EBBA 37764
British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads
| The Longing Virgins Choice: / OR, / The Scotch Lasses Delight. / Virgins all you that Coyness still perswades, / Though 'gainst your wills you still continue Maids; / Blush not at this, for though the Lass is kind, / She's not to blame your all so in your mind: / And fain would have the thing you dare not name, / Sighing for that which she does boldy claim: / Young-men are kind, and would not see you want, / If you but ask, what you desire they'l grant: / Then let not Blushes o're your pleasures swell, / 'Tis sure but scurvy leading Apes in Hell. | |
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| Date Published | 1672-1696 ? |
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| Imprint | Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden=Ball, in Pye Corner. |
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| Collection | British Library - Collection of 225 Ballads |
| Location | British Library |
| Shelfmark | C.22.f.6.(142.) |
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| Part 1 | |
| Title | The Longing Virgins Choice: / OR, / The Scotch Lasses Delight. / Virgins all you that Coyness still perswades, / Though 'gainst your wills you still continue Maids; / Blush not at this, for though the Lass is kind, / She's not to blame your all so in your mind: / And fain would have the thing you dare not name, / Sighing for that which she does boldy claim: / Young-men are kind, and would not see you want, / If you but ask, what you desire they'l grant: / Then let not Blushes o're your pleasures swell, / 'Tis sure but scurvy leading Apes in Hell. |
| Tune Imprint | To a Modish new Scoth Tune, Sung at the Dukes Playhouse. |
| First Lines | BOnny Las, gin thou art mine, / and with twenty thousand pound about |
| Refrain | To shew the how thy Daddy got thee. [with variation] |
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