%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Traveler's Repentance: / OR, THE / Death-bed Tears, last Dying-sayings, & serious Exhortations / OF / ROBERT GODFREY, / Late of Reading in Bark-shire, who departed this Life in Lon-/ don, on the 27th of August, and was decently interr'd in the Parish of / St. Mary Alderman-bury, on the 31st of the said Month, in the said City. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1695 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/23/2007 20718

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2.95 R234298 1 The Jealous Lover He That Loves Best Must Suffer Most The Jealous Lover REturn, return, now, now, I must,/ From Worldly Pleasures, unto Dust; tune unclear: To the Tune of, The J[e]alous Lover.; date from content; imprint unclear: LONDON: Printed for J. Blare[,] at the [L]ook[i]n[g]-gl[a]ss on Lond[o]n-brid[g]e. Pepys 2.95 Rollins (1) VII:100-103; Wing T2053B. 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. 2: 95 The Traveler's Repentance: / OR, THE / Death-bed Tears, last Dying-sayings, & serious Exhortations / OF / ROBERT GODFREY, / Late of Reading in Bark-shire, who departed this Life in Lon-/ don, on the 27th of August, and was decently interr'd in the Parish of / St. Mary Alderman-bury, on the 31st of the said Month, in the said City. The Traveler's Repentance: OR, THE Death-bed Tears, last Dying-sayings, & serious Exhortations OF ROBERT GODFREY, Late of Reading in Bark-shire, who departed this Life in Lon- don, on the 27th of August, and was decently interr'd in the Parish of St. Mary Alderman-bury, on the 31st of the said Month, in the said City. The Traveler's Repentance: Or, The Death-bed Tears, Last Dying Sayings, and Serious Exhortations of Robert Godfrey, Late of Reading in Berkshire, Who Departed This Life in London, on the 27th of August, and Was Decently Interred in the Parish of St. Mary Aldermanbury, on the 31st of the Said Month, in the Said City. 1/2 sheet folio, 270 x 165 cropped all edges, damaged surface, uneven inking funerary border: 177 x 5, and funerary borders framing broadsheet, acrostic of 'ROBERT GODFREY' in roman display-face capitals 1695 LONDON: Printed for J. Blare, at the Looking-glass on London-bridge. J. Blare Weinstein: content

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REturn, return, now, now, I must, From Worldly Pleasures, unto Dust; For Death the Fatal Stroke will give, I have not many Days to live. OUt of the World I now must go, In melting Sorrow, Grief and Woe; My latter Minutes now I spend, Knowing I did the Lord offend, BY living here at such a rate, Regarding not a Future State, Till now the Fatal Hand of Death Is come to snatch my Vital Breath. ELizabeth, my lawful Wife, Come see the Period of my Life, And don't revile me when I'm dead, Although a sinful Life I led; REgard my Dying Words, I pray, If you have any Love this day; 'Tho' I have been unkind to thee, Yet let us part in Charity: THis on a Dying-bed I crave; Deny me not, but let me have The grant of such a small Request; O let me Ashes lye at rest. GOod Lord, to thee I make my moan, O mollifie his Heart of stone, That with repenting Tears I may Labour to wash my Sins away. ON thee alone I do rely. Be pleased then to cast an eye Of pity on my sad distress, Who does in grief my Sins confess. DAy after Day, Year after Year, I took delight in Folly here. And never thought upon the Grave, The Portion which all Men must have. FRom place to place I travell'd still, My Bags with cursed Gold to fill; In which no Solid Joys I find, For I must leave it all behind.
REpentance I regarded not, I labour'd for I know not what, Except it was to satisfie A craving Heart and greedy Eye. EVil Society I find Has caused me much grief of mind; Would I had never been drawn aside From she who is my lawful Bride. YEt ne'er the less, without delay, Upon my Pillow, Night and Day, For all my Sins in Tears I'll grieve, In hopes of Pardon to receive. For God is merciful and just, In him alone I'll put my trust; He will not leave me comfortless, Altho' I did his Laws transgress. I'll wrastle for the Blessing still, And then at length perhaps he will Vouchsafe to speak a Word of Peace, Which will my perfect Joys encrease. The latter Minutes in my Glass, From Grace to Glory let me pass, The Place of Everlasting Joy, Which Time or Death shall ne'er destroy. You that my Dying Words may hear, Take care and be not too severe In judging me when I am gone, For that belongs to God alone. Farewel the World, my Friends adieu, This Day I take my leave of you; Then did he turn his Head aside, And, with a sigh or two, he dy'd. In Reading many Years he dwelt, Yet ne'er the less at length he felt The Pangs of Death in London-Town, Within those Walls his Sun went down. His Travels there was at an end; His Soul to God he did commend, To live in true felicity: I wish none die no worse than he.
LONDON: Printed for J. Blare at the Looking-glass on London-bridge.