Note 154 — Come buy this new Ballad, before you doe goe; If you raile at the Author, I know what I know.

[4.] A Welshman that was condemned to be hanged, had the benefit154 of Clergy granted to him, and so was burnt in the Hand; which when it was doing, they bid him say. God bless the King. Nay, says he, God bless hur Father and Mother; for if they had not taught hur to read, hur might have been hanged for all the King.