The Roxburghe ballads . hy pride and covetousness thou hast continued still:Provoke not God to wrath with thy most loathsome sin,But speedily to amend thy life with Prayers now begin. And therefore now, 0 England, at last for mercy cry,And grieve the Lord thy God no more, through thy iniquity ;Lest he forsake thee quite, and turn away his face,Because, like to Jerusalem, thou dost despise His Grace. Repent therefore, 0 England, repent ivhile thou hast space, And do not, like Jerusalem, despise Gods proffer1 d Grace. 114 JiniS. [Originally by Thomas Deloney, circd 1588. J London, Printed for F.
The Roxburghe ballads . hy pride and covetousness thou hast continued still:Provoke not God to wrath with thy most loathsome sin,But speedily to amend thy life with Prayers now begin. And therefore now, 0 England, at last for mercy cry,And grieve the Lord thy God no more, through thy iniquity ;Lest he forsake thee quite, and turn away his face,Because, like to Jerusalem, thou dost despise His Grace. Repent therefore, 0 England, repent ivhile thou hast space, And do not, like Jerusalem, despise Gods proffer1 d Grace. 114 JiniS. [Originally by Thomas Deloney, circd 1588. J London, Printed for F. Coles, T. Fere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke. [It is entered in D. Register of Stationers Comp. (p. 93), on 14th December,1624: in Black-letter. Two worn cuts: the inter-changeably-named citybeside a river, here, Jerusalem, and the kneeling man of A Letter for aChristian Family, p. 813. Date of this re-issue, before 1681; but composedoriginally soon alter the Spanish Armada was destroyed in 1588 : vide line 93.] 70. €f>e OLJonticrM agirato of our Horn. THE Roxhuryhe Ballad shewing the Wonderful Miracles of ourLord and Saviour Jesus Christ was already popular longbefore it was re-entered in the Registers in the Company ofStationers, 14th Dec, 1624, as When Jesus Christ was 12 (sic). The names of the associated publishers are given on p. 784. The first ballad on the list of one hundred and twenty-eight is Christes teares over Jerusalem (our p. 797).Others are When fair Jerusalem did stand; Joseph and Mary (p. 781); and the Clark ofBod nam (see p. 40, and the woodcut on p. 778).Lazarus, the brother of Martha and Mary ofBethany, is mentioned in this ballad, the eighthstanza; the larger cut, used for The DeadMans Song. The smaller woodcut representsS. John the Evangelist, holding the symbolical Cup which he was willing to drink, typicalof martyrdom, full of poisonous reptiles. These Religious Carols were sung topopular secular tunes. On p. 785, wehave indicated some of these and o
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