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The blacke dogge of Newgate both pithie and profitable for all readers.
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Hutton, Luke, d. 1596.
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The Blacke Dogge of Newgate both pithie and profitable for all Readers Vide Lege Caue Time shall trie the trueth To the honorable Sir Iohn Popham Knight Lord chiefe Iustice of Englande all encrease of honor and happines TWo reasons my Honorable good Lord mee especially mooued to dedicate this Booke to your Honor. The first for I helde it my deutie to certifie you of the notable abuses dayly committed by a great number of very bad fellowes who vnder the couller of Office and seruice doe mightely abuse both Iustice and Iustices which in this Booke is largely discouered The next for your Honor being thereof certified such bad fellowes shalbe the soner lookt into and their outragies quallified so that the soner by you the like mischieues may be preuented What I haue done is in loue and Zeale Both which I doubt not but they will excuse my boldnesse And so the worke be acceptable in your good opinion I will not regarde the mallice of the threatning Cunny-catcher who hath sworne if I publish this Booke they will do me what mischiefe they can But how little I regarde their windie wordes they may well perceiue by my proceedings if this worke had beene worth a Talent it should haue beene your â—â—nors and being a poore mans mite I desire it may be acceptable and if heereafter I shall be better able your honor shall not faile but finde me ready to do your honor seruice euen to the vttermost of my power Thus assuring my selfe safe shielded with your fauour to whome I present this Booke desiring you to take the full view of this Black Dogge of Newgate I humbly and in all dutie cease to be tedious praying to the Almighty to lengthen long your dayes with encrease of all vertue and honor and after this lyfe to send you to euerlasting happinesse and ioyes endlesse Amen To do your Honour seruice whilest he liueth LVKE HVTTON To the Reader GEntle Readers for my Repentance was so welcome and so much the better because it was mine in some parte to satisfie your courtesies I thought it my part to present you with thankes and more with my second labour which albeit it be both my especiall cost and trauell yet it is yours and so I may say for you are willing to paye the prize of the Black Dogge of Newgate Meruaile not Gentlemen that you pay so deare for a Dogge indeed a Curre I wish you all well and though three halfe-pence be a Dogs price yet if you according to my Poesie accept my Penne and Paper it will counteruaile the charge of six pence You haue knowne me better if you euer knew me and neuer worse if you now know me But for I haue read some bookes of Philosophie I thought it best to be my selfe not as I was for I hope you are otherwise perswaded but as I am and so to liue or die But for it is no better then the Blacke Dogge of Newgate I desire you not to thinke your time ill bestowed in the reading nor the prise great which you gaue for it When you haue perused it if you like it not say the Dogge came from Newgate hang him vp and rend the Paper in peeces and I will be your debter a worke of better acceptance yet let me giue you to vnderstand by the way that this Dogge and many Dogs of his kinde haue I knowne a great while and if I had not had great occasion I would neuer haue bestowed so much time 〈…〉 Nay more that you shall not thinke this Dogge nor any of his kinde to be as they haue beene the murtherers and vtter vndooing at the least of an infinite number to be shadowed by the name of Seruant at Newgate at this time I thought good faithfully to giue you to vnderstand that he who was euer able to keepe a good Dogge and now to make choyse of his seruants in Newgate did in my sight thrust this Dogge by the head and shoulders out of Newgate making choise of men insteed of Dogges and more I dare say neuer shall a Curre in shape of man commit the like abuses during his time in Newgate No more for the Dogge of Newgate but for this Dogge of mine wish me still well I will neuer doe you ill so to your content as I wish I leaue you and me to my better content when God will For euer fare you well Luke Hutton The blacke Dogge of Newgate both piththy pleasant and profitable for all readers WHen as blacke Tytan with his duskie robe had Tellus clouded with his curtaynes nyght Fayre Phebus peering vnderneath earthes globe with winged steedes hence takes his course a right Tytan he leaues to beare imperial sway commaunding nyght as Phebus did the day The fierie Chariot posteth vnder ground With Tytans mantle all the earth is spred And wreathes of Icat about his temples bound Earthes Tell cole blacke sweete Morpheus cals to bed No time to walke to sport to game to see I did obey that must commaunded bee Layed in my bed I gan for to recount A thousand thinges which had been in my time My birth my youth my woes which all surmount My life my losse my libertie my crime Then where I was vnto my minde recalling Mee thought Earth gapt and I to Hell was falling Amidst these feares that all my senses cumber Care closd mine eyes and sorrow wroung my hart Opprest with greefe mine eye-lids gan to slumber But borne to woes must of more woes haue part A thousand furies to my hart appearing 〈…〉 torments my soule with fearing Thus lay I long beholding Hell and Deuils Agast with mazes almost dead in feares Not knowing how to rid me from the euils They shew in action and in lookes appeares One anticke monster hidious foule and grim Mee most appayld and most I lookt at him Thought I at last I will crie out for ayde Bowning to crie neare dead afright with feare I heard a voyce which like an Angel sayd Hutton be bolde for thou shalt see and heare Men Deuils Deuils men one both both all deluding Worlds euils wracke then sheepes cloth Wolues pray concluding Hearing a voyce my hart was much reuiued Noting the wordes I did some corrage take But suddaine ioyes hath suddaine woes atchiued A suddaine noyse this hellish crew did make Threatning by shewes as though they would deuower my life and soule subdewd by terrors power Thought checkt my minde feares senses all amazing Hell broken loose eyes visions furies affrighting Subdeud earths powers vprears harts insight a gazing Terror of minde with hope cries feares faint arighting Helpe mee orequelled waking with dread I espied Grast gracious Mynerua who thus to my outcrie replied FEare not at all nor faynt thou with beholding But light thy Lampe and take thy Pen in hand Write what thou sees thy visions all vnfolding I will direct and let thee vnderstande What all these helhoundes shadow by appearing Uiew thou their worst and then write of their