%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A discription of a monstrous Chylde, borne at Chychester in Sussex, the .xxiiii. daye of May. / This being the very length, and bygnes of the same. M. CCCCC. LXII. 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 06/03/2021 37062

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S124258 WHen God for synne, to plage hath ment / Although, he longe defarde Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 31 A discription of a monstrous Chylde, borne at Chychester in Sussex, the .xxiiii. daye of May. / This being the very length, and bygnes of the same. M. CCCCC. LXII. A description of a monstrous Child, born at Chichester in Sussex, the xxiiii day of May. This being the very length, and bigness of the same. M. CCCCC. LXII. Printer Leonard Askel ?-? Fraunces Godlyf

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WHen God for synne, to plage hath ment Although, he longe defarde He tokens truly, straunge hath sent To make hys foes afearde. That they thereby, might take remorce Of their yll lyfe mispent And more of love, then feare or force Their formall faultes repent. Before the earth was overflowen With waters huge throughout He sent them Noe, that holy one Who dayly went about. To call them then, to Godly lyfe At whome they laughte and fumde He was contemde of man and wyfe Tyll they were all consumde. Loth did preache most earnestly But it did not prevayle: Then fyre and brymstone verely Upon them doune did hayle. Pharaoes heart had no remorce Though wounders straunge he saw But rather was therfore the worce Without all feare or awe. Untyll bothe he and his therfore By justice sent of God In raginge seas, were all forlore And then he felt the rod. Ten tymes truely were the Jewes In captive brought and led Before eche tyme, it God did use Hys tokens strange we red.
The yeare before Vaspatian came The Jewes a heyfer drest Whiche beyng slayne, did calve a lame This sygne they sone did wrest. As others doe, and styll have done In making it as vayne Or els good lucke, they saye shal come As please their foolish brayne. The Heathen could forese and saye That when suche wounders were It did foreshew to them alwaye That some yll hap drew nere. The scripture sayth, before the ende Of all thinges shall appeare God will wounders straunge thinges sende As some is sene this yeare. The selye infantes, voyde of shape The Calves and Pygges so straunge With other mo of suche mishape Declareth this worldes chaunge. But here, lo, see above the rest A Monster to beholde Procedinge from a Christian brest To monstrous to be tolde. No Carver can, nor Paynter maye The same so ougly make As doeth itself shewe at this daye A sight to make the quake. But here thou haste by Printing arte A signe therof to se Let eche man saye within his harte It preacheth now, to me.
That I shoulde seke to lyve hencefoorth In Godly lyfe alwaye For these be tokens now sent foorth To preache the later daye. Also it doeth demonstrate playne The great abuse and vyce That here in Englande now doeth raygne That Monstrous is the guyse. By readinge stories, we shall fynde In scripture, and elleswhere That when suche thinges came out of kynde Gods wrath it did declare. But if we lightely weye the same And make but nyne dayes wonder The Lord our stoutnes, sone will tame And sharpely bringe us under. Then ponder wel betymes, long past The sequel of suche signes And call to God by prayer in hast From sinne to chaunge our myndes. Repent, amende bothe hygh and lowe The woorde of God embrace To lyve therto, as we should doe God gyve us all the grace. quod. Jhon. D. The father hereof is one Vyncent, a bout- cher, bothe he and hys wyfe being of honest & quiet conversation. They having had chyldren before, in natural proportion: and went with this her full tyme.
Imprynted at London, by Leonard Askel for Fraunces Godlyf. In the yeare of oure Lorde, 1562.