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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>True Lovers Extremity; OR, <HI>The Maidens mi&s;erable Moan.</HI></HEAD>
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<L><HI>This Charming Fair, through deep Di&s;pair,</HI></L>
<L><HI>did end her Days in Grief:</HI></L>
<L><HI>To Death alone, &s;he made her moan,</HI></L>
<L><HI>who yielded her Relief.</HI></L>
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<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>Charon make ha&s;t,</HI>&amp;c.</OPENER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="license">
<P>This may be Printed,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>R. P.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<LG>
<L><GAP DESC="music">I Having an hour of time and lei&s;ure,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="music">&s;traight to the Valley I did repair,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="music">And where I re&s;olved to take my Plea&s;ure,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="music">among the Lillies &s;o &s;weet and fair.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="music">I in a moment was amazed,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="music">hearing a youthful Dam&s;el cry,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="music">As in a Pa&s;&s;ion her Voice &s;he rai&s;ed,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><GAP DESC="music"><HI>never was Lover more true than I.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Then I being willing to know the rea&s;on</L>
<L>of the &s;ad moan which the Dam&s;el made,</L>
<L>There I re&s;olved to tarry a &s;ea&s;on,</L>
<L>&s;traight with a &s;orrowfull &s;igh &s;he &s;aid,</L>
<L>He made a Vow and now he forgoes it,</L>
<L>I never knew the rea&s;on why;</L>
<L>While I was with him, full well he knows it,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>never was Lover more true than I.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Down from her Eyes then her Tears they were flowing</L>
<L>&s;o that her Pa&s;&s;ion encrea&s;ed &s;ore;</L>
<L>To her alas! I would fain have been going,</L>
<L>but that I fear'd to offend her more:</L>
<L>Her very Tears and Sighs did grieve me,</L>
<L>the which did &s;eem to pierce the Sky,</L>
<L>Saying, alas! though my Love does leave me</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>never was Creature more true than I.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When he did call me his dear Love and Iewel,</L>
<L>making to me a mo&s;t &s;olemn Vow,</L>
<L>I never thought he could have been &s;o cruel</L>
<L>as to my Sorrow I find him now.</L>
<L>By his fair Words I was deluded</L>
<L>therefore I here in Sorrow lye,</L>
<L>Tho' from his pre&s;ence I am excluded</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>never was Creature more true than I.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Strephon</HI> he oftentimes &s;u'd for my favour,</L>
<L>never was any young Swain &s;o kind,</L>
<L>But my Affections was &s;ettled for ever,</L>
<L>I cannot waver with any Wind</L>
<L>No other Swain &s;hall e'er enjoy me,</L>
<L>I for his &s;ake had rather dye,</L>
<L>Tho' by Vnkindne&s;s he does de&s;troy me,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>never was Creature more true than I.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Long was I woo'd e'er he once cou'd obtain me,</L>
<L>fearing, alas! what I find too true,</L>
<L>He mo&s;t unworthily now does refrain me,</L>
<L>here may I bid all my Ioys adieu:</L>
<L>This yielding Heart has prov'd my ruine,</L>
<L>here in this &s;ilent Grove I'll dye,</L>
<L>Nothing but Sorrows I find en&s;uing,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>never was Creature more true than I.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I'll bid adieu to that ungratefull Creature</L>
<L>which is the cau&s;e of my grief and woe,</L>
<L>Death I de&s;ire, there's nothing more &s;weeter</L>
<L>to the <HI>Elizium</HI> Shades I'll goe;</L>
<L>Where with young Lovers I will wander,</L>
<L>free from this &s;ad Extremity;</L>
<L>I cannot bear what I now lye under,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>never was Creature more true than I.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>With that her &s;peech began for to fail her,</L>
<L>&s;aying, Farewell to my unkind Love.</L>
<L>Every Creature did &s;eem to bewail her,</L>
<L>nothing was plea&s;ant in all the Grove:</L>
<L>Her &s;ilken Locks, alas, &s;he rended,</L>
<L>&s;aying, I here for Love mu&s;t Dye!</L>
<L>With the&s;e la&s;t words then her Sorrows ended.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>never was Creature more true than I.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<P><HI>Printed for <HI>P. Brooksby</HI> at the <HI>Golden Ball</HI> in <HI>Pye-corner.</HI></HI></P>
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