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The Lady’s love with a Prentice Boy.
T*\0VVN in Cupid’s garden for pleafure I did wali,
I heard two pretty lovers to fweetley for to talk,
5 ri« of a britk young lady ant! a young prentict boy,
In private the was courting., for he was all her joy.
He tend dear honour’d ’ady I am your prentice hoy.
How tan I ever tnink a lady to enjoy t
Hischctkj were red asrofes. bishutnGuri were fo free.
My dear if I da marry I’ai lure it Qiail be ihte
When her parent^ came the fame tontaderftand.
The y< ung man he wat banifhed unto a foreign lind,
Whtlftflie iaybrokpn-heartcdjiaaienting tile did cry,
For nay hand feme Catrmit^grpren ticca auid I’ll live
and die.
Thisyor.th to a txerchant a waiting-man was bound
And by his good behaviour g^cat fortune he found,
‘He loonbcsimcbi*butler « hu h promoted him lofamc
And by his own content a fleward foan became.
For fortune in the letter? hi* money he put dovwj.
Whereby fit^gsih'd a fi. kei a. cool
1 hen with gold and fiver brs clothes helac'1d indeed.
To Eagiacd he returned to his true love with fpeed.
He r fFcr’d to embrace her, fhe flew from his arms.
No lord, duke, or nobtemaulbaHe’erenjoy my charms,
Cinfe sli the s.o!d that glitters, for riches i defy,
And for my charming prentice a tnxid I’ll live and die
He fakl honoured lady 1 have been in your arms.
Here is the ring you gave me when fcafting on your j
charms
The Lady’s love with a Prentice Boy.
T*\0VVN in Cupid’s garden for pleafure I did wali,
I heard two pretty lovers to fweetley for to talk,
5 ri« of a britk young lady ant! a young prentict boy,
In private the was courting., for he was all her joy.
He tend dear honour’d ’ady I am your prentice hoy.
How tan I ever tnink a lady to enjoy t
Hischctkj were red asrofes. bishutnGuri were fo free.
My dear if I da marry I’ai lure it Qiail be ihte
When her parent^ came the fame tontaderftand.
The y< ung man he wat banifhed unto a foreign lind,
Whtlftflie iaybrokpn-heartcdjiaaienting tile did cry,
For nay hand feme Catrmit^grpren ticca auid I’ll live
and die.
Thisyor.th to a txerchant a waiting-man was bound
And by his good behaviour g^cat fortune he found,
‘He loonbcsimcbi*butler « hu h promoted him lofamc
And by his own content a fleward foan became.
For fortune in the letter? hi* money he put dovwj.
Whereby fit^gsih'd a fi. kei a. cool
1 hen with gold and fiver brs clothes helac'1d indeed.
To Eagiacd he returned to his true love with fpeed.
He r fFcr’d to embrace her, fhe flew from his arms.
No lord, duke, or nobtemaulbaHe’erenjoy my charms,
Cinfe sli the s.o!d that glitters, for riches i defy,
And for my charming prentice a tnxid I’ll live and die
He fakl honoured lady 1 have been in your arms.
Here is the ring you gave me when fcafting on your j
charms
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| Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Murders > Five excellent new songs > (6) |
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| Description | Monro's tragedy, The lucky escape, The lady's love with an apprentic [sic] boy, The Irish boy, One bottle more. |
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| Shelfmark | L.C.2808(7) |
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| Description | Over 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides. |
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