%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A-Warning-piece to England, against Pride and Wickedness; being The fall of Queen Eleanor, Wife to Edward / the first King of England, who for her Pride and GOD's Judgements, sunk into the Ground at Charing-cross and rose at / Queen-hith. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 06/19/2014 33953

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WHEN Edward was in England King, / The First of all that Name, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1292 A-Warning-piece to England, against Pride and Wickedness; being The fall of Queen Eleanor, Wife to Edward / the first King of England, who for her Pride and GOD's Judgements, sunk into the Ground at Charing-cross and rose at / Queen-hith. A Warning-piece to England, against Pride and Wickedness; being The fall of Queen Eleanor, Wife to Edward the first King of England, who for her Pride and GOD's Judgements, sunk into the Ground at Charing-cross and rose at Queen-hith. ?-?

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WHen Edward was in England King, the First of all that name, Proud Elenor he made his Queen, a stately Spanish Dame: Whose wicked Life and sinful Pride, through England did excel, To dainty Dames and gallant Maids, this Queen was known full well: She was the first that did invent in Coaches brave to ride, She was the first that brought this Land to deadly Sin of Pride: No English Taylor here could serve to make her rich Attire, But sent for Taylors into Spain, to feed her vain desire. They brought in Fashions strange and new, with Golden Garments bright, The Farthingale and mighty Kuff, with Gowns of rich Delight: You London Dames in Spanish Pride, did flourish every-where; Our English Men like Woman then; did wear long Locks of Hair.
Both Man and Child both Maid and Wife, were drown'd in Pride of Spain, And thought the Spanish Taylors then our English Men did stain: Whereat the Queen did much dispight, to see our English Men In Vestures clad, as brave to see as any Spaniard then. She crav'd the King, That every man that wore long Locks of Hair, Might then be cut and polled all, or shaved very near. Whereat the King did seem content, and soon thereto agreed, And first commanded that his own should then be cut with speed. And after that, to please his Queen, proclaimed through the Land, That every Man that wore long Hair, should pole him out of hand: But yet this Spaniard not content, to Woman bore a spight, And then requested of the King, against all Law and Right,
That every Womankind should have their right Breast cut a way, And then with burning Irons sear'd, the blood to stanch and stay! King Edward then perceiving well, her spight to Womankind, Devised soon by policy, and turn'd her bloody mind, He sent for burning Irons straight, all sparkling hot to see, And said, 'O Queen, come on thy way, will begin with thee Which words did much displease the Queen, that Penance to begin, But askt him Pardon on her knees, who gave her Grace therein. But afterwards she chanc'd to pass along brave London streets, Whereas the Mayor of London's Wife, in stately sort she m[ee]ts; With Musick, Mirth and Melody, unto the Church they went, To give God Thanks that to th' L. Mayor a noble Son had sent.
It grieved much this spightful Queen, to see that anyone, Should so exceed in Mirth and Joy, except herself alone; For which she after did devise, within her bloody mind, And practis'd still most secretly, to kill this Lady kind: Unto the Mayor of London then, she sent her Letters straight, To send his Lady to the Court, upon her Grace to wait; But when the London Lady came before proud Elenors face, She stript her from her rich Array, and kept her vile and base. She sent her into Wales with speed, and kept her secret there, And us'd her still most cruelly, that ever Men did hear: She made her wash, she made her starch, she made her drudge alway, She made her nurse up Children small, and labour night and day. But this contented not the Queen, but shew'd her most dispight, She bound this Lady to a Post, at twelve a clock at Night; And as poor Lady she stood bound, the Queen in angry mood, Did set two Snakes unto her Breast, that suckt away her blood. Thus dyed the Mayor of London's Wife, most grievous for to hear, Which made the Spaniard grow more proud, as after shall appear: The Wheat that daily made her Bread, was bolted twenty times, The Food that fed this stately Dame, was boyl'd in costly Wines; The Water that did spring from Ground, she would not touch at all, But washt her hands with Dew of Heaven, that on sweet Roses fall;
She bath'd her body many a time in Fountains fill'd with milk And every day did change attire in costly Median Silk But coming then to London back within her Coach of Gold A Tempest strange within the Skies this Queen did there there behold: Out of which Storm she could not go but there remain'd a space Four Horses could not stir the Coach a foot out of the place. A Judgement lately sent from Heaven for shedding guiltless Blood, Upon this sinful Queen, that slew the London Lady good. King Edward then, as Wisdom willed accus'd her of that Deed, But she deny'd, and wisht that God would send his Wrath with speed If that upon so vile a thing, her heart did ever think, She wisht the Ground might open wide and she therein might sink. With that, at Charing-cross she sank into the Ground alive, And after rose with Life again, in London, at Queen-hith. When after that she languished full twenty days in pain, At last confest the Lady's Blood, her guilty hand had slain; And likewise how that by a Fryar, she had a base-born Child. Whose sinful Lusts and Wickedness. her Marriage-bed defil'd, Thus have you heard the Fell of Prid, a just Reward of Sin, For those that will forswear themselves God's vengeance daily win; Beware of Pride, ye Courtly Dames, both Wives and Maidens all, Bear this imprinted in your mi[n]d, That PRIDE must have fall.