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A93986 Strange and vvonderful news from Nevvberry: concerning a youth that was choak'd by eating of custard Being a new ballad to that new tune, called; God prosper long our noble king, &c. 1684 (1684) Wing S5866; ESTC R232818 939 2

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Strange and VVonderful News from NEVVBERRY Concerning a Youth that was Choak'd by Eating of Custard Being a New Ballad to that New Tune called God Prosper long our Noble King c. 1. LEt Totnam Court and Islington and Paddington also Attend with Lamentation unto a tale of woe 2. Although 't is strange 't is true no doubt there 's nothing can be newer It is into the News-book put there 's nothing can be truer 3. Of many terrible sorts of Death you have often heard I wiss But never heard in all my life by such a cause as this 4. At Newberry that fatal place where many a man was Mustur'd And lost his Life O there it was a Youth was choak'd with Custard 5. There liv'd this pretty dapper youth who was of middle stature Chuf was his Name in very truth and tender was his nature 6. Two pence in Custard did him choak and brought his Courage down When Death took him good faith he took the Cream of all the Town 7. He with a Boy a Wager laid He would a Custard eat Before the Boy should run so far and back again retreat 8. The people all assembled were to see this piece of Wit They both did meet and started fair one stept the other bit 9. The Nimble Lad did run and laugh so through the way he scour'd That he was coming back e're half the Custard was devour'd 10. The Eating Champion seeing this much like Jack Puddings Bastard Thrust t'other half into his Throat so Choak't himself with Custard 11. The suffocating Custard wrought within his Gullet so That to the ground he tumbled down a woful overthrow 12. A spark of Fire consumes a House small Poison makes one saint A Sword will mortifie a Whale a Mouse an Elephant 13. But never did I know the Chuff under my Lord Mayors roof Unless they brought it scalding hot that was not Custard proof 14. Let this a Warning be to you that go to Islington Custard will kill Experience shows as quick as any Gun 15. Beware you that on Holydays abroad do feast your Wives For you that feed on Custard go in danger of your Lives Epitaph To the Tune of Whittingtons Bells Vnder this Stone lyes one Who wrought his Finis And with a Trick of 's own was kill'd with kindness He dy'd in such a case no Death can match it A Custard to him was Pap with a Hatchet He might as well have been brain'd with a Silk Fan As to lose his life in a little Milk-pan Though the great Guns and Pikes have loudly bluster'd There is no Weapon like Long Spoon and Custard LONDON Printed for Charles Corbet MDCLXXXIV