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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>Bloudy news from <HI>Germany</HI> or the peoples mi&s;ery by famine,</HEAD>
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<P>Being an example of Gods ju&s;t judgement on one <HI>Harto</HI> a Noble man in <HI>Germany</HI> of the town of <HI>Ments</HI> who when the people were decayed (by rea&s;on of a hard famine) he gathered the poorer &s;ort into a Barn, and burned them (&s;aying the&s;e are but as Rats that eat up all and do nothing el&s;e) but the all &s;eeing God left not this wickedne&s;s unpuni&s;hed; for he was &s;o &s;ore be&s;et and beat with Rats, that his Ca&s;tles top was never af|ter free of them, and at la&s;t devoured by them.</P>
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<OPENER>Tune of, <HI>Chievy Cho&s;e.</HI></OPENER>
<P><FIGURE>
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<LG>
<L>WHen as my mind was fully bent</L>
<L>&s;ome &s;tory for to rhime,</L>
<L>Among&s;t all others none I found</L>
<L>&s;o fitting for the time,</L>
<L>That which hereafter you &s;hall hear</L>
<L>may well compared be,</L>
<L>Vnto a Song of joyful news</L>
<L>in pain and mi&s;ery.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Some write of <HI>Cupid</HI> and his bow</L>
<L>with arrows &s;harp and k&eacute;en,</L>
<L>To pierce the tender hearts of them</L>
<L>that are but young and green,</L>
<L>Another loves of War to prate</L>
<L>which is by Weapons done,</L>
<L>And acted is by Sea and Land</L>
<L>by Ship and roaring Gun.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Another &s;aith he was in love</L>
<L>once with a dainty Maid,</L>
<L>But now he hates her cruelty</L>
<L>when's got her maiden-head,</L>
<L>Another mu&s;e with Hand and Pen</L>
<L>de&s;cribes a baudy rhime,</L>
<L>But I will tell by true report</L>
<L>what's done in former time.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>One <HI>Harto</HI> that in <HI>Mentz</HI> did dwell</L>
<L>a Clergy Man was he,</L>
<L>In that &s;ame Town Arch Bi&s;hop was</L>
<L>of famous <HI>Germany.</HI></L>
<L>His charity was too to cold</L>
<L>and nothing did abound,</L>
<L>He to the poor a Mi&s;er was</L>
<L>which made a rumour &s;ound.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
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<L>Now in his days there happened</L>
<L>a famine on the earth</L>
<L>And after that there did en&s;ue</L>
<L>a very pinching dearth</L>
<L>This cruel man began to think</L>
<L>he wanted his revennue,</L>
<L>And many a Noble Man there was</L>
<L>that was not worth a penny.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He &s;ent for all the Beggers round</L>
<L>and put them in a Barn,</L>
<L>And &s;et them all in order &s;trait</L>
<L>as though he meant no harm,</L>
<L>He &s;ent his &s;ervants fire to bring</L>
<L>for quickly they &s;hould burn,</L>
<L>They with a howling noi&s;e cry'd out</L>
<L>and dolefully did mourn.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What ail the men (quoth he at length)</L>
<L>like Rats and Mice you be</L>
<L>That eat up all my &s;u&s;tenance</L>
<L>and nothing give to me,</L>
<L>When all my friends through famine want</L>
<L>and are gone to decay</L>
<L>Why &s;hould I give you any more</L>
<L>but burn you quite away.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e harmle&s;s men he put to death</L>
<L>as <HI>Cain</HI> with <HI>Able</HI> did</L>
<L>But from the Lord full true it is</L>
<L>there's nothing can be hid:</L>
<L>Their bloud did call unto the Lord</L>
<L>out of the ground and du&s;t</L>
<L>The Lord he hard attentively</L>
<L>In judgement pure and ju&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He burnt them all both young and old</L>
<L>both man and Wife likewi&s;e,</L>
<L>He &s;pared none nor did re&s;pect</L>
<L>the fooli&s;h or the wi&s;e,</L>
<L>For why his mind was &s;ati&s;fi'd</L>
<L>and bloody mind content,</L>
<L>To &s;ee them all thus on a flame</L>
<L>tho others did lament.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet God above did not forget</L>
<L>this wicked unju&s;t deed,</L>
<L>For after that from Rats and mice</L>
<L>he never could be freed,</L>
<L>his Ca&s;tles top no &s;ervice did</L>
<L>no Cats nor cruel Dogs,</L>
<L>For why they came abundantly</L>
<L>much like the <HI>Egyptian</HI> Frogs.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>They wa&s;ted all his ca&s;h and pelf</L>
<L>which he laid up in &s;tore,</L>
<L>Tho he &s;o &s;urely locked up</L>
<L>by do&s;en and by &s;core,</L>
<L>The&s;e Vermine &s;o did multiply</L>
<L>encrea&s;ing day by day,</L>
<L>They haunted all the rooms about</L>
<L>the Chamber where he lay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nay more then that him&s;elf was &s;l<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ain</L>
<L>as he lay on his Bed,</L>
<L>And when his Fri<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nds all did come in</L>
<L>they found him to be dead,</L>
<L>Thus God did puni&s;h him at length</L>
<L>That was &s;o bad and cruel,</L>
<L>he put their Bodies in the fire</L>
<L>and u&s;ed them for fewel.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And they did gnaw his Coat of Arms</L>
<L>out of the graven Stone,</L>
<L>and ever where they found his name</L>
<L>of Letters they left none,</L>
<L>This I do wi&s;h may be a guide</L>
<L>to them that are &s;o high,</L>
<L>That never think upon the poor</L>
<L>that are in mi&s;ery.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nay were it but that they were &s;o</L>
<L>like Niggards in their Wealth,</L>
<L>So they would not defraud the poor</L>
<L>or put them unto death,</L>
<L>Wherefore let all with one accord</L>
<L>think good for to amend,</L>
<L>So &s;hall my Pen begin to re&s;t</L>
<L>and la&s;tly make an end.</L>
</LG>
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