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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08006	Pierce Penilesse his supplication to the diuell. Written by Tho. Nash, Gent	Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.	1592 (1592)	STC 18373; ESTC S110095	63,854	78

and put it in his pocket which one marking that sat right ouer against him askt him Domine ●ur es solicitus in crastinum Sir why are you carefull for the morrow Whereto he answered most soberly Imo hoc facio mi amice vt ne sim solicitus in crastinum No I doo it my friend that I may not be carefull for the morrow as though his appetite were a whole day contented with so little as an apple and that it were enough to paye the morrowes tribute to Nature Rare and worthy to be registred to all posterities is the Countie Molines sometime the Prince of Parmaes Companion altred course of life who being a man that liued in as great pompe and delicacie as was possible for a man to doo and one that wanted nothing but a king●ome that his heart could desire Upon a day e●tering into a deepe melancholy by himselfe hee fell into a discoursiue consideration what this world was how vaine and transitory the pleasures thereof and how manie times he had offended God by sur●etting glut●ony drunkennes pride whoredome and such like and how hard it was for him that liu'd in that prosperitie that he did not to bee entangled with those pleasures whereupon he presently resolu'd twixt God and his owne conscience to forsake it and al his allurements and betake hime to the seuerest forme of life vsed in their state And with that cald all his Souldiers and acquaintance together and making knowen his intent vnto them he distributed his liuing and possessions which were infinite amongst the poorest of them and hauing not left himselfe the worth of one farthing vnder heauen betooke him to the most beggerly newere●●ed Order of the Fryer Capuch●●es The● Institution is that they shall possesse nothing whatsoeuer of their owne more than the cloa●hes on their backes continually go bare foote weare haire shirts and lie vpon the hard bords winter and summer time they m●st haue no meate nor aske any but what is giuen them voluntarily nor must they lay vp from any meale to meale but giue it to the poore or els it is a great penaltie In this seuere humilitie liues this deuout Countie and hath do●e this tweluemonth submitting himselfe to all the base drudgery of the house as fetching water making cleane the rest of their chambers insomuch as he is the Iunior of the Order O what a notable rebuke were his honourable Lowlines to succeeding pride if this prostrate spirit of his were not the seruaunt of Superstition or hee mispent not his good workes on a wrong Faith Let but our English belly-gods punish their pursie bodies with this strict penaunce and professe Capuchinisme but one month and I le be their pledge they shall not grow so like dry-fats as they doo O it will make them iolly long winded to trot vp and downe the Dorter st●●●es and the water-tankard wil keepe vnder the insurrection of their shoulders the h●ire shirt will chase whordome out of their boanes and the hard lodging on the boards take their flesh downe a button hole lower But if they might be iaduced to distribute all their goods amongst the poore it were to be hoped Saint Peter would let them dwell in the suburbes of heauen whereas other wise they must keepe aloofe at Pancredge and not come neeer the liberties by fiue leagues and aboue It is your dooing Diotrephes Diuell that these stal-●ed cormorants to damnation must bung vp all the welth of the Land in their s●aphaunce bags and poore Scholers and Souldiers wander in backe lanes and the outshiftes of the Citie with neuer a rag to their backes but our trust is that by some intemperance o● othe● you will turne vp their heeles one of these yeares together and prouide them of such vnthrifts to their heires as shall spend in one weeke amongst good fellowes what they got by extortion and opression from Gentlemen all their life time FRom Glut●ony in meates let me discend to superfluitie in drinke a sinne that euer since we haue mixt our selues with the Low-countries is counted honourable but before we knew their lingring warres was held in that highest degree of hatred that might be Then if we had seene a man goe wallowing in the streetes or line sleeping vnder the boord we would haue spet at him as a toade and cald him foule drinken sw●e and warnd al our friends out of his company now he is no body that cannot drinke super ●agulum carouse the Hunters hoop quaffe vpsey freze crosse with healthes gloues mumpes frolickes and a thousand such dominiering inuentions He is reputed a pesaunt and a ●oore that wil not take his licour profoundly And you shall heare a Caualier of the first ●eather a princockes that was but a Page the other day in the Court and now is all to be frenchi●ied in his Souldiers sute stand vppon termes with Gods wounds you dishonour me sir you do me the disgrace if you do not pledge me as much as I drunke to you and in the midst of his cups stand vaunting his manhood beginning euerie sentence with when I first bore Armes when he neuer bare any thing but his Lords rapier after him in his life If he haue beene ouer and visited a towne of Garrison as a trauailer or passenger he hath as great experience as the greatest Commander and chiefe Leader in England A mightie deformer of mens manners and features is this vnnecessary vice of all other Let him bee indued with neuer so many vertues and haue as much goodly proportion and fauour as nature can bestow vppon a man yet if hee be thirstie after his owne destruction and hath no ioy nor comfort but when he is drowning his soule in a gallon pot that one beastly imperfection will vtterlie obscure all that is commendable in him and all his good qualities sinke like lead down to the bottome of his carrowsing cups where they will lie like lees and dregges dead and vnregarded of any man Clim of the clough thou that vsest to drinke nothing but scalding lead and sulpher in hell thou art not so greedie of thy night geare O but thou hast a foule swallow if it come once to carousing of humane blood but that 's but seldome once in seauen yeare when there 's a great execution otherwise thou art ●ide at rack and manger and drinkest nothing but the Aqua vitae of vengeance all thy life time The Prouer be giues it forth thou art a knaue and therefore I haue more hope thou art some manner of good fellowe let mee intreate thee since thou hast other iniquities inough to circumuent vs withall to wipe this sin ou● of the catologue of thy subtilties helpe to blast the U●●es that they may beare no more grapes and sowre the wines in the cellers of Marchants storehouses that our Countrey-men may not pisse out all their witte and thrift against the walles King Edgar because his subiects should not offend in

