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<DATE>2008-04-10</DATE>
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<NAME>Emma Leeson Huber</NAME>
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<ITEM>Corrected 45 illegibles of 71. Converted 26 illegibles To GAP DESC="illegible RESP="oxf".</ITEM>
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<DIV1 TYPE="song">
<PB REF="1" MS="y">
<HEAD>A Warning for Maidens</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the Tune of, The <HI>Ladies</HI> fall.</OPENER>
<LG>
<L>YOu daintie Dames &s;o finely fram'd</L>
<L>in beauties chiefe&s;t mold</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">nd you that trip it up and down,</L>
<L>like lambs in Cupids fold;</L>
<L>Here is a les&s;on to be learn'd,</L>
<L>a le&s;&s;on my mind,</L>
<L>For &s;uch as will prove fal&s;e in love,</L>
<L>and bear a faithle&s;s mind.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Not far from <HI>Notingham</HI> of late,</L>
<L>in <HI>Clifton</HI> as I hear,</L>
<L>There dwelt a fair and comelie maid,</L>
<L>for beautie without peer;</L>
<L>Her cheeks were like the Crim&s;on ro&s;e,</L>
<L>yet well we may perceive,</L>
<L>The faire&s;t Dame the fal&s;e&s;t heart,</L>
<L>and &s;oone&s;t will deceive.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This gallant Dam&s;el was belov'd</L>
<L>by manie in that place;</L>
<L>And manie &s;ought in marriage bed,</L>
<L>her bodie to embrace;</L>
<L>At la&s;t a comelie proper youth.</L>
<L>young Bateman call'd by name,</L>
<L>In hope to have a married wife,</L>
<L>unto this maiden came.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Such love and liking &s;oon he found,</L>
<L>that he from all the re&s;t,</L>
<L>Had &s;toln awaie the Dam&s;els heart,</L>
<L>and &s;he did like him be&s;t;</L>
<L>Then plighted promi&s;e &s;ecretlie,</L>
<L>did pa&s;s between them two;</L>
<L>That nothing could but death it &s;elf,</L>
<L>their true loves knot undo.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A piece of gold he brake in twain,</L>
<L>one half to her he gave;</L>
<L>The other as a pledge quoth he.</L>
<L>dear heart my&s;elf &s;hall have;</L>
<L>And if I break my vow, quoth &s;he,</L>
<L>while I remain alive,</L>
<L>May never thing I take in hand,</L>
<L>be &s;een at all to thrive.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This pa&s;&s;ed one for two months &s;pace,</L>
<L>and then this maid began,</L>
<L>To &s;etle love and liking too,</L>
<L>upon another man.</L>
<L>Old <HI>Jerman</HI> who a widower was</L>
<L>he husband needs mu&s;t be,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e he was of greater wealth,</L>
<L>and better of degree.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Her vowe and promi&s;e latelie pa&s;t</L>
<L>to <HI>Bateman</HI> &s;he deny'd,</L>
<L>And in de&s;pight both him and his,</L>
<L>&s;he utterlie defy'd.</L>
<L>Well then quoth he if it be &s;o,</L>
<L>that thou wilt me for&s;ake,</L>
<L>And like a fal&s;e and for&s;worn wretch,</L>
<L>another husband take.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thou &s;halt not live one quiet day,</L>
<L>for &s;urelie I will have</L>
<L>Thee either now alive or dead,</L>
<L>when I am laid in grave,</L>
<L>Thy faithle&s;&s;e mind thou &s;halt repent.</L>
<L>therefore be well a&s;&s;ur'd,</L>
<L>When for thy &s;ake thou hear'&s;t report,</L>
<L>what torments I endur'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But mark how <HI>Bateman</HI> died for love,</L>
<L>he fini&s;ht up his life,</L>
<L>The verie day &s;he married was,</L>
<L>and made old <HI>Jermans</HI> wife;</L>
<L>For with a &s;trangling cord God w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ts,</L>
<L>(great moan was made therefore)</L>
<L>He hang'd him&s;elf in de&s;perat &s;ort</L>
<L>before the brides own door.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At which, &s;uch &s;orrow pierc'd her heart,</L>
<L>and troubled &s;ore her mind,</L>
<L>That &s;he could never after that,</L>
<L>our hour of comfort find;</L>
<L>For where&s;oever that &s;he went,</L>
<L>her fancy did &s;urmize,</L>
<L>Young <HI>Bateman</HI>'s pale and ga&s;hlie gho&s;t,</L>
<L>appeared before her eyes,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When &s;he in bed at night did lie,</L>
<L>betwixt her husbands arms,</L>
<L>In hope therein to &s;leep and re&s;t,</L>
<L>in &s;afetie without harms;</L>
<L>Great cries &amp; grievous groans &s;he heard,</L>
<L>a voice that &s;ometime &s;aid,</L>
<L>O thou art &s;he that I mu&s;t have,</L>
<L>and will not be deni'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But &s;he as then being with child,</L>
<L>was for the infants &s;ake</L>
<L>Pre&s;erved from the &s;pirits power,</L>
<L>no vengeance could it take;</L>
<L>The Babe unborn did &s;afe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ie &s;hield,</L>
<L>(as God appointed is)</L>
<L>His mothers bodie from the Fiend,</L>
<L>that &s;ought her overthrow.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But being of her burthen ea&s;'d,</L>
<L>and &s;afelie brought to bed:</L>
<L>Her cares and griefs began anew,</L>
<L>and fre&s;h her &s;orrows bred,</L>
<L>And hereupon &s;he call'd her friends,</L>
<L>de&s;iring them to &s;taie;</L>
<L>This night quoth &s;he out of my bed,</L>
