Reliques of ancient English poetry: consisting of old heroic ballads ...

ANDBALLADS, 197
Yet on her death-bed when fhee laye,
Shee prayed for thy profperrye,
Befeeching god, that every day
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Might breed thee great felicitye
Thus by thy meanes I loft a friend ; 95
Heaven fend thee fuch untimely end.
When he thefe lines, full fraught with gall,
Perufed had, and weighed them right,
His lofty courage 'gan to fall
And ftraight appeared in his fight 100
Queene Dido's ghoft, both grim and pale ;
Which made this valliant fouldier quail.
iEneas, quoth this ghaftly ghoft,
My whole delight while I did live.
Thee of all men I loved moil
To thee my fancye I did give
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And for the welcome I thee gave,
Unthankfully thou didft me grave.
Therefore prepare thy fleeting foule
To wander with me in the-ayre
Where deadlye griefe mall make it howle 9
Becaufe of me thou tookft no care :
Delay not time, thy glafte is run,
Thy date is paft, thy life is done.
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O ftay a while, thou lovelye fpright, j 35
Be not fo hafty to convay
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