The Constant maidens resolution, or, Silver and gold can't buy true love wherein is show'd an old mans fondness, the maidens constancy unto her dearest friend, being a rare pattern for all maids to take example by the same : to the tune of, Laugh and lye down.

The Constant maidens resolution, or, Silver and gold can't buy true love wherein is show'd an old mans fondness, the maidens constancy unto her dearest friend, being a rare pattern for all maids to take example by the same : to the tune of, Laugh and lye down.

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The Constant Maidens Resolution: Or Silver and Gold can•t buy true Love.

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The Constant Maidens Resolution: Or Silver and Gold can [...]t buy true Love.

Wherein is show'd an old mans fondness the maidens constancy unto her dearest Friend, being a rare pattern for all maids to take example by the same.

To the Tune of, laugh and lye down.

[figure]

[figure]

I Am a young Damsel

that's plunged in Woe.

And how to remove it

I do not well know:

My friends they wou'd tye me

unto an Old Man,

That has store of Riches

but [...]ove him who can.

Tis not Father nor Mother

my mind shall remove.

For I am resolved

to have him that I love.

Ther[?] lived a spruce Old Man

near unto this Girl,

Who wooed her and sued her

like Lord or yet Earl,

Of wealth he had plenty

in[?] Riches did swim,

But [...]r all he'd such dainty

shed not fancy him.

But still she reply'd

my mind shan't remove,

For, &c.

The Old man.

My joy and my Honey

these words then spake he,

If thou[?] wilt but set thy

affecion on me,

In Laid I will seat thée

worth thirty a year,

And a house[?] that's worth twenty

i'le m [...]e it appear.

Then be [...]ot so coy Love

althou [...]h I am old,

For my [...]e is fervent

and so [...] all hold,

The maid.

HAd you ne're so much Riches

or ne're so much Gold

You never shall get my

heart in your hold,

For I am resolved

sink or yet svim,

To have the Man I can love

though I do [...]eg with him.

For what joy or what comfort

has any young bride,

To have an old sapling

to lye by her side.

Where their's [...]auking and spitting

and coughing all night,

Grunting and Groaning

instead of delight:

Scratching and Scrubbing

their Wrinkled Skin,

When Rest should be had

then they'r making a din.

And I wonder such old men

as you cannot see,

But will marry young wenches

a Cuckold to be.

The Old Man.

My Dearest w [...]y dost thou

despise an Old Man,

That will bravely maintain thée

with Wood and Fan:

Gloves, Ribbous and Scarves

thou daily shall Wear,

Larks, Chickens and Capons

it shall be thy fare[?],

Thou hadst bette [...] an

Old Mans darling to be,

Then to marry with one

that will never [...]ove thee.

The Maid.

Tis not your Ric [...] dainties

nor your brave [...]ttire,

Shall make me co [...]descend

unto your desire

VVhere my mind cannot fancy

I'le never be tide,

Although every day in my Coah

I might Ride.

No Gold nor yet, Silver,

my mind, &c.

The Maid.

Therefore take your answer

and from me depart.

For I cannot love you

with a serious heart:

No Old Mans Darling

I mean for to be,

Cause Old flesh with young flesh

will never[?] agrée.

Come wealth or come woe

my mind, &c.

The Old Man.

I Wonder swéet Lady

you should be so strange,

That us Love nor perswasions

your mind it can change:

If you felt but the Torments

the which I abide,

You soon wou'd yeild to me

whatever betide.

My hearts so perplexed

all joys from me flye,

To think of thy beauty

I surely shall dye.

The Maid.

Fye leave off your doting

you silly Old Sot,

My beauty's like others

therefore praise it not:

I do not regard you

nor pitty your moan,

Because that I have a true

love of my own.

And no man on Earth

my mind, &c,

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The Constant maidens resolution, or, Silver and gold can't buy true love wherein is show'd an old mans fondness, the maidens constancy unto her dearest friend, being a rare pattern for all maids to take example by the same : to the tune of, Laugh and lye down.

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1674

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A34367

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Wing C5945

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ESTC R41900

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19720043

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ocm 19720043

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109335

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— The Constant maidens resolution, or, Silver and gold can't buy true love wherein is show'd an old mans fondness, the maidens constancy unto her dearest friend, being a rare pattern for all maids to take example by the same : to the tune of, Laugh and lye down.,

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by J.L. for R.C.,. [London :: 1674?]. (Imprint suggested by Wing.) (Without music.) (Imperfect: creased and torn, with some loss of print.) (Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.)

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