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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140611.apex.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>The Perjur'd SWAIN;</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>OR,</HI> The Dam&s;els Bloody Tragedy.</HEAD>
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<Q><LG>
<L><HI>You Loyal Lovers now that hear this Dam&s;els De&s;tiny;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Sure can't forbear to &s;hed a Tear at this &s;ad Tragedy.</HI></L>
</LG></Q>
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<OPENER><HI>The Tune is,</HI> Sefautian's Farewel.</OPENER>
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<P><HI>This may be Printed;</HI> R. P.</P>
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<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a woman seated on a mountainside, praying</FIGDESC>
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<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a man with a dagger</FIGDESC>
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<LG>
<L>AS I rang'd for my Recreation,</L>
<L>ju&s;t as fair <HI>Phebus</HI> in glory did ri&s;e;</L>
<L>I o'reheard a young Dam&s;el in pas&s;ion,</L>
<L>who bath'd her Cheeks with her wat'ry Eyes;</L>
<L>Smiting her Brea&s;t, the&s;e words &s;he expre&s;t,</L>
<L>O where &s;hall I wander to find any re&s;t?</L>
<L>My unkind Swain, has left the Plain,</L>
<L>and long have I &s;ought him, and yet alas in vain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I ne'r thought you could have been <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ruel,</L>
<L>when you my Per&s;on did dearly adore;</L>
<L>Saying, I was your amorous Iewel;</L>
<L>and vow'd you'lov'd me a thou&s;and times more.</L>
<L>Then all the Gold you e're did behold,</L>
<L>but I find that pas&s;ionate Love is &s;oon cold;</L>
<L>When Maids believe, Young-men deceive,</L>
<L>and that is the rea&s;on that I lament and grieve.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By cach fal&s;e and flattering Story,</L>
<L>my Heart to love you was ea&s;ie betray'd;</L>
<L>This has clearly Eclip&s;ed my Glory.</L>
<L>and you have Ruin'd an innocent of aid,</L>
<L>Who&s;e bitter crys, now pierces the Shies,</L>
<L>while you do both Triumph and Tyrannize</L>
<L>Over me here, &s;harp and &s;evere,</L>
<L>for loving &s;o loyal, my Life mu&s;t pay full dear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>HEre I make my moan to the Mou~ntains,</L>
<L>and &s;encele&s;s trees which are here in the <HI>Grove,</HI></L>
<L>While my Eyes they do flow like two Fountains,</L>
<L>&s;ad &s;ighs I &s;end for the lo&s;s of my Love:</L>
<L>Here I declare, I am in di&s;pair,</L>
<L>my pas&s;ion is more than I'm able to bear;</L>
<L>True Love, I find, di&s;tracts my mind,</L>
<L>O <HI>Strephon,</HI> now tell me, how can you be unkind.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Pale-fac'd Death come hither and &s;eize me</L>
<L>why &s;hould I live here in &s;orrow and grief?</L>
<L>O, it lies in thy power to ea&s;e me,</L>
<L>'tis thou art able to yield me relief:</L>
<L>Here let me have a &s;weet &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ient Grave,</L>
<L>for that is the boon I de&s;ire to crave;</L>
<L>To ea&s;e my &s;mart, let me depart,</L>
<L>without long delaying, come wound me to the heart<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Since my Swain has prov'd &s;o ungrateful,</L>
<L>I here lye wrack'd on the torments of love;</L>
<L>Surely never was Man more deceitful,</L>
<L>he often call'd to the Powers above</L>
<L>To ju&s;tifie, his pure Loyalty,</L>
<L>yet he from his vows and his promi&s;e can flye;</L>
<L>Here I take on, do what I can,</L>
<L>&s;ure there is no Creature &s;o fal&s;e as wretched Man.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My &s;weet Lambs that are round me a feeding&punc;</L>
<L>here in this Valley both &s;afe and &s;ecure;</L>
<L>While my innocent heart lies a bleeding,</L>
<L>you are not &s;en&s;ible what I endure:</L>
<L>What heavine&s;s, my Soul does po&s;&s;e&s;s,</L>
<L>my Pen is not able alas, to expre&s;s;</L>
<L>Yet &s;oon I'll be, from my pains free,</L>
<L>for why &s;hould I langui&s;h in grief and mi&s;ery.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To my Swain my love was intire,</L>
<L>and can't forget him as long as I live;</L>
<L>Therefo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e here I do vow to expire,</L>
<L>and will this minute the fatal &s;troak give:</L>
<L>Then &s;he apply'd, a Da<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r to her &s;ide,</L>
<L>which made a deep wound, &s;o that quickly &s;he dy'd:</L>
<L>In mid&s;t of pain, &s;he cry'd amain,</L>
<L>farwel to the world, and my fal&s;e &amp; perjur'd Swain</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P><HI>Printed for <HI>J. Blare,</HI> at the Sign of the <HI>Looking-Gla&s;s</HI> on <HI>London-Bridge.</HI></HI></P>
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