An excellent new song, called, The ruined virgin, or, The hard-hearted young-man. To an excellent new play-house tune. With allowance. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B04214 of text R227607 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L3220). 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 B04214 Wing L3220 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.39.k.6[46] 99887426 ocm99887426 182132 2240898387

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B04214) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182132) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A3:1[46]) An excellent new song, called, The ruined virgin, or, The hard-hearted young-man. To an excellent new play-house tune. With allowance. 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed for, and sold by Charles Barnet, [London] : [between 1694-1700] Place and date of publication from Wing. Verse: "You pretty maidens all I pray give ear ..." Printed in two columns. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo An excellent new song, called, The ruined virgin, or, The hard-hearted young-man. To an excellent new play-house tune. With allowance. anon 1700 1 470 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-06 Sampled and proofread 2008-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
An Excellent New SONG , CALLED , The Ruined Virgin , OR , The Hard-hearted Young-man . To an Excellent new Play-house Tune .

With Allowance .

I. YOu pretty Maidens all I pray give Ear , Unto my Downfall which I declare , Of Parentage I am Near to a Gentleman , As some now witness can the date of Year . II. At fourteen years of Age with griefs I tell , Many a young man fair loved me well , I being Childish young , Believ'd a flatt'ring tongue , And fix'd my mind upon a brisk young man . III. He said if I would not yield with him to dwell , He would go hang himself what e're befell , He rung and tore his hair , And wickedly did swear , His sword should end the care before me then . IV. I hearing what he said grieved me sore , I took him for my Friend not for my Foe , Young man , said I , forbear , I pray let go your hair , I 'll ease you of your care , and be your Bride . V. O how he Jumpt for joy before me then , My love and only joy happies the man , He kindly me embrac'd , And hung about my Waste , And then my love I plac'd on this young man . VI. For two months space & more he Courted me Day by Day , Night by Night he set by me , He let me take no rest I must sleep on his Breast , And then my Love I plac'd on this young man . VII . The appointed day was set we were to wed , But first of all he stole my maiden-head , My Parents did not know , I lov'd this young man so , Which prov'd my overthrow , ruin'd me quite VIII . When I with Child did prove & him had told , He call'd me twenty Whores brafen and bold I know you not , says he , Therefore be gone from me , This prov'd my misery , his love was cold . IX . I was asham'd to stay where I was known , For straight away I went from my own home , I wander'd up and down From Sea-port town to town , Till in travel I fell down in the high-way . X. Then taken up I were by women kind , whose friendship they did show nature did bind Delivered then I were Of two fine Babies fair , which caused me much care bewarn'd by me .

Printed for , and Sold by Charles Barnet ;