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<DATE>2014-08-06</DATE>
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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140612.apex.</ITEM>
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<STC T="C">R183683</STC>
<BIBNO T="oclc">[ocm]69648916</BIBNO>
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<HEAD>SEFAUTIAN's Farewel: OR, <HI>Fair</HI> SILVIA'S <HI>Matchle&s;s Cruelty&punc;</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>To an Excellent New Tune: Or, <HI>Sefautian's Farewel.</HI></OPENER>
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<HEAD>I.</HEAD>
<L>HOpe Farewel&punc; adieu to all Plea&s;ure,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">o Torment &s;o great, as Love with Di&s;pair;</L>
<L><HI>S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span">ia</HI> Frowns, my endeavour's to plea&s;e her,</L>
<L>and Laughs at tho&s;e pains &s;he makes me to bear:</L>
<L>Life's my Di&s;ea&s;e, and th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">re is no Cure</L>
<L>but Death's cruel Dart&punc; that mu&s;t &s;et me at ea&s;e;</L>
<L>When I'm no more, then may &s;he g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ve</L>
<L>for him, who while living &s;he never would relieve.</L>
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<LG N="2">
<HEAD>II.</HEAD>
<L>In the World &s;o Charming a Creature,</L>
<L>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> my Farc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span">lls me I never beheld;</L>
<L>Splendid Be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">y is Grace in each Feature,</L>
<L>that with Love-Raptures I &s;trangely am fill'd:</L>
<L>Here I lye &s;lain, with Darts of di&s;dain,</L>
<L>While <HI>Silvia</HI>'s hard heart will not pitty my pain;</L>
<L>But let her know for this her Hate,</L>
<L>She may much Repent it when as it is too late.</L>
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<LG N="3">
<HEAD>III.</HEAD>
<L>Can you be &s;o de&s;perate Cruel,</L>
<L>as for your &s;ake to let Death be my Doom?</L>
<L>Love is like the Unquenchable Fuel,</L>
<L>in which all my Glory and Life will con&s;ume:</L>
<L>Still you di&s;pi&s;e my &s;orrowful Crys,</L>
<L>And over your Lover doth &s;till Tyrannize&punc;</L>
<L>But when kind Death &s;hall &s;et me free,</L>
<L>You may be Rewarded for this your Cruelty.</L>
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<LG N="4">
<HEAD>IV.</HEAD>
<L>When the World &s;hall read this &s;ad Story,</L>
<L>which here I Write with a trembling Quill;</L>
<L>Shewing how you have bla&s;ted my Glory,</L>
<L>Oh! will they not count you a Tyrant &s;till:</L>
<L>Then let me find, my <HI>Silvia</HI> more kind,</L>
<L>To comfort and cheri&s;h my troubled mi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">d</L>
<L>For if I go, to the Shades below,</L>
<L>'Tis you are the cau&s;e of my final overthrow.</L>
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<LG N="5">
<HEAD>V.</HEAD>
<L>O my Grief is never lamented</L>
<L>by &s;he whom I do &s;o dearly adore;</L>
<L>With her Frowns I am dayly Tormented,</L>
<L>no Creature for Love &s;ure, did e're &s;uffer more:</L>
<L>CUPID's keen Dart, has wounded my heart,</L>
<L>I never, no never, did feel greater &s;mart;</L>
<L>Here a poor Slave o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e Smile doe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> crave,</L>
<L>Or el&s;e you will &s;end him &s;oon to the &s;ilent Grav<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">.</L>
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<LG N="6">
<HEAD>VI.</HEAD>
<L>In your Charms I dearly delighted,</L>
<L>and ever thought you my H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">aven to be;</L>
<L>Yet by you I was evermore &s;lighted&punc;</L>
<L>and now you make a poor Martyr of me:</L>
<L>Won't you therefore, your Captive re&s;tore,</L>
<L>Who &s;ues for your Love, and de&s;ires no more&punc;</L>
<L>You may be &s;ure, pai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">s I endure&punc;</L>
<L>And 'tis in your power either to Kill or Cure.</L>
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<LG N="7">
<HEAD>VII.</HEAD>
<L>In a &s;ad and &s;orrowful Ditty,</L>
<L>with Sighs and Tears I have &s;ent forth my moan&punc;</L>
<L>Yet my fair one affo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ds me no pitty,</L>
<L>but lets me langui&s;h to Death all alone:</L>
<L>This very Day, now I mu&s;t away,</L>
<L>Both &s;trength, heart and &s;pirits, with life, does decay</L>
<L>More then untrue, <HI>Silvia</HI> was you,</L>
<L>And therefore farewel, for I bid the World Adieu.</L>
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<P>This may be Printed,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>R. P.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed for <HI>J&punc; Deacon,</HI> at the <HI>Angel</HI> in <HI>Guilt&s;pur-Street,</HI> without <HI>Newgate.</HI> 1688.</P>
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