Sir Iohn Dolston lodg'd me and my guide Of all the Gentlemen in Englands bounds His house is neerest to the Scottish grounds And Fame proclaimes him farre and neere aloud He 's free from being couâ—tous or proud His sonne Sir George most affable and kinde His fathers image both in forme and minde On Saturday to Carlile both did ride Where by their loues and leaues I did abide Where of good entertainment I found store From one that was the Mayor the yeere before His name is Master Adam Robinson I the last English friendship with him won He grates * My thankes to Sir Iohn and Sir George Dalstone with Sir Henry Gurwin found a guide to bring me through From Carlile to the Citie Eudenborough This was a helpe that was a helpe alone Of all my helps inferiour vnto none Eight miles from Carlile runs a little Riuer Which Englands bounds from Scotlands grouÌ„ds doth seuer * Ouer Esk I waded Without Horse Bridge or Boate I o're did get On foot I went yet scarce my shooes did wet I being come to this long-look'd-for land Did marke remarke note renote viewd and scand And I saw nothing that could change my will But that I thought my selfe in England still The Kingdomes are so neerely ioyn'd and fixt There scarcely went a paire of Sheares betwixt There I saw skie aboue and earth below And as in England there the Sunne did show The hills with Sheepe repleate with corne the dale * The afore named Knights had giuen money to my Guid. ,62 which he lese some partat euery Ale house And many a cottage yeelded good Scott'sh Ale This County Annadale in former times Was the curst climate of rebellious crimes For Cumberland and it both Kingdomes borders Were euer ordred by their owne disorders Such sharking shifting cutting throats thiouing Each taking pleasure in th' others grieuing And many times he that had wealth to night Was by the morrow morning beggerd quite To many yeeres this pell-mell fury lasted That all these borders were quite ipoyl'd wasted Confusion huily-burly raign'd and rend'd The Churches with the lowly ground were leueld All memorable monuments defac'd All places of defence o'rethrewne and rac'd That who so then did in the borders dwell Liu'd little happier then those in hell But since the all-disposing God of heauen Hath these two Kingdomes to one Monarch giuen Blest peace and plenty on them both hath showr'd Exile and hanging hath the theeues deuowr'd That now each subiect may securely sleepe His Sheep Neate the black the white doth keepe For now those Crownes are both in one combinde Those former borders that each one confinde Appeares to me as I doe vnderstand To be almost the Center of the Land This was a blessed heauen expounded riddle To thrust great Kingdomes skirts into the middle Long may the instrumentall cause suruiue From him and his succession still deriue True heires vnto his vertues and his Throane That these two Kingdomes euer may be oneâ— This County of all Scotland is most poore By reason of the outrages before Yet mighty store of Corne I saw there growe And as good grasse as euer man did mowe And as that day I twenty miles did passe I saw eleuen hundred Neat at grasse By which may be coniectur'd at the least That there was sustenance for man and beast And in the Kingdome I haue truly scand There 's many worser parts are bettor mand For in the time that theeuing was in vre The Gentles fled to places more secure And left the poorer sorte t' abide the paine Whilest they could ne'r finde time to turne againe That Shire of Gentlemen is scarce and dainty Yet there 's reliefe in great aboundance plenty Twixt it and England little oddes I see They eate and liue and strong and able bee So much in Verse and now I le change my stile And seriously I 'le write in Prose a while To the purpose then my first nights lodging in Scotland was at a place called Mophot which they say is thirty miles from Carlile but I suppose them to be longer then forty of such miles as are betwixt London and Saint Albanes but indeed the Scots doe allow almost as large measure of their miles as they doe of their drinke for an English Gallon either of Ale or Wine is but their quart and one Scottish mile now and then may well stand for a mile and a halfe or two English but howsoeuer short or long I found that dayes iourney the weariest that euer I footed and at night being come to the Towne I found good ordinary Countrey entertainment my fare and my lodging was sweet and good and might haue serued a farre better man then my selfe although my selfe haue had many times better but this is to be