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244 Songs Compleat,
An Elegy on Mountfort. To the fore-
going Ttme.
POOR Mountfort is gone, and the Ladies do all
Break their Hearts for this Beau, as they did for
Duvatt;
And they the two Brats for this Tragedy damn
At Kensington Court, and the Court of Bantam,
They all vow and Swear,
That if any Peer,
Should acquit this young Lord, he shou'd pay very dear ;
Nor will they be pleased with him who on the Throne
is,
If he do's not his part to revenge their Adonis.
With the Widow their amorous Bowels do yearn,
There are divers pretend to an equal Concern ;
And by her Perswasion their Hearts they reveal,
In case if not guilty, to bring an Appeal :
They all will unite,
The young Blade to indite,
And in Prosecution will joyn Day and Night ;
In the mean time full many a Tear and a Groan is,
Wherever they meet, for their departed Adonis.
With the Ladies foul Murther's a horrible Sin
Of one Handsome without, tho' a Coxcomb within ;
For not being a Beau, the sad Fate of poor Crab,
Tho' himsdf hang'd for Love, was a J est to each Drab ;
Then may Jering live long,
And may Risby among
The Fair with Jack Barkley, and Culpepper throng :
May no Ruffin whose Heart as hard as a Stone is,
Kill any of those for a Brother Adonis.
No Lady henceforth can be safe with her Beau,
They think if this Slaughter unpunish'd should go ;
Their