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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<HEAD>The We&s;tmini&s;ter Lovers.</HEAD>
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<LG>
<L>Love pa&s;&s;ion in &s;o violent,</L>
<L>Beyond all oppo&s;ition,</L>
<L>It makes poor Lovers of Lament,</L>
<L>That &s;ad di&s;tres'd condition.</L>
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<OPENER>To the Tune of <HI>Rufield Farewell.</HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>Fair <HI>I&s;abella</HI> mind me well</L>
<L>for now I do declare,</L>
<L>That all the world you do excell,</L>
<L>methinks you are &s;o fair:</L>
<L>Then prethee grant to me my &s;uit,</L>
<L>in thee I do delight.</L>
<L>If you deny, without dispute,</L>
<L>Death &s;eizes me out-right.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ah <HI>Thomas</HI> the&s;e are tricks of youth</L>
<L>that I cannot approve,</L>
<L>To tell you now the very truth,</L>
<L>I fear you do not love:</L>
<L>A pa&s;&s;ion onely you pretend,</L>
<L>to rob me of my Bills,</L>
<L>If Love no further do extend,</L>
<L>Oh what a &s;hame is this.</L>
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<LG>
<L>My deare&s;t do not doubtful be,</L>
<L>that I &s;hould be unkind,</L>
<L>I &s;wear to be mo&s;t true to thee,</L>
<L>and thou &s;halt &s;urely find:</L>
<L>That if you walk the flawery plain,</L>
<L>this long &s;even years and more,</L>
<L>You ne'r will find a kinder Swain,</L>
<L>your vertues to adore.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Well <HI>Thomas,</HI> &s;ince you do prote&s;t,</L>
<L>your Love is &s;o intire,</L>
<L>And that you do not &s;peak in je&s;t,</L>
<L>you &s;et my heart on fire:</L>
<L>Methinks I feel &s;uch tickling pain</L>
<L>I never knew before,</L>
<L>And if you love me not again,</L>
<L>&s;ure i &s;hall dye therefore.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Talk not of death my neare&s;t Love,</L>
<L>I love thee as my life,</L>
<L>And if thou wilt but con&s;tant prove,</L>
<L>then thou &s;halt be my wife:</L>
<L>Betwixt my arms I'le thee imbrace,</L>
<L>and teach thee &s;uch a trick,</L>
<L>Will make thy joys encrea&s;e a pace,</L>
<L>and bli&s;&s;es tumble thick.</L>
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<LG>
<L>What kind of bli&s;&s;es do you mean,</L>
<L>methinks my heart doth burn,</L>
<L>And if you &s;hould now change the &s;cene</L>
<L>&s;hould forever mourn:</L>
<L>I feel &s;uch panting in my brea&s;t,</L>
<L>'till now I ne'r did know,</L>
<L>With pains of Love I am oppre&s;t,</L>
<L>&s;ad pains I undergo.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Well <HI>I&s;abella,</HI> nor believe,</L>
<L>my love is &s;o entire,</L>
<L>For me thou &s;halt no longer grieve,</L>
<L>I'le coole thy burning fire:</L>
<L>Thou &s;halt he free from care and fent,</L>
<L>and like a Prince&s;s Reign,</L>
<L>Yea, that &s;halt be my only dear,</L>
<L>the glory of the plain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Her colour then did come and go,</L>
<L>Her lips look'd won and pale,</L>
<L>Loves pa&s;&s;ion the did plainly &s;how,</L>
<L>Which did &s;o much prevail:</L>
<L>She with an amorous &s;igh did part,</L>
<L>Which <HI>Thomas</HI> minded well,</L>
<L>O love quoth he, this breaks my heart</L>
<L>Who love, my love farewell.</L>
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<LG>
<L>When <HI>I&s;abella</HI> &s;ain him faint,</L>
<L>down to the ground &s;he fell,</L>
<L>And thus &s;he made a &s;hort complaint,</L>
<L>did <HI>Thomas</HI> &s;ay farewell?</L>
<L>'Tis time for me now to depart,</L>
<L>and to Elizium fl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</L>
<L>Thus <HI>I&s;abella</HI> broke her heart,</L>
<L>for love did <HI>Thomas</HI> dye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>You lovers all, both great and &s;mall,</L>
<L>be rul'd by my advice,</L>
<L>Into &s;uch pa&s;&s;ions do not fall,</L>
<L>Which proves fools Paradice:</L>
<L>With moderation &s;et your love,</L>
<L>your lovers to obtain,</L>
<L>And if your lovers con&s;tant prove,</L>
<L>'twill quit you of all pain.</L>
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<LG>
<L>But cruel Fortune that will change,</L>
<L>did both their lives de&s;troy,</L>
<L>She &s;mil'd at &s;trit, at la&s;t grew &s;trange</L>
<L>and did their lives among:</L>
<L>Both in a grave the&s;e two were laid,</L>
<L>that made the world admire,</L>
<L>Alice, or dead, the people &s;aid,</L>
<L>the Shepherd would lye by her.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Their Parents mourned night &amp; day,</L>
<L>for their exceeding lo&s;s,</L>
<L>I with that other lovers may</L>
<L>take warning by the tra&s;s:</L>
<L>And not in &s;eeming rage to go,</L>
<L>or from their lovers part,</L>
<L>This loving Shepherd he did &s;o,</L>
<L>which broke his lovers heart.</L>
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