%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> BEAUTY's Cruelty: / OR, / The Passionate LOUER. D'Urfey, Thomas University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer 1685-1685 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 09/18/2018 35794

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R171866 1 An Excellent New Play-Song, much in Request. To a New Play-House Tune. There is One Black and Sullen Hour An Excellent New Play-Song, Much in Request. To a New Playhouse Tune. THere is one black and sul==len Hour, / which Fate decrees our Lives should know, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. : BEAUTY's Cruelty: / OR, / The Passionate LOUER. BEAUTY’s Cruelty: OR, The Passionate LOVER. BEAUTY's Cruelty: OR, The Passionate LOVER. D'Urfey, Thomas 1685-1685 P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Back, J. Blare

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THere is one black and sul-len Hour, which Fate decrees our Lives should know, Else we should slight Almighty Power, wrap'd with the Joys we find below: 'Tis 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 do 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 yeild the conquest to your Eyes. One pleasing Smile, my Charming Fair, my Love-sick Heart with Joy to fill; Thy piercing Frowns breeds my Despair, oh! let those Eyes that wound, not kill; Since by a Smile my heart you did inspire, And cre-a-ted in it a Fire, and cre-a-ted. etc. That never, never can Expire, that never, etc. No longer then thus Tyrannize, but all your Cruelty give o'er: And not a heart so true despise, that will forever you adore;
Ah! Charming Nymph, grant love for love again, Do not by Frowns create my Pain; do not by Frowns, etc. Nor torture me by your Disdain, nor Torture, etc. Who is my Crime, dear Cinthia, that my Punishments is so severe? Te[l]l me that I may Expiate my Crime, by a Repenting Tear; Forbear by Cruelty to Torture me, I offer you a heart that's free, I offer you, etc. From false Deceit and Flattery, from false, etc. Oh! why, you Powers, did frame her Heart so hard, and Face so fair? Her Face did first my heart inflame, her Cruelty breeds my Despair: Make her more kind, ye Powers, then I crave, That she may Cure the Wounds she gave, that she may Cure the Wounds she gave, Or send me to my wisht for Grave, or send me to my wisht for Grave.
Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Back, J. Blare.