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Thread #3476 Message #1396620
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
02-Feb-05 - 03:22 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Farewell He/She? (Adieu to Dark Weather)
Subject: RE: lyrics:Farewell He/She? (Adieu to Dark Weather)
There's a late 17th century broadside song, The young-man's lamentation, that ends
Tho' I am forsaken, yet she is forsworn, Yet she is mistaken if she think that I'll mourn, I'll set as slightly by her, as e'er she did me, And for ever will deny her, let her go, farewel she.
It begins
Meeting's a pleasure, but parting's a grief, An Unconstant lover is worse than a Thief; A Theif he can Rob me, and take what I have, but an Unconstant Lover will bring me to the grave.