Fair Cynthia's sorrowful sighs being her stedfast resolution to find out her beloved Coydon : to a pleasant new tune. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A41322 of text R43160 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing F95). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A41322 Wing F95 ESTC R43160 26923917 ocm 26923917 109863 2248531214

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A41322) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 109863) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1716:7) Fair Cynthia's sorrowful sighs being her stedfast resolution to find out her beloved Coydon : to a pleasant new tune. 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed for P. Brooksby ..., [London] : [1688] Includes music. Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo Fair Cynthia's sorrowful sighs, being her stedfast resolution to find out her beloved Coydon. To a pleasant new tune. [no entry] 1688 1 556 3 0 0 10 0 0 1852.52 F The rate of 1852.52 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2003-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2003-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-10 Sampled and proofread 2003-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-12 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Fair CYNTHIA's Sorrowful Sighs . BEING Her stedfast Resolution to find out her Beloved CORYDON . To a Pleasant New TVNE . I. MY sweet Corydon , art thou fled and gone , and left Cynthia in Sighs and Tears ; I have no Relief , but opprest with Grief , haunted with Troops of slavish fears : Oh! that now I was in thy tender Arms , Tasting of those Charms which I wou'd enjoy : O ye Gods be kind , — Ease my mind , — don 't a Lady thus destroy . II. Bring me to my Dear , for alas ! I fear , all my Friends they do frown on me ; Therefore for thy sake , my poor heart will break if that I cannot come to thee : Dejected here I wander all alone , Sigh and making moan , to enjoy my Dear ; In thy loving Breast , — I could rest , — but I have no quiet here . III. Now my drooping Soul , daily does condole , those sad sorrows I undergo , Unregarded I , here lamenting lye , tears from my melting Eyes does flow : But therefore I re●olve to quit the Grove , And search for my Love , never thus dispair ; For my Corydon , — Sure he can , — ease me of my grief and care . IV. When thou w●rt with me , in Felicity , I my Minutes in Mirth did spend ; But thou being gone , and I left alone , there 's many Evils does attend : Tho●e nymphs which formerly were won't to smile Now doth me Revile , therefore i 'le arise : And will come to thee , — Love , said she , — whom I do so highly prize . V. If I live or Dye , in his Company , there my Happiness will I place ; Like two Lovers sweet , we 'l each other Greet , kiss and most tenderly Embrace : For wheresoever he shall make his Bed , There i 'de lay my Head , troubles to destroy : Ye Powers let me have , — What I crave — then you 'l Crown my grief with joy . VI. In the silent Night , will I take my flight , when the Shepherds are all secure , Wander far and near , to find out my Dear , whose absence I cannot endure : For tho' I now do feel the fatal smart , Of a broken heart , then I shall be free ; When I find my Love , — Who will prove — both my Life and Liberty . VII . Tho' these Lines I leave , yet let no one grieve , when they find 'um within my Bower , I am gone alone , for to find out one , which is a sweet and famous Flower , Whom I have reason always to adore , Nay , and Honour more then another Swain ; Therefore Nymphs farewel — Now , and tell , — that I shall return again . FINIS .

Printed for P. Brooksby , at the Golden-Ball in Pye-Corner , near West-Smithfield .