and how should a man know to eschew vices if his own experience did not acquaint him with their inconueniences Omne ignotum pro magnifico est that villany we haue made no assaies in we admire Besides my vagrant Reueller haunts Plaies sharpens his wits with frequenting the company of Poets he emboldens his blushing face by courting faire women on the sodaine and looke into all Estates by conuersing with them in publike places Nowe tell me whether of these two the heauie headed gluttonous house doue or this liuelie wanton yoong Gallant is like to prooue the wiser man and better member in the Common-wealth If my youth might not be thought partiall the fine qualified Gentleman although vnstaide should carrie it cleane away from the lazie clownish droane Sloath in Nobilitie Courtiers Schollers or any men is the chiefest cause that brings them in contempt For as industrie and vnfatigable toyle rayseth meane persons from obscure houses to high thrones of authoritie ●o Sloath and sluggish securitye causeth proud Lords to tumble from the towers of their starrie discents and ●e crod vnder foote of euery inferiour Be sonian Is it the loftie treading of a Galliard or fine grace in telling of a loue tale amongst Ladies can make a man reuerenst of the multitude ●o they care not for the false glistering of gay garments or insinuating curtesie of a carpet Peere but they delight to see him shine in armour and oppose himselfe to honourable daunger to participate a voluntarie pen●rie with his Souldiers and relieue part of their wants out of his owne purse That is the course he that will be popular must take which if he neglect and sit dallying at home nor will be awakt by any indignities out of his louedreame but suffer euery vpstart groome to def●e him set him at naught and shake him by the beard vnreuengde let him straight take orders and be a Church-man and then his patience may passe for a vertue but otherwise he shall be suspected of cowardise and not car'● for of any The onely enemie to Sloth is contention and emulation as to propose one man to my selfe that is the onely myrrour of out Age and striue to out-go him in vertue But this strife must be so tempered that we fall not from the eagernesse of praise to the enuying of their persons for then wee leaue running to the goale of glorie to spurue at a stone that lyes in our waye and so did Atlanto in the middest of her course stoope to take vp the golden Apple that her enemie scattered in her way and was out-runne by Hippomenes The contrarie to this contention and emulation is securitie peace quiet tra●quillitie when we haue no aduersa●● to prie into our actions no malicious eye whose pursuing our priuate behauiour might make vs more vigilant ouer our imperfections than otherwise we would be That State or Kingdome that is in league with all the world and hath no forraine sword to vere it is not halfe to strong or confirmed to endure as that which liues euery houre in feare o● inuasion There is a certaine waste of the people for whome there 〈◊〉 no vse but warre and these men must haue some employment 〈◊〉 to cut them off Nam si for as hostem non habent domi inueni●●t If they haue no seruice abroad they will make mutinies at home Or if the affayres of the State be such as cannot exhale all these corrupt excrements it is very expedient they haue some light toyes to busie their heads withall cast before them as bones to gnaw vpon which may keepe them from hauing leisure to intermeddle with higher matters To this effect the pollicie of Playes is very necessary howsoeuer some shallow-braind censures not the deepest serchers into the secrets of gouernment mightily oppugne them For whereas the after-noone beeing idlest time of the day wherein men that are their owne masters as Gentlemen of the Court the Innes of the Courte and the number of Captaines and Souldiers about London do wholy bestow themselues vpo● pleasure and that pleasure they deuide howe vertuously it skils not either into gameing following of harlots drinking or seeing a Playe is it not then better since of foure extreames all the world cannot keepe them but they will choose one that they should betake them to the least which is Playes Nay what if I prooue Playes to be no extreame but a rare exercise of vertue First for the subiect of them for the most part it is borrowed out of our English Chronicles wherein our forefathers valiant acts that haue li●e long buried inrustie brasse and worme-eaten bookes are reuiued and they themselues raised from the Graue of Obliuion and brought to pleade their aged Honours in open presence than which what can be a sharper reproofe to these degenerate effeminate dayes of ours How would it haue ioyed braue Talbot the terror of the French to thinke that after he had lyne two hundred yeares in his Tombe hee should triumphe againe on the Stage and haue his bones newe embalmed with the teares of ten thousand spectators at least at seuerall times who in the Tragedian that represents his person imagine they behold him fresh bleeding I will defend it against any Collian or clubfisted Usurer of them all there is no immortalitie can be giuen a man on earth like vnto Playes What talke I to them of immortalitie that are the onely vnde●miners of Honour and doe en●ie any man that is not sprung vp by base Brokerie like themselues They care not if all the auncient houses were rooted out so that like the Burgomasters of the Low-countries they might share the gouernment amongst them as State and be quarter-maisters of our Monarchie All Artes to them are vanitie and if you tell them what a glorious thing it is to haue Henrie the fifth represented on the Stage leading the French King prisoner and forcing both him and the Dolphin to sweare fealty I but will they say what do we get by it Respecting neither the right of Fame that is due to true Nobilitie deceased nor what hopes of eternitie are to be proposed to aduentrous mindes to encourage them forward but onely their execrable luker and filthie vnquenchable auarice They know when they are dead they shall not be brought vpon the Stage for any goodnes but in a merriment of the Usurer and the Diuel or buying Armes of the Herald who giues them the Lyon without tongue tayle or tallents because his maister whome hee must serue is a Townesman and a man of peace and must not keepe any quarrelling beasts to annoy his honest neighbours In Playes all co●sonages all cunning drifts ouer-guylded with outward holinesse all stratagems of warre all the canker-wormes that breede on the rust of peace are most liuely anatomiz'd they shew the ill successe of treason the fall of hastie climbers the wretched end of vsurpers the miserie of ciuill dissention and how iust God is