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Queen, who mortally hated her, then bearing a great sway, another proclamation was issued to the same effects and so she wandered up and down, in as poor and miserable a condition as before, till growing old, and utterly friendless, she finished her life in a ditch, which was from thence called Shore's Ditch adjoining Bishop's gate-street. Thus you may see the rise and fall of this once stately, and then unhappy woman, with whose dying lamentation I shall conclude:

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.                             THE DYING LAMENTATION

OF

Mrs. Jane Shore.

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Good People, THOUGH, by the rigour of the law you are forbidden to give me any relief, yet you may pity my unhappy state, for the Scripture saith, That to the