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A13495
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A shilling or, The trauailes of twelue-pence
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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1621
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STC 23793; ESTC S118272
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Hee 'll hazard and endanger limb and life And thus by way of argument 't is pend A Shilling is a Souldiers loued friend A Shilling's much more auntient then a pound And in pronouncing giues a better sound As for example which is most mouth-filling Of fifty pounds or of a thousand shilling A thousand pounds may make the accent rore But twenty thousand shillings soundeth more Thus of two sillables I am compacted When into one the pounds are all extracted The Germane Dollors are my Iuniors farre So are the Copesticks of the Brabander The Spanish Royall piece of foure and eight On me for my antiquity may waite The Floren Guelder and French Cardecus To me are vpstarts if Records be true The Grosh Potchandle Stiuer Doyte and Sowse Compar'd with me are all scarce worth a Lowse Nor can the Atcheson or the Baubee For my antiquity compare with me The halfe Crowne is on horseback mounted hie Yet neuer trauail'd halfe so farre as I The Scottish Mark 's a dang'rous piece of Coyne 'T is iust a hanging price if one purloyne There 's no such hazard in the stealing mee I am three halfe-pence lower in degree And as in pence I for a Iury stand I haue eleuen Coynes vnder my command And to grace all the rest my proper selfe Like a Graund Iury-man make vp the Twelfe But for men shall not thinke I bragge or prate Those whom I doe command I 'le nominate Nine pence three quarters with his Harpe befriends me And sixe pence with halfe seruice still attends me The foure pence halfe-penny next comes fidling on The Groat my third part doth depend vpon The three-pence is a quarter wayter still The two pence in sixe parts attends my will Three halfe-pence stoopes to my commanding sway And eight of them at once doth me obay The single pence are all my little Cozens And doe attend my seruice by the dozens Three farthings by sixteenes attend in plenty And halfe-pence to the summe of foure and twenty And last for Pages on my State doth waite Of dapper farthing Tokens forty eight But ere I did attaine my shape and forme I'abid the brunt of many a furious storme For this the world I would haue well to wot Mine honour was with paines and danger got I past the raging Seas and flaming fire And gain'd a Face and Crosse for all my hire It would almost dissolue a heart of flint To be so vs'd as I was in the Mint The paines of Purgatory cannot be But fictions to those things that fell on me For what I did endure had man but felt It had like Kitchinstuffe haue made him melt Then my Tormentors all at once agrees From my great heat to let me coole or freeze And dead and cold me then againe they martir'd Me all in pieces they be cut and quartir'd Weighing the mangled mammocks they pronounce That fiue of me in weight should be an ounce Then to the Anuile was I brought in hast Whereas with Hammers they did me bumbast And there they neuer left belab'ring mee Vntill they brought me to the shape you see Thus I mine honour and my forme did win Through many dreadfull dangers I was in And though there scarce doth memory remaine What I was e're the sixt 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 keepe the world in awe Was foure swift Steedes that did a Chariot draw Which figur'd that I too and fro should runne An endlesse Iourney that would nere be done I am made endlesse round which doth portend Till the world end my Iourney ne're shall end And men may plainely in my roundnesse see An Emblem of the worlds rotundity Round is the Globe round is the Hemisphere Round runs the Moon and Sun each month and yeere Round ran the Empire from th' Assirian Kings Round vnto Persia Greece and Rome it flings Round to great Britaine 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 ranne round 't is manifest The Iewes th' Egiptians Calates 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 to many healths brings sicknes VVhen 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 Round are the cloathes 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 still 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 Poesie 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 POSVI DEVM Whereto is added ADIVTOREM MEVM The which last Poesie Annagrammatiz'd Wisedome admit me power true compriz'd Wisedome at first vpon me did bestowe Such power that for a Shilling I should goe When Wisedome gaue me power I was then A seruant not a Master vnto men Now 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 Is wise although a Coxcomb for my sake He that wants me shall be esteem'd an Asse Although he be as wise as e're man was For there 's such league one in Triplicity Sworne firme betwixt the Deuill the world and I That those who to the one true seruants bee Are captiue bondslaues vnto all the three Great sway vpon the earth to vs is giuen For well we know we ne're 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