Ah me vile wretch that ever I was born
- DMI number:
- 37059
- First Line:
- Ah me vile wretch that ever I was born
- Last Line:
- To murder him and twas the very same
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Complaint, Ballad, and Quatrain aabb
- Themes:
- Crime, Death, and Love
- First Line:
- He rose and shut the door his man he blames
- Last Line:
- Amen say all if it be thy blessed will
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- Title:
- Old ballads, historical and narrative, with some of modern date ... volume the second. [T146587] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.165-169
- Poem Title:
- XXIX. The complaint and lamentation of Mistresse Arden of Feversham in Kent, who for the loue of one Mosbie, hired certaine ruffians and villaines most cruelly to murder her husband; with the fatall end of her and her associats.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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