The two unhappy lovers; being a wealthy merchant who broke his heart for love, and the mercers beautiful daughter, who after his death, poysoned herself in dispair. Tune of, If love's a sweet passion. Licensed according to order. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06324 of text R227616 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T3544). 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. 4 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 B06324 Wing T3544 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.39.k.6[51] 99887431 ocm99887431 182137 2248538657

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06324) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182137) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A3:1[51]) The two unhappy lovers; being a wealthy merchant who broke his heart for love, and the mercers beautiful daughter, who after his death, poysoned herself in dispair. Tune of, If love's a sweet passion. Licensed according to order. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : music. Printed for J[oshua]. Conyers, at the Anchor and Bible near St. Peter's Church in Corn-Hill., [London] : [not before 1692] Publisher's name, date and place of publication from Wing. Verse - "In London there lived a beatiful [sic] maid,". Printed in two columns. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo The two unhappy lovers; being a wealthy merchant who broke his heart for love, and the mercers beautiful daughter, who after his death, poysoned herse anon 1692 1 645 0 0 0 10 0 0 1550.39 F The rate of 1550.39 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-08 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The two Unhappy Lovers ; Being a Wealthy Merchant who broke his heart for Love , and the Mercers Beautiful Daughter , who after his Death , Poysoned herself in dispair . Tune of , If Love 's a sweet Passion .

Licensed According to Order .

I. IN London there lived a Beautiful Maid , Only Daughter unto a Rich Mercer by Trade , Who had left to her Portion full three thousand pound , Thus both Riches and beauty in her did abound ; But the Pride of her insolent heart soar'd above All the graces of Beauty , and blasted her Love . II. As through the fair City she blazed her fame , For to Court her , a Merchant and Shop-keeper came Nay , a wealthy young Squire , and Curnol likewise , Each indeavour'd to gain this Rich Beautiful prize , But their proffered Services prov'd but in vain , For she frown'd , and returned the Darts of disdain . III. I 'll have no Mechanick Shop-keeper , she cry'd , Nor shall any poor Souldier e're I ve by my side ; No , nor Merchant , who ventures his stock on the Seas She return'd them such insolent answers as these ; But the wealthy young Squire she fancy'd we hear , Whose Estate was some five or six thousand a year . IV. The Noble brave Curnol he valu'd her not , And the Shop-keeper straight ways her beauty forgot ; But the wounded young Merchant he languishing cry'd , Have I lov'd her ! yet must I be clearly deny'd ? O go tell her , except she some pitty will take , That her Languishing Lover must dye for her sake . V. She soon was inform'd of her languishing Love , Yet no manner of pitty this Damsel could move ; But she laugh'd in derision and thus did reply , I 'll not hinder the Youth , if he 's willing to dye ; For no Merchant my Person shall ever imbrace , While a Rich noble Gallant young Squire 's in place . VI. So soon as her Answer was brought to his Ear , He reply'd with a Sigh and a Sorrowful tear , I am ruin'd by Beauty , my Glory is fled , In the dark silent Grave I will now lay my Head Thus he straitway departed , and left her to know , Many days of sad sorrow for slighting him so . VII . The Squire whom she did so dearly adore , He rejected her Charms , and came near her no more , This beginning of sorrow she presently found , For the Arrows of Cupid had given the Wound , And did cause her in passionate sorrow to cry , There is none in the world more unhappy than I. VIII . My true Love the Merchant I sent to the Grave , When it lay in my absolute power to save His dear innocent Life ; nay , I kill'd him with grief , And deny'd him so much as one glance of relief ; Therefore now to my passionate sorrow I find , I am justly rewarded , and serv'd in my kind . IX . After my true love to the Grave let me go , For here 's nothing but torment and trouble I know , With which my poor sorrowful Soul is opprest , Let this Potion of Poyson now end the contest , Then she took up the draught , and did trembling cry , I am coming my Love , for thy sake I will dye . FINIS .

Printed for : I. Conyers , at the Anchor and Bible near St. Peter's Church in Corn-Hill .