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Misselanies, or, Fifty years gathering out of sundry authors in prose and verse being the studious readings, painful collections, and some of them are the composings of the writer and publisher heerof / John Taylor.
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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For the painted felicities of unmerciful men doe end when their lives end so the miseries of the poore and oppressed are as mortall as themselves but their joyes and the others paines are both immortall and everlasting I write not in Envy or Emulation of riches for as they may be imployed riches are the blessings of God there have beene in all Ages good and charitable rich men Abraham Lot Jacob Joshua Job David Salomon and many others were rich charitable and blessed of God heer on Earth and for ever in Heaven And our England hath produced many pious honorable persons of both sexes and of all estates and degrees whose names and memories are famous and their monumentall Erections and Foundations of Colledges Churches Schools Hospitalls Almes-houses and gifts and Legacies to Orphans and Prisoners are testimonies of their Charities and Compassion But I speak of uncharitable Muck-wormes whose minds are too empty of pity their souls disfurnished of a good Conscience and their Bags too full of ill gotten accursed and damnable unrighteous Mammon To conclude this case of Conscience with the saying of the Wise man Eccles. 14. 2. Blessed is he that is not condemned in his own Conscience Verses never Printed till now as I am certified of the Misery of Man THE world 's a Bubble and the life of Man Lesse then a span In his conception wretched from the Wombe So to the Tombe Cries in his Cradle and brought up in Teares With cares and fears Who then to frail Mortality doth trust But limbs the Water or else writes in Dust Yet since with sorrowes heer we live opprest What life is best Courts are but only superficiall Schooles To dandle Fooles The Countrey 's almost turn'd into a den Of Savage Men And wher 's a City from all Vice so free But may be tearm'd the worst of all the three Domesticke cares afflict the Husbands bed Or paines his head Some would have children those that have them mone Or wish them gone Those that live single count it for a curse Or doe things worse What is it then to have or not have Wife But single thraldome or a double strife Our own affections still at home to please Is a Disease To crosse the Seas to any forreign soyl Perill and toyl Wars with their rumors fright us when they cease Wee 're worse in peace What then remains but that we still should crie Not to be born or being born to die Another to the same purpose Life's brevity and Mans frailty CAN he be Fair that withers with a blast Or he be Strong that ayery breath can cast Or he be Wise that knows not how to live Or he be Rich that nothing hath to give Or he be Yong that 's feeble weak and wan So Fair Strong Wise so Rich so Yong is man So Faire is man that Death a parting blast Blasts his fair Flower and makes him Dust at last So Strong is Man that with a gasping breath He totters and bequeaths himself to Death So Wise is Man that if with Death he strive His Wisdome cannot teach him how to live So Rich is Man that all his debts being payd His wealth 's the winding sheet wherein hee 's layd So Yong is Man that broke with care and sorrow Hee 's old enough to day to die to morrow Why bragct thou then thou worm of 5 foot long Thou 'rt neither Fair Wise Yong nor Rich or Strong A good Conscience more worth then the World TO shine in silk to glister all in gold To flow in wealth to feed on dainty fare To build our houses stately to behold The Princes favour and the peoples care Although those gifts be great and very rare The groaning Gowt the Collick and the Stone Will marre the mirth and turn it all to moan But be it that the Body subject bee To no such sickness or the like annoy Yet if the Conscience be not firme and free Riches are Trash and Honour but a Toy The Peace of Conscience is that perfect Joy By which Gods Children in this life are left To want the which better want all the rest Conscience for good and bad is mille testis A Conscience clear a sweet continuall feast is A Sonnet of Henry Duke of Glocester WHat is my fault alas what have I done Is it for Treason that I am Captiv'd Or is it that I was my Fathers Son That I am of my liberty depriv'd My Infant innocence no Plot contriv'd Against the Army State or Parliament But all my faâ—â—â— is that I am deriv'd From mighty Kings and Princes eminent To me it seems a bitter consequent I am a Prisoner 'cause I was begot Alas I could not help it or prevent My being born or my unlucky lot Could I have help'd my selfe or any other I would have help'd my Father and my Mother A Prudent Man