IDENTILIN$$ F00433a|Sheppard, MERLINVS; STC A1588|sigs. C3-C4,A7|T,P:EWS\E:JSC\electronic copy\2-12-02 004.33a.HE1om 004.33a.001om 004.33a.002om 004.33a.003om 004.33a.004om 004.33a.005om 004.33a.006om 004.33a.007om 004.33a.008om 004.33a.009om 004.33a.010om 004.33a.011om 004.33a.012om 004.33a.013om 004.33a.014om 004.33a.015om 004.33a.016om 004.33a.017om 004.33a.018 a thing more strange, then [om] [om] [om] [om] [om] [sig.C3] 004.33a.019 \[w/l.18]e'r came to %1NO-/AH%2, 004.33a.020 and would have pos'd %1ADAM%2 himself /to name. 004.33a.021om 004.33a.022om 004.33a.023 %1Stranger%2 %1then%2 %1strangers,%2 %1one%2 %1who%2 %1for%2 %1a%2 Dane, 004.33a.024 %1In the%2 Danes %1Massacre,%2 %1had%2 %1sure%2 %1been%2 %1slain%2 004.33a.025 %1If%2 %1he%2 %1had%2 %1liv'd%2 %1then,%2 %1and%2 %1without%2 %1help%2 %1dyes,%2 004.33a.026 %1When%2 %1next%2 %1the%2 %1Prentises,%2 %1'gainst%2 %1strangers%2 %1rise.%2 004.33a.027 %1On%2 %1whom%2 %1the%2 %1watch%2 %1at%2 %1noon%2 %1let's%2 %1scarce%2 %1go%2 %1by,%2 004.33a.028om 004.33a.029om 004.33a.030om 004.33a.031 %1Whose%2 %1sleevelesse%2 %1jerkin%2 [om] [om] [om] [om] [om] 004.33a.032om 004.33a.033 \[w/l.31]%1was%2 %1tufft-taffaty,%2 [om] [om] [om] 004.33a.034om 004.33a.035om 004.33a.036om 004.33a.037om 004.33a.038om 004.33a.039om 004.33a.040om 004.33a.041om 004.33a.042om 004.33a.043om 004.33a.044om 004.33a.045om 004.33a.046om 004.33a.047 %1Who%2 %1could%2 %1out%2 %1flatter%2 %1favourites,%2 %1out%2 %1lye%2 %1either,%2 004.33a.048 Jovius, %1and%2 Surius, %1or both together%2. 004.33a.049om 004.33a.050om 004.33a.051om 004.33a.052 [om] [om] [om] [om] whom I /thought[w/l.53] [sig.C3v] 004.33a.053 [om] the best linguist, I see %1Lily%2, 004.33a.054 \[w/l.53]answer'd/ %1CALEPINE%2, 004.33a.055om 004.33a.056om 004.33a.057om 004.33a.058om 004.33a.059om 004.33a.060om 004.33a.061om 004.33a.062om 004.33a.063om 004.33a.064om 004.33a.065om 004.33a.066om 004.33a.067om 004.33a.068om 004.33a.069om 004.33a.070om 004.33a.071om 004.33a.072om 004.33a.073om 004.33a.074om 004.33a.075om 004.33a.076om 004.33a.077om 004.33a.078om 004.33a.079om 004.33a.080om 004.33a.081om 004.33a.082om 004.33a.083om 004.33a.084om 004.33a.085om 004.33a.086om 004.33a.087om 004.33a.088om 004.33a.089om 004.33a.090om 004.33a.091om 004.33a.092om 004.33a.093om 004.33a.094 to take me by the hand, and 004.33a.095om 004.33a.096 [om] [om] [om] [om] [om] \[w/l.94]tell more/ lies 004.33a.097 then ten %1HOLLENSHEADS%2, or ten /%1STOWES%2, 004.33a.098om 004.33a.099om 004.33a.100om 004.33a.101om 004.33a.102om 004.33a.103om 004.33a.104om 004.33a.105om 004.33a.106om 004.33a.107om 004.33a.108om 004.33a.109om 004.33a.110om 004.33a.111om 004.33a.112om 004.33a.113om 004.33a.114om 004.33a.115om 004.33a.116om 004.33a.117om 004.33a.118om 004.33a.119om 004.33a.120om 004.33a.121om 004.33a.122om 004.33a.123om 004.33a.124om 004.33a.125om 004.33a.126om 004.33a.127om 004.33a.128om 004.33a.129 I more amaz'd then %1CIRCES%2 pri-/soners when 004.33a.130 they felt themselves turn beasts, 004.33a.131om 004.33a.132om 004.33a.133om 