Catalogue of a collection of English ballads of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries

(Bngft00 Q^affabe. 297
To an excellent New Tune. |
[2 lines of music]
Printed for Charles Bates next to the | Crown Tavern in Westsmithfield. |
[1690-1702.]
2 cols., 13 verses. Roman Letter.
This is the reply to " The Unconstant Shepherd = Oh, how can I be merry or glad ". q. v.
Bagford - p. 508. Pepys ^.
150" go
833—My dear to thee !'le surely be |
as chast as Ice or snow ; |
Vertue the Reward of Constancy ; Or, Mrs. Mary Foart's Love-
Letter and An- \ swer to her dear heart John Blay at Leghorn : |
Wherein she protests her constancy and happiness in the injoyment
of his love ; which | she writ to him in Verse, as his was to her : and
showing the same to a Friend of | hers for his approbation, he caused
both the Letter and the Answer to be publish'd | to vindicate the
Maids honour and constancy, which some sly young-men living | near,
had endeavoured to traduce, and by that means to break off the match,
which I they had designed otherways.
To the same Tune. |
Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden-ball in VVest-smithfield. | [1672-95.]
2 cols. B.L.
The answer to, and forming the 3rd and 4th cols, of " Loyal Constancy = Till from
Leghorn I do return ". q. v.
Huth -.
834—My Dearest I must to the Sea; j
I'm come now to bid thee adieu ; 1
The Mariner's Delight, | Or, The Seaman's Seaven Wives. |
Being a pleasant new Song ; shewing how a Seaman call'd Anthony
courted a young | Maid whose Name is Susan, in London : and (with
great difficulty) gain'd her affection ; Notwith- | standing he had
seaven Wives, all alive at that time: and at last was discovered, to
the great advan- | tage and satisfaction of the Vertuous Maid and
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