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<NAME>Paul Schaffner</NAME>
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<HEAD>The wofull Lamentation of Mi&s;tris Jane Shore, a Gold&s;miths wife in <HI>London,</HI> &s;ometimes King <HI>Edward</HI> the &s;econds Concubine, who for her wanton life came to a mi&s;erable end. Set forth for the example of all lewd women.</HEAD>
<OPENER>The tune is, Live with me.</OPENER>
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<L>If <HI>Ro&s;amond</HI> that was &s;o faire</L>
<L>Had cau&s;e her &s;orrows to declare.</L>
<L>Then let <HI>Jane Shore</HI> with &s;orrow &s;ing</L>
<L>That was beloved of a king.</L>
<L><HI>then wanton wives in time amend,</HI></L>
<L><HI>for love and beauty will have end.</HI></L>
<L>In Maiden years my beauty bright.</L>
<L>Was loved dear of Lord and Knight,</L>
<L>But yet the love that they requir'd</L>
<L>Then was not as my friends de&s;ir'd.</L>
<L>My Parents they for thir&s;t of gain,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> Husband for me did obtain,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 words"> their plea&s;ure to fulfill,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">orcd to wed again&s;t my will.</L>
<L><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">atthew Shore</HI> I was a Wife</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> Lu&s;t brought ruine to my life,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> then my time &s;o lewdly &s;pent</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ow makes my &s;oul for to lament</L>
<L>In <HI>Lumbard &s;treet</HI> I once did dwell,</L>
<L>As <HI>London</HI> yet can witne&s;s well,</L>
<L>Where many gallants did behold</L>
<L>My beauty in a &s;hop of Gold.</L>
<L>I &s;pread my Plume as wantons doe</L>
<L>Some &s;weet and &s;ecret friend to woe,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e my love I did not find</L>
<L>Agr&eacute;eing to my wanton mind,</L>
<L>At la&s;t my name in Court did ring,</L>
<L>Into the ears of Englands King,</L>
<L>Who came and lik'd and love requird</L>
<L>But I made coy what he de&s;ird.</L>
<L>Yet Mi&s;tris Blague a neighbour neere</L>
<L>Who&s;e friend&s;hip I e&s;teemed dear,</L>
<L>Did &s;ay it was a gallant thing</L>
<L>To be beloved of a King.</L>
<L>By her per&s;wa&s;ons I was led</L>
<L>For to defile my marriage bed.</L>
<L>And wrong my wedded hu&s;band <HI>Shore,</HI></L>
<L>Whom I had lovd ten years before,</L>
<L>In heart and mind I did rejoyce</L>
<L>That I had made &s;o &s;weet a choyce.</L>
<L>And therefore did my &s;tate re&s;ign</L>
<L>To be king <HI>Edwards</HI> Concubine.</L>
<L>From City then to Court I went,</L>
<L>And reapt the plea&s;ures of content,</L>
<L>I had the joyes that love could bring,</L>
<L>And knew the &s;ecrets of a King,</L>
<L>When I was thus advanc'd on high,</L>
<L>Commanding <HI>Edward</HI> with mine eye,</L>
<L>For Mi&s;tris <HI>Blague</HI> I in &s;hort &s;pace</L>
<L>Obtain d a living of his Grace.</L>
<L>No friend I had but in &s;hort time</L>
<L>I made unto promotion climb.</L>
<L>But yet for all this co&s;tly pride</L>
<L>My husband could not me abide,</L>
<L>His bed though wronged by a King,</L>
<L>His heart with grief did deadly &s;ting.</L>
<L>From <HI>England</HI> &s;oon he goes away</L>
<L>To end his life upon the Sea.</L>
<L>He could not live to &s;ee his name</L>
<L>Im<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">pared  by my w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">nton &s;hame,</L>
<L>Although a Prince of peerle&s;&s;e might</L>
<L>Did reap tha pleu&s;urs of his right,</L>
<L>Long time I lived in the Court,</L>
<L>With Lords and Ladies of great port</L>
<L>For when I &s;mil'd all men were glad,</L>
<L>but when I mourn'd my prin. grew &s;ad</L>
<L>But yet an hone&s;t mind I bore</L>
<L>To helple&s;s people that were poore,</L>
<L>I stil redre&s;t the Orphans cry,</L>
<L>And &s;av'd their lives condemn'd to die</L>
<L>I &s;till had ruth on widows tears,</L>
<L>I &s;uccour'd babes of tender years,</L>
<L>And never lookt for other gain</L>
<L>But love and thanks for all my pain.</L>
<L>At la&s;t my Royall King did dye,</L>
<L>And then my days of wo grew nigh,</L>
<L>When <HI>Crookback Richard</HI> got y^e crown</L>
<L>K. <HI>Edwards</HI> friends wer &s;oon put down</L>
<L>I then was puni&s;ht for my &s;in,</L>
<L>That I &s;o long had lived in,</L>
