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The Three Worthy Butchers of the North : ウィキペディア英語版 | The Three Worthy Butchers of the North ''The Three Worthy Butchers of the North'' is an English broadside ballad from the 17th century. It tells the story of three butchers who come to the aid of a woman in trouble, only to be killed by the gang of thieves to which the woman belonged. Copies of the broadside can be found at The British Library and the National Library of Scotland. == Synopsis == Three butchers, Johnson, Wilson and Kitson, live happily and buy three hundred pounds' worth of goods on credit. When the day comes to repay their creditors, they gather up their debt and begin riding down Blankly Lane when they hear a woman cry. Johnson wants to go help her, but Kitson warns him that it's a trick, and that if he had spent more time in Blankly Lane he would have heard her before. Johnson says he must help, and they ride to the woman. She tells the butchers that three ruffians have just robbed her. They took her clothes, tied her up and pinned her hair to the ground. The butchers untie her, wrap a cloak around her, and take off after the ruffians. Near the coast, the woman screams and ten thieves step out on to the road to confront them. Johnson vows to kill some of them before they kill him, but Kitson and Wilson don't want to fight, and they hand over the three hundred pounds. In the second part of the ballad, Johnson tells his friends to watch his back as he fights. Five thieves tie up Kitson and Wilson while Johnson kills the other five with his five pistols. He kills another three with his sword before the woman hits him over the head with a club and kills him. She then bashes out the brains of Wilson and Kitson, saying that they lived as cowards so they will die as cowards. The woman and the thieves run to a ship at Yarmouth and sail away. A shepherd hidden in a hedge watches the whole thing, and then a gentleman comes upon the murdered bodies. The ballad ends with the narrator blessing true men, and hoping to keep them away from the thieves company.
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