A proper new balade expressyng the fames, concerning a warning to al London dames to the tune of the blacke Almaine. Peele, Steven. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A09239 of text S121824 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 19551). 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 A09239 STC 19551 ESTC S121824 99856986 99856986 22643 2240881868

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A09239) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 22643) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 387:15) A proper new balade expressyng the fames, concerning a warning to al London dames to the tune of the blacke Almaine. Peele, Steven. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Imprinted at S. Katherins by Alexander Lacie for Henrie Kyrkham, dwellyng at the middle north dore of S. Paules church, [London] : [1571] Signed: quoth Steuen Peell. A song - "You London dames, whose passyng fames". Publication date from STC. Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. eng eebo A proper new balade expressyng the fames, concerning a warning to al London dames, to the tune of the blacke Almaine. Peele, Steven 1571 1 679 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 balade expressyng the fames , Concerning a warning to al London dames , To the tune of the blacke Almaine . YOu London dawes , whose passyng fames Through out the worlde is spread , In to the skye , ascendyng hye To euery place is fled : For thorow each land and place , For beauties kyndely grace : You are renowmed ouer all , You haue the prayse and euer shall . What wight on earth that can beholde More dearer and fayrer dames then you ? Therfore to extoll you I may be bolde , Your paces and graces so gay to vieu . For Vertues lore , and other thinges more Of truth you doe excell , I may well gesse , for comelynesse Of all , you beare the bell : As trim in your arraye As be the flowres in Maye With roset hew so brauely dight As twinklyng starres that shyneth by night . For curtesye in euery parte Not many nor any resemble you can , In lady Natures camely arte So grauely and brauely to euery man . And oft when you goe , fayre dames on a rowe In to the feeldes so greene , You sit and vewe the beautifull hewe Of flowres that there be seene : Which lady FLORA hath So garnyshed in each path With all the pleasures that may be ( Fayre dames ) are there to pleasure ye Tyl Frost doth come and nip the top , And lop them and crop them , not one to be seene So when that Death doth hap to your lot , Consider and gather what beauty hath beene . For as the flowre , doth change in an houre That was so fayre to see , Consyder and gather ( fayre dames ) the wether May change as well with yee : And turne your ioyes as soone As Frost the flowres hath doone So sudden Death may change as well Your beauties that now doth excell , And turne your sweetes to bitter and sowre When death with his breath comes stealing neare : Such haps may hap to come in an howre Which euer or neuer you little dyd feare . Wherfore I say , fayre dames so gay That Death is busyest now , To catch you hence , where no defence May make him once to bow : Experience well doth trye You see it with your eye , How quickely some are taken hence Not youthfull yeares may make defence : And strange diseases many are seene Encreasyng and preasyng to vexe vs each day , But sure the lyke hath euer beene May houe you and moue you to God to pray . And learne to know , as grasse doth grow And withereth in to haye , Remember therfore , kepe vertue in store For so you shall decaye : And pitie on the poore With some parte of your store , Loke that your lampes may ready bee The dreadfull day approcheth nye : When Christ shall come to iudge our deeds No fairenes nor clerenes can helpe you than , The corne to seperate from the weeds Fayre dames , when cometh the day of dome . Now that I haue sayd , let it be wayed It is no iestyng toye , Not all your treasure , can you pleasure It is but fadyng ioye : Therfore remember mee What I haue sayd to yee , And thus the Lorde preserue the Queene Long space with vs to lyue and raigne : As we are all bound incessantlie To desyre with prayer both night and day , God to preserue her maiestie Amen , let all her good subiects say . quoth Steuen Peell . FINIS .

Imprinted at S. Katherins by Alexander Lacie for Henrie Kyrkham , dwellyng at the middle North dore of S. Paules church .

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