004.33a.134om 004.33a.135om 004.33a.136om 004.33a.137om 004.33a.138 I must bear my own, /and my fore-fathers sins, [sig.C3v-4;see_info] 004.33a.139 resolv'd to pay the /last farthing, 004.33a.140 bearing my burthen toughly, /and stubbornly, but behold after excessive /baiting a time 004.33a.141 of mercy arrives, [om] [om] [om] [om] 004.33a.142 but I must /pay a fine to scape further torture, 004.33a.143 [om] [om] can you /spare me quoth he, willingly said I, 004.33a.144 a shil-/ling quoth he most thankfully [see_info_below]said I 004.33a.145 [om] [om] as a Ransome, but as fidlers, [sig.C4] 004.33a.146 \though[w/l.145]/ they be payed on purpose to have them /gone, yet will needs 004.33a.147 thrust one jig more up-/on you, so he 004.33a.148 with his complemental thanks /began a new to torment me, 004.33a.149 yet at length /vanish'd, [om] [om] [om] [om] [om] 004.33a.150om 004.33a.151om 004.33a.152om 004.33a.153om 004.33a.154om 004.33a.155om 004.33a.156om 004.33a.157om 004.33a.158om 004.33a.159om 004.33a.160om 004.33a.161om 004.33a.162om 004.33a.163om 004.33a.164om 004.33a.165om 004.33a.166om 004.33a.167om 004.33a.168om 004.33a.169om 004.33a.170om 004.33a.171om 004.33a.172om 004.33a.173om 004.33a.174om 004.33a.175om 004.33a.176om 004.33a.177om 004.33a.178om 004.33a.179om 004.33a.180om 004.33a.181om 004.33a.182om 004.33a.183om 004.33a.184om 004.33a.185om 004.33a.186om 004.33a.187om 004.33a.188om 004.33a.189om 004.33a.190om 004.33a.191om 004.33a.192om 004.33a.193om 004.33a.194om 004.33a.195om 004.33a.196om 004.33a.197om 004.33a.198om 004.33a.199om 004.33a.200om 004.33a.201om 004.33a.202om 004.33a.203om 004.33a.204om 004.33a.205om 004.33a.206om 004.33a.207om 004.33a.208om 004.33a.209om 004.33a.210om 004.33a.211om 004.33a.212om 004.33a.213om 004.33a.214om 004.33a.215om 004.33a.216om 004.33a.217om 004.33a.218om 004.33a.219om 004.33a.220om 004.33a.221om 004.33a.222om 004.33a.223om 004.33a.224om 004.33a.225 %1That%2 %1linsey,%2 %1woolsey%2 %1face%2 %1of%2 %1his,%2 %1as%2 %1ill%2 [sig.A7] 004.33a.226 %1As%2 %1theirs,%2 %1who%2 %1in%2 %1old%2 %1hangings%2 %1whip%2 %1Christ%2 %1still.%2 004.33a.227 %1The%2 %1knave%2 %1would%2 %1fain%2 %1look%2 %1worse,%2 %1keeps%2 %1all%2 %1in%2 %1aw,%2 004.33a.228 %1Jests%2 %1like%2 %1a%2 %1licens'd%2 %1fool,%2 %1commands%2 %1like%2 %1Law%2. 004.33a.229om 004.33a.230om 004.33a.231om 004.33a.232om 004.33a.233om 004.33a.234om 004.33a.235om 004.33a.236om 004.33a.237om 004.33a.238om 004.33a.239om 004.33a.240om 004.33a.241om 004.33a.242om 004.33a.243om 004.33a.244om 004.33a.0SSom 004.33a.0$$ Ll. 18-20,23-27,31,33,47-48,52-54,94,96-97,129-30,138-49,225-28 only, w/in a prose paraphrase of Sat4 intermixed w/ n-c elements such as this btw/ ll.144 & 145: "(for in that / Agony my Cloak had been at his service)"; excerpts from sigs. C3- C4 are among items under the heading "%XA GENERALL /%XP%9rognostication%0. /%XFor the Year 1653."; ll.255-28 are among items under the heading "FEBRUARIES OBSERVATIONS."; EWS book & disc don't note exactly where in the text sig. C4 begins