EBBA 33319
National Library of Scotland - Crawford
| The / Credulous Virgins com- / plaint. Or, Lovers made happy at last. / Being a Caution to the Female Sex. / Being a most pleasant new Song in two parts, With the Youngmans kind Answer. / Caelia complains Virgins are oft too kind, / The which she did by late experience find, / For yielding unto Damon she does prove / That hasty pleasures are the bain of Love; / But in the Tempest of her wounding grief, / Damon comes in and yields her kind relief: / But vows renew, and at last both are wed, / Though he before had got her Maiden-head. | |
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| Date Published | 1672-1696 ? |
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| Imprint | Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in West-smithfield. |
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| Collection | National Library of Scotland - Crawford |
| Location | National Library of Scotland |
| Shelfmark | Crawford.EB.246 |
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| Title | The / Credulous Virgins com- / plaint. Or, Lovers made happy at last. / Being a Caution to the Female Sex. / Being a most pleasant new Song in two parts, With the Youngmans kind Answer. / Caelia complains Virgins are oft too kind, / The which she did by late experience find, / For yielding unto Damon she does prove / That hasty pleasures are the bain of Love; / But in the Tempest of her wounding grief, / Damon comes in and yields her kind relief: / But vows renew, and at last both are wed, / Though he before had got her Maiden-head. |
| Tune Imprint | To the Tune of Sawny will never be my Love again. |
| First Lines | COme hearken to me young Maidens all, / And hear what a Story I shall tell, |
| Refrain | So 'twas fondness that parted my Love and I. [with variation] |
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