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<HEAD>The Pen&s;ive Maid: OR, The Virgins Lamentation for the lo&s;s of her Lover.</HEAD>
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<L>For &s;even years &s;pace &s;he patiently did bear,</L>
<L>The ab&s;ence of her Love, as you &s;hall hear,</L>
<L>At length &s;ad tydings came that he was &s;lain,</L>
<L>And that they never more &s;hould meet again.</L>
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<OPENER>Tune of, <HI>Through the cool &s;hady woods,</HI> Or, <HI>Deep in Love, &amp;c.</HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>WHen <HI>Soll</HI> will ca&s;t no light,</L>
<L>all darkned over,</L>
<L>And dole&s;ome time of night</L>
<L>the Skies did cover:</L>
<L>Down by a Rivers &s;ide</L>
<L>where Ships are &s;ailing</L>
<L>There a fair Maid I &s;pied,</L>
<L>weeping and wailing:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I &s;tept unto her &s;traight,</L>
<L>dearest what grieves thee.</L>
<L>She an&s;wered me and &s;aid</L>
<L>none can relieve me:</L>
<L>'Tis &s;even long years and more</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">nce my Love parted,</L>
<L>And left me on this &s;hore.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ite broken hearted.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He promi&s;ed to return,</L>
<L>if life was lent him,</L>
<L>VVhich makes me &s;igh &amp; mourn,</L>
<L>death doth prevent him:</L>
<L>O that I could but hear</L>
<L>&s;ome tidings from him,</L>
<L>How it my heart would cheer,</L>
<L>for all my longing.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A young man &s;traight &s;he &s;pied:</L>
<L>like one amazed,</L>
<L>VVhich did a token bring</L>
<L>whereon &s;he gazed;</L>
<L>VVhere is my Love? quoth &s;he,</L>
<L>that comes not near me,</L>
<L>The Young-man he reply'd,</L>
<L>plea&s;e for to hear me.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>YOur Love and I did fight</L>
<L>under one Banner,</L>
<L>Maintaining <HI>Englands</HI> right,</L>
<L>purcha&s;ing Honour:</L>
<L>He was a Seaman bold,</L>
<L>of courage valiant,</L>
<L>Scorning to be contrould,</L>
<L>by e're a Gallant.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But in a Dreadful Fight</L>
<L>where Guns did rattle,</L>
<L>And many a Gallant VVight,</L>
<L>fell in the Battel:</L>
<L>His fatal de&s;tiny</L>
<L>near was approaching,</L>
<L>And &s;ummon'd him away,</L>
<L>by Deaths Incroaching.</L>
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<LG>
<L>VVhen he his Deaths wound had</L>
<L>and brains were broken,</L>
<L>To me the&s;e words he &s;aid,</L>
<L>deliver this token,</L>
<L>To her that hath my heart,</L>
<L>and is more dearer,</L>
<L>VVishing her for my &s;ake,</L>
<L>to love the Bearer.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And having &s;poke the&s;e words,</L>
<L>he then declined,</L>
<L>And in a &s;tream of blood</L>
<L>his life resigned,</L>
<L>Leaving me full of care,</L>
<L>&s;ad news to bear it,</L>
<L>His death for to declare</L>
<L>as you now hear it.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When &s;he the tidings heard,</L>
<L>with this &s;ad potion,</L>
<L>She like a &s;tock appear'd</L>
<L>without all motion,</L>
<L>At length her &s;pirits came</L>
<L>by grief Inflamed,</L>
<L>And then with floods of tears</L>
<L>thus &s;he exclaimed.</L>
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<LG>
<L>O ye great powers above,</L>
<L>which life doth lend us</L>
<L>And thou the God of Love</L>
<L>that did befriend us</L>
<L>VVhy have ye &s;natcht away</L>
<L>my deare<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;weeting</L>
<L>And by your cruelty</L>
<L>&s;poiled our meeting?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Since that my Love is dead</L>
<L>whom I did tender</L>
<L>No comfort I will take</L>
<L>but life &s;urrender:</L>
<L>In &s;ome unwonted paths</L>
<L>there will I wander,</L>
<L>And prove more con&s;tant</L>
<L>then ere was <HI>Leander.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>And &s;o vain world farewell</L>
<L>and all thy plea&s;ure,</L>
<L>Since he is gone that was</L>
<L>my chiefe&s;t Trea&s;ure,</L>
<L>In the <HI>Elizium</HI> &s;hades</L>
<L>there will I hide me</L>
<L>Vntil I find my Love</L>
<L>what e're betide me.</L>
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