The unkind Parents: or The languishing lamentation of two loyal lovers. To an excellent new tune. Licensed according to order. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06400 of text R227522 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing U83). 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 B06400 Wing U83 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.39.k.6[9] 99887384 ocm99887384 182095 2240898471

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B06400) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182095) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A3:1[9]) The unkind Parents: or The languishing lamentation of two loyal lovers. To an excellent new tune. Licensed according to order. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : music. Printed for C[harles]. Bates, next the Crown-Cavern in West-Smithfield., [London] : [1690] Publisher's name, place and date of publication from Wing. Verse: "Now fare thou well my dearest dear ..." Printed in two columns. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo The unkind Parents: or The languishing lamentation of two loyal lovers. To an excellent new tune. Licensed according to order. anon 1690 1 657 0 0 0 10 0 0 1522.07 F The rate of 1522.07 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-04 Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2010-01 Sampled and proofread 2010-05 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2010-06 Sampled and proofread 2010-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2011-06 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Unkind Parents : OR , The Languishing Lamentation of two Loyal Lovers . To an Excellent New Tune .

Licensed according to Order .

( 1. ) NOw fare thou well my Dearest Dear , and fare thou well a while , Altho' I go , I 'll come again ; if I go ten thousand mile , Dear Love , if I go ten thousand mile . ( 2. ) Ten thousand miles is far , dear Love , for you to come to me , Yet I could go full ten times more , to have thy company , dear Love , to have thy , &c. ( 3. ) Thou art my Joy and chief delight , Love , leave me not behind , If from my presence you take flight , then are you most unkind , dear Love , then are &c. ( 4. ) I cannot be unkind , my Dear , my heart is link'd to thee ; But while on Shore I tarry here , thy Friends does frown on me , dear Love , thy Friends , &c. ( 5. ) For they in Riches so bound , that I am held in scorn ; This gives my heart a fatal wound , which makes my life forlorn , dear Love , which makes , &c. ( 6. ) O cruel Parents , most unkind , the cause of all my woe ; This parting to my grief I find , will prove my overthrow , dear Love , will prove &c. ( 7. ) If thou dost cross the roaring Seas , into a Forreign Land , My heart will never be at ease , destruction is at hand , dear Love , destruction , &c. ( 8. ) O say not so , let patience guide thy heart , and don 't complain ; For tho' I cross the Ocean wide , I may return again , dear Love , I may &c. ( 9. ) Thy Parents that are so unkind , who does our peace annoy , May then be of another mind , and Crown our days with Joy , dear Love and Crown , &c. ( 10. ) Maid . ) If thou shouldst languish in distress in Forreign parts alone ; Thy grief in Tears thou might'st express , and I not hear thy moan , dear Love . and I , &c. ( 11. ) If solemnly yon do ingage to range perpetually , I will in habit of a Page , go through the world with thee , dear Love , go through , &c. ( 12. ) Ah! say not so my Charming Fair ; for why sweet Saint behold , Thy tender nature cannot bear the melting heat and cold , dear Love , the melting , &c. ( 13. ) Altho' I may in Deserts range , my heart is linked fast ; Therefore my mind shall never change , so long as life does last , dear Love , so long , &c. ( 14. ) Mountains and Rocks on wings shall fly , and roaring Billows burn . E're I will act Disloyalty ; then wait for my return , dear Love , then wait , &c. ( 15. ) Love , might I have a Lord or Earl , the chief Nobility , Who would deck me with Orient Pearl , I 'd slight them all for thee , dear Love , I 'd slight , &c. ( 16. ) And even as the Turtle Dove sits Cooing on a Tree , For the return of her true Love , so will I wait for thee , dear Love , so will I wait for thee .

Printed for C. Bates , next the Crown-Tavern in West-Smithfield .