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A10089	Times anotomie [sic]. Containing: the poore mans plaint, Brittons trouble, and her triumph. The Popes pride, Romes treasons, and her destruction: affirming, that Gog, and Magog, both shall perish, the Church of Christ shall flourish, Iudeas race shall be restored, and the manner how this mightie worke shall be accomplished. Made by Robert Pricket, a souldier: and dedicated to all the lords of his Maiesties most honourable priuie Councell.	Pricket, Robert.	1606 (1606)	STC 20342; ESTC S115240	33,232	64

then thou shalt contempned bee From good desert 〈◊〉 reward is stealing Trust wan ing truth doth vse perfidious dealing Like 〈◊〉 fish let poore men swimme or flie They haue no meanes to shunne their misery A poore man whilst his greefe woes passion weepeth Dispai●●●●●e the dore of his affliction keepeth A minde whose thoughts no force no●●●●● danger feares Is forc't to weepe his wife and childrens teares Vaine sighes vaine teares when want proclaimes 〈◊〉 woe The poore man knowes not vnto whom to goe Poore man poore wife poore children all reiected Apes Parrets Dogges and Monkeys more respected The poore mans words plainely and truely tels He cannot finde the place where Mercy dwels And yet he seekes and hath a long time sought His labou●●●●● hath his woes inlargement wrought For whilst he waites on time best time obseruing Himselfe and his by want of food are steruing Those hands cannot their Countries weale preserue Which in their Count●●●●●y must indure to sterue Hard world when loue to do●●●●● a thing most iust Shall cause the poore that wrong indure they must Iustice loue 〈◊〉 and faith all these are raced When things well done must be with force disgraced When Law commands an action to be done Why should that act into vilde scandall runne If so the law and makers thereof must In cause of euill be iustly blamed first To King and State a Souldiers honest loue Hath causde his heart sad woes extreames to proue A Sou●●●●●diers h●●●●●nd halfe staru'd and wanting might Shall for them both want force and power to fight No peace on earth though seeming most secure Can well resolue how long it shall indure When warres sta●●●●●u'd force threatens a kingdoms land B●●●●●st safetie then liues in the Souldiers hand In peace me thinkes those men should not be ste●●●●●ued By whom the strength of peace is best preserued I●●●●● to respect time present barbarous be The time to come should wisdomes eyes foresee All those great nations which themselues dispe●●●●●se Vpon the bosome of worlds vniuerse For rash attempts are not so much condemned As is that I le in which our selues are hemined P●●●●●oud witte that is with selfe conceitment swolne Makes fast the dore when first the steed is stolne An after-wit is counted Englands guise A forehand lookes iudiciall wisdomes eyes For gaine men will their liues and country sell A generall spoile makes some to prosper well Our Corne that goes vnto corruptions friend May feed a strength against our selues to bend We not respect although both heauen and ear●●●●●h Doe in their course foretell a threatned dearth As Dragons we our selues desire to bite Our hands our selues doe most vnkindly smite Warres weapons we vnto those countries send Whose vse at last will most our selues offend We haue no feare our land no danger knowes Vntill it feeles the force of dangers blowes Britaine hath foes who in their thoughts doe striue How best they may our countries harme contriue But this I thinke our ●●●●●ame shall thus be spred We may be beat but neuer conquered I would to God our land may so prouide As we at first might kill presumptions pride Peace smiles on vs but view heauens motion well Combustious times doth Sunne and Moone foretell This yeares Eclipse a fatall period maketh And God thereby all earths foundation shaketn The Planets in their ●●●●●spects differ farre From former time by course irregular The Crab and Goate whose Circles doe deuide The sweating Summer from frostie Winters tide Keepe still the times of auncient nomination But want the force of wonted operation Ver Eastus Autumn●●●●● Hymen all growne strange Seeme as they would their seasons each exchange Celestiall fyers that round this world impale And should from hence corruptions dregs exhale Leaues them beneath that noysome pestilence On earth might fetch materiall cause from thence When from the graue corruptions slime doth soake Mantling the earth in clouds of stiucking smoake Deuouring creatures in that fogge shall breed Earths brest shall then her children scarcely feed Corruption grosse thick fatte sad slimie slowe Shall by the