The Warders knowes each Bottleman but I Had alwayes a crack'd crowns â—â—â— blacke eye Oft beaten like a Dog with a sâ—arch'd faee Turn'd empty beaten backe with vile disgrace These iniuries my selfe did bring â—â— qâ—iet And still with peace I fild you free from Ryot My labours haue beene ded care to you And you haue dealt with me as with a Iew For vnto thousand witnâ—ssâ—s 't is knowne I did esteeme your welfare as mine owne But an obiection from my words may runne That seeing nothing by you may be wonne Why I doe keepe this deale of doe about you When as I say I can liâ—â— best wiâ—â—o â—t you I answer though no profit you doe bring Yet there is many a profitable thing Which I of s This course neuer came into my minde in 14. yeares whilst I kept the place Mâ—â—â—â—s mighâ— often buy Which vnto me would yeeld câ—â—â—dâ—â—ty And I expected when the time should be That I should fill you as ' twâ—â— promâ—t me Whereby some other profit might be got Which I in formâ—r times remâ—â—â—â—d not All which could do the Câ—â—toâ—â—â—â—â—â—â— t A Iarre of Oliues and â—yle a few Poâ—atoes Oranges Leâ—mons and diuers other things which a man may buy get and sane by no wrong Which to repeate here would â—â— ouer-long But I was slâ—ighted with most vile disgrace And one that was my Prentise place'd in u The fellow was euer a true man to me and I enoy not his happinesse but yet â—â—â— very â—ouâ—e play oâ—â—erd me place x They are made of a Beast hide But holla holla Muse come backe come backe I speake to none out you you Bottles blacke You that are now turn'd Monsters most ingrate Where you haue cause to loue most most doe hate You that are of good manners quite dâ—priu'd Worse then the Beast from whence you are deriu'd If you be good for nothing but what 's naught Then sure you haue bin better sed then taught Besides the world will taxe me and say still The fault was mine that nurtur'd you â—o ill Perfisting thus in your iniurious wrong It shewes y' are drunke with being Eâ—â—â— long Long fasting sure hath made you weaâ— and dull For you are stedyest when you are most full Me thinkes I heare you say the fault's noâ— yours You are commanded by Superiouâ— powers But if the choyce were yours you had much rather That I than any one the Wines should gather Alasse poore fooles I see your force is weake Complaine you cannot wanting power to speake If you had speech it may be you would tell How with you and the Merchants I dealt well But 't is no matter though you silent be My fourteene yeares long seruice speakes for me And for the Merchants still my friends did proue I 'le tell them somewhat to reqâ—ite their Loue. First let their wisdomes but collect and summe How many ships with wine doe yearely come And they will finde that all these Bottles shall Not fill y At 1. gallons from a ship and from some but I â—â—â— and a â—â—â— I account 30. ships allowance is the quanâ—â—â—â—â—â— Hog head had â—â—â—â—â—â— may be easily found in the Custome house if I speake true or not nine Hogsheads at the most of all Then he that for them Three Tonne dares to giue The ease is plâ—iâ—e he must or beg or thieue I doe not say that you haue beene abus'd But you may partly guesse how you were vs'd Indeed z Now I speake of the bordes againe I thinke we nere so soone had parted Had friendly outsides bin but friendly harted The sweet bate couers the dâ—ceiuing hookes And false harts can put on good wards and lookes All is not gold the Prouerbesayes that gâ—â—â—ters And I could with their tongues were full of Blisters That with their flatt'ring diligence most double Themselues and you and I thus much did trouble For misinforming pâ—lâ—ry Knaues must be The instâ—â—â—nâ—â— of such indignity But as the fairest Gardens haue some weeds And mongst the cleanest flocke some â—cab'd sheepe breeds Or as the Tare amongst the wheat doth grow Good onely for what 's ill yet makes a show So there 's no greatnesse fixed on the ground But Claw backe Sycophants may there be found For 't is a Maxime held in euery Nation Great men are waited on by Adulation No doubt but some doth to the Court resort And sure the Tower must imitate the Court As Caesars Pallace may perhaps haue many So Caesars Castle cannot say not any I haue found some that with each wind would moâ—e With harts all hatred and with tongues all Loue Who with hats mou'd would take me by the fist With Complements of honest Iacke how i st I 'm glad to see thee well with all my heart Long haue I long'd to drinke with thee a quart I haue beleeu'd this Drosse had beene pure Gold When presently I haue beene bought and sold Behind my backe for no desert and Cause By those that kindly Cap'd and kist their Clawer For one of them an ancient Reuerend Scribe Receiued forty shillings for a Bribe On purpose so to bring the case about To put another in and thrust me out Long was the time this businesse was a brewing Vntill fit oportunity accruing I was displac'd yet spight the bribed Sharke The man that gaue the bribe did misse the marke O Bottles Bottles Bottles Bottles Bottles Platoes Diuine workes not great Aristoteles Did ne're make mention of a guist so Royall Was euer bought and sold like slaues disloyall For since King Richard second of that name I thinke your high Prerogatius you Claime And thus much here to write I dare be bold You are a guist not giuen to be sold For sence or reason neuer would allow That you should e're be bought and sold till now Phylosophers with all their Documents Not aged Times with all their monuments Did euer mention such vntoward Elues That did more idlely cast away themselues To such low ebbe your basenesle now doth shrinke Whereas you yearely did make thousands drinke The hatefull title now to you is left Y' are instruments of begg'ry and of Theft But when I fild you I dare boldly sweate From all these imputations you were cleare Against which I dare dare who dare or can To answer him and meet him man to man Truth armes me with the which I will hold Bias Against the shocke of any false Golias Bottles you haue not wanted of your fill Since you haue left me by your heedlesle will You scarce haue tasted penury or want For cunning Theeues are seldome ignorant Yet many times you haue beene fild with trash Scarce good enough your dirty skins to wash All this I know and this I did deuine But all 's one Draffe is good enough for Swine I doe not here inueigh or yet Enuy The places profit none can come thereby And in my hand it lyes if so I please To spoyle it and not make it worth
Did in his Mothers belly leape with ioy Both Christ and Iohn vnborae yet Iohn knew there His great Redeemer and his God was neere When Ioseph his pure wife with child espide And knew he neuer her accompanide His heart was sad he knew not what to say But in suspect would put her quite away Then from the high Almighty Lord supreme An Angell came to Ioseph in a Dreame And said Feare not with MARY to abide For that which in her blest wombe doth recide Is by the Holy Ghost in wonder done For of thy wise there shall be borne a Sonne From him alone Redemption all begins And he shall saue his people from their sinnes This being said the Angell past away And Ioseph with his Virgin-wife did stay Then he and she with speed prepared them To goe to Dauids Citty Bethelem Through winters weather frost wind and snow Foure weary daies in trauell they bestow But when to Bethlem they approched were Small friendship lesse welcome they found there No chamber nor no fire to warme them at For harbor onely they a Stable gat The Inne was full of more respected guests Of Drankards Swearers and of godlesse beasts Those all had roomes whilst Glory and all Grace But among beasts could haue no lodging place There by protection of th' Almighties wing Was borne the Lord of Lords and King of Kings Our God with vs our great Emanuel Our Iesus and our vanquisher of hell There in a cratch a â—â— well was brought forth More then ten thousand thousand worlds is worth There did the humane nature and diuine The Godhead with the Manhood both combine There was this Maiden-mother brought to bed Where Oxen Kine and Horses lodg'd and fed There this bright Queene of Queenes with heau'nly my Did hug her Lord her Life her God her Boy Her Sonne her Sauiour her immortall Blisse Her sole Redeemer she might rocke and kisse Oh blessed Lady of all Ladies blest Blessed for euer for thy sacred brest Fed him that all the famisht soules did feed Of the lost sheepe of Israels forlorne seed A Stable being Heau'n and earths great Court When forty dayes were ended in that sort This Virgin-Mother and this Maiden-Bride All pure yet by the Law was purifide Old Simeon being in the Temple than He saw the Sonne of God and Sonne of man He in his aged armes the Babe imbrac'd And ioying in his heart he so was grac'd He with these wordswisht that his life might cease Lord let thy Seruant now depart in peace Mine eyes haue seene thy great saluation My Loue my Iesus my Redemption Vnto the Genteles euerlasting light To Israel the glory and the might Hope faith and zeale truth constancy and loue To sing this Song did good old Simeon moue Then turning to our Lady most diuine Thy Sonne said he shall once stand for a signe And he shall be the cause that many shall By faith or vnbeliefe arise or fall He shall be raild vpon without desert And then sorrowes sword pierce through thy heart As Iesus fame grew dayly more and more The tyrant Herod is amazed sore The Sages said Borne was great Iudaes King Which did vsurping Herods conscience fling For Herod was an Idumean base Not of the Kings of Iudahs Royall Race And hearing one of Dauids true-borne Line Was borne he fear'd his State he should resigne And well he knew he kept the Iewes in awe With slauish feare not loue 'gainst right and law For t is most true A Prince that 's fear'd of many Must many feare and scarce be lou'd of any Herod beleaguer'd with doubts feares and woes That Iesus should him of his Crowne depose He Chaf'd and vext and almost grew starke mad To vsurpation he did murther adde An Edict sprung from his hell-hatched braine Commanding ad male Infants should be slaine Of two yeares old and vnder through the Land Supposing Iesus could not scape his hand But God to Ioseph downe an Angell sent Commanding him by slight he should preuent The murd'rers malice and to Egypt flye To saue our Sauiour siem his tyranny Our blessed Lady with a carefull flight Her blessed Babe away did beare by night Whilst Bethelem with bloody villaines swarmes That murth'red Infants in their mothers armes Some slaughter'd in their cradles some in bed Some at the dugge some newly borne strucke dead Some sweetly fast asleepe some smiles ewake All butcher'd for their Lord and Sauiours sake Their wofull mothers madly here and there Ran rending of their checkes their eyes and haire The Tyrant they with execrations curst And in despaire to desp'rate acts out-burst Some all in sury end their wofull liues By banefull poison halters or by kniues And som with sorrow were so fast combin'd They wept and wept and wept themselues starke blind And being blind to lengthen out their mones They piec'd their sorrows out with sighs grones Thus with vnceasing griefe in many a mother Teares sighs groues did one succeede the other But till the Tyrant Herods dayes were done The Virgin staid in Egypt with her Sonne Then backe to Nazareth they return'd againe When twelue yeeres age our Sauiour did attaine Her Sonne her selfe her Husband all of them Together trauell'd to Ierusalem The Virgin there much sorrow did endure The Most pure Mother lost her Child most pure Three daies with heauy hearts with care thought Their best belou'd they diligently sought But when she found her Lord she held most deare Ioy banisht griefe and loue exiled feare There in the Temple Iesus did confute The greatest Hebrew Doctors in dispute But Doctors all are dunces in this case To parley with th' Eternall Sonne of Grace Th' Immortall mighty Wisedome and the Word Can make all humane sapience meere absurd Soone after this as ancient Writers say God tooke the Virgins Virgin-spouse away Good Ioseph dide and went to heauenly rest Blest by th' Almighties mercy mongst the blest Thus Mary was of her Good-man â— creâ—t A Widdow Maiden Mother being lose In holy contemplation she did spend Her life for such a life as n'er shall end Search but the Scriptures as our Sauiour bid There shall you find the wonders that he did As first how he by his high power diuine At Canan turned Water into Wine How he did heale the blind deafe dumb lame How with his word he winds and seas did tame How he from men possest siends dispossest How he to all that came gaue ease and rest How with two fishes and fiue loaues of bread He fed fiue thousand how he rais'd the dead How all things that he euer did or taught Past and surpast all that are taught or wrought And by these miracles he sought each way To draw soules to him too long gene altray At last approacht the full preâ—xed time That GODS blest Sonne must dye for mans curst crime Then Iesus to Ierusalem did goe And left his Mother full of griefe and woe Oh woe of woes and
he would that might be sacrificed to God to satisfie his Iustice for sinne and to recouer that eternall happinesse which was most miserably lost If man had had this liberty to aske and chuse a Redeemer surely I am verily perswaded that he would neuer haue beene so bold as to haue requested God to giue his well-beloued onely begotten Sonne to be crucified for him as in these dayes a condemned malefactor would be vndiscreet and vnkind if he should intreat his innocent friend to dye for him but if hee should request the Iudge on the Bench or the King on his Throane that either of them would doe him the fauour as to suffer his sonne to be executed for him if an offender should make such an vnreasonable request I imagine he would either be accounted mad or impudently foolish Seeing the case was such that man was altogether in misery remedilesse then did the God of mercy and Father of all consolation shew himselfe to bee in mercy boundlesse then did he promise to send his Sonne to be a Sauiour and Redeemer for as many as before and after his comming should lay hold on the merits of his death and passion which hee suffered for the Redemption of all true beleeuers At last in the fulnesse of time the eternall God-head was pleased to be so far abased as to leaue the blessed heauens to visit personally the cursed earth to forsake the glorious Throne and Crowne of vnspeakeable glory and Maiestie and by taking our fraile nature vpon him in the wombe of the Virgin to vndergoe all shame and calamitie and after many trauels and suffering innumerable reproaches to take the sinnes and transgressions of the whole World vpon his shoulders and being free from sinne was made sinne for vs and to redeeme vs from the Curse of the Law and the eternall wrath of God his Father was pleased to offer himselfe for a sacrifice of propitiation and reconciliation and to purchase vs eternall glory by his ignominious cruell and shamefull death of the Crosse. This was a Loue transcending all Loue so farre that no heart of Man or Angell could euer conceiue the last part of it that the King of Kings Lords of Lords should willingly and freely dye for his mortall enemies Seeing that Gods loue was so infinite to vs so many wayes as in creating vs not Beasts or Vermine but Men in redeeming vs when we wer in captiuity to the Deuill for euer with no lesse price then the precious heart blood of his owne Sonne for these and the rest of the multitude of his mercies let vs all in generall and euery Swearer and Blasphemer in particular examine our consciences how we doe with thankefulnesse requite this our good and gracious God for his vnmeasurable loue and mercy towards vs. How many of vs with very little search may finde our bosomes cram'd full of rebellious treacheries ingratitude that in stead of giuing God glory praise and thankes for all his benefits doe most accursedly or maliciously sweare him ouer and ouer from the head to the foot not leauing any part or attribute of him vnabused or not sworne by his body his soule his sides his heart his wounds his blood his entrailes his bones his feet nay they will not forbeare him â—â— much as his nailes so that the Iewes were more kind and lesse cruell in crucifying of him for they meddled neither with his soule or his bones but these wicked miscreants who are falsly called Christians doe their best endauours with all deuillisâ— greedinesse to cruciâ—â—â— againe the Lord of life and to teare him in pieces with oathes betwixt their cursed teeth I haue read in the Turkish History that is the a battell betwixt Amurath third Emperour of the Turkes and Lazarus Despot of Serâ—â—â—â— that the Archers were so many in the Turkish Army that in the fight they did as it were raine in showres vpon the Christians and with the multitude of the Arrowes like a clouâ—â— they darkned the earth And it is to be feared that euery houre in the day more oathes and shot at the Maiesty of God by wicked Câ—tiffes then the Turks did shoot Arrowers â—â—â— the Christians in that battell so that if our Sauiour had come into the World with a purpose to worke our perpetuall destruction and that the Deuill had beene the best friend we had in our redemption if it had or could haue beene so could men striue either to require the loue of the one with more seruice or the malice of the other with more abuse for Swearing is now in such high request that some man doth hold it a disparagement to his reputation not to sweare but to goe to Church he thinkes it too ciuill a course or to giue God thankes either before or after meales he is altogether ashamed and like a Micher muffles his face in his hat saying sometimes either nothing or nothing that any man can hears or vnderstand but to sweare and abuse the Name of God he is neuer ashamed but with open mouth he roares out his oathes stamping with his feete and beating his brest with more feruency then he said his prayers I haue heard a swearer most earnestly pray now and then to God but it hath beene â—â—â— beseech God to damne him or forsake him and on the other side I haue heard the same Rescall to beg and entreat the Deuill to take his soule and body making such great account of Hell that rather then hee would goe without it hee will request his bread meat or drinke to be his damnation but to desire God to forgiue his sins or to be thankefull for all his benefits to entreat saluation by true repentance â— through the merits of Christ Iesus these are things which he esteemes not worth the asking for altogether against the garbe of his Gentleman-like humour Now iudge with thy selfe whosoeuer thou beest that reads this dost thou thinke thou dealest well with God and that hee deserues no better vsage at thy hands A good name as Salomon faith is as a precious Oyntment and men are so chary and wary that they will by all meanes auoyd any scandall or dishonour of their names and it is Capitall Treason for any subiect to abuse or vilifie his King or Princes name Yet is God who is Almighty AEternall Incomprehensible the God of all glory Empires Kingdomes Principalities and Powers whose name is Wonderfull â—â—y and Iust at whose Name euery knee should bow with feare and reuerence before whose Throne the blessed Armies of Cherubins Seraphins Archangel Angels Patriarkes Prophets Apostles Saints and Martyrs doe continually sing Hallelutsh This great God whom the very Deuils in Hell doe beleeue and feare and tremble at his dreadfull wrath Iames 1.19 yet doth the earth breed monsters worse then Deuils and retaines and seedes more accursed fiends then Hell doth who with their vngodly breath doe as often as they can belch their odious oathes and blasphemie against the maiestie of
