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and King Edward's Queen, who mortally hated her, then bearing a great sway, she procured another proclamation to the same effect; and so he wandered up and down in as poor and miserable a condition as before: till growing old, and utterly friendless, she finished her life in a ditch, which was from that time called Shore's ditch, adjoining to Bishopsgate Street.
Thus you may see the rise and fall of this once stately, and then unhappy woman, with whose dying Lamentation I shall now conclude.
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The Dying Lamentation of
Mrs Jane Shore.
Good People,
Though by the rigour of the law you are forbid to give me any relief, yet you may pity my unhappy state, for the scripture saith, "That to the miserable pity should be shewn." I am now putting a period to a miserable life. A life that I have long been weary of: Nor would I desire to live in the splendour, pomp, and glory of Edward's court. No, I am happier now on the dunghill than ever I was in his arms; for Oh! It was an adulterous bed indeed. Oh! wretch! that I knew King Edward! that ever
