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<PB REF="1">
<HEAD>A mo&s;t notable Example of an vngracious Son, who in the pride of his heart denyed his owne Fathe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> and how God for his offence, turned his meat into loath&s;ome Toades.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the tune of Lord Darley.</OPENER>
<LG>
<L>IN &s;earching famou<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Chronicles,</L>
<L>it was my chance to reade</L>
<L>A worthy &s;tory &s;trang<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> and true,</L>
<L>whereto I t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">oke good heed,</L>
<L>Betwixt a <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd his Sonne,</L>
<L>this rar<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="6 letters"> &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ands;</L>
<L>Which well <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> moue th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> harde&s;t hearts</L>
<L>to w&eacute;epe and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ring the<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r hands.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Tho Farm<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> the Count<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">y dwelt,</L>
<L>who&s;e &s;ub&s;ta<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ce had none end;</L>
<L>He &s;ent therefore his elde&s;t Sonne,</L>
<L>in <HI>Par<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> to dwell,</L>
<L>Where he becau&s;e a Marchant man,</L>
<L>and trafficke great be v&s;ed,</L>
<L>So that he was exceeding rich,</L>
<L>till he him&s;elfe abu&s;ed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For hauing now the world at will,</L>
<L>his mind was wholly bent:</L>
<L>To gaming, wine, and wantonne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>till all <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> good<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> were &s;pent.</L>
<L>Yea &s;uch <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="5 letters">&s;iue riotou&s;ne&s;&s;e</L>
<L>by him was &s;hewed forth.</L>
<L>That he w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> three times more in debt,</L>
<L>then all his wealth was worth.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At length his credit cleane was crackt,</L>
<L>and he in Pri&s;on ca&s;t:</L>
<L>And euery man again&s;t him then</L>
<L>did &s;et his action fa&s;t.</L>
<L>There lay he lockt in yrons &s;trong,</L>
<L>for euer and for aye,</L>
<L>Vnable while his life did la&s;t,</L>
<L>his grieuous debt to pay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And liui<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">g in this carefull ca&s;e,</L>
<L>his eyes with teares be&s;pent:</L>
<L>The <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ewdne&s;&s;e of his former life,</L>
<L>too late he did repent.</L>
<L>And being voide of all reliefe,</L>
<L>of helpe and comfort quite;</L>
<L>Vnto his <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ather at the la&s;t,</L>
<L>he thu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> began to write.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Bow do<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ne a while your h&eacute;edfull eares,</L>
<L>my louing Father deare:</L>
<L>And gra<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> pray in gracious &s;ort,</L>
<L>my pitiou<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> plaint to beare.</L>
<L>For<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">iu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> foule <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ffences all</L>
<L>of thy vnth<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ifty Sonne&punc;</L>
<L>Which through the lewdne&s;&s;e of his life,</L>
<L>hath now him&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">lfe vndone.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O my <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ood <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ther, take remor&s;e</L>
