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EBBA 20770

Magdalene College - Pepys
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Ballad Title Sad and Dreadful News from / Horsly-Down, in the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen Bermondset; / OR, / A Warning to Brokers, Tally-men, and such like unconscionable Carter-pillars; by the sad Example of Dorothy / Winter-bottom, Alias Dirty-Doll, late of Horsly-Down, who according to her own Report, as 'tis Credibly / attested, by contending with the Devil, received such mortal Bruises, as occasioned her death, she dying on / the 27th. of August, and war buried at St. Olives Southwark, on the 28th. of the same month, 1684. / Reader, behold what Mortals are, when sin / Opens the Gate and lets the Tempter in, / As by this Story may too plain be seen.
Tune Imprint To the Tune of, Now now the Fights Done; Or, Packingtons Pound.
Standard Tune Title Packington's Pound
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00:00 | 7:38
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Recording Information
Ballad Title Sad and Dreadful News from / Horsly-Down, in the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen Bermondset; / OR, / A Warning to Brokers, Tally-men, and such like unconscionable Carter-pillars; by the sad Example of Dorothy / Winter-bottom, Alias Dirty-Doll, late of Horsly-Down, who according to her own Report, as 'tis Credibly / attested, by contending with the Devil, received such mortal Bruises, as occasioned her death, she dying on / the 27th. of August, and war buried at St. Olives Southwark, on the 28th. of the same month, 1684. / Reader, behold what Mortals are, when sin / Opens the Gate and lets the Tempter in, / As by this Story may too plain be seen.
Tune Imprint To the Tune of, Now now the Fights Done; Or, Packingtons Pound.
Standard Tune Title Now, Now the Fight's Done
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00:00 | 5:14
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