Cutting Ball
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title:
Cutting Ball
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"Cutting" Ball was a notorious criminal during the Elizabethan Age. Thomas Nashe mentions a ballad written about him, which does not survive. His sister, Em, or Emma, was a prostitute, "a sorry ragged quean", who according to various reports was the mistress of the clown Richard Tarlton and later of the writer Robert Greene and cared for both on their death-beds. She is said to have had a son, Fortunatus, by Greene.
Greene, who wrote much about the London underworld, once hired Ball as a bodygua
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English criminal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_Ball
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2023-03-16T23:19:48Z
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