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 In Shadwell’s Epsom Wells, 1673, Clodpate sings “the old song, Lay by your pleading, Law lies a bleeding;’ and perhaps Whitlock had the other song in his mind when he said, “Both truth and love lie a bleeding.” (Zootomia, or Present Manners of the English, 1654.)

The title of the ballad is “Love lies a bleeding:

To the tune of The Cyclops.”