The Faithful
Young Man & Constant Maid;
OR,
The Unexpressable Love between sweet WILLIAM and fair ELENOR.
To the Tune of, The Plowmans Health.
This may be Printed. R. P.
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WE will leave all the thoughts of the world for a while
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and in this sweet Grove an hour beguile,
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We will ever resolve to be constant and true
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And Innocent Joys we will now renew,
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To my Fair pretty Elinor faithful Ile prove,
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If beauteous young Elinor me will love;
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To my fair pretty Elenor, faithful ile prove,
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if, etc.
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I will love my sweet William above all mankind,
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And ever be true, and at all times kind,
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All young Lovers hereafter shall learn by us two,
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To be always constant, and always true,
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No Fortune shall make me, from thee ere depart
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And to my sweet William ile give my Heart;
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No Fortune shall make me from thee ere depart,
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And, etc.
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No Youth to a Beauty more constant shall be,
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Then I will be always, (fair maid) to thee
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No Fortune or Fate, shall extinguish this Fire,
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Nor no other Beauty create desire,
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Tis only fair Elenor that I will love
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And ever to her will I constant prove.
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Tis only fair Elenor that I will love,
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and ever, etc.
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When Marriage shall bring me into thy soft Arms,
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How happy shall I be in thy charms?
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How happy each day, and how happy each night?
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The day bringing Pleasure, the night Delight.
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I shall then be happy all days of my Life,
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Possessing all Joys in a vertuous Wife,
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I shall then be happy all dayes of my Life,
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Possessing, etc.
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We wil leave this leud World to its wretched Estate,
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And now we will love before tis too late,
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Each Grove, and each Fountain a witness shall prove,
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How dearly weel live, and how well weel Love.
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The Pleasures of Lovers we here shall obtain,
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And after we shall in Elysium reign;
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The Pleasures of Lovers we here shall obtain,
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And, etc.
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If lovely fair Maids will resolve to be coy
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They loose those sweet minutes they might enjoy,
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If Beauty, to Beauty, will only be kind,
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Young Maids to themselves must be then confind,
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And Lovers but vainly those Beauties doe serve;
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But Maidens may give what Men dont deserve,
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And Lovers but vainly those Beauties do serve,
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But, etc.
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Then let us enjoy while our Passions are strong
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A minutes delay will appear too long,
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Though Beauty is lovely and always does please,
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Tis kindness that only can Flames appease,
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Tis kindness that always creates a desire,
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And is the sweet Fewel to Cupids Fire;
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Tis kindness that always creates a desire.
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And, etc.
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Fair Elenor thus let us Pleasures pursue,
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And let us (like Turtles) be ever true,
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That young Men & Maidens our praise may proclaim
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And by our example may live in Fame,
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That Ages hereafter may learn for to prove,
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More true and more constant, and always Love,
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That Ages hereafter may learn to prove,
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More True and Constant, and always Love.
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