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Coridon and Parthenia, the languishing shepherd made happy. Or, Faithful love rewarded. Being a most pleasant and delectable new play song. Here mournful love is turn'd into delight, to this we a chast amorist invite; where charming beauty rules its powr's like death, to save or murder with the self-same breath: the noble swain, whose youthful love hath won so many mymphs [sic], by love was here undone: languishing faint, on the gold ground he lies, until the sun-shine of Parthenia's eyes dissolv'd the cloud that did benight his bliss, and turn'd his torments into Paradise. To the tune of, When busie fame.

Title:Coridon and Parthenia, the languishing shepherd made happy. Or, Faithful love rewarded. Being a most pleasant and delectable new play song. Here mournful love is turn'd into delight, to this we a chast amorist invite; where charming beauty rules its powr's like death, to save or murder with the self-same breath: the noble swain, whose youthful love hath won so many mymphs [sic], by love was here undone: languishing faint, on the gold ground he lies, until the sun-shine of Parthenia's eyes dissolv'd the cloud that did benight his bliss, and turn'd his torments into Paradise. To the tune of, When busie fame.
Note:[London] : Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden-Ball in West-smithfield., [1675?]
  
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Subject:Ballads, English -- 17th century
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