<L>Yea every one that was his friend</L>
<L>That tyrant brought to shamefull end.</L>
<L>Then for my rude and wanton life,</L>
<L>That made a &s;trumpet of a Wife,</L>
<L>I penance did in <HI>Lumbard &s;treet,</HI></L>
<L>In &s;hamefull manner in a &s;heet,</L>
<L>Where many thou&s;ands did me view,</L>
<L>Who late in Court my credit knew,</L>
<L>Which made y^e tears run down my face</L>
<L>To think upon my foule di&s;grace.</L>
<L>Not thus content they took from me,</L>
<L>My Goods, my Living and my Fee.</L>
<L>And charg'd that none &s;hould me relive</L>
<L>Nor any &s;uccour to me give.</L>
<L>Then unto Mi&s;tris <HI>Blague</HI> I went</L>
<L>To whom my Iewels I had &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">nt,</L>
<L>In hope thereby to ea&s;e my want</L>
<L>When riches fail'd and love grew &s;cant.</L>
<L>But &s;he deny'd to me the &s;ame</L>
<L>When in my need for them I came,</L>
<L>To recompence my former love,</L>
<L>Out of her doors &s;he did me &s;hove.</L>
<L>So l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">e did vani&s;h with my &s;tate,</L>
<L>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="4 letters"> now my &s;oule repents too late</L>
<L>Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="4 letters">ore example take by me</L>
<L>For friend&s;hip parts in poverty,</L>
<L>But yet one friend among the re&s;t,</L>
<L>Whom I before had &s;een di&s;tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t</L>
<L>And &s;av'd his life condemn'd to dye</L>
<L>Did give me food to &s;uccour me</L>
<L>For which by Law it was decr&eacute;ed</L>
<L>That he was hanged for this d&eacute;ed.</L>
<L>His death did grieve me &s;o much more</L>
<L>Then had I dy'd my &s;elfe therefore</L>
<L>Then tho&s;e to whom I had don good</L>
<L>Dur&s;t not re&s;tore me any food.</L>
<L>Whereby in vain I beg'd all day,</L>
<L>And &s;till in &s;tr&eacute;ets by nights I lay</L>
<L>My gowns be&s;et with pearl and gold,</L>
<L>Are turn'd to &s;imple garments old</L>
<L>My chains and gems and golden <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ings</L>
<L>To filthy rags and loath&s;ome things.</L>
<L>Thus was I &s;corn'd of maid and wife,</L>
<L>For leading &s;uch a wicked life.</L>
<L>Both &s;ucking babes and children &s;mall</L>
<L>Did make a pa&s;time at my fall,</L>
<L>I could not get one bit of bread</L>
<L>Whereby my hunger might be fed</L>
<L>Nor drink but &s;uch as channels yields,,</L>
<L>Or &s;tinking ditche in the fields</L>
<L>Thus weary of my life at length,</L>
<L>I y&eacute;elded up my vitall &s;trength</L>
<L>Within a ditch of loath&s;ome &s;cent,</L>
<L>Where carrion dogs do much frequent</L>
<L>The which now &s;ince my dying day,</L>
<L>Is <HI>Shoreditch</HI> cal'd as writers &s;ay,</L>
<L>Which is a witne&s;&s;e of my &s;in,</L>
<L>For being Concubine to a King.</L>
<L>You wanton wives that fall to lu&s;t</L>
<L>Be you a&s;&s;ur'd that God is ju&s;t.</L>
<L>Whoredom &s;hall not e&s;cape his hand,</L>
<L>Nor pride unpuni&s;ht in this Land.</L>
<L>If God to me &s;uch &s;hame &s;hould bring</L>
<L>That y&eacute;elded only to a King,</L>
<L>How &s;hall they e&s;cape th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> dayly run</L>
<L>To practice &s;in with every man?</L>
<L>You husbands match not but for love,</L>
<L>Lee&s;t &s;ome di&s;liking after prove.</L>
<L>Women be warn'd when you are wivs</L>
<L>What plagus belong to &s;infull lives.</L>
<L><HI>then maids and wivs in time amend.</HI></L>
<L><HI>for love and beauty will have end.</HI></L>
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<HEAD>T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> his wives wantonne&s;&s;e, the wrongs of marriage, the fall of pride being a warning for all women to take heed by.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the &s;ame tune.</OPENER>
<L>IF &s;he that was fair <HI>Londons</HI> Pride</L>
<L>For beauty fam'd both far and wide.</L>
<L>With Swan-like Song in &s;adne&s;s told,</L>
<L>Her deep di&s;tre&s;&s;es manifold.</L>
<L>Then in the &s;ame let me al&s;o</L>
<L>Now bear a part of &s;uch like woe</L>
<L>Kind Mathew Shore men called me,</L>
<L>A Gold&s;mith once of good degree</L>
<L>And might have lived long therein</L>
<L>Had not my wife bin wool<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> to &s;in:</L>
<L>Ah gentle <HI>jane</HI> thy wanton Race</L>
<L>Hath brought us to this foule di&s;grace</L>
