Cupid's Trappan: or, Up the Green Forrest:
OR, THE
SCORNER Scorn'd: or, WILLOW turn'd into CARNATION.
Described in the Ranting RESOLUTION of a Forsaken MAID.
To a pleasant new Tune, now all in Fashion, etc.
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ONce did I love a bonny bonny Bird,
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thinking that he had been my own:
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But he lov'd another far better than I,
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And he has taken his flight and is flown, brave Boys,
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And he has taken his flight and is flown.
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Up the green forrest, and down the green forrest,
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like one much distressed 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 Boys,
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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 an Judas-kiss,
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But his heart was in another place, brave Boys,
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But his heart, etc.
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She that hath gotten my bonny bonny Bird,
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let her make as much on't 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 then, brave Boys,
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I will quaff, etc.
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He told me he lov'd me far better than all
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the richest temptaions i' th' World;
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Then treasure or mony, he call'd me his Honey,
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But now from his heart I am hurl'd, brave Boys,
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But now, etc.
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He could not endure to be out of my sight,
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he lov'd me like silver or gold;
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His blood 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 tipt with temptations, that I
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could have suffer'd him (without controul)
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To have done what he wou'd, and have humor'd his blood,
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Had the venture been body and soul, brave Boys,
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Had the venture, etc.
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And now he requites me with scorn and disdain;
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some other hath gotten him from me;
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But let her take heed, at last how she speed,
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Least a third do prove better then she, 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 too many, he'll never love any,
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For twenty Maids will be too few, brave Boys,
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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 lov'd him as life, will be false to his Wife,
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I have cause to be glad that he's gone, brave Boys,
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I have cause, etc.
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The witchcraft of love, is enough to undo
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the hearts of poor credulous Creatures;
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My freedom to me, is fair sweeter than 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 continu'd he might a 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 Boys,
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Yet the jewel, etc.
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Which still I will keep from such Gamesters as he,
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by such I will ne'r be betray'd;
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My portion shall be, my virginity,
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dowry enough for a Maid, brave Boys,
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dowry, etc.
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I'll swagger and rant, and i'll ne'r think upon't,
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but bring willow garlands in fashion;
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Although for my part, my own merry heart,
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Shall turn willow into carnation, brave Boys,
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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 Chastity's banners;
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I'll sing, and i'll dance, and my spirits advance,
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In spight of all Cupid's Trappaners, brave Boys,
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In spight, etc.
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When he comes disfigur'd and crippl'd from war,
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i'll jeer 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, 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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Ne'r venture your hearts, to a tongue and good parts,
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If the Man have no fidelity, brave Boys,
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If the Man, etc.
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It is better to live in a Virgin's degree,
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then marry a false-hearted Mate;
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Their cunning shall ne'r, take me in their snare,
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The Devil shall catch him for Kate, brave Boys,
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The Devil shall catch him for Bate, brave Boys.
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