Close ×

Search EBBA

Advanced Search

EBBA 36262

Manchester Central Library - Blackletter Ballads
Saue a Thiefe from the Gallowes and he'll hang thee if he can, / Or, The mercifull father, and the mercilesse sonne.
Date Published 1616-1618 ?
Author
Standard Tune
Imprint Printed at London by W.[I?].
License
Collection Manchester Central Library - Blackletter Ballads
Page 2.10
Location Manchester Central Library
Shelfmark BR f 821.04 B49
ESTC ID
Keyword Categories
MARC Record
Additional Information
  Part 1
Title Saue a Thiefe from the Gallowes and he'll hang thee if he can, / Or, The mercifull father, and the mercilesse sonne.
Tune Imprint To the tnne of Fortune my foe.
First Lines YOU disobedient children marke my fall, / And by my timelesse end take warning all:
Refrain
Condition
Ornament
Notes Printed on the same sheet as EBBA 36263, "The Confession and repentance of George Saunders Gentleman, late of Shugh in the / County of Hereford, who vnnaturally killed his Vncle, and accused his owne Fa- / ther for the murther: by by Gods prouidence being discoured, hee died for / the same. Where he writ this song with his owne hand, the first of Ianuary. 1616. / To the tune of Fortune my foe. / His Repentance in Prison. / To the same tune."