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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
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<HEAD>A lamentable Balled of the Ladies Fall, Declaring how a Gentlwoman through her too much tru&s;t came to her en<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> and how her Lover &s;lew him&s;elfe.</HEAD>
<OPENER>The tune of, In Pe&s;cod time.</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>MArk well my heavy dolefull Tale.</L>
<L>you loyall Lovers al,</L>
<L>And h&eacute;edfully bear in your brea&s;t,</L>
<L>a gallant Ladies fall.</L>
<L>'Long was &s;he woo'd, e're &s;he was won</L>
<L>to lead a wedded life;</L>
<L>But folly wrought her overthrow,</L>
<L>before &s;he was a Wife,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Too &s;oon alas &s;he gave con&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nt,</L>
<L>to yeeld unto his will,</L>
<L>Though hee prote&s;ted &s;o be true</L>
<L>and faithfull to her &s;till,</L>
<L>She felt her body altered quite,</L>
<L>her bright hue waxed pale,</L>
<L>Her fair red cheeks chang'd colour while,</L>
<L>her &s;trength began to fail.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>So that with many a &s;orrowfull &s;igh,</L>
<L>this beauteous maiden mild,</L>
<L>With grieved heart perceivd her &s;elf</L>
<L>to be conceiv'd with child,</L>
<L>She kept it from her Fathers &s;ight,</L>
<L>&s;o clo&s;e as clo&s;e might be,</L>
<L>And &s;o put on her &s;ilken Gown,</L>
<L>none might her &s;welling &s;ee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Vnto her Lover &s;ecretly</L>
<L>&s;hee did her &s;elfe bewray&punc;</L>
<L>And walking with him hand in hand,</L>
<L>the&s;e words to him did &s;ay.</L>
<L>Behold &s;aid &s;he a Maids di&s;tre&s;s,</L>
<L>my Love brought to thy Bow,</L>
<L>Behold I <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> with child by thee,</L>
<L>though none thereof do know.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The little babe &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rings in my womb,</L>
<L>to hear the Fathers voice,</L>
<L>Let it not be a bastard c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">d,</L>
<L>&s;ith I make thee my choice.</L>
<L>Come come my love perform t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">y vow,</L>
<L>and wed me out of hand:</L>
<L>O leave me not i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e extreams,</L>
<L>in grief <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">ayes to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Think on thy former promi&s;e made,</L>
<L>thy vows and Oath each one,</L>
<L>Remember with what bitter tears</L>
<L>to me thou mad'&s;t thy mean;</L>
<L>Convey me to &s;ome &s;ecret place,</L>
<L>and marry me with &s;p&eacute;ed,</L>
<L>Or with thy Rapier end my life,</L>
<L>e're further &s;hame proceed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Alas my deare&s;t Love quoth he</L>
<L>my greate&s;t joy on earth.</L>
<L>Which way can I convey th&eacute;e hence</L>
<L>without a &s;udden death.</L>
<L>Thy friends they be of high degree,</L>
<L>and I of mean e&s;tate;</L>
<L>Full hard it is to get thee forth</L>
<L>out of thy fathers gate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Dread not thy &s;elf to &s;ave my &s;ame,</L>
<L>and if thou taken be,</L>
<L>My &s;elf will &s;tep betweeen the &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="5 letters"></L>
<L>and take the harm on me.</L>
<L>So &s;hall I &s;cape di&s;honour quite,</L>
<L>if &s;o I &s;hould be &s;lain,</L>
<L>What could they &s;ay but that tru<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>did work a Ladies bane.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>ANd fear not any further harm,</L>
<L>my &s;elf will &s;o devi&s;e,</L>
<L>That I will go along with thee,</L>
<L>un&s;een of mortal eyes.</L>
<L>Di&s;gui&s;ed like &s;ome pretty Page,</L>
<L>I'le meet thee in the dark,</L>