they form'd deform'd reform'd againe By God by Satan and our Sauiours paine 8 Mans Generation did from God proceed A mortall Body and a Soule Eternall Degeneration was the Deuils deed With false delusions and with lies infernall Regeneration was our Sauiours meede Whose death did satisfie the wrath supernall Thus was man found and lost and lost was found By Grace with Glory euer to be crownd 9 Man was Produc'de seduced and reduc'de By God by Satan and by God agen From good to ill from ill he was excusd'e By merit of th' Immortall Man of men The vnpolluted bloud from him was sluc'de To saue vs from damnations dreadfull den Thus man was made and marde and better made By Him who did sinne death and hell inuade 10 Let man consider then but what he is And contemplate on what erst he hath bin How first he was created heire of blisse And how he fell to be the Child of sinne How of himselfe he hourely doth amisse And how his best workes doe no merit winne Except acceptance make them be esteem'd Through his obedience that our Soules redeem'd 11 Before thou wast remember thou wast nought And out of nought or nothing thou wast fram'de And how thy Body being made and wrought By God was with a liuing Soule inflam'de And how th' Eternall Nomenclator taught Thee name all Creatures that were euer nam'de And made thee Stuard of the worlds whole treasure And plac'de thee in a Paradise of pleasure 12 Then wast thou Viceroy to the King of heau'n And great Lieutenant to the Lord of hosts The rule of all things vnto thee was giu'n At thy command all creatures seru'd like posts To come or goe and at thy becke were driu'n Both neere and farre vnto the farthest coasts God all things made as seruants vnto thee Because thou only shouldst his seruant be 13 He gaue life vnto hearbes to plants and trees For if they wanted life how could they grow A beast hath life and sence moues feeles and sees And in some sort doth good and euill know But man 's before all Creatures in degrees God life and sence and reason did bestow And left those blessings should be transitory He gaue him life sence reason grace and glory 14 Then let our meditations scope be most How at the first we were created good And how we wilfull grace and goodnes lost And of the sonnes of God were Satans brood Then thinke the price that our Redemption cost Th' eternall Sonne of Gods most precious blood Remember this whilst life and sence remaine Else life and sence and reason are in vaine 15 Thou to requite thy God that all thee gaue Ingratefully against him didst rebell Whereby from Regall state thou turnedst slaue And heau'nly lustice doom'd thee downe to hell As thy rebellion from thy God thee draue So ' gainst thee all things to rebellion fell For when to heau'n thy due obedience ceast Thy disobedience taught each brutish beast 16 Now see thy miserable wretched state Thou and the earth is â—kâ— with thee accurst All worldly things which thee obaide of late In stiffe commotion now against thee burst And thee for euer droue from Eden gate To liue an exilde wretch and which is worst Thy soule Gods darling fell from her prefermeÌ„t To be the Deuils thrall in endlesse torment 17 But Mercies sea hath quenched Iustice fire And Heau'ns high heire in pitty of mans caâ—â— In person came and satisfide Gods ire And gracelesse man new Reposseâ—t in Grace The Sonne of God came downe to raise vs higher To make vs Glorious he himselfe made baâ—â— To draw vs vp downe vnto earth he came And honor'd vs by putting on our shame 18 Who can conceiue the Glory he was in Aboue the heau'ns of heau'ns in threan'd in blisse Who can conceiue the losse that he did winne To rectiâ—ie and answer our amisse Who can conceiue the Mountaines of our sinne That must be hid with such a sea as this No heart no tongue no pen of mortall wight These things can once conceiâ—e or speake or write 19 Man may collect th' abundance of his vice And the deare loue his God to him did beare In thinking on th'inestimable price Was paid his unâ—e-pollated â—ouâ—e to cleare To giue him an immortall Paradise And to redeeme his foes to pay so dâ—are For if our sinnes had not beene more then much The ransome of them â—ure had not beene such 20 The blood of any mighty mortall King Was insufficient this great debt to pay Arch-angels power or Angels could not bring A Ransome worth forbcarance but a day The onely Sonne of God must doe this thing Elâ—e it must be vndone and we for aye God was the Creditor and man the debter Christ God man did pay none could pay better 21 Then since thy sinfull Some from Grace was lost And since by Grace it hath found Grace againe Since being lost so great a price is lost T'enfranchise it from euerlasting paine And since thy crimes are quit thy debts are crost Thy peace with God the way to heau'n made plain Let not all this in vaine for thee be done But thankfull be to God through Christ his Sonne 22 Forget not thou aâ—t ashes earth and dust And that from whence thou cam'st then shalt again And at the last Trumpe that appeare thou must When Procseys and Essoynes are all in vaine Where iust and â—â—iust shall haue iudgement iust For euer doomb'd to endlesse ioy or paine Where though that thou bee damn'd it is Gods glory Thy wife thy sonne thy â—ire will not be sorry 23 Me thinks it should make man this world to lotâ—e When that which will a thousand cloâ—â—â— and feede It should but onely one man â—eede and clothe In â—ares excesse and gorgewisnesse of weede Yet this braue canker this consuming moth Who in his life ne'r meanes to doe good deede Must be ad or'd for those good paâ—ts he waâ—â—â—s By fearefull Fooles and flattering Sicophanâ—â— 24 Hath he the title of an earthly grace Or hath he Honor Lordship Worship or Haâ—h he in Court some great comâ—anding place Or hath he weaâ—th to be regarded for If with these honors vertue he embrace Then loue him else his pâ—ck â—oiâ—t pompe abhoâ—e Sun-shine on dung-hâ—ls makes them â—â—â—â—â—â— the more And Honor shewes all that was had before 25 Shall men giue reu'rence to a painted trunke That 's nothing but all outside and within Their senses are with blacke damnation drunke Whose heart â—s Satans Tap-house or his Inneâ— Whose Reputation inwardly is â—unkâ— Though outwardly raisd vp and swolne with â—â—â— I thinke it worâ—e then to adore the Deuiâ—â— To worship his baâ—e instrumenrs of â—uill 26 No looke vpon the Man and not his Case See how he doth his Maker imiâ—ate If Grace supernall giue internall Grace That makes his minde on vertue contemplate That holds this world and all things in 't as base Knowes death makes happy or vnfortunate That doth no
serue the Sou'raigne of the Stygian Lake Say not to morrow thou wilt seeke the truth And when sin leaues thee thou wilt sinne forsake When thou no more through weaknes canst offend Then lame old rotten thou wilt God attend 47 When hoary haire and blood all frozen chill When eyes waxe dim and limbs are weake lame And that no more thy rash rebellious will Cannot performe vile deeds of sinne and shame When thou hast lost thy strength to doe more ill Then vnto Heau'n thy minde thou ' ginst to frame Thy youth in Satans seruice being spent In age thou think'st on God and dost repent 48 Supppose a man that 's much ingag'd to thee Hath a good Horse which thou dost much desire Thou offrest for him thrice his worth to be The Master of this Beast thou dost require But this ingrate full wretch will not agree To giue to sell him thee or let thee hire But lets him all his youth be rid by those Who are thy spightfull and thy mortall foes 49 And when hee 's leane and old and lame and blinde Gall'd foundred filtby wanting no disease Botts Glaunders Spauin broken in the winde Not a tooth left to mumpe on beanes and pease Then this Companion most vnkindly kinde Will let thee haue this Palfray if thou please If now past good thou scornest to receiue him Hee le slay his skin off the dogs shall haue him 50 Betwixt thy God and thee such is the case When thou art young strong sound of winde and lim Thy soule and body shuns his heau'nly Grace Thou wilt not serue thy God nor waite on him But heedlesse headlong run'st a hellish race Till age hath brought thee to the graues hard brim Then being clog'd with sin diseas'd and foule Thou offrest God thy body and thy soule 51 But dost thou thinke he is at thy command Or that his mercy must attend thy leasure Or dost thou thinke thou canst in iudgement stand And scape the iustice of his high displeasure Or dost thou thinke that his Almighty hand Is shortned or that his supernall pleasure Regards not how the Sonnes of Men doe liue Or that without Repentance hee 'le forgiue 52 Sly Satans Rage is almost at an end And well he knowes his domination's short He therefore now doth all his Engins bend To batter and confound our fleshly Fort He and his Ministers doe all attend To draw vs to his damn'd infernall Court. For if he lose our soules at latest cast T will be too late when all his power is past 53 And therefore now he plots his diuellish drifts To separate vs from our God so louing In making vs vnthankefull for his gifts And by our heynous sins his Anger mouing Whilst wings of Faith our prayers vpwards lifts To praise our Maker as is best behouing Then Satan kills our Zeale and vnawares We are intangled in vile worldly snares 54 God made enough all men to satisfie Yet not enough to giue one Man content For he that had the worlds whole foueraigntie Would couet for a further continent Ambitious thirst of fading Dignitie As though they were for euer permanent Doth banish Loue and euery heau'nly Motion Blinds all our Zeale and murders our Deuotion 55 'T is truely writ in many a thousand story And thousand thousand sheets of blotted paper Declares how terrene things are transitory Incertaine certaine wasting like a Taper How frothy painted Pompe and greedy Glory When least we thinke doth vanish like a vaper Experience teacheth this and truth bewraies it And various humane accidents displaies it 56 To day great Diues in a purple coate With Epicurian Appetite doth feed His cups with Wine doe ouerflow and floate His baggs with quoyne his heart from feare is freed And on the world and wealth doth only dote As if his death his life should not succeed He loues himselfe himselfe loues him agen And liu's a hated wretch of God and Men. 57 Nor stone or dropsie or the groaning Gowt Can make him with his wealth to liue in hate He maugre paine takes pleasure to finde out New Proiects to increase his too great state To marry much to much he casts about And neuer dreames of his expiring date Vntill he heare the fatall bell to towle And Hell stand gaping to deuoure his Soule 58 I'haue heard of an extortionizing Curr That hath beene numbd and sencelesse as a logg Who neither limbe or leg or ioynt could sturr But on his death-bed grunting like a Hogâ— And almost speechlesse with his rattling Murr Yet care of Coyne his conscience did so clogg That not a thought of Heau'n he could afford But ten â— the hundred was his latest word 59 Thus Gold that should be captiue vnto all Doth captiuate his Keeper as a slaue Who like an Idoll doth before it fall And neuer meanes another God to haue And when Heau'ns Pursiuant grâ—m-Death doth call To warne him to his vn-a-voyded Graue Vntill his Iawes be craw'd and ram'd with mold Hee 'le speake or speechles make a signe for gold 60 We ought no formed Creature to adore Or frame will-worship in our idle braine Nor of the Angells must we ought implore For Man and Angells helpe is all but vaine Yet pur-blind Auarice still gapes for more And makes his Mammonuish God his gaine He playes the Bawd his money is the Whore Whilst it breeds Bastards he doth hold the door 61 He thinks his life Angelicall because Amongst the Angells he doth spend his time And Royall he will be for in his pawes The Royalls are insnarde like birds in lime And with his Nobles he ordeineth Iawes That base extortion shall not be a crime He marks how Kingdomes Prouinces and Townes Are ouer-ruled by his cursed Crownes 62 But if he note his Angells what they be Not heau'nly nor yet those from Heau'n that fell But they are in a third and worse degree Dumb damned sencelesse ministers of Hell They cannot smell or feele taste heare or see And thousand times be'ng told yet cannot tell Th' ar lock'd and barr'd and bolted vp in thrall Which shewes their Nature not Angelicall 63 His Royalls doth not Royallize himselfe Or make him better then he is or was In spight of all his ill got canker'd Pelfe Hee 's but a miserable golden Asse The Deuills deare darling a most hatefull Else Which as Hells Factor on the Earth doth passe Were euery haire about him made a Royall He were a Wreath to God and Men disloyall 64 His Nobles no way doth enoble him Their Counsell cannot mend his Rascall minde His heart 's obdurate and his eyes are dim To thinke or see t'ward good to be inclinde Hee 'le venter soule and body life and â—â—â—â—â— To scrape and scratch what he must leaue behinde His Nobles thus ignobly make him liue And headlong to the Deuill their Master driue 65 Amongst his Marks he neuer marketh how He spends or lends or giues his ill got store He marks to make it multiply
Steward be Which at the last the Lord shall faithfull finde Heart tongue or eyes cannot thinke speake or see The glory that to him shall be assignde He shall out-passe the Angells in degree He shall out-shine all Starres that euer shinde He shall for euer and for euer sing Eternall prayses to his God and King 85 Vnto which God the Father first and last Whose goodnes all conseru's preseru's and seeds To God the Sonne whose merits downe hath cast Sinne death and hell due vnto sinners meeds To thee O Holy Ghost that euer wast The blessing that from Sire and Sonne proceeds And to the vn-deuided Three in One All Power and Praise and Glory be alone FINIS TO THE TRVELY VVORTHY AND RIGHT HONOVRABLE IOHN MORAY L. VISCOVNT ANNAN EARLE OF Annandale one of the Gentlemen of his Maiesties Royall Bed-chamber Earths Honours and Heauens happinesse THis Booke Good Sir the issue of my braine Though farre vnworthy of your worthy view Yet I in duty offer it to you In hope you Gently it will entertaine And though the Method and the Phrase be plaine Not Artlike writ as to the stile is due Yet is it voyde of any thing vntrue And truth I know your fauour shall obtaine The many fauours I from you haue had Hath forc'd me thus to shew my thankefull minde And of all faults I know no vice so bad And hatefull as ingratefully inclinde A thankefull Heart is all a poore mans pelfe Which with this Booke I giue your Worthy Selfe Your Worships euer most obliged IOHN TAYLOR THE SEVERALL SIEGES ASSAVLTS SACKINGS AND FINALL DESTRVCTION OF the Famous Ancient and memorable Citty of IERVSALEM THe Iustice Mercy and the Might I sing Of heau'ns inst mercifull Almighty KING By whose fore-knowledge all things were elected Whose power hath all things made al protected Whose Mercies flood hath quencht his Iustice flame Who was is shall be One and still the same Who in the Prime when all things first began Made all for Man and for himselfe made Man Made not begotten or of humane birth No Sire but God no Mother but the Earth Who ne'r knew Childhood of the â—ucking teate But at the first was made a man compleat Whose inward Soule in God-like forme did shine As Image of the Maiestie Diuine Whose supernaturall wisedome beyond Nature Did name each sensible and sencelesse creature And from whose Star-like Sand-like Generation Sprung euery Kindred Kingdome Tribe and Nation All people then one language spake alone Interpreters the world then needed none There liued then no learned deepe Grammarians There were no Turkes no Scythians no Tartarians Then all was one and one was onely all The language of the vniuersall Ball. Then if a Traueller had gone as farre As from the Artick to th' Antartick starre If he from Boreas vnto Auster went Or from the Orient to th' Occident Which way soeuer he did â—â—â— or minde He had beene sure his Country-man to find One hundred thirty winters since the Flood The Earth one onely language vnderstood Vntill the sonne of Cush the sonne of Cham A proud cloud-scaling Towre began to frame Trusting that if the world againe were drown'd He in his lofty building might rest sound All future Floods he purposd to preuent Aspiring to Heau'ns glorious Battlement But high Iehouah with a puff was able To make ambitious Babel out a bable For what is man that he should dare resist The great Almighties pow'r who in his fist Doth gripe