An excellent ballad intituled, the constancy of Susanna To an excellent new tune. Ballad of constant Susanna. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A13144 of text S101736 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 23436). 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. 7 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 2017 A13144 STC 23436 ESTC S101736 99837542 99837542 1868 2248551873

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A13144) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 1868) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1010:08) An excellent ballad intituled, the constancy of Susanna To an excellent new tune. Ballad of constant Susanna. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. for Iohn Wright, neere Pye-corner, Printed at London : [ca. 1640] Verse - "There dwelt a man in Babylon,". Another edition of: The ballad of constant Susanna. Publication date from STC. Reproductions of the original in the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. A13144 S101736 (STC 23436). civilwar no An excellent ballad intituled, the constancy of Susanna. To an excellent new tune. [no entry] 1640 2 1020 8 0 0 0 0 0 78 D The rate of 78 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2002-05 Assigned for keying and markup 2002-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-07 Sampled and proofread 2002-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-08 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
An excellent Ballad Intituled , The Constancy of Susanna . To an excellent new tune .

THere dwelt a man in Babylon , of reputation great by fame : He tooke to wife a faire woman , Susanna she was call'd by name , A woman faire and vertuous , Lady , Lady , Why should wée not of her learne thus to liue godly ? Uertuously her life she led , she feared God , she stood in awe , As in the storie we haue read , was well brought up in Moses Law . Her parents they were godly folke , Lady , Lady , Why should we not then sing and talke of this Lady . That yeare two Indges there was made which were the Elders of Babylon , To Ioachims house was all their trade , who was Susannaes husband then , Ioachim was a g●eat rich man , Lady , Lady , These Elders oft to his house cam● for this Lady . Ioachim had an Orchard by , fast ioyning to his house or place , Whereas Susanna commonly her selfe did daily there solace , And that these Elders soone espy'd , Lady , Lady , And priuily themselues did hide for that Lady . Her chaste and constant life was tride , by these two Elders of Babylon , A time conuenient they espide , to haue this Lady all alone , In his O●chard it came to passe , Lady , Lady . Where she alone her selfe did wash her faire body . These Elders came to her anon , & thus they said , faire dame God spéed , Thy doors are fast , thy Maids are gone , consent to vs , and doe this déed : For we are men of no mistrust , Lady , Lady , And yet to thée we haue a lust , O faire Lady . If that to us thou dost say nay , a testimoniall we will bring , Wée will say that one with thée lay , how canst thou then auoid the thing ▪ Therefore consent and to us turne , Lady , Lady , For we to thée in lust doe burne , O faire Lady . Then did she sigh , and said alas , now woe is me on euery ●●de , Was euer wretch in such a case ? shall I consent and doe this déed ? Whether I doe or doe it not , Lady , Lady , It is my death right well I wot , O true Lady . Better if were for me to fall into your hands this day guiltlesse , Then that I should consent at all , to this your shamefull wickednesse , And euen with that ( whereas she stood ) Lady , Lady , Unto the Lord she cryed aloud pitifully . These Elders both likewise againe , against Susanna aloud they cry'd , Their filthy lust could not obtaine , their wickednesse , they sought to hide Unto her friends they then her brought Lady , Lady , And with all spéed the life they sought of that Lady .
The second part . To the same tune .

ON the morrow she was brought forth before the people there to stand , That they might heare & know the truth how these two Elders Susanna found , The Elders swore and thus did say , Lady , Lady , How that they saw a young man lay with that Lady . Iudgement there was , for no offence , Susanna causelesse then must dye , These Elders bore such euidence , against her they did verifie , Who were belieu'd then indeed , Lady , Lady , Against Susanna to proceed , that she should dye . Susannaes friends that stood her by , they did lament , and were full woe , When as they saw no remedy , but that to death she then must goe , Lady , Lady , In God was all her hope and trust , to him did cry . The Lord her voice heard and beheld , the Daughters cry of Israel , His spirit he raised in a child , whose name was call'd young Daniel , Who cryed aloud whereas he stood , Lady , Lady , I am cleare of the guiltlesse blood of this Lady . Are you such fooles quoth Daniel then ? in iudgement you haue not done well , Nor yet the right way haue you gone , to iudge a daughter of Israel , By this witnesse of false disdaine , Lady , Lady , Wherefore to iudgement turne again● for that Lady . And when to iudgement they were set , he called for those wicked men : And soone he did them s●parate , butting the one from the other , then , He asked the first where he did see that faire Lady , He said under a Mulberry tree , who lyed falsely . Thou lyest said Daniel , on thy head , thy sentence is before the Lord , He had that forth he might be led . and bring the other that bore record ▪ To see how they two did agree for this Lady , He said under a Pomgrannat tree , who lyed falsely . Said Daniel as he did before , behold the messenger of the Lord Stande waiting for you at the doore , euen to cut thee with a sword . And euen with that the multitude ; aloud did cry , Giue thankes to God , so to conclude for this Lady . They dealt like with these wicked men according as the Scripture saith , They did as with their neighbour then , by Moses law were put to death , Tha innocent preserued was , Lady , Lady , As God by Daniel brought to passe , for this Lady .
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Printed at London for Iohn Wright , neere Pye-corner .