Sunne to a combustion growe Those dreggs congeald by steps to hugenesse creepes By Ayery Orbes a wandring motion keepes Turning about from place to place their sent Spreading themselues on earths vast continent Taking the shapes from whence they first did grow In Ayerie formes like men and beasts they show When so they doe themselues with wonder spreed It tels they still expect on Death to feed Amidst some plaine so are those Mea●●●●●ures spred As were an armie there imbattelled And when they thus on heapes together cluster They fummon men vnto a generall muster But humaine eyes amazde cannot dispence With reasons force of Natures influence Inuolued heapes growne once vnmeasured great They striue to rise against the Clowdes to beat Exhaled once in rotten showers doe fall Infectious drops such as men Mill-dewes call And then at last in Midle Region fed They are with force from thence exturbated And hauing climbde the vpper Regions hem To blazing fierie Commets tourned then For so our God by mightie wonder makes Prodigious fiers threatning Kingdomes states Then shall the vilde ones of this world dispaire When they behold such flames amidst the ayre A while beneath those exhalations stayes Which shortly will foretell some dangerous dayes But not to build on humaine foolery I thus much ground on scriptures Prophecie EVen in the dayes when the seauenth Angell should Begin to blow his Trumpet then God would His Ministrie accomplished should be As to his Prophets before reueald had he The Angeli hath long time his Trumpet blowne Which to the world worlds latter end hath showne Before which time the worlds Deceiuers must By wraths fierce hand be all in sunder burst And first falles he with stroake of Yron rod Who in Gods Church doth sit as he were God With suttell craft when he suspects his fall By secret force himselfe defend he shall When as gainst him a long feard power doth grow Such as before the world could neuer showe Then desperate mad his anger and his feare Against that power a secret wrath shall beare To hell his hope doth for assistance flie And then corrupt earths Princes secretly An hoast of tigers shal them selues combine With sauage hogges to spoyle the 〈◊〉 vine And thinke from grapes to draw a bleding flood When in one night shal raine a shower of blood A winter gre●●●●●ne their somers hope doth make They thinke their force shal cause ●●●●●oues Iland shake That downe they might heauens goulden Pallace take A strenth shall rise from hells infernall lake The Leopard the Wolfe the Fox all these Shall vnawares vppon the Lyon sease The Lyon rows d his foes shall soone be torne With him shall ioyne the princely Vnicorne And push the best with his all clensing horne And make him wish he neuer had bin borne Hells dogs shal thinke oa●●●●●e mountayne tops to clime But breake their necks before their wisht for

require All these Consum'd by flame of rutheles fire No age makes record of so foule a sinne Since god did first to frame this world begyn Doomes day to England now bin threatned hath Ore which heauens God hath shak●●●●●e his hand of wrath Oh may our deedes his mercy so Commend As still his grace may Britons I le defend But now behold the fruites of Romish faith And know for truth what Popish doctrine saith Of binding and of loosing Popes haue got A strength which knittes of euery euill the knot And makes damnation seeme saluation sure If so thereby Rome may her gaine procure What most she craues is euery course to take How best she may her selfe worlds Monarch make The Pope that saith himselfe worlds God to be Speakes truth for so 's the deuill as well as he But Pope from Peter doth deriue his race And saith to him belongs the keyes of grace And he Christs vicar of all Gods church the head Must be supreame all Kings his frowne must dread With any oath he can at large dispence And at his pleasure pardon each offence Aboue Gods word he doth himselfe auow And his construction must the world allow True Christians they onely his doctrine likes And all the rest are damned Heretikes Gainst this the Lyon of the Tribe of Iuda cries And tels the Pope that like a diuell he lyes But still the Pope will keepe heauens golden gate And doth from thence Kings excomunicate No King on earth must haue his name inrold Vnlesse that first on him his Crowne he hold And al the world that on his sea not dwels Are Ethnicks Pagans faithlesse Insidels Those that not grow vpon his stock intire Are branches wilde fit for destructions fire Such hath he power to any death to put And from lifes tree those saplesse twigs to cut Without the Church as Iewes and Turkes they be That will not yeeld to