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lord_n	day_n	time_n	word_n	15,308	5	4.0545	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13795	A pleasant new ballad of Tobias wherin is shewed: the wonderfull things which chanced to him in his youth; and how he wedded a young damsell that had had seven husbands and never enjoyed their company: who were all slaine by a wicked spirit.		1640 (1640)	STC 24094; ESTC S101990	2,012	2

A pleasant new Ballad of Tobias wherin is shewed the wonderfull things which chanced to him in his youth and how he wedded a young Damsell that had had seven husbands and never enjoyed their company who were all slaine by a wicked spirit IN Ninivie old Toby dwelt an aged man and blind was he And much affliction he had felt which brought him unto poverty He had by Anna his true wife one onely sonne and eke no more Which was the comfort of his life and he by him did set great store He brought him up most vertuously in true obedience and awe And every day he did apply to feare the Lord and kéepe his Law Upon a time it came to passe he call'd to him his sonne with spéed And thus to him his words did frame my sonne quoth he thou knost my nééd Thou must unto Gabael goe at Raguels in Media land For I did lend him long agoe ten talents on his only band My father deare Tobias said at your command straight will I goe How shall I get the money paid séeing the man I did never know Take here the writing then quoth he which is sufficient being séene And get a guide to goe with thée sith thou that way hast never béene A Guid Tobias sonne had got an Angell in the shape of man Which thing he did not know God wot the Lord did so appoint it than Tobias with his blessed guide went on his iourney then with spéed Untill they came to Tigris side at that faire flood they did abide Tobias would wash him there by reason of the Summers heat A mighty fish put him in feare which leapt out of the waters great Cut up the fish the Angell said but kéep the Liver Heart and Gall To doe the same be not afraid great cures there shall be done withall When this was done away they went and comming néere their iourneys end Wée 'll lodge to night the Angell said with Raguel thy fathers friend He hath a daughter faire of face and also of a vertuous life And when we come into that place I le speake that the may be thy wife Why Azarias then quoth he so Toby did the Angell call I wis the is no mate for me swift death doth to her Lovers fall Seven men have to her married béen which in her love did take delight When her bed chamber they have séen they have not liv'd out halfe the night A wicked spirit loves her so he will not suffer any man With her into the bed to goe but works his death do what he can The Angell said good courage take for so it shall not be with thée For such perfumes I will thee make the wicked spirit away shall flée To Raguels house away they came where Sara met them faire and bright And after salutations done she brought him to her Parents sight The second part to the same tune GReat chéere they made downe they sat and all for young Tobias sake And after long and pleasant chat betwixt these two a match they made By Moses Law they married were the Brides chamber prepar'd likewise When young Tobias came in there the teares fell downe from Sara's eyes A pan of coales he brought with him the fishes heart and liver there Within that fire did he cast in which cast a savour every where And by that swéet and precious smell the wicked spirit was displac't Within that roome he could not dwell where out away he went in hast In bed they laid the beauteous Bride the chamber doore they shut therefore young Toby lay downe by her side whom he did thinke to sée no more And therefore Raguel in the night for him before had made a grave And to his wife he wept and said there is no meanes his life to save One of the maidens send quoth he to sée how all the matter stands If it be so that dead he be he shall be buried by my hands The maiden ioyfull newes did bring Tobias is a live quoth she When Raguel heard of this thing he did reioyce excéedingly For ioy he● a solemne feast the Bridell 〈◊〉 ●●ye● he kept Thereto c 〈…〉 a friendly guest in sorrow now no more they slept Then Azarias went straight way and to the feast Gabael brought Reioycing at this marriage day did pay the mony which he ought But yet old Toby and his wife did all the time in sorrow dwell They thought their sonne had lost his life and nothing could their griefe expell His aged mother every day did watch along the high way side And for his welfare oft did pray no meat nor drinke she could abide But when the wedding ended was young Toby with his lovely Bride To Ninivy did home ward passe with goods and cattell on each side But Toby and the Angell bright before his Wife made haste to go For to prepare all things aright his lovely Bride to welcome tho His mother watching in the way full soone espy'd her tender sonne Reioycing at the happy day she told her husband he was come Whereat old Toby stumbled out for he was blind and could not sée Young Toby with the fishes Gall rub'd both his eyes immediatly Whereat the whitenesse of his eyes incontinent did fall out quite So that before he did arise he had againe his perfect sight Great ioy was then on every side young Toby told his father all Who went to méet his lovely Bride with ioy and mirth that was not small Finis Printed at London for F. Coules dwelling in the Old-Baily