EBBA 37193 - UCSB English Broadside Ballad Archive

EBBA 37193

British Library - 1876.f.1

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A Song.

LOvely Selina, innocent and Fair;

From all the dangerous Arts of Love,

Thus in a Melancholly Grove,

Enjoy'd the sweetness of her privacy;

Till envious Gods designing to undo her,

Dispatch the Swain not unlike

Unlike then to wooe her.

It was not long e're the designed take

A gentle Youth born to perswade,

D-----d the too too easie Maid;

Her Scrip and Garland soon she did forsake,

And rashly told the secrets of her heart,

Which the fond Man would evermore impart,

False Coridel joy of my heart

Said she, 'tis hard to Love, Love in vain,

To love and not be lov'd again;

And why should Love and prudence disagre,

Pitty ye Powers that sit at ease above,

If e're you knew what 'tis to be in Love.