The despairing lover a new song. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A35793 of text R39891 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing D1197). 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. 3 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 A35793 Wing D1197 ESTC R39891 11774569 ocm 11774569 48922 2240861965

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A35793) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 48922) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 488:11) The despairing lover a new song. Desmos, Raphael. 1 sheet (4 p.) : music s.n.], [London? : 1682. Broadside. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. eng Broadsides -- England -- London -- 17th century eebo The despairing lover a new song. [no entry] 1682 1 388 0 0 0 30 0 0 7731.96 F The rate of 7731.96 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-05 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 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
18. May 1682. The Despairing Lover A New Song . How long d' ye Mean to Torture mee in Loves hot Score king Flames Cloris what time Shall I gett . free from Loves fantastick Dreams , never , that Sad Infernall Sound does daily Reach , mine ear : and ever racks that t. bleeding wound which for your Sake which for your Sake I beare : That I do Love Cloris you know My greif to you I tell My over fondness of you Showes That I have lov'd too well And in requitall of My Love You blast me with a breath The wounds you gave will fatall prove Each frown pronounce Each frown pronouncing Death — It greives my heart to See you chuse My Rivall in my room And unconcern'd tell him the News On Mee you 've past your Doom My Injur'd Ghost when ere I Dy Shall never let you rest But hovering in the Ayr shall fly and Steal And Steal into your brest — Thus I Torment my Self and doubt that you unconstant are You know true Love is ne're without Great jealousies and feares Than pardon the distracted though t s Of one you know is true One Love has in Subjection brought and made a Slave And made a Slave to you — If you have any pitty left than Show it now and Save Him who Despaires of finding rest and don 't you Digg my Grave For if I dy through your Neglect pray write this on My Tomb My Judg being Fair I did expect a favoura A favourable Doom — And since you did my woes procure I 'le try if Torments can Increase my flame or help to cure a love distracted Man I 'le find some sure yet speedy way to end my miserie Too long my ruin I delay and yet Seem Loath And yet seem loath to Dy — I 'le place my self on Caucasus and there I 'le lend such Groanes Shall Scare the Damn'd Prometheus with my Sad frightfull Tones I 'le make the Vultures quit their prey and feed upon my brest For through this meanes perhaps I may find hopes of have Find hopes of having rest —

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