Eternity and when he please Can make and vnmake Heau'n and Earth Seas For in their expectation of conclusion He plag'd them all with sundry Tongues confusion Such Gibrish Gibble Gabble all did tangle Some laugh some fret all prate all diffring wrangle One calls in Hebrew to his working Mate And he in Welch Glough wheâ— Comrage doth prate Another gapes in English or in Scotch And they are answer'd in the French or Dutch Caldaicke Syriacke and Arabian Greeke Latine Tuscan and Armenian The Transiluaniae and Hungarian The Persian and the rude Barbarian All these and diuers more then I can number Misunderstanding tongues did there incumber Thus he that sits in Heau'n their plots derided And in their height of pride their tongues deuided For in this sudden vnexpected chang The wife and husband Sire and sonne were strange The Brother could not vnderstand the Brother The Daughter stands amazed at her Mother By euery one a seuerall part is acted And each vnto the other seemesdistracted Thus by the iustice of the Lord of Hosts Each seuerall tongue was driu'n to seuerall coasts And GOD peculiar to himselfe did chuse His most beloued yet hard-hearted Iewes Iehouahs honor with them then did dwetl His name was onely knowne in Israel Salem his habitation was of yore In Sion men his Glory did adore Th' Eternall Trine and Trine Eternall One In Iury then was called on alone The sonnes of Heber were the adopted stocke Gods onely Chosen holy sacred Flocke Amongst all Nations them he onely lik'd And for his owne vse them he culd and pik'd Them his sin-killing sauing word he gaue T' instruct them what condemn'd and what would saue To them he gaue his word his Couenants band His Patriarks his Prophets and his hand Did blesse defend instruct correct and guide The Iewes and no one Nation else beside For them a world of wonders hath he done To them he sent his best begotten Sonne On them a Land he freely did bestow Where milke and hony plentiously did flow With them he was till they from him did turne And wilfully against his blessings spurne All heau'nly earthly Soules or Bodies good They lack'd no temp'rall or eternall food His Temple builded in Ierusalem Where he had daily sacrifice from them Where though their seruice was defect and lame Th' Almighties mercy did accept the same For though Mans sin is great God hath decreed To take his best endeuour for a deed And whilst they in his loue and feare abode They were his people he their gracious God But when impieties began to breed And ouergrow old Iacobs sacred seed When they from good to bad began to fall From ill to worse from worst to worst of all When Gods great mercies could not them allure And his sharp threatnings could not them procure When each ones body was vnto the soule A lothsome Dungeon to a prisoner foule When sin al shamelesse the whole Land o'rspreads Then God threw dreadful vengeance on their heads And for their heynous heaping sin on sin Ierusalem hath oft assaulted bin First Shishak Egypts King with might and maine Made hauock there in Rehoboams Raigne The Citty Temple Golden vessels Shielas All as a prey to the Egyptians yeelds Next loas came the King of Israel In Amaziahs dayes with fury fell He brought Iudea to Samariaes thrall King Kingdome Princes Peeres and people all Then thirdly Rezin King of Aram came In Abaz time with sword and furious flame Th' Assyrian great Zonach'rib was
therefore vp with them The Schismaticall Separaust I haue many times discourst with him and though hee be but a Botcher or a Button-maker and at the most a lumpe of opinionated ignorance yet he will seeme to wring the Scriptures to his opinions and presume to know more of the mysteries of Religion then any of our reuerend learned Bishops and Doctors I know this worke will be vnrelished in the pestiferous pallats of the dogmaticall Amsterdammarists but I doe must and will acknowledge a most reuerend honour and regard vnto the sacred memory of this blessed Virgin Lady Mother of our Lord and Redeemer IESVS and in my thoughts she shall euer haue superlatiue respect aboue all Angels Principalities Patriarkes Prophets Apostles Euangelists or Saints whatsoeuer vnder the blessed Trinity yet mistake me not as there is a difference betwixt the immortali Creator and a mortall creature so whilst I haue warrant sufficient from God himselfe to inuocate his name onely I will not giue Man Saint or Angell any honour that may bee derogatory to his Eternall Maiestie As amongst women she was blest aboue all being aboue all full of Grace so amongst Saints I beleeue she is supreme in Glory and it is an infallible truth that as the Romanists doe dishonour her much by their superstitious honourable seeming attributes so on the other part it is hellish and odious to God and good men either to forget her or which is worâ—e to remember her with impure thoughts or vnbeseeming speech for the excellency of so Diuine a Creature I confesse my selfe the meanest of men and most vnworthy of all to write of her that was the best of Women but my hope is that Charity will couer my faults and accept of my good meaning especially hauing endeuoured and striuen to doe my best So wishing all hearts to giue this holy Virgin such honour as may be pleasing to God which is that all should patterne their liues to her liues example in lowlinesse and humility and then they shall be exalted where she is in Glory with eternity IOHN TAYLOR THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE MOST BLESSED AMONGST ALL VVOMEN THE VIRGIN MARY The Mother of our Lord IESVS CHRIST BEfore the fire ayre water earth were fram'd Sunne Moone or any thing vnnam'd or naun'd God was who ne'r shal end nor ne'r began To whom all ages and all time 's a span By whose appointment each thing fades or growes And whose eternall knowledge all things knowes When Adams sinne pluck'd downe supernall lre And Iustice iudg'd him to infernall fire The Mercy did the execution stay And the great price of mans great debt did pay And as a Woman tempted Man to vice For which they both were thrust from Paradise So from a woman was a Sauiours birth That purchas'd Man a Heauen for losse of earth Our blest Redeemers Mother that blest Shee Before the World by God ordain'd to be A chosen vessell fittest of all other To be the Sonne of Gods most gracious Mother She is the Theame that doth my Muse inuite Vnworthy of such worthinesse to write I will no prayers nor inuocations frame For intercession to this heau'nly Dame Nor to her name one fruitlesse word shall runne To be my Mediatresse to her Sonne But to th' eternall Trinity alone I le sing He sigh He inuocate and mone I prize no creatures glory at that rate The great Creators praise t'extenuate But to th' Almighty ancunt of all dayes Be all dominion honour laud and praise I write the blest conception birth and life Of this beloued Mother Virgin Wife The ioyes the griefes the death and buriall place Of her most glorious gracious full of grace Her Father IOACHIM a vertuous man Had long liu'd childlesse with his wife S. ANNE And both of them did zealously intend If God did euer Sonne or Daughter send That they to him would dedicate it solely To be his seruant and to liue most holy God heard and granted freely their request And gaue them MARY of that sex the best At three yeeres age she to the Temple went And there eleu'n yeeres in deuotion spent At th' end of fourteene yeeres it came to passe This Virgin vnto IOSEPH spoused was Then after foure months time was past and gone Th' Almighty sent from his tribunall throne His great Ambassador which did vnfold The great'st ambassage euer yet was told Haile MARY full of heau'nly grace quoth he The high omnipotent Lord is with thee Blest amongst women oâ— Gods gracious doome And blessed be the fruâ—â— of thy blest wombe The Angels presence and the words he said This sacred vndefiled Maid dismaid Amazed musing what this message meant And wherefore God this messenger had sent Feare not said GAERIEL MARY most renown'd Thou with thy gracious God hast sauour foâ—â—â—â— For lo thou shalt conceiue and beare a Sunne By whom redemption and saluation's wonne And thou bis sauing Name shalt IESVS call Because hee'lâ— come to saue his people all She humbly mildly heau'ns high Nuncius heares But yet to be resolu'd of doubts and feares How can these things quoth she accomplisht be When no man hath knowledge had with me The Holy Ghost the Angell then replide Shall come vpon thee and thy God and guide The power of the most High shall shadow thee That Holy thing that of thee borne shall be Shall truely called be the Sonne of God Be whom Sinne Death and Hell shall downe be trod Then MARY to these speeches did accord And said Behold the hand-Maid of the Lord Be it to me ' according to ' thy well I am thine owne obedient seruant still This being said she turn'd her Angel tongne My soule doth magnist the Lord the song My spirit and all my faculties and doyce In God my Sauiour solely doth reioyce For though mans sinnes prouoke his grieuous wrath His humble hand-maid he remembred hath For now behold from this time hence I forth shall All generations me right blessed call He that is mighty me hath magnifide And bo'y is his name his mercies hide On them that feare him to prouoke his rage Throughout the spacious world from age to age With his strong arme he hath shew'd strength and batterd The proud and their imaginations scatterd He hath put downe the mighty from their seat The mecke and humble he exalted great To fill the hungry he is prouident When as the rich away are empty sent His mercies promis'd Abr'am and his seed He hath remembred and holpe Israels need This Song she sung with heart and holy spright To land her Makers mercy and his might And the like Song sung with so sweet a straine Was neuer nor shall e'r be sung againe When MARY by the Angels speech perceiu'd How old ELIZABETH a child conceiu'd To see her straight her pious minde was bent And to Ierusalem in three dayes she went And as the Virgin come from Nazareth Talk't with her kinfwoman ELIZABETH IOHN Baptist then vnnam'd an vnborne boy
griefe surpassing griefe To see her Sauiour captiu'd as a thiefe Her Loue beyond all loues her Lord her all Into the hands of sinfull slaues to fall If but a mother haue a wicked sonne That hath to all disordred orders runne As treasons rapes blasphomings murther theft And by the Law must be of life berest Yet though he suffer iustly by desert His suff'ring surely wounds his mothers heart Suppose a woman haue a vertuous childe Religious honest and by nature milde And he must be to execution brought For some great fault he neuer did nor thought And she behold him when to death hee 's put Then sure tormenting griefe her heart must cut These griefes are all as nothing vnto this Of this blest Mother of eternall blisse Her gracious Sonne that neuer did aâ—nisse His gracelesse seruant with a Iudas kisse Betraid him vnto misbeleening slaues Where he was led away with bils and staues To Annaâ— Caiphae Pilate and to those That to th' Immortall God were mortall foes Ah Iudas couldst thou make so base account Of Him whose worth doth heauen and earth surmount Didst thou esteeme of 30. paltry pence More then the life of the eternall Prince O monstrous blindnesse that for so small gaine Sold endlesse blisse to buy perpetuall paine Is' t possible damn'd auarice could compell Thee sell heau'ns Kingdome for the sinke of hell Our Father Adam vnto all our woes Did for an Apple blessed Eden lose And Esau borne a Lord yet like a slaue His birth-right for a messe of pottage gaue And poore Gehizi telling of a lye His couetousnesse gain'd his leprosie And though the text their deeds doe disallow Yet they made better matches farre then thou I doe not heere impute this deed of shame On Iudas because Iudas was his name For of that name there haue beene men of might Who the great battels of the Lord did fight And others more But sure this impure blot Stickes to him as hee 's nam'd Iskarriott For in an Anagram Iskarriott is By letters transposition traytor kis ISKARRIOTT Anagramms TRAITOR KIS. KIsse Traytor kisse with an intent to kill And cry all haile when thou dost meane all ill And for thy fault no more shall Iudas be A name of treason and foule infamie But all that fault I 'le on Iskarriott throw Because the Anagram explaines it so Iskarriott for a bribe and with a kisse Betraid his Master the blest King of Blisse And after but too late with conscience wounded Amaz'd and in his senses quite confounded With crying Woe woe woe oh woe on me I haue betraid my Master for a fee Oh I haue sinned sinned past compare And want of grace and faith pluckes on despaire Oh too-too late it is to call for grace What shall I doe where is some secret place That I might shield me from the wrath of God I haue deseru'd his euerlasting rod. Then farewell grace and faith and hope and loue You are the gifts of the great God aboue You onely on th'Elect attendants be Despaire hell horror terror is for me My hainous sinne is of such force and might 'T will empt th' Exchequer of Gods mercy quite And therefore for his mercy I le not call But to my iust deseru'd perdition fall I still most gracelesse haue all grace withstood And now I haue betraid the guiltlesse blood My Lord and Master I haue sold for pelfe This hauing said despayring hang'd himselfe There we leaue him and now must be exprest Something of her from vvhom I haue digrest The Virgins heart vvith thousand griefs vvas nipâ— To see her Sauiour flouted hated vvhipt Despightfulnesse beyond despight vvas vs'd And vvith abuse past all abuse abus'd His apprehension grieu'd her heart full sore His cruell scourges grieu'd her ten times more And wheÌ„ his blessed head with thorns was crown'd Then floods of griefe on griefe her soule did wouÌ„d But then redoubled was her griefe and feare When to his death his Crosse she saw him beare And lastly but alas not least nor last When he vpon the tree was nailed fast With bitter teares deep heart-wounding groues With sobs and sighs this Maiden-Mother moanes What tongue or pen can her great griefe vnfold When Christ said Woman now thy Sonne behold That voyce like Ice in Iune more cold and chill Did dangerously wound and almost kill Then as old Simeon prophesi'd before The sword of sorrow through her heart did gore And if 't were possible all womens woes One woman could within her brest inclose They were but puffes sparkes mole-hills drops of raine To whirl-winds meteors Kingdomes or the maine Vnto the woes griefes sorrowes sighs and teares Sobs gronings terrors and a world of feares Which did beset this Virgin on each side When as her Sonne her Lord and Sauiour dide Thus he to whom compar'd all things are drosse Humbled himselfe to death euen to the Crosse He that said Let there be and there was light He that made all things with his mighty might He by whom all things haue their life and breath He humbled himselfe vnto the death Vnto the death of the curst Crosse this he This he this He of hee 's did stoope for me For me this Wel-spring of my soules releefe Did suffer death on either hand a theefe The one of them had runne a theeuing race Rob'd God of Glory and himselfe of Grace He wanted liuely faith to apprehend To end his life for life that ne'r shall end With faithlesse doubts his minde is armed stiffe And doth reuile our Sauiour with an If. If that thou be the Sonne of God quoth he Come from the Crosse and saue thy selfe and me The other Theefe arm'd with a sauing faith Vnto his fellow turn'd and thus he saith Thou guilty wretch this man is free and cleare From any crime for which he suffers here We haue offended we haue iniur'd many But this man yet did neuer wrong to any We iustly are condemn'd he false accus'd He hath all wrong all right to vs is vs'd Hee 's innocent so are not thou and I We by the Law are iustly iudg'd to dye Thus the good Theefe euen at his latest cast Contrary to a Theefe spake truth at last And looking on our Sauiour faithfully Whilst Christ beheld him with a gracious eye These blest words were his prayers totall â—â—â— O Lord when thou shalt to thy Kingdome come Remember me Our Sauiour answer'd then A doctrine to confute despairing men Thou who by liuely faith laist hold on me This day in Paradise with me shalt be Thus as this theefes life was by theft supplide So now he stole heau'ns Kingdome when he dyde And I doe wish all Christians to agree Not t'liue as ill but dye as well as he Presumptuous sinnes are no way here excus'd For here but one was sau'd and one refus'd Despaire for sinnes hath here no rule or ground For as here 's one was lost so one was found To teach vs not to sinne with wilfull
