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A06529
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The massacre of money
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T. A.; Achelley, Thomas.; Aylworth, Thomas.; Andrewe, Thomas.
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1602
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STC 17.3; ESTC S100462
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THE MASSACRE of Money Terunteo seu vitiosa nuce non emitur LONDON Printed by Thomas Creede for Thomas Bushell 1602. TO THE WORshipfull vertuous and most worthy Gentlemen M. VVilliam and M. Frauncis Bedles health and theyr hearts content ALthough your worthinesse may seeme in all mens iudgements to merit a more polisht stile or better contriued plot then you are likely to finde here yet that my affection may bee somewhat answerable to your great deseruings I make bold to tender you this youngling Poesie which for the worth is not equiualent to your dignitie yet being the first fruites of my labours I trust will be accepted of you which if I finde when my riper yeares shall attaine to better knowledge I will endeuour to make my proceedings answere more fully to your merits Till then let this slender worke be a true signall of the dutious affection I beare you which to augment I will endeuour continually Your approued friend and seruant T. A. Proemium THou silent nurse of still securitie That do'st in hollow closets shâ—â— mine eyes Mother of darkenesse Queene of secrecie Pleasing grim labour with restes liberties Thou that death-like enfeeblest euery sence The shadow of this earth's circumference Bereaue my pen of all amazing feare Turne disturbation forth to mutinies Let me be bold in this darke Hemispheare A thought conceiued dreame to canonize And whiles pale Cinthia courts her Paramour Muse sing my dreamed Moneys Massacre Dread Pallas teach me to anatomize The hidden inside of close errours maske Let me descry the ranke absurdities That Folly sets her schollers for a taske Folly blind Folly is inthronized And for a Queene by fooles authorized Ye foule dissembling frye of flatterers Coner your faces from my speedie glance Ye fawning Gnathoe's ye damn'd pilferers I will vnmaske your hooded countenance Ye gold-intombing hellish vsurers Foresee yours and your moneys massacres I am in labour and the time expect To be deliuered of a 〈◊〉 dreame Good fortune as a midwife I respect Fauour a nurse to cherish my young theame True iudgement in the schooles of equitie Weigh my compendious toyle and industrie If Nicenes daughter Curiositie Offer to view these youngling lines of mine Be bolde to tell her that her critique eye Had need weare spectacles ere she can signe The clowdie acoents whose birth then was found When Negro night enuironed this round If Aristarchus from his withered lippe Let fall a drop of Aqua-fortis hoâ—ie Or if in Satyres oyle his penne he dippe And in the margeant paint an enuious spotte Tell him my Muse if he could see his face He would descry mine offred his disgrace But whosoe'r from his impartialleie Will cast sweete lookes on these laborious lines Weighing my accents with iust equitie And so speake of them as in them he findes Him as a fautour honour still will I And to his praise ere bend my poesie The Massacre of Money BEfore the heauen had put on heau'ns face Or Neptunes waues a chanel'd sea had found Before earth knew her now abiding place Or ayre had residence aboue the ground Or fire assum'd the highest place of all To make her brightnesse more maiesticall Before the Sunne knew his ecliptique line Or the round balles of fire their wheeling spheares Before the forked Moone began to shine Or any Comet in the ayre appeares A clotter'd Chaos and confused mould Was all this glorious all which we behold But natures nature God omnipotent Bestow'd a formall shape on all this frame Making each thing erst shapelesse competent Creating man to celebrate his fame Then did the golden age repleat with treasures Bring in the Cornucopia of pleasures No threatning lawe with sharpe spurd punishment Gaue out edicts to curbe a lawlesse rowte Blacke mutiny in prison then was pent And outrage still was kept aloofe by scowte No man came to the Iudge with cap in hand The iudgement still of euery one did stand The loftie Pines men on the mountaines finde That now are plowing vp the Ocean No sayles bigge-belly'd with the wanton winde Hast to a farre remoued region Men knew no countreys but their natiue soyle None offred to attempt an others spoyle No towne was circled with entrenched walles No