another proclamation to the ſame effect, and ſo ſhe wandered up and down in as poor and miſerable a ſituation 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 Biſhop gate Street.
Thus you may ſee the riſe and fall of this once ſtately and then unhappy woman, with whoſe dying lamentation we ſhall conclude.
THE
DYING LAMENTATION OF
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 ſhown.’ I am now putting a period to a miſerrble life; a life that I have long been weary of. What! would I deſire to live in the ſplendour, pomp, and
