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<HEAD>The lamentation of <HI>Edward Bruton,</HI> and <HI>James Riley,</HI> who for the bloody murder committed on the bodies of <HI>Henry Howell,</HI> and his wife, vpon Queenes Downe, were execu|ted and hanged in chaines, neere the &s;ame place on the 18. day of March. 1633.</HEAD>
<OPENER><HI>To the tune of, <HI>Fortune my Foe.</HI></HI></OPENER>
<LG>
<L>KInd Countreymen and our acquaintance all,</L>
<L>Example take by this our &s;odaine fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">l,</L>
<L>Dip not your bands in blood that's innocent,</L>
<L>For which offence we both too &s;ate repent.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The crying &s;innes of murther pierceth heauen,</L>
<L>And great repentance craues to be forgiuen,</L>
<L>One bloody d&eacute;ed de&s;erues ten thou&s;and deaths:</L>
<L>But we bereaued diuers of their breaths.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The harmele&s;&s;e man that did no hurt intend,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">tcher-like we brought unto his end,</L>
<L>And that good woman his mo&s;t louing wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s</L>
<L>Inhumanely bereaned we of life,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She great with child (oh how it grieues our hearts</L>
<L>That we &s;hould act &s;uch bloody tragicke parts!)</L>
<L>The harmele&s;&s;e in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ant that was in her wombe,</L>
<L>We likewi&s;e &s;lew, who&s;e mother was its tombe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Their other children &s;itting by the fire</L>
<L>We likewi&s;e hurt, who mercy did require,</L>
<L>But we no mercy had, nor grace at all,</L>
<L>When as the&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">es for life did cry and call.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And for the &s;ame no mercy here we find:</L>
<L>De&s;erved death are for our &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">es a&s;&s;ign'd,</L>
<L>Death is our doome, we here our <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ues mu&s;t pay,</L>
<L>Our gla&s;&s;e is out, this is our dying day.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A Samele&s;&s;e end for our mo&s;t &s;hamefull &s;inne</L>
<L>We mu&s;t receiue, that we haue liued in,</L>
<L>Here on this tree we mu&s;t re&s;igne our breath:</L>
<L>Yet <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s not all, though here we dis this death.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Our bodies mu&s;t no but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">all place po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>This is our doome for our vild wickedne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Twixt Earth &amp; Hea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> we here mo&s;t hang in chains</L>
<L>As lung as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, fle&s;h or bones remaines.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Fowles of the aire our eyes they forth will p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ll,</L>
<L>F&eacute;ed on our fle&s;h, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">eck vpon our &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ull,</L>
<L>We &s;hall be pointing &s;tocks to euery one</L>
<L>That pa&s;&s;eth by, though we are dead and gone.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Earth &s;cornes to hide our bodies from the light,</L>
<L>But in the ayre mu&s;t tottering hang in &s;ight.</L>
<L>And here in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ent we ne're &s;hall bee forgot,</L>
<L>Although our i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s by piecemeale dropping <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">,</L>
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<LG>
<L>Vnto each other Trauellers will &s;ay.</L>
<L>S&eacute;e you tho&s;e Murtherets, as they pa&s;&s;e this way,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e are the villat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">es that the blood did &s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"></L>
<L>Of innocents, thats hanging on yon hill.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus &s;hall we be di&s;cour&s;e for after-times,</L>
<L>Which we de&s;erue mo&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">y for our crimes,</L>
<L>And we &s;hall be recorded for this <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">,</L>
<L>That we &s;o mercile&s;&s;e and foule did <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ct.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Great God forgiue our &s;innes that are &s;o foule,</L>
<L>And unto mercy take each &s;infull Soule,</L>
<L>Deale not in Iu&s;tice with our &s;innes, O Lord,</L>
<L>But grace and pardon to our &s;oules afford.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thy mercy (Lord) is great than our &s;inne,</L>
<L>And if thou plea&s;e in Heauen to let vs in,</L>
<L>We doe repent vs of our wicked deed,</L>
<L>The thought of which doth make our &s;ou&s;es to bl&eacute;ed&punc;</L>
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<LG>
<L>But woe to him that was the cau&s;e of this,</L>
<L>Which did iutice vs fir&s;t to doe ami&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>Oh bloody Darbie, it wes long of th&eacute;e</L>
<L>We did con&s;ent to do this vilianie.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Though thou art fled, yet God will find thee out,</L>
<L>And will take vengeance on thee, there's no doubt,</L>
<L>Hee'l not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">et &s;cape &s;o foule and vile a crime,</L>
<L>As he hath iu&s;tly done on vs this time.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But we confe&s;&s;e, we have de&s;eru'd to dys,</L>
<L>And to the Lord we now for mercy cry:</L>
<L>Receiue vs, Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, to t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ee we pray,</L>
<L>Wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e precious blood wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> all our &s;innes away.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Thus haue you heard how the&s;e &s;ame two did dye,</L>