THe highest pitch of Cesars soaring spirit Was but to win the World whereby t' inherit The aiery purchase of a transitory And glozing title of an ages glory Wouldst thou by conquest win more fame then bee Subdue thy selfe thy selfe's a World to thee Earth's but a Ball that Heaven hath quilted o're With wealth and honour bandied on the flore Offickle fortunes false and slippery Court Sent for a Toy to make us Children sport And he whose merits mount to such a Joy Gaines but the honour of a mighty Toy Brave mindes opprest should in despight of Fate Shine greatest like the Sun in lowest state Upon the word MORE ALthough the World be old God knew before Who should be his Elect hee 'l have no More Good Angels guard men as they did of yore As Michael Raphael Gabriel many More One Raphael did old Tobies sight restore Tob. 11 Gabriel that brought best tidings was no * More The Divell and his Angels rage and rore Devouring many yet still gape for More Lords Ladies Lawyers hee hath swallowed store And Doctors yet would have one Doctor More In th' ayre the fire upon the seas and shore He labours night and day to purchase More He hath layd Churches levell with the floore But if this world last he will knock down More Of peace and wealth he made us sick and sore Yet hath he still some damned Dog-tricks More Abiram Dathan and their Cosin Core He swallowed quicke and every day doth More False hypocrites have reverend habits wore So hath the Divel himselfe and so hath More Brave men are glad with one sute torne and tore When every base Time-serving Knave hath More My selfe with spectacles doe peep and pore And write for little am in hope of More The Miser doth his golden God adore And though he hath too much would fain have More The frosty bearded Churle with head all hoar Lives poore in plenty and destreth More Ther 's many a sin earing Hector loves a Whore So doe all Bawdy Knaves and so doth More Ther 's many a Pascall call rich lives like a Bore That feedeth in his Trough so doth one More Abundance run to hell and ther 's no dore To keep men out the Divell will have More And many a rustick Clowne is gilded o're With Reverend Titles and so is one More The Usurer on his bed doth snort and snore And in his sleep dreams how he may have More Mine Hostes gladly would be paid her score And 't is my daily Drinke that makes it More Extortion and Oppression make men poore And every day of Beggars we have More For vertuous living now and Learnings lore Like toyes worth nothing are esteem'd no More I wish my soul with sorrow may deplore Because my sins encrease still more and More All men have vainly too oft lid and swore Let 's all endeavour to doe so no More And humbly God for pardon le ts implore For though our crimes are great his mercy 's More Some small occasion I scarce know wherfore Did make me merrily write this of More Which I have now concluded and therefore On More at this time I will write no More And he that of the word More More can make Let him in hand pen ink and paper take I have done with MORE and yet there is more behind * No Blackmore
the world The Jews out of envy layd hold on him and with a kind of hypocrisie and outward humility rather seeming then being Saints trampled him under foot and mard his cause I whipt him to appease their fury and the people being about to mutiny I condemnd him to the death of the Cross A little before he breathed his last he desired of God that he would forgive those his Enemies which had nayled him to the Cross At his death there were many prodigious signes both in Heaven and Earth the Sunne was darkned the Graves were opened and the dead arose After hee was dead a foolish Jew thrust a speare into his side shewing the hatred in his death which the Jews bore unto him in his life Contraries never did agree nor ever will be brought to any conformity Michael and the Dragon the Ark and Dagon Nehemiah and Sanballat God and Belial Cain and Abel Jacob and Esau Isaac and Ishmael John and Cerinthus fire and water good and bad vice and vertue light and darkness Amongst all these there never was is or ever will be any unity or friendship eyther in Heaven in Earth in the City in the Church in the Bath in the Family in the Womb or in the World Four of mans best friends have brought forth four wicked Daughters the first friend is Vertue and shee hath beene the mother of Envy The second is Peace and shee brought Idleness into the World The third is Truth and shee hath brought forth a wicked Brat called Hatred The fourth is Familiarity and shee hath brought amongst us a forgetfull proud sawcy Knave called Contempt Although a Coward will not willingly stand the brunt shock and hazard of a Battell yet every one that runs from danger is not a Coward he that flies may returne and fight hee that dies cannot Jacob fled from Esau Moses from Pharaoh Elias from Jezabel and Saint Paul scaped away when he was let down in a Basket from the Walls of Damascus The vertue of Fortitude is alwayes between two extreams Daring and Dreading David who killed a Lion and a Bear who vanquished and slew the Giant Goliah who brought 200. foreskins of the Philistins to King Saul who was valiant and victoriously glorious and renowned yet hee fled from Saul to Achish King of Gath 1. Sam. 21. 