The west=country wooing: or, The merry conceited couple. In pleasant tearms [sic] he lets her know his mind ... To the tune of, When Sol will cast no light: or, My pretty little rogue. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06530 of text R186377 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W1411). 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 B06530 Wing W1411 ESTC R186377 47012718 ocm 47012718 174685 2240897452

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B06530) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 174685) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2695:1) The west=country wooing: or, The merry conceited couple. In pleasant tearms [sic] he lets her know his mind ... To the tune of, When Sol will cast no light: or, My pretty little rogue. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. Printed for B. Brooksby ..., [London] : [between 1672 and 1695] Contains 2 illustrations. Place and date of publication taken from Wing (2nd ed.) Right half-sheet contains: The second part, to the same tune. Reproduction of original in: University of Glasgow. Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo The west country wooing: or, the merry conceited couple. In pleasant terms he lets her know his mind, and fiarly wooes her, for to make her kind: at f [no entry] 1670 1 650 1 0 0 0 0 0 15.38 C The rate of 15.38 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-01 Sampled and proofread 2009-03 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2009-04 Sampled and proofread 2009-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The West-Country Wooing : OR , The Merry Conceited Couple . , In Pleasant Tearms he lets her know his mind , And fairly wooes her , for to make her kind : At first she seemed coy to his perswasion , And put him off with many a slye Evasion : But finding at the last his Love wa● Constant , Her heart she did resign from that same instant . To the Tune of , When Sol will cast no light : Or , My pretty little rogue .

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MY Ioy and on'y Dear , come sit down by me , For thou tha't plainly hear I mean to try thee : If thou canst love a Lad brisk , young and lively , I 'le make thy heart full glad , thou shalt live finely . Thy pretty rowling eye , and wast so slender , Thy forehead smooth and high , thy lips so tender : Hath so ensnar'd my heart , that I must love thee , Therefore i 'le not depart , till pitty move thee . Alas kind Sir , she said , what hath possest ye , For to delude a Maid , be not so hasty ; Your flatering words that 's past , can no ways move me , For to repent at last , or yield to love ye .
The Second part , to the same Tune . WE know that young-men can cog , lie , and flatter , And make vows , now and than , to mend the matter : With such slights cunningly . they do deceive us , Brings us to beggery , and then they leave us . Fear not my dear ( quoth he ) that I dissemble , Or that such false Young-men I do resemble : I have both house and land , good Gold and riches , And all at thy command , pray mark my speeches . Your house and land perhaps you think may move me , But I fear after-clapps , If I should love ye : Therefore my Maiden-head I will make much on 't , For ne'r a false young-man shall have a touch on 't . O stay my Love , he said , make further tryal , Be not so resolute in your denial ; Fear not but you shall find I will content thee , And bravely please thy mind , none shall prevent me . What pleasure can a Maid find in your dealing , When you her kindness think , not worth concealing . Young-men are apt to blab , what 's done in private , And well I understand what 't is you drive at . My pretty Rogue , he said , do not misdoubt me , Why should you live a Maid , and think I flout ye ? In my Love , I promise for to persever , And seal it with a kiss , to last for ever . If that you love as much as you profess it , And that your truth is such , as you express it ; Quoth she take hand and heart and use your pleasure , For I will never part from such a treasure . O how it joys my mind , ( quoth he ) my jewel , That thou wilt now be kind , and no more cruel ; Venus that Goddess she will smile to know it , How we in love agree , when we shall shew it . So from that happy hour , they were united , And to a pleasant Bower he her invited : Where they with sport and play , kindly imbrasing , There past the time away , Lovers Ioys trasing .
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Printed for B. Brooksby , at the Golden-ball , in West-smithfield .