his supremacie And Popish Romaines they are taught to know It lawfull is to worke their ouerthrow That will not yeeld obedience to the Pope In whose behalfe is giuen so large a scope That Traytors doe for heauenly merite hope Though thence the deuill doth pluck them in a Rope If for Romes sake they kill their lawfull King Bald iades for them shall trotting trentalls sing And they because so vilde a deed●●●●● they did For Saints at Rome shall be canonized The Pope such power vnto himselfe doth take As he a diuell a Saint can quickly make Heere briefely see the power of Rome set downe Aboue the world himselfe himselfe doth crowne Aboue Gods word and sacred Lawes diuine The monsters proud ambitious steps doe clime And from his seate of blasphemie hath flowne The fire that should haue King and Realmes vp blowne Villaines that would the world in sunder riue Say for Religions sake they did contriue That damned plot oh hellish insolence When deuils will make Religion euils desence The actors in a worke more then Tyrannicall They did themselues their countries purgers call In all they did meerely their countries loue Did them vnto the vildest actions moue They would not leaue her but like Champions stand Till they from bondage had freed their natiue land They but resolu'd to be most mercilesse To free the Catholicks from their long distresse From desperate times disease euils strength to loose They were inforc'd a desperate salue to choose The worst of euill was b●●●●●st in their esteeme From worse then euill their countrie to redeeme The Pope might them for faithfull Christians take When what they did was for religions sake Their plot found out the very place to sack Where all the lawes were made that wrought their wrack And this conceit in them a hope prefers They should be thought Gods iustice ministers These Realmes with Rome in vnion to vnite Was all the cause for which their hopes did fight For Romes auaile and for the Church her good King Kingdomes they would haue drownd in bloud For these good deedes whatsoeuer did befall Saints at the least the Pope would make them all Now see their worke and cause for which th●●●●●y wrought And iudge how well Rome hath her children ●●●●●aught Their euill to doe they were so confident As to performe't they tooke the Sacrament Christs Royall body substanciall flesh and bloud They say they eate and dranke and thereby stood Bound to performe the euill which they intended Oh then how farre should be their faith commended Here doth my Muse want words my thoughts to speake And doth into a strange admirement breake Oh God how durst these me●●●●● Sathanicall Imbru'de in bloud with hearts Tyrannicall Made blacke with treason gainst Gods annointed King Themselues before heauens Iesus Christ to bring And though from bread they can him not 〈◊〉 Yet in the signe he 's representatiue And bread not chang'd yet holy scripture saith By it we feed on Iesus Chris●●●●● by faith Not to dispute but say as they accoumpt Into what height doe their presumption mount When as a wretch before his God shall stand And thinke he holdes his Maker in his hand And yet with soule all stain'd as black as hell Euen at that instant doth in damnation dwell And records God and in him all the Trinitie To be the witnesse of his hell-borne villanie And sweares by them with desperate hand to act The vildenesse of the very vildest fact And thus resolu'd his Sauiour vp he eates So arm'd in proofe a King and State he threates Oh fearefull thing the seale of mans saluation Seales vp to them assured condemnation Yet they so blinde in faithlesse hopes doe trust And thinke thereby their vildest actions iust Heere see the strong delusion that should mocke The race cast from the number of Christs flocke Heere see the cup of worlds abhominations And know the whore that breaths forth execrations Against heauens throne the Lambe and all his Saints And yet she so her damned vildenesse paints As that she seemes of holinesse the seate But God for her hath laid vp iudgments great She and her pack that had our fall compounded Shall be ere long by Gods fierce wrath confounded And they that did for vs one flame desire God hath for them prepar'd an endlesse fire NOw would my Muse desire to expresse In vildest euill false traytors readinesse Catesbie so soone as he did Winter mooue Consent straight ioynd the worst of euill to proue There needed no perswasion to be vsde Hels motion was at first not once refusde What course so ere hell could to him propound His liues aduenture he thereon would ground So all the rest with selfe-same swismesse ranne To worke an euill the like nere wrought by man Their labour then their care and diligence Their watchfull heed their bountie and expence Their desperate and resolued confidence Till death to fight gainst heauen in hels defence Approues what power the deuill doth beare in those That serue his will and to his Aul●●●●●ers goes In England now

