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N68215 WHEN David in Jerusalem, / As Royal King did rule and reign; Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 289787 David and Bathsheba; or, Innocency Betray'd: / SHEWING / How King David was wounded with the Charms of fair Bath- / sheba, the Wife of Uriah, as she was bathing herself in the Garden. David and Bathsheba; or, Innocency Betray'd: SHEWING How King David was wounded with the Charms of fair Bath- sheba, the Wife of Uriah, as she was bathing herself in the Garden. David and Bathsheba; or, Innocence Betrayed: SHOWING How King David was wounded with the Charms of fair Bathsheba, the Wife of Uriah, as she was bathing herself in the Garden. 1750-1750

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WHEN David in Jerusalem, As Royal King did rule and reign; Behold what happend unto him That afterwards procurd his Pain: On the Top of all his Palace, A gallant Prospect there had he, From whence he might, as pleasd his Grace, Many a gallant Prospect see. It chanced so upon a Day, The King went forth to take the Air, All in the pleasant Month of May, Whereas he spyd a Lady fair: Her Beauty was most excellent, And brighter then the Morning Sun, By which the King incontinent, Was to her Favour quickly won. She stood within a pleasant Bower, All naked for to wash her their, Her Body like a Lilly-flower, Was coverd with her silken Hair:
The King was wounded with her Love, And what she was he did require; He could not his Affections move, He had to her such great Desire. She is Uriahs Wife, quoth they, A Captain of your Princely Train, That in your Wars is now away, And she doth all alone remain. Then said the King, Bring her to me, For with her Love my Heart is slain; The Princess of Beauty sure is she, For whom I do great Grief sustain. The Servants they do soon prepare, To do the Message of the King, And Bathsheba, that Lady fair, Unto the Court did quickly bring: The King rejoiced at her Sight, And won her Love, and laid her by, When they in Sport had spent that Night, And that the Sun was rising high.
The King his Leave most kindly took, Till that three Months were gone and past And then again he did return, With all his wondrous Speed and Haste: And then in Bathsheba so fair, She found her former Health exild, By certain Tokens that she saw, The King had gotten her with Child. Then to the King she made her Moan, And told him how the Case did stand, The King sent for her Husband home, To cloak the Matter out of Hand. When from the Camp Uriah came, The King receivd him courteously, Demanding how all Things did frame, Concerning of the Enemy. Uriah shewd his Highness all The Accidents of Warlike strife, Then said the King, This Night you shall Keep Company with your own Wife. The Ark of God, Uriah said, With Judahs Host and Israel, Keep in the Field, and not a Man Within the House where they do dwell. Then should I take my Ease, quoth he, In Bed of Down with my fair Wife: O King, he said, that may not be, So long as I enjoy my Life. Then did the King a Letter write, To Joab General of the Hoast, And by Uriah sent the same, But certainly his Life it cost. And when the King for certain knew, Uriah thus had murdred been, Fair Bathsheba to the Court he drew, And made of her his Royal Queen. Then God that saw this wicked Deed, Was angry at King Davids Sin; The Prophet Nathan then with Speed, Came thus complaining unto him. O David ponder what I say, A great Abuse I shall thee tell, For thou that rulst in Equity Should see thy People ruled well.
Two Men within the City dwell. The one is Rich the other Poor, The Rich in Cattle doth excell, The other nothing hath in Store. Saving one little silly Sheep, When young he did with Money buy With his own Bread he did it feed, Amongst his Children tenderly: The rich Man had a Stranger came Unto his House, that lovd dear, The poor Mans Sheep therefore he took, And thereof made his Friend good Chear. Because that he his own would save, He usd the Man most cruelly. Then by the Lord the King did swear, The rich Man for the Fault should die. Thou art the Man, the Prophet said, The Princely Crown God gave to thee, The Lords Wife thou thy own hast made, And many more of fair Beauty. Why hast thou so defild thy Life, And slain Uriah by the Sword, And taken home is wedded Wife, Regarding not Gods holy Word: Therefore behold, thus said the Lord, Great Wars upon thy House shall be, Because thou hast my Laws abhord Much Ill be sure Ill cast on thee. Ill take thy Wives before thy Face, And give them to thy Neighbours Use, And thou thereby shall reap Disgrace, For Men shall laugh at thy Abuse. Then David cryd out piteously, Sore have I sinnd against the Lord, In Mercy therefore look on me, Let not my Prayers be abhord. But as the Prophet told to him, So did it after chance indeed, For God did greatly plague his Sin, As in the Bible you may read: The Scourge of Sin thus you may see, For Murder and Adultery, And grant that we may warned be, Such crying Sins to shun and flie.