it vse to procure The Papbian pastime and the Cyprian game The sports of Venus and the acts of shame To breed the heat of Enpids lustfull flame Oft beauty hath faire chastity displac'd But chastity hath beauty euer grac'd For 't is a maxime Those haue euer bin That are most faire without most foule within Too oft hath beauty by disloyalty Branded it selfe with lasting infamy That one fraile creature nobly well descended Proud of her fairenes fouly hath offended And on her house and kindred laid a blot That the dishonor ne'r will be forgot But a faire feature vertuously inclin'd A beauteous outside and a pious mind Such are Gods Images Epitomies And Cabinets of heauens blest treasuries And therefore be thy feature faire or foule Let inward vertues beautifie the soule b Against Pride of our strength Pride of our strength shewes weaknes in our wit Because the Collicke or an Ague sit The rooth-ach or the pricking of a pin Oft lets the strength out and the weaknesse in The Tribe of Dans great glory * Iudges 16. 19. Samsons strength By a weake woman was orethrowne at length And sure there 's many do themselues much wrong In being proud because they are made strong For a great number liuing now there are Can wrastle throw the sledge or pitch the barre That on their backs foure hudred waight can beare And horse-shooes with their fists in sunder teare Yet neuer vse their strength in any thing To serue their God their Country or their King But with outragious acts their liues pursue As if God gaue them strength but as their due As though they like the Gyants could remoue And hurle great mountaines at the head of Ioue Or like Gargantua or Polipheme Or Gogmagog their boystrous fancies dreame That they more wonders by their strength can doe Then Hercules could e're attaine vnto Let those Goliabs that in strength take pride Know that the Lord of Hostes doth them deride And what they are that proudly brag and swell Of strength let any man but note them well If hurt or sickenesse make their strength decay A man shall neuer see such Cowes as they Be'ng strong their minds on God they neuer set In weakenesse iustly he doth them forget Strength thus like headstrong Iades they doe abuse it For want of Reasons bridle how to vse it a Against Pride of our hauing children Pride of our children's vaine our proper stem Must either dye from vs or we from them If our examples of the life we liue Inrich them not more then the gifts we giue If disobedient they despise instruction And will peruersly runne into destruction Much better had it bin we had not bin Begetters of such Imps of shame and sinne Children no duty to such Parents owe Who suffer vice their youth to ouergrow Neglect to teach thy sonne in younger yeeres He shall reiect thee in thy hoary haires The way to make our children vs obay Is that our selues from God runne not astray Such measure to our Maker as we mete T is iust that such we from our children get Th' Apostle Paul exhorteth more and lesse To be all children in maliciousnesse That is to say as children harmeles be So we should from maliciousnes be free Thus Pride of birth apparell wealth strength state And Pride of humane wisedome God doth hate Of knowledge learning beauty children and The Pride of Princes fauour cannot stand And Pride in any thing shall euermore Be bar'd and shut from heau'ns Eternall doore For whosoeuer will beleeue and looke Shall find examples in the sacred hooke That God hath euer 'gainst the proud withstood And that a proud heart neuer came to good He faith Pride is * Toby 4. 13. destruction and agen That Pride is * Toby 4. 13. hatefull before God and men How Prides beginning is from God to fall And of all sinne is the * Toby 4. 13. originall Who taketh hold on Pride in great affliction Shall be o'rethrowne fild with Gods malediction b Eccles 10. Pride was not made for man man hath no part In pride for God * Prouerbes 16. Pro. 29. Eccles. 29 Matt. 23. Luk 1418. Luke 1. Iudith 9. abherreth a proud heart And 't is decreed by the Almighties doome That pride vnto a fearefull fall shall come A person that is prend ne'r pleas'd God yet For how can they please him whom they forget Yet as before I said againe I le say That pride to such a hight is growne this day That many a thousand thousand familie Wer 't not for pride would begge or starue and dye And the most part of them are men of might Who in prides quarrell will both speake and fight I therefore haue no hope to put her downe But Satyre-like to tell her of her owne There is another pride which I must touch It is so bad so base so too too much a Against libellers Most of these Libellers haue an Itching veine of Riming which with much seratching makes scuruy lines so from itch to scratch from scratch to scuruy from scuruy to scabbed they proceed in time with their bâ—â—thing to be termed by knaues and fooles scald Poets Which is if any good mans fortune be To rise to Honourable dignitie Or through infirmity or wilfulnesse Men fall vnhappily into distresse That Libellers doe spirt their wits like froth To raile at Honor and dishonor both These Mungrell whelpes are euer snarling still Hating mens goodnesse glorying in their ill Like blood-hound â—â—rs they daily hunt and sent And rime and Iigge on others detriment Supposing it a very vertuous thing To be an arrant Knaue in libelling Forsooth these Screech-owles would be cal'd the wits Whose flashes flye abroad by girds and fits Who doe their mangy Muses magnifie Making their sports of mens calamity But yet for all their hatefull hellith mirth They are the vilest cowards on the earth For there 's not one that doth a libell frame Dares for his eares subscribe to it his name T is a base brutish pride to take a pen And libell on the miseries of men For why all men are mortall weake and fraile And all from what they should be fall and saile And therefore men should in these slip'ry times Bewaile mens miseries and hate their crimes Let him that stands take heed he doth not fall And not reioyce in mens mis-haps at all It is too much for Libellers to meddle To make their Muse a Hangman or a Beadle At mens misfortunes to deride and iest To adde distresse to those that are distrest As I doe hold mens vices to be vile So at their miseries I le neuer smile And in a word left tediousnesse offend A Libelier's a Knaue and there 's an end Thus hauing of Prides various formes related And how of God and good men it is hated I thinke it fit some Lines in praise to write Of Vertues which to Pride are opposite For vice with shew of
seeth and hee that made the care heareth and he will also giue them their eternall wages in the world to come except true repentance and remission as is most seuerely threatned in many places of holy Scripture In briefe to conclude take Christs counsell Sweare not at all Mat. 5. 34. Except lawfully and trully before a Magistrate for the confirmation of a truth which kind of oath or swearing is for Gods glory and commanded by himselfe as it is written in Deut. â—6 13. Thou shalt feare the Lord thy God and serue him and shalt Sweare by his Name And Ler. 4. 2. Thou shalt sweare The Lord liueth and thou shalt sweare by his Name Deut. 10. 20. and againe Euery tongue shall sweare by me Esay 45. 23. and againe And he that sweareth in the earth shall sweare by the true God These sorts of oathes are so lawfull that Gods glory in them is manifested Iustice dignified Contentions pacified In this sort when thou swearest God onely must bee thy oath for it is for his glory that an oath taken lawfully in his Name is the decision of truth because he is the God of truth and he is a iealous God and will net giue his glory to another Esay 48.11 And let it be thy greatest care to hold esteeme the Name of God in such reuerence and feare that thou neuer dost name or mention him but with adoration and admiration ' let the faithlesse Iew be thy patterne who doth neuer Name God in any Curse oath or vnreuerend maner let the misbeleeuing Turke teach thee for he will not abuse his false deceiuing Prophet Mahomet let the Pagan reach thee who with such dutifull blindnesse doe adore base and contemptible Creatures let Gods mercies moue thee to loue him so that liuing here in his feare and departing hence in his fauour thou maist be for euer partaker of his euerlasting Loue which God graunt for the Name and sake of Iesus Christ the Righteous to whom with the Father holy Ghost be obediently aud duely rendred by men and Angels all honour glory might Maiesty dominion and thankesgiuing now and for euermore Christian admonitions against the two fearefull sinnes of Cursing Swearing that the grieuousnesse of those sinnes may be loth remembred and auoyded whereby the hatred of them may possesse the heart of euery Christian. Against Cursing FIrst if thou wilt liue in a holy feare and reuerence of the Name of God thou must consider what thou art and learne to know thy selfe for he that truely knoweth himselfe is aman of very happy acquaintance for by this thou shalt know thy selfe to be Earth Gen. 2. 7. conceiu'd in sinne Psal. 51. 5. Borne to paine Iob 5. 7. Euill Eccle. 9. 3. Wretched Rom. 7. Filthy Iob 15. Corrupt abominable doing nothing good Psal. 14. Mortall Rom. 6. Vaine Psal 62. Wicked Esay 9. Vnprofitable Rom. 3. Vanitie altogether more light then Vanitie Psal. 62. Sinfull 1 Kings 8. Miserable 1 Câ—rinth 15. Dust and Ashes Gen. 18. Gods enemy Rom. 8. A child of wrath Ephesians 2. 3. A worme Iob 25. Wormes meare Esay 51. Nothing yea lesse then nothing Esay 40. 17. Hauing thus by the Touch-stone of Gods Word tryed and examined thy miserable estate and condition and therewithall knowing thy selfe then on the other side consider as neere as thy frailty will permit the power of God in creating thee his mercy in Redeeming thee his loue in preseruing thee his bounty in keeping thee his promise to glorisie thee in Heauen if thou honour him on earth and his Iudgements to condemne thee if thou blaspheme and dishonour him Our Sauiour Christ being the Head of Blessednesse and of all that are or shall bee blessed how is it possible that any Accursed or Cursing person can bee a member of that Blessed Head who hath expressely forbidden vs to Curse but to blesse them that Curse vs Luke 6. Mat. 5. Rom. 12. And in the 1â— 9. Psalme It is said to him that accustomes himselfe to Curse Cursing was his delight therefore shall it happen vnto him he loued not blessing therefore it shall be farre from him And seeing no man can merit the least part of blessings remporall how or with what face can one that liues accursedly or vseth cursing here hope for a Kingdome of Eternall blessednesse hereafter It is fearefull to heare how and with what cold dulnesse many men doe pray for blessings either for themselues or for other and contrarily with what vehemency they will Curse as some haue willed and wished themselues Gods Plague the Pox and other mischiefes and some haue too often bid the Deuill take them God Sinke them Renounce Confound Consume Refuse and Damne them and yet these filly gracelesse earth-wormes haue an ambitious deceitfull ayme to be blessed partakers of the blessed Kingdome of Heauen Therefore if thou hast a desire of Eternall blessednesse know that the way thither is not by Cursing if thou hast a hope to escape the dreadfull sentence of Goe yee Cursed Mat. 25. Then giue thy mind to prayer and blessing and then shalt thou haue the ioyfull welcome of Come ye blessed inherit the Kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world To the which God of his mercy bring vs all Amen Against Swearing HAuing with a Christian humilitie considered thy owne base and contemptible estate and condition then thinke with thy selfe what an Incomprehensible Glorious Infinite and Almighty Maiestie thou offendest and blasphemest with thy vngodly Swearing who hath said that he will not hold him guiltlesse that takes his Name in vaine And much better were it at the last day for that miserable wretch that he had beene created a Toade a Viper or the most loathsome creature then to appeare before that great dreadfull Tribunall and there to be accused by the Deuill and his owne conscience for Swearing and for Forswearing and Blaspheming the blessed Name of the Eternall God where no excuse can serue no Aduocate can plead no Proxey or Enoyne is to be granted but presently the guilty Caitif is commanded to vtter darkenesse and perpetuall torments There is some excuse for the ignorant Iewes that crucified our Sauiour because they knew not what they did but for a professed Christian who knowes God to be his Creator and that Iesus Christ paid no lesse then the peerelesse and most precious blood of his heart fore mans Redemption how can any one that knowes and beleeues these things hope for saluation by that blood wounds heart and body which he so often blasphemes and teares betwixt his accursed teeth So that there is no Traytor so bad or treason so great as is against the Maiestie of heauen nor hath the Deuill any that doth him more pleasing seruice then an odious and common Swearet doth and herein he goes beyond all the Deuils in hell in impiety and contempt of God for Saint Iames saith Cap. 2. 19. That the Deuils doe beleeue there is a God and that they
is not seene in thee Would'st haue a Whore a coach smoke drinke or dice Money will bring thee all at any price Woul'dst haue all pleasures in variety Money will thy insatiate wantâ— supply Then seeting money can doe what it will Haue not men reason to regard it still Some things there are that money cannot win But they are things men take small pleasure in As Heau'n and a good Conscience Vertue Grace He that loues Money cannot these imbrace For he whose heart to Money is inclin'd Of things Coelestiall hath but little minde If Money were a woman I doe see Her case most pittie pittifull would bee Because I thinke she would â—â—â—â—â—â—â— haue Except a Goâ—ty miserable Knave One that all night would by her lye and Grone Grip'd with the Coâ—â—icke or tormenting Stone With stinking coughing gruting spitting spauling And nothing â—ut Contagâ— us Catterwalâ—ing Besides hee 'd be so Iealous day and night He would not suffer her goe out of sight That sure I thinke her Case farre worie would be Then is the Turkish Galley slauery â—or none but such as thâ—se whome Age hath got Are in the Loue of Money extreme hot And when as Hearing Sent and Teste and sight Are gone yet â—eeling Money 's their delight The whilest a Young-man full of strength and pride Would make her goe by water Run and Ride Force in all things to supply his neede For Recreation or to Cloath and Feede Compell her to maintaine him fine and braue And in a word make her his Drudge or Slaue And all his Loue to her would be â—ose For hee 'd but kiâ—e her and so let her goe Thus if It were a Woman as I say Her Case were lamentable euery way For Old men * Old mâ—n loue money viâ—â— within Doores would euer worr'y her And youngmen round about the world would hurry her That were she matched with either yong or old Her miseries would still be manifold But this Commanding bright Imperious Dame Vsde well or ill Shee 's euermore the same Locke her or Let her loose the cares not which She still hath power the whole world to bewitch I call to minde I heard my Twelue-pence say That he hath â—â—â— at Christmas beene at play At Court at th' Innes of Court and euery where Throughout the Kingdome being farre and neere At Passage and at * Strange alteration Mumchance at In and in Where Swearing hath bin counted for no Sinne Where Fullam high and Low-men bore great sway With the quicke helpe of a â—â—ard Cater â—rey My sâ—illing said such swaggering there would be Among the wrangling Knaues for me quoth he Such sâ—outing â—â—â—â— dring thrusting thronging setting Such striuing crowding iustling and such betting Such storming â—retting â—uming chasing sweating Refuse â—enounce me â—â—â—ne me sweâ—ring cheating So many heauy curses pâ—â—gues and poxes Where all are losers but the Butlers boxes That â—â—re in hâ—ll the Dâ—â—â—â—â— are in â—â—â—â—â— â—â— curse and to blasphemeâ— as they â—â—â— there Whilst without â—â—â— of â—â—â—â—â— offence They abuse th' 〈…〉 And this wicked â—â—â— that they doe make Is me from one another hâ—â—â— to rake * And tâ—wâ—â—y games â—â—â—â— * â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— That though I were a Pagan borne I see They make themselues much worse to pocket me * My shilling is no Putitan for all this These Gamâ—sters make this time a time of mirth In memory of their blest Sauiours birth Whose deare remembrance they doe annually Obserue with extreme edious gluttony With gurmandizing beastly belly filling With swinish drinking and with drunken swilling With ribald Songs Iigges Tales gawdy cloathes With bitter cursings and most fearefull oathes That svre my shilling saith the * I speake not against honest mirth friendly Gaming nor good cheere but against the vnlawfull vse of these Recreations and abuse of God Heathen will Not entertaine the Deuill halfe so ill But worship Satan in more kinde behaviour Then some professed Christians doe their Sauiour In Saturnes raigne when money was vnfound Then was that age with peace and plenty crown'd Then mine was thine Thine mine and all our liues All things in common were except our wiues But now the case is altred as they say Quite topsie-turuy the contrary way For now mens wealth is priuatly kept close The whilst their wiues are commonly let loose For he whom loue of money doth besot For 's owne soule or 's wiues body much cares not It bewitch'd Achan at the siege of Ai For which the Israelites did lose the day It made Geâ—ezi false in his affaires And gain'd the Leprosie for him and 's heires It with th' Apostle Iudas bore such sway That it made him the Lord of life betray And * Ioshua 7. Ananias and his wretched wife By suddaine death it made them lose their life And Diuine stories and prophane recite Examples of such matters infinite * 2 Kings 5. 'T is said in Salomons Dominions That Siluer was as plenty as the Stones But sure the sinne of Couerise was not Amongst them either borne or scarce begot For all that Siluer and a great deale more Rak'd and Rip'd from the Europian shore From Asia and Sun-parched Africa And from the wombe of vast America * Acts 5. From which last place the Potent King of Spaine Eleuen millions in one yeere did gaine And from Pottozy Mines he daily had Three hundred thirty thousand Ryals made To speake what mighty summes King Dauid won And left them vnto Salomon his Son * 1 Kings 10. 27. Of Gold one hundred thousand Talents fine Siluer one Thousand and thousand from the Mine Besides from Ophir he had at the least Three thousand Golden talents of the best * Purchas Iosephus doth of Dauids Tombe thus write How th'hidden Treasure there was infinite The Basons Candlesticks and Censors all Lampes Organs Instruments most musicall Ports Altar Tables Hindges the Gates to hold They were all made of pure Refined Gold Besides six hundred Shields and Targets more The King causd all with Gold be plated o're Besides the Richnes of his Royall Throne The like whereof elsewhere * 1 Chro. 22. A Talent of Gold is in value 600. Crownes was neuer none When the Great Macedonian did subdue Darius * Ioseph in the seuenth Booke of his Antiquitâ—â—â— and his haples Persian Crue 'T is said his Treasure did so much abound Twenty nine thousand Talents there was found And more he saith if we may credit this How that in Susa and * And more the Captaines 5000. Talents and 10000 â—â—â—â— of Gold and 10000. Talents of Siluer besides Brasse â—â— Iron Persepolis They found of Siluer to encrease their store One hundred seuenty thousand Talents more When Cyrus Conquer'd Croesus * Quintus Curtius Croesus lost Three hundred millions of good Gold almost 'T is writ that Midas * Two Cities in Persia. Treasure so amounted Innumerable not be Accounted Sardanapalus an Assyrian * Aâ—â—â—
