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The Works of John Marston. Volume 3

Note 122 — ACT V.

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There was entered in the Stationers’ Books, on 7th November 1576, “A woeful Ballad made by Mr. George Mannynton, an houre before he suffered at Cambridge-castell.” The ballad is printed in Ritson’s Ancient Songs and Ballads (ed. 1877), pp. 188-191. It begins:— “I wayle in woe, I plundge in payne, With sorrowing sobbes I do complayne, With wallowing waves I wishe to dye, I languish sore here as I lye,” &c.

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