An Excellent New SONG,
CALLED,
The Ruined Virgin,
OR,
The Hard-hearted Young-man.
To an Excellent new Play-house Tune.
With Allowance.
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I.
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YOu pretty Maidens all I pray give Ear,
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Unto my Downfall which I declare,
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Of Parentage I am
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Near to a Gentleman,
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As some now witness can the date of Year.
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II.
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At fourteen years of Age with griefs I tell,
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Many a young man fair loved me well,
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I being Childish young,
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Believ'd a flatt'ring tongue,
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And fix'd my mind upon a brisk young man.
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III.
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He said if I would not yield with him to dwell,
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He would go hang himself what e're befell,
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He rung and tore his hair,
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And wickedly did swear,
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His sword should end the care before me then.
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IV.
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I hearing what he said grieved me sore,
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I took him for my Friend not for my Foe,
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Young man, said I, forbear,
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I pray let go your hair,
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I'll ease you of your care, and be your Bride.
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V.
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O how he Jumpt for joy before me then,
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My love and only joy happies the man,
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He kindly me embrac'd,
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And hung about my Waste,
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And then my love I plac'd on this young man.
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VI.
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For two months space & more he Courted me
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Day by Day, Night by Night he set by me,
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He let me take no rest
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I must sleep on his Breast,
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And then my Love I plac'd on this young man.
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VII.
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The appointed day was set we were to wed,
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But first of all he stole my maiden-head,
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My Parents did not know,
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I lov'd this young man so,
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Which prov'd my overthrow, ruin'd me quite
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VIII.
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When I with Child did prove & him had told,
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He call'd me twenty Whores brasen and bold
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I know you not, says he,
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Therefore be gone from me,
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This prov'd my misery, his love was cold.
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IX.
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I was asham'd to stay where I was known,
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For straight away I went from my own home,
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I wander'd up and down
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From Sea-port town to town,
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Till in travel I fell down in the high-way.
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X.
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Then taken up I were by women kind,
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whose friendship they did show nature did bind
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Delivered then I were
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Of two fine Babies fair,
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which caused me much care be warn'd by me.
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