A proper new balad of the Bryber Gehesie Taken out of the fourth booke of Kinges the .v. chapter. To the tune of Kynge Salomon. Mell, George. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A07416 of text S113172 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 17802). 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 A07416 STC 17802 ESTC S113172 99848411 99848411 13503 2240896280

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A07416) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 13503) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1606:20) A proper new balad of the Bryber Gehesie Taken out of the fourth booke of Kinges the .v. chapter. To the tune of Kynge Salomon. Mell, George. 1 sheet ([1] p.) in fletestreate beneath the Conduit, at the signe of S. John Evangelist by Thomas Colwell, Imprinted at London : [1566] A ballad. Signed: George Mell. Publication date from STC. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng eebo A proper new balad of the Bryber Gehesie. Taken out of the fourth booke of Kinges the. v. chapter. To the tune of Kynge Salomon. Mell, George 1566 1 590 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. 2007-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-08 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-09 Sampled and proofread 2007-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Proper New balad of the Bryber Geheste . Taken out of the fourth booke of Kinges the .v. Chapter . To the tune of Kynge Salomon . WAs not the Bryber Gehezie Rewarded iustly of the Lord , Which for example verelie , The holie Scripture doth recorde If this be true , as true it was , Of his rewarde : Why should not christan men alas , Than haue regarde . When that the Prophet Elizae Had clensed from the Leprosie , Naaman of Assiria , Thorow the workes of God on hye : Then Naaman wolde him constrame To take rewarde : But Elizae from that refrainde , And had regarde . But Gehezie of falsehed minde , When Naaman did passe awaie . Did hie him faste that was behinde , And vnto Naaman did saie : Beholde my master hath me sente For a rewarde , To Prophetes children he is bente To haue regarde . With right good will said Naaman , Him to rewarde , and did proceede , And Gehezie conuaide it then So preuilie in verie deede , For getting that the Prophete tho , Of his , rewarde Could by the sprite of God it knowe , And haue regarde , Alas how was thou Gehezie , Rauished in worldy gaint ? How was thou brought to mizerie , Of God appointed for thy paine , And all thy of springe after thee , For thy rewarde , The Lorde that hateth Briberie , Hath his regarde . Then Gehezie deceitfulie To fore the Prophet tooke his waie , Who said to hime , o Gehezie , Went not my harte with thee I saie , When Naaman from Charret came , Thee to rewarde : And thou hast falselie hid the same , without regarde . ( Gehezie ) is it now a time Thy bribes ( he said ) for to receaue ? Beholde for this thy wicked crime That leproseie to thee shall cleaue , The which was vpon Naaman , For thy rewarde , And to thy seede thee after than , To haue regarde . Incontinent then Gehezie Departed from his presence so , As the Texte doth verefie , A Leper white as is the snowe , Example to such bribers all , To haue regarde , With Geheziè at lengthe they shall Haue their rewarde , If they doe not their faultes confesse Detestinge of their Bryberie , Else God will spie ther wickednesse Though they it cloke with Genezie : And can them paie accordinglie , The like rewarde , As he hath done to Iehezie , O haue regarde . The Lord he is that same God still That he was than vndoubtedlie , Such Gehezies he punish will , That Bribes receiue so wickedlie , Though they so preuilie do hide their false rewarde . Yet of the Lorde it will be spide , Who hath regarde . O Lorde vs guide in all our waies That we may leade our liues a right to deale with trueth at all assaies , Giue vnto vs thy holie sprite : And that our Queene & her Councell Maie haue regarde , In this Lande Bribers to expell that take rewarde . Finis . ꝙ . George Mell.

Imprinted at London in Fletestreate beneath the Conduit , at the signe of S. Iohn Evangelist , by Thomas Colwell .