trumpet gaue alarum to the fight No sword was knowne nor vsed no Iron balles From out the wherring Cannons mouth tooke flight No plow did cut the entralles of the earth Yet all of corne did neuer know the dearth Where were your vines ye glutted Bacchanalls What winepresse had you then to crush your grapes Where were your iunkets where your festiualls Where were your ryots where your virgin-rapes Men fed on hippes and hawes curnels and cherries Sloes peares and bulleis apples nuttes and berries Yet in this age was euery man a king All freely wearing royall diadems Content was held the chiefe and worthi'st thing Exceeding riches glory gold or iems All men were peace-embracers and content In euery minde sate Prince and President The ground disdain'd the plowes vnciuill touch It scorn'd all muckie putrifaction Yet did it yeeld of fruite and graine as much As by the plough-mans toile some function The streames ran milke and spatious flouds of wine Fill'd vp the shores oh glorious happie time But now Ioues father into Limbo thrust The siluer age put downe the golden world Pride swollen Iupiter iudge most vniust This heape of pleasure to Auernus hurld Ioue dimming all golds glorious raies of sun-shine Siluer in pride sets vp her glitt'ring moone-shine Before of all things was continuall spring But now foure seasons of the yeare are fram'd The date is out of euer-flourishing Spring Sommer Autumne Winter they are nam'd The ayre began with feruent heate to swelt And Hiems nipping colde of all was felt Then did the oxe with wearie labour hale The rough plough-share on Tellus harmlesse face Then euery man gan digge on hill and dale And in the furrowes throwe the corne apace The seas were filled with a frequent oare That neuer knew the waight of ship before The siluer age now bad the world adieu Brasse next succeeding beares supremacie No sooner did the world his visage view But straight resign'd him all authoritie Though base of mettall yet in impudence He did surpasse siluer 's preheminence He brought the world to brazen ignorance He taught the souldier to manage armes He made true iudgement stoupe to arrogance In euery eare he sounds deaths shrill alarmes Neighbor seekes Neighbors Nation Nations woe One countrey lusts an others ouerthrowe Iron steppes in and chaseth brasse away Bid vertue now goe seeke a residence Errour hath here set vp continuall stay And who admires not errours eminence Who loues not folly nay we may auerre There is no man but willingly doth erre Treason hath built her nest amidst the cloudes Leuelling with aspiring ayme at Ioue
Violence in an ambush Enuy shrowdes Pride is associate with lustfull loue Craft here sets vp the art of cosening Ignorance there of spurblind censuring Euen then when Auarice had spred her wings And couetous desire was waxen fligge A company of ruder vnderlings In the deepe entralls of the earth gan digge Whē as amaz'd they stood vnto their sight Appear'd a woman all in siluer dight No sooner had her beautie giuen a print In the soft table of these mortall hearts No sooner had her fauour made a dint In their weake bosomes but she plaies her part After her faire enticing countenance With witching words she puts them in a trance Mortalls quoth she whose toiles deserue some gaine If for to digge me out the massy deepe You haue begunne and ended all this paine Though ignorant who should my presence keepe Take me possesse me chalenge me your slaue For hauing me you seeme the world to haue Out of th' infernall bowels of the ground Neare to the Stigian horrour of blacke Dis Where foule Cimerian darknesse streakes around Amidst those clowdie shades my mansion is I come where Styx doth dimme the Fayries sight Where all is darknesse saue my splendours light My beautie now approaching Phoebus rayes Looseth the beautie of her shining lampe Your eies are dim your mortal iudgemēt saies The Sunne hath giuen me an eternall dampe But purge the grossenes of your lying eine And you shall see me darken Phoebus shine Whilst that my glory midst the clouds was hid Like to a Iewell in an Aethiop's eare Or as a spot vpon a christall lid So did my brightnes with more pride appeare My selfe most faire oppos'd to cloudes most fowle Sate as an Eagle ore a formelesse owle Ye tonguelesse cauernes of the earth adieu Farewell blacke house of Styx-polluted ground My glory hath bene much extold by you In your deepe holes my brightnesse first was found Now I haue got th'earth'superficiall Farewell darke Styx blacke Phlegiton and all No sooner had her sence bereauing eye Bewitcht with loue and admiration The Ideot sight of