. The Roxburghe ballads. tion:All you that do come for to see this sad sight,Pray pitty a poor \_mifortunate Knight /] 64 Let reason prevail, and your conscience convinceThat you ought to obey your most Sovereign Prince;For I do confess, at this minute of death,A more merciful Prince never yet did draw breathThan BrittaMs great Charles, who rules in the nation,True Subjects delight, and the worlds admiration:TM by doing of things too unjust, and not right,I now am \_a distressed, unfortunate Knighf\. 72 And now, all my friends, I must bid you adieu, The time is but short I can tarry with you.
. The Roxburghe ballads. tion:All you that do come for to see this sad sight,Pray pitty a poor \_mifortunate Knight /] 64 Let reason prevail, and your conscience convinceThat you ought to obey your most Sovereign Prince;For I do confess, at this minute of death,A more merciful Prince never yet did draw breathThan BrittaMs great Charles, who rules in the nation,True Subjects delight, and the worlds admiration:TM by doing of things too unjust, and not right,I now am \_a distressed, unfortunate Knighf\. 72 And now, all my friends, I must bid you adieu, The time is but short I can tarry with you. Oh! learn to be wise, and take warning by me ; The fruits of High-Treason are bad, as you may see: And now tis too late, I in sorrow lament, That I like a Traytor my life-time have spent. Let your actions be just and your dealing upright: Nor like this same poor unfortunate Knight. 80 [iftnis.] Printed for J. Wright, J. Clark, TV. Thackeray, and T. Passenger. [In Black-letter. Two woodcuts, both given. Date, June, 1GS4.]. E. [Jack Ketchs Tyburn Marc (pp. 295, 486).] T: 486 SDne enn of tfie TBulty Emg&t The saddle is now on the right Horse,The Whig must mount for Tyburn in course,For these can he no false alarms :We have their Confession, the Men, and their Ketch perceives his Harvest is near, [cf. P-168. He swears, if his Horse do not fail him, [= < Tyburn Mare. He 11 not take a Thousand Pounds this yeareFor what his Trade may avail him. —Five Years Sham Plots Discovered. HE probably unique broadside, formerly belonging to BenjaminHeywood Brights private Collection (wbich by purchase becamepart of the supplementary volume ending The Roxburghe Collectionof Ballads in the British Museum Library: C. 20. f. 10), does notafford an attractive picture of Sir Thomas Armstrongs suspensionby the Law, although it gives his portrait (copied on pp. 485, 483).Tom DUrfey, in his rare New Collection of Songs mid Poems,1683, p. 3, reprinted his Song of the Bully, which he had wri
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