Reliques of ancient English poetry: consisting of old heroic ballads ...

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262 ANCIENT SONGS
To die conftable Ihe fent,
To have him apprehended
And mewed how far, in each degree,
He had the laws offended. i6@
When Barnwell faw her drift,
To fea he got ftraightway ;
Where fear and fling of confcience
Continually on him lay.
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Unto the lord mayor then, $65
He did a letter write
In which his own and Sarah's fault
He did at large recite.
Whereby me feized was,
And then to Ludlow fent
170
Where fhe was judg'd, condemned, and hang'd,
For murder incontinent.
There dyed this gallant quean.
Such was her greateft gains
For murder in Polonia, 175
Was Barnwell hang'd in chains.
Lo ! here's the end of youth,
That #fter harlots haunt
Who in the fpoil of other men,
About the flreets do flaunt. 1 80
VII. HENCE