<L>on this my <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">treme need,</L>
<L>And &s;uccour hi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> di&s;tre&s;&s;ed &s;tate,</L>
<L>who&s;e heart for whe doth bleed.</L>
<L>In dire<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ull dungeon here I lye,</L>
<L>my feet in fetters fa&s;t:</L>
<L>Whom my mo&s;t cruell Creditors</L>
<L>in Pri<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">n &s;o haue ca&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let pity therefore pierce your bre&s;t,</L>
<L>and mercy moue your minde:</L>
<L>And to relea&s;e my mi&s;ery,</L>
<L>&s;ome &s;hift, &s;w&eacute;et Father, find.</L>
<L>My chiefe&s;t ch&eacute;ere is bread full browne,</L>
<L>the boords my &s;ofte&s;t bed:</L>
<L>And flinty &s;tones my pillowes &s;erue</L>
<L>to re&s;t my troubled head.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My garments all are worne to rags,</L>
<L>my body &s;tarues with cold:</L>
<L>And crawling vermine eates my fle&s;h,</L>
<L>mo&s;t grieuous to behold.</L>
<L>Deare Father, come therefore with &s;p&eacute;ed</L>
<L>and rid me out of thrall:</L>
<L>And let me not in Pri&s;on dye,</L>
<L>&s;ith for your helpe I call.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The good old man no &s;oonerhad</L>
<L>peru&s;ed this written &s;crowle:</L>
<L>But trickling teares along his ch&eacute;ekes,</L>
<L>from watry eyes did roule.</L>
<L>Alas my &s;onne, my &s;onne, quoth he,</L>
<L>in whom I ioyed mo&s;t,</L>
<L>Thou &s;hall not long in Pri&s;on be,</L>
<L>what-euer it me co&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Two hundred heads of well fed bea&s;ts,</L>
<L>he changed them for gold:</L>
<L>Foure hundred quarters of good Corne,</L>
<L>for &s;iluer eke he &s;old.</L>
<L>But all the &s;ame could not &s;uffice,</L>
<L>this haynous debt to pay,</L>
<L>Till at the length con&s;train'd he was</L>
<L>to &s;ell his Land away.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then was his &s;onne relea&s;ed quite,</L>
<L>his debt di&s;charged cleane:</L>
<L>And he likewi&s;e as well to liue,</L>
<L>as he before had b&eacute;ene.</L>
<L>Then went his louing Father home,</L>
<L>who for to helpe his &s;onne,</L>
<L>Had &s;old his liuing quite away,</L>
<L>and eke him&s;elfe vndone.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>So that he liued poore and bare,</L>
<L>and in &s;uch extreme n&eacute;ed,</L>
<L>That many times he wanted food,</L>
<L>his hungry corps to f&eacute;ed.</L>
<L>His &s;on meane time in woolth did &s;wim,</L>
<L>who&s;e &s;ub&s;tance now was &s;uch,</L>
<L>That &s;ure within the City then,</L>
<L>few men were <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">und &s;o rich.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But as his goods did &s;till encrea&s;e,</L>
<L>and riches in did &s;lide:</L>
<L>So more and more his hardned heart</L>
<L>did &s;well in hatefull pride:</L>
<L>But it fell out vpon a time,</L>
<L>when ten y&eacute;eres woe was pa&s;t,</L>
<L>Vnto his &s;onne he did repaire,</L>
<L>for &s;ome reliefe at la&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And being come vnto his hou&s;e,</L>
<L>in very poore array:</L>
<L>It chanced &s;o, that with his &s;onne</L>
<L>great States &s;hould dine that day.</L>
<L>The poore old man with hat in hand,</L>
<L>did then the Porter pray,</L>
<L>To &s;hew his &s;onne that at the gate</L>
<L>his father there did &s;tay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whereat this proud di&s;dainefull wretc<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>with taunting &s;peeches &s;aid:</L>
<L>That long agoe his Fathers bones</L>
<L>within his graue were laid:</L>
<L>What Ra&s;call then is that (quoth he)</L>
<L>that &s;taineth &s;o my &s;tate?</L>
<L>I charge th&eacute;e Porter pre&s;ently,</L>
<L>to driue him from my gate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which an&s;wer when the old man hea<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>he was in mind di&s;mayd:</L>
<L>He wept, he waild, he wrung his hand</L>
<L>and thus at length he &s;aid,</L>
