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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14249	The run-awyaes [sic] answer to a booke called, A rodde for runne-awayes. In vvhich are set downe a defense for their running, with some reasons perswading some of them neuer to come backe. The vsage of Londoners by the countrey people; drawne in a picture, artificially looking two waies, (foorth-right, and a-squint:) with an other picture done in lant-skipp, in which the Londoners and countrey-men dance a morris together. Lastly, a runne-awaies speech to his fellow run-awaies, arming them to meete death within the listes, and not to shunne him.	B. V., fl. 1625.	1625 (1625)	STC 24562; ESTC S104644	16,364	24

THE Run-awyaes Answer To a Booke called A Rodde for Runne-awayes IN VVHICH Are set downe a Defence for their Running with some Reasons perswading some of them neuer to come backe The vsage of LONDONERS by the Countrey People drawne in a Picture artificially looking two waies foorth-right and a-squint With an other Picture done in Lant-skipp in which the Londoners and Countrey-men dance a Morris together LASTLY A Runne-awaies Speech to his Fellow Run-awaies Arming them to meete Death within the Listes and not to shunne him Printed MDCXXV TO OVR MVCH RESPECTED AND VEry worthy Friend Mr. H. CONDELL at his Countrey-house in FVLLAM SIR AT our parting from London to vndertake our sadde Peregrination into the Countrey amongst our Friends who are hard to be found It pleased you to bestow vpon vs a free and Noble Farewell We remember it with thanks which cuts off the sinne of Ingratitude yet because Thankes is but one word and that your loue cannot receiue a Requitall but in many wee send you a little bundle of Papers full For being Abusde in a Booke Printed at London in which we were called Runne-awayes Wee in this our Defence request you to be an Arbiter to Iudge whether we haue not iust cause to stand then promisde Bid him therefore send all his Paper-Kites flying from his Stall quite through the Citie and from one Eude to th' other to giue notice of this our Answere Bid him likewise to tell all Stationers who haue any of those Bookes called A Rodde for Run-awayes that it were good for 'em to sell them away as fast as they can for when wee come to Towne they shall be All callde in Farewell The Runn-awayes Answere THere hath of late come foorth a Three-sheete-printed-Pamphlet as if the Rodde had but three Twigges only written as the Title seemes to promise by some Schoole-maister for he calles it A ROD FOR RVNNE-AWAIES But We vpon whom those poore and wretched Names are pinned no way enduring so to be lash'd ouer the face in scorne snatch the Rodde out of his hand and to make him smart a little thus print wee our Answere to those bold affronts by which he does challenge vs vtterly disdayning to be called Runne-awaies and vtterly disclayming those offences for which that London Whipper is so ready to punish vs. First then for the Name HEE is a Runne-away who rather then he will learne a Trade with some paynes vnder a carefull Maister turnes Roague runnes into the Countrey a Padding keepes company with Gipseys and strowling Pedlers fatting himselfe with the lazy bread of Sommer tumbling during that Season in a Hay-cock with his Dell and in Winter lying snug in a Brick-k●ll with his Doxy If you wonder how we came by this Language you must thinke that in our Trauailes we could not choose but meete with Canters Agen He is a Runne-away that being prest for a Soldier runnes away from his Captaine ere he be sent a Ship-bord or from his Cullors before he comes to the Fight He is a Runne-away who hauing got loose from a Sergeant takes his heeles and runnes away from him They are Runne-awaies who in a Tauerne Roaring in for more Wine then they are able to pay giue a slippe out at the back doore and so pawne a Drawer to the Barre for the Reckoning Lastly they are Runne-awaies who lay the Key vnder the doore and cry Good night Land-lord None of these base Ginges are wee wee scorne to sayle in such stinking Dung-boates So much therefore for the Name of Runne-awaies Now for the Matter THe very Beginning of the Booke is able to make any Coward Runne away for ther 's a Sett-Battaile a Field appoynted the Van comming vp and London leading it then Shires and Counties prest to martch in the Reare the Generall busy Trompets sounding the Alarum our Enemies about vs and the Weapons brandished ouer our heads which threaten to cutte our throates Hee would make vs beleeue he has been a Soldado by his termes of Warre In the Field dialect wee tell him that true it is when the Armada of Gods anger was preparing against vs