<L>Thou had&s;t all things at wi&s;h and will</L>
<L>Thy wanton fancy tu fulfill</L>
<L>No <HI>London</HI> dame nor Marchants wife</L>
<L>Did lead &s;o &s;weet and plea&s;ant life,</L>
<L>Then gentle <HI>Iane</HI> the truth report,</L>
<L>Why left&s;t thou me to live in Court,</L>
<L>Thou had&s;t both gold and &s;ilver &s;tore,</L>
<L>No wife in <HI>London</HI> then had more</L>
<L>And once a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">k to walk the field,</L>
<L>To &s;ee what plea&s;ure it would yeeld,</L>
<L>But woe to me that liberty</L>
<L>Hath brought us to this m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">sery,</L>
<L>I married the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">n thou wert young</L>
<L>Before <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="5 letters">&s;t what did belong</L>
<L>To hu&s;b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="4 letters"> lov<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> or marriage &s;tate,</L>
<L>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">ch no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters">le repents too late</L>
<L>Thus w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="5 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 words"> thee unju&s;t,</L>
<L>And <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 words"> my tru&s;t,</L>
<L>But <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 words"> po&s;&s;e&s;t my roome,</L>
<L>And cropt m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">allant b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">oom.</L>
<L>Fair <HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="6 letters"></HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="6 letters">me and my joy,</L>
<L>My he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 words"> in deep annoy,</L>
<L>To th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters">  <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 words"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">blike &s;hame:</L>
<L>Thy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 words"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="5 letters">ht my good name.</L>
<L>And <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 words"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">ch man and wife,</L>
<L>In je<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="5 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 words"> my life,</L>
<L>And e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="4 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 words"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ther &s;aid</L>
<L>That <HI>Sh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters"></HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 words"> the wanton plaid.</L>
<L>Where<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> to change</L>
<L>My dw<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="6 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 words"> Country &s;trange.</L>
<L>My Lands <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters">ds I &s;old away,</L>
<L>And &s;o from <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> went to Sea</L>
<L>Oppre&s;t with g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="4 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> wofull mind.</L>
<L>But left my cau&s;e of grief behind.</L>
<L>My loving wife whom once I thought</L>
<L>Would never be to lewdne&s;s brought,</L>
<L>But women now I well e&s;pye</L>
<L>Are &s;ubject to uncon&s;tancy.</L>
<L>And few there be &s;o true of love,</L>
<L>But by long &s;uit will wanton prove.</L>
<L>For fle&s;h is frail and women weake</L>
<L>When Kings for love great &s;uit do make</L>
<L>But yet from <HI>England</HI> my depart</L>
<L>Was with a &s;ad and heavy heart.</L>
<L>Whereat when as my leave I took,</L>
<L>I &s;ent back many a heavy by look.</L>
<L>De&s;iring God if it might be</L>
<L>To &s;end one &s;igh &s;w&eacute;et <HI>Jane</HI> to th&eacute;e</L>
<L>For if thou had&s;t but con&s;tant bin</L>
<L>The&s;e dayes of wo I ne'r had &s;&eacute;en.</L>
<L>But yet I grieve and mourn full &s;ore,</L>
<L>To thi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">k what pl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">gus are left in &s;tore</L>
<L>For &s;uch as carele&s;&s;e tread awry</L>