<L>O cur&s;ed wretch and mo&s;t vnkind,</L>
<L>the worker of my woe,</L>
<L>Thou mon&s;ter of humanity,</L>
<L>and eke thy fathers foe:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Haue I b&eacute;ene carefull of thy ca&s;e,</L>
<L>maintaining &s;till thy &s;tate:</L>
<L>And do&s;t thou now &s;o doggedly</L>
<L>inforce me from thy gate:</L>
<L>And haue I wrong'd thy brethren all</L>
<L>from thrall to &s;et th&eacute;e fr&eacute;e:</L>
<L>And brought my &s;elfe to beggers &s;tate</L>
<L>and all to &s;uccour th&eacute;e?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Woe worth the time when fir&s;t of all</L>
<L>thy body I e&s;pide,</L>
<L>Which hath in hardne&s;&s;e of thy heart,</L>
<L>thy Fathers face denide.</L>
<L>But now behold how God that time</L>
<L>did &s;hew a wonder great:</L>
<L>Euen where his &s;on with all his frien</L>
<L>were &s;ettled downe to meat.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For when the faire&s;t pye was cut,</L>
<L>a &s;trange and dreadfull ca&s;e,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t vgly Toades came crawling</L>
<L>and leaped at his face.</L>
<L>Then did this wretch his fault confe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>and for his Father &s;ent,</L>
<L>And for his great ingratitude,</L>
<L>full &s;ore he did repent.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>All vertuous Children learne by thi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>obedient hearts to &s;hew:</L>
<L>And honour &s;till your Parents deare</L>
<L>for God commanded &s;o.</L>
<L>And thinke how he did turne his m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"></L>
<L>to poy&s;oned Toades ind&eacute;ed,</L>
<L>Which did his Fathers face deny,</L>
<L>becau&s;e he &s;tood in n&eacute;ed.</L>
</LG>
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<P>Printed at London for H. Go&s;&s;on.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
<PB REF="1" MS="y">
<HEAD>A mo&s;t excellent Ballad, of an old man and his wife, who in their great want and mi&s;ery fought to Children for &s;uccour, by whom they were di&s;dained, and &s;cornefully &s;ent away &s;uccourle&s;&s;e, and Gods vengeance &s;hewed vpon them for the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the tune of Pri&s;c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">lla.</OPENER>
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</FIGURE></P>
<LG>
<L>IT was an old man which with his poore wife</L>
<L>in great di&s;tre&s;&s;e did fall:</L>
<L>They were &s;o f&eacute;eble with age God wot,</L>
<L>they could not worke at all.</L>
<L>A gallant Sonne they had,</L>
<L>which liued wealthily:</L>
<L>To him they went with full intent,</L>
<L>to ea&s;e their mi&s;ery.</L>
<L>Alacke and alas for woe, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A hundred miles when they had gone,</L>
<L>with many a weary &s;tep:</L>
<L>At length they &s;aw their Sons faire hou&s;e,</L>
<L>which made their hearts to leape.</L>
<L>They &s;ate them on the gr&eacute;ene,</L>
<L>their &s;hooes and ho&s;e to trim:</L>
<L>To put cleane bands about their neckes,</L>
<L>again&s;t they &s;hould enter in. Alack, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Vnto the doore with trembling ioynts,</L>
<L>when tho&s;e old couple came:</L>
<L>The woman with a &s;haking head,</L>
<L>the old man blind and &s;ame:</L>
<L>Full mannerly they knockt,</L>
<L>fearing for to offend:</L>
<L>At la&s;t their Son doth frowningly come</L>
<L>vnto them in the end. Alack, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Good folks, quoth he, what would you haue here,</L>
<L>me thinkes you are too bole?</L>
<L>Why get you not home to your Country</L>
<L>now you are lame and old?</L>
<L>With that they both replyed,</L>
<L>with &s;orrow, care, and griefe:</L>
<L>Here are we come to th&eacute;e our Sonne,</L>
<L>for &s;uccour and reliefe. Alack, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This is thy Father (gentle Sonne)</L>
<L>and I thy louing Mother:</L>
<L>That brought th&eacute;e vp &s;o tenderly,</L>
<L>and lou'd th&eacute;e aboue all other:</L>
<L>I bare th&eacute;e in this wombe,</L>
<L>the&s;e bre&s;ts did nouri&s;h th&eacute;e:</L>
