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A free admonition without any fees / To warne the Papistes to beware of three trees

"A free admonition without any fees / To warne the Papistes to beware of three trees" is an English broadside ballad published by William Birch in 1571 and is not currently set to any tune[1] An original copy of the ballad is located in the Huntington Library, however online facsimiles are available for public consumption.[2]

"A free admonition without any fees / To warne the Papistes to beware of three trees"
GenreBroadside ballad
TextWilliam Birch
Published1571 (1571): England
PublisherBroadside

Synopsis edit

The first lines of this ballad, "If that you be / not past all / grace, / O Papystes / heare mee / speake, / Let reason / rule, and / truth take / place, / Cease you from that you seeke," firmly cement its religious theme. The speaker asks those who associate themselves with papist group to cease seeking God through a Catholic vein, and conform to the religious ideology of the Protestant Reformation. While the term "papist" became an anti-Catholic slur in the mid-19th century,[3] in the sixteenth-century it simply identified those who pledged their religious allegiance to the Pope. Nevertheless, the ballad pleads with the papists to forsake the Catholic religion and be "grafted in this stock" of emerging Protestantism.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ English Broadside Ballad Archive. "A free admonition without any fees / To warne the Papistes to beware of three trees". ebba.english.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  2. ^ EBBA. "Ballad Sheet Facsimile of "A free admonition without any fees"". ebba.english.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  3. ^ Project Gutenberg. "THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II, by Thomas Babington Macaulay". gutenberg.org/. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  4. ^ Katherine (2013-11-17). "The Earliest Surviving Song in Praise of Queen Elizabeth I?". Early Modern English Music. Retrieved 2024-04-27.

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