A New ballad intituled, The stout cripple of Cornwall wherein is shewed his dissolute life and deserued death : to the tune of The blind beggar. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A19348 of text S3276 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 5772.5). 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. 6 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 A19348 STC 5772.5 ESTC S3276 33143257 ocm 33143257 28335 2248554148

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A19348) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28335) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1873:26) A New ballad intituled, The stout cripple of Cornwall wherein is shewed his dissolute life and deserued death : to the tune of The blind beggar. 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed for I.W., London : [ca. 1624] Date of publication from STC (2nd ed.). Imperfect: faded and torn with slight loss of text. Reproduction of original in: Pepys Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- London (England) -- 17th century. eebo [A] new ballad intituled, the stout cripple of Cornwall, wherein is shewed his dissolute life and deserued death. To the tune of the blind begger. [no entry] 1624 2 1000 3 0 0 0 0 0 30 C The rate of 30 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2002-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2002-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-10 Sampled and proofread 2002-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-12 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A new Ballad intituled , the stout Cripple of Cornwall , wherein is shewed his dissolute life and deserued death . To the tune of the blind Begger . OF a stout Cripple that kept the high way , and beg'd for his liuing all time of the day , A story I le tell you that pleasant shall be , the Cripple of Cornwall sir-named was he . He crept on his hands and his knées vp and down , in a torne Iacket and ragged patcht Gowne ▪ For he had neuer a legge to the knée , the Cripple of Cornwall sir-named was hee . He was of stomacke couragious and stout , for he had no cause to complaine of the Gout : To goe vpon stilts most cunning was hee , with a staffe on his necke gallant and frée . Yea , no good fellowship would he forsake , were it in secret a purse for to take : His helpe was as good as any might be , the Cripple of Cornwall sir-named was he . When he vpon any such seruice did goe , the craftie young Cripple prouided it so : His tooles he kept close in an old hollow Tree , that stood from the Citie a mile two or thrée . Thus all the day long he begd for reliefe , and late in the night he plaid the false Théefe : And seuen yeares together this custome kept he , and no man knew him such a person to be . There were few Grafters went on the way , but vnto the Cripple for passage did pay , And euery braue Merchant that he did descry , he emptied their purses ere they passed by . The gallant Lord Courtney both valiant and bold , rode forth with great plentie of siluer and Gold : At Exeter there a purchase to pay , but that the false Cripple his iourney did stay . For why the false Cripple heard tydings of late , as he lay for almes at this Noblemans gate : What day and what houre his iourney should be , this is ( quoth the Cripple ▪ a bootie for me . Then to his Companions the matter he moned , which their like actions beforetime had proned : They make themselues ready & déeply they sweare this mony 's their owne before they come there . Upon his two stilts the Cripple doth mount , to haue his best share he makes his account : All clothed in Canuas downe to the ground , he takes vp his standing his mates with him round Then comes the L. Courtney with halfe a scoremen that little suspecting these theeues in their den : And they perceiuing them come to their hand , in a darke euening they bid him to stand . Deliuer thy purse quoth the Cripple with spéed , for we be good fellowes and thereof haue néed : Not so , quoth Lord Courtney , but this I tell thée , win it , and weare it , else get none of me . With that the Lord Courtney stood in his defence , and so did his seruants , but ere they went since Two of the true men were slaine in the fight , and foure of the theeues were put to their flight And while for their safegard they ran thus away , the iolly bold Cripple did hold the rest play : And with his pike-staffe he wounded them so , as they were vnable to runne or to goe . With fight the L. Courtney was driuen out of breath and most of his seruants wounded to death : Then came other horsemen riding so fast , the Cripple was forced to flie at the last , And ouer a Riuer that ran there beside , which was very déepe and eightéene foot wide : With his long staffe and his stilts leaped hee , and shifted himselfe in an old hallow Tree . Then thorow the Country was hue and cry made , to haue these theeues apprehended and stayed : The Cripple he creeps on his hands and his knées , and on the high way great posting he sees . And as they came riding he begging doth say , O giue me one penny , good Master ▪ I pray : And thus vnto Exeter creepes he along , no man suspecting that he had done wrong . Anon the Lord Courtney he spyde in the street he comes vnto him and ●isles his feet : Saying , God saue your honor & keepe you from il , and from the hands of your enemies still . Amen qd. L. Courtney , and therewith slung downe vnto the poore Cripple an English Crowne : Away went the Cripple and thus he did thinke , 500. pounds more would make me to drinke . In vaine that hue and cry it was made , they fon●d none of them though the Countrey was layd : But this grieued the Cripple both night and day , that he so vnluckily m●st of his pray . Nine hundred pounds this Cripple had got , by begging and robbing so good was his lot , A thousand pound he would make it he said , and then hee would quite giue ouer his trade . But as he striued his minde to fulfill , in following his actions so lewd and so ill , At last he was taken the law to suffice , condemned and hanged at Exeter sise . Which made all men amazed to see , that such an impotent person as hee , Should venture himselfe to such actions as they , to rob in such sort vpon the high way . FINIS .

London , Printed for I. W.