters as he,
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by such I will nere be betrayd;
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My Portion shall be, my Virginity,
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tis Dowry enough for a Maid, brave boyes.
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tis Dowry, etc.
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Ile Swagger and Rant, & Ile nere think upont,
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but bring Willow Garlands in fashon;
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Although for my part, my own merry heart
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shall turn Willow into Cornation, brave boyes
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shall turn, etc.
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I vow to be jolly, brisk, bonny and free,
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and march under Chastities Banners;
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Ile sing, and Ile dance, and my spirits advance
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in spight of all Cupids Trappanners, brave boys
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in spight of, etc.
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When he comes disfigurd & crippld from War
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Ile jeere him, and laugh him to scorn;
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His wife too will scoff, when he comes lamely off
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and give him a Night-cap of Horn, brave boys.
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and give him, etc.
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All you that are Virgins, and live at your wills
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be wise and take warning by me;
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Nere venture your hearts, to a tongue and good parts
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if the man have no fidelity, brave boyes
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if the man, etc.
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It is better to live in a Virgins degree,
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then marry a false hearted Mate;
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Their cunning shall nere, take me in their snare
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the Devil shall catch them for Kate. brave boyes
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the Devil shall catch them for Kate.
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