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S95425 [?] / [?] EUen as the flye that flies in flame, / Till she be burned in the same; [?] Then hang me, &c. [with variation] Manchester Central Library Blackletter Ballads Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 50 [EUen as the flye that flies in flame,] Even as the fly that flies in flame, Price, Lawrence 1625-1625

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<seg n="1" rend="left"><hi rend="italic">The Ballad of constant Susanna.</hi></seg>
THere dwelt a man in Babylon, of reputation great, by fame: [H]e tooke to Wife a faire woman, Susanna she was call'd by name: [A] woman faire and vertuous, Lady, Lady, [Why] should we not of her learne thus, to live godly? [Ve]rtuously her life she led, she feared God, she stood in awe, [As] in the storie we have read, was well brought up in Moses Law: [He]r Parents they were godly folke, Lady, Lady, [Why s]hould we not then sing and talke of this Lady? [Tha]t yeere two Judges there was made, [wh]ich were the Elders of Babylon, [To Jo]achims house was all the trade, [who] was Susanna's Husband then: [Joachim] was a great rich man, Lady, Lady, [These El]ders oft to his house came, for this Lady. [Joachim ha]d an Orchard by, [fast jo]yning to his House, or Place, [Wherea]s Susanna commonly [hersel]fe did dayly there solace: [And that] these Elders soone had spyde, Lady, Lady, [And privily] themselves d[i]d hide, [for that] Lad[y,] [Her chaste and constant life was tri]de [by these two Elders of Babylon, A time convenient they espide, to have this Lady all alone:]
In this Orchard it came to passe, Lady, Lady, Where she alone herselfe did wash her faire Body. These Elders came to her anon, & thus they said, Faire Dame, God speed, Thy doores are fast, thy Maids are gone, consent to us, and doe this deed: For we are men of no mistrust, Lady, Lady, And yet to thee we have a lust, O fa[i]re Lady. If that to us thou dost say nay, a Testimoniall we will bring, We will say, that one with thee lay: how canst thou then avoid this thing? Therefore consent to us, and turne, Lady, Lady, For we to thee in lust doe burne, O faire Lady. Then did she sigh, and said, alas, now woe is me on every side, Was ever wre[t]ch in such a case, shall I consent and doe this deed? Whether I doe, or doe it not, Lady, Lady, It is my death, right well I wot, O true Lady. Better it were for me to fall into your hands this day guilelesse, Then that I should consent at all to this your shamefull wickednesse: And even with that (whereas she stood) Lady, Lady, Unto the Lord she cryed aloud pittifully. These Elders both likewise againe, against Susanna aloud they cryde, Their filthy lust could not obtaine, their wickednesse they sought to hide: Unto her friends they then her brought, Lady, Lady, And with all speed the life they sought of that Lady. On the morrow she was brought forth, before the people there to stand, That they might heare and know the truth how these two Elders Susanna found: These Elders swore, and thus did say, Lady, Lady, How that they saw a young man lay with that Lady. Judgement there was for no offence, Susanna then causelesse must die: These Elde[rs bor]e such evidence, against her they did verifie: Who were beleeved then indeed, Lady[,] Lady, Against Susanna to proceed, that she should die.
Susanna's friends, that stood her by, they did lament, and were full woe, When as they saw no remedie, but that to death she then must goe: Susanna then both true and just, Lady, Lady, In God was all her hope and trust, to him did cry. The Lord her voice heard, and beheld the Daughters cry of Israel: His Spirit he raysed in a Child, whose name was call'd young Daniel, Who cryed aloud whereas he stood, Lady, Lady, I am cleare of the guiltlesse blood of this Lady. Are you such fooles? quoth Daniel then, in Judgement you have not done well, Nor yet the right way have you gone, to judge a Daughter of Israel, By this witnesse of false disdaine, Lady, Lady, Wherefore to Judgement turne againe for that Lady. And when to Judgement they were set, he called for those wicked men, And soone he did them separate, putting the one from the other then: He asked the one, where he did see that faire Lady? He said, under a Mulberry tree: who lyed falsely. Thou lyest, said Daniel, on thy head thy Sentence is before the Lord. He bade, that forth he might be led, and bring the other that bore record, To see how they two did agree for this Lady: He said, under a Pomegranat tree; who lyed falsely. Said Daniel, as he did before, behold the messenger of the Lord Stands waiting for you at the doore, even for to cut thee with a Sword. And even with that the multitude aloud did cry, Give thankes to God: so to conclude for this Lady. They dealt like with these wicked men according as the Scripture sayth They dealt as with their neighbour then, by Moses Law were put to death: The Innocent preserved was, Lady, Lady, As God by Daniel brought to passe, for this Lady.
FINIS. Printed by the Assignes of Thomas Symcocke.