A song set by Richard Elford ; sung by Mrs. Hodgson at the new theatre ; engraved by Tho. Cross. Elford, Richard, d. 1714. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A26569 of text R41814 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing A794). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 1 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A26569 Wing A794 ESTC R41814 10445736 ocm 10445736 45066 2240864999

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A26569) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 45066) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1392:13) A song set by Richard Elford ; sung by Mrs. Hodgson at the new theatre ; engraved by Tho. Cross. Elford, Richard, d. 1714. 1 broadside. s.n., [London? : 1700?] Music and text. First line of text reads: Ah! cruel Damon cease to teaze. Place and date of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng eebo A song set by Mr. Elford ; and exactly engraved by Tho. Cross. Elford, Richard, 1700 1 159 2 0 0 100 0 0 63018.87 F The rate of 63018.87 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-09 Sampled and proofread 2008-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A SONG , Set by Mr. Richard Elford , Sung by M. rs . Hodgson , at the new THEATRE and exactly engr●●'d by Tho: Cross . Ah! cruel , cruel Damon cease , cease to teaze ; no lo — nger must you ty — ranize : altho your Charme , altho●●● Charm's will ever please ; & you your Caelia , & yo r Caelia , & you Caelia will despise , and you your Caelia , & you your Caelia , and you your Cae — lia will despise . A Second Venus may appear A Second Venus may appear to Cha — rm again young Damons Ear ; and then alass ! then alass too late , you may repent your ridg—ed face : Cease Damon cease Damon cease be advis'd , no longer , no longer , no , no , no , no , lo — nger tyranize .