The Maids Chastity that is troubled in mind,
Against Young-mens unconstancy, who proveth unkind:
She gives warning to all Maidens that are in the Row,
To take heed of false young men wheresoere they goe,
To a pleasant new Tune.
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YOu young Maids that would live chary
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And live single and not marry,
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Nor contract yourselves to none,
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For the Maid is the best that lies alone.
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Cupid, Cupid, thou hast done me wrong
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I have been thy servant now too long.
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My heart was never free from care,
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Since I was intangled in thy snare.
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In thy snare I have been fettered,
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And often have my businesse letted,
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In following after Venus train,
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But the Maid is the best that lies alone.
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Young-men they will cog and lye,
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Maidens they may weep and cry,
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Truth and Conscience they use none,
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But the Maid is the best that lies alone.
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In this Breast a heart I bear,
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It's none of mine, I wish it were,
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Once it was mine, if I could but a kept it,
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But now where it is, it's not respected.
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Now I hope to have my heart again,
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And keep it fast from Venus Chain,
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Lock it in this Breast of my own,
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But the Maid is the best that lies alone.
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When I have gain'd it safe again,
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Then I am free from all Young-men,
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And never like to make this moan,
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But live a single Maid alone.
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Love is a torment, who can abide it,
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who better knows than them that has try'd it
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I count her a mad Woman shill,
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That seeks for to humour a young-mans will.
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The second part to the same tune.
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YOung-men they be much blinded.
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Onely to know a Maidens mind,
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Maidens do not believe them if they swear,
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Lest after they leave you in a snare.
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But try their hearts and if you can,
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Before that you love any Man,
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Love it is fond and fickle still.
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Then do not humour a young-mans will.
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If a Lover be humoured in his condition,
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Then he pleads with a strong Commission,
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To get his intention if he can,
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The Maid is the best that lies alone.
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For in lying alone there's no harm taken.
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And being of an unconstant Love forsaken.
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Is better than Gold and Silver store,
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If that she do never see him more.
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A Maid that lives in an honest carriage,
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Must be careful in her Marriage,
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Young-men are so deceitful grown;
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The Maid is the best that lies alone.
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True Lovers knot may soon be tyed.
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And a Maid too soon may be made a Brid,
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That's not all in the conclusion shown,
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But the Maid is the best that lies alone.
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There is many things for to consider.
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If a Man and a Woman goe together:
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If Love be wanting between them twain,
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She had better still to lie alone.
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When they come to a Maid a wooing.
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They mak no conscience of their doing,
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But use all the deceit that ever they can,
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But the Maid is the best that lies alone.
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There is false young-men in my mind,
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Some proves crosse, and some proves kind,
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I will not condemn them all for one,
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The Maids are best that lies alone.
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Now I would have you consider my song,
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I write to Maids ile do them no wrong
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And still I do tell them every one,
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The Maid is the best that lies alone.
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