%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Inhumane Butcher / OF / Leaden-Hall Market; / Being his Sorrowful Lamentation, for most Cruelly and Barborously / Murdering his own Wife: On Wednesday last the 5th. of this Instant / May, 1697. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1697 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 02/21/2008 22236

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5.19 R188288 1 Russels Farewel, &c. Russell's Farewell Russell's Farewell, etc. O Wretched me George Feast by Name, / that ever I was Born; my Dear and Loving Wife. [with variations] 1st cut with caption: "MEMENTO MORI"; date from title and imprint. Pepys 5.19 Rollins (1) VII:257-261; Wing I188[C]. 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: 19 The Inhumane Butcher / OF / Leaden-Hall Market; / Being his Sorrowful Lamentation, for most Cruelly and Barborously / Murdering his own Wife: On Wednesday last the 5th. of this Instant / May, 1697. The Inhumane Butcher OF Leaden-Hall Market; Being his Sorrowful Lamentation, for most Cruelly and Barborously Murdering his own Wife: On Wednesday last the 5th. of this Instant May, 1697. The Inhuman Butcher of Leaden-Hall Market; Being His Sorrowful Lament, for Most Cruelly and Barbarously Murdering His Own Wife: On Wednesday Last the 5th. of This Present May, 1697. 1/2 sheet folio, 270 x 155 cropped top edge vertical rules Printer E.C. 1697 LONDON: Printed by and for E.C. 1697. E.C. Weinstein: title and imprint

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O Wretched me George Feast by Name, that ever I was Born; By Murder thus to blast my Fame, and make my self Forlorn: And I to satisfy that Blood, deserve to lose my Life, For Killing in a furious mood, my Dear and Loving Wife. On Wednesday last the 5th. of May, I did to Market go; To me it was a Fatal day as many now may know: Because reproved there I was, of my loose wicked Life; I in most Cruel sort alas! did Kill my Loving Wife. She'd often strive for to Reprove my vild Extravagance; Sweet George, quoth she, in tender love, you by your Vile Expence: Will Ruine all that we now have, by this ill Course of Life, But now i've brought her to the Grave, and Kill'd my Loving Wife. I many Pounds have daily spent abusing of my time; But now alas! I do repent (O Lord forgive my Crime) That e're I did that wicked deed, bereaving her of Life; Which makes my very heart now bleed, for Killing of my Wife.
For as at stall she stood by me, before my Mothers face, And her Mother who there did see, this Trajedy most base, Which makes my very Conscience start, that I with Bloody Knife Did stab her deep into the Heart, that was my Loving Wife. When as the Wound Receiv'd had she, she to my Mother said, Behold your Son has Killed me, and then she drop'd down dead, Which done I knew not what to say, when she had lost her life, Upon a stall I then did lay, my dear and Loving Wife. I soon was seized for this Act of Bloody Villany, And for my Horrid Heinous Fact, I do deserve to dye, In Newgate now I lye confin'd, to answer for my life, How can I think to mercy find, now I have Kill'd my Wife. But now O Lord I do indeed, (if it don't come too late) Repent me of this bloody deed, which doth in me create In me such Griefs and Horrors too, I curse my wretched life, That e're I did my hands imbrew, I'th' Blood of my sweet Wife.
LONDON: Printed by and for E.C. 1697.