The ungrateful son: or, An example of God's justice upon the abuseful disobedience of a false-hearted and cruel son to his aged father. To the tune of Kentish miracle. Licensed according to order. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06397 of text R227451 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing U65). 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. 5 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 B06397 Wing U65 Interim Tract Supplement Guide EBB65H[130] 99887336 ocm99887336 182047 2248540500

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06397) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182047) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A2:4[130]) The ungrateful son: or, An example of God's justice upon the abuseful disobedience of a false-hearted and cruel son to his aged father. To the tune of Kentish miracle. Licensed according to order. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts). Printed for P[hilip]. Brooksby, J[onah]. Deacon, J[osiah]. Blare, J[ohn]. Back., [London] : [between 1688-1692] Verse: "Of an ungrateful son ..." Date, place of publication and publishers' names from Wing. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University, Houghton Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo The ungrateful son: or, An example of God's justice upon the abuseful disobedience of a false-hearted and cruel son to his aged father. To the tune of anon 1692 1 720 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. 2008-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-06 Sampled and proofread 2008-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Ungrateful Son : OR , An Example of God's Justice upon abuseful Disobedience of a False-hearted and cruel Son to his Aged Father . To the Tune of Kentish Miracle .

Licensed according to Order .

OF an ungrateful Son , my purpose is to write , By whom a Father was undone , and clearly ruin'd quite : The Sequel of this Song will make it well appear , That those that do their Parents wrong , will feel God's Wrath severe . An ancient wealthy Man , near London lived indeed , Who at his Door reliev'd the Poor , and those that stood in need : But Troubles coming on , we find that ev'ry where , Religious Men , not One in Ten , but persecuted were . And eke for Conscience sake , in Prison was likewise , Informers they made them their Prey , Rome's Malice to suffice ; Both Lands and Goods were seiz'd , no Pity they 'd afford , For at that time 't was thought a Crime , to serve the living Lord . This good man seeing then , how strange the things did run , He did depend , to find a Friend of his beloved Son ; Therefore without delay , he call'd him out of hand , And did make o're his Goods and Store , likewise his House and Land . Said he , my Son be just , secure the same for me ; I have no Friend that I can trust in these Affairs but thee : Dear Father , then said he , Your Will shall be obey'd , And if I wrong you let me see a just Example made . The old Man him believ'd , and turn'd o're his Estate , But yet at last , e'er Three years past he did repent at last ; For after turn of times , did Liberty afford . The old Man went with full intent , to have his Means restor'd . Then coming to the Gate , whereas his Son did dwell , It was one Evening something late , the very Truth to tell ; The Servant let him in , and when he was set down , The Son with Anger did begin to knit his Brows and frown . The Father said , My Son , I come in hopes , that you Will now return the great Concern , which is my proper due : Ye Presbyterian Knave , said this Son , void of shame , I 'll part with nothing that I have , be gone from whence ye came . The old Man then besought this Villain to forbear , I am your Father which hath brought you up with Cost and Care . But yet he rav'd the more , and Curses did repeat , At length he threw him out of Door , and kick'd him in the Street . His Eyes like Fountains flow , run down his Cheeks like Rain , His aged Hair as white as Snow , no Pity could obtain . O cruel wretched Son ! the Father then reply'd , Consider well what thou hast done , God will pull down thy Pride . The bitter Winds did blow , the Skies was darkned quite , And for a Lodging where to go he did not know that Night ; But Heaven did provide for him in that distress , He with a Farmer did reside , who did his Love express . But for this wicked Son , e'er Morning did appear . He quite besides his Wits did run , God's Wrath was so severe : Then for a Week or more , Father , Father , he cry'd , In frantick Fits besides his Wits , and then at length he dy'd . Thus for his Villany , God sent him to the Grave ; O let these Lines a warning be , to all that Parents have ; Be dutiful always , and do not Parents scorn , For those that do , in time may rue , they 'd better ne'er been born .

Printed for P. Brooksby , I. Deacon , I. Blare , I. Back .