{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/wikisource_Vanity_of_pride_Young_men_are_deceitful/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/wikisource_Vanity_of_pride_Young_men_are_deceitful","id":"wikisource_Vanity_of_pride_Young_men_are_deceitful","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/Young_men_are_deceitful","summary":null,"tags":["Chapbooks","Romance","Scottish_poetry","Subpages","Tragedy","Works_using_categories_parameter"],"text":"YOUNG MEN are DECEITFUL.\n\nIN this town there lives a sweet lovely creature,\n\nFor wit and parentage none can exceed her,\n\nShe is now in her prime, gay, brisk, and airy,\n\nAnd is, now at this time the flower of any.\n\nWhen to her I did go, I said, Fair creature,\n\nMy heart is so enflam\u2019d with your sweet features,\n\nThat I can take no rest, my dearest jewel,\n\nFor love torments my breast, pray be not cruel.\n\nO fie! young man, she said, if I should love ye,\n\nYour parents they\u2019ll say, you are above me,\n\nThen you\u2019ll not me regard, but prove a rover,\n\nAnd I shall find it hard for to recover.\n\nTalk not of parentage, no nor relations,\n\nMy dear, I have for you such veneration,\n\nWas I a Lord, Duke, or Earl, Cupid direct me,\n\nIn rich diamonds & pearls, my dear, I\u2019d deck thee.\n\nWas I a King myself, or rul\u2019d the nation,\n\nOr had I all the world in my possession,\n\nAnd you as poor as Job, I\u2019d ne\u2019er forsake you,\n\nBut mistress of the globe I soon would make you.\n\nThen hearing what he said, she stood amazed,\n\nAnd nothing to him said, but on him gazed,\n\nWhen she her silence broke, Cupid regarded her,\n\nYou\u2019d thought an angel spoke, had you but heard her.\n\nBut since you've, young man, these words expressed,\n\nNo longer let your heart be so oppressed;\n\nThis heart that once was mine, to thee I deliver,\n\nTake it in exchange for thine, keep it for ever.\n\nWitness ye pow'rs above that first created us,\n\nNothing but death, my love, shall separate us,\n\nThere is nothing now to keep us asunder,\n\nThen let's to church and be joined together.\n\nBut when he of her heart had thus bereav'd her,\n\nHe play'd the tyrant's part, and soon did leave her,\n\nWhich makes me for to cry, fatal man I find him,\n\nSince he is gone, farewel, I ne'er will mind him.","title":"Vanity of pride/Young men are deceitful","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":332}