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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>The Frantick 'Squire:</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Who&s;e pa&s;&s;ionate Love for a Young Lady cau&s;ed his <HI>Di&s;traction,</HI> and &s;ince the re&s;toration, of his Sen&s;es, he, with his own hand, writ this Excellent new Ditty.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the Tune of <HI>Let <HI>Mary</HI> live long.</HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L><HI>MElpomene</HI> now</L>
<L>a&s;&s;i&s;t a meek Lover,</L>
<L>who&s;e Tears will di&s;cover,</L>
<L>How fal&s;e to her Vow</L>
<L>fair <HI>Cynthia</HI> hath been;</L>
<L>While I &s;igh and complain</L>
<L>She return'd me di&s;dain,</L>
<L>and would not expel</L>
<L>My langui&s;hing pa&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>My langui&s;hing pa&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>but bid me farewel.</L>
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<L>From morning to night,</L>
<L>I wander'd di&s;tracted</L>
<L>ah! what have I acted</L>
<L>Which made her delight</L>
<L>to torture me &s;o:</L>
<L>Through the Shades did I po&s;t,</L>
<L>Like a hovering Gho&s;t</L>
<L>bereaved of re&s;t;</L>
<L>With &s;ad Lamentation,</L>
<L>With &s;ad Lamentation,</L>
<L>in &s;orrows oppre&s;t.</L>
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<LG>
<L>My Riches I left,</L>
<L>with dear Habitation,</L>
<L>each Friend and Relation,</L>
<L>Of Comforts bereft,</L>
<L>Di&s;tracted I run;</L>
<L>That a place I might find</L>
<L>That was free from mankind,</L>
<L>(fair women I mean;)</L>
<L>Who&s;e conquering Beauty,</L>
<L>Who&s;e conquering Beauty,</L>
<L>too late I have &s;een.</L>
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<L>My Pillow I made</L>
<L>on banks of green Ru&s;hes,</L>
<L>near Brambles and Bu&s;hes,</L>
<L>Where weeping I laid</L>
<L>my &s;orrowful Head;</L>
<L>As I clo&s;ed my Eyes,</L>
<L>The kind watery <UNCLEAR>Skies</UNCLEAR>,</L>
<L>would weep to behold</L>
<L>A Lover expo&s;ed</L>
<L>A Lover expo&s;ed</L>
<L>to &s;orrow and cold.</L>
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<L>I valu'd not Crowns,</L>
<L>with Kingdoms of Trea&s;ure,</L>
<L>and wealth out of mea&s;ure,</L>
<L>Or fortifi'd Towns,</L>
<L>for which they contend;</L>
<L>There was <HI>Cynthia</HI> my Love,</L>
<L>Which I valu'd above</L>
<L>an Emperor's Throne,</L>
<L>Her amorous beauty,</L>
<L>Her amorous beauty,</L>
<L>was Riches alone.</L>
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<LG>
<L>To <HI>Bedlam</HI> bound,</L>
<L>at length they convey'd me,</L>
<L>And there having laid me</L>
<L>Vpon the hard Ground,</L>
<L>I took my repo&s;e;</L>
<L>And my rich &s;ilken Bed,</L>
<L>Where I once laid my Head,</L>
<L>was turned to Straws&punc;</L>
<L>Of this my Di&s;traction,</L>
<L>Of this my Di&s;traction,</L>
<L>was <HI>Cynthia</HI> the Cau&s;e?</L>
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<LG>
<L>My Sen&s;es once more,</L>
<L>the hand of kind Heaven&punc;</L>
<L>in pity hath given,</L>
<L>And now I'll adore</L>
<L>no woman alive:</L>
<L>Since my Heart is at ea&s;e,</L>
<L>Let 'em frown if they plea&s;e</L>
<L>I &s;corn their di&s;dain,</L>
<L>They never &s;hall make me,</L>
<L>They never &s;hall make me,</L>
<L>a Captive again.</L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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