The gray Goose wing hath bin the vanquisher The necessarie vses of her Quill How to the good 't is good Ill to the ill And Shooting here according to my loue To bee a noble Exercise I proue And how the Goose Romes Capitoll did saue As sayes the Story I described haue And now let men examine well and try If any Bird in water earth or sky Or all in generall together are With the good Goose for worth to make CoÌ„pare Many absurdly idle foolish base Will call a man a Goose in foule disgrace When if men rightly vnderstood the same A man is honour'd with a Gooses name For though the Eagle be of Birds the King Yet 't is a rauenous greedy hurtfull thing And he that with that tytle me should call I had as leiue he call'd me Theefe with all Shee while she liues doth yeeld reliefe to many And aliue or dead beholding not to any She hath maintain'd ten thousand men With food Physicke Lodging Shafts and Pen And lastly not to charge them any wuyes Her owne Quill here writes her own worthy praise Because a Goose is common and not deere She amongst fooles is small esteemed heere So Black berryes that grow on euery bryer Because th' are plenty few men doe desire Spanish Potatoes are accounted dainty And English Persneps are course meate though plenty But if these Berryes or those Rootes were scant They would be thought as rare through little want That we should eate them and a price allow As much as Strawberryes and Potatoes now Why Bread is common hauing still our fill We thinke not on because we haue it still But if we want Bread then we doe remember We want the ground worke of our belly timber The Light is common which few thinke vpon Till Night doth put her blindfold mufler on And all attyr'd in mourning blacke as pitch Then men misse light and tumble in the Ditch â—o should we want a Gooses Flesh and Feather The quantity of but fiue yeeres together We than should all confesse with one consent How that a Goose were superexcellent Many good blessings we too much forget Cause thay are neere and cheape not farre to fet â—â—e thinkes I heare some Cuckow or some Iay Some Daw some Pye some Gull or Buzzard say That I haue giuen the Goose her worthy stile But haue forgot the Gander all this while He giue them Answer though they merit none â—â— doe include both sexes vnder one T is knowne to euery persit vnderstander A Goose is much superiour to a Gander For though a man a Mare or Gelding stride We briefly say he doth on Horsebacke ride And though a Gelding be the beast that bare We call 't a Horse that 's neither Horse or Mare So Ganders vnder name of Geese doe goe The Gooses worthinesse deserues it so Once I remember Riding on my way In Barkshire neere vnto a Towne call'd Bray I on my Iourney as I past along Rode by a Goose a Gander and their young I neither minding them nor yet their Crue The Gander in my face with fury flew Who in his fierce encounter was more hot Then if he had bin Spanish Don Quixot But sure himselfe so brauely he did beare Because his Loue and Lady Goose was there And 't was a spuire his Chiualry vnto To haue his sweet heart see what he did doe My Horse he started to the ground I went Dismounted in that Ganderous tournament I should say Dangerous but sure I am That GANDEROVS is a DANGEROVS Anagram The Gander was mine enemy what tho I le honour worthy Valour in my foe He Tilted brauely and in liew of it The Gooses Quill the Ganders praise hath writ Thus for the Goose I hauing done my best My toyled Muse retires vnto her rest I le shut my Inckhorne and put vp my Pen So take my Goose amongst you Gentlemen FINIS TO THE FISHMONGERS AND BVTCHERS GREETING FRiendly frolicke franke free-hearted famous flourishing Fishmongers And braue bold battring Beefe-braining Butchers to both your Companies in generall I wish health and happinessed acknowledge you to be Haberdafhers for the belly I wish a plentifull encrease of good appetites and hungry stomackes that euery one in their calling may proue valiant of their teeth whereby you may feede merily by the profit you receiue bynimble-chop'd feeders I haue plainely and briefely set downe Iack a Lents good deeds and his bad his friends and his foes the great need and necessitie that wee haue of his comming once a yeere into this Kingdome and the great pitty that hee is no better entertained and obserued And though it bee written in a mery stile yet I dare presume that mirth and truth walke together in it In a word reade it if you like and iudge it as you lift please your selues and I am pleasde and let I. S. hold Iacke a Lents stirrop whilest hee alights for of all men I haue most reason to preferre him for a tricke hee shewed mee lately So I rest yours euer and his as farre as hee dares sweare for twelue-pence IOHN TAYLOR IACKE A LENT HIS BEGINNING AND ENTERTAINMENT with the mad prankes of his Gentleman-Vsher Shroue-Tuesday that goes before him and his Footman Hunger attending OF Iacke an Apes I lift not to endite Nor of Iack Daw my Gooses quill shall write Of Iacke of Newbery I will not repeate Nor Iacke of both sides nor of Skip-Iacke neate â—o praise the Turnspit Iacke my Muse is mum Nor of the entertainment of Iacke Drum â—e not rehearse nor of Iacke Dagge Iacke Date Iacke foole or Iacke a Dandy I relate Nor of Blacke Iacks at gentle Buttry bars Whose liquor oftentimes breeds houshold wars Nor Iacke of Doâ—er that Grand Iury Iacke Nor Iacke Sauce the worst knaue amoÌ„gst the pack But of the Iacke of Iackes Great Iacke a Lent To write his worthy acts is my intent How hee 's attended with a messe of Iackes Whose fame my Artlesse weake inuention cracks Iacke Hirring and Iacke Sprat Iacke Strawe Iacke Cade These are the Iacks with which my pen must trade TO speake of the originall of this Iacks or from whence the name of Iack hath derivation I thinke it not impertinent to shewe you Therefore I would haue all men vnderstand that Iack is no Christian nor was euer baptiz'd but is sprung like a Musrom out of the corruption of the name of Iohn for before Iohns were I did neuer find mention of any Iacks except blacke Iacks and there was an old courteous Epithite attributed to Iohn as gentle Iohn but now so many Iacks are made Gentles that most Iohns and Iacks make no further account of Gentilitie then glorious Titles and gawdy Sures so much for Iack. Now for the name and beginning of Lent as neere as I can I will describe the word Lent doth signifie a thing borrowed for except a thing be borrowed how is it lent being lent it followes by consequence that it was borrowed But
Rayling hedging plashing turning winding and returning circular Triangular Quadrangular Orbicular Ouall and euery way curiously and chargeably conceiredâ— There hath hee made Walkes hedges and Arbours of all manner of most delicate fruit Trees planting and placing them in such admirable Artlike fashions resembling both diuine and morall remembrances as three Arbours standing in a Triangle hauing each a recourse to a greater Arbour in the midst resembleth three in one and one in three and he hath there planted certaine Walkes and Arbours all with * Not a Tree stands there but it beares one good or rare fruit or other Fruit trees so pleasing and rauishing to the sense that he calls it Paradise in which he playes the part of a true Adamist continually toyling and tilling Moreouer he hath made his Walkes most rarely round and spacious one walke without another as the rindes of an Onion are greatest without and lesse towards the Center and withall the hedges betwixt each walke are so thickly set that one cannot see thorow from the one walke who walkes in the other that in conclusion * A round worke is endlesse hauing no end I touch not the matchlesse adioyning wood and walke of Rowlington here whose prayses consists in it selfe my penbâ—ing insufficient the worke seemes endlesse and I thinke that in England it is not to be fellowed or will in haste be followed And in loue which I beare to the memory of so industrious and ingenious a Gentleman I haue written these following Anagrams Adryan Gilbert Anagrams Art redily began A breeding tryall Art redily began a breeding tryall VVhen she inspir'd this worthy Gentleman For Natures eye of him tooke fulle spiall And taught him Art Art readily began That though Dame Nature was his Tutresse he Outworkes her as his workes apparent be For Nature brings but earth and feeds and plants Which Art like Taylors cuts and puts in fashion As Nature rudely doth supply our wants Art is deformed Natures reformation So Adryan Gilbert mendeth Natures features By Art that what shee makes doth seeme his creatures THus with my humble thankes to Sir Thomas Morgan and my kinde remembrance to all the rest of my Lords Seruants there my legges and my labouring lynes returne againe to Salisbury and from the next day being Sunday to Langford to my Lord Gorge his house with whom I dined and left my humble thanks for the reckoning In briefe my fruitlesse and worthy lip-labour mixt with a deale of Ayrie and non substantiall matter I gaue his Lordship and the like requitall I bestowed on the right VVorshipfull Mr. Thomas Squibb Maior of Sarum with Mr. Banes Mr â—â—â—â— Iuy M. Windouer with all the rest and more then thankes and a gratefull remembrance of their Honourable VVorshipfull and friendly fauours I know they expect not and lesse then such a common duty as Gratitude I must not or cannot pay To shut vp all in few words I know his Maiesties pious inclination is so ample that he will be graciously pleased with any of your laudable endeauours for your welfare and commodity if you take good and speedy aduice then no doubt but the effects wil be according to your honest intendments So farewell Salisbury till we meete againe which I hope will be one day in the meane space I pray thee take this poore Pamphlet as a louing pledge of my returne Me thinks I see already Men Horses Carts Mattocks Shouels Spades VVheelebarrowes Handbarrowes and Baskets at worke for the cleaning of your Riuer But if my thoughts doe deceiue me and my expectation faile I shall euer hereafter giue small credit to their intelligence So once more Salisbury I wish thee thankefully well to fare On Thursday the 21. of August I took Woâ—chester in my way homewards where I saw aâ— ancient City like a body without a soule and I know not the reason of it but for ought which I perceiued there were almost as many Parishes as people I lodged at the signe of the Cocke being recommended to the Host of the house by a token from Salisbury but mine Host dyed the night before I came and I being weary had more minde to goe to bed then to follow him so long a iourney to doe my message or deliuer any commendations but the whole City seemed almost as dead as mine Host and it may be they were all at Harâ—â—est worke but I am sure I walked from the â—â—â— end of it to the other and saw not 30. people of all sorts So that I think if a man should goe to Winchester for a Goose he might lose his â—abour for a Trader cannot liue there by venting such commodities On Friday I gallopp'd a foot pace one and twenty miles from Winchester to Farneham where I and one of my company hired a couple of Hampshire lenets with seuen legges and three eyes betwixt them vpon whom wee hobbled seuenteene miles to Stanes whence on Saturday the 23. of August we footed it to Brenford and Boated it to LonDON The Scourge of Basenesse OR The old Lerry with a new Kicksey and a new-cum twang with the old Winsey DEDICATED TO THE MIRROR OF GOOD FELLOWSHIP THE PATTERNE OF TRVE FRIENDSHIP AND the onely nonparallell of iouiall Entertainement M r Andrew Hilton at the signe of the Horse-shoo at Daintree I. Taylor wisheth daily increase of good Guests true payment hearts content in this life and afterward as much happinesse as his soule can desire KInde Sir I haue seene oftentimes men offering to snuffe a candle haue against their wills put it cleane out and an vnskilfull Chyrurgian taking a small greene wound in hand hath brought it to an old Vlcer I would be loth for my part to imitate either of these examples for my intent is confession of the wrong I did you and an endeauour to make amends I doe confesse that I did you wrong in print in my booke of my Trauels to Scotland and now in print I doe make you a publike satisfaction For I protest to God that I haue heard so much good report of you that I am double sorry that I was so mistaken and that I haue beene so long time before I haue printed my recanâ—tion It was your Tapsters want of wit and manners and my want of discretion that was the grounds of my too much credulity and temerity For his part I wish him no more harme but that chalke may bee his best payments Thunder may sowre his Hogsheads Rats gnaw out his spigots at midnight and himselfe to commit his wit to the keeping of a foole or a knaue while hee liues And your Ostlers for gaping so greedily like Gudgeons vpon mee I pray that they may euery day mourne in litter and horse dung But these are but Iests by the way for as many as know you haue told mee that if you had beene at home my entertainement had beene better If it had beene so it had beene more then you owed me and more then I
either case or cure her In briefe the Doctor being sent for comes and finds the Mercer her husband walking in his shop with a neighbour of his where after a Leash of Congees and a brace of Baeza los manus the Mercer told him that his Wife is a languishing sicke woman and withall entreats him to take the paines to walke vp the staires and minister some comfort vnto her Master Doctor who knew her disease by the Symptomes ascends vp into the Chamber to his longing patient staying an houre with her applying such directions and refections that her health was vpon the sudden almost halfe recouered so taking his leaue of her with promise of often visitation hee comes downe into the shoppe where the guiltlesse Bawd her husband was who demanding of the Doctor how all did aboue truely quoth hee much better then when I came but since I went vp your wife hath had two such strange violent fits vpon her that it would haue grieued your very heart to haue seene but part of one of them I my selfe doe know two men that lighted by chance into one of these houses of iniquitie in Antwerp and I dare be sworne that they went to commit no Carnall act nor did commit any but they perceiuing a pretty painted peece of punks flesh did suspect in what house they were the one of them taking her by the hand did aske her some questions wherein I thinke was not one word of God the other impatient that his fellow had ingrost all the familiarity and talke with the wench begins to stampe knocke and call at which the man of the house enters demanding What doe yee lacke You base Rascall quoth the other haue you no more Whores in your house must I stand like a Iacke an Apes here empty handed Good sir quoth mine host be patient and I will presently send mine owne wife to waite vpon you Nor is the skill and knowledge of a substantiall or Absolute Bawd easily gotten or learned no my Masters there is more in the matter then so First she 's a yong pretty Girle and passeth time away in the instructions rudiments and documents of a Whore till shee hath attained with many hazards to the yeeres of 30. or 35. in all which space she hath not spent her time idlely but hath beene a creature of much vse hauing for the common cause aduentur'd the blemmish of her Reputation the rigour of the Lawes as whippings Penance Imprisonments fines fees to Iustices Clarks Beadles and such inferiour Reliques of Authority Besides her valorous combats and conflicts with diseases wherein shee often approues her selfe one of the profitablest members in a Common-wealth to Physitians and Chyrurgians hauing I say passed all these degrees with much perill and iâ—opardy of her body * No tolleration then looke higher and thinke but on the shipwrake of her soule an aduenture of a greater price then shee 's aware of then towards the declining of her life and that her beautie fades What a deale of charge is shee at with sophisticated Art White and Red to emplaster decayed Nature her humility being such that when her owne head is bald she will weare the cast haire of any he or she â—â—â—ner that made a voyage in a string from Tyburne to either Heauen or Hell And lastly when as Art can no longer hide the furrowed or wrinkled deformities of her ouer-worne age then like a true well-willer to the old trade shee hath euer followed Whoring hauing left her very vnkindly before she was willing to leaue it she as her proper right for her long seruice takes vpon her the office and authority of a Bawd and as she was brought vp her selfe so with a motherly care her imployment is to bring vp others wherein her paines is not small in hyring Countrey wenches that come vp weekely with Carriers and putting them in fashion selling one Maydenhead three or foure hundred times and sometimes with great labour and difficulty shee 's forced to perswade mens wiues and daughters all which considered a Bawd doth not get her liuing with so great ease as the world supposeth nor is her aduenture paines charge and perill to be inconsiderately slighted And as blabbing babbling taletelling and discouering the faults and frailties of others is a most common and euill practice amongst too many so on the other side the vertues of a Bawd are much illustrated and confirmed by countrary effects For she is the maine store-house of secresie the Maggazin of taciturnity the clozet of conniuence the mumbudget of silence the cloathbagge of counsell and the Capease fardle packe * A necessary male for a man to trusse vp his trinkets iâ— male or female of friendly toleration Shee is full of intolerable charity for her whole trade and course of life is to hide and couer the faults of the grearest offenders in which regard she is one of the principall secretariesses to the great Goddesse Venus and one of her industrious vigilant most horrible priuie counsell not being ignorant of the liberall Arts and Sciences and exceedingly qualified in the seuen deadly sinnes And for her further behoofe shee hath an insight and can fashion her selfe to the humors of al Nations degrees conditions my steries and occupations First for her knowledges in the Arts and Sciences she hath the grounds of a A Bawd a Grammarian Grammar whereby she can speake and write Amorously fainedly merrily lamentably crastily purposely Bawdily these words all ending in Lye doe make her true dealing questionable yet her ayme is to liue profitably though her fate is to dye miserably Her skill in b An Astronomer Astronomy cannot be small for shee hath beene an often starre-gazer lying on her backe practis'd in eleuations retrogradations Coniunctions and planetary reuolutions put indeed shee is more addicted to accept the Moone for her Mistresse then the Sunne for her Master which makes her expert in night-workes euer changing from quarter to quarter not long abiding in any place sometimes shining in Lady-like resplendent brightnesse with admiration and suddenly againe eclipsed with the pitchy and tenebrous clouds of contempt and deserued defamation Sometimes at the Full at Pickt-hatch and sometimes in the Wane at Bridewell A Bawd is a c A Logician Logician which is perceiued by her subtill and circumuenting speeches doubtfull and ambiguous Apothegmes double significations intricate witty and cunning equiuocations like a skilfull Fencer that casts his eye vpon a mans foot and hits him a knocke on the pate so She by going the further about comes the neerer home and by casting out the Lure makes the Tassell Gentle come to her fist For Rhetoricke shee must haue the Theoricke and Practicke that though the subiect of her discourse or writing be foule and deformed yet must she like a d Mountebanks Raicatcher or Landloper medicine-monger quacke-saluer that couers his bitter pils in Sugar with the Embrodery of her eloquence flourish ouer her immodest
