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<HEAD><HI>The Dying Lovers</HI> Complaint.</HEAD>
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<L><HI>Daphne</HI> laments cau&s;e <HI>Strephon</HI> is unkind,</L>
<L>Wanting his love no comfort he can find,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">nd mi&s;&s;ing that which &s;he de&s;ires to have,</L>
<L>Poor <HI>Daphne</HI> &s;ighs her &s;elfe into the Grave.</L>
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<OPENER>Tune of Young Phaon.</OPENER>
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<L>I Am quite undone my cruel one</L>
<L>has me for&s;aken quite,</L>
<L>He is the man, in whom I can</L>
<L>take plea&s;ure and delight.</L>
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<LG>
<L>But he's unkind and now I find</L>
<L>my thred is almo&s;t &s;pun,</L>
<L>here I lament in di&s;content</L>
<L>ala&s;s I'me quite undone.</L>
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<LG>
<L>While&s;t others &s;leep I mourn and weep</L>
<L>in tears I <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">m almo&s;t, drownd,</L>
<L>When ab&s;ent he is gone from me,</L>
<L>No comfort can be found.</L>
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<LG>
<L>In &s;lumbring dreams methinks he &s;eems</L>
<L>to be full kind to me,</L>
<L>But when I wake this great mi&s;take</L>
<L>brings &s;orrow certainly.</L>
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<HEAD><HI>The</HI> &s;econd part, <HI>To</HI> the &s;ame tune.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>My Golden hair I rent and tear</L>
<L>like one, outragious mad.</L>
<L><HI>Cupid</HI> &s;ay I, I thee defie</L>
<L>thou wicked wanton Lad.</L>
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<LG>
<L>A minute then &s;carce pa&s;t age&s;t</L>
<L>e're I do him implore,</L>
<L><HI>Cupid</HI> &s;ay I, thy deity</L>
<L>I ever will adore.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Thus do I pa&s;s my dayes ala&s;s</L>
<L>and can no plea&s;ure find,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;igh and cry continually</L>
<L>he's cruel and unkind.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Twice in a breath I wi&s;h for death</L>
<L>&s;uch torments I endure,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> he's <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ind I ne'r &s;'hall fin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span"> get a cure.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Then down I lye in hopes to dye,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">re him I &s;ee again,</L>
<L>But thoughts of him brings life aga<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>and thus prolongs my pain.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Both cur'd and kill'd, blood &s;hed &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>all in a Moment is,</L>
<L>From death could he again fetch <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>with one poor &s;mile and ki&s;s,</L>
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<LG>
<L>Thus do I turn I freiz and burn</L>
<L>in a mo&s;t &s;trange condition,</L>
<L>No Doctors Art can cure my &s;mart.</L>
<L>except he prove Phy&s;itian.</L>
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<LG>
<L>But hopes of that mu&s;t be forgot</L>
<L>and I mu&s;t to the grave.</L>
<L>Come welcome death and &s;top my breath</L>
<L>that I &s;ome re&s;t may have.</L>
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<P><HI>Printed for,</HI> F Cole. T. Vere. J. Wrigh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> J. Clark. W. Thackery. and T. Pa&s;&s;enger.</P>
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