10. 13. He also did flie from the fury of the sword of his disobedient and rebellious son Absolon 2. Sam. 17. 21. 22. also he fled at other times Christ who conquered sin death and hell fled into AEgypt Matth. 2. 14. And Christ doth counseil such as are persecuted in one City to flie into another Matth. 10. 23. The tongue is double walled fenced and intrenched with teeth gummes and lips which are rampiers and bulwarks the two eyes are centinells and the eares doe lie perdue which shews that we should hear and see twice as much as we speak There hath beene many a man ruined by too much talking but very few have received any great damage by being silent the tongues chiefe office should bee to pray and to prayse God but it is a treacherous retestable part for the tongue of any man to pray or wish the damnation of his owne body and soule as too many Roarers doe every day and houre with impious execrations as God damn sink renounce consume forsake confound c. The tongue of man was not created for such damnable purposes it was a custome amongst the ancient Romans to learne first to bee silent and secondly to speake but there are a generation of tautallogicall tongue men who do neither know how to speake or when to hold their peace A wise mans tongue is in his heart but a fools heart is in his tongue Eccl. 21. For he that doth nothing but talke doth talk nothing To speak against the Truth is the Divels Rhetorick and to talke against Reason is vain babling and prating more fit for a Parrot then a man Salomons counsell is Let thy words be few Eccles. 5. 1. Jesus the son of Syrach sayth Make not much babling when thou prayest Eccl. 7. 14. Christ the son of God wiser then Salomon or the son of Syrach he counsels us to use no vain Repetitions when we pray Matth. 6. If Tyrants should sit and devise tortures strange torments to inflict upon men there can bâ—â— none more cruell and grievous then to binde â— Wise man in a Chayre and let a Foole talke him to Death The confidence and diffidence of Men the keeping or breaking of Oaths there are many various Relations in divers Histories which shewes the mutability of men In the space of nine months those Peers and People that swore obedience to King Henry the sixth forsook him and swore the like to King Edward â—â—â— fourth and the same Peers and People received Henry for their King again and expulst Edward and shortly after that the same Peers and People fell from Henry again and crowned Edward within the time of half a year â—â—e Parliament Proclaymed Henry to be their lawfull King and Edward an usurper and also that with another Proclamation the same men Proclaymed Henry an usurper and Edward their lawfull King By this it may be perceived that it is vain to trust in man The Arian Heretiques denied the Eternity of Christ and that there was a time when Christ was not But all faithfull true beleeving Christians doe know Christ to bee Eternall and Coequall with the Father for Christ is the wisdome of God the Father therefore Eternall For it is Blasphemy in the highest degree to hold the opinion of Arius for if Christ at any time had been from God the Father then had the wisedome of God been also absent from God for Christ is the wisdom of the Father Though a Priest or Preacher do live a licentious life yet if his Doctrine be good it is our safest way to receive it The Prophet Eliah did thankfully accept that food which God sent him by a Raven If a Fountain of wholesome clear water be adorned â—â—â—h spowts in the shapes of Dragons Serpents Crocodiles Basilisks Cockatrices or any other hideous forms of monstrous Creatures yet the water that passeth through the sayd spowts is the same pure as the Fountain not a jot the worse As our manifold sinnes doe extreamly cry to God for Vengeance so our miserable estate and condition should always incite and move us uncessantly to cry for mercy When the Israelites had as God commanded them marched seven times about the Jericho then at the blowing of their Trumpets the Walls fell down so the Apostles with the blasts of their mouths with a few Disciples were the golden Trumpets that promulgated and propagated the Gospel which ransacked the Câ—â—â—â— Idolatry which was then as big as the whole world which made the barbarous Heathen and unbelieving Infidells subjects to Christs Church and Philosophy a Hand-mayd The Prophets and Sibils that Prophesied of Christ were many of them strangers one to