his other sinnes he play the Thiefe And steale mens goods they all will sentence giue He must be hang'd he is vnsit to liue In the Low Countryes if a wretch doe steale But bread or meat to feed himselfe a meale They will vnmercifully beat and clowt him Hale pull and teare spurne kicke flowt him But if a Drunkard be vnpledg'd a Kan Drawes out his knife and basely stabs a man To runne away the Rascall shall haue scope None holds him but all cry * Run Thiefe Run Lope Scellum Lope Thus there 's a close conniuence for all vice Except for Theft and that 's a hanging price One man 's addicted to blaspheme and sweare A second to carowse and domineore A third to whoring and a fourth to fight And kill and slay a fist man to backbite A sixt and seuenth with this or that crime caught And all in generall much worse then naught And amongst all these sianers generall The Thiefe must winne the halter from them all When if the matter should examin'd be They doe deserue it all as much as he Nor yet is Thieuery any vpstart sinne But it of long antiquity hath bin And by this trade great men haue not disdain'd To winne renowne and haue their states maintain'd Grest Alexanders conquests what were they But taking others goods and lands away In manners I must call it Martiall dealing But truth will terme it rob'ry and flat stealing For vnto all the world it is well knowne That he by force tooke what was not his owne Some Writers are with Tamberlaine so briefe To stile him with the name of Seythian Thiefe * Plutarâ—b Licurgus lou'd and granted gifts beside To Thieues that could steale and escape vnspide But if they taken with the manne were They must restore and buy the bargaine deere Thieues were at all times euer to be had Examples by the good Thiefe and the bad And England still hath bin a fruitfull Land Of valiant Thieues that durst bid true men stand One Bellin Dun a Hen. I. a famous Thiefe surniu'd From whom the cowne of Dunstable's deriu'd And Robin Hood b Rich. 2. with little Iohn agreed To rob the rich men and the poore to feede c Edw. 3. The Priests had here such small meanes for their liuing That many of them were enforc'd to Thieuing Once the fist Henry could rob ex'lent well When he was Prince of Wales as Storeis tell Then Fryer Tucke a tall stout Thiefe indeed Could better rob and steale then preach or read Sir Gosselin Deinuill d Edw. 2. with 200. more In Fryers weedes rob'd and were hang'd therefore Thus I in Stories and by proofe doe finde That stealing's very old time out of minde E't I was borne it through the world was spred And will be when I from the world am dead But leauing thus my Muse in hand hath tooke To shew which way a Thiefe is like a Booke A Comparison betweene a Thiefe and a Booke COmparisons are odious as some say But my comparisons are so no way I in the Pamphlet which I wrote before Compar'd a Booke most fitly to a Whore And now as fitly my poore muse alludes A Thiefe t' a Booke in apt similitudes A good Booke steales the mind from vaine pretences From wicked cogitations and offences It makes vs know the worlds deceiuing pleasures And set our hearts on neuer ending treasures So when Thieues steale our Cattle Coyne or Ware It makes vs see how mutable they are Puts vs in mind that wee should put our trust Where Fellon cannot steale or Canker rust Bad Bookes through eyes and eares doe breake and enter And takes possession of the hearts fraile Center Infecting all the little Kingdome Man With all the poys'nous mischiefe that they can Till they hape rob'd and ransack'd him of all Those things which men may iustly goodnesse call Robs him of vertue and of heau'nly grace And leaues him begger'd in a wretched case So of our earthly goods Thieues steale the best And richest iewels and leaue vs the rest Men know not Thieues from true men by their looks Nor by their outsides no man can know Bookes Both are to be suspected all can tell And wisemen e'r they trust will try them well A Booke may haue a title good and faire Though in it one may finde small goodnesse there And so a Thiefe whose actions are most vile Steales good opinion and a true mans stile Some Bookes prophane the Sacred text abuse With common Thieues it is a common vse Some Bookes are full of lyes and Thieues are so One hardly can beleeue their yea or no. Some Bookes are scurrilous and too obsceane And he 's no right Thiefe that loues not a Queane Some Book 's not worth the reading for their fruits Some Thieues not worth the hanging for their suits Some Bookes are briefe and in few words declare Compendious matter and acutenesse rare And so some Thieues will breake into a house Or cut a purse whilest one can cracke a Louse Some Bookes are arrogant and impudent So are most Thieues in Christendome and Kent Some Bookes are plaine and simple and some Thieues Are simply hang'd whilest others get reprieues Some Books like foolish Thieues their faults are spide Some Thieues like witty Bookes their faults can hide Some Bookes are quaint and quicke in their conceits Some Thieues are actiue nimble in their sleights Some Bookes with idle stuffe the Author fills Some Thieues will still be idle by their wills Some Bookes haue neither reason law or sense No more haue any Thieues for their offence A Booke 's but one when first it comes to th'Presse It may increase to numbers numberlesse And so one Thiefe perhaps may make threescore And that threescore may make ten thousand more Thus from one Thiefe Thieues may at last amount Like Bookes from one Booke past all mens account And as with industry and art and skill One Thiefe doth daly rob another still So one Booke from another in this age Steales many a line a sentence or a page Thus amongst Bookes good fellowship I finde All things are common Thieues beare no such mind And for this Thieuing Bookes with hue and cry Are sought as Thieues are for their Fellony As Thieues are chasde and sent from place to place So Bookes are alwaies in continuall chase As Bookes are strongly boss'd and clasp'd bound So Thieues are manacled when they are found As Thieues are oft examin'd for their crimes So Bookes are vsde and haue bin at all times As Thieues haue oft at their arraignment stood So Bookes are tryde if they be bad or good As Iuries and Graund Iuries with much strife Giue vp for Thieues a Verdict death or life So as mens fancies euidence doe giue The shame or fame of Bookes to dye or liue And as the veriest Thiefe may haue some friend So the worst Bookes some Knaue will still defend As Thieues their condemnation must abide Bookes are
but then I am sure that you kild her when she was shiting shee would neuer stunke so else 7 AN exceeding tall Gentlewoman was riding behinde a very short little man so that the mans head reached no higher then her breast which the aforesaid Monsieur perceiuing said Madam you will ride a great deale better if you put your legge ouer that same pummell of your â—â—â— Another time he chanced to meet a Lady of his acquaintance and asked her how shee did how her good husband fared at which word she wept saying that her Husband was in heauen in heauen quoth he it is the first time that I heard of it and I am sorry for it with all my heart 8 ONce the said Monsieur saw a fellow that had a Iack-Daw to sell Sirra quoth he what wilt thou take for thy Daw Monsieur said the fellow the price of my Daw is two French Crownes Wherefore said the other dost thou aske so much for him the fellow replied that the Daw could speake French Italian Spanish Dutch and Latine all which tongues hee will speake after he is a little acquainted in your Lordships house Well quoth he bring thy Daw in and there is thy money In conclusion Iack-Daw after a moneth or fiue weekes time neuer spake otherwise then his fathers speech Kaw Kaw whereat the Monsieur said that the Knaue had cozened him of his money but it is no great matter there is no losse in it for quoth he though my Daw doe not speak yet I am in good hope that he thinkes the more 9 ANother time hee commanded his man to buy some sweet thing to burn in his Chamber for quoth he my Chamber stinkes most odoriferously His man brought Frankincense in a paper and as hee was going for fire his Master tâ—sted of it and finding it sticke in his teeth and rellish very bitter hee called his man cozening knaue that would bring him such bitter trash for his money and straightwayes commanded him to buy a pound of the best Sugar and burne it straight to sweeten and persume his Chamber 10 THis Gallant in his youth was much addicted to dicing and many times when he had lost all his money then hee would pawne his cloake and so goe home without either cloak or coyne which grieued the Lady his mother very much for remedy whereof shee caused all his doublets of what stuffe soeuer to be made with canuasse painted backes whereon was fashioned two fooles which caused the Gentleman euer after to keepe his cloake on his backe for feare two of the three should be discouered 11 VVIll Backstead the Plaier cast his Chamber-lye out of his window in the night which chanced to light vpon the heads of the watch passing by who angerly said Who is that offers vs this abuse Why quoth Will who is there Who is here said one of the pickled watchmen we are the Watch. The Watch quoth William why my friends you know Harme watch harme catch 12 A Cardinall of Rome had a goodly faire house new built but the broken brickes tiles sand lime stones and such rubbish as are commonly the remnants of such buildings lay confusedly in heapes and scattered here and there The Cardinall demanded of his Suruayor wherefore the rubbish was not conueyed away The SÌ„uruayor said that he purposed to hyre an hundred Carts for the purpose The Cardinall replyed that the charge of Carts might be saued for a pit might bee digged in the ground and bury it My Lord said the Suruayor I pray you what shall wee doe with the earth which we digge out of the said pit Why you horseson Coxcombe said the Cardinall canst thou not dig the pit deepe enough and bury all together 13 A Poore Country may praying deuoutly Superstitious before an old Image of S. Loy the Image suddenly fell downe vpon the poore man and bruised his bones sorely that hee could not stirre abroad in a moneth after in which space the cheating Priests had set vp a new Image the Country man came to the Church againe and kneeled a farre off to the new Image saying Although thou smilest and lookest faire vpon mee yet thy father plaid me such a knauish pranke lately that I le beware how I come too neere thee lest thou shouldest haue any of thy Fathers unhappy qualities 14 A Lady hauing beene ten yeeres in suite of Law had a triall at last where the Iudgement went on her side whereupon she would presently expresse her ioy by inuiting some of her neerest tenants and neighbours to supper amongst whom was a plaine downe-right countrey Yeoman to whom the Lady said Tenant I thinke I haue tickled my Aduersary now though it were long first I â—row hee will make no brags of his medling with mee The honest Yeoman replyed Truly Madam I did euer thinke what it would come to at last for I knew when he first medled with your Ladyship that hee had a wrong Sow by the eare 15 ONe asked a fellow what Westminster-Hall was like marry quoth the other it is like a Butlâ—rs Box at Christmas amongâ—â— gamesters for whosoeuer loseth the Box will bee sure to bee a winner 16 A Proper Gentlewoman went to speak with a rich Mizer that had more Gowt then good manners at her taking leaue hee requested her to tast a cup of Canaâ—a Shee contrary to his expectation tooke him at his word and thanked him Hee commanded â—â—â—â— Starueling his man to wash a glasse and still it to the Gentlewoman Honest Ieffrey fil'd a great glasse about the bignesse of two Tayâ—â—â—â— thimbles and gaue it to his master who list it to saue cost and gaue it to the Gentlewomen saying that it was good Canara of six yeeres old at the least to whom shee answered seeing the quantitie so small sir as you requested me I haue tasted your wine but I wonder that it should be so little being of such a great age 17 A Souldier vpon his march found a horse-shooe and stucke it at his girdle where passing through a wood some of the enemy lay in ambush and one of them discharged his musket and the shot by fortune light against the fellowes horse-shooe A ha qd he I perceiue that little armour will serue a â—â—â—â— turne if it be put on in the right place 18 ONe being in a Chamber with his friend looking out at a window hee saw one riding on a horse in the street said hee doe you see that horse yea qd then other then said hee you may sweare you haue seene the best horse in England how doe you know that said the other I know it well said hee for it is my horse and I am sure that hee is the best and yet I dare sweare that I haue one in my â—â—â—ble worth ten of him 19 AN vnhappy boy that kept his fathes sheepe in the Country did vse to carry a paire of Cards in his pocket and meeting with boyes a good as himselfeâ— would fall to Cards
thinke he will not find them in hast 105 A Fellow being scoulded at by his Wife would make her beleeue he would drown himselfe and as hee went toward the riuer his Wife followed him desiring him to forbeare or at the least to let her speake with him well quoth hee speake briefly for I am in haste then husband said shee seeing you will drowne your selfe let mee intreat you to take my counsell which is that you cast not your selfe into this shallow place here for it will grieue my heart to see how long you will bee a dying but goe with me a little wayâ— and I will shew you a deepe place where you shall be dispatched presently 106 A Woman in Scotland lay dying to whom her husband said Wife now thou art about to leaue mee alone I pray thee tell me with whom shall I marry Shee replyed are you in haste to marry before the breath bee out of my body then marry the deuils dam not soâ— wife said hee I haue had his daughter already and if I should match with his mother too then I should be guilty of incest 107 THere was a Gentleman that was of a very hasty disposition so that hee would freâ— and chase almost at all things and be seldome pleased with any thing and withall was a great Tobacco taker and as one time hee beat and kick'd his man the fellow ran from him and told one of his fellowes that hee thought his master was transformed into Brawne for hee was all Choller and that hee thought the reason of his kicking was because hee dranke Colts-foot among his Tobacco 108 A Doctor of Physicke in Italy asked a waterman if hee might goe well by water ouer the Riuer Po the fellow told him yea but the Doctor when hee came to the water side and saw it was a little rough weather was very angry and said You Watermen are the veriest knaues in the world for to gaine six pence you care not to cast a man away to whom the Waterman replyed Sir it appeares wee are men of a cheaper function and better conscience then you for you sometimes will not cast a man away vnder forty fifty or one hundred crownes 109 ONe borrowed a cloake of a Gentleman and met one that knew him who said I thinke I know that cloake it may be so said the other I borrowed it of such a Gentleman the other told him that it was too short yea but quoth â—â— that had the cloake I will haue it long enough before I bring it home againe 110 A Poore womans husband was to be hanged at the towne of Lancaster and on the execuâ—â—â—â—ay she intreated the Shrieue to be good â—â— her and stand her friend the Shrieue said that he could doe her no hurt for her husband was condemned and iudged by the Law and therefore heeâ— must suffer Ah good master Shrieue said the woman it is not his life that â—â—â—â— but because I haue farre home and my â—â—â—e is old and stiffe therefore I would intreat you to doe me the fauour to let my husband be hanged first 111 ONe came into a Colledge in a Vniuersity and asked how many Fellowes belonged to the house â—â— another replyed that there were more good fellowes then good â—â—â—â—llers two to one 112 A Fellow being drunke was brought before a Iustice who committed him to prison and the next day when