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EBBA 31728

University of Glasgow Library - Euing
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The crost Couple, OR
A good Misfortune.
Which in a pleasant Ditty discovers, The fortunate cross of a couple of Lovers.
To a New Northern Tune, much in fashion.

ILle tell you a tale no stranger than true,
of a fa la la la la la
The sport ont is old, but the Sonnet is new
tis a fa la la etc
The story sprung from under a Bush
From a tongue & a tune as sweet as a thrush
But I fear it will make a fair Lady to blush
with a fa etc.
Nay do not turn your faces away
with a fa etc.
Heres nothing that can your Vertue betray
with a fa etc.
Let not your fancies look a squint,
The Author would never have put it in Print
If there had been any uncivil word int
but a fa etc.
I tell you no tales of Battels & fights
with a fa etc.
Of wonders of Monsters of Goblins or sprights,
with a fa etc.
Nor yet of a Thief that got a reprieve
I do not intend your spirits to grieve
[My storys as old as Adam & Eve
with a fa etc.]

I went to walk one Evening-tide
with a fa etc.
My fancy did lead me by a Woodside
with a fa etc.
Twas in the prime of all the spring
Which giveth delight to every thing,
I saw a Maid listen to hear a man sing
to her fa etc.
The tempting dressings that she was in
with a fa etc.
Would almost seduce a new Saint to the sin
with a fa etc.
She was a fair & lovely maid
About her wast his Arm he laid
The beautifulst baggage is soonest betraid
to a fa etc.
I got me strait up into a tree
with a fa etc.
Where I might see all, and no man see me
with a fa etc.
The tree was thick and full of growth
The top ont did hover so over them both
[That if I had fell, I had dropt in her mouth
or her fa etc.]

There many amorous glances they cast
with a fa etc.
But that was not all, the best is at last
with a fa etc.
Something it seems the youth would do
Which she would not consent unto
Have patience, & you shall know ere you go
with a fa etc.
When laid on her side, she turnd to the tree
with her fa etc.
I durst have sworn she had lookd upon me
with her fa etc.
He many points of division did run
But she cry[]d out no, I shall be undone
He tund up his pipes though, & thus he begun
to her fa etc.
Oh come my own dear lets dally a while
with a fa etc.
Thou hast quickend my spirits now with a smile
and thy fa etc.
The trembling of thy lips do show
Thou hast no power to say me no
Which makes me have a moneths mind unto
thy fa etc.
This hearty kisse is a sign thou wilt yield
to thy fa etc.
The white of thy eyes speak peace in the field
with a fa etc.
Then for a Vail to hide thy face
Ile clod thee with a sweet embrace
Theres many would wish that they were in thy place
with their fa etc.
Oh do not sigh to hear me intice,
with a fa etc.
Thou ner hadst been got hath thy mother been nice
with her fa etc.
Then prethee put me out of my pain
For I am now in a merry vain
Lets play at that game, where the losers do gain
with their fa etc.
But oh my own dear why lyest thou so still
with thy fa etc.
Art thou in a swound or what is thy will
with thy fa etc.
I prethee joy take no such grief,
Since I am so near to thy relief
Oh let me play the amorous Thief
with thy fa etc.

My dearest of all, why holdst thou so fast
with a fa etc
Ile swear we will marry if thou wilt make has[t]
with thy fa etc.
Cupid doth give us leave to play
Thy very blushes do betray
That thou dost interpret what I have to say
with a fa etc.
Then on her brow her vail she spread
with a fa etc.
As if he had been going to cut off her head
with his fa etc.
He with his Lips her mouth did wipe,
And gave her many an earnest gripe
For just now my Lady was yielding ripe
with her fa etc.
In what a fret was I in the tree
with a fa etc.
That I had not then another by me
with her fa etc.
Then I perceivd they whisperd a while
With many fair pleadings he did her beguile
Sure something he shewd her which made her sm[ile]
with a fa etc.
He said he was sure he could not be spyd
with a fa, etc.
But I if I durst could have told him he lyd
with his fa etc.
I feard I should be brought to light
She so often cast up her Eyes so bright
The pleasures of Love did so dazle her sight
and her fa etc.
My Gamester could no longer forbear
her fa etc.
No more should I if I had been there
by her fa etc.
I turnd and served my body round,
To see my gallant scale the Town
But his getting up made me tumble down
with a fa etc
Such was my fate, no mischief I had
with a fa etc.
My Lovers both run as if theyd been mad
with their fa etc.
And now I hope a warning twill be
How they in such sinful pleasures agree
For fear of the Devil that fell from the tree
with his fa la la la la la la.


Printed for F Coles T Vere J Wright and J Clarke.

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