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1.504-505 R234205 1 the Ladis Fall The Lady's Fall YOu dainty Dames so finely fram'd,/ of beauties chiefest mold, But mark how Bateman dy'd for love,/ and finisht up his life, Pepys 1.504-505 Wing G940[a]A; Rollins (2) 2864 (June 8, 1603, III, 236, Ed. Alde); Rollins (2) 167 (Dec. 14, 1624, IV, 131); Rollins (2) 1007 (Mch. 1, 1675, ii, 497). Woodblock 1: under title and tune, above columns 1 and 2: Cut is a composite. To the left of the cut, a man hangs by his neck outside of a building with latice windows and a curved door. The dead man wears simple clothes and a hat. In the right side of the cut, which appears to be around the corner from this hanging man, a woman in a black dress and aprom speaks to a man in a cloak. he holds her right hand in his left, and gestures with his right hand. : 75 x 135 Woodblock 2: above columns 3 and 4: A couple sleep in a canopy bed in a room with wood floors and latic windows. Facing the bed is a magical figure (a magician? God? Death? Ghost?) in long robes with a shorud-like headdress. This bearded figure holds a wand or staff with a flame or crescent at its tip. Behind the magical figure, a demon or magical animal, who is black with wings, four legs and a pointed tail, carries a woman away in his beak.: 75 x 134 Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 504 A Godly Warning for all Maidens, by the exam/ ple of Gods Judgement shewed on one Jermans Wife of Clifton, in the/ County of Nottingham, who lying in Child-bed, was born away,/ and never heard of after. A Godly Warning for all Maidens, by the example of Gods Judgement shewed on one Jermans Wife of Clifton, in the County of Nottingham, who lying in Child-bed, was born away, and never heard of after. A Godly Warning for All Maidens, by the Example of God's Judgement Shewed on One Jerman's Wife of Clifton, in the County of Nottingham, Who Lying in Childbed, Was Born Away, and Never Heard of After. 1/2 sheet folio, originally left part, 237 x 145 1/2 sheet folio, originally right part, 237 x 142 cropped left edge, uneven inking cropped right edge, uneven inking 1686-1688 Printed for W. Thackeray and T. Passinger. W. Thackeray, T.Passinger Blagden

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YOu dainty Dames so finely fram'd, of beauties chiefest mold, And you that trip it up and down, Like Lambs in Cupids fold: Here is a Lesson to be learn'd, a lesson in my mind, For such as will prove false in love, and bear a faithless mind. Not far from Nottingham of late, in Clifton as I hear, There dwelt a fair and comely Dame, for beauty without peer: Her cheeks were like the crimson Rose, yet as you may perceive, The fairest face the falsest heart, and soonest will deceive. This gallant dame she was belov'd, of many in that place, And many sought in marriage bed, her body to imbrace: A[t] last a proper handsom youth, young Bateman cal'd by name, In hope to make a married wife, unto this maiden came. Such love and liking there was found, that he from all the rest, Had stoln away the Maidens heart, and she did love him best; Then plighted promise secretly did pass between them two, That nothing could but death it self, this true loves knot undo.
He brake a piece of Gold in twain, one half to her he gave, The other as a pledge, quoth he, dear heart my self will have. If I do break my Vow, quoth she while I remain alive, May never thing I take in hand be seen at all to thrive. This passed on for two months space, and then this Maid began, To settle love and liking too upon another man: One Jerman who a Widower was, her Husband needs must be, Because he was of greater wealth, and better in degree. Her vows and Promise lately made, to Bateman she deny'd; And in despight of him and his she utterly defi'd: Well then, quoth he, if it be so that you will me forsake, And like a false and forsworn wretch another Husband take. Thou shalt not Live one quiet hour for surely I will have Thee either now alive or dead, when I am laid in grave; Thy faithless mind thou shalt repent, therefore be well assur'd, When for thy sake thou hear'st report, what torments I endur'd.
But mark how Bateman dy'd for love, and finisht up his life, That very day she married was, and made old Jermans wife: For with a strangling Cord God wot, great moan was made therefore, He hang'd himself in desperate sort, before the Brides own door. Whereat such sorrow pierc't her heart, and troubled sore her mind, That she could never after that, one day of comfort find; And wheresoever she did go, her fancy did surmise, Young Batemans pale and ghastly Ghost appear'd before her eyes. When she in bed at night did lye betwixt her Husbands arms, In hope thereby to sleep and rest in safety without harms: Great cries & grievous groans she heard, a voice that sometimes said, O thou art she that I must have; and will not be denay'd. But she then being big with child, was for the Infants sake, Preserved from the spirits power, no vengeance could it take. The Babe unborn did safely keep, as God appointed so, His Mothers body from the Fiend that sought her overthrow. But being of her burden eas'd, and safely brought to Bed, Her care and grief began a new, and further sororw bred.
And of her Freinds she did intreat, dessring them to stay, Out of the bed, quoth she this night, I shall be born away. Here comes the spirit of my love, with pale and gastly face, Who till he bear me hence away, will not depart this place: Alive or dead I am his right and he will surely have, In spight of me and all the world, what I by promise gave. O watch with me this night I pray, and see you do not sleep, No longer then you be awake, my body can you keep. All promised to do their best, yet nothing could suffice, In middle of the night to keep, sad slumber from their eyes. So being all full fast asleep, to them unknown which way, The Child-bed woman that woful night from thence was born away: wnd to what place no creature knew, nor to this day can tell, As strange a thing as ever yet, in any age befel. You Maidens that desire to love, and would good Husbands chuse, To him that you do vow to love by no means do refuse. For God that hears all secret Oaths, will dreadful vengeance take, On such that of a wilful vow do slender reckoning make.
Printed for W. Thackery, and T. Passinger.