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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/1174"&gt;Packington's Pound&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</text>
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            <text>Come listen a while and a Story you'll hear,&#13;
That will strike you with dread &amp; amazement &amp; fear&#13;
'Tis of a vile Butcher which with bloody knife,&#13;
Without all compassion did murther his wife,&#13;
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            <text>[London] : Printed for John Foster, at the Grey-Hound, near the Noah's Ark Tavern, over-against Vine-street At. Giles's in the Fields.</text>
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            <text>University of Glasgow Library - Euing, Euing Ballads 223r; &lt;a href="https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/31714/image#" target="_blank"&gt;EBBA 31714&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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            <text>&lt;em&gt;Packington's Pound&lt;/em&gt; is often cited as &lt;em&gt;Digby's Farewell,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Packingtons Pound&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Amintas' Farewell.&lt;/em&gt; The tune first appeared in 1671 and was popular for execution ballads (Simpson 1966, pp. 181-187, 564-570).</text>
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            <text>or, An account of George Feast, a butcher of Shoreditch, being found guilty ... for the barbarous bloody murther of his wife ... also some account of his penitent behaviour in Newgate. To the tune of, Packingtons pound.</text>
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              <text>The murtherer justly condemned, </text>
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