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<HEAD><HI>Pyramus</HI> and <HI>Thisbe:</HI> Or, Love's Ma&s;ter-piece.</HEAD>
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<LG>
<L><HI>Behold the downfall of two Lovers D<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ar,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And to their Memorys, let fall a Tear,</HI></L>
<L><HI>A &s;ad mi&s;take their Ruine did procure,</HI></L>
<L><HI>When as they thought their Friend&s;hiP &s;hould endure;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Oh Cruel Fate! That Cut them off in Pr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">me,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And for Enjoyment, would afford no time.</HI></L>
</LG>
</ARGUMENT>
<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>Digby's Farewel.</HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>WHen all hearts did yeild unto <HI>Cupid</HI> as King,</L>
<L>And dying for Mi&s;tre&s;&s;es was no &s;trang thing,</L>
<L>When Maids without coyne&s;s did candidly deal,</L>
<L>And men lov'd with con&s;tancy, faith, and true Zeal:</L>
<L>There liv,d a fair pare of true Lovers in <HI>Greece</HI></L>
<L>Who have &s;till bin accounted as Lov's ma&s;ter-piece.</L>
<L>The Youth was call'd <HI>Pyramus, Thisbe</HI> the Maid:</L>
<L>Their Love was immortal, and never decay'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But ala&s;s! their affections were cro&s;t by &s;ad Fate:</L>
<L>To wit, by the fewd and immortal debate.</L>
<L>That had bin fomented for many years &s;pace,</L>
<L>Between both their Families, &amp; their whole Race.</L>
<L>Which made the fair Cuple, tho &s;corcht w^t loves fire,</L>
<L>Still &s;mother their Flames &amp; conceal their de&s;ire:</L>
<L>They &s;igh'd &s;till in private, and wept all alone;</L>
<L>And dar'd not di&s;cover a Tear or a Groan.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>They &s;igh'd all the Night, &amp; they gaz'd all the Day:</L>
<L>Thus weeping and gazing, and &s;ighing away</L>
<L>Their langu&s;hing Lives, which they &s;pent all in Tears,</L>
<L>In &s;ighs, &amp; in groans, &amp; in amorous fears.</L>
<L>And when the whole world was composd in a &s;leep,</L>
<L>Their grief kept them waking to &s;igh &amp; to weep.</L>
<L>Thus wandring all night, to the &s;tars they complain,</L>
<L>Of hard&s;hip, of fate, of their torments, and pain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But when they no longer tho&s;e pains cou'd endure</L>
<L>Their Love did begin for to &s;eek out &s;ome Cure.</L>
<L>And &s;o they appointed one Night for to meet</L>
<L>In &s;ome neighbouring Vally, and there for to greet:</L>
<L>And thence fly away to &s;ome far di&s;tant Cave,</L>
<L>To love at their lea&s;ure: contented to have</L>
<L>The joyes of each other; and there let loves flame</L>
<L>Burn quietly out without danger of blame.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>And &s;o when that <HI>P<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">s</HI> had run out his Race,</L>
<L>Fair <HI>Thisbe</HI> came fir&s;t into the meeting place.</L>
<L>Impatient &s;he &s;tood and expected her Dear;</L>
<L>She thought that each moment he &s;taid, was a year.</L>
<L>Then under a Mulbery-tree down &s;he lies,</L>
<L>But &s;carce was lay down when &s;he pre&s;ently &s;pies</L>
<L>A grim and fierce Lyon be&s;mea'd all vvith Blood,</L>
<L>Came wandring down from &s;he neighbou<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ing wood</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>'Away run the Nimph to a Cave in a Fright.</L>
<L>She fly's, &amp; her Mantle is lo&s;t in the flight:</L>
<L>Which the bloody Lyon takes up in his Pawes</L>
<L>He tears it, &amp; then with the Raggs wipes his jaws.</L>
<L>Soon after p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">oor <HI>Pyramus</HI> came for to find.</L>
<L>His long vvi&s;ht for <HI>Thisbe:</HI> but fate prov'd unkind.</L>
<L>For vvhen divine joys he did hope for to have</L>
<L>He found but a vvinding &s;heet, death, &amp; cold Grave.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For vvhen that he &s;aw his loves Mantle all tore.</L>
<L>Bedew'd all vvith blood, &amp; be&s;mear'd all with Goar:</L>
<L>And then &s;aw the Lyon trot over the plain,</L>
<L>He fal&s;ly concluded his <HI>Thisby</HI> vvas &s;lain.</L>
<L>O vvho can expre&s;s the va&s;t torment and &s;mart,</L>
