Strange and vvonderful news from Nevvberry: concerning a youth that was choak'd by eating of custard Being a new ballad to that new tune, called; God prosper long our noble king, &c.

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Title: Strange and vvonderful news from Nevvberry: concerning a youth that was choak'd by eating of custard Being a new ballad to that new tune, called; God prosper long our noble king, &c.
Publication: London :: printed for Charles Corbet,; MDCLXXXIV. [1684]
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Subject terms: Gluttony -- Early works to 1800.; Broadsides
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Epitaph.

To the Tune of Whittingtons Bells.

Ʋnder this Stone lyes one
Who wrought his Finis,
And with a Trick of's own
was kill'd with kindness:
He dy'd in such a case,
no Death can match it,
A Custard to him was
Pap with a Hatchet.
He might as well have been
brain'd with a Silk Fan,
As to lose his life in
a little Milk-pan.
Though the great Guns and Pikes
have loudly bluster'd,
There is no Weapon like
Long Spoon and Custard.