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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=346130" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Woefull Lamentation Of Jane Shore</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The woefull lamentation of Jane Shore, a goldsmith's wife in London, sometime king Edward IV. his concubine. To the tune of 'Live with me,' &c.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If Rosamonde, that was so faire,<br>Had cause her sorrowes to declare,<br>Then let Jane Shore with sorrowe sing,<br>That was beloved of a king.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In maiden yeares my beautye bright <br>Was loved dear of lord and knight;<br>But yet the love that they requir'd, <br>It was not as my friends desir'd.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My parents they, for thirst of gaine,<br>A husband for me did obtaine;<br>And I, their pleasure to fulfille,<br>Was forc'd to wedd against my wille.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To Matthew Shore I was a wife,<br>Till lust brought ruine to my life;<br>And then my life I lewdlye spent,<br>Which makes my soul for to lament.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Lombard-street I once did dwelle,<br>As London yet can witness welle;<br>Where many gallants did beholde<br>My beautye in a shop of golde.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I spred my plumes, as wantons doe,<br>Some sweet and secret friende to wooe,<br>Because chast love I did not finde<br>Agreeing to my wanton minde.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At last my name in court did ring<br>Into the eares of Englandes king,<br>Who came and lik'd, and love requir'd,<br>But I made coye what he desir'd.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet Mistress Blague, a neighbour neare,<br>Whose friendship I esteemed deare,<br>Did saye, 'It was a gallant thing<br>To be beloved of a king.'<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By her persuasions I was led,<br>For to defile my marriage-bed<br>And to wronge my wedded husband Shore,<br>Whom I had married yeares before.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In heart and mind I did rejoyce,<br>That I had made so sweet a choice;<br>And therefore did my state resigne,<br>To be King Edward's concubine.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From city then to court I went,<br>To reape the pleasures of content;<br>There had the joyes that love could bring,<br>And knew the secrets of a king.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I was thus advanc'd on highe,<br>Commanding Edward with mine eye,<br>For Mrs. Blague I in short space<br>Obtainde a livinge from his Grace.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No friende I had, but in short time<br>I made unto promotion climbe;<br>But yet for all this costlye pride,<br>My husbande could not mee abide.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His bed, though wronged by a king,<br>His heart with deadlye griefe did sting;<br>From England then he goes away<br>To end his life beyond the sea.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He could not live to see his name<br>Impaired by my wanton shame;<br>Although a prince of peerlesse might<br>Did reape the pleasure of his right.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Long time I lived in the courte,<br>With lords and ladies of great sorte;<br>And when I smil'd, all men were glad,<br>But when I frown'd, my prince grewe sad.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But yet a gentle minde I bore<br>To helpless people, that were poore;<br>I still redrest the orphans crye,<br>And sav'd their lives condemnd to dye.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I still had ruth on widowes tears,<br>I succour'd babes of tender yeares;<br>And never look'd for other gaine<br>But love and thankes, for all my paine.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At last my royall king did dye,<br>And then my dayes of woe grew nighe;<br>When crook-back Richard got the crowne,<br>King Edwards friends were soon put downe.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I then was punisht for my sin,<br>That I so long had lived in;<br>Yea, every one that was his friend<br>This tyrant brought to shameful end.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then for my lewd and wanton life,<br>That made a strumpet of a wife,<br>I penance did in Lombard-street,<br>In shamefull manner in a sheet:<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where many thousands did me viewe,<br>Who late in court my credit knewe;<br>Which made the teares run down my face,<br>To think upon my foul disgrace.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not thus content, they took from mee<br>My goodes, my livings, and my fee,<br>And charg'd that none should me relieve,<br>Nor any succour to me give.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then unto Mrs. Blague I went,<br>To whom my jewels I had sent,<br>In hope therebye to ease my want,<br>When riches fail'd, and love grew scant.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But she denyed to me the same,<br>When in my need for them I came;<br>To recompense my former love,<br>Out of her doores shee did me shove.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So love did vanish with my state,<br>Which now my soul repents too late;<br>Therefore example take by mee,<br>For friendship parts in povertie.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But yet one friend among the rest,<br>Whom I before had seen distrest,<br>And sav'd his life, condemn'd to die,<br>Did give me food to succour me:<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For which, by lawe, it was decreed<br>That he was hanged for that deed;<br>His death did grieve me so much more,<br>Than had I dyed myself therefore.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then those to whom I had done good<br>Durst not afford mee any food;<br>Whereby I begged all the day,<br>And still in streets by night I lay.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My gowns beset with pearl and gold,<br>Were turn'd to simple garments old;<br>My chains and gems and golden rings,<br>To filthy rags and loathsome things.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus was I scorn'd of maid and wife,<br>For leading such a wicked life;<br>Both sucking babes and children small,<br>Did make their pastime at my fall.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I could not get one bit of bread,<br>Whereby my hunger might be fed:<br>Nor drink, but such as channels yield,<br>Or stinking ditches in the field.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus, weary of my life, at lengthe<br>I yielded up my vital strength<br>Within a ditch of loathsome scent,<br>Where carrion dogs did much frequent:<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The which now since my dying daye,<br>Is Shoreditch call'd, as writers saye;<br>Which is a witness of my sinne,<br>For being concubine to a king.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You wanton wives, that fall to lust,<br>Be you assur'd that God is just;<br>Whoredome shall not escape his hand,<br>Nor pride unpunish'd in this land.<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If God to me such shame did bring,<br>That yielded only to a king,<br>How shall they scape that daily run<br>To practise sin with every one?<br>Then maids and wives in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You husbands, match not but for love<br>Lest some disliking after prove;<br>Women, be warn'd when you are wives,<br>What plagues are due to sinful lives:<br>Then, maids and wives, in time amend,<br>For love and beauty will have end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Olde+English">Anonymous Olde English</a><div class=q>
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