%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A Godly WARNING to all MAIDENS, / By the Example of God's Judgment shewed on Jerman's Wife of Clifton, / in the County of Nottingham, who, lying in Child-bed was born away, and never / heard of after. 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 07/17/2021 37379

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R236044 1 The Lady's Fall In Peascod Time The Lady's Fall YOu dainty Dames so finely fram'd / of Beauty's chiefest mould, British Library - Bagford Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 39 2: 40 A Godly WARNING to all MAIDENS, / By the Example of God's Judgment shewed on Jerman's Wife of Clifton, / in the County of Nottingham, who, lying in Child-bed was born away, and never / heard of after. A Godly WARNING to all MAIDENS, By the Example of God's Judgment showed on Jerman's Wife of Clifton, in the County of Nottingham, who, lying in Child-bed was borne away, and never heard of after. Printer W.O. ?-? W.O. B. Deacon

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YOu dainty Dames so finely fram'd of Beauty's chiefest mould, And you that trip it up and down, like lambs in Cupids fold, Here is a lesson to be learn'd, a lesson in my mind, For such as will prove false in love, and bear a faithless mind: Not far from Nottingham of late, in Clifton, as I hear, There dwelt a fair and comely Dame, for beauty without Peer; Her cheeks were like the crimson-rose, yet as you may perceive, The fairest face the falsest heart, and soonest will deceive. This gallant Dame she was belov'd of many in that place, And many sought in marriage-bed her body to imbrace: At last a proper handsome Youth, young Bateman call'd by name, In hopes to make a married Wife, unto this Maiden came. Such love and liking there was found, that he from all the rest, Had stol'n away the Maiden's heart, and she did love him best; Then plighted promise secretly did pass between them two, That nothing could but Death itself, this true love's knot undo,
He brake a piece of gold in twain, one half to her he gave, The other as a pledge, quoth he, dear Heart, myself will have. If I do break my vow, quoth she, while I remain alive, May never thing I take in hand be seen at all to thrive. This passed on for two months space, and then this Maid began To settle love and liking too upon another Man: One Jerman who a Widower was, her Husband needs must be, Because he was of greater wealth, and better in degree. Her vows and promise lately made, to Bateman she deny'd; And in despight of him and his she utterly defy'd: Well then, quoth he, if it be so, that you will me forsake, And like a false and forsworn Wretch, another Husband take: Thou shalt not live one quiet hour, for surely I will have Thee either now alive or dead, when I am laid in grave; Thy faithless mind thou shalt repent, therefore be well assur'd, When for thy sake thou hear'st report, what torments I endur'd.
But mark how Bateman dy'd for love, and finisht up his life, That very day she marry'd was, and made old Jermans Wife; For with a strangling-cord, God wot, great moan was made therefore, He hang'd himself in desperate sort, before the Bride's own door. Whereat such sorrow pierc'd her heart, and troubled sore her mind, That she could never after that, one day of comfort find; And wheresoever she did go, her fancy did surmise, Young Batemans pale and ghastly Gost appear'd before her eyes. When she in bed at night did lye, betwixt her Husband's arms, In hope thereby to sleep and rest in safety without harms; Great cries, & grievous groans she heard, a voice that sometimes said, O thou art she that I must have, and will not be deny'd. But she being big with Child, was for the Infant's sake, Preserved from the Spirit's power, no vengeance could it take: The Babe unborn did safely keep, as God appointed so, His Mother's body from the Fiend, that sought her overthrow. But being of her Burden eas'd, and safely brought to bed, Her care and grief began anew, and farther sorrow bred:
And of her Friends she did intreat, desiring them to stay, Out of the bed, quoth she, this night, I shall be born away. Here comes the Spirit of my Love, with pale and gastly face, Who till he bear me hence away, will not depart this place; Alive or dead I am his by right, and he will surely have, In spight of me, and all the World, what I by promise gave. O watch with me this night, I pray, and see you do not sleep, No longer than you be awake, my body can you keep. All promised to do their best, yet nothing could suffice, In middle of the night to keep sad slumber from their eyes. So being all full fast asleep, to them unknown which way, The Child-bed-woman that woful night from thence was born away; And to what place no Creature knew, nor to this day can tell; As strange a thing as ever yet in any Age befel. You Maidens that desire to love, and would good Husbands chuse, To him that you do vow to love, by no means do refuse. For God that hears all secret oaths, will dreadful vengeance take, On such that of a wilful vow do slender reckoning make.
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