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<HEAD><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> pitty, to all people that &s;hall heare of it in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ull fire that hapned on London-Bridge, the 11. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></HEAD>
<OPENER><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">o the tune of, Aime not too high.</OPENER>
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<L>IT gri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ves my heart to write &s;uch heauy newes,</L>
<L>As in my &s;tory afterward en&s;ues;</L>
<L>I would to God it neuer had b&eacute;ene &s;o,</L>
<L>But 'tis too true, the Lord aboue doth know.</L>
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<L>O, here begins my heauy tale of woe,</L>
<L>The which will force &s;alt teares from eyes to flow,</L>
<L>I thinke there cannot be a heart &s;o hard,</L>
<L>But to my &s;ubiect will haue &s;ome regard.</L>
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<L>O onely <HI>London,</HI> then that art the flower,</L>
<L>On which the Lord his ble&s;&s;ing &s;till doth &s;hower;</L>
<L>Alas I doe lament the heauy lo&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>The which many a thou&s;and pound hath co&s;t.</L>
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<L>O <HI>London-bridge,</HI> that place of beauty faire,</L>
<L>The world againe the like cannot compare:</L>
<L>What heauy fortune now there is befell,</L>
<L>Ala<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ke, alas, it grieues me for to tell.</L>
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<L>How &s;hall I write to giue you all content?</L>
<L>Nay, I mu&s;t write that which wil I cau&s;e lament,</L>
<L>Vnto a heart that is as hard as &s;t&eacute;ele,</L>
<L>Yet &s;ure he needes mu&s;t &s;ome compa&s;&s;ion f&eacute;ele.</L>
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<L>On Munday night, the eleuenth of February,</L>
<L>A fire hapned, of which none was wary;</L>
<L>Hapned, &s;aid I? alas, it is too true,</L>
<L>As it is knowne, how&s;oeuer fir&s;t it grew.</L>
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<L>Some &s;ay, 'twas through a Maidens negligence,</L>
<L>But that Ile leaue for other to di&s;pence,</L>
<L>I would not &s;peake more than what I doe know,</L>
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<L>But certaine 'tis, there's many hou&s;es burned,</L>
<L>The fire could not &s;tented be, nor turned,</L>
<L>Vntill it had con&s;um'd them euery one,</L>
<L>Third part the bridge from that place where't begun</L>
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<L>Hard by Saint Magnus, fir&s;t it did begin,</L>
<L>When as good folkes their beds were &s;l&eacute;eping in,</L>
<L>Then &s;ome ari&s;ing &s;tarting all with feare,</L>
<L>Whenas they &s;aw they were be&s;et with fire.</L>
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<L>Some cryed o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> fire fire, being afraid,</L>
<L>Yet very few could doe them any aide,</L>
<L>They could not come to doe them any good,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e the hou&s;es ouer water &s;tood.</L>
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<L>Ind&eacute;ed the cryes were grieuous to be heard,</L>
<L>The women were &s;o wonderfully skar'd,</L>
<L>The children &s;haking, to their friends did &s;ay,</L>
<L>God Father and Mother, pray let's goe away.</L>
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<L>Alas, poore &s;oules, they well might be afraid.</L>
<L>Being likely to be burn'd if they had &s;taid,</L>
<L>The fire it did &s;till encrea&s;e &s;o fa&s;t,</L>
<L>That they much goods into the Thames did ca&s;t.</L>
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<L>I flamed aloft and fire did &s;till encrea&s;e,</L>
<L>V&s;e all the meanes they could, it would not cea&s;e,</L>
<L>Vntill it had con&s;umed both &s;ides oth' way,</L>
<L>N&eacute;ere forty dwelling hou&s;es, as &s;ome &s;ay.</L>
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<L>You may imagine of the wondrous lo&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>Be&s;ides the money that the buildings co&s;t,</L>
<L>For &s;urely tho&s;e that on the bridge doe dwell,</L>
<L>Were men which did in riches much excell.</L>
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<HEAD>The &s;econd part.</HEAD>
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<L>AS I haue read the Chronicle of <HI>Stowe,</HI></L>
<L>One thou&s;and one hundred thirty &s;ixe yeeres agoe</L>
<L>The Bridge then being builded all of wood,</L>
<L>Was burned euery &s;ticke and &s;take as 't &s;tood.</L>
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<L>And many people then was burned too,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e out of the fire they could not goe,</L>
<L>O Lord I wi&s;h the like may nere be knowne.</L>
<L>As this pro&s;pect, for which all &s;igh and groane,</L>
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<L>At that &s;ame time was b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> aboundance more,</L>
<L>The fire then the City ran halfe ore,</L>
<L>From <HI>London-&s;tone</HI> to <HI>Aldgate,</HI> and to <HI>Pauls,</HI></L>
<L>It did con&s;ume goods, timber, worke, and walls.</L>
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<L>Let me intreat both old and young to pray,</L>
<L>For to defend's from &s;uch &s;udden decay,</L>
<L>I thinke the verie&s;t tyrannizing heart,</L>
<L>This &s;ame t'haue &s;&eacute;en, wold make him f&eacute;el &s;ome &s;mart.</L>
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<L>Alas, my ma&s;ters, &s;ay twere your' owne ca&s;e,</L>
<L>Or thinke your &s;elues had b&eacute;en in that &s;ame place,</L>
<L>It would haue put you in a dangerous feare,</L>
<L>Be&s;ides &s;till after, &s;orrow, griefs and care.</L>
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<L>O Lord, me thinkes, I heare the cryes and groanes,</L>
<L>That many of them made with heauy moanes,</L>
<L>O helpe, O helpe, they all aloud did cry,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t fire burned and flames aloft did flye.</L>
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<L>The Husband bade the Wife &s;he &s;hould not feare,</L>
<L>Although his eyes did &s;head full many a teare,</L>
<L>Yet would he giue her comfort in her was,</L>
<L>But how to helpe them&s;elues they did not know.</L>
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