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