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Manchester Central Library - Blackletter Ballads
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The second part, to the same tune.

NO resting could he find at all,
no ease of hearts content,
No house, no home, nor byding place,
but wandring forth he went,
From Town to Town in forraign Lands
with grieved Conscience still,
Repenting sore the hainous guilt
of his fore-passed ill.

Thus after some few Ages past,
in wandring up and downe,
He much againe desir'd to see
Jerusalems renowne:
But finding it all quite destroy'd,
he wandred thence with woe,
Our Saviours words which he had spoke
to verifie and show.

Ile rest (saith he) but thou shalt walke,
so doth this wandring Jew,
From place to place, but cannot stay,
for seeking Countries new:
Declaring still the power of him,
whereas he comes and goes,
And of all things done in the East
since Christ his death, he showes.

The world he hath halfe compast round,
and seene those Nations strange,
That hearing of the Name of Christ,
their Idoll gods doe change:
To whom he hath told wondrous things,
of times fore-past and gone,
And to the Princes of the world
declares his cause of mone:

Desiring still to be dissolv'd,
and yeeld his mortall breath:
But yet the Lord hath thus decreed,
he shall not yet see death;
For neither looks he old or young,
but as he did those times
When Christ did suffer on the Crosse
for mortall sinners Crimes.

He passed many a forraigne place,
Arabia, AEgypt, Africa,
Grecia, Syria, and great Thrace,
and through all Hungaria:
Where Paul and Peter preached Christ,
those blest Apostles deare;
Where he hath told our our Saviours word
in Countries farre and neere.

And lately in Bohemia,
with many a German Towne,
And now in Flanders, as is thought
he wandreth up and downe:
Where Learned men with him confers,
of these his lingring dayes,
And wondring much to heare him tell
his journeys and his wayes.

If people giveth this Jew an Almes,
the most that he will take
Is not above a Groat a time,
which he for Jesus sake
Will kindly give unto the poore,
and thereof make no spare,
Affirming still, that Jesus Christ
of him hath dayly care.

He nere was seene to laugh nor smile,
but weep and make great mone,
Lamenting still his miseries,
and dayes fore-past and gone.
If he heard anyone blaspheme,
and take Gods Name in vaine,
He tells them that they crucifie
their Master Christ againe.

If you had seene him dye, sayes he,
as these mine eyes have done,
Ten thousand times a day would ye
his torments thinke upon,
And suffer for his sake all paine,
all torments, and all woes;
These are his words and this his life,
whereas he comes and goes.


Finis.
London, Printed for Edward Wright, dwelling in Gilt-spur-street.

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