%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE / Lady Isabella's Tragedy: / OR, / The Step=Mother's Cruelty: / Being a Relation of a lamentable and cruel MURTHER committed on / the Body of the Lady ISABELLA, the only Daughter of a Noble Duke, occa- / sion'd by her Step-Mother, and acted by the Master-cook, who were both adjudg'd / to suffer Death for the said Murther. 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 07/06/2021 37262

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R221284 1 The Lady's Fall, &c. In Peascod Time The Lady's Fall, &c. THere was a Lord of worthy fame, / and a hunting he would ride; British Library - Bagford Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 51 1: 52 THE / Lady Isabella's Tragedy: / OR, / The Step=Mother's Cruelty: / Being a Relation of a lamentable and cruel MURTHER committed on / the Body of the Lady ISABELLA, the only Daughter of a Noble Duke, occa- / sion'd by her Step-Mother, and acted by the Master-cook, who were both adjudg'd / to suffer Death for the said Murther. THE Lady Isabella's Tragedy: OR, The Stepmother's Cruelty: Being a Relation of a lamentable and cruel MURDER committed on the Body of the Lady ISABELLA, the only Daughter of a Noble Duke, occasioned by her Stepmother, and acted by the Master cook, who were both adjudged to suffer Death for the said Murder. Printer W.O. ?-? W.O.

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THere was a Lord of worthy fame, and a hunting he would ride; Attended by a Noble Train of Gentry by his side: And whilst he did in chase remain, to see both sport and play, His Lady went, as she did feign, unto the Church to pray. This Lord he had a Daughter fair, whose beauty shin'd so bright, She was belov'd both far and near of many a Lord and Knight.
Fair Issabella was she call'd, a Creature fair was she; She was her Father's only Joy, as you shall after see, But yet her cruel Step-Mother, did envy her so much, That day by day she sought her life, her malice it was such. She bargain'd with the Master-cook to take her life away, And taking of her Daughter's book, she thus to her did say:
Go home, sweet Daughter, I thee pray, go hasten presently, And tell unto the Master-cook, these words that I tell thee: And bid him dress to dinner streight, that fair and milk white Doe, That in the park doth shine so bright, there's none so fair to show. [T]his Lady fearing of no harm, obey'd her Mother's will, And presently she hasted home, her mind for to fulfil. She streight into the kitchin went, her message for to tell, And there the Master-cook she spy'd, who did with malice swell: Now Master-cook it must be so, do that which I thee tell, You needs must dress the milk white Doe which you do know full well. Then streight his cruel bloody hands he on the Lady laid, Who quivering and shaking stands, whilst thus to her he said: Thou art the Doe that I must dress, see here, behold my knife, For it is pointed presently to rid thee of thy life. O then cry'd out the Scullion-boy, as loud as loud might be, O save her life, good Master-cook, and make your pies of me: For pity sake do not destroy my Lady with your knife, You know she is her Father's Joy, for Christ's sake save her life.
I will not save her life, said [he] nor make my pies of the Yet if thou dost this deed bewray, thy Butcher I will be. Now when this Lord he did come home, for to sit down and eat, He called for his Daughter dear to come and carve his meat. Now sit you down, his Lady said, O sit you down to meat, Into some nunnery she is gone, your Daughter dear forget. Then solemnly he made a vow, before the Company, That he would neither eat nor drink until he did her see. O then bespoke the Scullion-boy, with a loud voice so high, If that you will your Daughter see, my Lord cut up that pye, Wherein her flesh is minced small, and parched with the fire: All caused by her Step-Mother, who did her death desire: And cursed be the Master-cook, O cursed may he be; I proffer'd him my own heart's blood, from death to set her free. Then all in black this Lord did mourn, and for his Daughter's sake, He judged for her Step-Mother to be burnt at a stake. Likewise he judg'd the Master-cook, in boyling-lead to stand; He made the simple Scullion-boy the Heir to all his Land.
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