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R217790 1 The Bleeding Heart UNKNOWN The Bleeding Heart WHat dismal News is this I hear, / Each Brittain shedding of a Tear, Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 3: 713 Britains sorrowful Lamentation, / For the Loss of their / Gracious QUEEN / MARY / Who departed this Life, the 28th of December, 1694. Printer John Reid 1695-1695

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WHat dismal News is this I hear, Each Brittain shedding of a Tear, I do not mean a Tear alone, But heavy Sighs and dismal Groans. Each one struck dumb, amazing stands, With aiking Hearts and wringing Hands, Oh! wretched Day that ere was seen, The loss of our most Gracious Queen. A Queen whose Worth could not be namd, A Queen for Vertue still proclaimd; And all her Subjects needs must owne, So brave a Queen was never known. Oh! Britain, Britain, mourn with speed, For sure there never was more need, Than at this day for our hard Fate. Our King has lost his Royal Mate. No Tongue can tell the Grief and Wo, Each Subject now does undergo; Since Your Most Royal Queen is dead, Twould make a Heart of Stone to bleed, Where this same dreadful News does come, It struck amazement in each one, And all with mournful Voice did say, Oh! wretched and unhappy day.
What must I do? where must we go? Our Queen that lovd her Country so, By cruel Death is snatchd away; Oh! why did not Death longer stay? This is a Land of Grief and Wo, Which does with Sorrow overflow; So great a Loss was never seen, To loose so vertuous a Queen. A Queen belovd of all that knew, How to their Country to be true; A Queen that of Mercy had great store, Oh! such a Queen was neer before. But Oh! Shes gone, and left us here, Full of Distraction and Dispair; No Comfort now is to be seen, Since we have lost our Gracious Queen. This is a day of Mourning now, This is a day of Sorrow too; This is a day of Wo and Grief, This day we mourn without relief. For sighing, this I needs must say, The Good are soonest took away, Altho Shes here no longer seen, In Heavn She Reigns a Glorious Queen.
FINIS. Printed at London, And Re-printed at Edinburgh by John Reid, 1695.