I'll rob his house, and murder him.
Why fhould you not? quoth fhe:

On father, friends, and all my kin,

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Unto his uncle then

He rode with might and main, Who with a welcome and good cheer

Did Barnwell entertain.

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Sudden within a wood,

He ftruck his uncle down,

And beat his brains out of his head;
So fore he crackt his crown.

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To the conftable she fent,

To have him apprehended;

And fhewed how far in each degree,

He had the laws offended.

When Barnwell faw her drift,

To fea he got straightway;

Where fear and fting of confcience
Continually on him lay.

Unto the lord mayor then,

He did a letter write;

In which his own and Sarah's fault:

He did at large recite.

Whereby she seized was,

And then to Ludlow fent :

Where she was judg'd, condemn'd and hang'd,

For murder incontinent.

There dyed this gallant quean,
Such was her greatest gains :

For murder in Polonia,

Was Barnwell hang'd in chains.

Lo! here's the end of youth,

That after harlots haunt;

Who in the spoil of other men,

About the streets do flaunt.

III. ST. GEO.

II.

ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON.

The following ballad is given (with Some corrections} from two ancient black-letter copies in the Pepys Collection: one of which is in 12mo, the other in folio.

F Hector's deeds did Homer fing;

OF

And of the fack of ftately Troy,
What griefs fair Helena did bring,
Which was fir Paris' only joy :

And by my pen I will recite

St. George's deeds, an English knight.

Against the Sarazens so rude

Fought he full long and many a day;
Where many gyants he fubdu'd,

In honour of the chriftian
And after many adventures past
To Egypt land he came at last.

way:

Now, as the story plain doth tell,

Within that countrey there did reft

A dreadful dragon fierce and fell,

Whereby they were full fore opprest:
Who by his poisonous breath each day,
Did many of the city slay.
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