of Christiandome since when neither by lawes humane nor yet diuine but rather by deuilish plottes most treacheries and inhumane pollicies the Pope and court of Cardinalls haue 〈◊〉 maintain'd the most 〈◊〉 tyrannicall vsurpant bloudy and aspiring pride of Romes blasphemous gouerment which shortly will breake forth into 〈◊〉 publicke rage and then confusions shame with condign●●●●● punishment armde in wraths furie will vnto the fearfull downefull of her vtmost ruin●●●●● ●●●●●wiftly follow her when she and all her followers shall mourne because the lawes of hell they followed About the approbation of Romes most monstrous greatnesse I cannot with my Pen make answer vnto the sophisme of their wrangling Sophister Romes great 〈◊〉 les and like him a Christian famo●●●●●s Bellermine but if on Romes behalfe in a Souldiers place a Champion would skip forth and play the Challenger him I thanke God I durst be bold to answer and on his head and heart for to 〈◊〉 that Rome maintaines an Antichristian regencie that the Pope is this worlds deceiuing Antichrist and the selfe same whore that in the Reuelation of S. Iohn is specified and in this trueths defence if called by a lawfull meanes the resolued readinesse of my liues resolution shall with most comfortable ioy both liue and die Mors Christi causa vita perennis erit Not to wrong the Romaine charitie but to giue the diuell his due if on the Popes behalfe I stood with no lesse confidence then I against him doe vndoubtedly I thinke that then I should not need for to deplore nor yet complaine the wants of me and mine nor to indure an vnrespected misery but God forbid that any hope of gaine should make me ioyne with them that are the soes to Christ nor doe I now inforce my maner of writing by reason of the times aduantage for by a booke intituled A Souldiers Resolution dedicated to the King and vnto his Royall selfe deliuered I made bould to tell his Maiestie euen at his first comming into England what fruites his Highnesse should expect to reape from Romaine Catholicks and now my words are by their actions verified As touching Papists generally I those to heauen commit that vnto heauen belong and for the treasons to our King kingdomes done by Romes adherence Popish packe Catholicall be all they accused that may iustly be condemned and for those that haue beene actors in this last and greatest treason let iustice vnto their destruction follow them and least good subiects should still too much affect those that will remaine infected with the Romane Leprosie I but request the well affected sort indifferently to iudge What may not they doe vnto whom all thinges may be made lawfull to be done and what credit is there to be giuen to them vnto whom is granted so learge a libertie and what vse they haue alwaies made thereof the world may witnesse and our experience haue oft beene in a dangerous hassar'd to be most dearely bought those then that by substantiall proofe cannot otherwise bee accounted then corrupted and infected members alwaies corrupting infecting and most dangerously working in our publick weale why may not euery good subiect iustly desire to be discharged of them for vnlesse the materiall cause whence euill proceeds be clearely takē hence the effects of euill can neuer cease and when some times an euils presumption be not so at first laide hold vpon as that thereby the passage of each suspected course may with an inuiolable strength be stayed A little sufferance in such cause may most vnhappily too soone produce the damned vildenesse of some vil le action done whereby a iust lamenting shall haue too iust a cause to runne before a iust reuenging but the consideration hereof I referre vnto the Maiestie honour and wisdome of that place where at this time there should not now haue beene eyther place wisdome honour or Maiestie if Romes designes could with a hell-borne blacke destructions hand haue rac'd them out To conclude seeth the sinnes of the People doe 〈◊〉 bring the wrat●●●●● of GOD vpon that land in which they dwel it behoueth all of vs with feare and trembling v●●●●●to our God ●●●●●ue with faiths repentance in the 〈◊〉 of Iesus Christ to pray heauens maiesty that as in mercy he hath preserued vs from that vninersall blowe which wold in blood haue drowned our monarchy that so in th●●●●● loue fauour of his stil continued grace he would vouchsafe farre