The true pattern of constancy: or, The loyal lovers joys compleated. When young-men find their love's unkind, they then impatient grow, but when their grief do's find relief, it expiates their woe. To an excellent new tune: or, Farewell the flower of false deceit, &c. This may be printed, R.P. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06268 of text R228620 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T2851A). 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 B06268 Wing T2851A Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.8[474] 99887931 ocm99887931 183583 2248539309

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06268) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 183583) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A5:2[374]) The true pattern of constancy: or, The loyal lovers joys compleated. When young-men find their love's unkind, they then impatient grow, but when their grief do's find relief, it expiates their woe. To an excellent new tune: or, Farewell the flower of false deceit, &c. This may be printed, R.P. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts). s.n., [London : 1685?] Imprint suggested by Wing. Verse: "Farewell thou flower of false deceit ..." Trimmed. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo The true pattern of constancy: or, The loyal lovers joys compleated. When young-men find their love's unkind, they then impatient grow, but when their anon 1685 2 664 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. 2008-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-04 Sampled and proofread 2008-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE True pattern of Constancy : OR , The Loyal Lovers Joys Compleated . When Young-men find their Love 's unkind , they then impatient grow , But when their Grief do's find Relief , it Expiates their Woe . To an Excellent New Tune : Or , Farewell the Flower of false deceit , &c.

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FArewell thou Flower of false deceit , and I wish the heighth of you may fade , That your Countenance may altered be , and your Honour in the Dust be laid . Ne'er was a Man more true than I , as you your self full well do know ; Till I found you in your Cruelty , that you sought my final Overthrow . I wish the bright Sun may not shine on thee , as it has done before ; For your Countenance hath me beguil'd , I can love again , but you no more . Once I could have been as constant Sweet-heart for to cross the Ocean Seas for thee , As Vulcan did for Venus's sake , when he Sailed into Italy . If you were as fair as Rosamond was , with her Cherry Cheeks and dimpled Chin ; Or if you were as fair as Hellena was , I should never more delight therein . But now my heart it is my own , why should I for another care ? For to sigh and sob , lament , and moan , for to bring my self unto Despair ?

I will enjoy my Liberty , and in the World I mean to range ; For I will no more your Captive be , you I for another mean to change . You treated me with such despight , while I your person did adore , That I value not your Beauty bright , then adieu , adieu for evermore .
The Maidens Answer to the Young-man . Such Resolutions do not name , pray let me speak a word or two ; Do not thus against thy Love exclaim , when thou know'st I cannot part with thee , Why dost thou charge me with Deceit ? such was my Love and Loyalty , That I never could your Person meet , but you proved as a Life to me . Here I do offer hand and heart , with all that I can call my own ; Then do not from thy true Love part , but take some pity of my moan . For my heart to thee is linked fast , I cannot waver with the Wind ; But as long as ever Life shall last , sure I shall never change my mind .
This Loving Couples happy Agreement . Can I believe this is my Dear , who once did slight me with disdain ? If it be , then will my joys appear , seeing she is thus return'd again . Now nothing can my peace annoy , as long as ever Life do's last ; In my Dear I place my chiefest joy , utterly forgetting all that 's past . I will embrace thee in my Arms , with many a soft and tender Kiss , With many thousand pleasant Charms , in a full perfection of our Bliss . Tho' once I did reflect on thee , 't was while my heart was fill'd with grief , And I never did expect to see , that thou ever would'st afford Relief . But since the Frowns of Fate are fled , and I have found thy Constancy , Now my heart is free from fear and dread , I will love my Iewel till I dye . Then he took his true Love by the hand , calling her his true and Turtle-Dove , We 'll no longer now disputing stand , but resolve to live and dye in Love .