his Kingdome And let vs but marke and consider the plagues and punishments that God hath inflicted vpon Murderers Adulterers and incestuous persons First Cain although by his birth hee was the first man that euer was borne a Prince by his birth and heire apparant to all the world yet for the Murther by him committed on his brother he was the first Vagabond and Runnagate on the face of the earth almost fearefull of his owne shaddow and after he had liued a long time terrifide in Conscience was himselfe slaine as is supposed by Lamech Simeon and Leui the sonnes of Iacob were accurst of their Father for the slaughter of the Sichemites Ioab the Captaine of Dauids Host was slaine for the murthering of Abner Dauid himselfe for the death of Vrlas and the Adultery committed with Bethsheba was continually plagued and vexed with the Sword of Warre with the Rebellion of his owne sonnes and with the vntimely deaths of Aâ—non and Absolen Baanah and Rechab for the slaying of Ishbesheth the sonne of Saul they were both by Dauids commandement put to death who had both their hands and feete cut off and were afterward hanged ouer the Poole in Hebron Samuell 2. 4. The examples are infinite out of diuine and humane Histories that God did neuer suffer Murder to goe vnrewarded and this miserable man of whom I haue here related is a most mainfest spectacle of Gods reuenging vengeance for that crying and hainous sinne As concerning Lust and Incontinency it is a short pleasure bought with long paine a hunnied poyson a Gulfe of shame a Pick-purse a breeder of Diseases a gall to the Conscience a corrofide to the heart turning mans wit into foolish madnesse the bodies bane and the soules perdition to it is excessiue in youth and odious in age besides God himselfe doth denounce most fearefull threats against Fornicators and Adulterers as the Apostle saith that Whormongers and Adulterers shall not inherit the Kingdome of Heauen 1. Cer. 6. 9. And God himselfe saith that hee will bee a swift witnesse against Adulterers Mal. 3.5 And the Wise man saith that because of the whorish woman a man is brought to a â—â—â—â—â—â— of bread and a woman will hunt for the precious lifâ— of a man For faith he can a man take fire in â—â—â— bosome and his cloathes not bee burnt or can â—â—â— man goe vpon hot Coales and his feet not be burnt So hee that goesh in to his neighbours Wife â—â—â— not be innocent Prou. 6. 27 28 29. Abimelech one of the sonnes of Gedeon murdered three score and ten of his Brethren and in reward thereof by the iust Iudgement of God a woman with a piece of a Milstone beat out his braines after he had vsurped the Kingdome three yeeres Iudges the 9. Our English Chronicles make mention that Roger Mortimer Lord Baron of Wallingford merdered his Master King Edward the second and caused the Kings Vncle Edmund Earle of Kent causelesly to bee beheaded but Gods Iustice ouertooke him at last so that for the said Murders he was shamefully executed Humphâ—â—â— Duke of Glocester was murdered in the Abbey of Bary by William de la Poole Duke of Suffoâ—â—â— who afterward was beheaded himselfe on the Sea by a Pyrat Arden of Feuersham and Pâ—â—â— of Plimmouth both their Murders are fresh â—â—â— memory and the fearfull ends of their Wiue and their Ayders in those bloudy actions will neuer be forgotten It is too manifestly known what a number of Stepmothers and Strumpets haue most in humanely murdred their Children and so the same haue most deseruedly beene executed But in the memory of man nor scarcely in any History it is not to be found that a Father did euer take two Innocent Children â—â—â— of their beds and with weeping teares of pâ—â—ilesse pity and vnmercifull meroy to drown them shewing such compassionate cruelty and sorrowfull sighing remorcelesse remoâ—â—â— in that most vnfatherly and vnnaturall deed All which may be attributed to the malice of the Diuell whose will and endeauour that none should be saued who layes out his traps and snares intangling some with Luâ—â—â— some with Couetousnesse some with Ambition Drunkennesse Enuy Murder Sloth or any Vice whereto he sees a man or a woman moâ—â—â— inclined vnto as he did by this wretched maâ—â—â—lulling him as it were in the cradle of sensâ—â—â— and vngodly delight vntill such time as â—â—â— his meanes reputation and credit was â—â—â— and nothing left him but misery and â—â—â— Then hee leads him along through â—â—â— and feares to haue no hope in Gods â—â—â— perswading his Conscience that â—â—â— sinnes were vnpardonable and his estate â—â—â— credit vnrecouerable With these suggestions hee led him on to despaire and in desperation to kill his Children and make shipwracke of his owne soule in which the diligence of the Diuell â—â—â— that hee labours and trauels vnâ—â—â— and as Saint Bernard saith in the â—â—â— day shall rise in condemnation against vs because hee hath euer beene more diligent to destroy soules theÌ„ we haue been to saue them And for a Conclusion let vs beseech God of â—â—â— infinite mercy to defend vs from all the â—â—â— temptations of Satan IOHN ROVVSE his Prayer for pardon of his lewd life which bee vsed to pray in the time of his imprisonment GOD of my Soule and Body haue mercy vpon mee the one I haue cast away by my Folly and the other is likely to perish in thy Funy vnlesse in thy great mercie thou â—â—â— My Sinnes are deepe Seas to drowne me I am swallowed vp in â—â—â— bottomlesse gulfe of my owne â—â—â—gressions With Cain I haue beene Murtherer and with Iudas a Betrayer me Innocent My body is a slaue to â—â—â— and my wretched Soule is deúouâ—â—â— vp by Hell Blacke haue beene my â—â—â— and blacker are my deeds I haue beene the Diuels instrument and am now become the scorne of men a a Serpent vpon earth and an Outcast from Heauen What therefore can become of mee miserable Caitifle If I looke vp to my Redeemer to him I am an Arch Traytor if vpon Earth it is drowned with Blood of my shedding if into Hell there I see my Conscience burning in the Brimstone Lake God of my Soule and Body haue mercy therefore vpon mee Saue mee O saue mee or else I perish for euer I dye for euer in the world to come vnlesse sweet Lord thou catchest my repeÌ„tant Soule in thine Armes O saue me saue me saue me JOHN ROVVSE of Ewell his owne Arraignment Confession Condemnation and Iudgement of himselfe whilst hee lay Prisoner in the White Lyon for drowning of his two Children I Am arraign'd at the blacke dreadfull Barre Where Sinnes sored as Scarlet Iudges are All my Inditements are my horrid Crimes Whose Story will affright succeeding Times As now they driue the present into wonder Making Men treÌ„ble as trees strucke with Thunder If any askes what euidence comes in O 'T is my Conscience which hath euer bin A thousand witnesses and now it tels
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
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
poore vndeserued seruant hauing formerly oftent â—â—â—es presented to your Highnesse many small Pamphlets the best fruits of my leane and sterill inuention and alwaies your Princely affability and beunty did expresse and manifest your Royall and generous disposition and whereas your Gracious Father of euer blessed and famous memory did not onely like and encourage but also more then reward the barren gleanings of my Poeticall inuentions so now I am bold to present vnto your Maiestie this my best and superlatiue part of my last studies I know Royall Sir that mans Pilgrimage here must haue a period and as the Trâ—â— falls East or West so it rises and He that knowes the heart doth know that I doe not hypocritically take to heart that many numberlesse Blasphemies Curses and Oathes which are carelesly presumptuously and damnably breathed euery day houre and minute against the Almighty and infinite Maiestie of God Sure I am that God takes my part in resisting and writing against these crying crimes and I am perswaded that your Maiestie hath an innated Christian hured of them I likewise know that all good men doe abhorre and detest them and as on the one side I will or would not be a Stoicke or Precisian nor on the other side an Atheist so in the mid-way I haue written this small Treatise to expresse my selfe a Christian and what a Christian in these points should be and though the worke be small and rudely compil'd though I the Author am altogether meritlesse of any good yet is the matter great and so great that it merits the protection of all such as doe acknowledge there is a God Wherefore I humbly beseech your Maiestie to accept and Patronize this poore labour of mine that your powerfull approuement of it may make it passe thorow all your Kingdomes and Territories Cum Priuilegio that children by reading it in their youths may haue an ingrafted hatred of these sinnes that elder people may thereby here formed from them that all in generall may loath and abhorre them that God may be honoured and our soules eternally saued Your Maiesties humble Subiect and seruant IOHN TAYLOR AGAINST CVRSING AND SVVEARING GOD by whose incomprehensible power all things were made of nothing Genesis 1. By whose vnspeakable mercy all true Beleeuers are Redeemed Isay 52 3. By whose Almighty Prouidence all things great and small are conserued Mat. 10. 29. And nothing can passe without it Pro. 16. 33. Whose Name is holy Luke 1. 49. Whose name is a strong Towre to defend the Righteous Pro. 28. 10. And a consuming fire against obstinate impenitent sinners Deut. 4. 24. Who is a jealous and reuenging God Nahum 1. 2. Who filleth Heauen and Earth and seeth all things Ieremie 23. 24. Who is the Lord of Hosts 2 Sem. 6. 17 18. Who hath sworne by Himselfe that to him euery knee shall bow in feare and reuerence of his dreadfull Maiesty Isay 45. 23. Who hath beene so gracious that he hath made Man onely for his owne seruice and so bountifull that he hath made all other Creatures for the seruice of Man who blessed him and gaue him power to blesse in the glorious Name of the Lord of Hosts 2 Sam. 6. 17 18. Who in a fearefull voyce of Thunder did in mount Sinai proclaime his sacred Law and denounced this dreadfull and terrible Iudgement that he would not hold him guiltlesse that takes his name in vaine euen that God hath forbidden vs to curse Exod 20. 7. But to blesse them that Curse vs Rom. 12. 14. Luke 6. 28. Mat. 5.44 Yet neuerthelesse by the temptation of that old and irreconciliable enemy of God and Man by the malice and mischiefe of that old Dragon and subtill Serpent the Deuill Man hath mounted and spred to such a height and bredth these execrable vices of Cursing Swearing and Blaspheming that all estates and conditions high and low great and small oldor young male and female are vniuersally possessed with these impieties and by long custome it is in a manner almost as naturall as eating drinking or sleeping as though there were no God that had forbad these crying crimes or no hell reserued for a punishment of them In this small Treatise I doe not put pose to condemne all sorts of Cursing or Swearing for that were to declare and pronounce my selfe Accursed but my intent is as God pleaseth to enable me to declare how farre these two brethren Curses and Oathes are lawfull or vnlawfull and because I find Cursing to be the most elder and of most antiquity I purpose first to shew as farre as I haue assured warrant my opinion concerning Curses and Execrations Curses and Cursing are deuided into foure seuerall kindes As First From God to Man Secondly From Man to Man Thirdly From Man to himselfe Fourthly From Man to God The first is Iust for God did neuer Curse any Man Family Tribe Kingdome or Nation but there was a iust deseruing of that Curse for Man being altogether sinfull and God infinitely Iust Gods Curse is due and iust for the transgression of Man The Second is vncharitable as when one Man curseth another for all Men that are Christians who haue one and the same Redemption in the blood of Christâ—esus who doe in the Lords Prayer call God Our Father are forbidden to Curse and commanded to them that Curse vs. The third is when a man shall Curse himselfe which is more vncharitable for Charity should begin ar home and can that man be thought to wish well to any man that wisheth hurt to himselfe or may it be conceiued that he that is so gracelesse to Curse himselfe hath the grace to pray for another The fourth is when Man doth Curse God which is most damnable for can there be a most execrable sinne then such impious ingratitude that the Creature should Curse the Creatorâ—â— that the redeemed should Blaspheme hir Redeemer or that impiety should mount to such a height of impudency as to curse ' the blessed Spirit Of these foure in Order FOr the first God did most iustly Curse our first Parents in Paradise and in all People and Nations being of their of-spring are originally polluted with their transhressions and miserable subiects to the same Curse and doe all generally vndergoe the same punishment which is that the Man shall eate his Bread in sorrow labour and in the sweate of his face all the dayes of his life and that the Womaman shall bring forth her children in paine and sorrow and be subiect to the rule of her husband Genesis 3. Also the same time God Cursed the Earth for the sinne of Adam which Curse was that it should bring forth Thornes and Thistles and without mans great toyle and labour the Earth doth yeeld vs very small sustenance Likewise God did most iustly Curse Kain for murthering his innocent brother Abelâ— the Curse was that Kain should be a vagabond and a runnagate vpon the face of the Earth and that his labours should be accursed
should beheaded be The Earle of Flanders Philip did ordaine Their losse of life and goods that swore in vaine Saint Lewis the King of France enacted there That for the first time any one did sweare Into imprisonment one month was cast And stand within the Pillory at last But if the second time againe they swore One with an iron hot their tongues did bore And who the third time in that fault did slip Were likewise boared through the vnder-lip For the fourth time most gricuous paines belongs He caus'd to be cut off their lips and tongues Henry the fift of England that good King His Court to such conformity did bring That euery Duke should forty shillings pay For euery Oath he swore without delay Each Baron twenty Knights or Squires offence Paid tenne and euery Yeoman twenty pence The Boyes and Pages all were whipt most fine That durst abuse the Maiestie diuine Thus Pagan Princes with sharp lawes withstood Profaning of their Gods of stone or wood And Christian Kings and Rulers formerly Haue most seuerely punisht blasphemy And shall a Heathen or an Infidell That knowes no ioyes of Heauen or paines of Hell More reuerence to his deuillish Idols show Then we doe to the true God whom we know If we remembred well but what we were And what we are we would not dare to sweare Poore trunks of earth fill'd with vncertaine breath By nature heires to euerlasting death Most miserable wretches most ingrate 'Gainst God that did elect vs and create Redeem'd conseru'd preseru'd and sanctifi'd And giues vs hope we shall be glorifi'd H' hath giuen vs being life sense reason wit Wealth and all things his Prouidence thinkes fit And for requitall we quite voyde of grace Curse sweare and doe blaspheme him to his face Oh the supernall patience of our God That beares with Man a sin polluted clod When halfe such treasons 'gainst an earthly King Would many a Traytor to confusion bring Suppose a man should take a Whelp and breed him And stroke him make much of him feed him How will that curre loue him beyond all other Neuer forsaking him to serue another But if he should most disobediently Into his Masters face or throat to fly Sure euery man that liues vpon the ground Would say a hanging's sit for such a hound And worser then so many dogges are they That 'gainst their God with oathes do barke bray And if repentance doe not mercy win They 'll hang in Hell like Hell-hounds for that sin Of all black crimes from Belzebubs damn'd treasure This swearing sin no profit yeelds or pleasure Nor gaines the swearer here but earths vexation With change of his saluation for damnation It is a sinne that yeelds vs no excuse For what excuse can be for Gods abuse And though our other faults by death doe end Yet Blasphemy doth after death extend For to the damn'd in Hell this curse is giuen They for their paines blaspheme the God of Heauen Examples on the earth haue many beene As late in sundry places haue beene seene At Mantua two braue Russians in their games Swore and blasphem'd our blessed Sauiours name Where Gods iust iudgement full of feare dread Caus'd both their eyes to drop from out their head In Rome a childe but fiue yeeres old that swore Was snatcht vp by the Deuill and seene no more And at Ragouse a Mariner did sweare As if he would Gods name in sunder