<L>The mode&s;t &s;teps o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="7 letters">y.</L>
<L>Ah gentle <HI>Jane</HI> if thou did&s;t know</L>
<L>The uncoth pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">hs I dayly <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">oe.</L>
<L>And wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters"> tears for the I &s;hed</L>
<L>For wronging thus my marriage b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">d</L>
<L>Then &s;ure I am thou would&s;t confe&s;&s;e</L>
<L>My love was &s;ure though in di&s;tre&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>Both <HI>Flanders France.</HI> &amp; <HI>Spain</HI> I pa&s;t</L>
<L>And came to <HI>Turky</HI> at the la&s;t</L>
<L>And there within that mighty Court</L>
<L>I lived long in hone&s;t &s;ort,</L>
<L>De&s;iring God that &s;its in Heaven</L>
<L>That Lovers &s;ins might be forgiven.</L>
<L>I there advanc'd thy loving name,</L>
<L>Of living Wights <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">he faire&s;t Dame.</L>
<L>The prai&s;e of <HI>E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="5 letters">ds</HI> beauty &s;tain</L>
<L>All which thy husband did maintain.</L>
<L>And &s;et thy picture there in Gold</L>
<L>For Kings and Princes to behold,</L>
<L>But when I thought upon thy &s;in</L>
<L>thy wanton thoughts delighted in,</L>
<L>I griev'd that &s;uch a comely face</L>
<L>Should hold true honour in di&s;grace.</L>
<L>And counted it a luckle&s;&s;e day</L>
<L>Wherein thou fir&s;t did&s;t &s;tray away.</L>
<L>De&s;iring then &s;ome news to hear,</L>
<L>Of her my &s;oule did love &s;o dear,</L>
<L>My &s;ecrets then I did impart</L>
<L>to one well &s;kil'd in Magick Art,</L>
<L>Who in a Gla&s;&s;e did truly &s;how</L>
<L>Such things as I de&s;ir'd to know.</L>
<L>I ther did &s;ee thy Courtly &s;tate,</L>
<L>thy pomp thy pride, thy glory great,</L>
<L>And likewi&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> there I did behold.</L>
<L>My <HI>Jane</HI> in <HI>Edwards</HI> arms enfold.</L>
<L>thy &s;ecret Love I there e&s;py'd,</L>
<L>thy ri&s;e, thy fall, and how thou dy'd.</L>
<L>thy naked body in the Street</L>
<L>I &s;aw due penance in a &s;heet,</L>
<L>Bare foot before a Beadles wand,</L>
<L>With burning Taper in thy hand,</L>
<L>And babes not having u&s;e of tongue</L>
<L>Stood pointing as &s;he pa&s;t along,</L>
<L>Thus ended was the &s;hame of thine,</L>
<L>Though God gave yet no end to mine</L>
<L>When I &s;uppos'd my name forgot</L>
<L>And time had wa&s;ht away my <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters">t,</L>
<L>And in an other Princes Reign</L>
<L>I came to <HI>England</HI> back again,</L>
<L>But &s;taying theyre my friends decay'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>My Princes Laws I di&s;obey'd</L>
<L>And by true Iu&s;tice Iudg'd to die</L>
<L>For clipping Gold in &s;ecresie</L>
<L>By gold was my be&s;t living made,</L>
<L>And &s;o by gold my life betrai'd</L>
<L>Thus have you heard the wofull &s;trif<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>That came by my uncon&s;tant wife</L>
<L>Her fall my death wherein is &s;hewd</L>
<L>The &s;torie of a &s;trumpet lewd.</L>
<L>In hope thereby all women may</L>
<L>Take heed how they the wantons pla<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
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<DIV1 TYPE="historical note">
<HEAD>The De&s;cription OF <HI>Jane Shore.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis womans beauty hath bin highly prai&s;ed by a famous writer that lived in her time, Named <HI>Tho|mas Moore</HI> who de|&s;cribed her in this manner.</P>
<P>Before her death &s;he was poor &amp; a|ged, her &s;tature was mean, her hair of a dark yellow, her face round and full her eyes gray, her body fat, white &amp; &s;mooth, her coun|tenance cheerfull like to her conditi|ons.</P>
<P>There is a picture of hers to be &s;eene in <HI>London,</HI> it is &s;uch as &s;he was when <HI>&s;he</HI> ro&s;e out of her bed in the morning, ha|ving nothing on <HI>but</HI> a rich Mantle ca&s;t under her arm, over which her naked arm did lye.</P>
<P>what her Fathers name is, or where s;he was born is not certainly knowne, but her Husband <HI>Matthew Shore,</HI> a young man of right good Parentage, wealth and behavi|our, abandon'd her bed after the King had made her his Concubine.</P>
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