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<HEAD>The Dying Lovers Reprieve. OR, <HI>The Reward of True Love.</HI></HEAD>
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<L>With &s;ighs and tears her love he doth de&s;ire,</L>
<L>Since Cupid hath his &s;en&s;es &s;et on fire;</L>
<L>His torment and his pain to her he &s;hews,</L>
<L>With all his prote&s;tations and his vows:</L>
<L>At la&s;t &s;he yields to grant him &s;ome relief,</L>
<L>And make him joyful after all his grief.</L>
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<OPENER>Tune of, <HI>Digby's Farewel;</HI> Or, <HI>Give me the La&s;s, &amp;c.</HI></OPENER>
<P>With Allowance. <HI>Ro, L'E&s;trange.</HI></P>
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<LG>
<L>FAire&s;t and deare&s;t to thee I am bound,</L>
<L>For love and affection thy &s;ervant to be,</L>
<L>Your skill I de&s;ire to heal up my wound,</L>
<L>There's none in the world that can cure it but thee:</L>
<L>Then deare&s;t be plea&s;ed to do your endeavour,</L>
<L>And i'le be your &s;ervant to wait on you ever;</L>
<L>And thus you compel me unto you to cry,</L>
<L>Grant me thy affection, or el&s;e I &s;hall dye.</L>
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<LG>
<L>The ground of my torment to thee i'le impart,</L>
<L>'Twas Cupid with's Arrow that wounded my heart,</L>
<L>Which pains me and grieves me that I cannot re&s;t,</L>
<L>brings tears from my eyes, &amp; deep &s;ighs from my brea&s;t,</L>
<L>Which makes me go mourning to think on my grief,</L>
<L>My heart lies a burning for want of relief;</L>
<L>No hopes I have left to be ea&s;ed of pain,</L>
<L>Unle&s;s you requite me with true love again.</L>
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<L>Then deare&s;t be plea&s;ed to hear my reque&s;t,</L>
<L>And ea&s;e a poor patient and &s;et me at re&s;t;</L>
<L>For you'r the Phi&s;itian which can by your art,</L>
<L>In this &s;ad condition give ea&s;e to my heart:</L>
<L>'Tis onely your love that &s;o much I de&s;ire,</L>
<L>Since thy charming my &s;en&s;es doth fire:</L>
<L>Then deare&s;t relea&s;e me out of all my pain,</L>
<L>And &s;trive to require me with true love again.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>LEt me be &s;o happy your love to imbrace,</L>
<L>Or why did you &s;hew me your beautiful face?</L>
<L>Why did you not cover your features &s;o rare?</L>
<L>Which cau&s;ed my heart to be caught in a &s;nare:</L>
<L>Then might I have lived in peace and content,</L>
<L>&amp; never have known what loves torments had ment;</L>
<L>But now you compel me unto you to cry,</L>
<L>I prithee love tell me, &s;hall I live or dye?</L>
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<LG>
<L>Your love then re&s;tore me, and grant what I crave,</L>
<L>Or el&s;e to remove me from hence to the Grave;</L>
<L>Except you relea&s;e me, no joy I can find,</L>
<L>Whereby it may ea&s;e me and &s;ettle my mind:</L>
<L>For I am inthralled by your rowling eyes,</L>
<L>And you are the object wherein the fault lies:</L>
<L>Which makes me go monrning to think on my pain,</L>
<L>My heart lies a burning for cruel di&s;dain.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Although for my love you do prove &s;o unkind,</L>
<L>I cannot retrain but mu&s;t utter my mind;</L>
<L>I have been your &s;ervant a long time in vain,</L>
<L>My love it was fervent, and doth &s;till remain;</L>
<L>No hopes to remove it I find to my grief,</L>
<L>Unle&s;s you in pitty do grant me relief;</L>
<L>Then do not deny me when as I do cry,</L>
<L>O grant me your favour, or el&s;e I &s;hall dye,</L>
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<LG>
<L>Therefore I be&s;eech you to hear my complaint,</L>
<L>And take &s;ome pitty before I do faint:</L>
<L>For I am ca&s;t down with one glance of your eye,</L>
<L>And when you do frown, 'tis O then I could dye.</L>
<L>A &s;mile from your beauty doth ravi&s;h my m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"></L>
<L>Becau&s;e I am plea&s;ed when as you &s;eem kind</L>
<L>For then I do hope to find &s;ome relief,</L>
<L>At the hand of my dear, who hath cau&s;ed my <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
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<LG>
<L>But when I con&s;ider you ca&s;t me a&s;ide,</L>
<L>O then I do fear you will not be my Bride;</L>
<L>But this I de&s;ire, and this I do crave,</L>
<L>To have &s;ome requital for being your Slave</L>
<L>And &s;o pre&s;ume for to venture my Dove,</L>
<L>To &s;eal with a ki&s;s the Indenture of love:</L>
<L>Then make me no longer in vain for to cry,</L>
<L>But now tell me whether I &s;hall live or dye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Kind Sir then (&s;he &s;aid) &s;ince your love it is tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>I will heal your wound, and be kind unto you;</L>
<L>For well I have minded your &s;orrow and pain,</L>
<L>Which you have endured by my cruel di&s;dain</L>
<L>But your fancy to plea&s;e, I grant what you cr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"></L>
<L>And your grief for to ea&s;e, my body you have;</L>
<L>Then wipe off your tears and ca&s;t &s;orrows awa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>For now I will plea&s;e you by night and by day</L>
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<LG>
<L>The&s;e words &s;o revived his &s;orrowful mind,</L>
<L>He was overjoy'd for to &s;ee her &s;o kind;</L>
<L>He &s;traightway imbrac'd her, and gave her a ki<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>To &s;eal as a pledge of a true lovers bli&s;s:</L>
<L>And &s;o from that in&s;tant united in love,</L>
<L>With con&s;tant affection that ne'r &s;hall remove:</L>
<L>And now they live happy in joy and content,</L>
<L>And for what is pa&s;t have no cau&s;e to repent,</L>
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<P>Printed for <HI>F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright,</HI> and <HI>J. Clarke.</HI></P>
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