teare When falling ouer-boord was drown'd and tost And nothing but his tongue was onely lost Remember this you sinfull sonnes of men Thinke how that Christ redeem'd you from Hells den His mercy he hath giu'n in magnitude Requite him not with vile ingratitude He made the Eares and Eye and heares and sees The swearers execrable oathes and lyes The Godhead of the Father they contemne Against the Sonnes Redemption they blaspheme The Holy Spirit grieuously they grieue And headlong into Hell themselues they driue It is in vaine for mortall men to thinke Gods Iustice is asleepe although it winke Or that his arme is shortned in these times That he cannot reach home to punish crimes Oh thinke not so 't is but the Deuils illusion To draw vs desperately to our confusion Some say that 't is their anger makes them sweare And oathes are out before they are aware But being crost with losses and perplex'd They thinke no harme but sweare as being vex'd And some there are that sweare for complement Make oathes their grace and speeches ornament Their sweete Rhetoricall fine eloquence Their reputations onely excellence Their valour whom the Deuill doth inflame T' abuse their Makers and Redeemers Name Thinke but on this you that doe God forget Your poore excuses cannot pay this debt Remember that our sinfull soules did cost A price too great to be by swearing lost And blessed was our last good Parliament Who made an Act for swearers punishment And blest shall be each Magistrates good name That carefully doe execute the same Those that are zealous for Gods glory here No doubt in Heauen shall haue true glory there Which that we may haue humbly I implore Of Him that rules and raignes for euermore Th' Eternall Lord of Lords and King of Kings Before whose Throne blest Saints and Angels sings All power praise glory Maiesty thankesgiuing Ascribed be to him that 's euer liuing FINIS TO THE TRVELY GENEROVS AND NOBLE KNIGHT SIR IOHN MILLISSENT SERIEANT PORTER TO the Kings most Excellent Maiestie RIght worthy Knight when first this Booke I writ To You I boldely Dedicated it And hauing now enlarg'd both Prose and Rime To you I offer it the second time To whom should I these sorrowes recommend But vnto You the Cities Noble Friend I know you are much grieued with their Griefe And would aduenture Life for their reliefe To You therefore these Lines I Dedicate Wherein their Sorrowes partly I relate I humbly craue acceptance at your hand And rest Your Seruant euer at command IOHN TAYLOR TO THE PRINTER MY Conceit is that these are very lamentable Verses and will grieue many the reading they so expresse Death to Life and make mortalitie immortall I wish that as many as can make vse of such Lines had Copies the rest may want them Here and there a Verse may occasion a Teare then the Authour is a true VVater-Poet indeed but else-where there wants not a hand-kercheffe to dry that Teare So is the whole worke a * A Sweete-bitter or Bitter-sweet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and deserues an Approbation at least from IOHN TAYLOR of Oriell Colledge in Oxford THE PRAEFACE IN this lamentable time of generall Calamity our hainous sinnes prouoking Gods iust Indignation this heauy visitation and mortality I being attendant vpon the Queenes Maiestie at Hampton Court and from thence within two miles of Oxford with her Barge with much griefe remorse did see and heare miserable and cold entertainement of many Londoners which for their preseruation fled and
was e're thy siyt King Edwards raigne Yet long before his time I was in value As read in good true written Stories shall you My stamp when Rome did keept the world in awe Was foure swift Steedes that did a Chariot draw Which figur'd that I to and fro should runne An endlesse Iourney that would ne'r be done I am made endlesse round which doth portend Till the world end my Iourney ne'r shall end And men may plainely in my roundnesse see An Emblem of the world rotundity Round is the Globe round is the Hemisphere Rond runs the Moon and Sun each month and yeere Round ran the Empire from th' Assiran Kings Round vnto Persian Greece and Rome it flings Round to great Britame it is come I know Whence hem'd round with the Sea it cannot goe But the maine cause that makes it stay and stand Is where 't is guarded by th' Almighties hand Round from the North to East to South and West All Arts haue still runne round t is manifest The Iewes th' Egyptians Caldies Persians Deuis'd Arts and were Astrologians And true experience doth approue it thus Their knowledge is runne round from them to vs. The age of man goes round a child at first And like a child returnes vnto his dust His body and his limbs his eyes his head All in round formes are made and fashioned The roots the fruits the flowers and the Trees All in a round conformity agrees Our drinking healths run round with nimble quicknes Vntill at last too many healths brings sickenes When store of money to mens hands doe come They say they haue receiu'd a good round summe And when a man doth take a Knaue vp soundly 'T is said he told him of his faults most roundly The Hang-man hangs a Traytor or a Thiefe And is about his businesse round and briefe Round are the dishes where we put our meate Our Cups wherein we drinke are round compleat Round is our Butter round our Cheeses are RouÌ„d are the cloaths which on our backs we weare Beasts fowles and fish that euery where abound Are for the most part euery where made round Round are all wedding Rings implying will Mens cares runne round like horses in a mill Thus hauing plainely shew'd why and wherefore I am made round now to my taske once more About my circle I a Posie haue The Title God vnto the King first gaue The circle that encompasseth my face Declares my Soueraignes Title by Gods grace Vpon my other side is * In English I haue put or placed God my helper POSVI DEVM Whereto is added ADIVTOREM MEVM The which last Poesie Annagrammatiz'd Wisdome admit me power true compriz'd Wisdome at first vpon me did bestowe Such power that for a Shillinh I should goe When Wisdome gaue me power I was then A seruant not a Master vnto men Now Power * Anaagram of the Latine Motto of Posui plac'd into English words Wisdome admit me Power makes me wisedome force perforce Improper like the Cart before the Horse For in this Age so many friends I finde My power 's before and Wisedome comes behinde He that for me and for my kin can rake Hi's wife although a Coxcombe for my sake He that wants me shall be esteem'd an Asse Although he be as wise as e're man was * The Annagram turn'd backward Wisedome comes behind money For there 's such league one in Triplicity Sworne firme betwixt the Deuill the world andâ— That those who to the one true seruants be Are captiue bondslaues vnto aâ—l the three Great sway vpon the earth to vs is giuen Por well we know we ne'r shall come in heau'n And all that in vs take delight and mirth Their onely heau'n is here vpon the earth And couetous they are not in this case Because they couet for no better place So much for that now to my shape againe You see my face is beardlesse smooth and plaine Because my Soueraigne * King Edw. was crowned at nine yeeres of age and dyed before he was sixteene was a child 't is knowne When as he did put on the English Crowne But had my stamp beene bearded as with haire Long before this it had beene worne out bare For why with me the vnthrists euery day With my face downwards do at shoue-boord * Edw. shillings for the most part at vsed at shooue boord play That had I had a beard you may suppose Th 'had worne it off as they haue done my nose Yet doth my bare face sometimes now and than Make a young beardlesse Boy outface a man For any Boy and I doe both agree To outface any man that doth want me A crosse * vpon the crosse of a Twelue-pence I beare vpon my other side A glorious figure of true Christian pride And with that crosse I any man can crosse From wrong to iniury from harme to losse And in me is such working powerfulnesse That those that haue me can both crosse and * Heere I meane generally of money and not simply of our Twelue-pence blesse The English and French Armes the Lyons flowres Shew es France a subiect once to Englands pow'rs And when my Master did respire his breath His sisters Mary and Elizabeth Ordain'd new Twelue-pences with me to ioyne But altred not my badge vpon my Coyne Except a little which King Philip did Which Queene Elizabeth did soone forbid But since the comming of my Soueraigne Iames The badge vpon my * K. Edw. Q. Mary Q. Elizabeth and king Iames all their shillings of equall weight and value and therâ—fore my twelue-pence hath vpon his backe the Royall Aâ—â— here expressed in verse back more worth proclaimes And to mixe state with truth truth with delight Vpon the Armes I carrie thus I write Vpon the Kings Armes THree Lyons Passant borne by former Kings Subdues the Harp quarters the * Ireland flowres of * The Flower de â—â—â— of France France Fourth Lyon Rampant equall honour brings Though hauing power to war doth peace aduance * Lyon of Scotland vnited in great Iames this Royall stile â—â—ng of great Britaine France and Irelands Ile â— Thus Readers hauing printed for your reading â—y birth my rising my estate and breeding â—y Badge my face my Crosse my Annagram â—ow mighty in my great command I am â—ow will tell some trauels I haue had â—â—me as I remember I 'le recite â—â—ould I name all 't were almost infinite â—Ne ask'd the * Diogenes Cinnicke wise Athenian â— The cause why siluer look'd so pale and wan â—o in reply was quicke and answer'd straite â—â— because so many for it lay in waite â—nd did men thinke in what diuersity â—f fashions men for me in waite doe lye â—hey would agree together in a tale â—hat I had reason to looke wan and pale â—haue of Treason bin made Instrument â—â— betray Kingdomes and to circumuent â—â— vndermine and to subuert the states â—f
A Tale to cast me to ten thousand Hels The Iury are my Thoughts vpright in this They sentence me to death for doing amisse Examinations more there need not then Than what 's confest here both to God and Men. The Cryer of she Court is my blacke Shame Which when it calls my Iury doth proclaime Vnlesse as they are summon'd they appeare To giue true Verdict of the Prisoner They shall haue heauy Fines vpon them set Such as may make them dye deepe in Heauens debt About me round sit Innocence and Truth As Clerkes to this high Court and little Ruth From Peoples eyes is cast vpon my face Because my facts are barbarous damn'd and base The Officers that 'bout me thicke are plac'd To guard me to my death when I am cast Are the blacke stings my speckled soule now feeles Which like to Furies dogge me close at heeles The Hangman that attends me is Despaire And gâ—owing wormes my fellow-Prisoners are His Inditement for murder of his Children THe first who at this Sessions â—â—â— doth call me Is Murder whose grim visage doth appall me His eyes are fires his voice rough winds out-rores And on my bead the Diuine vengeance scares So fast and fearefully I sinke to ground And with â— were in twenty Oceans drownd He sayes I haue a bloudy Villaine bin And to proue this ripe Euidence steps in Brew'd like my selfe Iustice so brings about That blacke sinnes still hunt one another out 'T is like a rotten frame ready to fall For one maine Post being shaken puls downe all To this Inditement holding vp my hand Fattered with Terrors more then Irons stand And being ask'd what to the Bill I say Guilty I cry O dreadfull Sessions dayâ— His Iudgement FOr these thick Stigian streams in which th' ast â—â—â— Thy guilt hath on thee laâ—d this bitter doome Thy loath'd life on a Tree of shame must take A leaue compeld by Law e'r old age make Her signed Passe port ready Thy offence No longer can for dayes on earth dispense Time blot thy name out of this bloudy roule And so the Lord haue mercy on my Soule His speech what hee could say for himselfe O Wretched Caitiffe what perswasiue breath Can cal back this iust Sentence of quick death I begge no beene but mercy at Gods hands The King of Kings the Soueraigne that coÌ„maâ—â— Both Soule and Body O let him forgiue My Treason to his Throne and whilst I liue Iebbits and Racks shall torture limme by limme Through worlds of Deaths I 'l breake to fly to him My Birth-day gaue not to my Mothers wombe More ease then this shall ioyes when e'r it come My body mould to earth sinnes sink to Hell My penitent Soule win Heauen vain world farewell FINIS TAYLORS REVENGE OR The Rimer VVILLIAM FENNOR firkt ferrited and finely fetcht ouer the Coales To any that can read BE thou either Friend or Foe or indifferent all 's one Read Laugh like or dislike all the care is taken The chiefest cause why I wrote this was on set purpose to please myselfe Yet to shew thee the meaning of this little building imagine the Epistle to be the doore and if thou please come in and see what stuffe the whâ—â—â— Frame is made off Bee it therefore knownne vnto all men that I Iohn Taylor Watermanâ— â—â—â—agree with William Fennor who arrogantly and falsely entitles himselfe the Kings Masâ— â—â—â—Riming Poet to answer me at a triall of Wit on the seuenth of October last 1614 â—â—â— the Hope stage on the Bank-side and the said Fennor receiued of mee ten shillings in â—â—â— of his comming to meet me whereupon I caused 1000 bills to be Printed and diuulg'd â—â—â—1000 wayes and more giuing my Friends and diuers of my acquaintance notice of â—â—â— Bear-garden banquet of dainty Conceits and when the day came that the Play should â—â—â—haue beene performed the house being fill'd with a great Audience who had all spent their moâ—â—â— extraordinarily then this Companion for an Asse ran away and left mee for a Foole amongst thousands of criticall Censurers where I was ill thought of by my friends scorned by â—â—â— and in conclusion in a greater puzzell then the blinde Beare in the midst of all her â—â—â—broth Besides the summe of twenty pounds in money I lost my Reputation amongst â—â—â— and gaind disgrace in stead of my better expectations In Reuenge of which wrongs done â—â—â— me by the said Riming Rascall I haue written this Inuectiue against him chiefly because ill-looking Hound doth not confesse he hath intur'd mee nor hath not so much honestly â—â—â— bring or send me my money that he tooke for earnest of me but on the contrary parts â—â—â— and abuses mee with his calumnious tongue and scandalizeth me in all Companies â—â—â— beares me nominated But in a word Reader when thou hast read this that followes I thinke thou wilt iudge me cleare of the many false Imputations that are laid vpon mee So I â—â—â—thee to thy Considerations and I proceed to my Exclamations Thine as thou art mine IOHN TAYLOR WILLIAM FENNOR Anagramma NV VILLANY For me OR Forme NV VILLANY NV VILLANY Forme Nue fresh and New Or Forme NV VILLANY Come Turk come Iew â—â—â— who dares come for I haue found a Theame That ouerflowes with matter like a streame And now stand cleere my masters ' ware your shins For now to kick and fling my Muse begins How fit his name is Anagrammatiz'd And how his Name is Anatomiz'd 'T would make a horse with laughing breake his bridle But to the purpose long delayes are idle TO WILLIAM FENNOR COME Sirrha Rascall off your clothes S r strip For my Satyrrick whip shall make you skip Th'adst better to haue dealt with all the Deuils They could not plague thee with so many euils Nay come man neuer whine or crooch or kneele My heart cannot one lot of pitty feele I haue squeez'd the Gall from out the Lernean snake With which Reuengefull Inke I meane to make Which I with Aqua-fortis will commix Yblended with the lothsome Lake of Stix And with that Marrow-eating hatefull Inke I 'll make thee more then any Aiax stinke A Scritch-owles quill shall be my fatall pen That shall emblaze thee basest slaue of men So that when as the pur-blind world shall see How vildly thou hast plaid the Rogue with mee They shall perceiue I wrong them not for pelse And thou shalt like a Rascall hang thy selfe What damned Villaine would forsweare sweare At thou didst 'gainst my challenge to appeare To answer me at Hope vpon the stage And thereupon my word I did ingage And to the world did publish printed Bills With promise that we both would shew our skills And then your Rogue-ship durst not shew your face But ran away and left me in disgrace To thee ten shillings I for earnest gane To bind thee that thou shouldst not play the Knaue Curre hadst thou no mans Credit to betray But mine or couldst thou find no other way
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
