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EBBA 36110

Manchester Central Library - Blackletter Ballads
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[Heard you not lately of a man]

Heard you not lately of a man
Distract' out of his witts
That through the Citty naked ranne
Wrap't in his frantick fitts

O my good neighbours it was I!
see how the people floute mee
Looke where the madde man comes say they
With alle the boyes about mee

Tom Bedlam is a sage to mee
I speake in sober sadnesse
Hee never yet such visions saw
In time of all his madnesse

Mee thought I saw her in the cloudes
With the Muses around about her
To Jove I call'd & cryed aloud
[I] cannot live without her

[?]as shee not fairer than the sunne etc

[?]stript then must I bee.
[?]runne from my vaynes
[?]rue lovers alle may see
[?] for my paynes

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