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 Iames Iohnsun, in the parys of freswater. Barker, John, ballad writer. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A04108 of text S115322 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 1422). 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. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A04108 STC 1422 ESTC S115322 99850541 99850541 15750 2240863343

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A04108) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 15750) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 912:02) 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 Iames Iohnsun, in the parys of freswater. Barker, John, ballad writer. 1 sheet ([1] p.) 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, Imprynted at London : the. viii. daye of Nouember. [1564] A woodcut with letterpress verses. Publication date from STC. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Abnormalities, Human -- Early works to 1800. eebo 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, af Barker, John, ballad writer 1564 1 652 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2006-03 Assigned for keying and markup 2006-04 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-05 Sampled and proofread 2006-05 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
❧ 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 Iames Iohnsun , in the parys of Freswater .

depiction of deformed infant

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 fyue yeres space Moche monsterous sights hath byn : Of sundry kynde , man bare in mynde , And sone turne from thy syn . Repent and pray , a mende I say , Leue of thy wicked wayes : The tyme drawes on , thou must be gone , Beholde this later dayes . Of Infans yonge , agone not longe , With calues and pigges which were : The tookens loo , mishappen soo , Whiche cryeth to vs great feare . Now this late syght in Ile of Wight , Straungely it is to tell : Two children borne , neuer beforne . Suche wonders there be fell . The one I fynde , of Woman kynde , Hauyng 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 a right , eche lyucly wight , Beholde it is Gods wyll . Loo here you see , before your eye , A man childe to beholde : A babe gylties , deformyd this . Moste wonderous to be tolde . No caruer can , nor paynter then , The shape more vgly make : As it selfe dothe , declare the truthe , A syghte to make vs quake . Let vs all feare , and in mynde beare , This forme so monsterous : That no hurt wraught , nor euill hath thaught , What shall become of vs . That doth still syn , and neuer lyn , As men heapyng vp treasure : Agaynst the day , of wrath for aye , Of Gods heauy displeasure . Nowe praye wee all , bothe great and small , Unto the Lorde of might : To gyue vs grace in Heauen 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 Heauens hye , and on the yearth belowe . This dothe demonstrate to vs , the lyfe whiche we lyue in , A Monster oughly to beholde , conceyued was in syn : In shape vnparfett 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 Ioye , For to direct owr wayes aright , to dwell with thee for aye : And graunt we maye amende our lyfe , accordyng to thy worde , In euery age bothe Manne and Wyfe , nowe graunt vs this good Lorde . Finis quod Iohn 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 Donstons churchyarde , in the west of London , the .viii. daye of Nouember .