when the Pestilence beate at our Citty Gates and the Arrowes of Infection flew into our Howses when in the heate of the day the Mayne-battayle gaue ground and that many or most of our Commanders left the Field what should wee doe but flye It was not out of base feare but safety It was not out of a desire to safety only but feare least so many dropping downe euery hower before our faces there would be found not Officers nor Ministers enow to fetch off the wounded or bury the Dead Had we not reason to flye Before this tempestious weather beate vs O! what glorious Sun-beames of Exultations Reioycings Hopes and Comforts were rising to shine vpon vs We swallowed vp nothing but the East and West-Indies in our Imaginations the Golden-Age was comming in agen Our English Almanacks seem'd to speake of none but Holy-daies Great-Brittaine stood on the toppe of her white Cliffes triumphing London on tiptoe ouerlooking all other Cities in the swelling pride of her approaching Fortunes For no sooner was the old King dead but our gloomy Noone was changed into the cleerest Euening that euer our liuing Eyes beheld A golden Sunne within a few howers lifted vp his head to reuiue vs a new King was proclaymed a Iames was lost but a Charles was found A Queene was to come from France and that Queene arriued in England A Parliament was at hand the Terme not farre off Triumphes approaching Pageants setting forward to meet our King and Queene going to their Coronation No People could be fuller of ioy no City prowder of happinesse When loe a volley of Thunder shootes and batters down all these sumptuous Buildings And was it not time to flye Heauen saw vs boasting in our owne strengths and growing angry at it hath turnd it into weakenesse Mirth hath shaken handes with Mourning Riches with Misery Brauery with a Winding sheete Prosperity with the Pestilence Health with Sicknesse and Life with Death And what is He would encounter with These Hereupon the City fledde the City and shun'd that Enemy which fallowed her and hath since mette her in euery corner London was great with Childe and with a fright falling in Labor her owne time being misreckoned was deliuered of none but Still-borne Children Neuer was such a sudden Ioy changed into so sudden a Lamentation Those Belles which were ready to cleane the Ayre with echoes at King Charles his Coronation did nothing presently but ring out Knelles for his Subiects by which meanes as there is no Musicke so sweet as that of the Churches none for daies and nightes together hath bin so iarring so that in 13 weekes more then 33000. haue falne dead to the ground at their dolefull tunes And who would if he could choose make one in such dangerous Peales Had wee not

what more Good then not to doe ill But here in the Countrey amongst the Barbarous sort he is counted a Varlet that dares be mercifull and he a good Townse-man that dares turne Diuell To goe Braue here and for a Clowne not to care a Straw for you Nay in a Drincking-schoole to haue him in his Sweate sitte aboue you and giue you base language which you dare not for your guttes but put vppe is no more disgrace then to stand Bare to a Constable in England goe Lowzy in Ireland or to Fare hard in Spayne To stand and Ieere a Londoner in scorne as he passes along is the Countrey Posture To walke by with an insinuating face lifting vp the Beauer and crindging to a Carter is our City-Posture If now you demand how amongst these Heluetians we weare out our wearisome time Here 's one of the Bottoms Of the Kinges of Macedon who succeeded Alexander the Great some were afterwards glad to become Ioyners Scriueners Painters and such like So Dionisius King of Sicily kept a Schoole in Corinth So Aelfrede a Saxon King of England was forced in extremity to dwell with a Cow-herd in Summerset-shire And so many Citizens that haue been brauer Fellowes then Whifflers on Simon and Iudes Day are fayne in a number of Shires through England to turne Hay-makers Cock Barley and sweat with Pitching the Cart with Corne thereby to win the hearts of those whose loues by no alurements can be won to them For as Pitty amongst the Stoickes was held a vitious Passion So our Countrey Gnoffes Hob Dick and Hick are turnd Stoickes and hate Pitty worse then a Lawyer does a Clyent in Forma-Pauperis These are the sower Plummes with which we haue bene fed in the Countrey we send them to you for Samples but if you should after dinner haue all these sorts of Raw Fruict set before you which were gathred for vs and that you were constrayned to eate them as we were it is impossible but to driue you into Consumptions for many of vs here are falne into that Languishing Disease and we feare