["# The GOLDEN BULL:\nOr, The Garland of Love's Craftiness.\nIn FOUR PARTS.", "COMELIFEN, young lovers, awhile, and you'll find\nThat crosses do often attend true love's kind,\nThe like in all ages does not appear in print,\nNo doubt but this Garland will give you content.", "", "It is of a king, since I must be y-lain,\nWho formerly did in the southern plateaigs,\nHe had no more children than one daughter bright,\nWho pleased her father, and was his delight.", "", "A neighbouring prince came a vifit to pay,\nIt being the usual cuffon, they fay.", "", "Love pierced the princels fo' deep to the heart,\nShe was to much wounded when he did depart.", "", "It teems to her father he ne'er told her mind,\nNor to the young prince, tho' he was confin'd,\nTo love him, for Cupid was harp and fevere.\nWhat afterwards happen'd you soon shall hear.", "", "She being fo' beautiful, charming and young,\nHer father faid, with a deluding tongue,\nLove, I have a fancy to lie with thee;\nTho' you are my child you have wounded me.", "", "While God gives me peace, and I have grace,\nI'll a'ch a child's part, as it is my place.", "", "He faid, I'm resolved to make my wife, my\nOr else my charms do bere me of life,", "", "The lady burft out in abundance of tears,\nAnd faid, Dear father, you are fricken in years,\nYou can have but few time on earth to remain,\n'Tie Satan's temptations put this in your brain.", "", "Confider your end, your streth doth decay,\nThen drive the thoughts of the Devil away.", "", "Let not fuch vain fancies run in your head,\nYour foul muft live when your body is dead.", "", "True love to you, father, I bear from my heart,\nAnd will be obedient in every part.", "", "But rather than pleafe me I chufe to die,\nSo I fear no more of it: Fie! father, fie!", "", "Dear child, you are like to the innocent dove,\nAnd fo much weetneess confines me to love.", "", "Except you will have my life I will take,\nAnd afterwards murder my self for your fake.", "## PART II.", "NOW to the second part give attention, I pray,\nWhich fewes this lady contrived a way\nSo than her father, by pice cunning ftil.\nSaid he, give me your things your mind I'll fulf.", "", "He faid, Sweet creature, your mind you shall have,\nIn any thing you shall defire or crave.", "", "Theft were four hard questions we may fuppofe,\nThe firft three were for three fuits of cloaths,\nThe third refembled the flars in the yf.", "", "The next clouds that with the winds doth fly,\nThe third a garneit moft bounteouse rare,\nOf all the birds that fly in the air.", "", "The other thing which to affc I prefume,\nIs a Golden Bull to fand in my room.", "", "I will give it you, a fweet jewel, he faid,\nIf poffible fuch a thing is to be had.", "", "Then unto the goldmith this lady went,\nAnd then the told her cunning intent,\nBefore make it hollow, and fit to hold me,", "", "With a door and three bolts within let there be,\nShe went to the chappel as appointed a day,\nWith him to be joined, as muft people lay,", "", "She came to the chappel, her father to flun,\nShe faid, hawe me, for back I muft run,\nTo fetch one thing I cannot do without.", "", "This put her father in great fear and doubt,\nShe faid, Dear creature, I am loth to cruf,\nYou for to go back. She faid, But I muft.\nAnd if I return not, next time you fee me\nI freely content murdered to be.", "", "Then come to the chappel, her father to flun,\nShe faid, hawe me, for back I muft run,\nTo fetch one thing I cannot do without.", "", "This put her father in great fear and doubt,\nShe faid, Dear creature, I am loth to cruf\nYou for to go back. She faid, But I muft.\nAnd if I return not, next time you fee me\nI freely content murdered to be.", "", "Her father waited two hours and more,\nAnd finding the came not, in a paffion fware,\nThen about the court enquiry was made,\nBut none knew where his daughter was fled.", "", "My impudent daughter has fun'd me, I fee,\nThe prince that was here has fent prefents to me,\nTherefore to require him, I now do approve\nTo fend this Bull as a token of love.", "## PART III.", "HE fent it abroad with moft diligent care,\nBut never thought his daughter was there,\nShe carried featchments for her mouthpiece.