BULLETIN 



OF THE 



V L. 2. SALEM, MASS., AUGUST, .1870., No. 8.. 



One Dollar a Year in Advance. 10 Cents a Single Copy. 



GILES COREY *& GOODWYFE COREY. * 



A BALLAD OF 1692.* 



COME all New England Men, 

 And hearken unto me, 

 And I will tell what did befalle 

 Upon ye Gallows Tree. 



In Salem Village was the place, 

 As I did heare them saye, 

 And Goodwyfe Corey was her name 

 Upon that paynfull daye : 



This Goody Corey was a Witch 

 The people did believe, 

 Afflicting of the Godly ones 

 Did make them sadlie Greave. 



There were two pyous Matron Dames, 

 And goodly Maidens Three, 





*This ballad was "handed in for preservation" to the Salem Observer, and ap- 

 peared in the issue of April 13, 1850. It has since been extensively copied in other 

 publications, and is inserted here as appropriate in connection with the subject of 

 debate at the Field Meeting at West Peabody. The perfect correspondence with 

 the style of that period has caused it to be considered a veritable production of 

 the Witchcraft times ; and a copy of it which appeared some years since in a west- 

 ern paper, was headed "An amusing relic of Puritanism, written during the 

 Witchcraft Mania in Salem." It was written by Fitch Poole, Esq., of Peabody. 

 EDITORS. 



ESSEX INST. BULLETIN. n 15 



