%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A Ballad against slander and detraction. / Gar call him downe gar call him downe gar call him downe downe a: / God send the faction of all detraction calld downe and cast away. Heywood, John 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 06/28/2021 37039

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S118129 AL myghty God / Dooth shake his Rod Gar call him downe gar call him downe gar call him downe downe a: / God send the faction of all detraction calld downe and cast away. Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 10 A Ballad against slander and detraction. / Gar call him downe gar call him downe gar call him downe downe a: / God send the faction of all detraction calld downe and cast away. A Ballad against slander and detraction. Go call him down go call him down go call him down down a: God send the faction of all detraction called down and cast away. Heywood, John Printer John Allde ?-?

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ALmyghty God Dooth shake his Rod Of justise, and all those: That unjustly Detractyfly Detract their freends or foes. He telthe eche one Thou shalt judge none And if thou judge unbiden: Thyself saith he Shall judged be This lesson is not hiden: To this now sturd This is concord Whiche wilthe us in eche dout: To deem the best That may be gest Till time the trueth try out. Knowing by this That think amisse Against no man we may: Muche more must we Ill langage flee And call it Downe downe a. Gar call him downe etc. With swoord or skaine To see Babes slaine abhorth to look upon: Attend to me and ye shall see Murder and slaunder one. Like as a knife By reving life so slaunder fame hath slain: And bothe ones doone bothe alike soone May be undoon again: Then what more ill with knife to kill Or with the tung to sting: with knife or tung Strike olde or yung bothe in effect one thing. These woords are short But they import
Sentence at length to way: of all which sence To flee offence call slaunder downe I say: Gar call him downe etc. When vice is sought al vice is nought But some vice wors then some: And eche man sees sundry degrees In eche vice self dooth come. Now sins the least We should detest vice or degree in vice: If in the moste we showe our boste That showeth us most unwice. If I in thee suche faults ones see As no man ells doth knowe: to thee alone And other none these faults I ought to showe. Then of intent if I invent Fauls tales and them display: that is moste vile Whiche to exile god calleth this down downe a. Gar call him downe etc. Some count no charge to talke at large Suche il as they doo heare: but Gods account Dooth not amount to take suche talkers heere. Of woork il wrought when it is sought In telling foorth the same: though it be true the talke may brew Drink of damnable blame. To frame excuse of tungs misuse we have no maner mene:
So that by this no way ther is Il talles to cary clene. Which makes me call Upon you all as calling cal you may: Tales false or true me to ensue To call them downe down a. Gar call him downe etc. Christe crieth out stil say good for il But we say harme for harme: yea ill for good Ill tungs doo brood Wrath is in them so warme. Slander to fere And to forbere this text stands well in place: Wo by the tung wherby is sprung Slander in any cace. To sleke this fier of slanders yre Repentance must devise: to set all hands To quenche the brands with water of our eies. Which brand then blowe to make love glowe That love by grace may stay and by resort Of good report call slander downe I say. Gar call him down etc.
FINIS. quod Haywood Imprinted at London at the long Shop adjoining unto Saint Mildreds Churche in the Pultrie by John Allde.