The young-mans lamentation: containing, his passionate complaint of his unconstant lover; together, with his resolution to leave her who scornfully slighted him. : To an excellent new tune, or, Over hills and high mountains. / Licensed according to order. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06783 of text R234165 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing Y121B). 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 B06783 Wing Y121B ESTC R234165 49521474 ocm 49521474 174260 2240891502

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06783) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 174260) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2679:27) The young-mans lamentation: containing, his passionate complaint of his unconstant lover; together, with his resolution to leave her who scornfully slighted him. : To an excellent new tune, or, Over hills and high mountains. / Licensed according to order. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, and J. Back, [London] : [ca. 1690] Date of publication suggested by Wing. Contains 4 woodcut illustrations. Reproduction of original in: Bodleian Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo The young-mans lamentation[:] containing, his passionate complaint of his unconstant lover; together, with his resolution to leave her who scornfully [no entry] 1683 1 554 9 0 0 0 0 0 162.45 F The rate of 162.45 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 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-09 Sampled and proofread 2008-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE Young-Mans Lamentation

Containing , His Pastionate Complaint of his Unconstant Lover , Together , with his Resolution to leave her who scornfully slighted him .

To an Excellent New Tune , or , Over Hills and high Mountains .

Licensed according to Order .

MEe●ing ●s a pleasure , but parting 's a grief , An Vnconstant Lover i● worse than a Thief , A T●ief can but Rob me , a●● take what I have , But an Vnconstant Lover will bring me to the Grave . When fancy is grounded , and rooted beside , The lover is wounded as soon as deny'd ; Many Torments are bleeding to encrease his pain , And the lover lies bleeding by the darts of disdain . This is my condition , I needs must confess , With humble submission I have made my address ; In her Charms I delighted more than Gold I declare , Yet am scornfully slighted for the love which I bear .

I value not treasure , the rich Golden Ore , There 's joy , love , and pleasure , which I dearly adore ; But alas ! that sweet blessing I may not enjoy , I am sorrows possessing , which my life will destroy . Like a Ship on the Ocean , I am tost too and fro , From the heighth of promotion , to the depth of sad woe , While the Billows are roaring in a Tempest of grief , I the Fates am imploring , but can find no relief . Of a false-hearted lover I needs must complain , To my grief I discover that my sighs are in vain ; Having mov'd her to pity , with tears in my eyes , While that sorrowful dity she would scorn and despise . To think that my Iewel should torture me so , In loves flaming fuel with a Feavour I glow , She 's more than ungrateful , unconstant , unkind To her dear loyal lover , like the wavering wind . In her Cheeks blushing Roses , with lillies appear , Where Cupid reposes , as her Charms I draw near , I account it my duty her perfection to prize , She 's a Phoenix for beauty , was she constant likewise . If her heart was not ranging , she should soon be my Bride , But alas she is changing and turns with the Tide , Having ruined many by her f●lse-heart alone , She 's not constant to any , but can love more than one . Since I find out her folly , I 'll no longer repine , But will strive to be jolly with a Glass of Rich Wine , No longer about her will I troubled be , I can now live without her , let her go , farewell she . Tho' I am forsaken , yet she is forswo●n , Yet she is mistaken , if she think that I 'll mourn ; I 'll set as 〈…〉 ly by her , as e'er she did b● me , And for ever will deny her , let her go , farewel she .

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