A godly warning for all maidens by the example of Gods judgements shewed upon one German wife of Clifton in the county of Nottingham, who lying in child-bed, was born away and never heard of after. The tune is, The ladyes fall. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B09186 of text R233102 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing G938A). 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 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B09186 Wing G938A ESTC R233102 64551291 ocm 64551291 184590 2240862492

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B09186) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 184590) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2867:42) A godly warning for all maidens by the example of Gods judgements shewed upon one German wife of Clifton in the county of Nottingham, who lying in child-bed, was born away and never heard of after. The tune is, The ladyes fall. 1 Sheet ([1] p.) : ill. Printed for F. Coles, Tho. Vere and W. Gilbertson, [London] : [1670?] Caption title. Imprint from colophon. Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: Bodleian Library. eng Ballads, English -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo A godly warning for all maidens, by the example of Gods judgment shewed upon one Jermans wife of Clifton, in the county of Nottingham, who lying in ch [no entry] 1670 3 907 5 0 0 0 0 0 55.13 D The rate of 55.13 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2012-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2012-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2013-02 Sampled and proofread 2013-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Godly Warning for all Maidens by the example of Gods Judgements shewed upon one Jermans wIfe of Clifton in the County of Nottingham , who lying in Child-bed , was born away and never heard of after . The tune is , The Ladyes fall .

YOu dainty ●ames so finely fram'd , of beautyes chiefest mold , And you that trip it up and down like Lambs in Cupids Fold . Here is a Lesson to be learn'd , a Lesson in my mind , For such as will prove false in love and bear a faithlesse mind . Not far from Nottingham of late in Clifton as I hear , There dwelt a fair and comely Dame of beauty wi●hout péer : Her chéeks were like the Crimson rose yet as you may perceive , The fairest face the falsest heart . and soonest will deceive . This gallant Dame she was belov'd of many in that place And many sought in marriage be● h●r body to imbrace . At last a proper handsome youth young Bateman cal'd by name , In hope to make a married wife unto this Maiden came . Such love and liking there was found , that he from all the rest , Had stole away this Maidens heart and she did love him best . Then plighted promise secretly , did passe between them two , That nothing could but death it self this true Loves knot undo . He broke a piece of gold in twain , one half to her he gave , The other as a pledge quoth he Dear heart my self will have . If I do break my vow quoth she while I remain alive , May never thing I take in hand be seen at all to thrive . This passed on for two moneths space , and then this Maid began To settle love and liking too upon another man . One Jerman who a widdower was , her husband needs must be Because he was of greater wealth , and better in degrée . Her vows and promise lately made to Bateman she deny'd ▪ And in despight of him and his she utterly defi'd . Well then quoth he if it be so that you will me forsake , And like a false and forsworn wretch another husband take . Then thou shalt not live one quiet hour for surely I will have , Thée either now alive or dead , when I am laid in grave : Thy faithlesse mind thou shalt repent therefore be well assur'd , When for thy sake thou bearest report , what torments I indur'd .

BVt mark how Bateman dy'd for love he finisht up his life , The very day she married was and made old Jermans wife , For with a strangling Cord God wat great moan was made therefore He hang'd h●mself in desperate sort before the Brides own door . Whereat such sorrow pierc'd her heart and troubled sore her mind That she could never after that one day of comfort find . For wheresoever she did go , her Fancy did surmise , Young Batemans pale and gastly Ghost appeard before her eyes , When she in bed at night did lye between her husbands arms , In hope thereby to sléep and rest , in safety without harms . Great cries & grievous groans she heard a voice that sometimes said , O thou art she that I must have and will not be denay'd . But she then being big with Child was for the Infants sake , Preserved from the Spirits power no vengeance could it take , The Babe unborn did safely keep as God appointed so , His Mothers body from the Fiend that sought her overthrow . But being of her burthen eas d , and safely brought to bed , Her care and grief began anew and further sorrow bred . And of her friends she did intreat desiring them to stay , Out of bed quoth she this night I shall be bern away . Here comes the spirit of my Love with pale and gastly face , Who till he bears me hence away will not depart this place . Alive or dead I am his right and he will surely have , In spight of me and all the world what I by promise gave . O watch with me this night I pray and sée you do not sléep . No longer then you be awake my body can you kéep . All promised to do their best . yet nothing could suffice In middle of the night to keop sad slumber from their eyes . So being all full fast asléep to them unknown which way . The child-bed-woman that wofull night from thence was born away , But to what place no creature knew nor to this day can tell , As strange a thing as ever yet in any age befell . You Maidens that desire to love and would good husbands chuse To him that you have vow'd to love by no means do refuse . For God that hears all secret Oaths will dreadful vengeance take . On such that of a wilful vow do slender reckoning make .

Printed for F , Coles , Tho. Vere , and W. Gilbertson .