%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The true discription of two monsterous Chyldren / Borne at Herne in Kent. The. xxvii. daie of Auguste In the yere our of / Lorde. M.CCCCC.LXV. They were booth women chyldren and were / Chrystened, and lyued halfe a daye. The one departed afore / the other almoste an howre. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1565-1565 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/30/2012 32404

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S121805 THe Monsterous and unnaturall shapes / of these Chyldren & Dyuers lyke brought Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 18316 The true discription of two monsterous Chyldren / Borne at Herne in Kent. The. xxvii. daie of Auguste In the yere our of / Lorde. M.CCCCC.LXV. They were booth women chyldren and were / Chrystened, and lyued halfe a daye. The one departed afore / the other almoste an howre. The true discription of two monsterous Chyldren borne at Herne in Kent. The. xxvii. daie of Auguste in the yere our of Lorde. M.CCCCC.LXV. They were booth women chyldren and were Chrystened, and lyued halfe a daye. The one departed afore the other almoste an howre. The true description of two monstrous Children born at Herne in Kent. The. xxvii. day of August in the year our of Lord. M.CCCCC.LXV. They were both women children and were Christened, and lived half a day. The one departed before the other almost an hour. Printer Thomas Colwell 1565-1565 Owen Rogers

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THe Monsterous and unnaturall shapes of these Chyldren & dyvers lyke brought foorth in our dayes (good reader) ar not onelye for us to gase and wonder at, as thyngs happenyng either by chaunce, or els by naturall reason, as both the old, and our Phy- losophers also holde now a dayes: and without anye farther heede to be had therto, or els as our common custome is, by & by to judge god onely offended wyth the Parentes of the same, for some notoryous vyce or offence reygning alone in them: But they ar lessons & scholynges for us all (as the word monster shewith) who dayly offende as grevously as they do, wherby god almyghtye of hys greate mercy and longe suffe- raunce, admonysheth us by them to amendmente of our lyves. no lesse wycked, yea many times, more then the parentes of suche mysformed bee. That this is true they shal wel perceyve, the ryghtly wey and consi- der the aunswere of oure Saviour Chryste unto hys Dyscyples, askyng hym whether weare greatter sin- ners, the blynde hym selfe, either els hys parentes, that he was so borne: To whom our savyour Chryst aunswered, that neyther he, neyther they were faul- tye therin, but that he was therfore borne blynde, to thend the glory of God myghte be declared on hym, and by him. The same also appereth in another aun- swere made by our savyour Chryste to them, whyche tolde hym of the Galleyans, whom Pontius Pylate put to death for theyre rebellyon agaynste Augustus theyr Emperoure, wherein he declareth (as also by those .xviii. persons on whom the Towre by Sylo fell) that there were as great offenders remaynynge alyve, as any of them were. Wherfore he eftsones ad- monyshed them to amendment of lyfe in generall: or els by their examples threatened them with as grea- vous dystructyon, as fell uppon any of them. These examples moved me (good reader) in consideracyon John ix. Luke xiii.
of these dayes of our forgetfulnes of duty, wherin we set so lyght the greate bounty and goodnes of God, callyng us by these and such lyke examples to repen- taunce and correction of manners, and not styll to flatter our selves whyle we judge others and winke at oure owne faultes, to cause these twynnes thus to be portractured. And sure to hym that considereth as he ought to do, the great decay of harty love and charytie (among many other wantes that the world is nowe fallen in,) and had vewed and behelde the two babes, the one as it were imbrasynge the other, and lenynge mouth to mouth, kyssyng (as you wold say, one another:) it myght seeme that God by them eyther dooth upbraide us, for our faulse dyssemblynge and Judas condycyons & countenaunces, in freynd- ly wordes, coverynge Caynes thoughtes and cogy- tacions, or els by theyr semblaunte and example, ex- horte us to sincere amytie and true frendshyp, voyde of all counterfeytinge, or els bothe. Neyther let any man thynke thys an observacyon over curyous, for as much as Christ him selfe hath by chyldren taught us, that unlesse we become lyke Chyldren, wee shall not come in the kyngdome of heaven. God make us all chyldren in thys wyse, and perfect and well lerned men to note and observe to what ende he sendeth us such sightes as these, that here by (put in remembraunce the rather of our duties both to hym and our neygh- bours) we may atteyne to lyfe everlastyng by Chryste our Lord. To whom with the holy Ghoste for thys and all other hys workes, be all majesty, powre glo- ry and domynyon, now and ever. Amen. Mark x.
Imprinted at London in Fletestreat by Thomas Col- well: for Owen Rogers dwelling at S. Sepulchers Church doore.