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<HEAD>BEAUTY's Cruelty: OR, The Pa&s;&s;ionate Lover.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">An excellent new Play-&s;ong much in Reque&s;t, </HEAD>
<OPENER>to a Play-hou&s;e Tune.</OPENER>
<P>Licen&s;ed according to Order.</P>
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<LG>
<L>THere is one black and &s;ullen hour,</L>
<L>which Fate decrees ourdives &s;hould know,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> we &s;hou'd flight Almighty Power,</L>
<L>Wrapt with the Ioys we find below:</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> is pa&s;t dear <HI>Cynthia,</HI> now let frowns be gone.</L>
<L>A long, long pennance I have done,</L>
<L>a long, long pennance I have done,</L>
<L>For Crimes to me, alas! unknown,</L>
<L>for Crimes to me, alas! unknown,</L>
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<LG>
<L>In each &s;oft hour of &s;ilent night,</L>
<L>your Image in my Dream appears,</L>
<L>I gra&s;p the Soul of my delight,</L>
<L>&s;lumber in joy, but wak'd in tears;</L>
<L>Ah! faithle&s;s charming Saint what will you to,</L>
<L>Let me not think I am by you,</L>
<L>let me not think I am by you,</L>
<L>Lov'd le&s;s, lov'd le&s;s, for being true,</L>
<L>lov'd le&s;s, lov'd le&s;s, for being true,</L>
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<LG>
<L>Before dear <HI>Cynthia</HI> I beheld,</L>
<L>thy charming face, my heart was free</L>
<L>From Love, and knew not how to yield</L>
<L>to any Beauty but to thee:</L>
<L>Bright as the Sun that in the <HI>Ea&s;t</HI> doth ri&s;e,</L>
<L>Did force me by a &s;weet &s;urprize,</L>
<L>did force me by a &s;weet &s;urprize,</L>
<L>To yield the Conque&s;t to your Eyes,</L>
<L>to yield the Conque&s;t to your Eyes.</L>
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<LG>
<L>One plea&s;ing Smile my charming Fair,</L>
<L>my Love-&s;ick Heart with Ioy to fill,</L>
<L>Thy piercing Frowns breeds my De&s;pair,</L>
<L>Oh! let tho&s;e Eyes that wound not hill;</L>
<L>Since by a &s;mile my heart you did in&s;pire,</L>
<L>And created in it a Fire,</L>
<L>and created, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></L>
<L>That never, never can expire,</L>
<L>that never, never, can expire.</L>
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<L>No longer then thus tyranize,</L>
<L>but all your cruelty give o're</L>
<L>And not a heart &s;o true de&s;pi&s;e,</L>
<L>that will for ever you adore:</L>
<L>Ah, charming Nymph grant love for love again</L>
<L>Do not by Frowns create my pain;</L>
<L>do not by Frowns, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></L>
<L>Nor torture me by your di&s;dain,</L>
<L>nor torture me by your di&s;dain,</L>
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<LG>
<L>What is my Crime, dear <HI>Cynthia,</HI> that</L>
<L>my puni&s;hment is &s;o &s;evere?</L>
<L>Tell me that I may expiate</L>
<L>my Crime, by a repenting tear:</L>
<L>Forbear by Cruelty to tortue me,</L>
<L>I offer you a Heart that's free</L>
<L>I offer you a Heart, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></L>
<L>From fal&s;e deceit and flattery,</L>
<L>from fal&s;e deceit and flattery.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Oh! why you Powers did you frame</L>
<L>her heart &s;o hard and face &s;o fair?</L>
<L>Her face did fir&s;t my heart enflame,</L>
<L>her cruelty breeds my de&s;pair:</L>
<L>Make her more kind, you Powers, then I crave.</L>
<L>That &s;he may cure the wound the gave,</L>
<L>that &s;he may cure, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></L>
<L>Or &s;end me to my wi&s;ht-for Grave,</L>
<L>or &s;end me to my wi&s;ht-for Grave.</L>
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