hee was to be discharged hee was come to the Iustice againe who â—â—â— to him Sirrah you were not drunke the last night your Worship sayes true said the know Yea but you were drunke said the Iustice and you did abuse me and said I was â—wise Iustice the fellow replied If I said so I thinke I was drunke indeed and I cry your Worship mercy for I will neuer doe you that wrong when I am sober 113 A Spaniard hauing but one eye chanced to meet a man in the field where drawing both their Rapiers the other man with an infortunate thrust strucke out the other eye of the Spaniard whereat the blind man suddenly castdowne his Rapiers saying Buonas noches which in the Spanish tongue is good night 114 A Reuerend Preacher once reproued his Auâ—â—ors for sleeping at his Sermons but â—â—â— said he I pray you do not refrain coÌ„ming to Church though you doe sleepe for God Almighty may chance to take some of you napping 115 A Saylor was absent on a voiage three yeers in the meane space his wife had a boy of 20. moneths old to entertaine him withall at his returne the Saylor faâ—d Wife whose childe is this marry husband quoth she it is mine and God sent it me in your absence To which the man replied I will keepe this child because God sent him but if God send mee any more on that fashion he shall keepe them himselfe 116 A Young fellow being newly married hauing bin from home came suddenly into his house and found his wife at foule play with another man the poore young Cuckold ran presently and told his wiues father all the businesse who replied thus Sonne I married her mother and I tell thee plaine that thy wife seemes to bee her daughter in conditions as well as feature for I haue taken her mother many times in that manner and no warning would serue her till in the end age made her leaue it and so will thy wife doe when shee is old and past it 117 THree Gossips in a Tauerne chatting ouer a pint of Sherry said one of them I muse whereabouts a Cuckolds hornes doe grow quoth the second I thinke they doe grow in the pole or nape of the necke verily quoth the third I doe thinke it to bee true for my husbands bands are alwayes worne out behind 118 ONe called a Whore lazy iade content your selfe quoth another as lazy as shee seemes shee is able to carry a man quicke to the diuell 119 A Company of Neighbours that dwelt all in one rowe in one side of a street one of them said Let vs be merry for it is reported that we are all Cuckolds that dwell on our side of the street except one one of the women sate musing to whom her husband said wife what all a mort Why art thou so sad no quoth shee I am not sad but I am studying which of our neighbours it is that is not a Cuckold 120 A Gentleman being in a house of iniquity or Couzen-German to a Bawdy-house the roome being very darke he called a lowd for a light Huswife to whom a wench made answer I come Incontinent He cals for light she vnderstood him right For shee was vanity which made her light She sayd she would Inconcinent attend To make her continent she needs to mend 121 TWo Mayds or seruants dwelling in a house together the one of them hauing occasion to vse a steele smoothing Iron or some such kinde of Laundry instrument and hauing sought it and not finding it said to her fellow thou dost mislay euerything
weaknes may babble of Reformation thougâ— to no end and so I end FINIS The Nipping or Snipping of ABVSES OR The Wooll-gatheÌ„ring ôf VVit A Skeltonicall salutation to those that know how to reade and not merre the sense with hacking or mis-construction THou true vnderstander my inuention doth wander with the quill of a Gander to shield mee from slander to thy good protection I yeeld in subiection my poore imperfection with friendly correction and as thou dost â—â—e or stroake mee or strike mee reproue mee or proue mee or mooue mee â—â— loue mee or quiteme or spight me friend me or mend me or else not offend â—â—â—â— If in ought that is written thy humors are bitten seeme not to espy it and â—one will descry it But if thou doest kick the spurre sure will prick and if thou â—â—â—â—ing the waspe then will sting My verses are made to ride euery Iade but â—â—are forbidden of Iades to be ridden they shall not bee snaffled nor braued â—or baffled wert thou George with thy Naggon that foughtst with Draggon or â—â—re you Great Pompey my verse should bethumpe ye if you like a Iauel against â—â—â— dare cauill I doe not intend it as now to commend it or yet to defend it But â—â— mee I doe send it to like it or mend it and when thou hast end it applaud it â—â— rent it my wits I could bristle for a better Epistle but yet at this time this â—â—â— Rime I send to thy view because it is new So Reader adue I thine if thou mine IOHN TAYLOR To the Castalian Water-writer Splende dignoscar â— Diall set vpon an eminent place â— iâ— clouds doe interuall Apolloes face â—â—â—â— a flgur'd shape whereby we knowe â—â—le of Time which it doth owe â—â— expectations yet wee see â—â—â—ctes by which Times should distinguish'd be â—â—â—alelled punctuall ciphered lines â—â— by a shadow when the faire sunne shines Explaines the houres So if the Sonne of men Thy Glorious Patron deeme to blesse thy pen With his faire light Thy Muse so young so faire So well proportion'd in conceites so rare And Naturall streames and stile and eu'ry part That Nature therein doth exceed all Art Will then as with Enthusiasme inspir'd Print Legends by the world to be admir'd Thine Iames Ratray To my friend by land and by water Iohn Taylor THese leaues kind Iohn are not to wrap vp drams That doe containe thy witty Epigrams Let worser Poems serue for such abuse Whilst thine shall be reseru'd for better vse And let each Critick cauill what he can T is rarely written of a Water-man Thy friend assured Rob Branthwaite To his deare friend Master Iohn Taylor ME thinkes I see the Sculler in his boate With goodly motion glide along faire Thames And with a charming and bewitching noate So sweet delightfull tunes and ditties frames As greatest Lordingâ— and the nicest Dames That with attentiue eare did heare thy layès Of force should yeeld due merit to thy praise Worth to all Watermen straine forth thy voice To proue so pleasing in the worlds proud eye As eyes and eares and hearts may all reioyce To see heare muse vpon the melodie In contemplation of thy harmony Let Thames faire bankes thy worth and praises ring While I thy worth and praise beyond sea sing Tho Gent. To the Water-Poet Iohn Taylor Honest Iohn Taylor though I know 't no grace To thee or me for writing in this place Yet know I that the multitudes of friends Will thee protect from vile malignant mindes The rather cause what euer thou hast snowne Is no one mans inuention but thine owne Malicious minded men will thee dispraise Enuy debases all her selfe to raise Then rest content whilst to thy greater fame Both Art and Nature striue to raise thy name Thine euer as thou knowest R Cudner To my friend Iohn Taylor IF Homers verse in Greeke did merit praise If Naso in the Latine won the Bayes If Maro 'mongst the Romanes did excell If Tasso in the Tuscan tongue wrote well Then Taylor I conclude that thou hast don In English what immortall Baies haue won Thy friend Iohn Taylor To my honest friend Iohn Taylor THy Taylors shears foule vices wings â—â—â—â—â— The scames of impious dealings are vnript So Art-like thou these captious times hast quipt As if in Helicon thy pen were dipt All those who ' gainst thy worth are enuious lipt Thy sharpe Satyrick Muse hath nipt and sâ—ipâ—â— And to conclude thy nuention is not chipt Or stolne or borrowd begd or basely gript Then Taylor thy conceits are truely sowde And Sculler on my word it was well roude Thine to mybest powâ—â— Enoch Lyâ— In Laudem Authoris MOst commonly one Taylor will dispraise Anothers workmanship enuying alwaiâ—s At him that 's better then himselfe reputed Though he himselfe be but a botcher bruted So might it well be said of me my friend Should I not to thy worke some few lines lend Which to make probable this sentence tendeth Who not commends he surely discommendeth In my illiterate censure these thy rimes Deserue applause euen in these worst of times VVhen wit is onely worthy held in those On whom smooth flattery vaine praise bestoâ—es But I not minding with thy worth to flatter Do know thy wit too good to toyle by water Rob. Taylor To my friend IOHN TAYLOR THis worke of thine thou hast compil'd soâ—â—â— It merits better wits thy worth to tell Thine Maximilian Wâ—â— The Authours description of a Poet and Poesie with an Apology in defence of Naturall English Poetry SHall beggers dine into the Acts of Kings Shall Nature speake of supernat ' rall things â—â—â—â— Eagles flights attempted be by Gnats â—â—â—â— mighty Whales be portraied out by Sprats These things I know vnpossible to be â—â—â—d it is as vnpossible for mee That am a begger in these Kingly acts Which from the heau'ns true Poetrie extracts â—â—â— foole by Nature I â—â—â— neuer knew this high-bome mystery â—â—â— worthlesse gnat I know my selfe more weake â—â—â— the Princely Eagle dare to speake â—â—â—y sprat the Ocean seekes so sound â—â— seek this Whale though seeking he be drown'd â—â—â— to proceed a Poets Art I know â—â—â— compact of earthly things below â—â—â— is of any base substantiall mettle That in the worlds rotundity doth settle â—â—â—tis Immortall and it hath proceeding â—rom wheÌ„â—e diuinest soules haue all their breeding â—â— is a blessing â—â—â—u'n hath sent to men â—y men it is diâ—â—lged with their pen And by that propagation it is knowne And ouer all the world disperst and throwne â—â—â— verball elocution so refinde That it to Vertue animates mans minde The blessed Singer of blest Israel â—â— this rare Arte he rarely did excell He sweetly Poetiz'd in heau'nly verses â—â—â— lines which aye eternity rehearses â—â—â— and glorious great esteeme â—â—â— Câ—â—â—â— did a Poet deeme â—â—mired Virgils life doth plainely show â—â—t all the world a Poets worth may know â—â—â— leauing Israels King and Romane Caesar â—â—seeke in England English Poets
so lowde she cannot sleepe Lo thus the deuill sowes contentious seed Whence sects schismes and heresies do breed Epigram 15. Kissing goes by fauour BEmbus the Burgomaster liues in paine With the Sciatica and the Cathar Rich Grundo of the dropsie doth complaine And with the Gowt these mizers troubled are If Tinkers Coblers Botchers be infected With Bembus Lamenesse or with Grundoes Gowt Like pocky fellowes they must bee reiected And as infectious rascals bee kept out And not come neere where wholesome people flocks Thus rich mens sicknesses are poore mens pocks Epigram 16. Deere no Venison PRocilla alwaies calls her husband Deere Belike shee bought him at too deare a rate Or else to make the case more plaine appeare Like to a Deere she hath adorn'd his pate If it be so god Vulcan send her lucke That she may liue to make her Deere a Bucke Epigram 17. Euery thing is prettie when it is little THere is a saying old but not so wittie That when a thing is little it is prettie This doating age of ours it finely fits Where many men thought wise haue pretty wits Epigram 18. I meant somewhat ONe ask'd mee what my Melancholy meanes I answer'd 'T was because I wanted meanes He ask'd what I did by my answer meane I told him still my meanes were too too meane He offer'd me to lend me pounds a score I answer'd him I was too much in score He finding me in this crosse answ'ring veine Left me in want to wish for wealth in vaine Epigram 19. Faith without workes A Mongst the pure reformed Amsterdammers Those faithfull Friday feasting capon craÌ„mers Only in them they say true faith doth lurke But 't is a lazy faith 't will doe no worke O should it worke ther 's many thousand feares 'T would set the world together by the eares Epigram 20. Partiality STrato the Gallant recles alongst the street His addle head 's too heauy for his feete What though he sweare and swagger spurn kick Yet men will say the Gentleman is sick And that 't were good to learn where he doth dwell And helpe him home because he is not well Strait staggers by a Porter or a Carman As bumsie as a fox'd flapdragon German And though the Gentlemans disease and theirs Are parted onely with a paire of sheares Yet they are Drunken knaues and must to th' stocks And there endure a world of flouts and mocks Thus wheÌ„ braue Strato's wits with wine are shrunk The same disease will make a begger drunke Epigram 21. A keeper of honesty DEliro should of honesty be full And store of wisedome surely is within him What though he dally with a painted Trull And shee to folly daily seemes to win him Yet in him sure is honesty good store He vtters but his knauerie with a whore For he that spends too free shall surely want Whilst he that spares will liue in wealthy state So wit and honesty with such are scant Who part with it at euery idle rate But men must needes haue honesty and wit That like Deliro neuer vtter it Epigram 22. All 's one but one's not all TO wonder and admire is all one thing If as Synonimies the words be tooke But if a double meaning from them spring For double sence your Iudgement then must looke As once a man all soild with durt and mire Fell downe and wonder'd not but did admire Epigram 23. Mistresse fine bones FIne Parnell wonderfully likes her choyce In hauing got a husband so compleate Whose shape and mind doth wholy her reioyce At bed board and abroad he 's alwaies neate Neate can he talke and feed and neatly tread Neate are his feete but most neate is his head Epigram 34. A supposed Constructions MAry and Mare Anagrammatiz'd The one is Army and the other Arme â—â—â— both their names is danger Moraliz'd â—â— both alike doe sometimes good or harme Mare 's the sea and Mare 's Arme 's a riuer And Mary's Armie 's all for whatl ' yee giue her Epigram 25. Death is a Inggler A Rich man sicke would needs go make his will And in the same he doth command and will The hundred pound vnto his man call'd Will Because hee alwaies seru'd him with good will But all these wills did proue to Will but vaine His master liues and hath his health againe Epigram 26. Mistresse Grace onely by name GRace gracelesse why art thou vngracious Grace Why dost thou run so lewdly in the race The cause wherefore thy goodnesse is so scant â—â—ose what most thou hast thou most dost want Epigram 27. Prudence T Is strange that Prudence should be wilde and rude Whose very name doth Modesty include â—â—e reason is for ought that I can see Her name and nature doe not well agree Epigram 28. MercyÌ„ MY Mercy hates me what 's the cause I pray T is ' cause I haue no money thee doth say â—mell Mercy now I plainly see Without a see no mercie comes from thee â—et in conclusion euery idle gull â—â—ceines thy Mercy is vnmercifull Epigram 29. Faith O Faith thou alwaies vnbeleeuing art Faith in thy name and faithlesse in thy heart â—â—â—credidst all but what is true and good â—vertue rude in vice well vnderstood Epigram 30. Vpon my selfe MY selfe I like to an vntun'd Viall For like a Viall I am in a Case And whoso of my fortunes makes a triall Shall like to me be strung and tuned base And Trebles Troubles he shall neuer want But heere 's the Period of my mischiefes All Though Base and Trebles fortune did me grant And Meanes but yet alas they are too small Yet to make vp the Musicke I must looke The Tenor in the cursed Counter booke Epigram 31. A Rope for Parrat WHy doth the Parrat cry a Rope a Rope Because hee 's cag'd in prison out of hope Why doth the Parrat call a Boate a Boate It is the humour of his idle note O pretty Pall take heed beware the Cat. Let watermen alone no more of that Since I so idlely heard the Parrat talke In his owne language I say Walke knaue walke Epigram 32. Constants INconstant Constants all-bewitching feature Hath made faire Constance an inconstant Creature Her Godmother was very much to blame To giue Inconstancy a constant name But 't was a woman nam'd her so contrary And womens tongues and hearts doe euer vary Epigram 33. Vpon the burning of the Globe A Spiring Phaeton with pride inspir'd Misguiding Phoebus Carre the world he fir'd But Ouid did with fiction serue his turne And I in action sawe the Globe to burne Epigram 34. Late Repentance A Greedy wretch did on the Scriptures looke And found recorded in that Sacred booke How such a man with God should sure preuaile Whoâ—clad the naked and visit those in Iaile And then he found how he had long mistak'd And oftentimes had made the cloathed nak'd In stead of visiting th' opprest in mones He had consum'd them to the very bones Yet one day he at
