Loves Lamentable Tragedy.
When true Lovers pro[v]e unkind,
great sorrows they procure,
And such strange pains the slighted find,
that they cannot endure.
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TEnder hearts of London City,
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now be mov'd with grief and pitty,
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since by Love I am undone;
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Now I languish in mine anguish,
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too too soon my heart was won.
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By him I am strangely 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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Damon 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 I'm lying,
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Bleeding for your sake and dying,
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yet my Ghost shall 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 Damon 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 Death's fatal stroke.
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When this news to him was carried,
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All his joys were spoyl'd and marred,
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and his heart was fill'd 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 deny'd her, and defy'd her,
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that was loving, chaste and kind.
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Now methinks I'm strangely daunted
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By her Ghost I shall be haunted,
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wheresoever I do go,
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I shall 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 methinks 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, pierc'd him thorow,
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then he vow'd for love to dye.
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Then his joynts began to shiver,
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Straight he walks unto the River
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there 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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