Deplorable news from Southwark, or, The Loving lasses lamentations for the loss of their sweet-hearts

Deplorable news from Southwark, or, The Loving lasses lamentations for the loss of their sweet-hearts

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Deplorable news from Southwark; Or, the loving Lasses Lamentations for the loss of their Sweet-hearts.

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Deplorable news from Southwark;
Or, the loving Lasses Lamentations for the loss of their Sweet-hearts.

They sigh, they sob, they sorow and complain,

Fearing their Loves will never come again:

It is the lusty Souldiers as they say,

Have stoln from them their pretty hearts away.

The tune is, Saint Gyleses.

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THe Lasses now of Southwark

lament and make great moan,

Because from them their swéet-hearts

departed are and gone.

Thare's Peggy, Alce, and Bridget,

and many others more

With howling and with wéeping,

have made their eye-sight sore,

The gallant,

Valiant

Souldiers as they say

Have stolen from them their pretty hearts away.

The Souldiers which in Southwark

did quarter here and there,

Each one of them that had swéet-hearts

was constant to his deare;

Both civill in their actions,

and constant in their carriage,

And yet some of the Lasses now

Complain for lack of marrriage.

The gallant,

Valiant

Souldiers as they

Have stoln from them their pretty hearts away.

To speak of their procéedings,

I hope none will me blame,

The better for to know them,

I will them to you name.

Fair Maudlin she lov'd Martin,

and Joan she loved John,

Winnifred lov'd William,

and Ned was loved of Nan.

Those valiant

Gallant

Souldiers as they say,

Have stoln from them their pretty hearts away.

Betty she lov'd Robert,

and Dick lov'd Dorothy,

Rowland he lov'd Rachael,

and Kate lov'd Anthony:

Swéet Rose she lov'd bold Stephen,

and Hester she lov'd Waltet,

And more news of their passages

I mean to speak hereafter.

The valiant,

Gallant

Souldiers as they say,

Hove stoln the maidens hearts from them away.

Rebecca she lov'd John well,

and George lov'd Margery,

Kester he lov'd Jany:

and Nell lov'd Humphrey

Francis lov'd fair Phillis,

And Samuel he lov'd Sary,

Debora she lov'd Daniel,

and Thomas he lov'd Mary.

The valiant

Gallant

Souldiers as they say,

Have stoln[?] the damsels hearts from them away.

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THe bonny brave young Souldiers are

of late from Southwarke gone,

To quarter in the Country.

and left their loves alone;

Who now in dolefull manner

doth bitterly complain,

Much fearing that their swéet-hearts

will never come again.

The valliant,

Gallant

Souldiers as they say,

Have stole their pretty hearts from them away.

The next news of these Damsels,

that I have here to tell yée,

Pore Kate hath got a griping

and rumbling in her belly;

And pretty Nancies Apron

is grown too short before,

And so is Nans and Sarahs

and many others more.

The valiant,

Gallant,

Souldiers as they say,

Hath stoln both their loves and hearts away.

Pore Maries nose looks picked,

and so doth bonny Nell,

And Betties under Peticoat

strange tales of her doth tell:

Mary is halfe deceived,

and Debro quite beguil'd,

Sara hath lost her Maiden-head,

and Susan's great with Child.

The gallant,

Valliant

Souldiers as they say,

Hath stoln from them their Maiden-heads away.

Rose sayes though she hath gotten

no Livings nor no Lands,

Yet if she had her Love againe

she would labour with her hands

To kéepe and to maintain him,

all the dayes of her life,

So he would be contented

to take her to his Wife.

The valliant,

Gallant

Souldier she doth say,

Hath stoln both her heart and love away

The rest that hath béen named,

are all of Roses mind,

And would unto their Swéet-hearts be

both loyall, true, and kind,

So they might have their company,

by day and eke by night,

O that's the thing they wish for.

to have them in their sight.

But the valliant,

Gallant,

Soldiers as they say,

Hath stoln their bonny hearts from them away.

To draw to a conclusion,

I wish all Damsels mild.

Both them that have flat bellyes,

and them that are with child:

To beare all things with prudence,

and suffer patiently,

And buy each one a Hand-kercher

to wipe her wet eyes dry.

And when your

Sweet-hearts

Come to you again,

They'l use a means to cure you of your pain,

Be not too heavy-minded,

but thus I'd have you pray,

That those which stole your hearts from you

and carryed them away,

May come again with safety,

and make you all amends,

To marry you and love you,

and so my Ditty ends.

The valliant,

Gallants

Hath stoln your hearts away,

They'l bring them home again another day.

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Printed for Tho. Vere, at the Angel, without New-gate.

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Deplorable news from Southwark, or, The Loving lasses lamentations for the loss of their sweet-hearts

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1655

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A35704

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Wing D1075

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17008042

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105743

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— Deplorable news from Southwark, or, The Loving lasses lamentations for the loss of their sweet-hearts,

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Printed for Tho. Vere, at the Angel, without New-gate,. [London] :: [1655?]. (Date and place of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.).) ("The tune is, St. Gyleses.") (Contains woodcut illustrations.) (Item 2968:19[3] is 3 of 32 broadsides on reel 2968:19.) (Reproduction of original in the British Library.)

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