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The Babes in the wood
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1695
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Wing B246A; ESTC R34205
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THE BABES IN THE WOOD NOW ponder well you Parents dear the words which I shall write A doleful Story you shall hear in time brought forth to Light A Gentle-man of good account in Northfolk dwelt of late Whose Wealth Riches did surmount most Men of his Estate 2 Sore sick he was and like to die no help then could he have His Wife with him as sick did ly and both possest one Grave No Love between these two was lost each was to other kind In Love they liv'd in Love they dy'd and left two Babes behind 3 The one a fine pretty Boy not passing three years old The other a Girl more young then he and made in Beauty's Mold The Father left his little Son as plainly doth appear When he to perfite Age should come three hundred Pounds a year 4 And to his little Daughter Jean Two hundred Pounds of Gold To be paid down on Marriage-day which might not be controld But if the Children chance to die ere they to Age should come Their Uncle should possess their Wealth for so the Will did run 5 Now Brother said the dying Man look to my Children dear Be good unto my Boy and Girl no Friends else have I here To God and You I do commend my Children night and day A little while be sure we have within this World to stay 6 You must be Father and Mother both and Uncle all in one GOD knows what will become of them when I am dead and gone With that then spake their Mother dear O Brother kind quoth she Thou art the Man must bring my Babes to Wealth or Miserie 7 If you do keep them carefully then GOD will you reward If otherways you seem to deal GOD will your deeds regard With Lips as cold as any Stone they kist those Children small GOD bless you both my Children dear with that the Tears did fall 8 These speeches then the Brother spoke to the sick Couple there The keeping of your Children dear sweet Sister do not fear GOD never prosper me nor mine or ought else that I have If I do wrong your Children dear when you are laid in Grave 9 Their Parents being dead and gone the Children home he takes And brings them home unto his House and much of them he makes He had not kept these pretty Babes a Twelve-mouth and a Day But for their Wealth he did devise to make them both away 10 He bargain'd with two Ruffians rude which were of furious mood That they should take the Children young and slay them in a Wood And told his Wife and all he had he did the Children send To be brought up in fair London with one that was a Friend 11 Away then went these prety Babes rejoycing at the Tide Rejoycing with a merry Mind they should on Horse-back ride They prat and prattle pleasantly as they rode on the way To those that should their Butchers be and work their Lives decay 12 So that the pretty speech they had made Mnrtherers Hearts relent And they that took the deed to do full sore they did repent Yet one of them more hard of Heart did vow to do his Charge Because the Wretch that hired him had pay'd him very large 13 The other would not agree thereto so there they fell at strife With one another they did fight about the Childrens Life And he that was of mildest Mood did slay the other there Within an unfrequented Wood where Babes did quake for fear 14 He took the Childeen by the Hand when tears stood in their Eye And bad them come along with him and look they did not cry And two long Miles he led them thus while they for bread complain Stay here quoth he I 'le bring you Bread when I do come again 15 The pretty Babes with hand in hand went wand'ring up and down But never more they saw the Man appoaching from the Town Their pretty Lips with black Berries were all besmear'd and dy'd And when they saw me darksome Night they sat them down and cry'd 16 Thus wand'red these two pretty Babes till Death did end their Grief In one anothers Arms they dy'd as Babes wanting relief No Burial these pretty Babes of any Man receives Till Robin-red-breast painfully did cover them with Leaves 17 And now the heavy Wrath of GOD upon their Uncle fell â—â—ea fearful Fiends did haunt his House his Conscience felt an Hell His Barns were fir'd his Goods consum'd his Lands were barren made His Cattle dy'd within the House and nothing with him staid 18 And in a Voyage to Portugal two of his Sons did die And to conclude himself was brought unto much Miserie He pawn'd and morgag'd all his Land ere seven Years came about And now at length this wicked Act by this means did come out 19 The Fellow that did take in hand these Children for to kill Was for a Robber judg'd to die as was GOD's blessed Will Who did confess the very truth the which is here exprest Their Uncle dy'd while he for Debt did long in Prison rest 20 All you that be Exec'tors made and overseers eke Of Children that be Fatherless and Infants mild and meek Take you Example by this thing and yield to each his Right Lest GOD with such like Miseries your wicked Minds requite FINIS THE RAINY BOW OR A sweet Dialogue betwixt CHRIST and the SOUL very pleasant and comfortable to all good CHRISTIANS newly corrected and amended To its own proper sweet Tune SOUL THrough and throw the Rainy-bow Which shines both red green Lord The heavenly Colours that we see Shews us the Seas between LORD SOUL Then help me through thy Sea O LORD Thy Firmament above LORD That I may meet with JESUS CHRIST He is my only Love LORD SOUL Send down thy Boat with Angels float Be Ferriour to me LORD My sweet Redeemer refuse me not Because I trust in thee LORD CHRIST I hear thy call tho' ne're so small Thy thoughts I know right well Man Thy sighing Groans thy heavy Moans Thou needs not them conceal Man CHRIST Then leave ill life wicked Strife And turn to ME with Zeal Man And thou shalt have that blessed Life My Favour thou shalt feel Man CHRIST Still must thou strive whilst thou' rt alive Against these Enemies three Man The Devil the World and wicked Flesh If thou wouldst dwell with ME Man CHRIST And Sin abhorr for evermore Hate Fraud continually Man If thou wouldst have that heavenly Glore That is prepar'd for thee Man SOUL Fain would I strive whilst I 'm alive My Enemies are strong LORD I may not bide another tide For fear I tarry long LORD SOUL Wilt thou send down thy blessed Sp'rit Then with thy helping Hand LORD And help me through that Jordan Flood Unto that promiss'd Land LORD SOUL The Land of Life which ends our strife This Land fain would I see LORD That I who am thy spoused Wife May gladly meet with thee LORD SOUL Thou for to reign and I to sing In Glore continually LORD Thou art our Priest both Head King Therefore I 'le dwell with thee LORD CHRIST Yet you must bide another tide Or else thou shalt not win Man My Captain Death must cut thy Breath Before thou enter in Man. CHRIST My holy Sp'rit thy Guide is sweet Must purge thee from all Sin Man Thou must have beetter washen Feet Before thou enter in Man. SOUL Then make me clean to GOD I mean For that is my desire LORD And thou shalt have this Soul of mine Then take it for thine Hyre LORD SOUL To reign in Glore for evemore Into the Heavens Empire LORD Alas my Soul is deeply snar'd Drowned in sinful myre LORD FINIS