%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE / VVhipster of VVoodstreet, / OR, / A True Account of the Barbarous and Horrid Murther committed on the Body / of Mary Cox, late Servant in Woodstreet LONDON. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1690 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 06/17/2008 20805

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2.190 R1059 1 Grim King of the Ghosts Grim King of the Ghosts Grim King of the Ghosts ASsist me some mournful Muse, / while I a sad Story relate; date from content; advertisement in imprint Pepys 2.190 Rollins (2) VI:28-33; Wing W1674A 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: 190 THE / VVhipster of VVoodstreet, / OR, / A True Account of the Barbarous and Horrid Murther committed on the Body / of Mary Cox, late Servant in Woodstreet LONDON. THE Whipster of Woodstreet, OR, A True Account of the Barbarous and Horrid Murther committed on the Body of Mary Cox, late Servant in Woodstreet LONDON. The Whipster of Woodstreet, or, a True Account of the Barbarous and Horrid Murder Committed on the Body of Mary Cox, Late Servant in Woodstreet London. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 192 x 310 cropped left and bottom edges, holed, uneven inking 1690 Printed for W. Thackeray at the Angel in Duck-Lane; J. Millet at the Angel in / Little-Britain; and Alex. Milbourn at the Stationers-Arms in Green-Arbour- / Court in the Little-Old-Baily. Where any Chapman may be Furnished with / all Sorts of Small BOOKS and BALLADS at Reasonable Rates. W. Thackeray, J. Millet, Alex. Milbourn Weinstein: content

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ASsist me some mournful Muse, while I a sad Story relate; Let all that these Lines peruse, lament a poor maids hard fate; Who Guiltless and Innocent fell, by the hands of a barbarous Dame: As fierce as a fury of Hell, her sexes eternal shame.
Her husband to Bristol went, his Trade to advance at the fair: Whilst she was on mischief bent, such mischief she can't repair: for suspition o're clouding her mind, bred a tempest within her breast: her soul like a sea with rough wind, was ruffled and rob'd of rest.
ALl jealous she taxed her maid, and falsly did her accuse, With theft she did her upbraid, and shamefully did abuse: While the maid in her own defence, undaunted and boldly stood, Which made the fierce Dame commence, a Tragedy full of Blood. she caus'd her to be fast bound to the post of her husbands bed, where she did her body wound, and whipped her almost dead: thus did she a Confession extort, of Crimes which the Maid never knew, tormenting her in such a sort, as wou'd make ones heart for to rue. This monster not satisfied yet, tho' the blood run from every part, Made an Iron red hot in a pet, resolving to give her more smart, she burnt her in shoulders and thighs, and sev'ral times under her ears, she wou'd not come near her Eyes, lest th'iron shou'd be quench'd with her tears.
Her body was blister'd and whail'd, she was burnt from the head to the heel, her skin was so parch'd that it scal'd, no pain like to what she did feel: she kept in her Chamber three days, unwilling the fact shou'd be known, And turn to her Masters dispraise, if her cruel stripes shou'd be shown. As soon as down stairs she came, her Mistress was in the old mood, The merciless savage Dame, did thirst for her very heart's blood: she caus'd her two Prentices then, neck and heels the poor Creature to bind, No tigress within her Den, e're shew'd a more savage mind. She kick'd her and spurn'd her about, and bid the young Lad do the same: Resolving to act her part out, thus ended the tragical game, she catch'd up a hammer in haste, and pierc'd the maids brains at a blow, for which, of the hemp she must taste, old Tyburn must have her I trow.
Printed for W. Thackeray at the Angel in Duck-Lane; J. Millet at the Angel in Little-Britain; and Alex. Milbourn at the Stationers-Arms in Green-Arbour- Court in the Little-Old-Baily. Where any Chapman may be Furnished with all Sorts of Small BOOKS and BALLADS at Reasonable Rates.