Diddle, diddle. Or, The kind country lovers. With sly insinuations he perswades her and by the bands of love, along he leads her. Relating pleasant stories for to bind her and all to make her unto him prove kinder. And so in love at last they live together with pleasant dayes enjoying one another. Tune of Lavender green, &c. With allowance, Ro. L'Estrange. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B02694 of text R228199 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing D1414). 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. 4 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 B02694 Wing D1414 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.8[134] 99887686 ocm99887686 183321 2248541294

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B02694) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 183321) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A5:2[112]) Diddle, diddle. Or, The kind country lovers. With sly insinuations he perswades her and by the bands of love, along he leads her. Relating pleasant stories for to bind her and all to make her unto him prove kinder. And so in love at last they live together with pleasant dayes enjoying one another. Tune of Lavender green, &c. With allowance, Ro. L'Estrange. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts). Printed for J. Wright, J. Clark, W. Thackery, and [T. Passenger, [London] : between 1681-1684] Imprint suggested by Wing. Verse: "Lavenders green, diddle, diddle ..." Imperfect: cropped, affecting imprint. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo Diddle, diddle. Or, The kind country lovers. With sly insinuations he perswades her and by the bands of love, along he leads her. Relating pleasant st anon 1684 2 543 3 0 0 0 0 0 55.25 D The rate of 55.25 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-05 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-08 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Diddle , Diddle . Or , The Kind Country Lovers . With sly insinuations he perswades her And by the bands of Love , along he leads her . Relating pleasant stories for to bind her And all to make her unto him prove kinder . And so in Love at last they live together With pleasant dayes enjoying one another . Tune of Lavender green , &c.

With Allowance ,

Ro. L'Estrange .

LAvenders green , Diddle , diddle Lavenders blue You must love me diddle diddle , cause I love you , I heard one say diddle diddle since I came hither , That you and I diddle diddle must lie together . My hosttess maid diddle diddle her name was Nell , She was a lass diddle diddle that I loved well , But if she dye diddle diddle by some mishap , Then she shall lie diddle diddle under the Tap.

That she may drink Diddle , diddle , when she 's a dry . Because she lov'd Diddle , diddle my Dog & I , Coll up your Maids Diddle diddle set them to work , Some to make Hay , Diddle diddle some to the Rock . Some to make Hay , Diddle diddle , some to the Corn Whilst you and I Diddle , didle , keep the bed warm , Let the birds sing Diddle , diddle and the Lambs play . We shall be safe Diddle , diddle out of harms way . James at the George , Diddle , diddle Sue at the Swan , He loves his maid Diddle diddle , she loves her man , But if they chance Diddle , diddle for to be found , Catch them i' th Corn Diddle diddle put them i' th pound . I heard a bird Diddle , diddle sing in my Ear , Maids will be scarce Diddle , diddle , the next New year , For young men are Diddle , diddle so wanton grown That they ne'r mind Diddle , diddle which is their own . Down in a Vale Diddle , diddle where flowerrs do grow And the birds sing Diddlle , diddle all on a row . A brisk young man Diddle , diddle met with a Maid , And laid her down , Diddle diddle under the shade . Where they did play Diddle , diddle & Kiss & Court , Like Lambs in May Diddle diddle making fine sport . There lives a Lass Diddle , diddle over the Green , She sells good Ale Diddle , diddle think what I mean . Oft have I been Diddle , diddle with her i' th dark And yet I nere Diddle diddle shot at the mark . But now my Dear Diddle , diddle have at thy bumm For I do swear Diddle , diddle now I am come . I will be kind Diddle diddle until I dye , Then prethee love Diddle diddle my Dog & I. For thee & I Diddle diddle now are all one , And we will lye Diddle diddle no more alone .

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