%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE LADIES LAMENTATION, / Or, The Commanders last Farewel, who Valiantly lost his Life in the / late Engagement; For the loss of whom his Loving Lady Laments. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 07/02/2021 36891

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R229241 1 Loggan Water Logan Water Logan Water IN London liv'd a Squyre, where / He long enjoy'd a Lady fair; Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 97 THE LADIES LAMENTATION, / Or, The Commanders last Farewel, who Valiantly lost his Life in the / late Engagement; For the loss of whom his Loving Lady Laments. THE LADY'S LAMENTATION, Or, The Commander's last Farewell, who Valiantly lost his Life in the late Engagement; For the loss of whom his Loving Lady Laments. ?-? C. Bates

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IN London liv'd a Squyre, where He long enjoy'd a Lady fair; At length he to the Warrs must go, To face the proud insulting Foe. While Sailing in the Royal Fleet, By which the French was fairly beat, It wa his Fortune then to fall, In Battle by a Cannon Ball. The tydings came that he was slain, She wrung her hands and wept amain, And with lamenting cryes, said she, My dear would I had dy'd for thee. What Joy or Pleasure can I have, While he lyes sleeping in the Grave, In whom I plac'd my chief delight, All Pleasures now has taken flight. He's gone, I ne're shall see him more, Behold the World cannot restore, That fatal loss which I sustain, He now lyes sleeping with the slain. The Bloody Warrs by Land and Sea, Alas! may well lamented be; For while Men do for Conquest strive, Warr parts the dearest Friends alive. See Women loose their Husbands dear, And Parents too their Children here: Thus while the Sword is drawn, we find It causes grief to Women kind. By true experience have I found,
Some thousands are encompast round, With grief and sorrow now this day And I am so as well as they. Mine eyes like streams & fountains flow My heart's opprest with grief and woe, The loss of my brave Hero bold, Is more to me than Crowns of Gold. Had I an Earthly Diadem, I'de freely give it now for him; But had I that and ten times more, All this could not his Life restore. The inward Torments which I feel, I am not able to conceal; But to the World I here declare, My grief is more then I can bear. Take hence my Jewels, Chains and Rings Rich Diamonds, all such gawdy things, And Robes of Sable let me have, Now to go mourning to my Grave. Since thus I do in Torment dwell, All Earthly Glory now farewel, There's nothing stedfast here below, All things are turning too and fro. Alas my splended Glory bright, Was in a moment blasted quite, And I in strange confusion hurl'd, There's nothing stedfast in this World.
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