The crossed Couple, OR A good Misfortune.  
Which in a pleasant Ditty discovers,  
The fortunate cross of a couple of Lovers.  
To a New Northern Tune, much in fashion.  

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I'll tell you a tale no stranger than true,  
of a fa la la la la la  
The sport on't is old, but the Sonnet is new  
'tis a fa la la &c  
The story sprung from under a Bush  
From a tongue & a tune as sweet as a thrush  
But I fear it will make a fair Lady to blush  
with a fa etc.  
Nay do not turn your faces away  
with a fa etc.  
Here's nothing that can your Virtue betray  
with a fa etc.  
Let not your fancies look a squint,  
The Author would never have put it in Print  
If there had been any uncivil word in't  
but a fa etc.  
I tell you no tales of Battles & fights  
with a fa etc.  
Of wonders, of Monsters of Goblins or sprights,  
with a fa etc.  
Nor yet of a Thief that got a reprieve  
I do not intent your spirits to grieve  
My story's as old as Adam & Eve  
with a fa etc.  
I went to walk one Evening-tide  
with a fa etc.  
My fancy did lead me by a Wood side  
with a fa etc.  
'Twas in the prime of all the spring  
Which giveth delight to every thing,  
I saw a Maid li●●en to hear a man sing  
to her fa &c.  
The tempting dress that she was in  
with a fa etc.  
Would almost seduce a new Saint to the sin  
with a fa etc.  
She was a fair & lovely maid  
About her waist his Arm he laid  
The beautiful'st baggage is soon betrayed  
to a fa etc.  
I got me straight up into a tree  
with a fa etc.  
Where I might see all, and no man see me  
with a fa etc.  
The tree was thick and full of growth  
The top on't did hover so over them both  
That if I had ●ell, I had dropped in her mouth  
or her fa &c.  
There many amorous glances they cast  
with a fa etc.  
But that was not all, the best is at last  
with a fa etc.  
Something it seems the youth would do  
Which she would not consent unto  
Have patience, & you shall know  you go  
with a fa etc.  
When laid on her side, she turned to the tree  
with her fa &c.  
I durst have sworn she had looked upon me  
with her fa &c.  
He many points of division did run  
But she cried out no, I shall be undone  
He tuned up his pipes though, & thus he begun  
to her fa &c.  
Oh come my own dear let's dally a while  
with a fa etc.  
Thou hast quickened my spirits now with a smile  
and ●hy fa etc.  
The trembling of thy lips do show  
Thou hast no power to say me not  
Which makes me have a month's mind unto  
thy fa &c.  
This hearty kiss is a sign thou wilt yield  
to thy fa &c.  
The white of thy eyes speak peace in the field  
with a fa etc.  
Their for a Veil to hid thy face  
I'll cloud thee with a sweet embrace  
There's many would with that they were in thy place  
with their fa &c.  
Oh do not sigh to hear me entice,  
with a fa etc.  
Thou ne'er hadst been got hath thy mother been nice  
with her fa &c.  
Then prithee put me out of my pain  
For I am now in a merry vain  
Let's play at that game, where the losers do gain  
with their fa &c.  
But oh my own dear why liest thou so still  
with thy fa &c.  
Art thou in a swound or what is thy will  
with thy fa &c.  
I prithee joy take no such grief,  
Since I am so ne●r to thy relief  
Oh let me play the amorous Thief  
with thy fa &c.  
My dearest of all, why hold'st thou so fast  
with a fa etc.  
I'll swear we will marry if thou wilt make haste  
with thy fa &c.  
Cupid doth give us leave to play  
Thy very blushes do betray  
That thou dost interpret what I have to say  
with a fa etc.  
Then on her brow her vail she spread  
with a fa etc.  
As if he had been going to cut off her head  
with his fa &c.  
He with his Lips her mouth did wipe,  
And gave her many an earnest gripe  
For just now my Lady was yielding ripe  
with her fa &c.  
In what a fret was I in the tree  
with a fa etc.  
That I had not then another by me  
with her fa &c.  
Then I perceived they whispered a while  
With many fair plead he did her beguile  
Sure something he showed her which made her to smile  
with a fa etc.  
He said he was sure he could not be spied  
with a fa, etc.  
But I if I durst could have told him he lied  
with his fa &c.  
I feared I should be brought to light  
She so often cast up her Eyes so bright  
The pleasures of Love did so dazzle her sight  
and her fa &c.  
My Gamester could no longer forbear  
her fa &c.  
No more should I if I had been there  
by her fa &c.  
I turned and screwed my body round,  
To see my gallant scale the Town  
But his getting up made me tumble down  
with a fa &c  
Such was my fate, no mischief I had  
with a fa etc.  
My Lovers both run as if they'd been mad  
with their fa &c.  
And now I hope a warning 'twill be  
How they in such sinful pleasures agree  
For fear of the Devil that fell from the tree  
with his fa la la la la la la.   

Printed for F. Coles T Vere J. Wright and I Clerk.