Shepherd's ingenuity: or, The praise of the green gown, To the tune of, The two entire lovers. Licensed according to order. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B05837 of text R228551 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S3155). 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 B05837 Wing S3155 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.8[426] 99887888 ocm99887888 183544 2240882549

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05837) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 183544) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A5:2[335]) Shepherd's ingenuity: or, The praise of the green gown, To the tune of, The two entire lovers. Licensed according to order. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts). Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, and J. Back., [London] : [between 1688-1692] Place and date of publication suggested by Wing. Verse: "Amongst the pleasant shady bowers ..." Trimmed. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Broadsides -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800. Shepherds -- Early works to 1800. Man-woman relationships -- Early works to 1800. Ballads -- England -- 17th century. eebo The shepherd's ingenuity: or, the praise of the green gown, to the tune of, The two entire lovers. Licensed according to order. anon 1692 1 552 1 0 0 0 0 0 18.12 C The rate of 18.12 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-01 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
Shepherd's Ingenuity : OR , The Praise of the Green Gown , To the Tune of , The Two Entire Lovers .

Licensed according to Order .

Amongst the pleasant shady Bowers , as I was passing on , I saw the springing Grass and Flowers , was gently press'd down ; Then streight I thought unto myself , whoever here has been , I 'm sure some gentle Shepherdess hath gotten a Gown of Green . Long may that Shepherdess enjoy , that pleasant Robe of Love , And eke the Swain that gave it her , that he may constant prove ; For all the Robes that Ladies wear , which ever I have seen , Not one of them can now compare , to the sweet Gown of Green . Some for to gain their Ladies Love , will give them Chains and Rings , Some gives them Fans and Fancies too , but these ate foolish things ; If you wou'd fain her Love obtain , let this be your endeavour , To give her a fair Gown of Green , and then she 's yours for ever .

When as my Celia fair and I , did meet upon the Down , Our study only was to try , to fit her in a Gown : She found the finest fashion then , as ever yet was seen ; She did become it passing well , 't was a fine Gown of Green . The Gown which I gave her of late , was almost out of hue , Therefore I resolved streight , to make another new ; The Stuff lay ready then to cut , the Board was tight and clean , So to the work my hands I put . to shape this Gown of Green . My Arms K clasped round my Love , to take the measure true , She fearing I would wanton prove , then streightways backwards drew : With her small Waste I closed fast , as we two Twins had been , She strugling catch'd a fall at last , to shape this Gown of Green . She asked me , is this the way in shaping of a Gown ? Yes , if you 'd have it neat and gay , ‛ its done by lying down , And take your measure handsomely , to make it strait and e'en , A lively posture of a Maid , to shape a Gown of Green . I rais'd her from the tender Grass , to view her noble Dress , She thought her self a handsome Lass , in troth I thought no less ; Her Beauty in this Robe did shine , more bright than Flora's Queen ; Now Lasses if you would be fine , put on the Gown of Green . Now all you little pretty Maids , that covets to go brave , Frequent the Meadows , Groves and Shade where you those Garbs may have ; Wen Flora's Cover●d she spreads , then Bridget , Kate and Jane , May change their silly Maiden-heads , for curious Gowns of Green .

Printed for P. Brooksby , J. Deacon , J. Blare , and J. Back .