The Sorrowful lamentation of the widdows of the west for the death of their deceased husbands ... to the tune of Russels farewel. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A60931 of text R41693 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S4716). 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. 3 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 A60931 Wing S4716 ESTC R41693 31355783 ocm 31355783 110672 2264179545

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A60931) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 110672) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1753:19) The Sorrowful lamentation of the widdows of the west for the death of their deceased husbands ... to the tune of Russels farewel. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. Printed for J. Deacon ..., [London] : [1685] Contains four woodcut illustrations. "This may be printed. R.P." Place and date of publication from Wing (2nd ed.) Reproduction of original in the Magdalene College Library, University of Cambridge. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- London (England) -- 17th century. eebo The Sorrowful lamentation of the widdows of the west, for the death of their deceased husbands. Wherein they declare their hearty sorrom that ever the [no entry] 1685 2 500 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. 2003-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2003-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-10 Sampled and proofread 2003-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-12 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Sorrowful Lamentation of the Widdows of the West , For the Death of their Deceased Husbands . Wherein they declare their hearty sorrow that ever their Husbands was led away by fair words to this foul Rebellion . Together with their kind Advice to all people , to be Loyal to their Prince . To the Tune of , Russels Farewel .

This may be Printed

R. P.

ALas ! we Widdows of the West whose Husbands did Rebell , Of Comfort we are dispossest , our sorrows did excell : Here for their Crimes they lost their lives Rebellion was the cause , And we confess that was their wives , they did oppose the Laws . When Monmouth came ashore at Lime , it was a fatal day , To carry on that base Design , which did their lives betray : And many daily did presume to come unto his aid , Bridge-water , Taunton-Dean , and Frome , the Nation to invade .

We said it was a horrid thing , and pray'd them to forbear , To take up Arms against their King , who was the Lawful Heir : Yet like distracted men they run , to cast their lives away , And we their Widdows are undone , this is a dismal day . Alas ! we had no cause at all , our Laws was still the same , That we should to Confusion fall , and many hundreds slain : They knew not what they went about , confusion did attend , The Heavens would not bear them out , since they did thus offend . When Monmouth did the Land invade , poor men was drawn aside , To leave their bus'ness and their Trade for which at length they dy'd : 'T is true it was a just Reward , because they did Rebell , Against their Gracious Soveraign , though we in sorrow dwell . Those Criminals that did oppose our Lawful Government , Did likewise prove our deadly Foes , and caus'd our Discontent : For had they never come on shore , we had been happy still , Alas ! we had no thoughts before , of any kind of ill . We might have liv'd in happy state , in this our good Kings Reign , But now , alas ! it is too late , to call them back again : For they are sleeping in their Gore , laid in their Beds of Clay , Together with some hundreds more , that thus was led astray . Both youth and old , and rich and poor , in multitudes they fell , Let this a warning be therefore let never none Rebell : That our most Renowned King , may have a happy Reign , Then Subjects may rejoyce and Sing , and never more Complain .

Printed for J. Deacon , at the Sign of the Angel in Guiltspur-street .