<L>I &s;hall be born awaie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Here comes the &s;pirit of my love,</L>
<L>with pale and ga&s;hlie face,</L>
<L>Who, till he take me hence with him,</L>
<L>will not depart this place;</L>
<L>Alive or dead I am his right,</L>
<L>and he will &s;urelie have,</L>
<L>In &s;pight of me and all the world,</L>
<L>what I by promi&s;e gave.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O watch with me all night, dear friends</L>
<L>but &s;ee ye do not &s;leep;</L>
<L>No longer then ye be awake,</L>
<L>my bodie can ye keep:</L>
<L>All promi&s;ed to do their be&s;t;</L>
<L>yet nothing could &s;uffice,</L>
<L>In middle of the night to keep,</L>
<L>&s;ad &s;lumber from their eyes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And being all full fa&s;t on &s;leep,</L>
<L>as all unknown which waie:</L>
<L>This child-bed wife, that woful wight</L>
<L>from thence was born awaie:</L>
<L>But to what place no creature knew,</L>
<L>nor to this daie can tell:</L>
<L>As &s;trange a thing as ever yet,</L>
<L>in anie age bef<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ll.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ye Maidens that de&s;ire to love.</L>
<L>and will good husbands choo&s;e,</L>
<L>To him that ye have vow'd your love,</L>
<L>by no means do refu&s;e:</L>
<L>For God that hears all &s;ecret oaths,</L>
<L>wil dreadful vengeance take,</L>
<L>On &s;uch as on a wilful vow,</L>
<L>do &s;lender reckning make.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="song">
<HEAD>A GODLY BALLAD</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the &s;ame Tune</OPENER>
<LG>
<L>ONe year begins, another ends,</L>
<L>our time doth pa&s;s and go,</L>
<L>And this to our in&s;truction <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ends,</L>
<L>if we could take it &s;o;</L>
<L>The Summer's hot, the Winter's cold,</L>
<L>who&s;e &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;on lets us &s;ee</L>
<L>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">outh is gone and we wax old,</L>
<L>like flowrs we <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> and die.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Men for the mo&s;t part do rejoice,</L>
<L>when &s;ons are to them born;</L>
<L>Who&s;e weeping eyes bewail their woes</L>
<L>our &s;infulne&s;&s;e to &s;corn:</L>
<L>They are the me&s;&s;engers of death,</L>
<L>our time is pa&s;&s;ing fa&s;t;</L>
<L>T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> the hour of fading breath,</L>
<L>then death us parts at la&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus mu&s;t we learn to &s;pend our dayes</L>
<L>in vertue as we ought:</L>
<L>In doing good make no delaies,</L>
<L>let &s;loath out of our thought:</L>
<L>The &s;loathful man yet ne're attain'd</L>
<L>to honour, wealth nor fame;</L>
<L>But manie have by vertue gain'd</L>
<L>a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ong long la&s;ting name,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In prime t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">me of our youth we &s;hould,</L>
<L>the &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ds of learning &s;ow,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span"> our vices, if we could,</L>
<L>and &s;inful lu&s;ts down throw</L>
<L>He that in time of youth takes pain,</L>
<L>his vertue to be&s;tow</L>
<L>In harve&s;t of his age again,</L>
<L>he grapes of grace &s;hal mow.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Since all things creat have an end,</L>
<L>nothing but fame remains:</L>
<L>Happie is he can wi&s;elie &s;pend</L>
<L>his time in vertuous p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ins:</L>
<L>For &s;oon the time &s;hal pa&s;s awaie,</L>
<L>and plea&s;ures &s;hal abide</L>
<L>O happie happie thrice are they,</L>
<L>who takes time at the tide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The tide of time doth flow full fa&s;t,</L>
<L>and quicklie ebs awaie:</L>
<L>And if our &s;hip lack &s;ail or ma&s;t,</L>
<L>our voyage mu&s;t delaie:</L>
<L>Our bodies are the brittle bark,</L>
<L>which &s;ails the fl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ods of fame;</L>
<L>But if through &s;loath we mi&s;s the mark,</L>
<L>we &s;ink in &s;eas of &s;hame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Occa&s;ion &s;he hath bair before,</L>
<L>but &s;he is held behind;</L>
<L>Lo&s;t time no travel can re&s;tore,</L>
<L>as many fools do find:</L>
<L>The little ants and honey bees,</L>
<L>in Summer laie up &s;tore,</L>
<L>For to provide for Winter &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">rms,</L>
<L>men ought to do much more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This have I done to plea&s;e your will,</L>
<L>now let me have my <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ire;</L>
<L>I have bewra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">'d my want of skil</L>
<L>in doing your de&s;ire:</L>
<L>The weakne&s;s of a womans wit,</L>
<L>is not through natures fault,</L>
<L>But lack of education fit</L>
<L>makes nature oft to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">alt</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS</TRAILER>
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