\nAt length they arrived and where the prefent was fent.", "", "The prince lik'd the prefent, and gave commands,\nThat this fine Bull in his chamber should stand,\nThat he might view it each day, I declare,\nBut did not dream his true love was there.", "", "", "", "Quite out of the bull in the might he did creep,\nAnd kiffed the prince as he was afeek,\nAnd left a rich neckcloth embroider'd with gold,\nWhich he on his pillow next day did behold.", "", "The prince had a mother, to whom he did fay,\nWho did you let into my chamber, I pray?", "", "Son, there has been no one, I vow and proofet,\nHe took up the neckcloth, and laugh'd at the jeff.", "", "What lady this is I must be fatichly,\nAnd if it's for love, I'll make her my bride,\nI muft fee her fancy who comes in my room;\nBut if it's a harlot death is her doom.", "", "At night the crept foftly, and kid'd him, 'tisfaid,\nAnd a velvet cap the laid at his head,\nHis heart was ravil'd fo' to his charms,\nThat priefently he took her up in his arms.", "", "With the fright the her joints could not hold not,\nAnd begged pardon for being to bold,\nHis anfwer was, I give pardon to the chief,\nBut I defire to know who you be.", "", "She told her name, and what daughter she were,\nAnd how love caufed her to some there.\nShe faid, Dear love, as you ventu'd for me,\nTo crois the ocean, my bride you shall be.", "", "No doubt that the couple had joy that night,\nNext morning the prince faid, as soon as 'twas light,\nKeep fast in the bull, wherefore secure you may be,\nWhen I give three knocks, love, come out to me.", "", "So then a ring from his finger did take,\nAnd faid, Sweet jewel, take this for my fake.\nI muft make a progress; dearare'f, do not mourn,\nIf God give me leave I'll quickly return.", "", "The prince did know it, I dare to fay,\nThen into his chamber he ftraightway did go,\nSaying, What is the cause of your languifhing to?", "", "I 'tis love is the cause of my anguifh and palm:\nA lady I lov'd, but fear he is flain.", "", "The prince's fiek; I fuppofe 'tis for you,\nWhat is he come home! that well pleafes me:\nIn a few days his bride I'll be.", "", "Take this diamond-ring, and go to him, I pray,\nThe prince doth know it, I dare to fay,\nThen into his chamber he ftraightway did go,\nSaying, What is the cause of your languifhing to?", "I 'tis love is the cause of my anguifh and palm:\nA lady I lov'd, but fear he is flain.", "The prince's fiek; I fuppofe 'tis for you,\nWhat is he come home! that well pleafes me:\nIn a few days his bride I'll be.", "Take this diamond-ring, and go to him, I pray,\nThe prince doth know it, I dare to fay,\nThen into his chamber he ftraightway did go,\nSaying, What is the cause of your languifhing to?", "The prince's fiek; I fuppofe 'tis for you,\nWhat is he come home! that well pleafes me:\nIn a few days his bride I'll be.", "The prince's fiek; I fuppofe 'tis for you,\nWhat is he come home! that well pleafes me:\nIn a few days his bride I'll be.", "The mother faid, Son, I'll keep it fecure,\nThat no one shall go into it before.\nShe went to his hunting with a chearful mind,\nBut now you will a'fd tragedy find.", "", "Three ladies came, and defired to view\nHer fan's Golden Bull, and made much ado,\nThe old lady, thinking no harm there could be,\nAdmitted them up, this fine bull to чe.", "", "Soon as they came in, and few the fight,\nThey faid, In this bull he may well delight.\nThe workman that made it had nice crafty skill,\nCome let us go down, now we have our will.", "", "To kick it, faid one, resolved it be,\nThe reft had a mind, to they kick'd it all three,\nThinking it was the prince gave three knocks there,\nThis beautiful lady came forth, I declare.", "", "The next news the heard her father waded,\nAnd then of that country queen he was madre,\nThen they had both nations to rule and defem\nAnd to let my theoretical comedy end.", "", "", "", "", "", "Therefore fhe falldow'd like a harlot in graſſe,\nSo they all disputed how the should be flain.", "", "The firſt faid, To hang her with fpeed i ſit ſa,\nThe ſecond faid, No, leu us drowed her for it", "But the laſt of the three anſwer returned,\nIf I had my will then this throuſe should be burned.", {"bbox": [1088, 1