%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> DISNY'S Last Farewell./ Being an Account of the Execution of VVilliam Disney Esqr, who was/ Drawn, hang'd, and Quartered, On Monday the 29th of this In=/ stant June, 1685. For Printing of Monmouth's Treasonable declaration. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1685 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 09/10/2007 20772

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2.154r R234344 1 Fortune My Foe Fortune My Foe Fortune My Foe YOu Loyal Subjects wheresoe're you be,/ See here the Fruits of my Disloyalty; date from title and license; hinged broadsheet with verso: The Ruined Lovers./ Being a Narrative of a Young Man that dyed for his cruel Mistris, in June/ last, who not long after his death, upon consideration of his entire affecti-/ on and her own coyness, could not be comforted, but lingred out her/ days in Melancholly, fell desperate sick, and so dyed. Pepys 2.154r Rollins (1) III:172-175; Wing D1672[E] 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: 154 DISNY'S Last Farewell./ Being an Account of the Execution of VVilliam Disney Esqr, who was/ Drawn, hang'd, and Quartered, On Monday the 29th of this In=/ stant June, 1685. For Printing of Monmouth's Treasonable declaration. DISNY's Last Farewell. Being an Account of the Execution of William Disney Esqr, who was Drawn, Hang'd, and Quartered, On Monday the 29th of this In- stant June, 1685. For Printing of Monmouth's Treasonable declaration. Disny's Last Farewell. Being an Account of the Execution of William Disney Esquire, Who Was Drawn, Hanged, and Quartered, on Monday the Twenty-ninth of this Present June, 1685. For Printing of Monmouth's Treasonable Declaration. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, hinged, ?200 x 305 cropped left and bottom edges, uneven inking, verso shows through horizontal rules 1685 Printed for I. Clarke, UU. Thackeray, and/ T. Passenger. J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, T. Passenger Weinstein: title and license

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YOu Loyal Subjects wheresoe're you be, See here the Fruits of my Disloyalty; And let me shameful end a caution give To all, that they in Loyalty may live. My Princes Laws poor I did Disobey, My fancy lead the clean contrary way; And I for Treason am condemn'd to dye, O pitty me in my extreamity. I was a Gentleman by my decent, But to Extravagancy always bent: And my Estate I quickly did consume, But did not think of this my Fatal Doom. Faithless I proved to my Prince and Nation, Printing a most Rebellious Declaration: By which foul Fact I wrought my overthrow, Let all beware that they may not do so.
Least like to me you meet with shameful Death, And rigid Fate untimely stop your breath: Then you perhaps may mourn when 'tis too late And sigh to think of your unhappy Fate. But you that to your Princes prove most true, The powers of Heaven will surely smile on you, You shall be Crowned with Prosperity, And Happiness will sure your portion be. My Head upon the Bridge must surely stand, Because I was a Traytor to my Land: Upon the Gates they'l set my Quarters too, For doing what I was forbid to do. Let all men to their Princes loyal be, And be as Strangers to all Treachery: Then they may rest in quiet and in peace, For by Rebellion comforts do decrease.
My Father he was loyal to the Crown, And he thereby did purchase much renown: But hapless I to seek my overthrow, And Death will be my portion I do know. But this doth please me in adversity, That other men may warning take by me: And learn their lawful Princes to obey, From Loyalty never to go astray. And he to whom I did alegiance owe, My self an Enemy did plainly show; I might have Flourisht as my parents did, Had I not medled with the things forbid. I thought my self with Honour for to crown, But from my hopes was quickly tumbled down. Traytors Reward did fall unto my share, By which I hope all others will beware. Vain World adieu, I must be packing hence, Who prov'd so false unto my Noble Prince; Whose goodness to his Subjects well is known, Whose Fame is through all Europe spread & flown My Crime committed I could not deny, For which I to this place am brought to dye, A sad Example to each sad Spectator, Who sees the end of me poor hapless Traytor. Now must I launch into Eternity, Let every tender Soul now pray for me: Eternal bliss or bane I soon shall find, And hope my Saviour will to me be kind. Into whose hands my Soul I recommend And on his merits wholy do depend: Mind well these lines which here are sent to you, And mind how Disney bids the World adieu.
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Entered according to Order. Printed for J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passenger.