2 THE FORTUNATE LOVERS. Le all lovers which around me doth ſtand. Be pleas'd to give ear to theſe lines I have penn'd, And when you have heard theme I'm ſuray on will ſay, It's a medicin: to drive melancholy away. It'ſ of an ancient former near Cambridge did dwell Whole name at the preſent I mean not to tell, He had an only daughter bath charming and fair, She quickly was drawn into Cupid's ſnare. Her father imgeed it kept a ſervant man, For to do is bafineis his name it was John. The maid was mitten with each glance of his eye, That ſhe never was coſy out of his company. They often together in private would walk, Alone in the garden and pleaſantly talk: But pray give attention and ſoon you ſhall henr How this paſſion oft brought them into a fare. Her father one night to the window had got, uſt over the place where theſe two lovers fat, And head every word that between them was ſaid, By which this unfortunate youth was betrayed. M. dear ſaid the young man, my love it is true, And I have ſet my affections on you I hope you'll remember the vows that are paſt, And curſe light on them who our comforts ſhall blast
