An Excellent new Song, called,
NELLYS Constancy:
OR,
Her Unkind Lover.
Who after contract of Marriage, leaves his first Mistress
for the sake of a better Fortune.
To an Excellent New Tune.
Licensed according to Order.
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I Lov'd you dearly I lov'd you well,
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I lov'd you dearly no tongue can tell;
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You love another you love not me,
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You care not for my company.
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You love another ile tell you why,
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Because she has more means than I;
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But means will waste love and means will fly,
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In time thou mayst have no more than I.
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If I had Gold Love thou shouldst have part,
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But as i've none love thou hast my heart;
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thou hast my heart and free good-will,
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And in good truth I love you still.
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How often has your tongue this told,
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You loved not for Silver nor Gold;
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And this to me you did impart,
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All you desired was my heart.
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Your tongue did so inchant my mind,
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Yet I forever must be kind,
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though you prove false yet I am true,
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And own I am undone by you.
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What makes young men be thus unkind,
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to gain Maids loves then change their mind,
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As here I find it to my grief,
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He's stole my heart Stop thief stop thief.
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My heart you have, go where you will,
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And though you leave me I love you stil,
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But had I sums of Gold in store,
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You'd Court me as you did before.
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It is money is your chiefest Aim,
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All Women else would be the same,
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Oh what a world is't we live in,
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No true love can be found in men.
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Although you do another take,
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And leave your first loves heart to break,
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It pleases me to die for love,
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And do a faithful Virgin prove.
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Then my advice is to each maid,
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be careful least your hearts betray'd:
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believe not all Young men do say,
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they'll vow they'll love, yet go their way.
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Like my dear love that Courted me,
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Who's wed another, and gone to Sea,
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Yet I a Sailor Boys love still,
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And none but such shall gain my will.
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then call a boat, boys, unto the Ferry,
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For we are come, boys, for to be merry,
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It shall nere be said, boys, when we are dead,
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But the jolly Sailors are rarely bred.
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