the seditious kill'd That with the stench of bodies putrifide A number numberles of people dyde And buriall to the dead they yeelded not But where they fell they let them stinke and rot That plague and sword and famine all three stroue Which should most bodies froÌ„ their soules remoue Vnsensible of one anothers woes The Soldiers then the liueles corpses throwes By hundreds and by thousands o're the walls Which when the Romans saw their dismall falls They told to Titus which when he perceiu'd He wept and vp t'ward heau'n his hands he heau'd And called on GOD to witnes with him this These slaughters were no thought or fault of his Those wretches that could scape from out the City Amongst their foes found â—oth reliefe and pity If the seditious any catch that fled Without remorse they straitway strook him dead Another misery I must vnfold A many Iewes had swallow'd store of gold Which they supposd should help them in their need But from this treasure did their â—aâ—e proceed For being by their en'mies fed and cherisht The gold was cause that many of them perisht Amongst them all one poore vnhappy creature Went priuatly to doe the need of Nature And in his Ordure for the Gold did looke Where being by the straggling soldiers tooke They ript him vp and searcht his maw to finde What Gold or Treasure there remain'd behind In this sort whilst the soldiers gap'd for gaine Was many a man and woman ript and slaine In some they found gold and in many none For had they gold or not gold all was one They were vnboweld by the barb'rous foe And search'd if they had any gold or no. But now my Story briefly to conclude Vespasians forces had the walls subdude And his triumphant Banner was displaide Amidst the streets which made the Iewes dismaid Who desp'rate to the Temple did retire Which with vngodly hands they set on fire Whilst Noble Titus with exceeding care Entreated them they would their Temple spare Oh saue that house quoth he ô quench oh slake And I will spare you for that Houses sake Oh let not after-times report a Storie That you haue burnt the worlds vnmatched glory For your owne sakes your children and your wiues If you doe looke for pardon for your liues If you expect grace from Vespasians hand Then saue your Temple Titus doth command The Iewes with hearts hard offred mercy heard But neither mercy or themselues regard They burnd and in their madnes did confound King Salomons great Temple to the ground That Temple which did thirty millions cost Was in a moment all consum'd and lost The blest Sanctum Sanctorum holiest place Blest oft with high Iehouahs sacred Grace Where at one offring as the Text sayes plaine Were two and twenty thousand Oxen slaine One hundred twenty thousand Sheepe beside At the same time for an oblation dide That house of God which raignes aboue the thunder Whose glorious fame made all the world to woÌ„der Was burnt and ransackt spight of humane aide And leuell with the lowly ground was laid Which when Vespasian and young Titus saw They cride kill kill vse speed and marshall Lavv The Roman soldiers then inspirde with rage Spard none slew all respect no sex or age The streets were drowned in a purple flood And slaughterd carcasses did swim in blood They slew whilst there were any left to slay The ablest men for slaues they bare away Iohn Simon and Eleazer wicked fiends As they deseru'd were brought to violent ends And from the time the Romanes did begin The siege vntill they did the Citty win Sedition sword fire famine all depriues Eleuen hundred thousand of their liues Besides one hundred thousand at the least Were tane and sold as each had beene a beast And from the time it was at first erected Till by the Remanes it was last deiected It stood as it in histories appeares Twenty one hundred seuenty and nine yeeres But yet ere God his vengeance downe did throw What strange prodigious wonders did he show As warnings how they should destruction shun And cause them to repent for deeds misdon First the Firmament Th' offended Lord Shewd them a Comet like a fiery sword The Temple and the Altar diuers nights Were all enuiron'd with bright burning lights And in the middest of the Temple there Vnnat'rally a Cow a Lambe did beare The Temples brazen gate no bolts restraine But of it selfe it open flew amaine Arm'd Men and Chariots in the Ayre assembled The pondrous Earth affrighted quak'd trembled A voyce cride in the Temple to this sence Let vs depart let vs depart from hence These supernat'rall accidents in summe Foretold some fearefull iudgement was to come But yet the Iewes accounted them as toyes Or scarcrow buggâ—beares to fright wanton â—oyes Secure they reuell'd in Ierusalem They thought these signes against their foes not them But yet when â—â—â—â— and death had all perform'd When ruine spoyle furious flames had storm'd Who then the desolated place had seene Would not haue knowne there had a Citty beene Thus Iuda and Ierusalem all fell Thus was fulfill'd what Christ did once foretell Sad deseletion all their ioyes bereft And one stone on another was not left FINIS TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE AND TRVELY VER I VOVS LADY and Noble Patronesse of good endeauours MARY Countesse of BVCKINGHAM Right Honourable Madame AS the Graces the Vertues the Senses and the Muses are emblem'd or alluded to your Noble sex and as all these haue ample residence in your worthy disposition To whom then but to your selfe being a Lady in goodnesse compleat should I commit the patronage of the memory of the great Lady of Ladies Mother to the High and Mighty Lord of Lords And though I a Taylor haue not apparell'd her in such garments of elocution and ornated stile as befits the glory and eminency of the least part of her Excellency yet I beseech your Honor to accepther for your owne worth and her Sonnes worthinesse which Son of hers by his owne merits and the powerfull mercy of his Father I heartily implore to giue your Honour a participation of his gracious Mothers eternall felicity Your Honours in all humble seruice to be commanded IOHN TAYLOR The Argument and cause of this Poem BEing lately in Antwerpe it was my fortune to ouerlooke an old printed booke in prose which I haue turned into verse of the life death and buriall of our blessed Lady wherein I read many things worthy of obseruation and many things friuolous and impertinent out of which I haue like a Bee suckt the sacred honey of the best authorities of Scriptures and Fathers which I best credited and I haue left the poyson of Antichristianisme to those where I found it whose stomackes can better digest it I haue put it to the Presse presuming it shall be accepted of Pious Protestants and charitable Catholikes as for luke-warme Nutarlists that are neither hot nor cold they doe offend my appetite and
for when he tilled the ground it should not yeeld the strength of her fertility vnto him Gen. 4. In the 26. of Leuiticus God doth denounce most fearefull Curses against all wilfull obstinate transgressors of his Law as first that he will afflict their bodies with diseases verse 16. And that he will set his face against them that they shall fall before their enemies and bee subiect vnto them That hee will make their Heauen as Iron and their Earth as Brasse That their labour and strength shall be spent in vaine and that their Trees shall bee fruiâ— lesse That the Sword Pestilence and Famine shall make them desolate Furthermore in the 28. of Deutorenâ—mie from the 16. verse to the end of the Chapter there is nothing but the dreadfull Curses of Almightie God against the contemners and prophane breakers of his Testimonies Likewise in the 27. of Deut. are 12. Curses denounced against rebellious and carelesse offenders In Genesis 9. 3. God doth promise Abrsham to Curse those that Curse him God in the 29. of Ieremie and 17. verse doth by the mouth of the Prophet threaten the destruction of Ierusalem with their King and people with the Curses of Famine Sword and Pestilence and that they should be a reproch and an hissing or a contempt scorne and terrour to all Nations and Kingdomes of the Earth Also the same Prophet in the 48. Chapter verse 10. doth Curse all those that are negligent in doing the worke of the Lord from which Curse none are excluded be they high or low rich or poore Ecclesiasticall or Ciuill The Lord doth also declare all men accursed that trust in the helpe or power of Man making weake flesh their arme or defence and distrusting the mighty power of the Almighty Ierem. 17. 5. In the second of Samuel chap. 3. verse 29. the Kingly Prophet Dauid doth denounce a bitter Curse vpon Ioab and his posterity because Ioab had treacherously slaine Abner the son of Ner the laid Abner hauing King Dauid's leaue to goe in peace the which Curse fell vpon Ioab afterward for when Dauid was in his death-bed he gaue a charge to his sonne King Salomon 1 King chap. 2. and 5. â—verse that because Ioab had slaine Abner and Amasa 2 Sâ—m 20.10 against the Law of Armes or the Kings permission or knowledge that Salomon should not suffer his gray head to goe to the Graue in peace which Curse was accomplished for Salomon sent Benaiah with a command to kill him which was accordingly performed in the Tabernac'e at Ierusalem close by the Alter whither Ioab was fled in hope the holinesse and dignity oâ— he place would haue beene his refuge and sanctuary from the indignation of the King â— Kings 2. 34. Our Sauiour Christ in the 23. of Saint Mathew doth denounce 8. seuerall Curses or woes against the Hypocriticall Seribes and Pharesies and in the 23. chapter the miserable damned are described by the name of Goates who standing on the left hand are inforced to heare that vnrecouerable sentence of Depart ye Cursed into euerlasting fire prepared for the Deuill and his anels The holy Patriacrk Noah did propehtically Curse all the posterity of his sonne Cham which Curse stands in force against all those that are disobedient to their Princes Parents Magistrates and Gouernours Genesis 9.25 The vniuersall flood wherein all mankind perished except eight persons was Gods dreadfull and consuming Curse for the manifold and insupportable sinnes of the whole world Genesis 7. The Patriarke â—saack by the spirit of prophecie by Gods appointment did pronounce all those to be Cursed that Cursed Iaob Genesis 27. 29. The Prophets generally in sundry places doe by the direction of the holy Ghost proclaime many Curses against the enemies of God and contemners of his Commandements These are the first sort of Curses namely from Gods iust Iudgements either by himselfe his Patriarckes Prophets or by his Sonne our Sauiour Christ Iesus These manner of Cursings are Manâ—owne deseruings and therefore they are for Gods glory in the punishment of sinners The second Curses from Man to Man THis kind of Cursing is altogether against the rules of Christianity and Charity for all Christians being members of one head which is Christ Iesus who is the fountaine of all blessing and blessednesse it followeth by consequence that all those who are addicted to Cursing or Cursed speeches are not members of that Head of blessednesse Balaam the Prophet desireth and wisheth to dye the death of the righteous and yet in the 22. of Numbers Balak King of the Moabites did so corrupt the Prophets conscience with the hope of reward or a bribe that hee was willing to Curse the people of Israel and though God in the 12. verse of the same chapter doth forbid Balaam to Curse them saying vnto him They are blessed yet did couetousnesse so blind him that hee dared to aske or expect Gods leaue the second time to Curse them verse 19. which leaue or permission hee thought hee had got but that his Asse before himselfe saw the resisting power of the Almightie verse 27. When Alsalâ—â— rebelled against his father Dauid and that Dauid in great extremity was forced to flee whilst his sonne pursued him 2 Sumuel 16. Shimei the sonne of â—â—ra ran towards King Dauid reuiling and Cursing him saying that all the blood that was shed of the house and family of Saul was by Gods Iustice fallen vpon his head and that the Lord had depriued him of his Kingdome and giuen it to his sonne Absalen Here you see that although God hath commanded vs to pray for all men and not to curse one another yet this wicked wretch Shimei did Curse his King his Soueraigne the Lords anoynted a Prophet a type of Christ and a man after Gods owne heart This is one infallible marke or token whereby the good and bad may be distinguished and knowne one from another that the wicked doth Curse the Godly and wish them hurt and the godly doth pray for the good conuersion of the wicked and wish them all earthly and heauenly happines The Wise-man giueth good counsell to all people in the 10. of Ecclesiastes verse 20. Curse not the King no not in thy thought neither Curse the rich man in thy bed chamber for the sowle of the Heauen shall carry the voyce and that which hath wings shall declare the matter The Apostle doth exhort that prayers intercessions and giuing of thanks be made for all men and namely and especially for Kings and all that be in authority 1 Timethy 2. 1 2. and in the 1 Peter 2. Wee are commanded to feare God and honour the King Whereby it is plaine that whosoeuer doth Curse the Prince or Ruler doth Curse Gods Deputy and Ordinance for the which sinne they must neuer expect any other wayes but the wayes of the Accursed besides in many places of the Scripture we are commanded to pray one for another and not in any place we are bid to
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
retired themselues from the City into the Country Whence I noted the peoples Charity and great amendment â—or they had giuen ouer one of the seuen deadly sinnes which was Couetoâ—â—nesse and in many places were so farre out of loue of a Citizens money that they abhor'd and hated either to â—ouch or receiue it entertaining them with bitter worme-wood welcome which hearbe was â—n more request amongst many of them then any of the heauenly Graces or Cardinall Vertues â—et the hearbe of Grace was in much estimation although the name of it was a document that they had occasion to Rue the Time I further perceiued that they were so farre from beleeuing or â—rediting any man that they would or durst not trust their owne noses but were doubtfull that â—hat sence would conspire with the Plague to murther them wherefore like cunning Mariâ—ers or mole-catchers they would craftily in their streetes and high-wayes fetch the wind of â—ny man although they were ouer shooes boots sometimes tumbled into a ditch for their â—abours This was the time when a man with a night-cap at noone would haue frighted a whole Parish out of their wits when to call for Aquae-vitae though it had bin but to make a drench for â— sicke horse was enough to haue his house shut vp When Lord haue mercy vpon vs made many of them tremble more then God Refuse Renounce Confound or Damne When a man trauailing â—n the habit of a Citizen was a meere Bulbegger when for a man to say that hee came from Hell would yeed him better well-come without money then one would giue to his owne father and mother that came from London In this time of mans great miseâ—y and small mercy I tooke my pen in hand and wrote this ensuing discourse I haue as neere as I could suited it sadly according to the nature of the subiect And truly because that the bare and naked truth was so cleare and ample that I need not to stuffe it out with friuolous fables or fantasticall fictions with my soule I thankefully acknowledge Gods great mercy extended towards mee one of the most wretched and wicked in that so many thousands of better life and conuersation haue fallen on my right hand and on my left and round about me yet hath his gracious protection beene my guard for the which in my gratitude to my God and to auoyd the sinne of idlenesse I haue written what those that can may reade THE FEAREFVLL SVMMER OR LONDONS CALAMITIE THe Patience and long suffering of our God Keepes close his Quiuer and restraines his Rod And though our crying Crimes to Heau'n doe cry For vengeance on accurst Mortality Yea though we merit mischiefes manifold Blest Mercy doth the hand of Iustice hold But when that Eye that sees all things most cleare Expects our finits of Faith from yeere to yeere Allowes vs painefull Pastors who bestow Great care and toyle to make vs fruitfull grow And daily doth in those weake Vessels send The dew of Heauen in hope we will amend Yet at the last he doth perceiue and see That we vnfruitfull and most barren be Which makes his indignation frowne And as accursed Fig-trees cut vs downe Thus Mercy mock'd plucks iustice on our heads And griâ—uous Plagues our Kingdome ouerspreads Then let vs to our God make quicke returning With true contrition fasting and with mourning The Word is God and God hath spoke the Word If we repent he will put vp his sword Hee 's grieu'd in panishing Hee 's slow to Ire And HE a sinners death doth not desire If our Compunction our Amendment show Our purple sinues Hee 'll make as white as snow If we lament our God is mercifull Our scarlet crimes hee 'll make as white as wooll