%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> [A] New Ballad of Tobias: Wherein is shewed the wonderfull things which / [?]d to him in his youth; and how he wedded a yong Damsell that had had seven / Husbands, and never enjoyed their company: Who were all / slaine by a wicked Spirit. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer 1650-1650 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 10/16/2018 36033

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R227919 1 NONE [unknown] [I]N Ninive old Toby dwelt, / an aged man and blind was he, Manchester Central Library Blackletter Ballads Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 42 [A] New Ballad of Tobias: Wherein is shewed the wonderfull things which / [?]d to him in his youth; and how he wedded a yong Damsell that had had seven / Husbands, and never enjoyed their company: Who were all / slaine by a wicked Spirit. A New Ballad of Tobias: Wherein is shown the wonderful things which [?]d to him in his youth; and how he wedded a young Damsel that had had seven Husbands, and never enjoyed their company: Who were all slain by a wicked Spirit. Printer E. [?] 1650-1650

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[I]N Ninive old Toby dwelt, an aged man and blind was he, [An]d much affliction he had felt, [w]hich brought him unto poverty. [H]e had by Anna his true wife, one onely son and eke no more, Which was the comfort of his life, and he by him did set great store. [He] brought him up most vertuously, in true obedience and awe, [A]nd every day he did apply, [t]o feare the Lord and keep his Law. [Up]on a time it came to passe, [h]e call'd to him his son with speed, [And] thus to him his words did frame [My] son, quoth he, thou knowst my need? [Thou] must unto Gabael goe, [to] Raguels house in Media Land, [For I d]id lend him long agoe, [ten Ta]lents on his onely band. [My Father] deare, Tobias said, [at your] command straight will I goe, [How shall] I get the mony paid [seeing th]e man I did nere know? [Take the]e the writings then quoth he, [which] is sufficient being seene, [And get] a guide to goe with thee, [since tho]u that way hast never beene. [A Guide To]bias son had got, [An Angell] in the shape of man, [Which t]h[i]ng he did not know, God wot. [the] Lord did so appoint it than. [Tob]ias with his blessed guide, [we]nt on his journey then with speed, [Until] they came to Tygris side [?]at fair floud they did abide.
Tobias would goe wash him there, by reason of the Summers heat, A mighty fish put him feare, which lept out of the waters great. Cut up the fish, the Angell said, but keep the Liver, Heart, and Gall, To doe the same be not affraid, great cures there shall be don withall. When this was don, away they went, and comming neere their journeies end, Weel lodge tonight the Angell said, with Raguel thy fathers friend. He hath a daughter faire of face, and also of a vertuous life, And when we come into that place, Ile speake that she may be thy wife. Why Azarias then, quoth he, so Tobie did the Angell call; I wis she is no wife for me, swift death doth to her Lovers fall. Seven men have to her married beene, which in her love did take delight, When her bed-chamber they have seene, they have not liv[']d out halfe the night. A wicked spirit loves her so, he will not suffer any man, With her into the bed to goe, but works his death doe what he can. The Angell said, good courage take, for so it shall not be with thee For such perfumes I will thee make, the wicked Spirit away shall flee. To Raguels house away they went where Sara met them faire and bright, And after salutations done, she brought him to her Parents sight.
GReat cheer they made, & downe they sat and all for yong Tobias sake, And after long and pleasant chat, betwixt these two a match they make. By Moses law they married were, the Brides bedchamber prepar'd likewise, When young Tobias came in there, the teares fell downe from Sara's eyes. A Pan of Coales he brought with him, the Fishes Heart and Liver there, Which in that fire he did cast in, which cast a savour everywhere. And by that sweet and precious smell, the wicked spirit was displac'd, Within that roome he could not dwell, whereout away he went in hast. In bed they lay'd the beauteous Bride, the chamber doore they shut therefore, Young Toby lay downe by her side, whom he did thinke to see no more. And therefore Raguel in the night, for him before had made a grave, And to his wife he wept and said, there is no meanes his life to save. One of the Maidens send quoth he, to see how all the matter stands, If it be so that dead he be, he shall be buried by my hands. The Maiden joyfull newes did bring, Tobias is alive quoth she, When Raguel then heard of this thing, he did rejoyce exceedingly. For joy he made a solemne feast, the Bridall fourteene dayes he kep[t,] Thereto came many a friendly gues[t,] in sorrow now no more they sle[pt.]
Then Azarias went straightway, and to the feast Gabael brought, Rejoycing at this marriage day, did pay the money which he ought. But yet old Toby and his wife, did all the time in sorrow dwell, They thought their son had lost his life, and nothing could their griefe expell. His aged mother every day, did watch along the high-way side. And for his welfare oft did pray, no meate nor drinke she could abide. But when the wedding ended was, young Toby with his lovely Bride, To Ninive did homeward passe, with goods and cattell on each side. But Toby and the Angell bright, before his wife made haste to goe, For to prepare all things aright, his lovely Bride to welcome tho. His mother watching in the way, full soone espide her tender son, Rejoycing at the happy day, she tould her husband he was come. Whereat old Toby stumbled out for he was blind and could no[t see,] Young Toby with the fish[es Gall,] rubb'd both his eyes [immediatly.] Whereat the whit[eness of his eyes] incontinent [did fall out quite:] So that befo[re he did arise,] he h[ad again his perfect sight: Great joy there was and down they sat, young Toby told his Father all: Who went to meet his lovely bride, with joy and mirth that was not small.]
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