%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The true description of a monsterous Chylde / / Borne in the Ile of Wight, in this present yeare of oure Lord God, M. D. / LXIIII. the month of October, after this forme with a cluster of / longe heare about the Nauell, the Fathers name is / James Johnsun, in the parys of Freswater. Barker, 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 06/15/2021 37070

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S115322 FOr mercy Lorde, with one accorde, / To the we call and crye: Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 38 The true description of a monsterous Chylde / / Borne in the Ile of Wight, in this present yeare of oure Lord God, M. D. / LXIIII. the month of October, after this forme with a cluster of / longe heare about the Nauell, the Fathers name is / James Johnsun, in the parys of Freswater. The true description of a monstrous Child Born in the Isle of Wight, in this present year of our Lord God, MDLXIIII. the month of October, after this form with a cluster of long hear about the Navel, the Father's name is James Johnson, in the parish of Freshwater. Barker, John Printer Wylliam Gryffith ?-?

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FOr mercy Lorde, with one accorde, To the we call and crye: That so doth show, in earth below, Thy wonderous workes daylye. Within the rase, of fyve yeres space Moche monsterous sights hath byn: Of sundry kynde, man bare in mynde, And sone turne from thy syn. Repent and pray, amende I say, Leve of thy wicked wayes: The tyme drawes on, thou must be gone, Beholde this later dayes. Of Infans yonge, agone not longe, With calves and pigges which were: The tookens loo, mishappen soo, Whiche cryeth to us great feare.
Now this late syght in Ile of Wight, Straungely it is to tell: Two children borne, never beforne, Suche wonders there befell. The one I fynde, of Woman kynde, Havyng her shape all right: The other is, transposed this, As pleaseth the Lorde of myght. Where natures art, doth not her part, In workyng of her skylle: To shape aright, eche lyvely wight, Beholde it is Gods wyll. Loo here you see, before your eye, A man childe to beholde: A babe gyltles, deformyd this, Moste wonderous to be tolde.
No carver can, nor paynter then, The shape more ugly make: As itselfe dothe, declare the truthe, A syghte to make us quake. Let us all feare, and in mynde beare, This forme so monsterous: That no hurt wraught, nor evill hath thaught, What shall become of us. That doth still syn, and never lyn, As men heapyng up treasure: Agaynst the day, of wrath for aye, Of Gods heavy displeasure. Nowe praye wee all, bothe great and small, Unto the Lorde of might: To gyve us grace in Heaven a place, There to attayne his sight.
ALl ye that dothe beholde and see, this monstrous sight so straunge, Let it to you a preachyng be, from synfull lyfe to chaunge: For in this latter dayes trulye, the Lord straunge syghts doth showe, By tokens in the Heavens hye, and on the yearth belowe. This dothe demonstrate to us, the lyfe whiche we lyve in, A Monster oughly to beholde, conceyved was in syn: In shape unparfett here to vewe, that nature hathe not drest, A chylde now borne by porte moste true, this from the mothers brest: For he that doth this shape beholde, and his owne state will knowe, Will make the proude Pecocke so bolde, beare downe his tayll full lowe: Nowe Lorde sende downe thy holy spryte, the Confortor of Joye, For to direct owr wayes aright, to dwell with thee for aye: And graunt we maye amende our lyfe, accordyng to thy worde, In every age bothe Manne and Wyfe, nowe graunt us this good Lorde.
Finis quod John Barkar. Imprynted at London in Fletestrete: at the Sygne of the Faucon, by Wylliam Gryffith, and are to be solde at his shop in saint Dunstons churchyarde, in the west of London, the .viii. daye of November.