<L>The pangs and the angui&s;h &amp; grief of his heart?</L>
<L>He made the Woods ring vvith his pitiful moanes</L>
<L>The Rocks &amp; the Mountains dis Eccho his Groans.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ala&s;s: (&s;aid <HI>Pyramus</HI>) could &s;he then find</L>
<L>No help from the Gods! are they &s;o unkind?</L>
<L>Or el&s;e have they &s;tole her avvay from our &s;ight,</L>
<L>And &s;o Rob d the Earth to make Heaven more bright?</L>
<L>O tell me kind Sta<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s! come and tell me but vvhere</L>
<L>My <HI>Th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">sbe</HI> is gon, and Ile follow my dear.</L>
<L>Two death-vvounds already I bear in my brea&s;t.</L>
<L>Once vvounded by Love &amp; by grief novv oppre&s;&s;.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ile vveep out my life, &amp; Ile &s;igh out my Soul:</L>
<L>Ile groan for my Love till my Carca&s;s grows cold.</L>
<L>Her Mantle Ile take for my &s;ad Winding-&s;heet,</L>
<L>In that mournful po&s;ture my <HI>Thisbe</HI> Ile meet.</L>
<L>But a langui&s;hing death comes vvith too much delay:</L>
<L>Great grief is impatient of &s;o long a &s;tay.</L>
<L>Ile make greater ha&s;t to my Love: at vvhich vvord</L>
<L>The Youth &s;tab'd him&s;elf to the hea<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t with his Sword.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By this time fair <HI>Thisbe</HI> was came from he Cave</L>
<L>So pale that &s;her ris like a Gho&s;t from its Grave,</L>
<L>For when &s;he her <HI>Pyramu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> dying did &s;ee,</L>
<L>She look'd much more like to a Carca&s;s than he.</L>
<L>You'd have thought that the Nymph woud before him have dy d</L>
<L>She fel on his body <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hen mournfully c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">y'd</L>
<L>O <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hy my dear <HI>Pyramus</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hy &s;o unkind;</L>
<L>Why <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">un you avvay and leave <HI>Thisbe</HI> behind?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At <HI>Thisbie<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> &s;vveet Name they Youth lifts up his eyes:</L>
<L>He looks, &amp; he &s;ighs, &amp; then &s;huts them &amp; dyes:</L>
<L>He gaz'd till he dy'd then content vvith the &s;ight.</L>
<L>Away to <HI>Eliziu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> his Soul took its flight.</L>
<L>And <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> did after it pre&s;ently flye:</L>
<L>She &s;truggled, &amp; &s;trove, and made ha&s;t for to dye.</L>
<L>And &s;uch ha&s;t &s;he made in <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">retaking her dear</L>
<L>She ne <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;tay'd <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">o complain nor &s;ca<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ce drop a Tear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Her tender, and gentle heart &s;oon bur&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ith grief!</L>
<L>And Death &s;tole away her fa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r Soul like a Thief.</L>
<L>Then <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">er cold body &s;he lay by her Love.</L>
<L>Both pitty'd by all the kind Gods of the G<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ove.</L>
<L>The amorous <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ur<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">les and Nigh<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ingalls <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ung</L>
<L>Their Ob&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">qu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">es: &amp; n<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters">s their Knell rung.</L>
<L>And each loving bea&s;t of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">he wood left his Cave,</L>
<L>And came &s;o: to make the dead Lovers a Grave,</L>
</LG>
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<P>London Printed for <HI>W. Thack<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ray, T. Pa&s;&s;inger,</HI> and <HI>W. Whitwood.</HI></P>
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