A Tragical song, or, Mr. Wil. Montfort, the famous actor, unfortunately kill'd tune of Mary live long. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A63041 of text R22784 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T2016A). 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 A63041 Wing T2016A ESTC R22784 12490657 ocm 12490657 62367 2264217461

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A63041) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 62367) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 299:5, 2158:3) A Tragical song, or, Mr. Wil. Montfort, the famous actor, unfortunately kill'd tune of Mary live long. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed for Charles Barnes, London : [1692] Parts of title and text faded. Text only. Date of publication from Wing. Item at 2158:2 identified as Wing T2016B (entry cancelled). eng Mountfort, William, 1664?-1692 -- Poetry. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo A tragical song: or, Mr. Wil. Montfort, the famous actor unfortunately kill'd. Ture [sic] of Mary live long. [no entry] 1692 1 394 3 0 0 0 0 0 76.14 D The rate of 76.14 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2006-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2006-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-05 Sampled and proofread 2006-05 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Tragical SONG : OR , Mr. Wil. Montfort , The Famous Actor Unfortunately Kill'd . Tune of Mary Live L●ng . GOod People draw near , And hear my sad Ditty With Hearts full of Pity , This Tragical Year Is bloudy indeed : Some they fairly do fight , Others stab'd in the Night , as they do go home , Brave Montfort the Player , B●ave Montfort the Player , He lately was one . His Name still will last In Court Town or Country , By Cits , or the Gentry , Till Ages are past For Acts on the Stage ; For in playing a Part , He excells the fam'd Hart , Or Moon that 's dead too , Nay , no one that s living , Nay , no one that s living , Can Montfort out-do . His Carriage was such , In all Conversation , To be free from Passion , And never thought much To oblige any one ; From a Lord to a Cit , He was free with his Wit , And Courteous withal : But now alas Killing , But now alas Killing , Is us'd all in all . Each one does lament His death since lifes shortn'd By bloudy misfortune , And cries out amain Poor Montfort is gone , It is all ore the Town , Was the like ever known , To use a man so , when coming to 's Lodging , when coming to 's Lodging , He should be run through . O cruel hard Fate , Since Murder 's in fashion , With the English Nation , That men cannot scape , Being kill'd by the Sword ; One can hardly pass by , But another does cry , Le ts kill the next man . Some never will leave it , Some never will leave it , Untill they be hang'd . Here 's Monfort of late , Tho young and beloved , How soon Life is moved , When malice or hate Shall once resolve Death , As he went without Light , He was run thro that Night , And dy'd the next day ; So he that s Moon-blinded , So he that s Moon blinded May soon lo●se his way .

London , Printed for Charles Barnes .