THE
Lovers Lamentable Tragedy:
When true Lovers prove 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 pity,
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since by love I am undone;
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Now I languish, in my Anguish,
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too too soon my Heart was won.
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By him I am strangtly 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've 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 was to him 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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The Young Man's Answer.
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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 perplex'd 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 strangly 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 into the River,
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there to behold 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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