Faire London that did late abound in blisse And wast our Kingdomes great Metropolis 'T is thou thar art deieâ—â—â—ed low in state Discâ—â—â—late and almost desolate The hand of Heau'n that onely did protect thee Thou hast prouok'd moil iustly to correct thee And for thy pride of Heart and deeds vniust He layes thy Pompe and Glory in the dust Thou that wast late the Queene of Cities nam'd Throughout the world admir'd renown'd fam'e Thou that hadst all things at command and will To whom all England was a hand-maide still For rayment fewell fish fowle beasts for food For fruits for all our Kingdome counted good Both neere and farre remote all did agree To bring their best of blessings vnto thee Thus in conceite thou seem'dst to rule the Fates Whilst peace and plenty flourish'd in thy Gates Could I relieue thy miseries as well As part I can thy woes and sorrowes tell Then should my Cares be eas'd with thy Reliefe And all my study how to end thy griefe Thou that wer't late rich both in friends wealth Magnificent in state and strong in health As chiefest Mistris of our Country priz'd Now chiefly in the Country art despis'd The name of London now both farre and neere Strikes all the Townes and Villages with scare And to be thought a Londoner is worse Then one that breakes a house or takes a purse He that will filch or steale now is the Time No Iustice dares examine him his crime Let him but say that he from London came So full of Feare and Terrour is that name The Constable his charge will soone forsake And no man dares his Mâ—â—nus to make Thus Citizens plag'd for the Citie sinnes Poore entertainement in the Country winnes Some feare the City and fly thence amaine And those are of the Country fear'd againe Who 'gainst theÌ„ bar their windows their doores More then they would 'gainst Tuâ—ks or Iewes or Moores â—hinke if very Spaniards had come there â—heir well-come had bin better and their cheare Whilst Hay-cock lodging with hard slender fare Welcome like dogs vnto a Church they are â—are makes them with the Anaâ—aptists ioyne For if an Hostesse doe receiue their coyne She in a dish of water or a paile Will now baptize it lest it something aile Thus many a Citizen well flor'd with gold Is giad to lye vpon his mother â—old His bed the map of his mortailty His curtaines clouds aud Heau'n his Canopy The russet Plow-swaine and the Leathren Hinde Through feare is growne vnmannerly vnkinde And in his house to harbour hee 'll prefer An Infidell before a Londoner And thus much friendship Londoners did win The Deuill himselfe had better welcome bin Those that with trauell were tir'd famâ— and dry For want of drinke might slaâ—e choke and dye For why the hob-nau'd Boores inhumane Blocks Vncharitable Hounds hearts hard as Rocks Did sufter people in the field to sinke Rather then giue or sell a draught of drinke Milke-maides Farmers wiues are growne so nice They thinke a Citizen a Cockatrice And Country Dames are wax'd so coy and briske They shun him as they 'll shun a Basiliske For euery one the sight of him would siye All scaring he would kill
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—
Carthusians these are they that haue made a perpetuall diuorce betweene beasts and birds these are they that haue confirm'd an euerlasting league with Lent and all the ragged Aquarian Regiments of the spacious Kingdome of Pisces For when they enter into their order first they are inioyned neuer to touch or taste any manner of flesh whatsoeuer which they doe inuiolably performe for let hunger and thin-gutted famine assault them neuer so cruelly so that there were no fish to be had yet they hold it meritorious to starue and famish rather then to eate flesh For indeed in cases of necessity they haue power to metamorphose flesh into fish as for example when any Towne is besiedged and sharply assailed with warre without and famine within that meate is fallen into such a consumption that fish is gone and flesh is scarce then these â—enerable fathers by Apostaticall power which they haue can take a Sir-loyne of Beefe and thrust his knighthood into a tub of water and command him to come forth transform'd into a Ling and so for all kind of flesh else they can turne a Pig to a Pike a Goose â—o a Gurnet a Hen to a Herring a Sow to a Salmon and an Owle to an Oyster and all these are no wonders to them for they are all as nothing to their exorcising tricke of Transsubstantiation in the Sacrament for it is not possible for any thing to be impossible to them that can make their Maker and coniure their Sauiour into a peece of bread and eate him when they haue done With these enemies of â—â—arnalitie Lent hath domesticall perpetuitie â—â—ese obserue his Lawes more firmely then they doe either the first or second Table and twenty Citizens shall breake politickely and take vp their lodging in Luds vnlucky gate before they will cracke the least Iniunction that is articulated betwixt Lent and them Thus hauing shewed the progresse egresse and regresse of this Mediterranian Atlanticke Belgicke Gallobelgicus this Caspian Ibeâ—rian British Celticke Callidonian commanding Marine countermander I thinke it not amisse to declare what good he doth in this Kingdome the time of his being here and how much more good he would doe if he were rightly obserued As it is a matter of conscience to obey superiour and supreme Magistrates so in that respect I hold it a conscience to abstaine from flesh-eating in Lent not that I thinke it to bee â—vncleane to the cleane or that the eating or not eating is meritorious for I am perswaded that a man may goe to heauen as well with a legge of a Capon as with a red Herring But seeing Lent is ordained to a good intent for the increase and preseruation of Calues Lambs Swine and all kind of beasts and birds whatsoeuer whereby the breeding and multiplicitie of these creatures makes our Land the terrestriall Paradise of plenty and so is by the bountifull blessings of the Almighty all-giuing Giuer able to maintaine her selfe and relieue many neighbouring Realmes and Regions Surely they are no good Common-wealths men that wilfully will breake so tolerable aninstitution as to refraine sixe or seuen weekes in a yeere from flesh hauing so much variety and change of fish and other sustenance more then sufficient It is most certaine that if Lent were truely kept and the fish dayes in euery weeke duely obserued and that euery house in this Kingdome did spend but the quantity of two Haberdine or Greenfish in a weeke that then this Kingdome of great Britaine both for meat and Mariners would be the Mistresse of the world and for wealth and riches superlatiue to the Mynes of America But the nature of man is so peruerse that like Pandoraes Boxe hee will be tooting and prying soonest into that which he is most restrained from wherein hee shewes himselfe to bee no changeling but the naturall sonne of Adam and heire to his frailtie and disobedience for in common reason for a common good if there were no statutes no precepts or commands for the keeping of Lent and fish-dayes men would of themselues and by their owne instigation bridle their fleshly appetites with the inafle of discretion It is an vnmeasurable detriment to this Kingdome the abuse neglect contempt of this so laudable and commodious an institution and the due obseruing of it duely would be vnualuable I thinke past the reach of Arithmeticke but I haue often noted that if any superfluons feasting or gurmondizing pancsi-cramming assembly doe meete the disordered businesse is so ordered that it must bee either in Lent vpon a Friday or a fasting day for the meat doth not relish well except it be sawe'd with disobediente and contempt of Authority And though they eate Sprat on the Sunday they care not so they may be full gorg'd with flesh on the Friday night Then all the zealous Puritans will feast In detestation of the Romish beast For mine owne part as I haue before written I hold fish or flesh no Maxims Axiomes or grounds of Religion but those that wilfully and contemptuously doe care flesh in the Lent except such whose appetites are repugnant to fish and whose nature hath not beene vsed to it except such as are sicke and women with childe for all which there is a lawfull toleration except such I say he that feasts with flesh in Lent I wish he might bee constrained to fast with fish all the yeere after for his contempt Wide and large is the way that I might trauell in this spacious businesse but few words are best especially if they bee spoken to the wife and if any poore Iacke-a-Lent doe haâ— pen into the hands of a foole t is but a Fooâ— and a Iacke or two fooles well met but heâ— is the ods a wise man will make much ofâ—â— Iacke for his plaine dealing when a foole will quarrell with him and falling together by the eares teare one anothers cloathes and the Iacks paper-ierkin goes to wracke CERTAINE BLANKE VERSES VVRITTEN of purpose to no purpose yet so plainely contriu'd that a Childe of two yeeres old may vnderstand them as well as a good Scholler of fifty GReat Iacke-a-Lent clad in a Robe of Ayre Threw mountaines higher then Alcides beard Whilst Pancradge Church arm'd with a Samphier blade Began to reason of the businesse thus You squandring Troglodites of Amsterdam How long shall Cerberus Tapster be What though stout Asax lay with Proserpine Shall men leaue eating powdred Beefe for that I see no cause but men may picke their theeth Though Brutus with a Sword did kill himselfe Is Shooters-hill turn'd to an Oyster pie Or may a May-pole be a butterd Plaice Then let Saint Katherins saile to Bride-well Court And Chitterlings be worne for statute lace For if a Humble bee should kill a Whale With the butt-end of the Antarticke Pole 'T is nothing to the marke at which we ayme For in the Commentaries of Tower Ditch A fat stew'd Bawd hath bin a dish of state More might be said but then more must be
drown or sterue him The fatall Sisters serue his turne so pat That sure he hath more liues then hath a Cat. Alcides neuer past so many dangers As he hath done amongst his friends and strangers He runs through all his actions with such ease As Hogs eate Acorns or as Pidgeons Pease There 's nothing in the world can him disgrace Not being beaten in a lowzy case Nor Trunks nor Puncks nor stocks nor mocks nor moes Nor being made an Asse in Rime and Prose Nor hanging drowning carting nor the blanket These honours all are his the gods be thanked BVt now me-thinkes some curious itching care Doth long some sportiue newes of him to heare For being in the Ocean buried vnder And now aliue againe 't is more then wonder But how these wondrous wooders came to passe I as I can will tell you how it was VVHen first this mirrour 'mongst a world of Nations This great ingroser of strange obseruations Was bound for Constantines braue noble City Then he who is Wit all or else all witty Whose vigilancy lets no aduantage slip Embarked was in a tall proued Ship Of London the Samaritan she hight Now note the fore cast of this famous wight The Ship he onely for her name did chuse In detestation of the faithlesse Iewes For why the Iewes and the Samaritans Did hate as Christians Anti-Christians Yet I suppose his spight to them did spring For I thinke what and now I 'l name the thing In his first fiue months strange perambulation He was in danger of that peruerse Nation For they by wrongfull force would haue surpriz'd him T'excoriat Coriat and â—haue Circumciz'd him This dreadfull terrour of his Lady-ware I geâ—se the cause the Iewes he hatred bare How â—â—er was his intricate intent In the Samaritan to Sea he went And care-abusing false intelligence Said he was drown'd in Neptunes residence Thus false report did make me much mistake For which a faire recanting mends I 'l make My grieued Muse hath euer since his drowning Beene vext with sorrow and continuall swowning But now she 's all attir'd with mirth and gladnesse The Lye was good that made her sick with sadnesse KNow therefore Readers whatsoe'r you are That this great Britaine braue Odcombyan star Was tost on Neptunes rough reâ—n or celesse waâ—es Where each man look'd for timelesse brinish granes For Eolus vnlock'd his vaulted Center And 'gainst the Sea-god did in Armes aduenter With winds vniayled came at vnawares And greene-fac'd Neptune with defiance dares With all his warry Regiments to fight Or yeeld this matchles worthles wondrous knight The great humidious Monarch tells him plaine 'T were best he iogd from his commanding Maine And with his troupes of homelesse rouing slaneâ— Goe hide him in the earths imprison'd Canes And not disturbe him in his Regall Thrâ—â—e For be would keepe Tom Coriat or else none Then Eol 'gan his windy wrath to vent And swore by Styn that Neptune should repent This hauty high audacious insolence Against his powerfull great magnificence Then Triton founded the alarme was giuen That from hells bottome to the skirts of heauen The repercussiue ecchoes of his founding With dreadfull relapse backe againe redounding Then then Robustious swolne cheek'd Boreas blasts Teare riue and shiuer Tacklins Sailes and Masts In totter'd fragments all in pieces shatter'd Which here and there confusedly lay scatter'd These hurly burly stormes and tempests tumbling With dire amazing Thunder-thumping rumbling The mounting billowes like great mountaines â—â—â— As if they meant to drowne the losty skies Then downe they fall to the Tartarian deepe As if th' infernall Fiends they meant to steepe That sure I gesse a greater gust was neuer Since Iunâ— did AEnea's ruine endeauour The Kingly Sea-god to anoyd more harmes Caught Coriat the cause of these Alarmes And so his boystrons windy foe depriu'd And home thorow worlds of flouds a main he dim'd But awefull loue to his Imperiall spheare These grieuous garboyles chanced for to heare And to his brother Neptune downe he sends The wing-heel'd Mercury with these commends To thee thou watry great commanding Keasar I come from heauens Maiesticke mighty Casar Commanding thee by thy fraternall loue That from thy Coasts thou presently remoue The man thou lately look'st the worlds sole woder Or else he 'l rouze thee with distracting Thunder And therefore as Iones friendship thou dost tender To safe arriuall see thou dost him render Whilst May'es sonne his message thus did tell A fury like a Post-knight came from hell And from th' infâ—â—nall King of blacke Anernuâ— These words he vtter'd which doe much concern vs From Acherouticke Phlegetonticke waues Thy brother Plato thus much friendship craues Thou wilt send Coriat downe with him to â—igne And he 'l send thee as good a thing againe For Proserpina his illustrious Pheare Of him and his aduentures chanc'd to heare Because a Gentleman-vsher the doth want To haue him Pluto begs thy friendly grant The Marine Monarch answers thus it is You Nâ—â—tiâ— from our brothren Ione and Dâ—â— Know such a mortall is within my power Imprison'd close in Thetis siluer Bower I did surprize him midst a thousand toyles Of warres of iarres of bloody banefull broyles My high-borne brother Ioue hath hither sent Commanding me that I incontinent Doe safely set this new-found man aland â— And I from Pluto further vnderstand That he would haue him to Cocitus Coast Where he and Cores daughter rules the roast First therefore I in wisedome hold it best To yeeld vnto the mighty loues request And on the Grecian coast I 'l safely place him Where he may waÌ„der where his fortunes trace him Thesâ— messengers thus answer'd were dismist And Neptune did to land his guest persist â—â— now all hell was in an expectation For Coriats comming making preparation The Stigian Ferri-man on Stixes shore Did wait with diligence to wast him o'r And hels three headed Porter sweetly sung For ioy that all the Coastes of Limbo rung With howling Musickes dambe despightfull notes From out his triple Chaps and treble throats â—â— from the tortring wheele was eas'd And pining Tantall was with iunkets pleas'd And further 't was commanded and decreed The Gripe no more on Titius guts should feed The nine and forty wenches water silling In tubs vnbottom'd which was euer spilling They all had leaue to leaue their endlesse toyles To dance sing sport and to keepe reuell coyles Three forked Hecate to mirth was prone And Siâ—â—phus gaue o'r the restlesse stone All in conclusion had free leaue to play And for Tom Coriats sake make holiday Thus all blacke Barathrum is fill'd with games With lasting bone-fires casting sulphur-flames In Vse'rers skuls the molten gold they quaffe And skink and drink and wink and stink and lasse But when the Post was come and told his Tale Then all this sport was turn'd to banefull bale Grim Pluto storm'd and Proserpina mournd And tortur'd Ghosts to torments were returnd The Sea god carefull of great Iones high