from vs to remoue those other iudgments which if we stil procure his wrath do stand prepared for our punishment and to this peticion of more waight 〈◊〉 then is considered let euery honest reader say amen Thus wishing that my labours may vnto the best procure contentment I leaue the r●●●●●st euen as they will to 〈◊〉 contented and do onely vowe my selfe a friend to thos●●●●● that vnto God my King and Country are approued friends to such the abondant zeale of a poore mans loue slowes foorth to you the well affected himselfe he humbly giues That will in life and death be only yours Robert 〈◊〉 TIMES ANOTOMIE EVen in the time when ioy and sorrow met When present woe did present ioy beget When eyes and hearts did make an equall choise To weepe to mourne to triumph and reioyce When heauen tooke hence and yet vnto vs sent Most cause of griefe and cause of most content Then in that strange worst best and happiest time A Souldier sung Loues song in vnsmooth'd ●●●●●ime Yet by his words it might be plainely seene He prais'd the vertues of a maiden Queene Whose Maiestie in glory now excelling Leaues glories fame on earth to keepe her dwelling A poore mans loue her grace would well requi●●●●●e But now poore men in vaine Loues songs indite The Muse by whom her vertues most are prais'd Shall least thereby from woe to weale be rais'd When matchlesse worth is wrapt in leaues of lead The liuing they forget the worthiest dead No vertue can it selfe continuance giue It is the pen that makes all vertues liue And pennes I know will mount her praise so high That in this world her fame shall neuer die My lines alas from worth do differ farre I do confesse they most vnworthy are And yet my loue aswell desir'd to sing The praises of the worlds admi●●●●●'d King A Souldiers wish I am sure wisht all things well His wish his want did in strange sort compell Yet he resolu'd A Resolution fram'd For which gainst him Gods foes haue chiefly aim'd A traytrous speech which might not be conceald Hee 's hated most by whom it was reueald Hate Scorne Despight wrong done to honest 〈◊〉 Then out of rule are such disordered fractions Though men not gaine when well to do they 〈◊〉 It 's hard when men for doing well shall loose But poore to be if thence proceeds the cause Ha●●●●●d world when poore must feed proud 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hence doth proceed sad woes aboundant sorrow Not knowing whence it might contentment borrow

same shall to the heauens aspire Great Britaine so is by Gods hand instal'd As it shall be the land of conquest cal'd But now to ease a poore mans grieued minde In things aboue my sight shall comfort finde I know the time when I poore wretch reiected Shall as the best be no whit lesse respected When Kings and Queenes of greatest excellence Twixt them and me shall be no difference And there dwels Mercy Oh there a Sauiour liueth That to the poore saluations comfort giueth Not many Kings nor Queenes nor Nobles shall Triumph before heauens throne maiesticall But those that in this world their heauen doe make Shall in that world before Gods iudgment shake The beautie which on earth no praise doth lack Maskt vp in shame hels sulphure smoake makes black The snowe white hand moyst soft foule sinnes desire Shall burne in lake of hels eternall fire where diuels mēs soules with fiery darts strikes thorow And in their iawes like dogges they them shall worow Where God doth so his angers iudgment frame As that his wrath shall blow hels endlesse flame Euer Euer oh fearefull word for euer Where plagues encrease but shall be ended neuer Where torment brings torments with fresh supplie Where dying soules doe liue but neuer dye And ther 's the place where earths proud dignitie Shall plunge it selfe in endlesse misery But happie those whose soules by grace made pure Exempt from wrath shall no such plagues indure And most of them poore soules scornd and disgrac'd Are those that shall with God and Christ be plac'd When most on earth the poore despisde doe stand It doth presage Christs comming neere at hand Deiected base and out-cast pouertie Reioyce triumph in Mercies clemencie You are heauens flock a Shepheard doth you keepe Who of his number will not loose a sheepe Thus hath my sigh an honest passion breathed And of my woes a weeping garland wreathed My sighes my teares my woes my griefes lament My plaints my groanes all fruites of discontent Doe not themselues vpon one substance feed A generall doubt makes heart and soule to bleed A generall cuill a land to vildenesse bent Must needs expect some fearefull punishment Of present time the things desired heere Time prooues my words and