The Roxburghe ballads . my dear, Ile venture in marriage without any fear; You shall be my Husband, I will be your wife. And live loving together all days of our Young-man rejoyced the same for to hear,When she had yielded to be both his Miss and his dear. Now in the conclusion, they appointed a day,And next to the Church, and were marryd strait way,With consent of their friends; and to end my ditty,They live loving together in Londons fair City; And loving and gallantly they do agree, And a pattern to other true lovers may be. G6 jfrnfs. Printed for J. Deacon, at the Rain-boiv in Ilu
The Roxburghe ballads . my dear, Ile venture in marriage without any fear; You shall be my Husband, I will be your wife. And live loving together all days of our Young-man rejoyced the same for to hear,When she had yielded to be both his Miss and his dear. Now in the conclusion, they appointed a day,And next to the Church, and were marryd strait way,With consent of their friends; and to end my ditty,They live loving together in Londons fair City; And loving and gallantly they do agree, And a pattern to other true lovers may be. G6 jfrnfs. Printed for J. Deacon, at the Rain-boiv in Ilulbom, near St. Andrews Church. [In Black-letter. Four woodcuts : 1st and 2nd are on p. 138 ; 3rd and 4tli arebelow, and they belong also to pp. 114, 187. Date, etieu 1680.] *#* The tune cited on p. 138 belongs to a Pepysian ballad (the burden is,1 Jenny come tye my bonny Cravat), beginning, As Johnny met Jenny a goingto play ; with its Roxburghe sequel, As Jenny sate under a Sycamore of them yet
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