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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<HEAD>The Love-Sick LADY: Being her &s;orrowful &s;ighs for her Loyal Soldier; whom at length &s;he enjoy'd, to her un&s;peakable &s;atisfaction.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Tune of, <HI>What &s;hall I do to &s;how how much I love her.</HI></OPENER>
<P>Licen&s;ed according to Order.</P>
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<LG>
<L>NEar a fair Fountain a Dam&s;el &s;at weeping,</L>
<L>and to her Lover &s;he often reply'd,</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t my heart and affections in keeping,</L>
<L>yet of thy favours I'm clearly deny'd:</L>
<L>How can&s;t thou e'er he &s;o de&s;perate cruel,</L>
<L>to &s;light a Lover with &s;corn and disdain?</L>
<L>Every &s;lighting adds Flame to my Fuel,</L>
<L>that I a Langui&s;hing Lover lye &s;lain.</L>
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<L>Why is my Blooming fair Beauty and T<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ea&s;ure,</L>
<L>&s;o unregarded? Ah! how can you &s;light</L>
<L>Tho&s;e Snow Mountains and Ri<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s of Plea&s;ure,</L>
<L>where Lovers Angle for Charming Delight?</L>
<L>All that mine thou &s;hould'&s;t &s;oon be Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing,</L>
<L>could I but once be a&s;&s;ur'd of thy love,</L>
<L>But you're unworthy of &s;o great a Ble&s;&s;ing</L>
<L>&s;ince &s;o ungrateful my <HI>Strephon</HI> can proved.</L>
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<L>I that have often been Courted by many,</L>
<L>is now mo&s;t &s;cornfully &s;lighted by thee,</L>
<L>Others had rea&s;on, but thou ne'er had&s;t any,</L>
<L>for thou wa&s;t ever right welcome to me,</L>
<L>Slave to affection, and thy &s;weet complexion</L>
<L>too much I have been, but now will no more,</L>
<L>In your fal&s;e love I have made an in&s;pection,</L>
<L>whom I of lace did &s;o dearly adore.</L>
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<L>Ah, fair young Beautiful Lady excu&s;e me,</L>
<L>think not that e're I could &s;light &s;uch a Saint,</L>
<L>But being fearful that thou would'&s;t refu&s;e me,</L>
<L>I never venture'd to make my complaint,</L>
<L>Tho my poor heart has been fatally wounded</L>
<L>by the &s;weet Charms from thy fair killing eyes,</L>
<L>Sad &s;ighs and &s;orrows my &s;en&s;es &s;urrounded,</L>
<L>thinking my proffered love you'd de&s;pi&s;e.</L>
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<L>When I con&s;ider'd from whence thou de&s;cended,</L>
<L>by Birth and Beauty a Lady of Fame.</L>
<L>Strait I concluded thou would'&s;t be offended,</L>
<L>if the lea&s;t motion of love I &s;hould name;</L>
<L>Love for this rea&s;on I was not for Courting,</L>
<L>&s;o fair a Creature, and Beautiful Star,</L>
<L>Being no more than a Souldier of Fortune,</L>
<L>who is expos'd to the hazzards of War.</L>
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<L>Tell me no more of Rich Friends nor Relations,</L>
<L>my State and Grandeur freely for&s;ake,</L>
<L>That with my love I may range Foreign Nations,</L>
<L>in weal or woe there my fortune I'll take:</L>
<L>Long by my &s;miles thou might'&s;t freely di&s;cover,</L>
<L>that I did prize and adore thee my dear,</L>
<L>Therefore when this you did truly di&s;cover,</L>
<L>tell me how could you have rea&s;on to fear.</L>
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<L>Have not I Courted you, tho' again&s;t nature,</L>
<L>what greater &s;imptoms of love would you find,</L>
<L>Then he no more an in&s;en&s;ible Creature,</L>
<L>&s;ince your fair Lady to love is inclin'd:</L>
<L>Then in his Arms he did freely receive her,</L>
<L>&s;aying, &s;weet love thou art welcome to me,</L>
<L>With &s;olemn vows that he never would grieve her,</L>
<L>but be as Loyal as Lover could be.</L>
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