Beauty's cruelty: or, The passionate lover. An excellent new play-song much in request, to a play-house tune.

Beauty's cruelty: or, The passionate lover. An excellent new play-song much in request, to a play-house tune.

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BEAUTY's Cruelty: OR, The Passionate Lover. An excellent new Play-song much in Request,

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BEAUTY's Cruelty: OR, The Passionate Lover.
An excellent new Play-song much in Request,

to a Play-house Tune.

Licensed according to Order.

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THere is one black and sullen hour,

which Fate decrees ourdives should know,

[...] we shou'd flight Almighty Power,

Wrapt with the Ioys we find below:

[...] is 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 to,

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 yield the Conquest to your Eyes.

One pleasing Smile my charming Fair,

my Love-sick Heart with Ioy to fill,

Thy piercing Frowns breeds my Despair,

Oh! let those Eyes that wound not hill;

Since by a smile my heart you did inspire,

And created in it a Fire,

and created, &c.

That never, never can expire,

that never, never, can expire.

No longer then thus tyranize,

but all your cruelty give o're

And not a heart so true despise,

that will for ever you adore:

Ah, charming Nymph grant love for love again

Do not by Frowns create my pain;

do not by Frowns, &c.

Nor torture me by your disdain,

nor torture me by your disdain,

What is my Crime, dear Cynthia, that

my punishment is so severe?

Tell me that I may expiate

my Crime, by a repenting tear:

Forbear by Cruelty to tortue me,

I offer you a Heart that's free

I offer you a Heart, &c.

From false deceit and flattery,

from false deceit and flattery.

Oh! why you Powers did you frame

her heart so hard and face so fair?

Her face did first my heart enflame,

her cruelty breeds my despair:

Make her more kind, you Powers, then I crave.

That she may cure the wound the gave,

that she may cure, &c.

Or send me to my wisht-for Grave,

or send me to my wisht-for Grave.

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Printed for I. Deacon, at the Angel, in Gilt-spurstreet, without Newgate.

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Beauty's cruelty: or, The passionate lover. An excellent new play-song much in request, to a play-house tune.

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1682-1700?

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Date

2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1).

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B02812

ID [STC]

Wing D2700A

ID [STC]

ESTC R174894

ID [EEBO-CITATION]

47012407

ID [OCLC]

ocm 47012407

ID [VID]

174375

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— Beauty's cruelty: or, The passionate lover. An excellent new play-song much in request, to a play-house tune.,

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1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill.

Printed for J. Deacon ... without Newgate,. London :: [between 1682 and 1700]. ("Licensed according to order.") (Contains 1 illustration.) (Date of publication taken from Wing (2nd ed.)) (Reproduction of original in: University of Glasgow. Library.)

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