The Roxburghe ballads . but to interpolate anadditional adjective poor and, without authority and thus alter the rhythm,doubles the improbability of identity. There is a ballad beginning I am a poordistressed Maid, one entitled The Mournful Maidens Complaint for the Lossof her Maidenhead ; or, A Caution to other Maidens to take warning by. Thetune of it is, Old Ale has undone me. (This is the burden of John WadesBagford Ballad, see Hoxb. Bds., vol. vi. p. 273, 274 ; the same tune as his TlieMaids the best that lies alone.) With allowance. Printed for J. Hose, overagainst Staples-Inn, in Moulbo
The Roxburghe ballads . but to interpolate anadditional adjective poor and, without authority and thus alter the rhythm,doubles the improbability of identity. There is a ballad beginning I am a poordistressed Maid, one entitled The Mournful Maidens Complaint for the Lossof her Maidenhead ; or, A Caution to other Maidens to take warning by. Thetune of it is, Old Ale has undone me. (This is the burden of John WadesBagford Ballad, see Hoxb. Bds., vol. vi. p. 273, 274 ; the same tune as his TlieMaids the best that lies alone.) With allowance. Printed for J. Hose, overagainst Staples-Inn, in Moulbourn, near Grays Inn Lane. This might be the true I am a poor and harm/ess Maid. Whatever original name the present tune may have had, this ballad conferredone, references becoming frequent afterwards to In my freedom is my joy, which isthe chief burden. Its own third stanza, beginning, lama young and harmlessMaid, appears to be the most probable fountain-head of the tune-name attachedto it, lam a poor and harmless [These two cuts, without the flower, belong to p. 142 ; the Lady also to p. 135.] 144 [Roxburghe Collection, II. 552 ; Pepys, III. 37 and 54; Eawlinson, 25.] Ci)e flllertuous S$aii)f8 Resolution; Showing what ITnconstaut Men there be, that use Deceit and Flattery ;Theyll cog, dissemble, swear and lye, a Harmless Maidens Life to try ;To all such Lovers shell be coy, and says, My Freedoms all my Joy. To the Tune of, I am a poor and harmless Maid, etc. [See p. 143.] IN a melancholly passion I was walking by a river [w]ide,A gallant Damsel I did spy ; a lute she had lay by her side,Which up she took, and did sing and play,That in her freedom was all her joy, 0 in my freedoms all my joy ! I stept aside, because Id hear the full conclusion of her song,Her musick ravishd so mine ear, as on the ground I lay did she sweetly play, 0 in my freedoms all my joy ! 12 lama young and harmless Maid, and some are pleasd to stile me fair,Theresnoman yet hath ambush lai
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