He like a partiall Iaylor oft doth deale Permits his goodnesse neuer to appeare And lets his badnesse ramble any where So Rorers Rascals Banquerouts politicke With money or with friends will finde a tricke Their Iaylor to corrupt and at their will They walke abroad and take their pleasure still Whilst naked vertue beggerly despis'd Beleguerd round with miseries surpris'd Of hope of any liberty defeated For passing of his word is meerely cheated And dungeond vp may tell the wals his mones And make relation to the senselesse stones Where sighs and grones teares may be his feast Whil'st man to man is worse than beast to beast Till death he there must take his fad abode Whil'st craft and coozenage walke at will abroad Thus these comparisons doe well agree Man to a Iayle may fitly likened bee The thought whereof may make him wish with speed To haue his prisoned soule releast and freed Thus Iayles and meditations of a Iayle May serue a Christian for his great auaile But now my Muse thus long in bondage pent Begins to thinke of her infranchizement And hauing of a Prison spoke her part She mounts vnto the Hangman and his Art THE NECESSITIE OF HANGING OF Hangings there 's diuersity of fashions Almost as many as are sundry Nations For in the world all things so hanged are That any thing vnhang'd is strange and rare Earth hangs in the concauity of Water And Water hangs within the Ayeres matter The Ayre hangs in the Fierie continent Thus Element doth hang in Element Without foundation all the Massie Globe Hangs which the skies encompasse like a Robe For as an a Simile egge the yolke within the white The white within the skin 's enuellop'd quite The skin within the shell doth outmost lye Eu'n so these Elements hang midst the side First all the world where mortals liue we see Within the Orbe of Luna hanged be Aboue her Mercurie his course doth steere And next aboue him is bright Vâ—â—â—s Sphere And in the fourth and middle firmament Sol keepes his hot and fiery Regiment Next aboue that rans Mars that star of warre Beyond him Iupiter that Iouiall starre Then last is fullen Saturnes ample bounds Who once in thirty yeeres the world surrounds This earthly Globe for which men fight brawle Compar'd to Heauen is like an b All the world is in comparison for greatnesse to the eauens as a hand-worme of a Nit may be compared to the world Attom small Or as a Needles point compar'd to it So it to Heauen may be compared fit And it doth Hang and hath its residence I' th centre of the skies circumference Thus to proue Hanging naturall I proue c Wee liue in a hanging world We in a Hanging world doe liue and moue Man is a little world wherein we see The great worlds abstract or epitomie And if we note each linament and lim There are not many parts vnhang'd of him His haire which to his head and beard belongs Hangs if not turn'd vp with the Barbers tongs His armes his hands his legges and feet we know Doe all hang pendant downe wards as they grow Ther 's nothing of him that doth hanging skip Except his eares his nether teeth and lip And when he 's crost or sullen any way He mumps and lowres and hangs the lip they say That I a wise mans sayings must approue Man is a tree whose root doth grow aboue Within his braines whose sprigs branches rooâ— From head to foot grow downward to the ground Thus world to world and man to man dothcall And tels him Hanging is most naturall The word Dependant doth informe our reason That Hanging will be neuer out of season All that depends doth hang which doth expresse That d Rich men are poore mens Gallowses Great men are like Iybbets for the lesse It is an old phrase many yeeres past gone That such a Lord hath many hangers on Thereby describing that all mens Attendants As it were hangers on were call'd e All dependants are hangers on Dependance And sure of all men they are best indeed Who haue most hangers on to cloath and feed For he that hath the meanes and not the grace To helpe the needie is a Miser base Hee 's no good Steward but a hatefull Thiefe That keepes from good Dependants their reliefe And of all Theeues he hanging doth deserue Who e All dependants are hangers on hath the power to feed and lets men steâ— To end this point this consequence I 'll grant He that hath wealth no hangers on can want For since the time that mankinde first began It is a destinie ordain'd to man The meane vpon the mighty should depend And all vpon the Mightiest should attend Thus through all ages Countries and Dominions We each on other hang like ropes of Onions Some wealthy slaues whose consciences condem Will hang themselues left others hang on them And some spend all on Hangers on so fast That they are forc'd to steale and hang at last If they from these Extremes themselues could weâ—â— There is betwixt them both a Golden meane Which would direct their superfluities They would not hang themselues for niggardine Nor wastefully or prodigally spend Till want bring them to hanging in the end And they and many others by their purse Might scape that hanging which is cald a curse f That 's a Roague There 's many a * That 's an Asse Gallant made of foole and feather Of Gold and Veluet Silke and Spanish leather Whose lagged Hangers on haue mou'd my minde â—osce prids goe goe before and shame behinde With scarce a button or an elboe whole â—â—ch or any shooe that 's worth a sole These that like golden Iybbets and their traines â—â— like poore tatter'd Theeues hang'd vp in chains â—â—â— that doth suffer Whores or Theeues or Knaues â—â—â— flattering Villaines or such kinde of slaues To hang vpon him and knowes what they are That man into a Gallowse I compare That Vintner I account no friend of mine Who for good money drawes me scuruie wine â—â—â— by the rule of Conscience not of Law That he is fitter made to hang then draw The Lawyer that at length doth spin mens causes With false delays and dilatory clauses Who makes a trade to broach and draw contention For him a hanging were a good preuention â—â— hols Muse come backe you beare my Rime To hanging in good carnest ere the time There are a many sorts of hangings yet Behinde which I by no meanes must forget The hanging is a necessary thing Which is a pretty gamball cald a a A Swing or stretch for exercise andâ— Swing And men of good repute I oft haue seene To hang and stretch and totter for the spleene This hanging is a military course Not by the Law but strength of armes and force Thâ—s euery morning for a little spurt â—â—â—man may hang himselfe and doe no hurt This hanging oft like Tyburne hath a tricke
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
Sonnet 5. Three blinde Commanders BLinde fortune sightlesse loue and eyelesse death Like Great Triumue'rs swayes this earthly roome â—â—â— actions affections and very breathe Are in subiection to their fatall doome Ther 's nothing past or present or to come That in their purblinde power is not comprizde â—rom Crowne to cart from cradle to the toome â—ll are by them defamde or eternizde Why should we then esteeme this doating life â— That 's in the guideance of such blind-fold rule Whose chiefest peace is a continuall strife Whose gawdy pompes the pack and man the Mule Which liues long day he beares as he is able Til deaths blacke night doth make the graue his stable Sonnet 6. In the praise of musicke â—TWas Musick fetch'd Euridice from hell And rap'd grim Pluto with harmonious straines Renowned Orphens did with Musick quell The fiends and ease the tortur'd of their paines The Dolphin did account it wondrous gaines To heare Arion play as hee did ride Gods fiends fish fowles shepheards on the plains Melodious Musicke still hath magnifide And ancient records plainely doe decide How braue Orlands Palatine of France When he was raging mad for Meadors bride Sweet Musicke cur'd his crazed wits mischance For Musick 's only fit for heau'ns high quire Which though men cannot praise enough adutire Sonnet 7. The Map of misery LIke to the stone that 's cast in deepest wane That rests not till the bottome it hath found So I a wretch inthrald in sorrowes caue With woe and desperations fetters bound The captiue slaue imprison'd vnder ground Doom'd there by fates t' expire his wofull daies With care o'rwhelmd with grief sorrow drownd Makes mournfull moanings and lamenting layes Accusing and accursing fortunes playes Whose wither'd Autumne leauelesse leaues his tree And banning death for his too long delayes â— Remaines the onely poore despised hee If such a one as this the world confine His mischiefes are his his sport compar'd with mine Sonnet 8. Another in prayse of musicke NO Poet crownd with euerliuing bayes Tho art like floods should froÌ„ his knowledge flow He could not write enough in Musicks prayse To which both man and Angels loue doe owe If my bare knowledge ten times more did know And had ingrost all arte from Pernas hill If all the Muses should their skils bestow On me to amplifie my barren skill I might attempt in shew of my good will In Musicks praise some idle lines to write But wanting iudgement and my accent ill I still should be vnworthy to indite And run my wit on ground like ship on shelfe For musicks praise consisteth in it selfe A Cataplasmicall Satyre composed and compacted of sundry simples as salt vineger wormewood and a little gall very profitable to cure the impostumes of vice A Sauage rough-hair'd Satyre needs no guide Wher 's no way from the way he cannot â—lide Then haue amoÌ„gst you through the brakes briers From those who to the Cedars top aspires Vnto the lowest shrub or branch of broome That hath his breeding from earths teeming womb And now I talke of broome of shrubs and Cedars Me thinks a world of trees are now my leaders To prosecute this trauell of my penne And make comparison twixt trees and men The Cedars and the high cloud kissing Pynes Fecundious Oliues and the crooked Vines The Elme the Ash the Oake the Masty Beeche The Peare the Apple and the rug-gowned Peache And many more for it would tedious be To name each fruitfull and vnfruitfull tree But to proceed to show how men and trees In birth in breed in life and death agrees In their beginnings they haue all one birth Both haue their nat'rall being from the earth And heauens high hand where he doth please to blesse Makes trees or men or fruitful or fruitlesse In sundry vses trees do serue mans turne To build t' adorne to feed or else to burne Thus is mans state in all degrees like theirs Some are got vp to th' top of honours stayres Securely sleeping on opinions pillow Yet as vnfruitfull as the fruitlesse willow And fill vp roomes like worthlesse trees in woods Whose goodnesse all consists in ill got goods He like the Cedar makes a goodly show But no good fruite will from his greatnesse grow Vntill he die and from his goods depart And then giues all away despight his heart Then must his friends with mourning cloth be clad With insides merry and with outsides sad What though by daily grinding of the poore By bribry and extortion got his store Yet at his death he gownes some foure-score men And t is no doubt he was a good man then Though in his life he thousands hath vndone To make wealth to his cursed coffers runâ— If at his buriall groats a piece bee giuen I le warrant you his soule 's in hell or heauen And for this doale perhaps the beggers striues That in the throng seuenteene doe lose their liues Let no man tax me here with writing lies For what is writ I saw with mine owne eyes Thus men like barren trees are feld and lopt And in the fire to burne are quickly popt Some man perhaps whilst he on earth doth liue Part of his vaine superfluous wealth will giue To build of Almshouses some twelue or ten Or more or lesse to harbour aged men Yet this may nothing be to that proportion Of wealth which he hath gotten by extortion What i st for man his greedy minde to serue To be the cause that thousands die and sterue And in the end like a vaine-glorious theefe Will giue some ten or twelue a poore reliefe Like robbers on the way that take a purse And giue the poore a mite to scape Gods curse But know this thou whose goods are badly gotten When thou art in thy graue consum'd and rotten Thine heire perhaps wil feast with his sweet punk And Dice and Drabb and eu'ry day be drunk Carowsing Indian Trinidado smoake Whilst thou with Sulph'rous flames are like to choake See see yond gallant in the Cloke-bag breech Hee 's nothing but a Trunke cram'd full of speech He 'l sweare as if 'gainst heau'n he wars would wage And meant to plucke downe Phoebus in his rage When let a man but try him hee 's all oathes And odious lies wrapt in vnpaid for cloathes And this Lad is a Roaring boy forsooth An exlent morsell for the hangmans tooth He carelesly consumes his golden pelfe In getting which his Father damn'd himselfe Whose soule perhaps in queÌ„chlesse fire doth broile Whilst on the earth his sonne keepes leuell coile T is strange to Church what numbers daily flock To drinke the Spring of the eternall Rocke The great â—ouâ—â—-sauing Satan slaying Word Gainst sin death hell th' alcoâ— quering sacred sword Where high lehonahs Trumpâ—ters sound forth From East to West from Souâ—â— vnto the North For through all lands their Embasseyes are borne And neuer doe againe in vaine returne Which either is of life to life the sauor Or death
labours and takes paine May with a better Conscience sleepe in bed Then he that is with ill got thousands sped So well I like it and such loue I owe Vnto it that I 'll fall againe to Rowe 'T will keepe my health from falling to decay Get money and chase Idlenesse away I 'm sure it for Antiquity hath stood Since the worlds drowning vniuersall Flood And howsoeuer now it rise or fall The Boate in Noahs Deluge carried all And though our wits be like our purses bare With any Company wee 'll make compare To write a Verse prouided that they be No better skild in Schollership then wee And then come one come thousands nay come all And for a wager wee 'll to Versing fall Epilogue to those that know what they haue read and how to censure TO you whose eares and eyes haue heard seene This little pamphlet and can iudge betweene That which is good or tol'rable or ill If I with Artlesse Nature wanting skill Haue writ but ought that may your thoughts content My Muse hath then accomplisht her intent Your fauors can preserue me but your frownes My poore inuentions in obliuion drownes With tolerable friendship let me craue You will not seeke to spill what you may saue But for the wrymouth'd Critick that hath read That mewes puh's and shakes his brainlesse head And saies my education or my state Doth make my verse esteem'd at lower rate To such a one this answer I doe send And bid him mend before he discommend His Enuy vnto me will fauours prooue The hatred of a foole breeds wise-mens loue My Muse is iocund that her labours merits To be malign'd and scornd by Enuious spirits Thus humbly I craue pardon of the best Which being gaind Sir reuerence for the rest FINIS A MEMORIALL OF ALL THE ENGLISH MONARCHS being in number 151. from Brute to King CHARLES TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE LIONEL Lord Viscount Cranefield Earle of Middlesex c. MY humble Muse in lofty manner sings a The y. Kingdomes were 1. Kent 2 â—â—â— Sussx and Surry 3 â—â—â—â— â—â—â— Norfolke and Cambridge-shire 4 â—â—â—â—â—â— â—â—â— Somersetshire and Corneâ—â—â— 5 Mertia Glostershire Hertfordshire Worcester Shraâ—â—â— Staffordshire Cheshire Warwike Leycester North Oxford Buckingham Bedford and halfe Hartfordshire 6 East-Saxon Essex Middlesex and halfe Hartfordshire 7 Northumberland diuided to two Kingdomes Deyrs and all brought to one Monarchy by Eghert King of saeâ—â—â— and called England 1968. yeeres after Brute A Catalogue of Englands mighty Kings At first I do begin with Troian BRVTE And following Chronicles I do dispute Proceeding briefely with their Raignes and Names Till these blest dayes of our best Monarch IAMES T is but an Argument that 's written here That in such time such and such Princes were But he that meanes their Actions were to know May read Boetius Hollinshed or Stow Or our true labouring Moderne Master How Which Authors Learned Iudgement do allow Or if you le see how former times doe runne Reade the laborious paines of Middleton We haue had Kings since Brute of royall Blood One hundred forty sixe some bad some good Foure Queenes in all this time did only Raigne Whose Memories in Histories remaine So in two thousand and seuen hundred yeeres We had thrice 50 Princes it appeares This Kingdome here was fiue times won and lost And Kings as God decreed oft chang'd and tost Sometimes one swaid the Scepter sometime twaine And sometime seuen at once did rule and raigne Till sixe by bloudy warres lost life and throne And valiant Egbert ioyn'd them all in one But since through Heauens high prouidence I see T is growne more great and greater like to be Long may He liue by whom in one 't is guided And may