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                <text>English Execution Ballads</text>
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            <text>&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/execution-ballads/items/show/1175"&gt;Bleeding Heart&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</text>
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            <text>ALL hearts that ever yet did bleed,&#13;
For any barbarous cruel deed;&#13;
All tyey that ever yet did mourn,&#13;
Now into floods your sorrows turn:&#13;
No tongue such cruelty e're told,&#13;
As I to you shall here unfold;&#13;
If that my trembling Pen will write,&#13;
Or my astonish'd mind indite:&#13;
&#13;
The Cry of blood will reach the skie,&#13;
And the bloody-thirsty man shall dye.&#13;
&#13;
Of all the murthers which are known,&#13;
Compar'd to this I hear of none;&#13;
Those which such bloody acts commit,&#13;
Expect that they shall gain by it;&#13;
But these the Devil did engage&#13;
To murder in a furious rage;&#13;
No profit this base act could bring,&#13;
Nor no abuse did cause this thing,&#13;
&#13;
The cry of blood, etc.&#13;
&#13;
A worthy Knight out of the North,&#13;
O pitty 'twas he e're came forth;&#13;
To London came to see his Friends,&#13;
Not thinking he was nigh his end:&#13;
But back he never did return,&#13;
Which caus'd his own dear wife to mourn:&#13;
Sir Richard so they did him call,&#13;
Pray listen how he came to fall.&#13;
&#13;
The cry of blood, etc.&#13;
&#13;
He had now in his company,&#13;
One that did serve him formerly,&#13;
Who walk'd out with him up and down,&#13;
So long as he stay'd in the Town:&#13;
But as they walkt the streets one day,&#13;
They met two Persons as they say;&#13;
Of good extract, so that for shame,&#13;
I shall not dare to tell their name:&#13;
&#13;
The cry of blood, etc.&#13;
&#13;
The second Part, To the same Tune.&#13;
&#13;
The man which was with th' Knight they knew,&#13;
Then to a Tavern they must go;&#13;
The Knight also to th' Tavern went,&#13;
Which made him sorely to repent:&#13;
But e're that they did make an end,&#13;
These Hectors quarrell'd with his friend,&#13;
'Twas in White-Fryers they did drink,&#13;
He little of his death did think.&#13;
&#13;
The cry of blood, etc.&#13;
&#13;
Sir Richard willing to appease,&#13;
And willing that their rage should cease,&#13;
The Reckoning paid as I hear say,&#13;
And with his friend did go away:&#13;
They were not gone but little space,&#13;
But the other two of little grace,&#13;
Did follow them, and at one blow,&#13;
Did run Sir Richards Body through&#13;
&#13;
The cry of blood, etc.&#13;
&#13;
he being dead they both did flye,&#13;
Thinking to shun their destiny;&#13;
But all in vain, in Bark-shire they&#13;
At Wallingford were forc'd to stay:&#13;
To Reding Goal they both were sent,&#13;
Such further mischief to prevent;&#13;
To New-Gate afterwards were brought,&#13;
To suffer for the deed they wrought.&#13;
&#13;
The cry of blood, etc.&#13;
&#13;
At the last Sessions they were try'd,&#13;
The bloody deed was not deny'd;&#13;
For which they sentenc'd were to dye,&#13;
A reward for impiety.&#13;
In Fleet-street neer White-Fryers end,&#13;
Being near the place they did offend;&#13;
They hanged were, which was their due,&#13;
Least further mischief they pursue.&#13;
&#13;
The cry of blood, etc.&#13;
&#13;
This was the Murderers just fate,&#13;
They both repent when 'twas too late;&#13;
Blood cries for vengeance which will come,&#13;
And give those bloody men their doom:&#13;
For if that such as those should live,&#13;
And not for death their death receive,&#13;
Those wretches would in fury great&#13;
Kill any man they met i'th' street.&#13;
&#13;
The cry of blood, etc.&#13;
&#13;
Let all men therefore have a care,&#13;
How that the Devil doth ensnare;&#13;
To act such barbarous deeds as those,&#13;
Not to the very worst of foes:&#13;
If they are wrong'd, the Law will find,&#13;
Redress according to their mind;&#13;
Which serves such actions to prevent,&#13;
Being order'd for the same intent.&#13;
&#13;
The cry of blood, etc.&#13;
&#13;
Let all that hear this be afraid,&#13;
And not by Satan be betraid;&#13;
For life is sweet, and now we see&#13;
Their fury was the death of three:&#13;
The Knight did die innocence,&#13;
They justly suffer'd for offence:&#13;
God grant that their repentance might,&#13;
Give to their Souls some sweet delight.&#13;
&#13;
The cry of blood, etc.&#13;
&#13;
Consider well all wicked men,&#13;
Fear God, repent, and surely then&#13;
He'l keep you from such hanious crimes,&#13;
Which rule too much in these our times:&#13;
Abstain high drinking, do not swear,&#13;
And of bad company be ware;&#13;
Seek not in quarrels to contend,&#13;
Then blest will be your latter end.&#13;
&#13;
The cry of blood, etc.&#13;
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            <text>1675</text>
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            <text>Printed for John Hose, over against Stapels-Inn, in Holburn, near Grays-Inn-Lane.</text>
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            <text>W. P.</text>
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            <text>&lt;em&gt;Bleeding Heart&lt;/em&gt; is linked to &lt;em&gt;In Crete, &lt;/em&gt;which is ultimately derived from &lt;em&gt;Come follow my love &lt;/em&gt;(Simpson 1966, pp. 365, 374).</text>
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            <text>Magdalene College - Pepys Library, Shelfmar: Pepys Ballads 2.144; &lt;a href="https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/20762/image" target="_blank"&gt;EBBA 20762&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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            <text>who basely and unawares killed a worthy Knight of the North Country as he was going down to the Waterside; not giving them the least abuse, for which cruel and inhumane action they were both hanged in Fleet-Street, near White-Fryers, 22 of Octo. 1675.</text>
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              <text>[...] Being a sad and true Relation of the Apprehension, Tryal, Confession, Condemnation, and Execution of the two barbarous and bloody Murtherers, </text>
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