One Night When All the Village Slept

DESCRIPTION: "One night when all the village slept, Martellus fought despair, The wand'ring shepherd waking kept To tell the wood his care." He was "transported so with love," "But faithless she will ever be." She comes back. It is too late. Both die
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1738 (The Vocal Miscellany)
KEYWORDS: love rejection reunion death
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Simpson-TheBritishBroadsideBallad, pp. 557-559, "One Night When All the Village Slept, or Martellus" (2 tunes)
ADDITIONAL: (no author listed), _The Vocal Miscellany: A Collection of above Four Hundred Celebrated Songs_, Bettesworth, Hitch, Hazard, Ware, Ward, and Chandler, 1738 (available on Google Books), Song XCIX, pp. 85-88, "One Night When All the Village Slept" (1 text)
Roud #24259
NOTES [68 words]: File this under "Gagginly awful." Steve Roud gave this a number, so I've filed it here, but I think this is by confusion with another song. I can't find any traditional versions. And don't want to. The plot, while commonplace, could have been saved by a poet with some notion of what words are for, but the guy who wrote this thing seemed to have a goal of using only the most overblown words available. - RBW
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