this rude company Oh palpable and grosse illusion But first Auarus maister of the crew Beheld his followers with a iealous view Straight he exclaimes ye rude Mechanicalls Do you not tremble at this wonderment Ye more vnciuill then the Bacchanalls Do you not stand amaz'd at this euent This is a Queene behold her maiestie Nay more a goddesse see her deitie Blessed diuine glorious immortall pure Sacred vnspotted and maiesticall Whose high supremacie stands euer sure Whose pedigree is true celestiall Whose power is equiualent to the gods Who do'st exceed their maiestie by ods Still let mine eyes be glutted with thy sight Still let mine eares drinke thy harmonious voyce Still let mine hands erect to thee aright Beg for thy presence my desires sole choyse Still oh still let my hand mine eare mine eie See heare and touch thy royall dignitie Gaze still mine eye on her attractiue glory Feed on her beautie surfet on her grace Be thou in lookes her due contributory Glut thee with view of her resplendant face Contemplatiue desire let neuer rest Til thou do'st learne her lookes be manifest Harke still with true attention mine eares When times require performe your function Her voyce more sweete then motion of the spheares Or Philomell in her Pauilion Oh that mine eare mazed with such a sound Might in a trance lye groueling on the ground Hands if you durst with a small ciuill touch Be witnesses of this heauens ornament You would be proud your honour should be such To touch a goddesse most omnipotent Sufficeth me that I may please mine eye Although mine hand touch not that maiestye Goddesse erect thy beautie from the ground Too base a seate for such an Emperesse Since Lady of such honour thou art found Giue no disparage to thy worthinesse Assume the place of thy great dignitie And be the mistresse of this Emperie No sooner had his lips dame silence clos'd But in steps open-handed Prodigus He with this Lady in an humour gloz'd Vtt'ring more braues then minuck Roscius At last in words his humour to display Swelling in pride to her he thus gan say Lady diuine mistresse of golden mines Earths precious iewell heauens paramour Whose beautie brighter then faire Cinthia shines All able riches sweete ambassadour Gracious fore-runner of felicitie Constant vpholder of high maiestie With ioyfull newes leape to this open brest A receptacle for thy worthinesse In this hote borough build thy warm dry nest Where being heated thou wilt strait confesse A surer couert thou hast neuer found Within the massie roundure of the ground Thou shalt view countries that be farre remote Thou shalt with me to our Antipodes Thou shalt behold the Zones cold temp'rate hote Thou thousand captiues shalt from bonds release Thou shalt appoint countries that now lie dead With habitants to be replenished Thou shalt a Iudge bribe with a benefite Thou shalt rich countries and whole nations buy Like to an Empresse thou by me shalt sit Whilst I am graced with the Empery Thy sentence as a grauen lawe shall stand What case of lawe doth not lye in thy hand Thou shalt a paire of foes congluminate Yet amongst equalls breed dissention None dares presume to be th'associate What 's not effected if thou wish it done Nations shall fight to see thy gracious fauour Whilst thou secure sits laughing at their labour Follow my colours and thy glorious fame To euery eare shall be a frequent sound All tongues with wondrous loue shal speake thy name Thy presence in all meetings shall be found Thy worthy name shall finish euery clause Whē thou shalt cease to shine all tongues shal pause No sooner tooke his words a period But Liberalis steps betwixt these two Ill ere goes double championd gainst good Vertue we see hath somewhat still to doo No Prince that raigneth but hath enemies No vertue but endangered by vice Ladie in truth and faire in veritie In pompe maiesticke in show beauteous In slie apparance full of dignitie In liberall actions most bounteous Though in thy selfe lyes no disaster crosse Yet in thy vsage stands or good or losse We neuer knew that Natures holy Nature Created ought to a prepost'rous end Good in it selfe we know is euery creature And from it selfe doth good effects intend Yet vsing vertue in an euill cause We guiltie are of breaking vertues lawes Siluer is framed to a good entent To be reducted to the shape of coine So to buy corne land houses nutriment If any man bribe with it or purloine Turning th' good creature to a wicked vse The creature 's blameles t' is the mans abuse Giue ore thy selfe to my tuition And in the Lappe of vertue build thy nest This cottage is a secure