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                <text>English Execution Ballads</text>
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            <text>NOw Katherine de Medicis hes maid sic a Gyis&#13;
To tary in Paris the Papistes ar tykit&#13;
At Bastianes brydell howbeit scho denyis&#13;
Giue Mary slew Hary, it was not vnlykit&#13;
Yit a man is nane respectand this number&#13;
I'dar not say wemen hes wyte of this cummer.&#13;
&#13;
Yone Mask the Quene mother hes maid thame in France&#13;
Was maikles and saikles, and schamfully slane&#13;
Bot Mary conuoyit and come with ane dance&#13;
Quhill Princes in Sences was fyrit with ane trane&#13;
Baith tressonabill murtheris, the ane and the vther&#13;
I go not in Masking mair with the Quene Mother.&#13;
&#13;
Italianes ar Tyranis, and tressonabill Tratoris:&#13;
For gysours deuysours, the Guysianis ar gude&#13;
Bot Frenche men ar trew men, and not of thair natouris&#13;
Than Charlie I farlie thow drank thy awin blude&#13;
I wyte bot thy Mother wit, wemen ar vane&#13;
In greis neir to Ganyelon nor grit Charlie Mane.&#13;
&#13;
Thy style was Treschristien maist Cristen King&#13;
Baith hiest and friest, and neist the Impyre&#13;
Bot now Prouest Marschell in playing this spring&#13;
And ressoun for tressoun prouokis God to Ire&#13;
Beleuis thow this trumprie sall stablische thy style?&#13;
Our God is not deid yit, be doand ane quhyle.&#13;
&#13;
Suppois that the Papistes deuysit this at Trent&#13;
To ding vs and bring vs with mony lowd lauchter&#13;
With sic cruell Murther is Christ sa content&#13;
To take the and make the ane Sanct for our slauchter&#13;
Albeit he correct vs, and scurge vs in Ire&#13;
Be war with the wand syne he wapis in the fyre.&#13;
&#13;
For better is pure men nor Princes periurit&#13;
Baith schameles and fameles, we find thame sa fals&#13;
With sangis lyke the Seryne our lyfis thow allurit&#13;
Ouirsylit vs begylit vs with baitis in our hals&#13;
Or as the fals Fowler his fang for to get,&#13;
Deuoiris the pure volatill he wylis to the net.&#13;
&#13;
In Ilis nor in Orknay, in Ireland Oneill&#13;
Thay dar not, thay gar not, thair liegis be stickit&#13;
Solyman, Tamerlan, nor yit the mekle Deill&#13;
Proud Pharao, nor Nero, was neuer sa wickit&#13;
Nouther Turk nor Infidell vsis sic thing&#13;
As be their awin burreo, being ane King.&#13;
&#13;
Baith auld men and wemen, with babis on thair breist&#13;
Not luking nor huking, to hurll thame in Sane&#13;
All beand murdreist downe, quhat do ye neist&#13;
Processioun, Confession, and vp Mes agane&#13;
Proud King Antiochus was sum tyme als haly&#13;
And yit our God guschit out the guttis of his belly&#13;
&#13;
Thy Syster thou maryit, thy Saces was sour&#13;
Sic cuikrie for luikrie was euill Interprisit&#13;
Ye maid vs the Reid Freiris, and rais in an hour&#13;
Abhorring na gorring that micht be deuisit&#13;
Thou playit the fals Hypocreit fenyeing the fray&#13;
But inwart ane rageing wolf waitand thy pray.&#13;
&#13;
That France was confidderat with Scotland I grant,&#13;
Baith actit, contractit, and keipit in deid&#13;
The kyndnes of Cutthrottis, we cure not to want&#13;
Denyis thame, defyis thame, and all thair fals seid&#13;
It was bot with honest men we maid the band&#13;
And thou hes left leifand bot few in that land.&#13;
&#13;
Our faith is not warldly we feir not thy braulis&#13;
Thocht hangmen ouirgang men, for gaddaring our geir&#13;
Ye kill bot the Carcase, ye get not our Saulis&#13;
Not douting our shouting is hard in Goddis eir&#13;
The same God from Pharo defendit his pepill&#13;
And not yone round Robene that standis in your stepill.&#13;
&#13;
Now wyse Quene Elizabeth luik to your self&#13;
Dispite them, and wryte thame, ane bill of defyance&#13;
The papistis and Spanyards, hes partit your pelf&#13;
As newly and trewly was tald me thir tythance&#13;
Beleue thay to land heir, and get vs fornocht&#13;
Will ye do as we do, it salbe deir bocht.&#13;
&#13;
Giue pleis God we gre sa, and hald vs togidder&#13;
Baith surely and sturely, and stoutly gainstand thame&#13;
They culd not weill conqueis vs, culd ye considder&#13;
For our men are dour men, and likis weill to land thame&#13;
Quhen Cesar him self was chaist, haue ye foryet&#13;
And baith the Realmes be aggreit, tak that thay get.&#13;
&#13;
For better it is to fecht it, defendant our lyfis&#13;
With speir men and weir men, and ventour our sellis&#13;
Nor for to se frenche men deflorand our wyfis&#13;
Displace vs, and chace vs, as thay haue done ellis&#13;
I meane quhen the Inglismen helpit at Leith&#13;
And gart thame gang hame agane spyte of thair teith.&#13;
&#13;
I cannot trow firmely that Frenchmen ar cummen&#13;
Persayfand thame haifand, thame selfis into parrell&#13;
The Lord saue Elizabeth, thair ane gude woman&#13;
That cauldly and bauldly, debait will our quarrell&#13;
With men and with money, baith Armour and graith&#13;
As scho hes befoir tyme defendit this Faith.&#13;
&#13;
Thocht France for thair falset be drownit in dangeris&#13;
For causis and pausis thay plait into Pareis&#13;
Yit [...]e ar in war estait waitand on strangeris&#13;
No[...] gyding deuyding, our awin men from Mareis&#13;
Go weid the calf from the corn, calk me thair dures&#13;
And slay or ye be slane, gif sic thing occures.&#13;
&#13;
Bot how can ye traist thame, that trumpit yow ellis&#13;
Decoir thame, do for thame, or foster thair seid&#13;
And thay may anis se thair time, tent to your sellis&#13;
Baith haitfull, dissaitfull, ye deill with in deid&#13;
Anis wod and ay the war, with quhat ye do&#13;
And mak thame fast in the ruit gif thay cum to.&#13;
&#13;
God blis yow my brether, and biddis yow gudnicht&#13;
Obey God, go say God, with prayer and fasting&#13;
Christ keip thie pure Ile of ouris in the auld rihct&#13;
Defend vs and send vs, the life Euerlasting&#13;
The Lord send vs quyetnes, and keip our young king&#13;
The Quene of Inglands Maiestie, &amp; lang mot yai Ring.&#13;
&#13;
Quod Simpell.&#13;
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            <text>Scots English</text>
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            <text>1572</text>
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            <text>Imprentit at Sanctandrois be Robert Lekpreuik&#13;
[Printed at St André by Robert Lekprevik]</text>
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            <text>Robert Simpell, 1530? - 1595</text>
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            <text>murder</text>
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            <text>Reproduction of original in the British Library, STC / 22203, Huth 50 [11]; &lt;a href="http://gateway.proquest.com.ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&amp;amp;res_id=xri:eebo&amp;amp;rft_id=xri:eebo:image:182327" target="_blank"&gt;EEBO Record&lt;/a&gt; (institutional login required). </text>
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              <text>ane new ballet set out be ane Fugitiue Scottisman that fled out of Paris at this lait Murther.</text>
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