The covetous mother, or, The terrible overthrow of two loyal lovers. You that these woeful tydings hear, surely your heart may bleed; who can forbear to shed a tear, when they these lines shall read? Tune of O so ungrateful a creature. This may be printed, R.P.

The covetous mother, or, The terrible overthrow of two loyal lovers. You that these woeful tydings hear, surely your heart may bleed; who can forbear to shed a tear, when they these lines shall read? Tune of O so ungrateful a creature. This may be printed, R.P.

Table of contents

The Covetous Mother, Or, The terrible Overthrow of Two Loyal Lovers.

§

[Page]

The Covetous Mother, Or, The terrible Overthrow of Two Loyal Lovers.

You that these woful tydings hear,

surely your hearts may bleed;

Who can forbear to shed a tear,

when they these lines shall read?

Tune of, O [...] [...] a creature.

This may be printed, R. P.

[figure]

[figure]

THere was a wealthy young Squire,

whom a fair Damosel did love;

Nay, and it was so intire,

nothing his fancy could move:

She born of ordinary Parents.

which when his Friends this did know,

They strove to set them at variance,

proving their sad overthrow.

Son, said his indulgent Mother,

pray you now listen to me;

I have consider'd another

suitable to-your degrée;

That you may rise to promotion,

she is both virtuous and fair,

Two thousand pound to her Portion;

therefore your folly forbear.

Mother, those Charms does inflame me

which in my Dear I behold;

Therefore I pray do not blame me,

True Love is better than Gold.

Might I have Wealth out of measure,

nothing my mind can remove;

I'le never marry for Treasure,

give me the Creature I love.

[figure]

[figure]

[figure]

I can maintain like a Lady

she whom I much do adore;

Have I not Riches already?

what need I covet for more?

If you give me not one penny,

I have a Hundred a Year:

Now if I marry with any,

it shall be Nancy my Dear.

Son, if your Love be so rooted

that from her you cannot part,

By me it shan't be disputed,

take her then with all my heart.

But she in this was deceitful,

as by this Ditty you'l find,

Never was action more hateful,

Malice remain'd in her mind.

Straight she repair'd to this Creature.

vowing to send away;

Yet with a smile she did meet her,

saying, dear Daughter this day

We will go buy your Attire,

every thing i'le provide;

'Tis my unfeigned desire,

that you shall be my Sons Bride.

Thus was the matter contrived.

just as his Mother would have;

Then to a Captain in private

she sold her to be a Slave:

She from Old England did send her,

fill'd with much sorrow and woe;

There was no Soul to defend her,

but was compelled to go.

When her invention was over,

then she return'd to her Son,

Freely to him to discover,

presently what she had done:

When he heard what she had acted,

his Rapier straight he pull'd forth.

Raving like one quite distracted,

crying, you've ruin'd us both.

Then on the point of his Rapier

he did immediately fall;

His Life did go out like a Taper,

this was the ruine of all.

His Mother more than uncivil,

was of a covetous mind:

Money the Root of all evil

caus'd this confusion we find.

Now does his Mother with weeping

weary out many a day;

While her dear Son he lies sléeping

low in a cold Bed of Clay.

This is a sad Desolation,

she whom he much did adore,

Now is sent far from the Nation,

where she will ne'r see him mor [...]

§

§

Printed for I Deacon at the Angel in Guiltspur-street, without [...]ew [...].

Information about this book

Title statement

The covetous mother, or, The terrible overthrow of two loyal lovers. You that these woeful tydings hear, surely your heart may bleed; who can forbear to shed a tear, when they these lines shall read? Tune of O so ungrateful a creature. This may be printed, R.P.

Edition statement

1685-1688?

Publication

Publisher

Text Creation Partnership,

Place of publication

Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) :

Date

2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1).

ID [DLPS]

B02446

ID [STC]

Wing C6635

ID [STC]

Interim Tract Supplement Guide EBB65H[51]

ID [EEBO-CITATION]

99887075

ID [PROQUEST]

ocm99887075

ID [VID]

181801

Availability

This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal. The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

Series

Early English books online.

Notes

(EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B02446)

Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 181801)

Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A2:3[51])

Source

— The covetous mother, or, The terrible overthrow of two loyal lovers. You that these woeful tydings hear, surely your heart may bleed; who can forbear to shed a tear, when they these lines shall read? Tune of O so ungrateful a creature. This may be printed, R.P.,

Extent

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts).

Printed for J[onah]. Deacon at the Angel in Guiltspur-street, without Newgate,. [London] :: [1685-1688]. (Verse: "There was a wealthy young squire ...") (Place, date of publication, and publisher's name from Wing.) (Reproduction of original in the Harvard University, Houghton Library.)

Creation

Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford.

Editorial practices

EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). The general aim of EEBO-TCP is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic English-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in EEBO.

EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org).

The EEBO-TCP project was divided into two phases. The 25,363 texts created during Phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 January 2015. Anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source.

Users should be aware of the process of creating the TCP texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data.

Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). If an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in NCBEL, then their works are eligible for inclusion. Selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.

Image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. Quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in Oxford and Michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet QA standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. After proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. Any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. Understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of TCP data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.

The texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the TEI in Libraries guidelines.

Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements).

Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site.