%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE / Penitent Robber, / OR, / The Woeful Lamentation / OF / Capt. James Whitney, / On the Morning of his Execution which was on the First of February, 1693. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1683-1700 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 02/21/2008 22226

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5.9 R187299 1 Russels last Farewel Russell's Farewell Russell's Last Farewell LEt honest Christians now attend,/ unto my dying moan, who bids the world adieu. {with variations} Weinstein lists date from title (1693) Pepys 5.9 Rollins (1) VI:325-328; Wing P1236A 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. 5: 9 THE / Penitent Robber, / OR, / The Woeful Lamentation / OF / Capt. James Whitney, / On the Morning of his Execution which was on the First of February, 1693. THE Penitent Robber, OR, The Woeful Lamentation OF Capt. James Whitney, On the Morning of his Execution which was on the First of February, 1693. The Penitent Robber, or, the Woeful Lament of Captain James Whitney, on the Morning of His Execution Which Was on the First of February, 1693. 1/2 sheet folio, 284 x 163 damaged surface horizontal and vertical rules, framed with funerary borders 1683-1700 Printed for J. Bissel, and C. Bates. J. Bissel, C. Bates BBTI

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LEt honest Christians now attend, unto my dying moan, My life is almost at an end, therefore to you alone, I do address my self this day, in certain hope that you, Now at the last for me will pray, who bids the world adieu. For though a wicked life I led, yet now I come to die, I have a sence of fear and dread, of future misery, I having liv'd in wickedness with a Notorious Crew, Let me find mercy ne'ertheless, who bids the world adieu. I had of late a daring soul, with an undaunted brow. A Will that none could e'er controul, but where's that spirit now? Death makes me tremble at his sight, and does my grief renew, From hence my soul must take its flight, I bid the world adieu. A guilty conscience now I find, fills my poor soul with grief, And is a torment to my mind, for there is no Relief, I having run a wicked Race, with a Notorious crew, Now at the Execution place, I bid the world adieu. I did upon the Ruins live of honest minded men, Their purse to me I 'd make them give, of Gold or Silver, when I met them on the Kings Highway, with my notorious crew, For which I here am brought to say, farewel, the world adieu.
The rich or poor I valu'd not, no pitty was there shown, I f Gold or Silver they had got, tho' ne'er a groat their own, By violence I'd take it strait, and kill their Horses too, Which Crimes I do Repent too late, the world I bid adieu. Sometimes I'd hear a Trades man cry, now am I ruin'd quite, At which I'd laugh and thus reply, farewel your Pockets light: Thus did I Range and Robb the land, the which, too late, I rue, I on the Brink of Ruin stand, To bid the world adieu. Those that did sweat with pains and care and Travel'd night and day, We'd likewise Rob, there's none we'd spare there all become our prey, I was the L eader, nay the Head, and Captain of the Crew, But that vain Glory now is fled, I bid the world adieu. I can no longer here conseal, my sorrow, grief and woe, What better Torments do I feel, alas! my overthrow, Did come by my unlawful Trade, this day, what shall I do, I am a just Example made, The world I bid adieu. Here's Thousands come this day to see, the fatal fall of pride, O that I might a warning be, to all the world beside, That they may never come to know, this grief and sorrow too, I from the world this day must go, And bid you all adieu.
Printed for J. Bissel, and C. Bates.