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A rich, English gentleman named Hammon has fallen in love with Jane, who is the wife of Ralph. Ralph is a shoemaker but has been sent to fight in the war with France, and Jane awaits his return. Hammon comes to Jane and proposes marriage, but she refuses saying that she is waiting for her husband. Hammon has a list of men that have died in battle and Jane agrees to marry him if Ralph’s name is on the list. Ralph’s name does appear on the list (he has only been injured in battle but she doesn’t
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HAM. Yonder’s the shop, and there my fair love sits.
She’s fair and lovely, but she is not mine.
O, would she were! Thrice have I courted her,
Thrice hath my hand been moist’ned with her hand,
Whilst my poor famish’d eyes do feed on that
Which made them famish. I am unfortunate:
I still love one, yet nobody loves me.
I muse
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