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Gone is my dearest she I so admired

DMI number:
42410
First Line:
Gone is my dearest she I so admired
Last Line:
Never O never died lover so true
Poem Genre / Form:
Song and Ten-line stanza ababccdeed
Themes:
Grief / sadness / melancholy, Sex / relations between the sexes, and Women / the female character
Related People
Composer:
Nicholas Staggins
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
'The Tune is, Mr. Staggins his Minuit which he made for the Ball at Whitehal, 1673' (see publication in miscellany ID 1667).
Content/Publication
Title:
Grammatical drollery, consisting of poems & songs [ESTC R34461]
Page No(s):
pp.52-53
Poem Title:
A new Song: The Tune is, Mr. Staggins his Minuit which he made for the Ball at Whitehal, 1673.
Attribution:
Collected under Hicks's initials.
Attributed To:
William Hicks