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5.406 R188573 1 Let Mary live Long Let Mary Live Long Let Mary Live Long GOod People attend, / Without Disputation, date from imprint; Ms. Annotation: pencil rule drawn parallel to left edge, as guide for cropping?; marginalia: notes corresponding to letters in the ballad: (a) The young Man Rung long-er than the Sexton gave leave. (b) Two young Men whose Names were Angels. (c) A young Man in Shirt and Drawers. (d) In a green Wastcoat, both Apprentices. Pepys 5.406 Rollins (1) VI:304-308; Wing M1999[A] 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: 406 THE/ Midnight Wonder,/ OR,/ The Ringing of the Bells, THE Midnight Wonder, OR, The Ringing of the Bells. The Midnight Wonder, or, the Ringing of the Bells. 1/2 sheet folio, 250 x 157 creased and damaged surface vertical rules Printer T. Moore 1692 London, Printed and Sold by T. Moore. 1692. T. Moore Weinstein: imprint

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 Taxonomy used by Pepys to Organize Ballads in Albums A Small Promiscuous Supplement Devotion & Morality Drinking & Good Fellowship History - True & Fabulous Humour, Frollicks &c Love Pleasant Love Pleasant and Unfortunate Love Unfortunate Marriage Sea State & Times Tragedy Various Subjects Early Modern Center Ballad Project Keyword Taxonomy advice affliction/health alcohol animals/nature appearance Bible/biblical figures buildings/architecture catastrophe children class clothing/fashion country/nation crime death economics/trade entertainment family/procreation folklore gender historical figures & events holidays/seasons infidelity law London love maritime marriage military/war monstrosity mythology/Classical world news nobility/court politics/government punishment religious concepts religious figures religious types & sects royalty rural life servitude sex/sexuality supernatural/magic The New World travel trickery/deceit urban life vice violence virtue vulgarities/crass humor Library of Congress Subject Heading Taxonomy 8/7/2007 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Various Subjects advice religiousconcepts religiousfigures vice virtue 08/07/07 Checker Rachel Mann Transcription checked, Metadata added, Xballaded 10/23/06 / 01/29/07 Transcriber Talya Meyers/Cat Zusky Original Transcriptions 10/23/2004 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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GOod People attend, Without Disputation, Here is a Relation, The like was ne'er Penn'd Before, I declare: Thro the World you may range, Yet a Wonder more strange, You never will find; And therefore I'd have you, And therefore I'd have you Now listen and mind. At Midnight you know, The Bells they were Ringing, And sweet Voices Singing, Both lofty and low, Tho late in the Night: But the Doors being fast, The poor Sexton at last Was forced to Rise; This wonderful (a) Ringing, This wonderful Ringing, It did him surprize. Then taking his Keys, The Sexton did venter, The Church-doors to enter, Yet nothing he sees, But Ringing he heard, Till up Stairs he run, And there he found one, That frighten'd him so, He was almost sensless, He was almost sensless, And not able to go. O there did he gaze, His Senses and Reason Was lost for a Season; He stood in a Maze, Alass, for a while; For all in his sight,
There appear'd one in White Put him to a stand, Like one near Distracted, Like one near Distracted, With Keys in his Hand. Down Stairs did he go, The Bells straightways ceasing, New wonders encreasing, When walking below, The Sexton beheld, Two (b) Angels in sight, Who there bid him write, Of what he had seen; One was in (c) white Garment, One was in white Garment, The other in (d) Green. Behold we are sent, To tell the People, Altho in the Steeple, Like Christians Repent, Before 'tis too late; For, except you Reform, An invincible storm On the wicked will fall: Remember this Message, Remember this Message, Repent one and all. There's Mercy in store, Upon their submission, With Tears of Contrition; And therefore implore The Heavens above, Now to turn away All Judgment this day, Let Friendship remain, And then the three Kingdoms, And then the three Kingdoms, Shall flourish again. (a) The young Man Rung long- er than the Sexton gave leave. (b) Two young Men whose Names were Angels. (c) A young Man in Shirt and Drawers. (d) In a green Wastcoat, both Apprentices.
London, Printed and Sold by T. Moore. 1692.