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A51924
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Maria misera miseranda, or, A brief relation of the life and death of an unfortunate young maid in the county of Desmond in Ireland together with the most horrid murder of her lover, an English-man, committed by the father of the said virgin.
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1674
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Wing M597A; ESTC R13332
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Ireland wherein the exuberance of your Fame together with the secret whisper of Love 's Deity has enthralled me to you My first Apply was to your Honoured Father whom I find well contented to call me Son Be but you as willing to call me Husband and my Happiness is as great as Ambition would have it To all this the Beautiful Lady made little answer only urgeing the meanness of her Estate and Birth to his Splendid Fortune and moreover her dislike to a married life But the Lord was resolv'd not to desist by these excuses and therefore reinforces his Addresses with new Arguments as also did her Father who pleaded against her from the Topick of Duty Now whilst these Love Affairs were suspended betwixt consent and denial it hapned that an English Ship being split upon the Sands in the Western Ocean near the aforesaid County of Desmond there was one and only one person escaped with life whom indeed for the comeliness of his Person and as afterward appeared the supereminency of his Parts one might well have thought to be Brother to Fair Mary This Man escaping naked to shore and destitute of all Friends and Acquaintance was forced by the Laws of Necessity which others say have none to implore the charity of several persons as he passed the Country for his subsistance Amongst others he hapned to call at the House of Maries Father where being noted by her as one whose Person was as well admirable to the eye as his discourse to the ear was through her Mediation taken into the service of her Father And now that Heart which was before Canon-proof against Cupid's Assailants begins at last to faint in its Engagement For the Beauteous Lady had scarce consumed the space of three moneths in eying and observing her shipwrackt Servant but she began to disclose her Passion to him by several Tokens which any Suiter would have presently understood But alas the adverseness of his Fortune together with the humble conceit of his own worthiness had render'd him as dull in the Intrigues of Love as Mary was before and therefore seeing her Father by this time began to grow impatient of Denial in the Lords Suit she resolved to lay aside her Maiden Modesty and turn plain Suiter to the Beloved Stranger For the doing of which she took this occasion Walking in the dusk of the Evening where he was to pass by she iet fall her Glove in the Path as she saw him come and so with her Handkerchief at her eyes pass'd away in a solitary posture The young man coming to her to present her what she had lost and seeing her in so melancholly a temper told her He was sorry to see her so and wished it were in his power to serve her At which words the Lady no longer able to repress her Passion did with an extraordinary fervency loose her Tongue into this Rhetorick Dearest Sir And are you willing to serve me then know 't is you alone are able to do it for of all the men I e're beheld you only are he that I can and must Love and 't is you alone that must either make me a happy Bride or leave me a miserable Maid So was about to proceed but that the Man now almost mad with Joy stopp'd the current of her words by the interposition of his lips Long was it before their speech returned but when it did 't was not long before they were made each others by a sacred Vow And now the next concerns were how to get beyond the holy rite of Marriage and after that where to make their abode at last it is resolved that Loving Mary taking her Jewels and other most costly things along with her should that night quit her Fathers house and so accompany her dearest Beloved into Northumberland in England his Native Country Where although his Parents were but mean yet he hoped by the help of other good Friends to get a very comfortable subsistence This she did accordingly leaping out at a very high Window into his arms But O the unfortunate success of this Heroick Act For the noise though little being over-heard by her Father excited him forthwith to look out at his Casement where by the light of the Moon he might easily descry the matter And therefore without delay he persues them with a naked Sword in his hand to the afore-named neighbouring Bay where they had intended to take a Boat and waft themselves over into the County of Kerry The loving Pair had scarce taken Boat when they saw him approach in a direful manner threatning no less than present death to his Servant and although they made what speed their fear and amazement would let them yet he was soon by their side with another Boat which made his Daughter leave the Oar and turn her Prayer against the edge of his Sword But his Passion was deaf to all entreaties and therefore as soon as ever he was within reach sheathed his Sword in the bowels of the unarmed young Lover Mary stood ready in expectation of the same fall and willing to accompany her Love into another Country as before she had promised but assoon as she understood that her Father meant her the injury of Life and a Wife for the Lord who was now at home in his Bed she clasp'd about the waste of her now dead Lover and crying out aloud O stay for me threw both him and her self into the arms of the merciless Waves You will expect here I should make an end concerning our two Lovers but the Waters are not willing it should be so and therefore next day they brought them ashore imbracing each other as is aforesaid Which when the Father and the Lord saw Then all their Passions were melted into that one of Grief and as the last token of Pity they gave them a very noble Burial in one Tomb that Death might not part asunder what Life had joyned together FINIS