<L>Ending their times with &s;hame and infamy,</L>
<L>And one of them that was on th'other &s;ide,</L>
<L>Connected, and a Prote<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ant he dide.</L>
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<LG>
<L>The Lord (no doubt) to them did mercy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">end,</L>
<L>Who were &s;o peni<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ent before their and,</L>
<L>Their &s;oules I hope in Heauen sho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> dwell&punc;</L>
<L>But yet another bloody &s;ale I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ell.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<HEAD>Another Bloody murther committed neere VVare, in Hart|ford&s;hire, by &s;ome notorious offenders, who were execu|ted in the &s;ame moneth.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the &s;ame Tune.</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>KInd hearts giue eare to that which I &s;hall <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ell</L>
<L>Of a &s;ad &s;tory which of late befell,</L>
<L>In Hartforo&s;hire n&eacute;ere Ware did chance this thin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">,</L>
<L>Which cau&s;'d &s;alt teares from many eyes to &s;pring.</L>
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<L>Two men were riding in an euening late,</L>
<L>That had a charge of money and e&s;tate,</L>
<L>And home ward they intended for to goe,</L>
<L>But de&s;tiny doth oftentimes &s;ay no.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And for the&s;e men foure villaines they did watch,</L>
<L>Which had way<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> layd the~ <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ow they them might catch:</L>
<L>At him which was the formo&s;t they did lay,</L>
<L>But this &s;wift hor&s;e did beare him &s;afe away.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The vext they hit, and fell'd him to the ground,</L>
<L>And <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ng him, they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e him many a wound,</L>
<L>So leauing him, as they did thinke for dead&punc;</L>
<L>Hauing his gold, away they &s;treightway fl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet one of them did backward ca&s;t his eye,</L>
<L>And did perceiue him &s;tir as he did lye,</L>
<L>Saying, Ile backe, and giue him his deaths bla<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>For euery one of vs he well doth know.</L>
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<LG>
<L>And with his &s;taffe his braynes be out did be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">fe.</L>
<L>Then &s;traight this villains to them did retreats;</L>
<L>But marke how God did bring this thing &s;o light,</L>
<L>For blood and murther he will &s;oone requ<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e.</L>
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<L>One of the&s;e theeues a p&eacute;ete of Gold would chang<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>With one that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> to him, that did thi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ke it &s;tran<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>He &s;hould haue gold, yet not the vale<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> knew,</L>
<L>Into &s;u&s;pition &s;traite his mind it drein.</L>
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<LG>
<L>And hearing of the murther done of late,</L>
<L>Would vnder&s;tand how he came by this &s;tate,</L>
<L>And t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">reatning him, he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">oufe&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> way,</L>
<L>Both him and th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">m which that &s;ame man did <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
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<LG>
<L>They were conui<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ted, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> by Law were tride,</L>
<L>And for the &s;ame all foure <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> the act <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">y di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</L>
<L>And <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e that la&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e, did &s;uffer <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">,</L>
<L>Iu&s;t in the place <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;pirit the true mans brea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">h.</L>
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<L>And at the common Execution place,</L>
<L>The other three did and their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">:</L>
<L>A iu&s;t reward for murtherers <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">,</L>
<L>That beare &s;o ba&s;e and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> a bloody mind.</L>
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<L>For he that &s;its aboue the heauenly &s;kye,</L>
<L>V<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ewes all below with his all &s;eeing e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</L>
<L>And will take vengeance when he &s;ees his will,</L>
<L>On all that glories harmele&s;&s;e blood to &s;pill&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Great God, pre&s;erue vs from all &s;odaine death,</L>
<L>Prepare our &s;oules before we lo&s;e our breath,</L>
<L>Make vs all ready for the any to c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e,</L>
<L>When thou &s;halt giue to euery one <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span">.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS,</TRAILER>
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<P>London, Printed for <HI>H. G.</HI></P>
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