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Black-letter Broadside Ballads Of The years 1595-1639

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	DOWNFALL OF A CORRUPTED CONSCIENCE The tune is not known to me. The printer's initials are those of George Elde or George Edwards. To the tune of, The humming of the Drone. i r T was my chance of late -1 in Westminster to be, Whereas in gallant state great numbers I did see, attending all in that great Hall, Where Iustice is decreed, and people store came more and more, Which did amazement breed. 2   At last, my longing eyes (expecting some strange thing) Knight Marshals men espies, with Harrolds of our King, awaiting there as duties were, To haue some action done, where presently I heard a cry, [Makje1 roome, for now they come. 3   It seem'd he was a Knight, and Iustice by degree, 1 Torn. Only a few words of the stanza that followed this remain.
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