they sinke that wish't againe diuided â—â—â—e Noble Lord with good acceptance take â— Poem for the Royall Subiects sake â—â—though it be not compleate as it should â—â—with it and accept of what I could â—â—â—â—â— matter 's worthy though the manner 's poore Which makes me heere your Patronage implore And may you be externall and internall Blest and aduanc'd to happinesse eternall Your Honours in all obseruance to be commanded Iohn Taylor BRVTE THE FIRST KING OF BRITTAINE began his Reigne 1. BRVTE â—â—â—â—â—â—munds 2858. Before Christ 1108. AENE AS from subuerted Troy exilde In Tuscais wedded King Latinus childe By whom the Realme of Italy he gain'd And after he had 3. yeeres fully raign'd He died and left Ascanius in his stead To whom Siluius Posthumus did succeed From which Posthumus Royall loynes did spring â—â—â— Great Brutus Brittaines first commanding King The people then were here all voyd of pride Borne Naked Naked liu'd and Naked dy'd Three Sonnes Brute left Locrinus was his Heire To England Cambria Wales was Cambers share To Albanact the youngest 't was his lot To sway the Scepter of the valiant Scot. Thus 'mongst his Sonnes this Ile he did diuide And after twenty foure yeeres Reigne he dy'd Brute being of the age of 15 yeeres as he shot at a wild beast the arrow glanced unfortunately and slew his Father Sinius AEneas for the which he was exiled and came on this â—â—â—â—â— then called Albyon I follow the common opinion for many Writers doe neither write or allow of Brutes being here accounting it a dishonor for our Nation to haue originall from a Paâ—â—â—ide and one that deriued his descent from the Goddesse alias strumpet Venus Howsoeuer Histories are obseured and clouded with ambiguities some burnt left defaced by antiquity and some abused by the malice ignorance or partialitie of Writers so that truth is hard to be found Amongst all which variations of Times and Writers I must conclude there was a BRVTE Locrine 20. yeeres 1034. LOcrinus Eldest of old Brutus Sonnes By Valour vanquisht the inuading Hunnes He chas'd them their power did quite confound And their King Humber was in a The Riuer of Humber tooke the name from the drowned King of the Huns now Hungarians Humber drownd This Locrine had a Queene faire b Guendoline was daughter vnto Corineus Duke of Cornewall Estrild was a beautious Lady of King Humbers whom Locrinus tooke prisoner Guendolin Yet folly led him to the Paphaean sinne Besotted sence and blood with lust inflam'd He lou'd a beautie Beautious Estrild nam'd By whom he had a Daughter Sabrin hight In whome the King had whole and sole delight For which the Queene made war vpon her Lord And in the Fight she put him to the Sword And after a reuengefull bloody slaughter Queene Guendoline tooke Estrild and her daughter And drownd them both to quéch her ielous flame And so from Sabrine Seauerne got the name Yeeres before Christ. Q. Guendoline 1064. About this time Saul was King of Israel VVHen 15. yeeres this Queen'had wisely raign'd She dy'd then her Son the kingdome gain'd Queene Guendoline was allowed the gouernment in her Sonne Madans minority whose prudent reigne is applausefully recorded in histories Madan
you stand In duty for your liues and honours bound To him for by him haue you beene renown'd Yet Death that 's common vnto euery one Should be intolerable vnto none And therefore let his noble spirit rest Amidst those ioyes which cannot be exprest Let those that liue his goodnesse imitate And yeeld vnto the course of mortall fate FINIS A FVNERALL ELEGIE IN THE SACRED MEMORY OF THE Right Reuerend Right Honourable and Learned Father in GOD LANCELOT Lord Bishop of VVinchester Deane of his Maiesties Chappell Prelate of the Right Honourable Order of the Garter and one of the Lords of his Maiestices most Honourable Priuie COVNCELL Who departed this life at his house in Southwarke on Munday the 25 th of September last 1626 and was Honourably Interred in Saint Sauiours Church in Southwarke the XI of Nouember TO THE WORSHIPFVLL AND RELIGIOVS GENTLE man M r. Iohn Parker Citizen of London and of the worshipfull Societie of Marchant-Taylors Right Worthy Sir IN these ingratefull daies of ours wherein mens merits are forgotten with the expiration of the life and that too many doe glory to leaue happy or vnhappy posterities behinde them to â—â—â— their memories liue when they are gone or else put a vaine hope of a long lasting same by eâ—â—â—cting painted vaine-glorious Sepulchers and marble Monuments whilst small are theâ—â—â— ber of those that by Piety Charity Noble and vertuous Actions and good life and conuersation â—â— seeke to attaine the neuer-fading memory of Eternity and true lmmortality so that it is a doubt whâ—ther the death of the good or the life of the bad are most to be lamented Yet although the true worthâ—â— this deceased Right Reuerend Right Honourable and right Learned Father whom God in merry â—â— taken from the euill to come is of that inuincible and impregenable strength that the flattery or battle of future time cannot beat it downe into the gulfe of obliuion and forget fulnesse yet though weâ—â— lesse I in dutious loue and reuerence to the Dead and true in affection to the liuing amongst whom â—â—â—â— of my departed Lords Friends and Seruants I am much endeared and oblieged vnto I haue set â—â— rudely to paper and as I could though not as I should I haue as it were onley look'd into the Suiâ—â—â—â— of a goodly City tasted Manna afarre off and touched the skirts or hem of his meritorious vertues whâ—â— I have made bold to dedicate to your Worships graue and iudicious view and censure humbly desirâ— your VVorship to accept my intention more then my Labour in hope whereof I cease to enlarge my Eâ—â—â— further wishing you such happinesse in this life as is correspondent to your worth and such felicity in â—â— life to come as is layd vp for good men in Heauen Your Worships to command IOHN TAYLOR A Silly Taper or a Candles light Are vaine additious to make Sol more bright â—â—â— can one little water-drop augment The mighty bounds of Neptunes continent The raging Winds that threaten sea and shore â—â—â— one mans breath is not increas'd the more â—â—â— or can a handfull of vnstable sand â—â—yse mounts of earth or amplifie the land â—â—â— that am the meanest man of men â—â—rane wanting learning meaner for the pen â—th glimering raper or a drop of raine â—â—not increase the light inlarge the maine â—â—â— any way in sitting tearmes set foth â—ght Reuerend Winchester Admired worth â—â—â—all the learned Poets of these dayes â—â—ght write and speake in his deserued prayse â—â—â— spend their inke and paper and their spirits â—â—â—â—add no fame or honour ot his merits â—â—â—as pute snow shewes whiter to the eye â—â—â—â—hen cole-black Crowes or swarty Rauens are by â—â—â—as the darknesse makes light seeme more cleare â—â—â—will his Vertues in my lines appeare â—â—â—speake his passage in this vale of strife London he had being first and life â—hose Parents as became their reputation â—â—â—bring him vp in worthy education â—â—â— Prem brooke Hall in Cambridge witnesse will â—hereas his noble memory liues still â—passing on in this his morall race â—â—ne'd by grace from higher place to place â—â—â—to the Deanery of Westminster â—â—â—to this Bishopricke of Chichester â—â— Iames did next to Elye him preferre â—ich learned Prince made him his Almoner â—â—â— by Gods prouidence nor his desire â—â—â—to Winchester translated higher â—â—â—of the Royall Chappell and beside Garters Prelate he was dignifide â—â—â—gracious Iames did in his wisedome see â—â—â— worthy Lords vpright integrity â—hom all loyall vertues were innate â—â—â—â—him a priuy Councellour of State â—â—â—his honours still did higher grow â— minde in meeke humillity was low â—â—â—like a blessed Samuel was he â—yned from his infancy to be â—iant souldier of Christs faithfull Campe â—in God Church a learn'd illustrious Lamp â—â—â—â—at the lord to Abraham did say From thy Country and thy Kin away â—â—â—from thy Fathers house I charge thee goe â—â—â—Lord that I to thee will showe â—is right reuerend Lord was from his youth â—â—â—from the world to Gods eternall truth â—being one in Heau ' ns high businesse sent â—igh in this world yet from the world he went For though the world is as 't is vnderstood Mans natiue Country as he 's flesh and blood Yet is his worldly part a prison foule Wherein in bondage lyes his purer soule Which soule is heauenly makes heauen her aime And here she 's in the World not of the same So this deceased Subiect of my muse He liu'd and grieu'd to see the worldsabuse And like a â—eremy â—â— had â—â—â—ments He sigh'd and greu'd bewaynng the euents Which haue and doe and dad â—â— are like Vpon this woefull age of ours to strike He saw and grieu'd a what all men should grieue How goodnesse small reipect could here achieue And how the chiefest good that men doe craue Is pompe and wealth and rich appreil braue How man will for his body haue good food Good fire good cloathes good house and lodging good And all the care's how these goods may be had And few men cared though their soules be bad Thus the sraile World in pous â—â—â— Strooke in his Christian heart griefes deepe impression That all that worldly was he quite â—orgor And vs'd the World as if hee vs'd itâ— oâ— Hee by the Spirit of God perceiued plaine That all earthes pompe and glory is but vayne And therefore with a lowly minde and meeke He did Christs righteousnesse kingdome seeke For which euen as our Sauiours word is past His earthly treasures were vppon him cast For still the word of God confirm'd shall be I 'le honour them saith he that honour me His heart was free from an ambitious thought No popular applause of men he sought His pride was godly a true Christian pride To know Christ and to know him crucifide And though fraile men are with vaine toyes intis'd Hee with'd to be disolu'd to be with Christ. His charity was not in out-ward show No Pharisey-like Trumpet ere did blow To make the World applause with
and be Tombd with him together Sonnets 3. FRom two strong Iailes thy corps â—onâ—â— acquitted The one compact of flesh and bloud and bone The other vnrelenting sencelesse stone By God to one by man to one committed I euer did expect a happy time When thou shouldst shake by bondage from thy backer I euer hop'd that thy vnwilling crime Would be forgot and thou secur'd from wracke For this I wish'd and prat'd both day and night I onely aym'd to haue thy body freed But heau'n beyond my reason had decreed Soule body both at once to free thee quite Thou in thy life hast past a world of trouble But death from double Iailes hath freed thee double Sonnet 4. COrruption Incorruption hath put on Immortall weake mortality is made Earths wo hath gain'd a happy heauenly throne By death life dyes by life deaths force doth fade Though death kill life yet life doth conquer death Death but puts off our Rags of shame and â—ine When for a moment's an eternall breath Life passing through the dore of death doth win This thou well knowst my much beloued friend And therefore thou didst dare death to his worst But he much busied could not thee attend Or durst not till thy cares thy heart had burst And then the slaue came stealing like a thiefe And 'gainst his will did giue thy woes reliefe Sonnet 5. THou fortunes foot-ball whom she vs'd to tosse From wrong to wrong from wo to wo againe From griefe rebounding backe to pinching paine As 't please the blind-fold Dame to blesse or crosse But thou vnmou'd with either gaine or losse Nor ioy nor care could vexe they constant braine Thou smil'dst at all her buffets with disdaine And all her fauours thou esteem'dst as drosse Her and her Fauorites thou still didst deeme Iust as they are not as they seeme to be Her Minions all as fooles thou didst esteeme And that 's the cause she would not fauour thee Then since such reck'ning she of fooles doth make Would thou hadst beene one for her fauours fake Sonnet 6. T Is written in the euer liuing Word The Rule and Square that men should liue thereby Afflictions are the tuch-stones of the Lord. By which he onely doth his seruants try Then Noble Moray thou hadst many a tuch And still the patience good and currant prou'd Thy manly carriage in thy griefs were such Which made thee more then much admir'd and lou'd What yeer what month week day or fading houre Wherein some mischiefe did thee not befall Yet had Affliction ouer thee no power To conquer thee but thou didst conquer all Vnnumbred times thou wast both toucht and tri'd And in thy Makers feare and fauour dy'd Sonnet 7. VVEep heart weepe eyes weep my vnable pen In teares of blood of water and lake With bread of sorrow and afflictions drinke I liue for I haue lost a man of men Yet heart eyes pen dry vp your teares agen He is not lost he 's rather newly found Enfranchis'd from a dolefull theeuish den And with a rich Immortall Crowne is crownd Then hart eies pen no more with teares be drownd Weepe not for him that doth reioyce for euer Yet this againe my comfort doth confound Hee 's lost to mee and I shall find him neuer Then weep Muse heart eies pen lament and weepâ— My ioyes are buried in eternall sleepe Sonnet 8. SLeepe gentle spirit in Eternall rest Free from all heart-tormenting sorrow sleepe Whilst I doe vent from my care-crazed brest Hart-wondring sighs that there their mansion keepâ—â— And let my grones from out that Cauerne deepe With lamentations and cloud-cracking thunder And let mine eyes an Inundation weepe Let sighs grones teares make all the world to wonder I meane my little Microcosmo world Sigh stormes grone thunder weep a floud of tearesâ— Through eu'ry part of me let griefe be hurld That whosoeuer my lamenting heares May mone with me the cause of this my Ditty Or if not mone with me vonchsafe to pitty Sonnet 9. SInce cursed fates haue fatally decreed To tosse and tumble harmelesse Innocence And all the crue of hels abortiue breed Haue glutted Enuies maw by lawes defence Yet God whose knowledge knows the least offence Who all things sees with his all-searching eye Doth with his glorious great omnipotence Right wronged wrongs heares his seruants cry His mercie 's not immur'd within the sky But freely he doth powre it downe on earth He with afflictions scourge his sonnes doth try And when he pleases turnes their mone to mirth And though man liues in care and dies in sorrow A heauy euening brings a ioyfull morrow Sonnet 10. WEll hast thou runne in this â—y weary race Well hast thou fought with Satan hand to haÌ„d Th' ast won the Goale and gain'd the blessed Land That 's neither limitted with time or place There thou attendest on the thâ—â—â—â—â—â—e of Grace There Angels and Archangels sweetly sing Eternall praises to th' eternall King And see the glorious brightnesse of his face All this I doubt not but thou wâ—ll hast done Not of thy selfe with shamefull sinne pollated But thy Redeemer hath the coâ—â—iest wonne And vnto thee the victorie's imputed He paid the score and cancell'd all thy bands And gaue thee to his blessed Fathers hands Sonnet 11. NOw may you theeuing Poets filch and steale Without controlement breaking Priscians pate For he that whilom could your theft reueale Your Criticke and your Hypercriticke late Now may you cog and lye and sweare and prate And make your idle verses lame and halt For by the pow'r of euiternall Fate Hee 's gone that could and would correct each fault But you haue greatest cause to moane his want You sacred heau'nly Sisters three times thrice He from your Gardens could all weeds supplant And replant fruites and flowres of pecrelesse price He kept vnbroke your Numbers Tipes Tropes But now hee 's dead dead are your onely hopes Sonnet 12. AS Solon to rich haplesse Croesus said No man is happy till his life doth end The proofe in thee so piainly is displaid As if he thy Natiuity had kend What mortall miseries could mischiefe send But thou therein hast had a treble share As if Calamities their powers should bend To make thy Corps a treasure-house of care Yet fell Aduersity thou didst out-dare And valiantly 'gainst stormes of woe resisted Loue of the world they minde could not insnare Thou knewst wherein the best of best consisted And as old Solon said so I agree Death makes men happy as it hath done thee Sonnet 13. NO 〈…〉 Trophee Vertue needes And good report a marble Tombe out-weares â—â—â—â—â— plaies the Herald proclaimes mens deeds Her Trumps Thrill sound the spacious world heares And such an vniuersall Tombe hast thou Borne on the tops of thousand thousand tongs Thy liuing merit doth thy name allow A Monument for euer which belongs To none but such as whilom was thy selfe Who vs'd the world as if they vs'd it not And did
