A history of English sexual morals / by Ivan Bloch ; translated by William H. Forstern.

  • Iwan Bloch
Date:
1936
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Credit: A history of English sexual morals / by Ivan Bloch ; translated by William H. Forstern. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    •rime'. Finally Jane Shore had to earn her living as a bggar woman in the streets of London. She died at a point the East End of London which was thereafter known as lore Ditch (Shoreditch). The ballad concludes with the arning: You wanton wives that fall to lust, Be you assur'd that god is just, Whoredom shall not escape his hand, Nor pride unpunished in this land. One of the most beautiful old English ballads, in which *ue love is glorified in a moving manner, is ' The Bailiff's )aughter of Islington', which is included in Percy's leliques of English Poetry: There was a youthe, and a wellbeloved youthe, ! And he was a squire's son: He loved the bayliff's daughter deare, That lived in Islington. Yet she was coye and would not believe That he did love her soe, Noe, nor at any time would she Any countenance to him showe. The youth goes to London, where he stays for seven years without seeing his sweetheart again. All her girl friends get married, but she remains single, because she is still thinking of the young man whom she dismissed in doubt about his love. Her longing for him finally causes her to go to London. The day is swelteringly hot, and as she sits down to rest by the roadside her lover rides past: She started up, with a colour so redd, Catching hold of his bridle reine; One penny, one penny, kind sir, she sayd, Will ease me of much paine. [611]