it will follow vs to London To London O Best-beloued of Cities what sorrowes doe feele when we name thee because euen then we can not see thee As Children long banished from Parents at their first sight of them Teares on eythers side of Ioy will seale vp all vtterance of Language so will it fare with vs when we behold Thee Astonished shall we stand too heare thee relate the Tragicall Ouerthrowes of thy Sonnes and Daughters our Brothers and Sisters And as sadly wilt thou sitte listning to the Stories of our Peregrinations in this Wildernes of English Wilde-men Nightes and dayes hast thou opened thy Gates to receiue them into thy buildings How often hast thou nourished them with the Milke of thy Brestes How often hast thou emptied thy Coffers to furnish them with Money How many of their Sonnes hast thou taken from the Plough and from their Poore and Rusticall Parents and plac'd those Sonnes after thou hadst Tutord them on the Pinacles of Honor not only to stand there with commanding Eyes ouer thy Inhabitants O now deiected London but from thence thou hast prefer'd them to ride in more glorious Chariots and to attend as Councellors on many of our English Kinges Yet ingratefull as they are Vs haue they in our sorest extremities thrust out of Doores denyed vs house-roome euen in their Stables amongst their Horses refuzde for Money to throw vs Meate as Hunters doe to their Dogges and vsing vs our Wiues and Children numbers of vs being their owne naturall Children with a more then Turkish crueltie As if none els in this Kingdome had deserued punishment from Heauen but thou only deerest Mother and that God were the God of a City alone and not of the Countrey But stay whither are wee caried why does this torrent of mourning and complaining breake in to ouerwhelme vs when an Arme from heauen hath stucke vp a Land-marke to saue vs from drowning The weekely Bills are come downe like the Doue out of Noahs Arke with her Oliue-branch a blessed signe that the waters are fallen O excellent Musicke See fellow-Citizens Death hath not cut off so many as he did in his foure last Battails by 3000. persons and odde God begins to repent him of his anger albeit numbers of vs repent not of our sinnes Celestiall harmony played vpon 3000 strings the Bells haue à desire to lessen their Consort they haue wearied themselues with playing sad lessons and deafned the Ayre to stay day and night to heare them These are Bankets vnlookt for therefore the sweeter these are comforts vndeserued and therefore the welcomer Our hearts being not a little but wonderfully reuiued we will with some Tales of our owne misfortunes here in the Countrey bestow vpon you one half houres recreation A Londoner of great Estate riding at the beginning of the Contagion with his wife and two onely children hauing no more was for his money well receiud into a Town lodged in a faire house the country-neighbors resorted to him and were glad of welcomes for their stomackes were not so subiect to Qualmes and watry spittings as since they are fallen into But in the end God to shew how far-soeuer we flie hath wings to ouer-take vs laid his hand vpon this Londoners two children strucke them with sicknesse first and in a few dayes after with Death Being dead the Londoner struck in yeares fell into consideration of his leauing the Citie full of sorrow much lamented his departing from it most peremptorily condemning him selfe as guilty of pulling downe the wrath of heauen vpon his two sweet Babes for his hastie flying like Adam out of Gods reach when at the holding vp of a finger hee would finde him out This added some heauy weights to his sorrow yet this seemed nothing to what was layd vpon him afterwards For his two children lying dead vpon a table the Minister would not come neere him to bury them no Clarke to get a Parsons liuing would venture to Church with them there was none to dig a graue for as much ground as the whole town stood vpon and for Coffins had he bin owner of coffers filld with gold hee could not with them haue hired a fellowe to make one Then came into his mind the happinesse of Londoners at home for all their miseries for all the tedious marchings of threescore or fourscore in a day to one Churchyard yet there was a Comfort a blessing a reioycing to see those bodies receiue decent Christian Buriall Had his children bin snatchd from him in London I could said he his heart-strings being ready to crack with sighing haue had friends and kinred to accompany them to their graues no Ceremonies should haue beene wanting due to the dead But now and then he brake off recollecting his spirits and resoluing to make a vertue of necessitie He determined seeing no