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Bateman's tragedy; or, the perjur'd bride justly rewarded Being the history of the unfortunate love of German's wife and young Bateman.
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1701
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Wing B1098A; ESTC N69888
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bow ufter being delivered of a Child a Spirit carried her away THis not only Discomposed the Mirth of the Wedding and made the Bride exceeding melancholy but the ensuing Night dreadful Cries and Screeks were heard as if Hell had been brooke loose blazing Lights oft flashed in the Eyes of the new-married Pair as they lay entwined in each others Arms followed with a dreadful Cry Thou art mine dead or alive This made them hastily remove to the Husband's House some miles distant but the same Hunting pursued them and where-ever she went she thought the Spirit of Bateman appeared to her holding the broken Gold in a String and upbraiding her with her Breach of Faith The Curtains were often draw violently when they were in Bed and the former Cry continued till at last she proving with Child the Spirit came in a more furious manner to bid her prepare to go with him as soon as she was delivered at which weary of her Life stretching out her Arms she cried I am thine by right ond am ready to go along with thee No replied he the innocent Babe in thy Womb protects thee that I cannot have thee till thou art Delivered Thus she continued in Sorrow and Fear having many Divines to pray with her but it availed not for the time of her Delivery being come which she desired might be prolongod tho' in Pain her Mother and divers other Women watched with her which she earnestly begged of to pray and not by any Means to fall asleep however a sudden Drowsiness about Midnight in spight of all they could do overcame them till wakened with a dreadful Cry they found the Candles out and feeling for the Child-bed-woman she wae missing the Casement being burst in pieces and a strong smell of Sulpher left in the Room The Town's People affirmed they heard great Cries and Screeks in the Air accompanied with a Clap of Thunder and a Clap of Lightning about that time however she was never after heard on though much sought for A Godly Warning to all Maidens by the Eample of God's Judgment shewed on Jerman's Wife of Clifton in the County of Nottingham who lying in Child-bed was borne away and never heard of after To the Tune of The Lady's Fall c. YOu dainty Dames so finely fram'd of Beauty's chiefest mould And you that trip it up and down like lambs in Cupid's sold Here is a lesson to be learn'd a lesson in my mind For such as will prove false in love and bear a faithless mind Not far from Nottingham of late in Clifton as I hear There dwelt a fair and comely Dame for beauty without Peer Her cheeks were like the crimson rose yet as you may perceive The fairest face the falsest heart and soonest will deceive This gallant Dame she was belov'd of many in that place And many sought in marriage-bed her body to imbrace At last a proper handsome Youth young Bateman call'd by name In hopes to make a married Wife unto this Maiden came Such love and liking there was found that he from all the rest Had stol'n away the Maiden's heart and she did love him best Then plighted promise secretly did pass between them two That nothing could but Death itself this true love's knot undo He brake a piece of gold in twain one half to her he gave The other as a pledge quoth he dear Heart my self will have If I do break my vow quoth she while I remain alive May never thing I take in hand be seen at all to thrive This passed on for two months space and then this Maid began To settle love and liking too upon another Man One Jerman who a Widower was her Husband needs must be Because he was of greater wealth and better in degree Her vows and promise lately made to Bateman she deny'd And in despight of him and his she utterly defy'd Well then quoth he if it be so that you will me forsake And like a false and forsworn Wretch another Husband take Thou shalt not live one quiet hour for surely I will have Thee either now alive or dead when I am laid in grave Thy faithless mind thou shalt repent therefore be well assur'd When for thy sake thou hear'st report what torments I endur'd But mark how Bateman dy'd for love and finisht up his life That very day she marry'd was and made old Jerman's Wife For with a strangsing-cord God wot great moan was made therefore He hang'd himself in desperate sort before the Bride's own door Whereat such forrow pierc'd her heart and troubled sore her mind That she could never after that one day of comfort find And wheresoever she did go her fancy did surmise Young Bateman's pale and ghastly Ghost appear'd before her eyes When she in bed at night did lye betwixt her Husband's arms In hope thereby to sleep and rest in safety without harms Great cries grievous groans she heard a voice that sometimes said O thou art she that I must have and will not be deny'd But she being big with Child was for the Infant's sake Preserved from the Spirit's power no vengeance could it take The Babe unborn did safely keep as God appointed so His Mother's body from the Fiend that sought her overthrow But being of her Burden eas'd and safely brought to bed Her care and grief began anew and farther sorrow bred And of her Friends she did intreat desiring them to stay Out of the bed quoth she this night I shall be born away Here comes the Spirit of my Love with pale and gastly face Who till he bear me hence away will not depart this place Alive or dead I am his by right and he will surely have In spight of me and all the World what I by promise gave O watch with me this night I pray and see you do not sleep No longer than you be awake my body can you keep All promised to do their best yet nothing could suffice In middle of the night to keep sâ—d slumber from their eyes So being all full fast asleep to them unknown which way The Child bed woman that woful night from thence was born away And to what place no Creature knew nor to this day can tell As strange a thing as ever yet in any Age befel You Maidens that desire to love and would good Husbands chuse To him that you do vow to love by no means do refuse For God that hears all secret oaths will dreadful vengeance take On such that of a wilful vow do slender reckoning make FINIS A Catalogue of several Delightful BOOKS which are to be Sold by the Booksellers of Pye-Corner and London-Bridge There is Just Published AESop's Fables with his Life Morale and Remarks fitted for the meanest Capacities Price Bd. 1 s. 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