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 Her true love ſeeing this,

did fetch a grievous groan,

as tho' his heart was burſt in two,

and thus he made his moan:

O diſmal heavy day,

a day of grief and care,

That has bereft the ſun ſo high,

whoſe beams refreſh'd the air.

Now woe unto the world,

and all that therein dwell,

O that I were in heaven with her,

for here I live in thrall.

and now this lover lives,

a diſcontented life,

Whoſe bride was brought unto the grave,

a maiden and a wife.

A garland freſh and fair,

of lillies there was made,

In ſign of her virginity,

and on her coffin laid.

Six maidens all in white,

did bear her to the ground,

The bells did ring in ſolemn fort,

and made a doleful ſound.

In earth they laid her then,

for hungry worms a prey,

So ſhall the faireſt faće alive,

at length be brought to clay.

AM'D eighty-two it was the year,

Upon the fourth of September,

the haughty Spaniard and Monſieur,

they thought our ſtate to alter?

e Crillon his gun-boats ſent out,

old Britons them did quickly rout,

they cried, brave boys we'll have a bout,