The Roxburghe ballads . y :Accept my love as a tribute due Onely to you, Sir, and to none but you. The young man noting well her words,This courteous answer then affords : Give me thy hand, take mine in lieu : My love I grant here, and so do you. 88 To Church with speed then let us hye,In marriage bands our selves to tye:Where, interchanging hands and hearts,Fie love thee deerly till death us parts. Mark well my Song, you Maidens coy,That count true love a foolish toy :Do not disdain when young men wooe, But love them freely as they love you. 96 JFtnfe. [By] Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere,
The Roxburghe ballads . y :Accept my love as a tribute due Onely to you, Sir, and to none but you. The young man noting well her words,This courteous answer then affords : Give me thy hand, take mine in lieu : My love I grant here, and so do you. 88 To Church with speed then let us hye,In marriage bands our selves to tye:Where, interchanging hands and hearts,Fie love thee deerly till death us parts. Mark well my Song, you Maidens coy,That count true love a foolish toy :Do not disdain when young men wooe, But love them freely as they love you. 96 JFtnfe. [By] Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, and J. Wriyht. [Pepys, John Wright.] [In Black-letter. Three woodcuts. 1st and 2nd, singly, as on p. 140; 3rd,original of the same two figures, on one block. Date, circd 1680.]*** The author of this ballad is not yet identified by his initials: probablyhe was Robert May hurst. We find signature to a Welsh translation When Philomel (see vol. i. p. 57), and to the Now Robin Hoodballad (see vol. ii. p. 432)..
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