Distracted maids garland containing five now (sic) songs/The damosals lementation

The Damosels Lamentation.

BEneath the shady Willow-Green
⁠Where the purling Streams do run
⁠A Damosel Fair was making Mone
⁠Crying I am undone
Her Breast as white as Lillies red,
Her Cheeks like Roses red,
But all her Cry was, O false Man,
Who had her Heart betray’d.
⁠Go. Go most ungrateful Man,
To leave me in Despair,
How can You so ungrateful prove,
T'embrace another Fair,
How can You swore that You’d be Kind
As I design’d to You,
But now you’re changing like the Wind
And leave me here to rue.
⁠How oft did we together Walk
Within the shady Grove,
Where pleasant Tales to me You told
Repeating Toys of Love.
But now you’ve left in Despair,
In Sorrow to remain,
Unto the Groves I will repair,
And to the Trees comglain.
⁠The pretty Birds that round the Grove
Their Ecchoes sweet do sing,
Methought they all delighted were
As in the approaching Spring.
My quivering Heart was then betray’d
Alas, I they require,
In mournful Song to implre the Ray
Or else I must expire.
⁠So Virgins all that are inclin’d
To Love ungrateful Man,
Before You take a special Care
How they your Hearts trapan.
For if a Man doth talk of Love,
With Caution him believe,
For if he Swears to Love Most true
He’ll surely Yov deceive.