%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> O Maruelous tydynges both Wonders Old and New / The Deuyll is endited yf many mens wordes be tru. 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 06/23/2021 37094

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S101988 IN all Christendom, Christes Godspell now is rad / Of man, woman, and chyld, it maketh their harts glad Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 50 O Maruelous tydynges both Wonders Old and New / The Deuyll is endited yf many mens wordes be tru. O Marvelous tidings both Wonders Old and New The Devil is indited if many men's words be true. Printer Cornelis Woltrop ?-?

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IN all Christendom, Christes Godspell now is rad Of man, woman, and chyld, it maketh their harts glad Whiche with shamefull syns, before were full sad O wounders good tydynges, yf all sayinges be tru. It is rad so oft, and with soch diligence That no text is wrested, thorow raische negligence Playn declaracions, help moche to the true sense We all have cause to rejoyse, yf these tydyngs be tru. Now after Christes rule, all folk do lead theyr lyfe They abhor all chydyng, braulyng, fyghtyng, and stryfe Grete fervent charytie is betwyne man and wyfe No worse wordes then honycomb, sweet hart of gold, most tru. One neybur resorteth fryndly to another As though all were kynsfolk, lyke brother and brother. Greter love was never betwyne chyld and mother This world is no world, yf all tydynges be tru. It is rather lyke Hevyn, or pleasaunt Paradyse The folk be lyke Angels, discrete, sober, and wyse If one fall through fraylty, he repentyng more then twyse Ryseth styll a new man, a good Christian and tru. Folk fast, pray, and serve God, not Hipocritically (Only to be seen of men, for folysh vaynglory) But from the very hart, the Lord God to gloryfy Despysyng fond fantasyes, as false thynges, and not tru. Everybody now, in som trade of lyvyng Doth labour for his foode, with travell or swetyng Som dyggyng, som spynnyng, som wrytyng, som redyng Som gevyng good counsell, lyke honest folk and tru. They knowe that they must make, a rekenyng to God Of theyr dispensacion, they feere gretely Gods rod The ryche do helpe the poore, with rost meat or with sod None lye starvyng in Streets, yf all mens tonges be tru. Great ryche men be afrayd, least they dye sodaynly Least theyre goods (after them) be spent in foolery Least God wyll call them fooles, therfore liberally They spend moche in theyr lyfe, upon poore folk and tru. They be redy also, somwhat to prysons to send If any through frayltie, chaunse folyshly to offend But now Prisons be empty, the world doth so amende There be but .iiii. score and ten in kynges benche, it was tru. Of them that be in pryson, som be tyed with clogges Som gnaw broun crustes of bred, som burnish boones lyke doggs Som wysh to fyll theyr gutts, with catts, ratts, myse, or froggs Specyally this deere yere: Now (they say) they wyll be tru. How many be in Ludgate, and Neugate I cannot tel But they that be abrode, be afrayd, I trust well And fall to wourk lustely, thorow theyr exampell They abhorre Clinkerum: They say they wyll be tru. A man may goo now, over Fyns bery fylde Without sweard and buckler, without speare or shylde With an houndred poundes: as safe as with a nylde In a mysty mornyng, and by nyght, yf tales be tru. All England and Spayn, all Scotland, and Germany All Fraunce and Ireland, all Denmark and Hungary Be purged so (I trust) from vice and Idolatry That the Turk doth beghyn to thynk the Godspele tru. The Saracens and Jewes (I trust) do now convert Moved with Godlynes that is in Christians harte They fere least Chrysts scourge wyll make theyr bones to smart I trust they receyve baptyme, and belyve the Godspell is tru. They hire it so discussed by calculacyon That Doomesday is at hand, yf mens speculacion In Astronomye be tru, the worldes transformacyon Wyl be within .x. yeres, straunge newes yf it be tru.
I (one of .xl. yeres) thought to provyde for age House for one and twenty yere, or som fat personage Som prebend, deanery, or som vicarage But now I pas not moche, yf Astronomers be tru. Yea whither Astronomers, be true eyther no Or that generall jugement be commyng to or fro This one thyng I kno sure, that I shall hence go I kno nor day, nor ooure: Nothyng is more tru. And douteles, yf all men, wolde be of my mynde We wold som better way, for to lyve here out fynde Men shulde be set awurk, onlesse they were stark blynd Yea blynde shuld do somwhat, to kepe themselfe tru. Helthy folke lackyng wourk, shuld resorte to a place With theyr tooles and instrumentes (as som use to shew their face) Then set awourk, or fed, (of mens favour and grace) With som comon purse, to kepe themselfs tru So that it shuld be a straunge thyng for to see Any theft or murder, ever committed to be As (thankes be to God) folk burne so in charytie That no knavery raigneth, yf all mens wordes be tru. The Devyll hath ben a knave, and hath kylde many men Yea both soule and body, moe perchaunse then ten Now he is endyted, as witnesseth my pen His Quest is empayneld, he is founde false, not tru. Here folowe the names of the .xii. men that goo upon the Devyll. Gen.iii.i. Paralip.xxi. Job.i.ii. Sapien.ii. Christ in Math.xiii. and in Luke.viii. Math.iiii. Mar.i. Luke.xxii. Joan.xiii. and .i. Joan.iii. Paull to the Ephesians.vi.i. Pet.v. Jacob.iiii. It wyl be hard to kyll, suche an immortall knave He recoveryth so oft, though a stronge hooste we have Call in Turkes and Saracens, that they also may be save Through Gods help, we may breke Satans hed, It is tru. To breke Satans hed, of all wayes this is one With the buckler of fayth, to resyst suggestion And strongly to belyve, that Christes passion Christes wordes and myrakels, all be most surely tru. All Christian Kyngs, do now theyr wittes bende Theyr letters in print to the Turkes for to sende With many new testamentes, theyr blynd lyfe to amend For fere of hellfyre, I trust it wyl be tru. When Satan the Devyll, seeth such a great hoost Suche a sort of christians, to diminish his boost He must nedes be compelld, to graunt his great strenght lost When his pate is broken, God graunte this may be tru. Then the golden world, I trust wyll com agayn That folk may lyve easyly, without any great payn Many egges for a peny, at London I wolde se fayn Flesche and fische better chepe, I trust it wyl be tru. All other thynges good chepe, I trust to se er I dye Coynes, measures, and weyghtes, in good uniformitie Thorow all the world, I trust to se schortely Onles that diversitie doth more good, it be tru. Jentyll reder, farewell: Thou knoest part of my mynd There lye in my harte, many such thynges behynde Whiche towards the brekyng, of Satans hed I fynde That all may be mery, and wyse in Christ: It is tru.
Jo.x. Alias oves habeo / quae non sunt ex hoc ovili / illas quoq oportet me adducere / et vocem mean audient, et fiet unum ovile / et unus pastor. Jo,xii. Nunc judicium est mundi hujus. Nunc princeps mundi hujus ejicietur foras. Et ego si exaltatus fuero a terra / omnes traham ad meipsum. Hoc autem dicebat significans, qua morte esset moritu[rus] Printed by Cornelis Woltrop dwellyng at saynt Antonies.