%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Sorrowful Lamentation of the / Widdows of the West, / For the Death of their Deceased Husbands. / Wherein they declare their hearty sorrow that ever their Husbands was led away by fair words / to this foul Rebellion. Together with their kind Advice to all people, to be Loyal to their / Prince. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1685 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 06/06/2008 20859

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2.245 R41693 1 Russels Farewell Russell's Farewell Russell's Farewell ALas! we Widdows of the West / whose Husbands did Rebell, date from content: Monmouth Rebellion; Sedgemoor, Battle of. Pepys 2.245 Wing S4716 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: 245 The Sorrowful Lamentation of the / Widdows of the West, / For the Death of their Deceased Husbands. / Wherein they declare their hearty sorrow that ever their Husbands was led away by fair words / to this foul Rebellion. Together with their kind Advice to all people, to be Loyal to their / Prince. The Sorrowful Lamentation of the Widdows of the West, For the Death of their Deceased Husbands. Wherein they declare their hearty sorrow that ever their Husbands was led away by fair words to this foul Rebellion. Together with their kind Advice to all people, to be Loyal to their Prince. The Sorrowful Lamentation of the Widows of the West, for the Death of Their Deceased Husbands. Wherein They Declare Their Hearty Sorrow That Ever Their Husbands Was Led Away by Fair Words to This Foul Rebellion. Together with Their Kind Advice to All People, to be Loyal to Their Prince. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 190 x 325 cropped left and right edges, uneven inking funerary borders 34 x 4, 106 x 5 1685 Printed for I. Deacon, at the Sign of the Angel in Guiltspur=street. J. Deacon Weinstein: content

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ALas! we Widdows of the West whose Husbands did Rebell, Of Comfort we are dispossest, our sorrows did excell: Here for their Crimes they lost their lives Rebellion was the cause, And we confess that was their wives, they did oppose the Laws.
When Monmouth came ashore at Lime, it was a fatal day, To carry on that base Design, which did their lives betray: And many daily did presume to come unto his aid, Bridge-water, Taunton-Dean, and Frome, the Nation to invade.
We said it was a horrid thing, and pray'd them to forbear, To take up arms against their King, who was the Lawful Heir: Yet like distracted men they run, to cast their lives away, And we their Widdows are undone, this is a dismal day. Alas! we had no cause at all, our Laws was still the same, That we should to Confusion fall, and many hundeds slain: They knew not what they went about, confusion did attend, The Heavens would not bear them out, since they did thus offend. When Monmouth did the Land invade, poor men was drawn aside, To leave their bus'ness and their Trade for which at length they dy'd: 'Tis true it was a just Reward, because they did Rebell, Against their Gracious Soveraign, though we in sorrow dwell.
Those Criminals that did oppose our Lawful Government, Did likewise prove our deadly Foes, and caus'd our Discontent: For had they never come on shore, we had been happy still, Alas! we had no thoughts before, of any kind of ill. We might have liv'd in happy state, in this our good Kings Reign, But now, alas! it is too late, to call them back again: For they are sleeping in their Gore, laid in their Beds of Clay, Together with some hundreds more, that thus was led astray. Both youth and old, and rich and poor, in multitudes they fall, Let this a warning be therefore let never none Rebell: That our most Renowned King, may have a happy Reign, Then Subjects may rejoyce and Sing, and never more complain.
Printed for J. Deacon, at the Sign of the Angel in Guiltspur-street.