noted that though it rained not all the day yet it was my fortune to be well wet twise for I waded ouer a great riuer called Eske in the morning somewhat more then foure miles distance from Culile in England and at night within two miles of my lodging I was faine to wade ouer the Riuer of Annan in Scotland from which Riuer the County of Annandale hath it's name And whilst I waded on foot my man was mounted on horse-backeâ— like the George without the Dragon But the next morning I arose and left Mophot behind me and that day I traueled twenty one miles to a sory Village called Blithe but I was blithe my selfe to come to any place of harbour or succour for since I was borne I neuer was so weary or so neere being dead with extreme trauell I was founderd and refounderd of all foure and for my better comfort I came so late that I must lodge without doores all night or else in a poore house where the good-wife lay in Child-bed her husband being from home her owne seruant mayde being her nurse A Creature naturally compacted and artificially adorned with an incomparable homelines but as things were I must either take or leaue and necessity made mee enter where we gat Egges and Ale by measure and by tale At last to bed I went my man lying on the floore by mee where in the night there were Pidgeons did very bountifully mute in his face the day being no sooner come and hauing but fifteene miles to Edenborough mounted vpon my ten toes and began first to hobble and after to amble and so being warme I fell to pace by degrees all the way passing thorow a fertill Countrey for Corne and Cattle and about two of the clocke in the afternoone that Wednesday being the thirteenth of August and the day of Clare the Virgin the signe being in Virgo the Moone foure dayes â—old the wind at West I came to take rest at the wished long expected ancient famous City of Edenborough which I entred like Pierce pennilesse altogether monyles but I thanke God not friendlesse for being there for the time of my stay I might borrow if any
Iohn Gibb his house one of the Groomes of his Maiesties Bed chamber and I thinke the oldest Seruant the King hath withall I was well entertained there by Master Crighton at his owne house who went with me and shewed me the Queenes Palace a delicate Princely Mansion withall I saw the ruines of an ancient stately built Abey with faire gardens orchards medowes belonging to the Palace all which with faire goodly reuenues by the suppression of the Abbey were annexed to the Crowne There also I saw a very faire Church which though it bee now very large and spacious â—yet it hath in former times beene much larger But I taking my leaue of Dumfermling would needs goe and see the truely Noble Knight Sir George Bruce at a Towne called the Coor as there he made mâ—â— right welcome both with varietie of fare and after all hee commanded three of his menâ—â—s direct mee to see his most admirable Cole mines which if man can or could worke wonders is a wonder for my selfe neither in any trauels that I haue beene in nor any History that I haue read or any Discourse that I haue heard did neuer see read or heare of any worke of man that might parallell or bee equiualent with this vnfellowed and vnmâ—â—chable work though all I can say of it cannot describe it according to the worthines of his vigilant industry that was both the occasion Inuentor Maintainer of it yet rather then the memory of so rare an Enterprise and so accomplisht a profit to the Common-wealth shall bee raked and smothered in the dust of obliuion I will giue a little touch at the description of it although I amongst Writers as like he that worst may hold the candle The Mine hath two wayes into it the one by sea and the other by land but a man may goe into it by land and returne the same way if he please and so he may enter into it by sea and by sea he may come forth of it but I â—â— varieties sake went in by sea and out by land Now men may obiect how can a man goe into a Mine the entrance of it being into the sea but that the Sea will follow him and so drown the Mine To which obiection thus I answer That at low water the sea being ebd away and a great part of the sand bare vpon this same sand being mixed with rockes and cragges did the Master of this great worke build a round circular frame of stone very thicke strong and ioyned together with glutinous or bitumous matter so high withall that the Sea at the highest flood or the greatest rage of storme or tempest can neither dissolue the stones so well compacted in the building