The indifferent lover, or, The roving batchelor. To a pleasant new tune, sung in the last new comedy, called Amphytrion, or, Fond boy· This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B03777 of text R227610 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing I153). 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 B03777 Wing I153 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.39.k.6[48] 99887428 ocm99887428 182134 2240900143

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B03777) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182134) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A3:1[48]) The indifferent lover, or, The roving batchelor. To a pleasant new tune, sung in the last new comedy, called Amphytrion, or, Fond boy· 1 sheet ([1] p.) : music. Printed for Ch[arles]. Bates, at the White-Hart in West-Smith-Field., [London] : [1690] Publisher's name, place and date of publication from Wing. Verse: "For Iris I sigh and hourly dye ..." Printed in two columns. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo The indifferent lover, or, The roving batchelor. To a pleasant new tune, sung in the last new comedy, called Amphytrion, or, Fond boy· anon 1690 1 536 0 0 0 30 0 0 5597.01 F The rate of 5597.01 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-02 Sampled and proofread 2009-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Indifferent LOVER , OR , The Roving Batchelor . To a Pleasant new Tune , Sung in the last new Comedy , called Amphytrion , Or , Fond Boy .

FOr Iris I sigh and hourly Dye , but not for a Lip nor a languishing Eye ; She 's fickle and false and there we agree , Oh! these are the Vertues that captivate me : We neither believe what either can say , and neither believing , we neither betray .

(2) 'T is civil to swear and say things of Course , We mean not the taking for better for worse , When present we love , when absent agree , I think not of Iris nor Iris of me ; The Legend of Love , no Couple can find , So easie to part , and so easily joyn'd . (3) I like not that Lover who'll whimpering stand , And wait a whole day to kiss Celias fair hand , No Beauty i' th' Town , tho' ten times as fair , Can ever , can ever with Celia Compare : How happy am I , who hourly find , Those fair as his Celia , as his kind . (4) I am still in the Fashion , or Mode-a-la - France , I think not upon her , unless by a chance , Iris when present I fancy the best , When absent I praise her no more then the rest : Iris and Phillis to me are all one ; So soon I can love , and as soon can have done . (5) I can love for an hour , fair Celia and then , I am Cloy'd of the Bliss , and Love Iris agen , Till tyered of Happiness I do depart , Go the next way and give Phillis my Heart : Till Cleo appears , whose delicate Eye , For an hour or two makes me languishing lye . (6) I loved all I see when just in the fit , Yet can in a Moment my Mistriss forget , Now Languish , now Love , now sigh and complain Now love her , now hate her , and love her again . I admire the Charms in Celias fair face , Till Phillis appears to take up her place . (7) But of all the Beauties were ever admir'd , Whose Company many fond Fops have desir'd , Whose every Charm in their Faces so takes , That several Coxcombs have dy'd for their sakes ; I never see any whose faces could Charm , So much by their Smiles or Frowns for to harm . (8) If Iris Loves me , then I can Love her , If she loves me not , then I can prefer , Another before her ; Or her 'fore another , For I can Love one as well as the other ; My passion to all alike I 'll discover , And always ramin an indifferent Lover . FINIS .

Printed for Ch. Bates , at the White-Hart in West-Smith-Field .