{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/wikisource_Vanity_of_pride_The_distressed_maiden_with_The_answer/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/wikisource_Vanity_of_pride_The_distressed_maiden_with_The_answer","id":"wikisource_Vanity_of_pride_The_distressed_maiden_with_The_answer","license":"Public Domain / CC-BY-SA (see source)","rights_basis":"wikisource_site_inclusion_policy","source":"wikisource","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Vanity_of_pride/The_distressed_maiden,_with_The_answer","summary":null,"tags":["Chapbooks","Headers_applying_DefaultSort_key","Romance","Scottish_poetry","Subpages","Tragedy","Works_using_categories_parameter","Works_with_reconstructed_words_or_phrases"],"text":"THE DISTRESSED MAIDEN.\n\nWAS ever maiden fair distrest in love like me,\n\nlong time I've been courted, alas I to my pain,\n\nMy love is forlorn, and I am left alone,\n\nhe loves another, and he doth me disdain.\n\nWhen first a wooing my love came to me,\n\nhow happy was I in the sight of my dear,\n\nMy love is forsworn, and I am left to mourn,\n\nCupid direct me the way I'm to steer.\n\nMy lovesick heart is oft, since my love has been crost,\n\nlike to a ship that sails on the sea,\n\nWhere the lofty sails so high, blow the sails to the sky,\n\nthus my poor senses are wavering from me.\n\nGo most profane man, how apt are you to trepan,\n\ntheir eyes show deceit, so fair are their tongues,\n\nTheir feet are swift to go, young virgins to undo\n\nhard are their hearts that do virgins trepan.\n\nTHE ANSWER.\n\nWhat voice is this I hear, sound like my dearest deat,\n\ncease to lament love, for still I am true,\n\nNo man e'er was born could your bright beauty scorn,\n\nand I adore no fair creature but you.\n\nHow are are maidens fair to rave in deep despair,\n\nthey think they're forsaken in ev'ry degree,\n\nWhen fear fills their mind, that men are unkind,\n\nand will court each new face that they see.\n\nLet's not disputing stand, we'll join our hearts & hand,\n\ncome pretty maids convey my delight,\n\nFrom church to the bed, where all sorrows are fled,\n\nwhilst raptures shall crown the long night.\n\nWhen bright morning peep, then soft music sweet,\n\nshall waken my dear from her silent repose,\n\nSinging joy to my bride as she lies by my side,\n\nwith lips more sweet than the damask rose.","title":"Vanity of pride/The distressed maiden, with The answer","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":296}