The honest Maidens Loyalty;
Or, The Young mans faithful constancy.
He vows to endure the Rack and the Stake
And suffer dearly for his true Lovers sake,
To a pleasant new Tune, Wert thou more fairer
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MOst early in a morning fair,
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a young man sung this pleasant quire.
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Where his dear sweeting did use to lye,
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and thus lamenting he did cry,
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Farewell sweet heart for I must be gone,
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but I'le have my love or I'le have none,
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Set forty thousand on a row,
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There's none can make so fair a show.
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For in the Pallace of her twinkling eyes,
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I see how amorous Cupid flies,
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As for my part I have chosen one, etc.
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No rack nor stake with tortures great,
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That shalt my Love entire defeat,
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O do not waver like the turning wind,
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But hear a lovers constant mind,
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As for my part, etc.
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Thus who can love so true as I,
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That am so sick yet cannot dye:
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A cordial kiss can my heart revive,
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And make a love-sick man alive,
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And by experience is well know, etc.
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A Lady in her high degree,
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Her lofty mind cannot fancy me:
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For many are ambitious in their ways,
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But Maidens chaste young men should praise
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I will be faithful to my own,
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For Ile have, etc.
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Your City dames with mincing feats,
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Have many tricks and fine conceits,
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But my true Love is virtuous chast and wise
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And like an Angell in mine eyes,
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As for my part, etc.
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Into some far Countrey I'le go,
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Confine my self to care and wo,
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Till fickle fortune please to smile,
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That hath so lower'd all this while,
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As for my part I have chosen one,
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And I'le have, etc.
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The Second Part to the same Tune.
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THe Young-man ending of his Song,
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The Maiden knew his voice and tongue,
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And stepping then unto his window side
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How fares my Love, aloud she cry'd.
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As for my part I have chosen one,
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I'le have my true or I'le have none.
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Though Locks and Bolts do hinder me,
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Theres none shall keep my Love from thee,
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But as the Dove is constant to the end,
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So I'le prove true to thee my friend.
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As for, etc.
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My Father and my Mother both,
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Have bound it with a fearfull oath,
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They will thee kill and spill thy harmless blood
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And so disturb us of our good,
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As for, etc.
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My Brother does in ambush wait,
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Thee to betray withall deceit:
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Though Father frown and Mother angry be,
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Yet I will have no Man but thee.
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As for, etc.
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My Uncles and my Kindred all,
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Are much enrag'd do scold and brawl
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And wish that day that I to thee am wed,
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That we may perish in our bed.
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As for, etc.
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And I ten thousand pounds of gold,
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Or Lands, they surely should be sold.
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I'le change my state into a low degree,
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And go a begging along with thee.
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As for etc.
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Through fire and water I will go
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Along with thee who e're say no,
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I am coming now to take with thee my lot,
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That we may tye the True-loves knot.
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as for, etc.
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Welcome my sweet to him that bears
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A loyall heart, overwhelm'd with cares.
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Welcome a thousand times my dearest Love
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For I most faithfull to thee will prove.
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as for, etc.
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Heaven blesse the day as we enjoy
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True Lovers bliss without annoy.
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A thousand kisses to my love I'le give,
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Our hearts united in love to live.
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as for, etc.
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Young men and Maids wh[a] e're you be,
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Make all your choices firm and free,
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Prove Loyal, constant, to your dearest friend,
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So Heavens will blesse you unto the end.
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Let all your voices thus go into one,
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I will have my true Love or lie have none
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