. The life of Long Meg of Westminster: containing the mad merry pranks she played in her life time, not onely in performing sundry quarrels with divers ruffians about London, but also how valiantly she behaued her selfe in the warres of Bolloingne . z& shee tooke pressemoney to goe to Bulloigne. The eleucnth containeth how she beat the French-men from the wallesof Bulloigne, and behaued her selfe so valiantly, that the Kinggaue her eight pence a day for her life. The twelfth containeth her combate shee had with a Frenchmanbefore the walls of Bulloigne, and what was the issue of thecomba i. The
. The life of Long Meg of Westminster: containing the mad merry pranks she played in her life time, not onely in performing sundry quarrels with divers ruffians about London, but also how valiantly she behaued her selfe in the warres of Bolloingne . z& shee tooke pressemoney to goe to Bulloigne. The eleucnth containeth how she beat the French-men from the wallesof Bulloigne, and behaued her selfe so valiantly, that the Kinggaue her eight pence a day for her life. The twelfth containeth her combate shee had with a Frenchmanbefore the walls of Bulloigne, and what was the issue of thecomba i. The thirteenth containeth her comming into England, and how shereus married, and how she behaued herselfe to her Husband. The four eteenth containing a pleasant jest, how she vsed the angryMiller of Epping in Essex. The fifteenth of the mad prank shee plaid with a Water-man ofLambeth. The sixteenth how shee kept a house at Islington, and what lawesshe had there to be obserued. The seuenteenth hozo she vsed lames Dickins, that was called huf-fing Dicke. The eighteenth how shee was sicke, and visited by a Frier who en-joyned her Penance, and what absolution she gaue him afterfor his paines. THE LIFE AND PRANKES OF Cong jfletj of CHAP. I. Containeth where she was borne, how she came vp to London, and how she beate the Carrier. ?N the time of Henry the eighth of famousmemory, there was borne of very honest andwealthy Parents, a Maid called for her in heighth, Long Meg: for she did notonely passe all the rest of her Country in thelength of her proportion, but euery limbe wasso fit to her talnesse, that she seemed thepicture and shape of some tall man cast in a womans Meg growing to the age of eighteene, would needs come vpto London to serue, and to learne City fashions: and althoughher friends perswaded her to the contrary, yet forsooth she haddetermined, and vp she would. Wherefore she resolued to comevp, with a Carrier a neighbour of hers, called F
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