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	MURDER UPON MURDER
	having her bones reserved in a perfect forme of her body which is to be seene, and now remaines in the aforesaid Hall¹." The ballad is earlier in date than H. G.'s pamphlet²: it may have appeared on April 14, 1635 (cf. the tide), and certainly was in print before the execution of Canbury Bess on April 17. To the tune of Bragandary dozvne, &c. I [L]Ist Christians all vnto my song, 'twill moue your hearts to pitty, [Wjhat bloody murders haue beene done, [o]f late about the City: [W]ee daily see the brood of Cain, [Amjongst vs euer will remaine. [O rn\urder^ lust and murder', [is] the joule sinke of sin. 1 [Thejre's scarce a moneth within the yeare, [bu]t murders vile are done, ¹ On the practice of preserving the skeletons of criminals at the Barber Surgeons Hall see Stow's London, ed. Strype, 1720, book v, p. 209. ² The pamphlet was registered for publication on April 22, 1635.
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