Latboord side Take in the sore-sayle yare good fellowes yare Aluffe at helme there ware no more beware Steere South South East there â—I say ware no more We are in danger of the Leeward shore Cleere your maine brace let got the bolâ— in there Port port the helme hard Rumer come no neere Sound sound heaue heaue the lead what depth what depth Fadom and a halfe three all Then with a whisse the winds againe doe puffe And then the Master cries aluffe aluffe Make ready th'anker ready th'anker hoe Cleere cleere the boighrope steddy well steer'd so Hale vp the boat in Sprit-sayle there afore Blow winde and burst and then thou wilt giue o're Aluffe clap helme a lec yea yea done done Downe downe alow into the hold quicke runne There 's planck sprung somthing in hold did break Pump bullies Carpenters quicke stop the leake Once heaue the lead againe and sound abafte A shafnet lesse seuen all Let fall the Ancker there let fall Man man the boat a woat hale vp hale Top yet maine yard a port veere cable alow Ge way a head the boat there hoe d ee row Well pumpt my hearts of gold who sayes amends East and by South West and by North she wends This was a weather with a witnesse here But now we see the skyes begin to cleare To dinner hey and lets at ancker ride Till winds grow gentler and a smoother tide I thinke I haue spoken Heathen Greeke Vtopian or Bermudian to a great many of my readers in the description of this storme but indeed I wrote it onely for the vnderstanding Mariners reading I did it three yeares since and could not finde a fitter place then this to insert it or else it must haue laine in silence But to proceed to my former theame of Hemp-seed The Shoe-maker and Cobler with their Ends One alwayes makes and t'other euer mends Take away Hemp the sole and vpper leather I know could neuer well be sow'd together And for the Cobler it appeareth plaine That hee 's the better workman of the twaine For though a Shoomaker in art excell And makes his shoes and boots neuer so well Yet euermore it is the Coblers trade To mend the worke the Shoomaker hath made The Character of a Cobler The Cobler like a Iustice takes delight To set men that doe walke aside vpright And though he looke blacke as he carried coles He daily mendeth desperate wicked soles Though Crownes and Angels may perhaps be scant Yet store of peeces he doth neuer want And let his woke be ended well or ill Here 's his true honour he is mending still And this his life and occupation is And thus he may thanke Hempseed for all this For Hempseed if men rightly vnderstand Is knowne the greatest Iustice in a Land How could men trauaile safely here and there If Hempseed did not keepe a Theefe in feare No man within his house could liue or rest For villuines that would pilfer and molest And breakedowne walls and rifle chests and truncks To maintaine drinking dicing Knaues and Punks That many a one that 's wealthy ouer night Would t're the breake of day bebegger'd quite Worth thousands lately now not worth a groat And hardly scapes the cutting of his throat No doubt but many a man doth liue and thriue Which but for Hemp-seed would not be aliue And many a wife and Virgin doth escape A rude deflouring and a barbarous rape Because the halter in their minds doe run By whom these damned deeds would else be done It is a bulwarke to defend a Prince It is a Subiects armour and defence No Poniard Pistoll Halbert Pike or Sword Can such defensiue or sure guard afford There 's many a Rascall that would rob purloine Pick pockets and cut purses clip and coine Doe any thing or all things that are ill If Hempseed did not curbe his wicked will 'T is not the breath or letter of the Law That could keepe Theeues rebellious wils in awe For they to saue their liues can vse perswasions Tricks sleights repriues and many strange euasions But tricke repriue or sleight nor any thing Could euer goe beyond a Hempen string This is Lawes period this at first was made To be sharpe Iustice executing blade This string the Hangman monthly keepes in tune More then the Cuckoes song in May or Iune It doth his wardrobe coine and stocke vproare In euery moneth and quarter of the yeare Yet there hath beene two or three Sessions wherein none hath beene execused by which meanes he is in danger of breaking or bankeruptisiue for the Hangmans trade is maintained by Iustice and not by mercy Besides it is an easie thing to proue It is a soueraigne remedie for loue As thus suppose your thoughts at hourely strife Halfe mad and almost weary of your life All for the loue of some faire female creature And that you are entangled with his feature That you are sad and glad and mad and tame Seeming to burne in frost and freeze in flame In one breath sighing singing laughing weeping Dreame as you walke and waking in your sleeping Accounting houres for yeares and moneths for ages Till you enioy her that your heart encages And she hath sent you answers long before That her intent is not to be your whore And you for your part meane vpon your life Ne're while you liue to take her for your wife To end this matter thus much I assure you A Tiburne Hempen-caudell well will cure you It can cure Traytors but I hold it fit T'apply't ere they the treason doe commit Wherefore in Sparta it yeleped was Snickup which is in English Gallow-grasse The names that diuers Nations did attribute to Hemp-seed The Libians call'd it Reeua which implies It makes them dye like birds a twixt earth and skyes The name of Choak-wort is to it assign'd Because it stops the venom of the mind Some call it Neck-weed for it hath a tricke To cure the necke that 's troubled with the crick For my part all 's one call it what you please 'T is soueraigne 'gainst each Common-wealth disease And I doe wish that it may cure all those That are my Soueraignes and my Countries foes And further I would haue them searchâ—d and seene With care and skill when as their wounds be green For if they doe to a Gangrena runne There 's little good by Hempseed can be done For could I know mens hearts I hold it reason To hang a Traytor in his thought of treason For if his thought doe grow vnto an act It helpes not much to hang him for the fact But that example may a terror strike To others that would else attempt the like To end this point of Hempseed thus in briefe It helps a truemanl and it hangs a Theefe Rates Imposts Customes of the Custome-house Would at the best rate scarce be worth a Louse Goods in and our which dayly ships doe fraight By guesse by tale by measure and by weight Which
or fiue dayes recouered to his health but that he had a cricke in his necke â— the cramp in his iawes The old man was glad that he had done so good a deed as he thought began to giue the thiefe Fatherly counsell and told him that it was Gods great mercy towards him to make me quoth he the Instrument of thy deliuerance and therfore looke that thou make good vse of this his gracious fauour towards thee and labour to redeeme the time thou hast mispea get thy into some other Princes countrey where thy former crimes may not bring thee into the danger of the Law againe and there with honest industrious endeuours get the liuing The thiefe seemed willing to entertaine these good admonitions and thanked the Boore and his Sonne telling them that the next morning he would be gone â— and if euer his fortunes made him able he promised to be so grateful vnto them that they should haue cause to say their great curtesies were well bestowed vpon him but all his sugred sweete promises were in the proofe but Gall and wormwood in the performance for this gracelesse Caitiffe arose betimes in the morning and drew on a paire of Bootes and spurres which were the mans sonnes of the house and slipping out of the doores went to the stable and stole one of his kind hosts best horses and away rode hee The man and his Sonne when they were vp and missed the thiefe and the horse were amazed at the ingratitude of the wretch and with all speed his soone and he rode seuerall waies in pursuit of him and in briefe one of them tooke him and brought him backe to their house againe and when it was night they bound him and laid â—â—â—â— in their waggon hauing deafe eares and hardned hearts to all his intreaties and away to the Gallowes where they found him hanging there they with the halter being a little shortened they left him The next day the Country people wondred to see him hanging there again for they had seen him hanged and missed him gone and now tobe thus strangely priuately come againe in boote and spurres whereas they remembred at his first hanging he had shoes stockings it made them muse what iourney he had beene riding what a mad Gâ—est he was to take the Gallowes for his Inne or as I suppose for his end The rumor of this accident being bruited abroad the people came far and neere to see him all in general wondring how these things should come to passe At last to cleere all doubts proclamations were published with pardon and a reward to any that could discouer the truth whereupon the old Boore Soone came in and related the whole circumstance of the matter At another place the hangmans place beeing void there were two of the bloud for it is to be noted that the succession of that office doth liueally descend from the Father to the Soone or to the next of the bloud which were at strife for the possession of this high indignity Now it happened that 2. men were to be beheaded at the saine towne and at the same time and to auoid sute in law for this great prerogatiue it was concluded by the Arbitrators that each of these new hangman should execute one of the Prisoners and he that with greatest cunning and sleight could take the head from the body should haue the place to this they all agreed and the Prisoners were brought forth where one of the Executioners did bide a red silke thread double about his Prisoners necke the threads being distant one from another only the bredth of one thread and he promised to cut off the head with a backward blow with a Sword betweene the threads The other called his Prisoner aside and told him that if hee would be ruled by him he should haue his life saued and besides quoth he I shall be sure to haue the office The Prisoner was glad of the motion and said he would doe any thing vpon these conditions then said the Hangman when thou art on thy knees and hast said thy prayers and that Idoe lift vp my Axe for I will vse an Axe to strinke thee I will cry Heâ— at which word doe thou rise and run away thou knowest none will slay thee if thou canst once elcape after thou art deliuered into my custody it is the fashion of our Country and let me alone to shift to answer the matter This being said or whispered the headsman with the sword did cut off the Prisoners headâ— betweene the threads as hee had said which made all the people wonder at the steddinesse of his hand and most of them iudged that hee was the man that was and would be fittest to make a mad hangman of But as one tale is good till another be told and as there be three degrees of good better and best so this last hangman did much exceed and eclipse the others cunning For his prisoner being on his knees and he lifting vp his axe to giue the fatall blow Heâ—â— said he according to promise whereupon the fellow arose and ran away but when he had run some seuen or eight paces the hangman threw the Axe after him and strooke his head smoothly from his shoulders now for all this who shall haue the place is vnknowne for they are yet in Law for it and I doubt not but before the matter bee ended that the Lawyers will make them exercise their own trades vpon themselues to end the controuersie This tale doth fauour somewhat Hyperbolicall but I wish the Reader to beleeue no more of the matter then I saw and there is an end At another Towne there stood an old ouerworne despised paire of Gallowes but yet not so old but they will last many a faire yere with good vsage but the Townes men a little distance from them built another paire in a more stately Geometricall port and fashion whereupon they were demanded why they would be at the charge to erect a new Gallowes hauing so sufficient an old one they answered that those old Gallowes should serue to hang fugitiues and strangers but those new ones were built for them and their heires for euer Thus much for hangmen the eues and Gallowses Yet one thing more for theeues In Hamburgh those that are not hanged for theft are chained 2. or 3. together and they must in that sort sixe or seuen yeares draw a dung-cart and clense the streets of the towne euery one of those theeues for as many yeares as hee is condemned to that slauery so many Bels he hath hanged at an iron aboue one of his shoulders and euery yeare a Bell is taken off till all are gone and then he is a Freeman againe and I did see ten or twelue of these Carts and some of the Theeues had 7. Bels some 5. some 6. some one but such a noyse they make as if all the Diuels in Hell were dancing the morrice Hamburgh is
of good men and the reprobate In many places they doe seeme to vary And beare a sence from Scripture quite contrary In Tobis and Dame Indith disagrees From Text and Raâ—es in the Machabâ—es For which the Church hath euer held it fit To place them by themselues from holy writ FINIS SALVATOR MVNDI DEDICATED TO THE HIGH MAIESTIE OF QVEENE MARY GReat Queene I haue with paines and labour tooke From out the greatest Booke this little Booke And with great Reuerence I haue cull'd from thence All things that are of greatest consequence And though the Volumne and the Worke bee small Yet it containes the summe of all in ALL. To you I giue it with a heart most feruent And rest your humble Subiect and your Seruant IOHN TAYLOR To the Reader HEere Reader then maist read for little cost How thou wast ransoâ—â—'d when thou quite wast lost Mans gracelesuesse and Gods exceeding grace Thou here maist reade and see in little space IOHN TAYLOR Mathew LOe here the blessed Sonne of God and Man New borne who was before all worlds began Of heau'nly seed th' eternall liuing Rocke Of humane race of Kingly Dauids stocke Our blest Redeemer whom the Prophets old In their true preachings had so oft foretold In figures ceremonies types and tropes He here sulfils their words confirmes their hopes The worlds saluations sole and totall summe Poore Mankinds Sauiour IESVS CHRIST is come From married Mary wife and Virgin springs This heauenly earthly supreame King of Kings He 's naked borne and in a manger layd Where he and 's Mother blessed wife and maid Are by the wite men sought and seeking found And hauing found their ioyes doe all abound Where they their loue their zeale their faith vnfold And offer incense myrthe and purest gold False-hearted Herod seeketh to destroy This new borne Infant our eternall ioy But Ioseph by a dreame is warn'd by night T'ward AEgypt with the Babe to take his flight Amongst th' AEgyptians be not longsoiournes But backe to Naz'reth he againe returnes To end the Law the Babe was circumcis'd And then by Iohn in Iordane was baptiz'd When loe the Father from his glorious Throne Sends downe the Holy Ghost vpon his Sonne In likenesse of a pure vnspotted Doue Which did his Birth and Baptis me both approue Now subtill Sathan he attempts and tempts him And fasting to the wildernesse exempts him But Iesus power the soule siends power destroyd Commanding Sathan hence Auoyd Auoyd The fearefull Diuell doth slee Christ goes and preaches And in the Mountaine multitudes he reaches He said Repentance wipes away transgressings And to the godly he pronounced blessings Hee makes the lame to goe the blind to see Deafe heare dumbe speake the leapers cleansed be The diuels from the possessed out he draue The dead are rais'd the poore the Gospell haue Such things he doth as none but God can doe And all 's to bring his flock his fold vnto All that are laden come to me quoth he And I will ease you therefore come to me You of your heauy sinnes I doe acquite My yoake is easie and my burden's light Vpon Mount Taber there our blest Messias Doth shew himselfe with Moses and Elias Yet all these mightie wonders that he wrought Nor all the heauenly teachings that he taught The stiffe neckd stubborne Iewes could not conuert But they ramaine obdurate hard of heart The man quoth some by whom these things are done It is the Carpenters poore Iosephs Sonne Some said how be these things to a passe did bring By power of Belzebub thâ—insernall King Thus with the poyson of their enuious tongues They guerdon good with ill and right with wrongs His owne not knowes him Iudas doth betray him To Annas and to Caiphas they conuey him From Caiphas backe to Annas and from thence Is sent this euerlasting happy Prince Thus is this death this sirâ—â— this Sathan-killer Mongst sinnefull wretches tost from post to Piller He 's slouted spitted on derided stript â— He 's most vnmercifully scourg'd and whipt By Impious people he 's blasphem'd and rail'd And of the Iewes in scorne as King is hail'd He like a Lambe vnto his death it led Nail'd on the Crosse for man his heart bloud shed He after three dayes glorious doth arise He leaues the sinnefull earth and mounts the skyes But first to his Disciples he appeures Where he their drooping halfe dead Spirits cheares Marke Saint Marke declares how blest baptizing Iohn Fore-runner was of Gods eternall Son Which Iohn in Wildernesse baptizes teaches And of contrition and remishon preaches Our Sauiour calls no Pharisees or Scribes Or princely people out of Iudahs Tribes But Simon Andrew Iames and Iohn are those Poore toy ling Fishermen which Iesus chose To shew that with the humblest smallest things God greatest matters to perfection brings By sundry wondrous workes our Sauiour Iesus From sinne and Sathan lab'reth to release vs. And in requitall the Ingratefull Iewes Deuise their blest Redeemer to abuse Some inwardly doe hate him some belye him His Seruants all for sake him or deny him But Peter thou wast bless in â—hy dyniall Orthy presuming thou hast â—â—â— the tryall Repentance wasâ— away thy â—â—nities crimes And thou a parterpâ— to after times The Sonne and Heire of neuer sading Heau'n Into the hands of sinfull meâ—s giuen He dyes he 's buried and in glory rises Triumphing ouer all his foes deuises S. Luke Heere Mary and old Zacharias sings In ioyfull manner to the King of Kings And aged Simeon in his armed did take The Lord of life and doth reioycings make Christ teaches preaches mercy vnto all That by amendment will for mercy call He 's tane and by false witnesses accus'd He 's beaten scoffed scorned and abus'd He 's hang'd vpon the Crosse betwixt two theeues The one doth rails on him and one beleeues He dies he 's buried tising he doth quell And conquer all his soes sin death and hell B. Iohn In the beginning was th' eternall Word The Word with God was and that Word the Lord In the beginning the same Word with God Was and for euer hath with him abead With it were all things made and made was nought Without this Word the which was made or wrought Here Christs Diuinity is told by Iohn The blessed Trinitie one three three one How God had now perform'd the oath he swore To Abram and to Israel long before How Christ should come to ransome Aaaâ—es losse And satisfie Gods Iustice on the crosse Though times and places farre a sunderb Yet Prophets and Euangelists agree In Iesus birth his Doctrine life and death Whereby our dying Soules gaâ— ne liuing breath If all things should be writ which â—rst was done By Iesus Christ Gods euerlasting Sonne From Cratch to Crosse from Cradle to his tombe To hold the Bookes the world would not be roome Acts. Th' Apostles praising God and singing Songs The holy Ghost in fierie clouen tongues Descends vpon them who are all inspir'd With