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1 | 1 | Balow, my babe, | Balow, my babe, ly stil and sleipe! |
2 | 2 | It grieves me sair to see thee weipe; | |
3 | 3 | If thoust be silent, Ise be glad, | |
4 | 4 | Thy maining maks my heart ful sad. | |
5 | 5 | Balow, my boy, thy mither's joy! | |
6 | 6 | Th | Thy father breides me great annoy. |
7 | 7 | Balow, my 'babe, ly stil and sleipe! | |
8 | 8 | It grieves me sair to see thee weipe. | |
9 | 9 | ||
10 | 10 | When he began to court my luve, | |
11 | 11 | And with his sugred words to muve, | |
12 | 12 | His faynings fals and flattering cheire | |
13 | 13 | To me that time did not appeire: | |
14 | 14 | But now I see, most cruell hee, | |
15 | 15 | Cares neither for my babe nor mee. | |
16 | 16 | Balow, etc. | |
17 | 17 | ||
18 | 18 | Ly stil, my darlinge, sleipe awhile, | |
19 | 19 | And when thou wakest sweitly smile: | |
20 | 20 | But no | But smile not, as thy father did, |
21 | 21 | To cozen maids; nay, God forbid! | |
22 | 22 | But yette I feire, thou wilt gae neire, | |
23 | 23 | Thy fatheris hart and face to beire. | |
24 | 24 | Balow, etc. | |
25 | 25 | ||
26 | 26 | I cannae chuse, but ever will | |
27 | 27 | Be luving to thy father stil: | |
28 | 28 | Whaireir he gae, whaireir he ryde, | |
29 | 29 | My luve with him maun stil abyde: | |
30 | 30 | In weil or wae, whaireir he gae, | |
31 | 31 | Mine hart can neir depart him frae. | |
32 | 32 | Balow, etc. | |
33 | 33 | ||
34 | 34 | B | But doe not, doe not, prettie mine, |
35 | 35 | To faynings fals thine hart incline; | |
36 | 36 | Be loyal to thy luver trew, | |
37 | 37 | And nevir change hir for a new; | |
38 | 38 | If gude or faire, of hir have care, | |
39 | 39 | For womens banning's wonderous sair. | |
40 | 40 | Balow, etc. | |
41 | 41 | ||
42 | 42 | Bairne, sin thy cruel father is gane, | |
43 | 43 | Thy winsome smiles maun eise my paine; | |
44 | 44 | My babe and I 'll together live, | |
45 | 45 | He'll comfort me when cares doe grieve; | |
46 | 46 | My | My babe and I right saft will ly, |
47 | 47 | And | And quite forgeit man's cruelty. |
48 | 48 | Balow, etc. | |
49 | 49 | ||
50 | 50 | Fareweil, fareweil, thou falsest youth | |
51 | 51 | That ever kist a woman's mouth! | |
52 | 52 | I wish all maids be warned by mee, | |
53 | 53 | Nevir to trust man's curtesy; | |
54 | 54 | For if we doe but chance to bow, | |
55 | 55 | They'll use us then they care not how. | |
56 | 56 | Balow, my 'babe, ly stil and sleipe! | |
57 | 57 | It grieves me sair to see thee weipe. | |
58 | Be still, my babe, and sleep a while, | ||
59 | And when thou wake then sweetly smile, | ||
60 | But smile not as thy father did, | ||
61 | To cozen maids: O heaven forbid, | ||
62 | And yet into thy face I see | ||
63 | Thy father dear which tempted me. | ||
64 | |||
65 | Balow, my babe, O follow not | ||
66 | His faithless steps who thee begot, | ||
67 | Nor glory in a maid's disgrace, | ||
68 | For thou art his too much, alas! | ||
69 | And in thy looking eyes I read | ||
70 | Who overthrew my maidenhead. | ||
71 | |||
72 | O if I were a maid again, | ||
73 | All young men's flatteries I'd refrain: | ||
74 | Because unto my grief I find | ||
75 | That they are faithless and unkind, | ||
76 | Their tempting terms have bred my harm, | ||
77 | Bear witness babe lies in my arm. | ||
78 | |||
79 | Balow, my babe, spare yet thy tears, | ||
80 | Untill thou come to wit and years; | ||
81 | Perhaps yet thou may come to be | ||
82 | A courtier by disdaining me: | ||
83 | Poor me., poor me, alas poor me, | ||
84 | My own two eyes have blinded me! | ||
85 | |||
86 | On love and fortune I complain, | ||
87 | On them and on myself also: | ||
88 | But most of all mine own two eyes, | ||
89 | The chiefest workers of my woe, | ||
90 | For they have caused so my smart, | ||
91 | That I must die without a heart. | ||
92 | |||
93 | Balow, my babe, thy father dead | ||
94 | To me the prodigal hath play'd, | ||
95 | Of heaven and earth regardless he | ||
96 | Preferr'd the wars to me and thee. | ||
97 | I doubt that now his cursing mind | ||
98 | Makes him eat acorns with the swine. | ||
99 | |||
100 | Farewell, farewell, most faithless youth, | ||
101 | That ever kist a woman's mouth, | ||
102 | Let never a woman after me, | ||
103 | Submit unto the courtesy; | ||
104 | For if she do, O cruel thou | ||
105 | Would wrong them: O! who can tell how? |
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