%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The WEEPING LADY: / OR, / The Fortune of WAR: / CONTAINING / Her Lamentation for the Loss of her Love, / A / Noble COMMANDER, / WHO / Was slain in the late Famous Battle of Landen, in Flanders[.] 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 08/31/2021 37391

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R186350 1 If Love's a sweet Passion If Love's a Sweet Passion If Love's a Sweet Passion I Am an Unfortunate Lady this day! / All my Glory is blasted and gone to decay; I have lost my dear Jewel which I did adore, / He is slain in the Wars, I shall ne'r see him more. [with variation] British Library - Bagford Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 52 The WEEPING LADY: / OR, / The Fortune of WAR: / CONTAINING / Her Lamentation for the Loss of her Love, / A / Noble COMMANDER, / WHO / Was slain in the late Famous Battle of Landen, in Flanders[.] The Weeping Lady: OR, The Fortune of WAR: CONTAINING Her Lamentation for the Loss of her Love, A Noble COMMANDER, WHO Was slain in the late Famous Battle of Landen, in Flanders. ?-? J. Deacon

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I Am an Unfortunate Lady this day! All my Glory is blasted and gone to decay; [Th]ere is nothing but Clouds of black Sorrow appear, And the Tydings of Death which bring up the Rear: I have lost my dear Jewel which I did adore, He is slain in the Wars, I shall ne'r see him more. And here I am left to bemoan his sad Fate; At the Point of Despair, in a desperate State: There is none in the World now my Spirits can raise, Such a Torment I ne'r felt before in my days; Having lost my dear Jewel whom I did adore, He is slain in the Wars, I shall ne'r see him more. The Tydings was brought me, He fought in the Field, And when others gave back, he scorned to Yield; Till at length in his Breast he rec[e]ived a Wound, [A]nd with which he fell dead from his Horse to the Ground. Thus I lost my dear Jewel whom I did adore, He is slain in the Wars, I shall ne'r see him more. [T]his Tydings was like to a desperate Dart; [Is] he gone! then I cry'd, with a Sigh from my Heart; [A]nd mine Eyes like two Fountains did streight overflow, [Fo]r my Grief it was more than I could undergo; Having lost my dear Jewel whom I did adore, He is slain in the Wars, I shall ne'r see him more. [In] Battle there is no Distinction between [Th]e right valiant Commander, the Noble and Mean; [In t]he Field by the force of a loud Cannon-ball, [Th]e Commander does with a poor Centinal fall. [I] have lost my dear Jewel whom I did adore, He was slain in the Wars, I shall ne'r see him more.
Before he went from me I did him advise, Nay, I begg'd and intreated with tears in mine Eyes, That he'd not go to Flanders least he should be sl[ai]n, But he vow'd he would venture while Life did remain. I have lost my dear Jewel whom I did adore, He is slain in the Wars, I shall ne'r see him more. The fortune of War has prov'd fatal to me, And to thousands and thousand of e'ry Degre, For the Fatherless Children and Widows may weep, While a Harvest of Sorrows with me they do reap; Who has lost my dear Jewel whom I did adore, He is slain in the Wars, I shall ne'r see him more. His Warlike Deportment methinks I behold, When he shin'd in a Garb of imbroidered Gold, Nay, and mounted upon his bold Palfery-grey, At the head of his Troops as they marched away: But I lost that dear Jewel whom I did adore, He is slain in the Wars, I shall ne'r see him more. O! that in the stead of my Dear I had dy'd, Or at least might have lain in the Grave by his side; It were better then languishing in Grief and complain; Though I weep I can never recal him again. I have lost my dear Jewel whom I did adore, He is slain in the Wars, I shall ne'r see him more.
FINIS. Licensed according to Order. LONDON: Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Guilt-spur-street, without Newgate.