%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The bloody Miller/ Being a true and just Account of one Francis Cooper of Hocstow near Shrewsbury,/ who was a Millers Servant, and kept company with one Anne Nicols for the space/ of two years, who then proved to be with Child by him, and being urged by her/ Father to marry her he most wickedly and barbarously murdered her, as you shall/ hear by the sequel University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1684 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 09/10/2007 20776

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2.156 R234346 1 Alack for my Love I dye Alack For My Love I Die LEt all pretending Lovers/ take warning now by me, I for my transgression must dye. [with variations] tune unclear: Tu[n]e, Alack for my Love I dye. Original text faces left and in facsimile the text faces right. Pepys 2.156 Rollins (1) III:123-130; Wing H1963[A] 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: 156 The bloody Miller/ Being a true and just Account of one Francis Cooper of Hocstow near Shrewsbury,/ who was a Millers Servant, and kept company with one Anne Nicols for the space/ of two years, who then proved to be with Child by him, and being urged by her/ Father to marry her he most wickedly and barbarously murdered her, as you shall/ hear by the sequel The bloody Miller Being a true and just Account of one Francis Cooper of Hocstow near Shrewsbury, who was a Millers Servant, and kept company with one Anne Nicols for the space of two years, who then proved to be with Child by him, and being urged by her Father to marry her he most wickedly and barbarously murdered her, as you shall hear by the sequel The Bloody Miller Being a True and Just Account of One Francis Cooper of Hocstow Near Shrewsbury, Who Was a Miller's Servant, and Kept Company With One Anne Nicols for the Space of Two Years, Who Then Proved to Be With Child By Him, and Being Urged By Her Father to Marry Her He Most Wickedly and Barbarously Murdered Her, as You Shall Hear By the Sequel 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 216 x 275 cropped top edge, uneven inking funerary borders: 60 x 6, 156 x 6 1684 Printed for P. Brooksby in Pye-Corner. P. Brooksby Weinstein: content

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 Taxonomy used by Pepys to Organize Ballads in Albums A Small Promiscuous Supplement Devotion & Morality Drinking & Good Fellowship History - True & Fabulous Humour, Frollicks &c Love Pleasant Love Pleasant and Unfortunate Love Unfortunate Marriage Sea State & Times Tragedy Various Subjects Early Modern Center Ballad Project Keyword Taxonomy advice affliction/health alcohol animals/nature appearance Bible/biblical figures buildings/architecture catastrophe children class clothing/fashion country/nation crime death economics/trade entertainment family/procreation folklore gender historical figures & events holidays/seasons infidelity law London love maritime marriage military/war monstrosity mythology/Classical world news nobility/court politics/government punishment religious concepts religious figures religious types & sects royalty rural life servitude sex/sexuality supernatural/magic The New World travel trickery/deceit urban life vice violence virtue vulgarities/crass humor Library of Congress Subject Heading Taxonomy 9/10/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Tragedy death family/procreation historicalfigures&events marriage punishment 9/10/07 Checker Rachel Mann Transcription checked, metadata updated, XML created 8/9/06 Checker Simone Chess Transcription checked 8/9/06 Transcriber Maggie Sloan Original transcription 8/20/2004 Bibliographer Maggie Sloan/Laura Miller Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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LEt all pretending Lovers take warning now by me, Lest they (as I) procure their woe, and work their misery: For I my self have overthrown, as you shall plainly see, I for my transgression must dye. I was a likely Country Youth, and might have lived well, But yet in sin and wickedness mo[s]t Young-men did excell; But mind what for my cruel deeds to me at last befell: I for my etc.
I was a Miller by my Trade, it plainly doth appear, Pretending love unto a Maid, whose Father lived near, But she for my acquaintance, poor soule, did pay full dear: I for my etc. She was a fair and comely maid, thought modest, grave, and wise, And 'twas suppos'd all wickedness did utterly despise But my dissembling flattering tongue did her poor Heart surprize: I for my etc.
Tho' I was young and likely too, I wanton was and wild, And by my amorous carriage she most strangely was beguil'd, She did beleive my flattering tongue till I got her with Child: I to my etc. At last she to her Father told that she and done amiss, Who seemed much astonished, and wond[r]ed much at this; But I false wretch, and Judas like, betray'd her with a kiss: I for my etc. Her Father sent her to the Mill to ask him her to marry; Which he then seemed to refuse, and told her she must tarry but by my strange & treacherous tricks I strangely did miscarry: I for my etc. There was another Maid beside whom I kept company, Which made me far more impudent in my immodesty; But my first Love I did forsake and utterly deny: I for my etc. She told me I must marry her, or for the Child provide; Five pound I offer'd, which by her was utterly deny'd; She in the full conclusion by me was mortified: I for my etc.
One Sunday on an Evening tide for her poor soule I sent Who came to me immediately not dreaming what I meant, And so into a secret place we sinful sinners went: I for my etc. There kissing and imbracing her, my treachery appear'd, I like a cruel bloody wretch, whom she so little fear'd, Did murther her in such a sort, the like was never heard: I for my etc. From Ear to Ear I slit her mouth, and stab'd her in the Head, Till she poor soule did breathless lie before her Butcher bled, For which most cruel horrid fact I now am punished: And for my etc. My bloody fact I still denied, disown'd it till the last, But when I saw for this my fact just judgment on me past, The blood in Court ran from my nose yea; ran exceeding fast; And for my etc. So like a wretch my daies I end, upon the Gallow-Tree, And I do hope my punishment will such a warning be, That none may ever after this commit such villany; And for my transgression I die.
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