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<HEAD>The Young-Mans Complaint,</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>Or,</HI> An ANSWER TO The DAMOSELS Tragedy.</HEAD>
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<L><HI>When Friends deny, and won't comply.</HI></L>
<L><HI>but let them &s;uffer &s;mart,</HI></L>
<L><HI>We often &s;ee &s;uch Cruelty,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Will break a Lovers heart,</HI></L>
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<OPENER><HI>To the Tune of,</HI> Charon, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></OPENER>
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<P><HI>This may be Printed,</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>R. P.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<L>NOw for the lo&s;s of my Amorous Iewel,</L>
<L>I am &s;urrounded in grief and woe.</L>
<L>It was thy Parents unkind and mo&s;t cruel,</L>
<L>which did occa&s;ion thy overthrow:</L>
<L>For my dear <HI>Nell</HI> I did adore thee,</L>
<L>but we was too much kept apart,</L>
<L>There was no one that I e're priz'd before thee;</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>thy Death alone does lye near my heart.</HI></L>
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<L>Farewel the hopes af all peace, joy, and plea&s;ure,</L>
<L>I have no comfort; but care and grief,</L>
<L>Often in private I weep out of mea&s;ure.</L>
<L>'tis Death alone mu&s;t yield me relief:</L>
<L>Love, when I fir&s;t heard of thy Dying,</L>
<L>tho' we had long been kept apart,</L>
<L>I tore my hair in a pa&s;&s;ion, and crying</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>this Dam&s;els death will lye near my heart.</HI></L>
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<L>Down from his Eyes then the tears they did trickle,</L>
<L>with many &s;orrowful &s;ighs, &s;aid he,</L>
<L>It is well known that I n<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ver was fickle,</L>
<L>for I lov'd none in the world but thee:</L>
<L>Had I been &s;uffer'd to come near thee,</L>
<L>thou had&s;t not felt Death's cruel Dart,</L>
<L>I would have laid down my life for to cheer thee,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>for thy Death now does lye near my heart.</HI></L>
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<L>For many months I did never behold her,</L>
<L>this was a &s;orrow that griev'd me &s;ore,</L>
<L>Her unkind Parents had oftentimes told her,</L>
<L>that &s;he &s;hould never come near me more:</L>
<L>Thus did they &s;oon bla&s;t all her glory,</L>
<L>for when &s;he felt Deaths fatal Dart,</L>
<L>I never heard a more killinger &s;tory,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>this Dam&s;els death doth lye near my heart.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Then in her ab&s;ence my poor heart was wounded,</L>
<L>for I might not come anear my joy.</L>
<L>When I cou'd &s;ee her we then was &s;urrounded,</L>
<L>in the &s;weet Raptures of Love and joy:</L>
<L>But by her friends we were tormented,</L>
<L>&s;o that we felt Loves fatal &s;mart,</L>
<L>She by &s;trong Poy&s;on her Pa&s;sion has vented,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>this Dam&s;els Death does lye near my heart.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>As &s;he was dying, poor heart, &s;he did blame me,</L>
<L>&s;he knew not very well what &s;he &s;aid,</L>
<L>Tho' with &s;ad &s;orrowful &s;ighs &s;he did name me,</L>
<L>'twas not her Love that her life betray'd:</L>
<L>For If I might enjoy'd the b<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;&s;ing,</L>
<L>&s;he &s;hould have never felt the &s;mart,</L>
<L>Now am I no<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hing but torments po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>this Damo&s;els Death doth lye near my heart.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>This &s;ad Di&s;tration &s;o much doth inthrall me,</L>
<L>that I am re&s;tle&s;s both night and day,</L>
<L>Methinks I often hear my Lover call me,</L>
<L>&s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ing &s;weet <HI>Johnny</HI> make ha&s;te away:</L>
<L>Let there be now no more delaying,</L>
<L>why &s;hou<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">d me &s;till remain apart,</L>
<L>Where e're I wander, I fancy this &s;aying,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>her Death doth now lye &s;o near my heart.</HI></L>
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<L>Thou in thy life-time did&s;t dearly adore me,</L>
<L>as by thy &s;orrow I well m<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ght &s;ee,</L>
<L>Tho' thou art gone hence a little before me,</L>
<L>Love, i'le lye down in the Grave with thee:</L>
<L>Farewel my Friends and each Relation,</L>
<L>here with the World and you i'le pa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t,</L>
<L>For I &s;hall be in a far better &s;tation</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>when I<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">m with <HI>Nelly</HI> my own dear heart.</HI></L>
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