Great news from Southwark; or, The old womans legacy to her cat. Giving an account of an old miserable woman, who lately kept a blind ale-house, in St. Tooley-street, near the burrough of Southwark; who was so wretchedly covetous, as to deny her self the common benefits of life, as to meat and cloaths; leaving, at her death, about eighteen hundred pounds, to her cat; rising to say often, when the cat mew'd, peace Puss, peace; thou shalt have all, when I am dead. To the tune of, The bleeding heart, &c. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B03519 of text R226837 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing G1731). 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 B03519 Wing G1731 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.2[204] 99886967 ocm99886967 181528 2240895065

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B03519) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 181528) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A1:1[206]) Great news from Southwark; or, The old womans legacy to her cat. Giving an account of an old miserable woman, who lately kept a blind ale-house, in St. Tooley-street, near the burrough of Southwark; who was so wretchedly covetous, as to deny her self the common benefits of life, as to meat and cloaths; leaving, at her death, about eighteen hundred pounds, to her cat; rising to say often, when the cat mew'd, peace Puss, peace; thou shalt have all, when I am dead. To the tune of, The bleeding heart, &c. 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed for James Read, London, : 1695. Verse: "In Southwark, there did lately dwell". Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng eebo Great news from Southwark; or, The old womans legacy to her cat. Giving an account of an old miserable woman, who lately kept a blind ale-house, in St anon 1695 1 539 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. 2008-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-03 Sampled and proofread 2009-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Great News from Southwark : OR , THE Old Womans Legacy to her Cat.

GIVING An Account of an Old Miserable Woman , who lately Kept a Blind Ale-House , in St. Tooley-Street , near the Burrough of Southwark ; who was so wretchedly Covetous , as to deny her self the Common Benefits of Life , as to Meat and Cloaths ; leaving , at her Death , about Eighteen Hundred Pounds , to her CAT ; using to say often , when the CAT Mew'd , Peace PUSS , peace ; Thou shalt have All , when I am Dead .

To the Tune of , The Bleeding Heart , &c. I. In Southwark , there did lately dwell A Rich old Woman , noted well : An Ale-House-keeper , by her Trade ; She liv'd alone , and had no Maid . II. For , very Poor she seem'd to be , And was maintain'd by Charity Her Family was very small ; A CAT she kept , and that was all . III. No Food her self she would afford , But what came from her Neighbours Board : But for her CAT , she Meat would buy , And feed her , ay! most daintily . IV. She liv'd so close , and far'd so hard , That she her self had well nigh starv'd : No Cloaths or Victuals would she buy , But feed her CAT most daintily . V. She heaped up her Bags in Store , And pincht her Guts , to lay up more : Tho' she as Lean as Rake , did grow , Her CAT was Plump , as any Doe . VI. Her Belly-Money up she laid , Until an handsome Summ it made : Her Guttage Money it was found To be nigh Eighteen Hundred Pound . VII . For Death , at length , began to creep , And Rock the Rich Old Crone asleep : Asleep she lay , to Death confin'd , And left her CAT , and Wealth , behind . VIII . A Day , or Two , did scarcely pass , When by her Neighbours mist she was : Who marvell'd greatly , that she stay'd , And came not for her Daily Bread . IX . Among the Rest , One went to see , What the Occasion there might be : But when that he came in the House , He found all still , as any Mouse . X. Up Stairs he went , and in the Bed He found the Rich Old Woman dead : And , looking in a Trunk just by , Near Eighteen Hundred Pounds did lie . XI . No sooner he had found the Hoard , But he divulg'd it all abroad : Then flockt the Neighbours , to behold The Treasur'd Bags of Coyned Gold . XII . Thus did she cheat and baffle such , As thought her Poor : for she was Rich: Her Belly sav'd it for her CAT , But PUSS must shew the WILL for that

LONDON , Printed for James Read , 1695.