makes the truth appeere Of time to come I humbly doe auowe Experience shall my words for truth allowe Search but the Story of that writte diuine And vnderstand the change of euery time Fiue hundred fiftie two yeares coumpted was A period whole which euer brought to passe Strange alterations both in Church and State Kings Kingdomes then did striue to ruinate Temples were rac'te Religion cleane despisde Tyrants by force of sword new lawes deuisde And now the time doth on such period stand As if it meant to take like course in hand Do but obserue each Celestiall spheare And see what signes doe in their course appeare Compare the time with antedated times And vnderstand the Heauens true speaking signes Then will you not these lines of mine deride Nor smother them with smoake of scornfull pride A Souldiers writing like his fighting is His course no●●●●● knowes how dangers rockes to misse Those Pens doe most their hopes in peeces batter That cannot best with oyled smoothnesse flatter A Souldiers name striue not for to disgrace Poore should not be accompted 〈◊〉 base And that I may not from the truth digresse My humble lines shall thus my state expresse The Souldier which doth scorne the lye to take Should scorne as much himselfe the lye to make The open fields to me is made my bed A bancke of earth a pillow for my head In shadie groues and sollitary places My steps doe make their sorrowes mournfull traces Imprisonment woes wofull habitation Hath forc't my Muse to secret contemplation In winter nights when I a Souldier was Alone my Muse should priuate motions tosse When in the warre I warres attire did beare My bookes to me most kinde companions were And some sad houres on skie-born●●●●● bookes I read Amongst the flarres an humble path I tread And see the great and strange Con●●●●●unctions there Of angrie Saturne Mars and Iupiter Since fi●●●●●st the Planets disclosde their variation Saturne neer had more Lord-like domination What it foretels my wea●●●●●y Muse sorgets In Dragons taile when strange Coniunction sets His name stands rouled in perditions booke Whose taile from heauē of starres the third part strooke Vnder the Dragons taile is fixed fast A strength that shall him and his tayle downe cast Mankinde the starres that Heauen should 〈◊〉 Shall be vpreard with glorious dignitie Though obseruation rightly may collect The iudgment of some retrograde aspect Yet Christ our King and kingdomes hath possessed With that wherein ourselues and world is blessed Though L●●●●●os house hath such reflection glided As tels there is some wondrous thing prouided I leaue to write and will conceit the rest Our land shall still by Gods great loue be blest A constant faith true resolution proues Feares not what vnder the first moouer mooues And in this thought I see with humble eye The mighty worke of Prima ●●●●●obili And know the world in fiery flames shall burne Before he doth to his first point returne For Heauen and earth by fire once purgd then sure They shall remaine as they at first were pure When God the world to iudgement summon will That first great mouer keepes his motion still Whose slow pace round doth roundly comprehend Those lesser Orbes that vnder him doe wend. In order each his fixed iourney takes And in their turnes celestiall musicke makes And then I thinke of that most happie time When I shall heare their dulsiue heauenly chime Aboue them all faiths eyes through Bethelem Be holds the glory of new Ierusalem Where sits vpon a Throane maiesticall The mightie maker of this wondrous all When thether once my ioyfull thoughts are sent I am amazde with wonders rauishment Nor tongues nor Pens nor Angels can expresse The glory of that glorious happinesse From thence to Luna not any Orbe to misse I cannot finde where Purgatorie is So that I thinke it sure remaineth yet Within their bellies that deuised it And those that would attaine to heauens great ioy Must leaue bye-pathes and finde in Christ their way But for the Starres I creatures them account Aboue them all their makers power must mount And by their influence more I will not learne Then Rules diuine shall teach me to discearne And in that course men sometimes are befriended Of those pure fiers by whom they are attended God euer yet by signes and visions told So as worlds change worlds worldlings might behold But cloddes of clay because they will not greeue This course they take to heare but not beleeue To gesse to speake to iudge great states to touch For me poore soule it is a strength too much Who so doth tel what things themselues doe show May doubt his words wil too presumptuous growe FVll twenty times nights Bride her selfe