The willow green turned into vvhite; or, The young man's joy and the maids delight. Being the maids kind and loving answer, to the distressed lovers complaint ... Tune is, My love sleeeps on another mans pillow. Or, The willow green, &c. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06645 of text R234131 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W2863A). 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. 5 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 B06645 Wing W2863A ESTC R234131 51784716 ocm 51784716 175112 2240860474

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06645) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 175112) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2712:30) The willow green turned into vvhite; or, The young man's joy and the maids delight. Being the maids kind and loving answer, to the distressed lovers complaint ... Tune is, My love sleeeps on another mans pillow. Or, The willow green, &c. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright and J. Clarke, [London] : [1674-79] Contains one illustration. Place and date range of publication from Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: Bodleian Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo The willow green turned into vvhite; or, the young man's joy and the maids delight. Being the maids kind and loving answer, to the distressed lovers c [no entry] 1674 1 743 14 0 0 0 0 0 188.43 F The rate of 188.43 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 2008-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Willow Green turned Into White ; Or , the young Man's Joy and the Maids delight . Being the Maids kind and Loving Answer , to the distressed Lovers Complaint . Wherein she plainly shews in every part , How he is the Man that doth enjoy her heart , Though first she seem'd disloyal for to prove Was only but to try his constant Love ; But now most lovingly unto him she is seen , And she bids him never fear wearing the Willow Green , Tune is , My Love sleeps on another Mans Pillow . Or , The Willow Green , &c.

WHat ails my Love to be so sad , why art thou troubled so in mind , I am come now to make thee glad , to thee I will prove true and kind ; Then cast aw●y all sorrow and care , and be joyful as thou hast been , Chear up thy heart and do not fear 〈◊〉 shalt not wear the Willow green . I am come to fulfil thy wishes : as thou shalt find immediately Come now and take a hundred kisses ; In token of my love to thee . Although thy woes at first séemed double yet let sorrow no more be seen , I now will free thee from the trouble , Of wearing the Willow Green . Although long time we have béen parted , t was but thy constancy to prove , Now I 'le be Loyal and true hearted , unto thée my own true Love . No man that li●es on English Ground , shall e're my true-Love from thee win , If I m●●●… gain five hundred p●und , my Love shall not wear the willow green . What though I shew'd my self unconstant , to thee at fi●st and seemed coy . Yet thou shalt find by this ins●ant , I will be thy only j●y : Then preth●e dearest Love content thee , and be not sad as thou hast been , For I am resolved to 〈◊〉 thee From wearing the willow green . T is thou art him that I love best , above all men that e●e I I sée , I am the maid I do protest that will prove constant unto thee . I love thee dearer then Gold ar Pearl No Riches ever shall me win , If I might have a Lord or Earl ▪ my Love should not wear the Willow green . I have been woo'd by many a Gallant , which would have gladly wedded me , But I have r●fused both Gold and talent all for the Love I bear to thee : Many called me their joy and hony , hoping my favour too to win . But no Man shall cause me with Money to make thee wear the Willow green . Although thou blamest me to be cruel , and hard-hearted unto thee , Yet now I 'le be thy only j●wel and love no man but only thee , Thy Love-sick Suit is fully granted , faithful ever I 'le be seen , True Love in me shall nere be wanted therefore cast off the Willow green . Then prethee Love make no delay , let 's not our precious time withstand Come let us to the Church away , and there be joyned hand in hand , We 'l live as loving as any two That ever in the Land was seen , Therefore my dearest bid adieu , for ever wearing the Willow green . At this the young man rejoyced greatly . to hear his Sweet-heart● kind Reply He then imbraced her most neatly with kisses then so lovingly : They went unto a Priest with spéed , in a brave manner as e're was seen . Where as they Married was in deed , now he cast off the Willow green . So lovers all I bid adieu , I pray much of my Verses make These Lines I here present to you , where in you may a pattern take , I wish you may continue long , is Pleasure , Comfort , and Delight , And there s an end of my new Song . call'd the Willow green , turn'd into White .

Printed for F. Coles , T. Vere , J. Wright and J. Clarke .