The dying Young-man, and the obdurate Maid,
OR,
A strange and wonderful Relation of a Young-man
that dyed for love about the midest of this present June, with the Maids per-
plexity for loss of her love, and how likely she is to dy for the same cause
worthy the view of all young-men and Maids both in Country and
City, delightful to all, hurtful to none.
To the Tune of, Fancies Phenix.
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COme you young men and maidens fair
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For unto you I will now declare,
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And likewise I will hear unfold,
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As true a tale as ere was told,
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Of a young man that oft did cry,
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Sweet grant me love or else I dye.
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Fair Maids I pray you lend an ear,
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And you the truth thereof shall hear,
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And of these lines come take a view,
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No damage thereby will insue,
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Admit not your love too oft to cry,
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Sweet yield Reliefe or else I dye.
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The young mans Complaint.
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Dear love when first I cast mine eye,
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Upon thy feature and beauty
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My heart did burn in such a flame,
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That I could never quench the same,
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And doth continue constantly,
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Sweet yield Relief or else I dye.
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Maids reply.
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King Sir your mind I will make known,
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The less your mine the more your own,
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For on that side I cannot hear,
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Yet thank you kindly for your fear,
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No cause at all I can espy,
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For to give credit to your cry.
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Man.
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Dear Love thou lodgest in my heart,
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And from thence shall ner depart,
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Dread Cupit hath wounded me so,
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Then do not prove my mortall fo,
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Which forceth me inceasantly,
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To cry sweet love me or I dye,
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Maid.
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Sweet Sir your sute is all in vain,
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Without a cause you do complain,
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Young-men I know can counterfeit
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And seem to be lovers compleat
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Us silly Maidens for to try,
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But we their actions do defie.
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Man.
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Dear love do not obdurate prove,
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But this my wo and grief remove,
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And ease me now that am oprest,
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So that I may have peace and rest,
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For in thy love my heart doth fry,
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Sweet yield relief or else I dy,
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Maid.
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Sir to me you a stranger are,
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Then wherefore for me should you care,
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Some thing to mitigate your pain,
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Come home I wil you entertain,
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If I may prove the remedy,
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You for love shall never dye.
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Man.
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Then receive this kiss my dear,
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That I give the in token here,
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I love thee dearer then my life,
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Intending to make thee my wife
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Ten thousand times happy am I,
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That thou lovest me assuredly.
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The second part, To the same Tune
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HE kept his time and to her came
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But she proved a scornful dame,
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Her entertainment was harsh and course
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And her reproaches ten times worse,
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Farwel deer heart thus did he cry,
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Tis for thy love that I must dye.
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Straight home he came and went to bed,
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Whereupon fancies still he fed,
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And for twelve dayes he there did ly,
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In griveous wo and misery,
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And ever and anon did cry,
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Tis for thy love that I must dye.
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Four lines apiece of the four following
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verses, was found written in his own
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Trunck, since his departure.
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His Complaint.
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THy heart is harder far then flint,
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And will not suffer Cupits plint,
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But vears his Arrowes back to love,
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Hard hearted thou that canst not love,
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My life is now in Jeoperdy,
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Tis for thy love that I must dye.
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And when I dye true lovers mourn,
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Deck all your heads with witherd corn,
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Wear on each hand a sable glove,
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To testifie I dyed for love,
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Proclaim it in the strees and cry,
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Twas for her love that I did dye.
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Then hear me softly by her door,
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And with your mourning breads deplore,
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Cry loud look down you gods above,
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On her that kills him for her love,
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To all the world go testifie,
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Twas for her love that I did dye.
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Last build my Tomb of lovers bones,
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Laid round about with marble stones,
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My Schothon being a Venus Dove
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To signifie I dyed for love,
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For whilst I live in flames I fry,
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And so farewel lo here I dye.
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Imediately in came the Maid,
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His Cofin made heart to dread,
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And to inquire who there did dy,
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That within that house did ly,
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She being told wept bitterly,
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And said I do deserve to dye.
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And since that hour continues still,
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Beyond any Physitians skill,
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Her sorrows daily do increase,
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Her burning feavors do not cease,
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She frets and grieves unceasantly,
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Confessing she deserves to dye.
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Young men and maids that love intend,
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These lines unto you I commend,
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To those that love you prove most true,
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And do not change them for a new,
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Give eare to those that truth doth tell,
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And so I bid you all farwel.
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