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            <text>&lt;em&gt;Wandering and wavering&lt;/em&gt;</text>
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            <text>1598</text>
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            <text>Highwayman Luke Hutton is hanged for his crimes in York</text>
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            <text>For discussion of parentage of and writings ascribed to the highwayman Luke Hutton, see Arthur Valentine Judges, &lt;em&gt;The Elizabethan Underworld&lt;/em&gt; (London, 1930), pp. 269-95 and notes, pp. 506-8.</text>
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            <text>London for Thomas Millington</text>
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            <text>Huntington Library - Britwell, Shelfmark: HEH18307; &lt;a href="https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/32346/image" target="_blank"&gt;EBBA 32346&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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            <text>I Am a poore prisoner condemned to dye,&#13;
ah woe is me woe is me for my great folly,&#13;
Fast fettred in yrons in place where I lie&#13;
Be warned yong wantons, hemp passeth green holly&#13;
My parents were of good degree&#13;
     by whom I would not counselled be,&#13;
Lord Jesu forgive me with mercy releeve me,&#13;
Receive O sweet saviour my spirit unto thee.&#13;
&#13;
My name is Hutton, yea Luke of bad life&#13;
     ah woe is me woe is me for my great folly:&#13;
Which on the highway robd man and wife,&#13;
     be warned yong wantons, etc.&#13;
Inticed by many a gracelesse mate,&#13;
Whose counsel I repent too late. Lord, etc.&#13;
&#13;
Not twentie yeeres old alas was I&#13;
     ah woe is me woe is me, etc.&#13;
When I began this fellonie&#13;
     be warned yong wantons, etc.&#13;
With me went stil twelve yeomen, tall&#13;
Which I did my twelve a Apostles call. Lord, etc.&#13;
&#13;
There was no Squire nor barron bold&#13;
     ah woe is me woe is me for my great folly:&#13;
That rode the way with silver or gold,&#13;
     be warned yong wantons, etc.&#13;
But I and my twelve Apostles gaie,&#13;
would lighten their load ere they went away, lord, etc.&#13;
&#13;
This newes procured my kins-folkes griefe,&#13;
     ah woe is me woe is me&#13;
They hearing I was a famous theefe&#13;
     be warned yong wantons,&#13;
They wept they wailde they wrong their hands&#13;
that thus I should hazard life and lands. lord, etc.&#13;
&#13;
They made me a Jaylor a little before, ah woe, etc.&#13;
to keep in prison offenders store, be warned, etc.&#13;
But such a Jaylor was never none,&#13;
I went and let them out everie one. lord, etc.&#13;
&#13;
I wist their sorrow sore grieved me&#13;
     ah woe is mee, etc.&#13;
Such proper men should hanged be&#13;
     be warned yong, etc.&#13;
My office then I did defie&#13;
And ran away for company. lord, etc.&#13;
Three yeeres I lived upon the spoile&#13;
     ah woe is me, etc.&#13;
Giving many a carle the soile&#13;
     be warned yong etc.&#13;
Yet never did I kil man nor wife&#13;
though lewdly long I led my life. lord, etc.&#13;
&#13;
But all too bad my deedes hath been,&#13;
     ah woe is me, etc,&#13;
Offending my country and my good queene,&#13;
     be warned yong, etc.&#13;
All men in Yorke-shire talke of me,&#13;
A stronger theefe there could not be. lord, etc.&#13;
&#13;
Upon S. Lukes day was I borne, ah woe, etc.&#13;
whom want of grace hath made a scorne. be war. etc.&#13;
     in honor of my birth day then,&#13;
I robd in a bravery nineteene men. Lord, etc.&#13;
&#13;
The country weary to beare this wrong,&#13;
     ah woe is me, etc.&#13;
With huse and cries pursude me long, be war, etc.&#13;
&#13;
Though long I scapt, yet loe at last.&#13;
London I was in newgate cast.&#13;
&#13;
There did I lye with a grieved [mi]nde,&#13;
     ah woe is me, etc.&#13;
Although the keeper was gentle and kinde,&#13;
     be warned yong etc.&#13;
[Y]et was he not so kinde as I,&#13;
[T]o let m[e go] at libertie. lord, etc.&#13;
&#13;
At last the shiriffe of Yorke-shire came,&#13;
     ah woe is me, etc.&#13;
And in a warrant he had my name,&#13;
     be warned yong, etc.&#13;
[Quoth] he at Yorke thou must be tride,&#13;
With me therefore hence must thou ride. lord, etc.&#13;
&#13;
Like pangues of death his words did sound,&#13;
     ah woe is me, etc.&#13;
My hands and armes ful fast he bound,&#13;
     be warned etc.&#13;
Good sir quoth I, I had rather stay,&#13;
I have no heart to ride that way. lord, etc.&#13;
&#13;
When no intreaty might prevaile,&#13;
     ah woe is me, etc.&#13;
I calde for beere, for wine and ale,&#13;
     be warned, etc.&#13;
And when my heart was in wofull case,&#13;
I drunke to my friends with a smiling face. lord, etc.&#13;
&#13;
With clubs and staves I was garded then,&#13;
     ah woe is me, etc.&#13;
I never before had such waiting men&#13;
     be warned, etc.&#13;
If they had ridden before amaine,&#13;
Beshrew me if I had cald them againe. lord, etc.&#13;
&#13;
And when unto Yorke that I was come, ah, etc.&#13;
Each one on me did passe their doome. be war. etc.&#13;
and whilst you live this sentence note,&#13;
Evill men can never have good report. lord, etc.&#13;
&#13;
Before the judges when I was brought,&#13;
     ah woe is me, etc.&#13;
Be sure I had a carefull thought, be, etc.&#13;
Nine-score inditements and seaventeene,&#13;
against me there was read and seene. lord, etc.&#13;
&#13;
And each of these was fellony found,&#13;
     ah woe is me. etc.&#13;
which did my heart with sorrow wound, be, etc.&#13;
What should I heerein longer stay,&#13;
For this I was condemned that day. lord, etc.&#13;
&#13;
My death each houre I do attend,&#13;
     ah woe is me:&#13;
In prayer and teares my time I spend. be etc.&#13;
And all my loving friends this day,&#13;
I do intreate for me to pray. Lord etc.&#13;
&#13;
I have deserved long since to die, ah woe etc&#13;
A viler sinner livde not then I: be etc.&#13;
On friends I hopte my life to save,&#13;
But I am fittest for my grave: Lord etc.&#13;
&#13;
Adue my loving frends each one,&#13;
     ah woe is me woe is me for my great folly,&#13;
Thinke on my words when I am gone,&#13;
     be warned young wantons, etc.&#13;
When on the ladder you shal me view,&#13;
thinke I am neerer heaven then you. Lord etc.</text>
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            <text>which he wrote the day before his death, being condemned to be hanged at Yorke this last assises for his robberies and trespasses committed.</text>
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              <text>Luke Huttons lamentation: </text>
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