%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A new Ballet of the straunge and most cruell Whippes / which the Spanyards had prepared to whippe and torment English men and women: / which were found and taken at the ouerthrow of certaine of the Spanish Shippes / in Iuly last past. 1588. Deloney, Thomas 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 07/03/2021 36796

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S112606 1 the valiant Soldiour [unknown] The Valiant Soldier AL you that list to looke and see / what profite comes from Spayne, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 63 A new Ballet of the straunge and most cruell Whippes / which the Spanyards had prepared to whippe and torment English men and women: / which were found and taken at the ouerthrow of certaine of the Spanish Shippes / in Iuly last past. 1588. A new Ballad of the strange and most cruel Whips which the Spaniards had prepared to whip and torment English men and women: which were found and taken at the overthrow of certain of the Spanish Ships in July last past. 1588. Deloney, Thomas Printer Thomas Orwin and / Thomas Gubbin ?-?

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AL you that list to looke and see what profite comes from Spayne, And what the Pope and Spanyards both, prepared for our gayne. Then turne your eyes and bend your eares, and you shall heare and see, What courteous minds, what gentle harts they beare to thee and mee. They say they seeke for Englands good, and wish the people well: They say they are such holie men, all other they excell. They bragge that they are Catholikes, and Christes only Spouse: And what so ere they take in hand, the holie Pope allowes. These holie men, these sacred Saints, and these that thinke no ill: See how they sought against all right, to murder, spoyle and kill. Our noble Queene and Countrie first, they did prepare to spoyle: To ruinate our lives and lands, with trouble and turmoyle. And not content by fire and sword to take our right away: But to torment most cruelly our bodies night and day. Although they ment with murdring hands our guiltlesse bloud to spill: Before our deathes they did devise to whip us first their fill. And for that purpose had preparde of whips such wondrouse store, So straungely made, that sure the like was never seene before.
For never was there Horse nor Mule, nor dogge of currish kinde, That ever had such whips devisde by any savadge minde. One sorte of whips they had for men, so smarting fierce and fell: As like could never be devisde by any devill in hell. The strings whereof with wyerie knots, like rowels they did frame, That every stroke might teare the flesh they layd on with the same. And pluckt the spreading sinewes from the hardned bloudie bone, To pricke and pearce each tender veine, within the bodie knowne. And not to leave one crooked ribbe, on any side unseene: Nor yet to leave a lumpe of flesh the head and foote betweene. And for our seelie women eke, their hearts with griefe to clogge, They made such whips wherewith no man would seeme to strike a dogge: So strengthened eke with brazen tagges, and filde so rough, and thin That they would force at every lash the bloud abroad to spinne. Although their bodies sweet and fayre, their spoyle they ment to make: And on them first their filthie lust and pleasure for to take. Yet afterward such sower sauce they should be sure to finde, That they shoulde curse each springing braunch that cometh of their kinde. O Ladies fayre what spite were this, your gentle hearts to kill: To see these devilish tyrants thus your childrens bloud to spill. What griefe unto the husband deere, his loving wife to see Tormented so before his face with extreame villanie. And thinke you not that they which had such dogged mindes to make Such instruments of tyrannie, had not like hearts to take The greatest vengeance that they might upon us every one: Yes, yes, be sure, for godlie feare and mercie they have none. Even as in India once they did against those people there, With cruell Curres in shamefull sorte the men both rent and teare:
And set the Ladies great with childe upright against a tree, And shoot them through with pearcing darts, such would their practise bee. Did not the Romans in this land, sometime like practise use, Against the Brittaines bolde in heart, and wonderously abuse The valiant King whom they had caught before his Queene and wife, And with most extreame tyrannie dispatcht him of his life? The good Queene Voadicia, and eke her daughters three: Did they not first abuse them all by lust and lecherie: And after stript them naked all, and whipt them in such sorte: That it would grieve each Christian heart to heare that just reporte. And if these ruffling mates of Rome did Princes thus torment: Thinke you the Romish Spanyards now would not shewe their desent. How did they late in Rome rejoyce, in Italie and Spayne: What ringing and what Bonfires, what Masses sung amaine. What printed Bookes were sent about, as filled their desire: How England was by Spanyards wonne, and London set on fire. Be these the men that are so milde, whom some so holie call: The Lord defend our noble Queene, and Countrie from them all.
FINIS. T.D. Imprinted at London by Thomas Orwin and Thomas Gubbin, and are to be solde in Pater- noster-row, over against the blacke Raven. 1588.