The languishing shepherd: or, The loss of fair Lillia lamented. To an excellent new tune much in request. Licensed according to order. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B04286 of text R227503 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L418). 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 B04286 Wing L418 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.39.k.6[5] 99887370 ocm99887370 182091 2248540003

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B04286) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182091) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A3:1[5]) The languishing shepherd: or, The loss of fair Lillia lamented. To an excellent new tune much in request. Licensed according to order. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : music. Printed for P[hilip]. Brooksby. J[onah]. Deacon. J[osiah]. Blare. J[ohn]. Back., [London] : [between 1688-1692] Publishers' names, place and date of publication from Wing. Verse: "When my kids and my lambs I treated ..." Printed in two columns. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo The languishing shepherd: or, The loss of fair Lillia lamented. To an excellent new tune much in request. Licensed according to order. anon 1692 1 495 0 0 0 10 0 0 2020.2 F The rate of 2020.2 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 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
THE Languishing Shepherd : OR , The Loss of Fair Lillia Lamented .

To an excellent new Tune much in request . Licensed according to Order .

I. WHen my Kids and my Lambs I treated , and to Mountains did invite , With clean Straw my Hurdle Sheated , where I might repose all night : Then free from Care I liv'd at Pleasure , while my Lillea took her flight , I at the Loss of such a Treasure , all my other , all my other , all my other Flocks did slight . II. Through the Woods and the Groves I rambled yet could never quit my fear ; Birds methought on every Bramble , whistle Lillea in my Ear ; Yet I upon my heedless Rover , never once could fix my Eye , Which makes me now so often over , Lillia , Lillia , Lillia , Lillia , Lillia , Lillia , Lillia cry . III. Many long and tedious Hours in the silent Groves I spend , Searching all the shady Bowers for my true entire Friend , Yet alas ! I cannot find her , whose sweet Charms I do adore , But am left in Grief behind her , sighing , sighing , sighing , sighing , sighing sighing evermore . IV. Never was a sweeter Creature than my pleasant charming Fair ; Could I in the Valleys meet her , then adieu to all Despair : Sorrows soon would be dispersed , like a Mist , or Morning Cloud , And a thousand Joys rehearsed , for she 's Loyal , she 's Loyal , just and true to what she vow'd . V. Some ill Fortune hath attended my beloved Lillia , By which means her Life is ended , or so long she 'd never stay From her Love who feels the Anguish which my Heart do's now endure ; She 's too good to let me languish , for her pleasant charming Beauty I am sure . VI. I have lost as great a Treasure , as the World did ever own ; Riches , Honour , Peace , and Pleasure , these all remain in her alone : Kings in Diadems may Glory , let me but her Charms behold ; Crowns I count but Transitory , Love is better , Love is better , Love is better worth than Gold . VII . Yet the Fates deny the Blessing of the fairest Beauty bright , Which is far beyond expressing all my Joys have taken flight : Sure some fatal stroke is given that has kept my Love from me , Therefore if she be not living , let me , let me , let me , let me , let me dye as well as she .

Printed for P. Booksby . J. Deacon . J. Blare . J. Back .