%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A Fair Warning for PRIDE: / By a Foal which is lately said to come into the World with a Top=Knot on its Head of several Colours, / at Chlecknom in Glocester-shire. Attested by several Persons of good Credit. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1691 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/07/2008 21972

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4.310 R188021 1 Touch of the Times Touch of the Times COme listen a while, and I here will unfold; / A wonder as strange now as ever was told A Mare brought a Foal with a Top-know, we hear. [with variations] date from Rollins Pepys 4.310 Rollins (1) VI:50-53; Wing F102[B] 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. 4: 310 A Fair Warning for PRIDE: / By a Foal which is lately said to come into the World with a Top=Knot on its Head of several Colours, / at Chlecknom in Glocester-shire. Attested by several Persons of good Credit. A Fair Warning for PRIDE: By a Foal which is lately said to come into the World with a Top=knot on his Head of several Colours, at Chelcknom in Glocester-shire. Attested by several Persons of good Credit. A Fair Warning for Pride: By a Foal Which is Lately Said to Come into the World with a Top-knot on Its Head of Several Colors, at Cheltenham in Gloucestershire. Attested by Several Persons of Good Credit. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 195 x 325 cropped right edge, creased surface, uneven inking, set-off from opposite page visible vertical rule 1691 Printed for J. Bissel, at the Bible and Harp near the HospitaGate [?]/ in West-Smithfield. J. Bissel Weinstein: Rollins

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COme listen a while, and I here will unfold; A wonder as strange now as ever was told By persons of Credit the truth is well known, And therefore young Women and Lasses alone, I pray cast aside your invincible Pride, Since Heaven has pleas'd your strange Dress to deride; For now near a Village in Glocester-shire, A Mare brought a Foal with a Top-knot, we hear. For now give me leave here the truth to express, Young Women was never so proud in their Dress As they have been here in this Nation of late, In Ribbons they flourish and vaunt at that rate,
With Top-knot and Tower, but Heaven will lowre, And will all your Pride and Vain-glory devour: Behold! near a Village in Glocester-shire, A Mare brought, etc. O Monstrous Women! why will you offend Your Maker, who many sad Judgements may send Upon the whole Nation, for your sin of Pride, Your Laces, nay, Towers and Top-knots beside: So Gawdy you are, when drest in your Hair, That good sober Christians you perfectly scare; The wrath of high Heaven you have cause to fear, A Mare brought a Foal with a Top-knot, we hear.
I pray you is this not sufficient to show That God is offended to see how you go Like Anticks, in Ribbons of green, blew and red, As if a whole Millenors Shop on your Head: O make no delay, but straight cast them away, For why, your strange Mode is degraded this day: Now in a small Village in Glocester-shire, A Mare brought a Foal with a Top-knot, we hear. The Knot which this Creature brought into the world, Altho' it be Flesh, yet like Ribbons it Curl'd; Of several Colours, full seven indeed, And when they are handl'd they presently bleed: And likewise again, from the Head to the Main, The likeness of Ribbon is perfectly plain; Young Women you see how your Pride does appear, A Mare has a Foal with a Top-knot, we hear. In hundreds and thousands together they trowl From all parts and places to see this strange Foal Where e'ry Spectator with wonder is fill'd, The like of this Creature they never beheld: Young Women for shame, then strive reclaim, Or else the whole world must conclude you're to blame Let Modesty in your Apparel appear, A Mare has a Foal, etc. Most Gentry that this strange wonder hath seen, Resolves for the future themselves to demean; Young Women and Lasses it did so surprize, That they part with Towers and Top-knots likewise; And smite on their Breast, likewise vow and protest, Hereafter in Top-knots they'll never be drest, Like them may all Women now Decent appear, A Mare has a Foal, etc. 'Tis said that this Monstrous Foal and its Mare, Will both be brought up here to Bartholomew-Fair, For to be expos'd to the view of the Town, O then your high Top-knots I hope will come down, Which lately increast, when you see at least, A Badge of your Pride on the Head of a Beast, Let Modesty in your Apparrel appear, A Mare has a Foal with a Top-knot, you hear.
Printed for J. Bissel, at the Bible and Harp near the HospitaGate in West-Smithfield.