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(4) The crimſon dye forſook her checks, at's feet the dropt upon the ground. Thus innocence he did betray, full fore againſt her chaſte deſire, True love is a celeſtial charm, but the flames of luſt's a raging fire : But when her ſenſes did revive, he many vows and oaths did make, That he'd for ever true remain, her company would not forſake.

PART II

NOW Virgins in the ſecond part, obſerve this Lady's fatal end, When once your virtue is betray'd, you've nothing young men will commend, For after the traitor had his will, he never did come near her more : And from her eyes both day and night, for his fake cryſtal tears did flow. Into the mourning valley ſhe, would often wander all alone, And for the jewel that ſhe loſt, in the bower thus would often mourn. that I was ſome pretty bird, that I might fly to hide my ſhame; Oh! filly maid for to believe, all the fair deluſions of a man. The harmleſs lambs can ſport and play, the sortie conſtant to his mate;