The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the most Part…

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1. How sits this city, late most populous, / Thus solitary, and like a widow thus? / Amplest of nations, queen of provinces / She was, who now thus tributary is?

2. Still in the night she weeps, and her tears fall / Down by her cheeks along, and none of all / Her lovers comfort her; perfidiously / Her friends have dealt, and now are enemy

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