clamation was issued to the same effect; and so she wandered up and down, in as poor and miserable a condition as before, till growing old, and utterly friendless, she finished her life in a ditch, which was from thence called Shore's Ditch, adjoining Bishopsgate-street.
Thus you may see the rise and fall of this once stately, and then unhappy woman, with whose dying lamentation I shall conclude.
The Dying Lamentation of
MRS. JANE SHORE.
Good People,
Though, by the rigour of the law you are forbidden to give me any relief, yet you may pity my unhappy state, for the Scripture saith, That to the miserable pity should be shewn. I am now putting a period to a miserable life; a life that I have been long weary of. Nor would I desire to live in the splendour, pomp, and glory of Edward's court. No, I am happier now on the dung-hill, than
