[A ballad describing natural portents] This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A03121 of text S108231 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 1325). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A03121 STC 1325 ESTC S108231 99843903 99843903 8668 2240948157

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A03121) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 8668) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 171:09) [A ballad describing natural portents] 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1580?] Verse begins: "Pet marke againe what I shall saie," (first legibile line). A ballad describing natural portents, including a woman of 59 years giving birth in Prague. Publication date suggested by STC. Portents also mentioned in STC 18281: Munday, Anthony. A view of sundry examples. Imperfect; a fragment. Print faded; pages torn. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library. eng Ballads, English -- 16th century. eebo [A ballad describing natural portents] [no entry] 1580 2 181 33 0 0 0 3 0 3480.66 F The rate of 3480.66 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2012-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2012-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2012-08 Sampled and proofread 2012-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2013-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
, And 〈…〉 ●●de did ●all . Yet marke againe what I shall saie , A wonder greate doen in Praga : A woman that was graue and sage , Of nine and fiftie yeares of age : Whiche halfe a yeare sore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So that she was pricked with sodaine feare , She beyng in this heauie plight , Was delyuered in that same night : Of three children straunge for to beholde , Whiche semed to be● three yeares olde . Haueyng ●●ir full tell 〈◊〉 their iawe , 〈◊〉 will make you for 〈◊〉 mu●e , 〈◊〉 tempest thunder and lightning , 〈◊〉 ●●nesse yearthquakes a straungeth 〈◊〉 when they did no harme suppose , 〈◊〉 full greate storme arose : 〈◊〉 ●●ey whiche in the Cittie weare , 〈…〉 th●ir 〈◊〉 for f●●● ▪ 〈…〉 , sa●nt ●eter , & our Ladies with 〈…〉 ●●●uses fell sartaine , 〈…〉 ●lso there was slaine . 〈…〉 an hower and a halfe did la●● 〈…〉 was gone and past : 〈…〉 as neede for to bee