<L>And as it chau&s;t, &amp; often dan&s;t</L>
<L>th&eacute;e on my tender knee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And humbly now we th&eacute;e intreat,</L>
<L>my deare and louing Sonne:</L>
<L>That thou wilt doe for vs in our age,</L>
<L>as we for th&eacute;e haue done.</L>
<L>Nay nay, not &s;o, he &s;aid,</L>
<L>your &s;ute is all in vaine:</L>
<L>Tis be&s;t for you, I tell you true,</L>
<L>to get you home againe. Alack, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The world is not now as when I was born</L>
<L>all things are growne, more deare:</L>
<L>My charge of Children likewi&s;e is great,</L>
<L>as plainely doth appeare.</L>
<L>The be&s;t that I can doe,</L>
<L>will hardly them maintaine:</L>
<L>Therefore I &s;ay, be packing away,</L>
<L>and get you home againe. Alacke, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The old man with his hat in his hand,</L>
<L>full many a legge did make:</L>
<L>The woman wept and wrung her hands,</L>
<L>and prayed him for Chri&s;t his &s;ake</L>
<L>Not &s;o to &s;end them backe,</L>
<L>di&s;tre&s;&s;ed and vndone:</L>
<L>But let vs lie in &s;ome Barne hereby,</L>
<L>quoth &s;he, my louing Sonne. Alack, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By no meanes would he thereto con&s;ent,</L>
<L>but &s;ent them &s;oone away:</L>
<L>Quoth he, You know the perill of Law,</L>
<L>if long time here you &s;tay:</L>
<L>The &s;tockes and the whipping poa&s;t</L>
<L>will fall vnto your &s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e:</L>
<L>Then take you h&eacute;ed, and with all &s;p&eacute;e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>to your Country doe repaire. Alack, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Away then went this wofull old man,</L>
<L>full &s;ad in heart and minde:</L>
<L>With w&eacute;eping teares his wife did lament</L>
<L>their Sonne was &s;o vnkinde.</L>
<L>Thou wicked Childe, quoth they,</L>
<L>for this thy cruell d&eacute;ed,</L>
<L>The Lord &s;end th&eacute;e as little pitty</L>
<L>when thou do&s;t &s;tand in n&eacute;ed.</L>
<L>Alack and alas for woe, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His children hearing their Father &s;et</L>
<L>his Parents thus at nought:</L>
<L>In &s;hort time after to haue his Land,</L>
<L>his death by &s;ubtlety wrought:</L>
<L>What cau&s;e haue we, quoth they,</L>
<L>more kindne&s;&s;e to expre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Then he vnto his Parents did</L>
<L>in their great wretchedne&s;&s;e?</L>
<L>Alacke and alas &s;o? woe, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>They murthered him in pittifull &s;ort,</L>
<L>they waid not his intreats,</L>
<L>The more he pray'd compa&s;&s;ionatly,</L>
<L>the greater were their threats,</L>
<L>Speake not to vs, quoth they,</L>
<L>for thou the death &s;halt die:</L>
<L>And with that word, with dagger &amp; &s;w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"></L>
<L>they mangled him mon&s;trou&s;ly.</L>
<L>Alack and alas for woe, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When they had got his &s;iluer and gold,</L>
<L>according to their mind:</L>
<L>They buried him in a &s;tinking ditch,</L>
<L>where no man &s;hould him find.</L>
<L>But now behold and &s;&eacute;e,</L>
<L>Gods vengance on them all:</L>
<L>To gaine their gold, their Cou&s;in came,</L>
<L>and &s;lew them great and &s;mall.</L>
<L>Alacke and alas for woe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He came among them with a great clu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>in dead time of the night,</L>
<L>Yea two of the Sons he braind therewi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>and taking of his flight,</L>
<L>The murtherer taken was,</L>
<L>and &s;uffered for the &s;ame:</L>
<L>De&s;erued for their cruelty,</L>
<L>this vengance vpon them cam<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Alack and alas therefore,</L>
<L>Alack and alas therefore.</L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="colophon">
<P>Printed <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t London by E. <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"></P>
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