The Inhumane Butcher
OF
Leaden-Hall Market;
Being his Sorrowful Lamentation, for most Cruelly and Barborously
Murdering his own Wife: On Wednesday last the 5th. of this Instant
May, 1697.
To the Tune of, Russels Farewel, etc.
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O Wretched me George Feast by Name,
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that ever I was Born;
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By Murder thus to blast my Fame,
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and make my self Forlorn:
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And I to satisfy that Blood,
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deserve to lose my Life,
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For Killing in a furious mood,
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my Dear and Loving Wife.
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On Wednesday last the 5th. of May,
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I did to Market go;
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To me it was a Fatal day
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as many now may know:
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Because reproved there I was,
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of my loose wicked Life;
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I in most Cruel sort alas!
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did Kill my Loving Wife.
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She'd often strive for to Reprove
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my vild Extravagance;
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Sweet George, quoth she, in tender love,
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you by your Vile Expence:
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Will Ruine all that we now have,
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by this ill Course of Life,
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But now i've brought her to the Grave,
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and Kill'd my Loving Wife.
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I many Pounds have daily spent
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abusing of my time;
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But now alas! I do repent
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(O Lord forgive my Crime)
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That e're I did that wicked deed,
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bereaving her of Life;
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Which makes my very heart now bleed,
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for Killing of my Wife.
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For as at stall she stood by me,
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before my Mothers face,
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And her Mother who there did see,
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this Trajedy most base,
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Which makes my very Conscience start,
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that I with Bloody Knife
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Did stab her deep into the Heart,
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that was my Loving Wife.
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When as the Wound Receiv'd had she,
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she to my Mother said,
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Behold your Son has Killed me,
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and then she drop'd down dead,
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Which done I knew not what to say,
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when she had lost her life,
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Upon a stall I then did lay,
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my dear and Loving Wife.
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I soon was seized for this Act
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of Bloody Villany,
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And for my Horrid Heinous Fact,
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I do deserve to dye,
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In Newgate now I lye confin'd,
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to answer for my life,
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How can I think to mercy find,
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now I have Kill'd my Wife.
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But now O Lord I do indeed,
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(if it don't come too late)
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Repent me of this bloody deed,
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which doth in me create
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In me such Griefs and Horrors too,
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I curse my wretched life,
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That e're I did my hands imbrew,
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I'th' Blood of my sweet Wife.
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