color is blacke Id sooner deeds of â—â—â—knesse Hee grabs and spuddles for his prey in muddy holes and obscure cauernes my Muse ferrus hase debaushed wretches in their swmsh dens Hee like the Crocodile moues the vpper chap thus Treatise condemnes that beasts dissmulaâ—â— Hee s swallowes downe his meate without taste this booke distastes such as sinne without touch of conscience The ods is my Cormorants appetite is limited but must of theres is vnsatable I ayme not at such mens â—â—â— as may fall by msirmty for that were the Esops crab to offer to teach others to goe right going crooked my selfe Detraction is priuate wounding of means name and flattery and a deâ—ourer of men aloue If I can sayle betwixt these two and not be spht I shall arriue at my desired part In my passage I shall have Polipheme casting rockes to sincke me Criticks misconstrung my words like spiders sucking poyson out of wholsome flowers But from these Antipodes to goodnesse by their Aâ—â—â—besis to â—â—â—â— I appeale to my conference which it a witnesse to me that can neither accese or condomme me Fayme at none but such as deâ—uoure others and set make thirst to keepe themselues out of thereach of Law I name none personally and therefore with the faults to amend with silence rather thereby rubbing off a spot to make a hole in the whole cloth for I leaue gleanings enough to make a second part if need require Such stomackes as cannot dâ—â—gest this doth â—â— me rather de to them a Choake-peare them a Gudgeon There is no degree of man or woman whatsoeuer from the Court to the Cottage or from the Pallace to the Plough but many make good ese of this Poem either for merry recreation or vtees defamation and in a word if it please the â—â—â—â—â— or be any way profitable for the confirming of the good or reforming the bad I have then my full recompence with the effect of my intentous and wishes IOHN TAYLOR THE VVATER-CORMORANT HIS COMPLAINT Against a Brood of Land-CORMORANTS Diuided into fourteene Satyres 1 A Iesuite 2 A Separatist 3 A Trust-breaker 4 A Drunkard 5 A prodigall Gallant 6 An Extortioner and Broker 7 A Basket-Iustice 8 A Cut purse 9 A good and bad Constable 10 A Serieant and Iaylor 11 A Patron and his Clarke 12 A Countrey Yeoman 13 A Figure-Stinger 14 A Lawyer and Vndershriue My Cormorant against these doth inuey And proues himselfe much better farre then they A Iesuite THE ARGVMENT King-killing Monsters out of Heauens mouth spew'd Caters and Butchers vnto Rome and Flell The bane of Youth and Age in blood imbrow'd Perditions gulph where all foule Treasons dwell Lands liues and Soules vnder the sauing stile Of IESVS they deuoure confound beguile IN setting downe this Sect of blood compact Me thinkes I see a tragick Sceane in act The Stage all hang'd with the sad death of Kings From whose bewailing storie sorrow springs The Actors dipt in crueltre and blood Yet make bad deeds passe in the name of good And kindling new Commotions they conspire With their hot Zeale to set whole Realmes on fire As 't was apparent when they did combine Against vs in their fatall Powder-Mine All Hell for that blacke Treason was plow'd vp And mischiefe dranke deepe of damnations cup The whole vast Ocean sea no harbour grants To such deuouring greedy Cormorants In the wide gulph of their abhorr'd designes Are thoughts that find no roome in honest mindes And now I speake of Rome euen in her Sea The Iesiutes the dang'rous whirle-pooles be Religions are made Waues that rise and fall Before the wind or breath Poutisicall The Pope sends stormes forth seuers or combines According to his mood it raines or shines And who is ready to put all his will In execution but the Iesuite still Nor hath his Cormorant long tane degree For Esacus more ancient is then hee Yeares thousands since Troyes sonne he was created And from a man but to a Bird translated Whereas the Iesuite deriues descent But from Ignatius Loyala that went For a maim'd Spanish souldier but herein The difference rises which hath euer bin From Man to Bird one 's changed shape began The other to a Diuell from a Man Yet here in these wide maw'd Esacians May Well agree with these Ignatians First black 's the colour of the groâ—dy Fowle And black 's the Iesuites habite like his soule The bird is leane though oft he bee full craw'd The Iesuit's hatchet fac'd and wattle jaw'd The Cormorant as nature best be fits Still without chewing doth deucure whole bits So Iesuits swallow many a Lordly liuing All at a gulp without grace or thankes-giuing The birds throat gaping without intermission Resembles their most cruell Inquisition From neither is Nonest redemptio For what into the Corm'rants throat doth goe Or Iesuits Barrathrum doth once retaine It ne're returnes fit for good vse againe Eightie yeares since hee stole the Epithite From IESVS to bee call'd a Iesuite But I could find him out a style more right From Iudas to bee nam'd Iscariâ—â—â—e Though Paul the third their title did approue Yet he confirm'd their number that aboue Three score they should not be and yet we see How much increased now the vipers be Tâ—at many a thousand Christian lyes and grones Vnder the slau'ry of these diuelish drones And he that knowes but truly what they are Will iudge a Cormorant'â— their better farre A Separatist THE ARGVMENT Here earth and hell haue made a false commixion Of painted Zeale and holinesse and loue Of Faith of Hope of Charity in fiction In smoake and shadowes as the fruits doe proue Hypocrisie which long prayers dorb repeate Dâ—oureth Widowes and poore Orphans cheate NOw enters next to play his Oylie part A Saiue in tongue but a rough diuell in heart â—â—â— that so smoothly swallowes his prey downe Without wrath shewne or any seeming frowne You 'd thinke him when he does 't in a Psalme Or at his prayers hee'sfo milde and calme No noyse no trouble to his conscionce cryes For he deuoures his prey with heau'd vp eyes Stands most demurely swallowing downe his bit And lickes his lips with long grace after it This Bell-wether sit reu'rence leades the slocke After his sence grafted in errours stocke This reu'rend Barrabas a Button-maker Himselfe with trusty Demas his partaker â—leets with their Brethren Chore Abiram Dathan And tear me our Church the Synagogue of Sathan Wise Balaanz Nabal Esan Ismael Tertullus Theudas and Aoâ—itophed Phygeâ—â—us Himereus and Philetus A crew of turne-coates that desire to cheat vs These fellowes with their ample folio graces With mumping chaps and counterfeited faces Though they like shotten herrings are to see Yet such tall Souldiers of their teeth they be That two of them like greedie Cormorants Dâ—â—oures more then fixe honest Protestants When priuately a sister and a brother Doe meet there 's dainty doings with each other There 's no dulay they ne're stand shall I shall I Hermogenes
according to my will My faults would make compare with any ill But yet I muse at Poets now adâ—yes That each mans vice so sharpely will dispraise Like as the Kite doth o're the carrion houer So their owne faults with other mens they couer Cause you shall deeme my iudgement to be just Amongst the guilty I cry guiltie first Epigram 3. GLacus that selfe conceâ—ted câ—iticke foole Vpon my Epigrams doth looke a scaunt And bids me pat my borren wit to Schoole And I in anger bid the Affe auaâ—â—â— For till some better thing by him is pend I bid him fault not that he cannot mend Epigram 4. A Skilfull Painter such rare pictures drew That euery man his workemanship admir'd So neere the life in beautie for me and new As if dead Art 'gainst Nature had conspir'd Painter sayes one thy wife 's a pâ—â—tty woman I muse such ilâ—-shapt Children thou â—ast got Yet makest such pictures as their like makes no man I prethâ—e tell the cause of this thy lot Quoth he I paint by day when it is light And get my Children in the darke at night Epigram 5. VNlearned Azo store to Bookes hath bought Because a learned Scholler hee 'l be thought I counsell'd him that had of Bookes such store To buy Pipes Lutes the Violl and Bandore And then his Musicke and his learning share Being both alike with either might compare Epigram 6. FAire Betrice tuckes her coats vp somewhat hie Her pretty leg and foot cause men should spie Sayes one you haue a handsome Leg sweet ducke I haue two quoth she or else I had hard â—ucke There 's two indeed I thinke th' are twinnes qd he They are and are not honest friend quoth she Their birth was both at once I dare be sworne But yet betweene them both a man was borne Epigram 7. THe way to make a Welch-man thirst for blisse And say his prayers dayly on his knees Is to perswade him that most câ—â—taine 't is The Moone is made of nothing but greene Cheese And hee 'l desire of God no greater boone But place in heauen to feed vpon the Moone Epigram 8. A Gailant Lasse from out her window saw A Gentleman whose nose in length exceeded Her boundlesse will not limited by Law Imagin'd he had what she greatly needed To speake with him she kindly doth entreat Desiring him to cleare her darke suppose Supposing euery thing was made compleat And correspondent equall to his nose But finding short where she expected long She sigh'd and said O nose thou didst me wrong Epigram 9. YOung S r. Iohn Puckefoist and his new made Madam Forgets they were the off spring of old Adam I 'm sure 't is not for wit nor manlike fight His worthlesse worship late was dub'd a Knight Some are made great for wealth and some â—or â—it And some for valour doe attaine to it And some for neither valour wit nor wealth But stolne opinion purchase it by stealth Epigram 10. ONe told me fiattery was exiâ—'d the slate And pride and lust at Court were out of date How vertue did from thence all vice put sue 'T is newes qnoth I too good for to be true Epigram 11. HE that doth beate his braines and trie his wit In hope thereby to please the multitude As soone may ride a Horse without a bit Aboue the Moone or Sunnes high altitude Then neither flattâ—rie nor the hope of pelfe Hath made me write but for to please my selfe Epigram 12. A Rusticke swaine was cleaning of a blacke And hum he cryes at euery pond'rous krâ—oâ—â—ke His wife sayes Husband where fore hum you â—â— Quoth he it makes the wedge in further goe When day was done and drow sie night was come Being both in bed at play shâ—â—â— bids him hum Good wife quoth he â—ncreat me hum no more For when I hum I cleaue but now I bore Epigram 13. VVhen Caualeâ—o Hot shot goes with Oares Zoun's rowye Rogues yeâ—â—z knaues make hast â—â—â—yle of Fidlers and a brace of Whotes At Lambeth stayes for me to breake their fast He that 's so hot for 's wench ere he come nieâ—â—er Being at her once I doubt hee 'l be on fire Epigram 14. IT was my chance once in my furious mood To call my neighbours wife an aâ—â—â—nt who â—re But she most â—â—â—â—y on here credit stood â—â—aring that sorry I should be there â—oâ—â—â— re Her Husband vnderstanding of the case Protested he would sue me for a slaâ—der When straight I prou'd it to his forked face He was a Knaue a Cuckold and a Pander Obo quoth he good neighbour say no mo I know my wife lets out her buggle bo Epigram 15. THe Law hangs Theeues for their vnlawfull Stealing The law carts Bawdâ— for keeping of the dore The Law doth punish Râ—gues for roguâ—â—sh dealing The Law whips both the Pander and the Whoâ—e For yet I muse from whence this Law is growne Whores must not steale nor yet must vâ—â— their owne Epigram 15. OLd Fabian by Extortion and by stealth Hoth got a huge Masse of ill gotten wealth For which he giues God daily thankes and praise When 't was the Diuell that did his â—â—tunes rayâ—â— Then since the gatting of thy goods were euill Th' hast reason to bee thankful to the deuill Who very largely hatn increast thy mocke And sent the Miser Midaes golden locke Then thanke not God for he hath hâ—lpâ— thee leaft But thanke the Diuell that hath thy â—â—â—â—â—â—creast Epigram 17. WHat matter i st how men their dayes doe spend So good report do on their deaths attend Though in thy former life thou ne're didst good But mad'st Religion for thy faules a hood And all blacke sinnes wereâ—… And tooke thy Conâ—… Yet at thyâ—… â—â—â—â— haue â— Sernâ—… A threadâ—… And inâ—… Will makâ—â—… Andâ—… Ourâ—… Who was theâ—… N Dâ—â—â—â—â—… swearer No grâ—edâ— Vâ—urer â—… Odeâ—… And thus an end at hasâ—… Thus Mr. â—… To make a Vâ—llâ—ineâ—… And to oneâ—… Much more then â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— worth of words Epigram 18. LOrd who would take him for a p'ppâ—n â—quire That'sâ—… Can the dun'd windâ—â—â—â— or base â—â—â—â—â—â— Maintaine the slâ—uâ— in this 〈…〉 No 〈…〉 Vâ—â—tue's at to law a price When man knowes better how to thrâ—â—â—â— by Vice Epigram 19. ALL Bradoes oathes are new founded quence As though they sprung from learned Sapience He sweares by twitâ— pâ—â—d I â—â—â—â— fiery Car By Marses Launce the fearfull God of war By â—â—uâ—ias Bo â—â— Mâ—â—â—â—â—es charming Rod By Bâ—â—â—â—â—â— Diâ—ty that drunken God By gum sac'd â—utâ— and Aâ—ernus â—aues Bâ— Eoius blasts and Neptunâ—â— raging Wâ—ues Bâ—â—â—â— sweâ—â— Mâ—â—â—us â—â—â—â—ght â—â—â—â—â—â— eyes All other Oathes his hâ—mon doth despise Epigram 20. SIgneor Scranoto and tro doth range And at high Noone he visits the Exchange With stately gate the peopled Burse he stalkes Prving for some acquaintance in those walkes Which if he Spyâ—â—â—â—â—â— but has strange salute Marke how he 'l spread to shew his broaking sute When he perhaps that ow'd that cast apparell Not a fortnight
yeares till you are gone And being gone you 'l wealth and honour win Whilst ryot here at home addes sin to sin You God assisting may doe mighty things Make Kings of Captiues and of Captiues Kings Riches and loue those that suruiue shall gaine And Fame and Heauen the Portion of the slaine The wounds and scars more beautifull will make Those that doe weare them for true honours sake Since God then in his loue did preordaine That you should be his Champions to maintaine His quarrell and his causeâ— a fig for foes God being with you how can man oppose Some may obiect Your enemies are store If so your fame and victori'es the more Men doe win honour when they cope with men The Eagle will not tryumph o're a Wren The Lyon with the Mouse will not contend Nor men 'Gainst boyes and women wars will bend But clouds of dust and smoake and bloud and sweat Are the maine meanes that will true honour get Thus to Fames altitude must men aspire By noble actions won through sword and fire By trumpets Clangor drums guns flute of fife For as there is an end to euery life And man well knowes that one day he must end it Let him keep 't well defend and brauely spend it O griefe to see how many stout men lye Halfe rotten in their beds before they dye Some by soule surfets some by odious whoring In misery lye stinking and deploring And e're a lingring death their sad life ends They are most tedious loathsome to their friends Wasting in Physicke which addes woe to griefe That which should yeeld their families reliefe At last when wished death their cares doe cure Their names like to their bodies lye obscure Whereas the Souldier with a Christian brest Wars for his Soueraigues peace and Countries rest He to his Makers will his will inclines And ne're gainst Heauen impatiently repines He to his Sauiour sayes that thou art mine And being thou redeem'st me I am thine That if I liue or dye or dye or liue Blest be thy name whether thou take or giue This resolution pierces heauens high roofe And armes a Souldier more then Cannon proofe Suppose his life ends by some noble wounds His Soule to Heauen from whence it came rebâ—unds Suppose blowne vp with powder vp he flyes Fire his impurity repurifies Suppose a shot pierce through his breast or head He nobly liu'd and nobly he is dead He lyes not bedred stinking nor doth raue Blaspheming against him that should him saue Nor he in Physicke doth consume and spend That which himselfe and others should defend He doth not languish drawing loathsome breath But dyes before his friends doe wish his death And though his earthly part to earth doth passe His fame outweares a Monument of brasse Most worthy Country-men couragious hearts Now is the time now act braue manly parts Remember you are Sonnes vnto such Sires Whose sacred memories the world admires Make your names fearefull to your foes againe Like Talbot to the French or Drake to Spaine Thinke on braue valiant Essex and Mountiâ—y And Sidney that did Englands foes destroy With noble Norris Williams and the Veeres The Grayes the Willing â—biâ—s all peerelesse Peeres And when you thinke what glory they haue won Some worthy actions by you will be done 34. Battels fought in France by Englishmen since the Conquest Henry the sixth Remember Poiâ—tiers Cressy Agincourt With Bullein Turwin Turnyes warlike sport And more our honours higher to aduance Our King of England was crown'd King of France In Paris thus all France we did prouoake T' obey and serue vnder the English yoake In Ireland 18. bloudy fields we