<L>And all alone I'le come to thee</L>
<L>had by my Fathers Park.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And there quoth he I'le meet my love,</L>
<L>if God lend me life,</L>
<L>And this day month without all fail,</L>
<L>I will make thee my wife,</L>
<L>Then with a &s;wee<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> an loving ki&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>they parted pre&s;ently;</L>
<L>And at their parting brini&s;h tears,</L>
<L>&s;tood in each others eye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At length the wi&s;hed day was come,</L>
<L>whereas this lovely maid,</L>
<L>With lovely eyes and &s;trange attire,</L>
<L>for her true lover &s;taid.</L>
<L>When anie per&s;on &s;he e&s;pi'd</L>
<L>come riding over the plain,</L>
<L>She thought it was her own true love,</L>
<L>but all her joyes were vain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then did &s;he w&eacute;ep and &s;ore bewail</L>
<L>her mo&s;t unhappy &s;tate,</L>
<L>Then did &s;he &s;peak the&s;e wofull words</L>
<L>when &s;uccourle&s;&s;e &s;he &s;ate.</L>
<L>O fal&s;e for&s;worn and faithle&s;&s;e wretch,</L>
<L>di&s;loyall to thy Love:</L>
<L>Ha&s;t thou forgot thy promi&s;e made,</L>
<L>and wilt thou perjur'd prove.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And ha&s;t thou now for&s;aken me,</L>
<L>in this my &s;ad di&s;tre&s;s;</L>
<L>To end my daies in open &s;hame,</L>
<L>which thou might&s;t well redre&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Wo worth the the time I did believe</L>
<L>that flattering tongue of thine,</L>
<L>Would God that I had never &s;een</L>
<L>the tears of thy fal&s;e eyne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And thus with manie a &s;orrowfull &s;igh</L>
<L>homeward &s;he went amain,</L>
<L>No re&s;t came in her watrie eies,</L>
<L>&s;he felt &s;uch bitter pain.</L>
<L>In travell &s;trong they fell that night,</L>
<L>with many a bitter throw.</L>
<L>What woful pangs &s;hee felt that night,</L>
<L>doth each good women know.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She called for her waiting Maid,</L>
<L>that lay at her beds feet;</L>
<L>Who mu&s;ing at her mi&s;tre&s;&s;e wo,</L>
<L>did fa&s;t begin to weep.</L>
<L>Weep not quoth &s;he but &s;hut the door,</L>
<L>and windows round about;</L>
<L>Let no<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e bewail my wretched ca&s;e,</L>
<L>but keep all per&s;ons out.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O Mi&s;tri&s;s call your mother dear,</L>
<L>of women you have need;</L>
<L>And of &s;ome skillfull midwives help,</L>
<L>the better may you &s;peed:</L>
<L>Call not my Mother for thy life,</L>
<L>nor call no women here,</L>
<L>The Midwives help comes now too late,</L>
<L>my death I do not fear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With that the babe &s;prung in her womb,</L>
<L>no creatour being nigh,</L>
<L>And with a &s;igh that broke her heart,</L>
<L>this gallant Dame did die,</L>
<L>This living little infant young,</L>
<L>the Mother being dead,</L>
<L>Re&s;ign'd it's new received breath,</L>
<L>to him that had him made.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Next morning came her Lover true,</L>
<L>affrighted at this news,</L>
<L>And he for &s;orrow &s;lew him&s;elf,</L>
<L>whom each one did accu&s;e.</L>
<L>The Mother with the new born babe,</L>
<L>was both laid in one grave;</L>
<L>Their parents overcome with wo,</L>
<L>no joy of them could have.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Take heed you dainty Dam&s;ells all,</L>
<L>of flattering words beware,</L>
<L>And of the honour of your name</L>
<L>have you a &s;peciall care;</L>
<L>Too true this a &s;torie is,</L>
<L>as manie one can tell,</L>
<L>By others harms learn to be wi&s;e,</L>
<L>and thou &s;halt do ful well.</L>
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<P>Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, and William Gilbert&s;on.</P>
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