%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A songe betwene the Quenes maiestie and Englande. Birch, William University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer 1564-1564 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 10/18/2018 36301

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S91106 COme ouer the born bessy / come ouer the born bessy Society of Antiquaries of London - Broadsides Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 47 A songe betwene the Quenes maiestie and Englande. A song between the Queen's majesty and England. Birch, William Printer william Picke= / eringe 1564-1564

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E COme over the born bessy / come over the born bessy Swete bessy come over to me And I shall the take / and my dere lady make Before all other that ever I see. B *Mythinke I hear a voice / at whom I do rejoyce and aunswer the now I shall Tel me I say / what art thou that biddes me com away and so earnestly doost me call. E *I am thy lover faire / hath chose the to mine heir and my name is mery Englande Therefore come away / and make no more delaye Swete bessie give me thy hande. B *Here is my hand / my dere lover Englande I am thine both with mind and hart Forever to endure / thou maiest be sure Untill death us two depart. E *Lady this long space / have I loved thy grace more then I durste well saye Hoping at the last / when all stormes were past For to see this joyfull daye. B *yet my lover England / ye shall understand How Fortune on me did lowre I was tombled and tost / from piller to post and prisoner in the Towre. E Dere Lady we do know / how that tirauntes not a fewe went about for to seke thy bloude An contrarie to right / they did what they might That now bare two faces in one hood. B Then was I caried to wodstock / & kept close under lock That no man mighte with me speake And against all reason / they accused me of treason and ticably thei did me threate. E Oh my lover faire / my dearlinge and mine heire Full sore for the I did lament But no man durst speak / but thei wuld him threat and quickly make him repent. B Then was I deliverd their hands / but was faine to put in bands and good suerties for my forthcomminge Not from my house to departe / nor nowhere els to sterte as though I had ben away runninge. E *Why dere Lady I trow / those mad men did not knowe That ye were doughter unto Kinge Hary And a princesse of birth / one of the noblest on earth and sister unto Quene Mary. B yes) yet I must forgeve / al such as do live if they wil hereafter amend And for those that are gone / God forgeve them every one and his mercy on them extend.
E yet my lover dere / tell me now here For what cause had ye this punishmente For the commons did not know / nor no man wuld them shew The chief cause of your imprisonment. B No nor thei themself / that wuld have decaid my welth But only by powre and abusion Thei culd not detect me / but that thei did suspect me That I was not of their religion. E Oh cruell tirauntes / and also monstrous giauntes That woulde suche a swete blossome devour But the lorde of his might / defended the in right And shortened their arme and powre. B *yet my lover dere / marke me well here Though thei were men of the devill The scripture plainly saith / al thei that be of faith must nedes do good against evill. E Oh swete virgin pure / longe may ye endure To reigne over us in this lande For your workes do accord / ye are the handmaid of the lord For he hath blessed you with his hand. B My swete realme be obedient / to gods holy commaundement and my procedinges embrace And for that that is abused / shal be better used and that within shorte space. E Dere lady and Quene / I trust it shal be sene ye shall reigne quietly without strife And if any traiters there be / of any kind or degre I pray God send them short life. B I trust al faithful herts / wil play tru subjects parts Knowing me their Quene & true heir by right And that much the rather / for the love of my father That worthy prince King Henrie theight. E Therfore let us pray / to God both night and day Continually and never to sease That he will preserve your grace / to reigne over us long space In tranquilitie welth and peace Both. All honor land & praise, be to the lord god alwaies who hath all princes hartes in his handes that by his powre & might / he may gide them aright For the welth of all christen landes.
Finis. Quod. Wylliam Birche. God save the Quene. Imprinted at London by William Picke- ringe / dwelling under Saynt Magnus church. W.P.