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S121824 YOu London dames, whose passyng fames / Through out the worlde is spread, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 18326 A proper new balade expressyng the fames, / Concerning a warning to al London dames, A proper new balade expressyng the fames, Concerning a warning to al London dames, A proper new ballad expressing the fames, Concerning a warning to all London dames, Peele, Steven Printer Alexander Lacie 1571-1571 Henrie Kyrkham

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YOu London dames, whose passyng fames Through out the worlde is spread, In to the skye, ascendyng hye To every place is fled: For thorow each land and place, For beauties kyndely grace: You are renowmed over all, You have the prayse and ever shall. What wight on earth that can beholde More dearer and fayrer dames then you? Therfore to extoll you I may be bolde, Your paces and graces so gay to vieu. For Vertues lore, and other thinges more Of truth you doe excell, I may well gesse, for comelynesse Of all, you beare the bell: As trim in your arraye As be the flowres in Maye With roset hew so bravely dight As twinklyng starres that shyneth by night. For curtesye in every parte Not many nor any resemble you can, In lady Natures camely arte So gravely and bravely to every man. And oft when you goe, fayre dames on a rowe In to the feeldes so greene, You sit and vewe the beautifull hewe Of flowres that there be seene: Which lady FLORA hath So garnyshed in each path With all the pleasures that may be (Fayre dames) are there to pleasure ye Tyl Frost doth come and nip the top, And lop them and crop them, not one to be seene So when that Death doth hap to your lot, Consider and gather what beauty hath beene. For as the flowre, doth change in an houre That was so fayre to see, Consyder and gather (fayre dames) the wether May change as well with yee: And turne your joyes as soone As frost the flowres hath doone So sudden Death may change as well Your beauties that now doth excell, And turne your sweetes to bitter and sowre When death with his breath comes stealing neare: Such haps may hap to come in an howre Which ever or never you little dyd feare.
Wherfore I say, fayre dames so gay That Death is busyest now, To catch you hence, where no defence May make him once to bow: Experience well doth trye You see it with your eye, How quickely some are taken hence Not youthfull yeares may make defence: And strange diseases many are seene Encreasyng and preasyng to vexe us each day, But sure the lyke hath ever beene May hove you and move you to God to pray. And learne to know, as grasse doth grow And withereth in to haye, Remember therfore, kepe vertue in store For so you shall decaye: And pitie on the poore With some parte of your store, Loke that your lampes may ready bee The dreadfull day approcheth nye: When Christ shall come to judge our deeds No fairenes nor clerenes can helpe you than, The corne to seperate from the weeds Fayre dames, when cometh the day of dome. Now that I have sayd, let it be wayed It is no jestyng toye, Not all your treasure, can you pleasure It is but fadyng toye: Therfore remember mee What I have sayd to yee, And thus the Lorde preserve the Queene Long space with us to lyve and raigne: As we are all bound incessantlie To desyre with prayer both night and day, God to preserve her majestie Amen, let all her good subjects say.
FINIS. quoth Steven Peell. Imprinted at S. Katherins by Alexander Lacie for Henrie Kyrkham, dwellyng at the middle North dore of S. Paules church.