❧ A brief balet touching the traitorous taking of Scarborow castle.  

OH valiant invaders gallantꝭ gay.  
Who, with your compeers conquering the rout,  
Castles or towers: all standing in your way,  
Ye take, controlling all estates most stout.  
Yet had it now been good to look about.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: 〈◊〉 ●aue let alone,  
And take scarborow warning everyone.   

By Scarborow castle, not Scarborow:  
I only mean: but further understand,  
Each haven, each hold, or other harborough,  
That our good King and Queen do hold in hand:  
As dew obedience bindth us in band.  
Their Scarborow castles to let alone,  
And take Scarborow warningꝭ everichone.   

The sealer's of which castles evermore,  
In books of old, and in our eyes of new:  
Have always lost themselves and theirs therefore.  
All this ye did forget: in time to view.  
Which might have wrought both you and yours teschew:  
Letting Scarborow castle now alone,  
Taking Scarborow warning everichone.   

This Scarborow castle, simply standing:  
Yet could that castle slily you beguile,  
Ye thought ye took the castle: at your landing:  
The castle taking you: in the self while.  
Each stone within the castle wall did smile,  
That Scarborow castle ye let not alone,  
And took Scarborow warning everichone.   

Your putting now in ure your dyvylishe dream,  
Hath made you see (and like enough to feel)  
A few false traitors can not win a ream,  
Good subjects be (and will be) true as steel.  
To stand with you, the end they like no deal.  
Scarborow castles they can let alone,  
And take Scarborow warnyngꝭ everichone.   

They know godis law: tobey their King and Queen.  
Not take from them: but keep for them their own.  
And give to them: when such traitors are seen  
As ye are now: to bring all overthrown:  
They work your overthrow, by godis power grown.  
God saith: let Scarborow castle alone,  
Take Scarborow warning everichone.   

To late for you, and in time for the rest  
Of your most traitorous sect (if any be)  
You all are spectacles at full witnessed:  
As other wear to you: treason to flee.  
Which in you past, yet may the rest of ye:  
The said Scarborow castles let alone,  
And take Scarborow warnyngꝭ everichone.   

This term Scarborow warning, grew (some say)▪  
By hasty hanging, for rank robbery there.  
Who that was met, but suspect in that way,  
Straight was he trust up: what ever he wear.  
Whereupon thieves thinking good to forbear,  
Scarborow Robbing they let that alone,  
And took Scarborow warning everichone.   

If Robbing in that way, bred hanging so,  
By theft to take, way, town, castle and all,  
What Scarborow hanging craveth this ●o?  
Wear yourselves herein judges capital:  
I think your judgements on these woordis must fall.  
Scarborow Robbing who letth not alone,  
Scarborow hanging deserve everichone.   

We would to god that you (and all of you)  
Had but considered: as well as ye knew:  
The end of all traytorie, as you see it now,  
Long to have lived, loving subjects true.  
Alas: your loss we not rejoice, but rue.  
That Scarborow castle ye leete not alone,  
And took Scarborow warning everichone.   

To craftis that ever thrive, wise men ever cleave.  
To crafts that ceil when thrive, wise men seld when flee.  
The crafts that never thrive, a fool can learn to leave.  
This thriftless crafty craft then clear leave we.  
One God, one King, one Queen, serve frank and free.  
Their Scarborow castle let it alone,  
Take we Scarborow warning everyone.   

Our sovereign lord: and sovereign lady both.  
Lawde we our lord, for their prosperity.  
Beseeching him for it: as it now goth,  
And to this day hath gone, that it may be:  
Continued so, in perpetuity.  
We letting their Scarborow castles alone,  
Taking Scarborow warnings everichone,   
Finisque  
I. Heywood.   

Imprinted at London in fleetestrete by Tho. powel. Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum.