Beauty's cruelty: or, The passionate lover. An excellent new play-song much in request, to a play-house tune. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B02812 of text R174894 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing D2700A). 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 B02812 Wing D2700A ESTC R174894 47012407 ocm 47012407 174375 2248524173

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B02812) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 174375) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2686:23) Beauty's cruelty: or, The passionate lover. An excellent new play-song much in request, to a play-house tune. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. Printed for J. Deacon ... without Newgate, London : [between 1682 and 1700] "Licensed according to order." Contains 1 illustration. Date of publication taken from Wing (2nd ed.) Reproduction of original in: University of Glasgow. Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo Beauty's cruelty: or, the passionate lover. An excellent new play-song much in request, to a play-house tune. Licensed according to order. D'Urfey, Thomas, 1671 1 542 2 0 0 0 0 0 36.9 D The rate of 36.9 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 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
BEAUTY's Cruelty : OR , The Passionate Lover . An excellent new Play-song much in Request , to a Play-house Tune .

Licensed according to Order .

THere is one black and sullen hour , which Fate decrees ourdives should know , 〈◊〉 we shou'd flight Almighty Power , Wrapt with the Ioys we find below : 〈◊〉 is past dear Cynthia , now let frowns be gone . A long , long pennance I have done , a long , long pennance I have done , For Crimes to me , alas ! unknown , for Crimes to me , alas ! unknown , In each soft hour of silent night , your Image in my Dream appears , I grasp the Soul of my delight , slumber in joy , but wak'd in tears ; Ah! faithless charming Saint what will you to , Let me not think I am by you , let me not think I am by you , Lov'd less , lov'd less , for being true , lov'd less , lov'd less , for being true , Before dear Cynthia I beheld , thy charming face , my heart was free From Love , and knew not how to yield to any Beauty but to thee : Bright as the Sun that in the East doth rise , Did force me by a sweet surprize , did force me by a sweet surprize , To yield the Conquest to your Eyes , to yield the Conquest to your Eyes . One pleasing Smile my charming Fair , my Love-sick Heart with Ioy to fill , Thy piercing Frowns breeds my Despair , Oh! let those Eyes that wound not hill ; Since by a smile my heart you did inspire , And created in it a Fire , and created , &c. That never , never can expire , that never , never , can expire . No longer then thus tyranize , but all your cruelty give o're And not a heart so true despise , that will for ever you adore : Ah , charming Nymph grant love for love again Do not by Frowns create my pain ; do not by Frowns , &c. Nor torture me by your disdain , nor torture me by your disdain , What is my Crime , dear Cynthia , that my punishment is so severe ? Tell me that I may expiate my Crime , by a repenting tear : Forbear by Cruelty to tortue me , I offer you a Heart that 's free I offer you a Heart , &c. From false deceit and flattery , from false deceit and flattery . Oh! why you Powers did you frame her heart so hard and face so fair ? Her face did first my heart enflame , her cruelty breeds my despair : Make her more kind , you Powers , then I crave . That she may cure the wound the gave , that she may cure , &c. Or send me to my wisht-for Grave , or send me to my wisht-for Grave .

Printed for I. Deacon , at the Angel , in Gilt-spur-street , without Newgate .