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THE BABES IN THE WOOD
The BABES IN THE WOOD.
These wordes which I shall write;
A doleful story you shall heare,
In time brought forth to light.
In Norfolke dwelt of late.
Who did in honour far surmount
Most men of his estate.
No helpe his life could save;
His wife by him as sicke did lye,
And both possest one grave.
Each was to other kinde;
In love they liv’d, in love they dyed,
And left two babes behinde:
Not passing three yeares olde;
The other a girl more young than he
And fram’d in beautye’s molde.
As plainlye doth appeare,
When he to perfect age should come
Three hundred poundes a yeare.
Five hundred poundes in gold,
To be paid downe on marriage-day,
Which might not be controll’d:
Ere they to age should come,
Their uncle should possesse their wealth;
For so the wille did run.
“Look to my children deare;
Be good unto my boy and girl,
No friendes else have they here:
My children deare this daye;
But little while be sure we have
Within this world to staye.
And uncle all in one;
God knowes what will become of them,
When I am dead and gone.”
Then God will you reward;
But if you otherwise should deal,
God will your deedes regard.”
To this sicke couple there:
“The keeping of your little ones,
Sweet sister, do not feare:
A twelvemonth and a daye,
But, for their wealth, he did devise
To make them both awaye.
Rejoycing at that tide,
Rejoycing with a merry minde,
They should on cock-horse ride.
As they rode on the waye,
To those that should their butchers be,
And work their lives’ decaye:
Made murderers’ heart relent:
And they that undertooke the deed,
Full sore did now repent.
Did vow to do his charge,
Because the wretch, that hired him,
Had paid him very large.
Did slaye the other there,
Within an unfrequented wood,
Where babes did quake for feare!
While teares stood in their eye,
And bade them come and go with him,
And look they did not crye:
Approaching from the town.
Till death did end their grief;
In one another’s armes they dyed,
As babes wanting relief.
Did cover them with leaves.
Randolph Caldecott’s
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“The humour of Randolph Caldecott’s drawings is simply irresistible, no healthy-minded man, woman, or child could look at them without laughing.”
In square crown 4to, picture covers, with numerous coloured plates.
1 John Gilpin
2 The House that Jack Built
3 The Babes in the Wood
4 The Mad Dog
5 Three Jovial Huntsmen
6 Sing a Song for Sixpence
7 The Queen of Hearts
8 The Farmer’s Boy
9 The Milkmaid
10 Hey-Diddle-Diddle and Baby Bunting
11 A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go
12 The Fox Jumps over the Parson’s Gate
13 Come Lasses and Lads
14 Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross, &c.
15 Mrs. Mary Blaize
16 The Great Panjandrum Himself
The above selections are also issued in Four Volumes, square crown 4to, attractive binding, red edges. Each containing four different books, with their Coloured Pictures and innumerable Outline Sketches.
1 R. Caldecott’s Picture Book No. 1
2 R. Caldecott’s Picture Book No. 2
3 Hey-Diddle-Diddle-Picture Book
4 The Panjandrum Picture Book
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R. Caldecott’s Collection of Pictures and Songs No. 1
R. Caldecott’s Collection of Pictures and Songs No. 2
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Randolph Caldecott’s Painting Books. Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4.
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A Sketch Book of R. Caldecott’s.
Containing numerous sketches in Colour and black and white
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