Sir William of the west: or, The entire love and courtship, between a noble knight and beautifull Mary; a minister's daughter in Dorsetshire. Tune of The ring of gold. Licensed according to order. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B05877 of text R228657 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S3902). 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 B05877 Wing S3902 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.8[518] 99887950 ocm99887950 183613 2240889033

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B05877) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 183613) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A5:2[404]) Sir William of the west: or, The entire love and courtship, between a noble knight and beautifull Mary; a minister's daughter in Dorsetshire. Tune of The ring of gold. 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: "Young William met his love ..." Trimmed. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo Sir William of the west: or, The entire love and courtship, between a noble knight and beautifull Mary; a minister's daughter in Dorsetshire. Tune of anon 1692 1 506 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. 2008-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-03 Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2009-07 Sampled and proofread 2009-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Sir William of the West : OR , The Entire Love and Courship , between a Noble Knight and Beautiful Mary ; a Minister's Daughter in Dorsetshire . Tune of The Ring of Gold .

Lincensed according to Order .

YOung William met his Love taking her Pleasure , Whom he did prize above all Worldly Treasure ; When she appear'd in sight , said he , sweet Iewel Thou art my heart's delight O! be not Cruel . Let me one smile in injoy thy heart surrender , Love be no longer Coy To thy Pretender ; My fading Ioys restore Why shouldst thou grieve me ? Thy Charms I do adore , dearest believe me . Mary my only Ioy pity thy Lover Do not my Life destroy while I discover , How I am here inflam'd by thy fair Beauty Sure I cannot be blam'd to own my Duty . I am commanded so In Cupid's Power , Darts from whose fatal Bow soon will Devour My Life , if I deny To fall before thee , Therefore Love , live or dye I will adore thee . Five hundred pounds a year I am possesing , And if thou wilt my dear , grant me the Blessing , Thou shalt be Dame of all I can't deny thee , If now in Love I shall dearest , lye by thee . Here take both heart and hand I dearly love thee No lady in the Land shall shine above thee , The same shall ever hold no Friend shall check thee , In Robes of shining Gold and Pearl I 'll deck thee . Love had I now this day The Gold of Craesus I 'd not be drawn away ; kind Heaven bless us : Still will I dote on thee , this is no Story , Thou shouldst a Partner be of all my Glory . The Damsel then reply'd If you are Loyal I yield to be your Bride without denyal : Gain but my Friends Good will , Father and Mother , Whom I have honour'd still , above all other . When you have their Consent , that we should marry , Then I am well content , long will not tarry ; At their Discretion I still will be guided , Who from my Infancy for me provided . I hope said he , my Love , They 'll not deny me , If my sweet tender Dove will but stand by me . With that he streight did go in hopes to have her ; They never answer'd no , but freely gave her . She was a fair young Dame , A Parson's Daughter ; He from a Baron came , of whom hereafter A large Account I 'll give When I have leisure , How they in Triumph live , Ioy , Peace , and Pleasure .

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