fought And that fierce Nation to subiection brought Besides Tyroues rebellion which foule strife Cost England many a pound lost many a life And before we were Scotlands or it ours How often haue we with opposed powers In most vnneighboutly vnfriendly manners With hostile armes displaying bloudy banners With various victories on eyther side Now vp now downe our fortunes haue beene tride What one fight wins the other loosing yeelds In more then sixescore bloudie foughten fields But since that we and they and they and we More neere then brethren now conioyned be Those scattering powers we each gainst other lead Being one knit body to one royall head Then let this Iland East West South and North Ioyntly in these braue warres emblaze out worth And as there was a strife that once befell Twixt men of Iuda and of Israel Contending which should loue King Dauid best And who in him had greatest interest Long may contention onely then be thus Twixt vsand Scotland and twixt them and vs Stil friendly striuing which of vs can be Most true and loyall to his Maiesty This is a strife will please the God of peace And this contending will our loues encrease You hardy Scots remember royall Bruce And what stout Wallace valour did produce The glorious name of Stewards Hamiltons The Erâ—â—kine Mâ—rayes ndâ— he Leuingstons The noble Ramseyes and th' illustrious Hayes The valiant Dowglasses the Grimes and Grayes Great Sir Iames Dowglas a most valiant Knight Lead seauenty battels with victorious fight Not by Lieutenants or by deputation But he in person wan his reputation The Turkes and Sarazens he ouercame Where ending life he purchast end lesse fame And his true noble worth is well deriu'd To worthies of that name that since suruiu'd The praise of Sir Iames Dowglas in the Raigne of King Robert Bruce 1330. In 13. maine battel she ouercame Gods enemies and as last was slaine Then since both Nations did and doe abound With men approu'd and through all lands renown'd Through Europs and through Asia further farre Then is our blest Redeemers Sepulchre Through all the Coasts of tawny Affrica And through the bounds of rich America And as the world our worths acknowledge must Let not our valour sleeping lye and rust â—â— to immortalize our Britaines name Let it from imbers burst into a flame We haue that Land and shape our Elders had Their courages were good can ours be bad Their deeds did manifest their worthy mindes Then how can we degenerate from kindes â—â— former times we were so giuen to warre Witnesse the broyles 'twixt Yorke and Lancaster Hauing no place to sorreigne Foes to goe Amongst our selues we made our selues a Foe Fall threescore yeares with fierce vnkind alarmes Were practis'd fierce vnciuill ciuill armes Whilst fourescore Peeres of the bloud royall dyde With hundred thousands Comâ—oners beside Thus Englishmen to wars did beare good will They would be doing although doing ill And Scotlands Hystorie auoucheth cleare Of many ciuill warres and turmoyles there Rebellion discord rapine and foule spoyle Hath pierc'd the bowels of their Natiue soyle Themselues against themselues Peeres against Peers And kin with kin together by the cares The friend gainst friend each other hath withstood Vnfriendly friends weltering in their bloud Thus we with them and they with vs contending And we our selues
Rowland Yorke and Sir William Stanley turned Trayâ—â—rs September 13. 11. An English Gentleman * This Stafford was a Gentleman well descended his Mother was of the Bed chamber to the Queene and his Brother Leiger Ambassador in France at the same time William Stafford nam'd Was by the French Ambassador perswaded That if hee 'd kill the Queene he should be fam'd For by her death might England be inuaded Besides for it the Pope would thankfull be And all the house of Guise should be his friends But Stafford to their plots feemet ' agree Yet told the councell on his knees their ends These things vnto th' Ambassador were told And Stafford did auouch them to his face Which he deny'd audaciously and bold Much ill beseeâ—â—ing his estate and place Thus what foâ—euer gainâ—t our Church was wrought God still did bring their purposes to nought year 1587 12. This yeare Spaine with a mighty preparation With tweluescore Vessels loadeth Neptunes backe With thirty thousand men attempts inuafion Of Englandâ— Kingdome and Elizâ—â—s wracke Then many a bragging desperate doughty Don Proud of the strength of that great huge * The Spanish fleeâ— were in all of Ships Gallâ—ons Gallies and Pinaces 242. of Souldiers Mariners and Galley â—â—â—â—â— 31030. of great Ordnance 2630. Our Fleet were in all but 112. the Campe as Tiâ—bury were 22000 foot and 12000. horse Armadâ— Went barely off though they came brauely on The power of Heauen opposing their branado Our numbers vnto theirs inferiour â—arre Yet were they tane sunke slaine bang'd thump'd batter'd Because the Lord of Hosts the God of Warre He was our trust and ayde our â—oes he scater'd His name is oner all the world most glorious And through his power his Church is still victorious year 1588 13. Lopez a Doctor by descent a â—ew A Portâ—â—gaâ— by birth the Queenes physitiâ—n Forgetting duty to his Soueraigne due Would poyson her to further Spaines ambition The Spaniards and the Doctor are compacting How this sweet piece of seruice might be done They promise gold and he doth vow the acting A bargaine wisely made is partly wonne But this base Iew is taken in the trap The Queene preâ—erâ—'d the Spaniards cake is dough The Doctor wrong'd his breeches by mishap And hanging his reward was good enough Still treasons working though its lucke be ill Gods gracious power his Church defending still year 1589 The Queene had beene gracious and beautifull to this same Lopez many wayes and hee was accounted a man of good integrity till hee was corrupted by the Pope and Spaniard At his Araignment feare made him wrong his â—â—â—ches he was hanged at Tyâ—â—rns 14. Tyrone supported by the Pope and Spaine Had put our English Kingdome to much cost Perceiuing all his treasons were in vaine His dangers desperate fruitlesse labour lost Although his Holinesse from Rome had sent A plume of Phoenix feathers for a blessing Which bable from Tyrone could not preuent Rewards of Iustcie for his long transgressing To the Lord Deputy be doth suâ—mit Craues the kings mercy and obtained the same Yet afterward he did his faith forget And new rebeilions did in Ireland frame At last with guilty minde away he flyes Thus God confounds his Churches enemies year 1587 Tyrone an Irish Earle a man of great power and Policie a most peruitions and dangerous trayter 1604. bee came into England and was most graciously pardoned by the King yet afterward would haue leâ— all Ireland rebellion but faâ—ling of his purpose fled to Rome 15. Mongst all these dangers Queene Elizabeth Preserued still and reigned â—oyally Defended all her life from violent death And seauenty yeares of age dy'd naturally To her succeeded as his propâ—r right King Iames Great Britaines blessed Salomon When straight began new tricks of Romish spight For Church and King and Laâ—ds subuersion Watson * They would haue altered Religion brought in Forraigne power imprisoned the King and raised Arbella Watson Clarke Master George Brooke executed Clarke two Priests two Popish brothers Seduc'd Lords Cobham Gray two Noblemen Sir Walter Rawleigh Markham Brooke and others To take the King and him in pâ—fon pen. The plot 's found Iustice would th'â—â—â— ndors kill But the Kings mercy sau'd what L. w might â—pill year 1603 The Kings mercy saued the Lord Cobham Lord Gray Sir Walter Rawleigh Sir Griffith Markeham at the Blocke as the stroake was readis to bee giuen 16. Now treason plotted in th' infernall Den Hâ—ls mischiefe master peece began to worke Assisted by vnnaturall Englishâ—â—â— And lesâ—ites that within this Land did lurke These would Saint Peter-to Salt peâ—â—er turne And make our Kingdome caper in the ayre At one blast Prince and Peeres and commons burn And fill the Land with murder and dispaire No treasonere might be compar'd to this Such an escape the Church had nere before The glory's Gods the victory is his Not vnto vs to him be praise therefore Our Church is his her foes may vnderstand That he defends her with his mighty hand year 1605 Percy and Catesby would needs be heads of this treason and their heads are aduanced for it on the Parliament house they were killed with powder being both shot and burnt and powder was the mainâ— Instrument of their hopes All the Traytâ—rs falling into the ' Pit which they had prepared for vs. Not any of all these treasons but eyther the Popâ— the Spanish King Priests or Iesuites had a hand in it 17. The dangers of a long and tedious way The perils of the raging Sea and Land The change of ayre and dyet many a day And Romes temptations which thou did withstand And after all thy safe returne againe Amongst those blessings make vp much more blest In mind and body â—â—â—â— from Rome and Spaine For which our â—â—â—â— to heauen is â—â—â—â—â—â—â— prest Long mayst 〈…〉 Gracious instrument To propagaâ—e his Gospell and his glory All Antichistian foes to 〈…〉 And with thy aâ—â—s to fill a royall story That 〈…〉 truly may â—â—â—â—â— These Deeds were done by Britaines CHALES the Great year 1623 Great â—â—â—â— the interprize and hazard of our gracieus Pride â— but greatâ—â—â— was Gods iâ—guiding and guarding him backe againe to all Ioy and Comforts 18 And last of all with Heart and â—â—nds erected Thy Church doth magnifie thy name Oâ—Lâ—â—â—â— Thy prouidâ—â—ce p 〈…〉 thy power protected Thy planted â—â—â— according to thy Word My God what shall I rende â—â—â—â—â—â—â— For all thy guise â—â—â—â— doâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— Loue and vnfained Thankeâ—â—â—â—â—â— shall be Ascribed for thy Mercies â—â—â—â—â—yes To thee my Priest my Prophet and my King My Loue my Counsellor and Comforter To thee alone I onely praised sing For onely thou art myâ— Deliuerer All Honour Glory Power and Praise therefore Ascribed be to thee for euermore The Churches Thankesgiuing to God for all his Mercies and her Deliuerances The Church of Christ doth acknowledge no other Intercessor Desenrer Maintinrer and Deliuerer but onely Christ himselfe FINIS
and grow And for the vse of Fiftie takes a score He neuer dreads Heau'ns dreadfull angry broâ—â—e But daily grinds the faces of the poore Let vengeance thunder and let Hels dog barke Amongst his Marks of Grace he hath no marke 66 And though a world of Crownes are in his hand For euery Crowne might he a Kingdome haue His state no better in my minde should stand Then a rich Begger or a kingly Slaue He should his Crownes and they not him command They Vassall-like should do what he should craue Lo thus the Crownes their Soueraigne ouerswayes They rule and Raigne he like a Slaue obeyes 67 Thus Angels to a Câ—usffe are a curse His Royalls makes his basenes farre more base His Nobles his ignoble minde make worse His Marks are marks and figures of disgrace And Crownes vsurpeth in his Niggard purse And in his heart Contentment hath no place For Angels Royalls Marks and Crownes Can put no vertue in the minds of Clownes 68 The onely slaue of slaues is Moneyes slaue He pines in plenty staru's amidst his store Dies liuing and doth liue as in a Graue In wealthy want and in abundance poore The Goods he hath he badly doth depratte And only cares how he may purchase more For he himselfe cannot afford himselfe A good meales meat for wasting of his pelfe 69 His feare 's his wealth his torment his delight His Conscience foule affrightfull is his sleepe His hope despaire his mirth in sadnes dight His ioyes are Cares what he hath got to keepe His Rest is restles vnrest day and night And in a Sea of Melancholy deepe Amidst his large possessions liu's in lack And dies in debt to 's belly and his back 70 Me thinkes I heare a Miser-Churle obiect None railes at Wealth but those which liue in want The idle Grashopper cannot affect The toylesome labours of the frugall Ant The â—â—â—digall by no meanes will be checkt So much as when his Purses lining's scant The Fox doth scorne the Grapes but wot you why Because out of his reach they hang too high 71 So doth a sort of poore and needy Hyndes The scum and dregs of euery Common wealth The shag-rag-shag-hand crue whose boundles minds Must be supplide with shifting or by stealth Like sick men when their paines their Reason blinds They enuy all men that are well in health So doth a swarme of Drones and idle mates Reuile and enuie at our happy states 72 But let them storme and raâ—â—e and curse and sweare Within our coffers we will keepe the Gold Let them themselues themselues in pieces teare What we haue got with toyle with care we 'le hold What is' t doth men to reputation reare But when their goods wealth growes manifold We care not then let needy Rascalls raile Till Tyburne eat them or some lothsome Iayle 73 Thus doth a Wretch his thirst of Gaine excuse And makes his bad trade good with show of thrift Himselfe continuall with himselfe doth muse Vpon some purchase or some gaining drift And as a Hog his downeward lookes doe vse To poare and not aloft his eyes to lift He takes Heau'ns fruit hoordeth vp the same And ne're remembers God from whence it came 74 But fill thy baggs till they are ouer-filld And empt thy conscience more if more thou can Raise higher rents and let thy Land be till'd And tell thy selfe thou art a happy man Pull downe thy Barnes and boasting bigger build As if thy blessed state were new began Then comes a voyce with horror and off right Thou foole I le fetch away thy soule this night 75 And tell me then who shall these Goods possesse That thou hast damn'd thy selfe to purchase them Who shall be heire to all thy vaine excesse For which thy soule that deare too deare bought Iâ—â—â—â— In hazard is of endlesse wretchednesse Be'ing banisht from the new Ierusalem The goods are ill that doth the world controule Whose cursed gaine doth lose the Owners soule 76 What 's in the world should make men wish to liue If men could well consider what it is What in the world that happinesse can giue Which is not drownd in sorrowes blacke Abisâ— What goods in the world can a man atchieue But woe and misery o'rewhelmes his blisse No pleasures or contentments stedfast are For all we can call Ou ts is onely Care 77 I'haue seene a Gallant mounted all in gold Like Alexander on Bucephalus The ground in his conceit too base to hold Him whom the smiles of Fortune fauours thus But in his height of heat how soone hee 's cold By death snatch'd from his pompe himselfe vs His Name and Noble-Mushrom-fame forgot And all things but his shame must lye and rot 78 The beauteous Lady that appeares a Saint Of Angells forme and Heau'n admired hue That can by Art defectiue Nature paint And make false colours to the eye seeme true Yet Death at last her brau'ry doth attaint And spight her Art she must pay Natures due The rarest features and the fairest formes Must dye and rot and be consum'd with wormer 79 Wealth Beauty as they are abusde or vsde They make the Owners either curst or blest As Good or Ill is in the minde infusde They adde a ioyfull rest or woes vnrest To vse them well th' are blest but if abusde Thy God doth thee them loath and detest And turnes his blessings which should most coÌ„tent thee To dreadfull cursings which shal stil torment thee 80 Seeke then Heau'ns Kingdome and things that are right And all things else shall be vpon thee cast Thy dayes of Ioy shall neuer turne to night Thy blessed state shall euerlasting last Liue still as euer in thy Makers sight And let Repentance purge thy vices past Remember thou must drink of deaths sharpe cup And of thy Stewardship account giue vp 81 Had'st thou the beauty of faire Absolon Or did thy strength the strength of Sampson passe Or could thy wisedome match wise Salomon Or might thy riches Cressus wealth surpasse Or were thy pompe beyond great Babylon The proudest Monarchy that euer was Yet Beauty Wisedome Riches Strength and State Age Death and Time will spoils and â—â—â—â—â— 82 Make of the World no more then as it is A vale of Cares of miseries and woes Thinke of it as the sinke of all amisse That blinds our Sences with deceiuing showes Account it as a den of balefull blisse The which vnthought of all estates o'rethrowes How Satan in it beares a Lordly sway And how none but his subiects it obey 83 And whilst thou runn'st this transitory race Vse well the blessings God to thee hath sent Doe Good with them whilst thou hast time space And know they are but things vnto thee lent Know that thou must appeare before Gods face To answer if they well or ill be spent If thou hast spent them well then heau'n is thine If ill th' art damn'd to hell by doome Diuine 84 But ten times happy shall that
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