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Thread #161552   Message #3840968
Posted By: Richie
23-Feb-17 - 09:41 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Died for Love Sources: PART III
Subject: RE: Origins: Died for Love Sources: PART III
Hi,

"I am Rover" (Roud 1112) has a nice illustration and the headnotes are nearly done: http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/7p-i-am-a-rover-the-rover.aspx

Steve-- here's what I have for Deep in Love, I haven't looked through my notes. Obviously it appears in Unfortunate Swain/Picking Lilies (with Must I Go Bound) around 1750 and is part of Waly, Waly.

Since I have it just after 1626 in "The Sea-mans leave taken of his sweetest Margery" printed for Francis Coles, I consider it to be different and inserted just as most of the stanzas in Waly/Unfortunate Swain are. Certainly most of the stanzas have their own identity. Here's the stanza from second part:

Man.
I have seaven Ships upon the Sea,
and are all laden to the brim;
I am so inflamd with love to thee,
I care not whether they sinke or swim.

The other stanza which is relevant is:

Maid.
If I had wist before I had kist,
that Love had been so deare to win;
My heart I would have closd in Gold,
and pinnd it with a Silver pin.

I have some more notes somewhere. I'll start working on it,

Richie