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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>The Unfortunate Lady;</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">OR, <HI>The Young Lover's fatal Tragedy:</HI><LB>
Who lately Hang'd her &s;elf for the Love of a Young Gentleman, whom her Pa|rents would not &s;uffer her to have; but &s;ent her a fal&s;e Letter, that he was Mar|ryed, which was the Cau&s;e of her Untimely Death.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the Tune of <HI>The Langui&s;hing Swain.</HI></OPENER>
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<P><HI>Licen&s;ed according to Order.</HI></P>
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<L><HI>I</HI> Do not &s;ing of Triumph, no</L>
<L>Nor of the Ble&s;&s;ings here below;</L>
<L>But of a Loyal Lover's Fall,</L>
<L>Which is lamented by us all.</L>
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<L>Let loving Parents now attend</L>
<L>Vnto this Le&s;&s;on which I &s;end;</L>
<L>Cro&s;s not your Children dear in Love,</L>
<L>For fear it &s;hould their Ruine prove.</L>
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<L>Too many in this Age we find,</L>
<L>They are to Riches &s;o enclin'd,</L>
<L>That they can nothing le&s;s behold,</L>
<L>Tho' Love be better worth than Gold.</L>
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<L>When True Love cannot be enjoy'd,</L>
<L>How many Dam&s;els are de&s;troy'd?</L>
<L>As we by true Experience know,</L>
<L>It having prov'd their Overthrow.</L>
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<L>Some has by burning Fevers fell,</L>
<L>And &s;ome their Sorrows to expell,</L>
<L>Have &s;ent a fatal bloudy Dart,</L>
<L>Into their fainting Love-&s;ick Heart.</L>
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<L>Others by Poy&s;on end their days;</L>
<L>And thus the Lover many ways</L>
<L>Can find to ea&s;e their Love-&s;ick Pain,</L>
<L>When they their Wi&s;hes can't obtain.</L>
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<L>Among the re&s;t of one I write,</L>
<L>Her Parents Ioy, and Heart Delight,</L>
<L>Who by them being cro&s;t in Love,</L>
<L>It did a &s;ad De&s;truction prove.</L>
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<L>Her Heart was linked to her Dear:</L>
<L>Now when her Friends the &s;ame did hear,</L>
<L>She was with &s;peed to <HI>London</HI> &s;ent,</L>
<L>Where &s;he in &s;orrow did lament.</L>
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<L>She often wrang her Hands, and cry'd,</L>
<L>I am of all my Ioys deny'd;</L>
<L>No glance of Comfort do's appear,</L>
<L>While I am bani&s;h'd from my Dear.</L>
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<L>Tho' we may for a Sea&s;on part,</L>
<L>I do declare he has my Heart;</L>
<L>To none but him the &s;ame I'll give,</L>
<L>While I have here a day to live.</L>
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<L>Said &s;he, The &s;torm may be blown o'er,</L>
<L>And Fortune may our Ioys re&s;tore,</L>
<L>Therefore I will with Patience wait:</L>
<L>But now behold her di&s;mal Fate.</L>
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<L>Her Friends they did a Letter frame,</L>
<L>That he was Marry'd: When it came,</L>
<L>She with a Sigh, &s;aid, Is it &s;o?</L>
<L>Then Love will prove my Overthrow.</L>
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<L>She dre&s;s'd her &s;elf in rich Array.</L>
<L>And to her Chamber took her way,</L>
<L>And then her Life &s;he ended there;</L>
<L>The Grief was more than &s;he cou'd bear.</L>
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<L>Let her Mi&s;hap a Warning be</L>
<L>To Friends of high and low Degree:</L>
<L>Cro&s;s not your Children here in Love,</L>
<L>Le&s;t you their utter Ruine prove.</L>
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<P><HI>Printed for</HI> I. Blare, <HI>at the Looking-gla&s;s on</HI> London-bridge.</P>
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