Loves Lamentable
TRAGEDY,
When cruel Lovers prove unkind,
Great sorrows they procure;
And such strange pains the slighted find,
That they cannot endure.
To a pleasant new Play-house Tune.
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TEnder hearts of London City,
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Now be movd with grief and pitty
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since by love I am undone:
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Now I languish in mine angish,
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too too soon my heart was won.
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By him I am strangly slighted,
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In whom I so long Delighted:
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he unkindly shews disdain,
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And my grief is past relief,
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alas! my heart will break with pain.
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Daemon you my passion knew well,
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How then could you be so cruel?
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first my heart to set on fire:
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Then to leave me, and deceive me,
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when I granted your desire.
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Come and see me as Im lying,
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Bleeding for your sake, and dying,
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yet my Ghost shal trouble you,
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When I depart with broken heart,
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then all your Comforts bid adieu.
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Thou shalt never be contented,
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But by night and day tormented,
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since thou wert so false to me:
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Celia dying, thus lay crying,
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I will be a plague to thee.
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Down her Cheeks the tears did trickle,
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Blaming Daemon too too fickle,
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till her tender heart was broke:
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Discontented thus she fainted,
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yielding to Deaths fatal stroke.
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When this News to him was carried,
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All his joys were spoilld and marred,
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and his heart was filld with pain:
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Still expressing what a blessing,
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he had lost by his disdain.
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OH! ye powers be kind unto me,
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Else my sorrows will undo me,
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I am so perplext in mind:
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I denyd her, and defyd her,
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that was loving, chast and kind.
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Now me thinks Im strangely daunted
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By her Ghost I shal be haunted,
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wheresoever I do go,
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I shal see her mine own dear,
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since I wrought her overthrow.
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Thus he pausing stood, and thinking,
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Looking as if he were sinking,
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while his countenance grew pale:
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Death come ease me, quickly seize me,
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for me thinks my Spirits fail.
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In his Conscience he was wounded,
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And his Senses were confounded,
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tears ran trickling from his Eye:
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But his sorrow, piercd him thorow,
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then he vowd for love to dye.
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Then his joynts began to shiver,
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Straight he walks into the River,
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their to build his watry Tomb,
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Often crying, and replying,
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Celia now I come, I come.
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