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another proclamation to the ſame effect, and thus ſhe wandered up and down in as poor and miſerable a ſitution 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 we ſhall conclude.
HER
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 ſhewh.' I am now putting a period to a miſerable life. a life that I have long been weary of What! would I deſire to live in the ſpendour, pomp, and
