Love and constancy or The true lovers welcome home from France. Describing of the joy and friendly greeting, betwixt two lovers at their happy meeting, by cruel fate long time they were devided, but to their comfort now they are united, vvhich makes them to rejoyce beyond expression, as you may finde by both their own confessions. Tune of, Digby's farewel, or the Tyrant, &c. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B26193 of text R224593 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. 6KB 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 B26254 Wing L3194 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.10[19] ocm99888105

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 eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo Love and constancy or The true lovers welcome home from France. : Describing of the joy and friendly greeting, betwixt two lovers at their happy meeti n/a 1665 2 896 8 0 0 0 0 0 89.29 D The rate of 89.29 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-08 Sampled and proofread 2014-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Love and Constancy OR The true Lovers welcome home from France , Describing of the joy and friendly greeting , Betwixt two Lovers at their happy meeting , By cruel Fate long time they were devided , But to their comfort now they are united . Which makes them to rejoyce beyond expression , As you may finde by both their own confession . Tune of , Digby's farewel , or the Tyrant &c. With Allowance .

a man and a woman holding hands

The Maids part . COme all loyal Lovers so courteous and free . come lend your attention and listen to me , With gladness my heart doth abound at this tide now I am in hopes that I shall be a bride : Long time I have waited with patience to sees the face of my dearest so pleasing to me , And now to my comefort my joyes to advance , My Love he is safely return'd out of France . Then welcome my dearest my joy ynd delight , no more to the Wars shalt thou go for to fight , My arms shall secure thee from dangers so free thrice welcome my true Love thou art unto me : Full often I wish't for to see thee again , whilst I with a sorrowful heart did remain , But now for my comfort my joyes to advance , My Love he is safely return'd out of France .

a man extending his hand to a woman
a woman holding a fan
a man extending his hand to a woman
a woman holding a fan

SInce that thou didst leave me to languish & mourn , I like the chaste Turtle did wait thy return , The choicest of company could me not please , whilest thou wer 't in danger beyond the salt Seas , To listen for tydings it was my cheif care , and all for to hear how my Dearest ●id fare . But now to my comefort my joyes to advance . My Love he is safely return'd out of France . What maiden in England more happy can be , now my hearts delight is from dangers set free , No grief nor no sorrow shall trouble my minde , provided that thou will be constant and kinde , I 'le please thée in all things that thou canst desire , nothing shall be wanting that thou doest require , For now to my comfort my joyes to advance , My Love he is safely return'd out of France . And now my own dearest take heart and take hand for I am resolved to obey thy command ; Therefore speak thy pleasure and utter thy mind , thou can'st not be cruel when I am so kind , Be sure in thy answer thy love to unfold , ●hich will be more welcome then silver or gold , Since now for my comfort my joyes to advance , My love he is safely rrturn'd out of France .
The young Mans kind Answer : O how it rejoyceth my heart for to hear , this loving kind wellcome from my dearest dear . No happiness greater could fall to my share , therefore my true meaning I 'le freely declare , To thee I 'le prove constant what ever betide , and in a short time I will make thee my bride , The fame &c. For all thy past sorrow thy pain and thy grief , I now am come over to bring the relief , I 'le throw in thy apron of good yellow gold , a hundred good pieces as ever was told , Besides I 'le maintain thee most bra●ely in 〈◇〉 . no one in the Parish thy garb shall e●ceed , The fame of thy thy beauty likwise I 'le advance , Since that I am safely return'd out of France . My sword and my armour I now will cast by , to live in true pleasure with thee till I dye , Thou shalt be my Venus with whom I will play , and walk in the meadows on each holy day . Young Ladies shall envy thy happiness now , that I have been constant and kept to my vow , Besides I 'le endeaver thy joys to advance , Since that I am safely return'd out of France . The young men and maidens shall frolick & play , and dance at our wedding the next holy-day , Wee 'l have good provision of wine and good cheer , and like to the Queen of May thou shalt appear , Rare Musick I 'le have for to lighten thy heart , and for to content thee I 'le use my best Art , For now I le endeavor thy joyes to advance , Since that I am safely return'd out of France . Then come my own dearest and give me a kiss , now we are united I count i● a blis , And here for the present accept of this Ki●g , ere long I w●ll please thee with a better thing , I 'le make it my business in time to provide , and at our next meeting I 'le make thee my bride , For now i 'me resolv'd thy joyes to advance , Since that I am safely return d out of France .
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London , Printed for John Hose over against Staple-Inn in Holbourn near Grayes-Inn-lane