The farmers heir. Or, The countrey-man wooing his mistriss. To be sung with its own pleasant air. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B22870 of text R229173 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 2KB 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 B22870 Wing F445B Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.121.g.9[24] ESTC R229173 ocm99888209

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 eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Courtship -- England -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo The farmers heir. Or, The countrey-man wooing his mistriss. : To be sung with its own pleasant air. n/a 1670 1 265 4 0 0 0 0 0 150.94 F The rate of 150.94 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2014-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-09 Sampled and proofread 2014-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE FARMERS HEIR . Or the Countrey-man wooing his Mistriss , To be Sung with its own pleasant Air . NOt long ago , it chanced so , abroad as I was walking And there I spy'd two Lovers true , the one with the other talking . The Youth he said unto the Maid , wilt thou grant me my pleasure , And I 'le give thee a double Fee , and joys above all measure . But the Maid she would not condescend for fear of late Repentance ; She saw nothing but Gravel and Sand , and all things out of sentence : It s neither for thy Gold nor thy Gear , but it s for thy handsome Carriage ; And since thou art such a pretty Girl , I will joyn with thee in Marriage . Thy Eyes are like the Stars above , they having such a luster ; If I had the World at my command I would make the Venus Sister . Thy Cheeks are like the Crimson Rose . and thy Lips like the ripesome Berry ; There 's nothing that does me so much rejoyce as the fight of my own Deary . Then she hearing her 〈◇〉 ●o ●ighly steem'd she yielded to his wishes , And there they did them both combine in joys and earthly blisses . Both hand in hand the two did walk , and they walked both together , And he play'd her such a handsome t●… ck , as true Lovers do to each other . FINIS .