or yet ouerflowe the height of it Within this round frame at all aduentures hee did set workemen to digge with Mattockes Pickaxes and other instruments fit for such purposes They did dig forty foot downe right into and through a rocke At last they found that which they expected which was Sea-cole they following the veine of the Mine did dig â—â—rward still So that in the space of eight and â—â—enty or nine and twenty yeeres they haue â—â—gged more then an English mile vnder the â—ea that when men are at worke belowe an hundred of the greatest shippes in Britaine â—ay saile ouer their heads Besides the Mine â— most artificially cut like an Arch or a Vault â—â— that great length with many nookes and â— wayes and it is so made that a man may â—alke vpright in the most places both in and â—â—t Many poore people are there set on work which otherwise through the want of imployâ—ent would perish But when I had seene the line and was come forth of it againe after â—y thankes giuen to Sir George Bâ—uce I told â—m that if the plotters of the Powder Treason â— England had seene this Mine that they perâ—â—ps would haue attempted to haue left the â—arliament House and haue vndermined the â—hames and so to haue blowne vp the Barges â—nd Wherries wherein the King and all â—e Estates of our Kingdome were Moreoâ—er I said that I could affoord to turne Tapâ—er at London so that I had but one quarter of â— mile of his Mine to make mee a Celler to â—â—epe Beere and Bottle-ale in But leauing â—ese Iests in Prose I will relate a few Verses â—at I made merrily of this Mine That haue wasted MoÌ„ths weeks dayes houres In viewing Kingdomes Countries Townes and Without al measure measuring many paces tow'rs â—nd with my pen describing many places With few additions of mine owne deuizing Because I haue a smacke of Cortatizing â—ur Mandeuill Primaleon Don Quixot â—â—reat Amadis or Huon traueld not â— I haue done or beene where I haue beene â—â— heard and seene what I haue heard and seene â—or Britaines Odcombe Zany braue Vlissis â—â— all his ambling saw the like as this is â—was in would I could describe it well â—â— darke light pleasant profitable hell â—and as by water I was wasted in â— thought that I in Charons Boare had bin â—â—ut being at the entrance landed thus â—hree men there in stead of Cerberus â—â—â—â—â—â—me in in each one hand a light â—â— guide vs in that vault of endlesse night There young old with glim'ring candles burning Digge delue and labour turning and returning Some in a hole with baskets and with baggs Resembling furies or infernall haggs There one like Tantall feeding and there one Like Sisiphus he â—owles that restlesse stone Yet all I saw was pleasure mixt with profit Which prou'd it to be no tormenting Tophet For in this honest worthy harmelesse hell There ne'r did any damned Deuill dwell And th' Owner of it games by 't more true glory Then Rome doth by fantasticke Purgatory A long mile thus I past down downe steepe steepe In deepenesse far more deepe then Neptunes deepe Whilst o're my head in fourefold stories hie Was Earth Sea Ayre and Sun and Skie That had I dyed in that Cimerian roome Foure Elements had couered o're my tombe Thus farther then the bottome did I goe And many Englishmen haue not done so Where mounting Porposes and mountaine Whales And Regiments of fish with finnes and Scales Twixt me and Heauen did freely glide and slide And where great ships may at an anchor ride Thus in by Sea and out by land I past And tooke my leaue of good Sir George at last The Sea at certaines places doth leake of soake into the Mine which by the industry of Sir George Bruce is all conueyd to one Well neere the land where he hath a deuice like a horse-mill that with three horses and a great chaine of Iron going downeward many fadomes with thirty sixe buckets fastened to the chaine of the which eighteene goe downe still to be filled and eighteene ascend vp to be emptied which doe emptie themselues without any mans labour into a trough that conueyes the water into the Sea againe by which
goodly man well sed and corpulent Fill'd like a bag-pudding with good content A right good fellow free of cap and legge Of complement as full as any Egge To speake of Him I know it is of Folly He is a mortall foe to Melancholy Mirth is his life and trade and I thinke very That he was got when all the world was merry Health vpon health he doubled and redoubled Till his and mine and all our braines were troubâ—â—â— Vnto our absent Bitters there we dranke Whom we are bound to loue they not to thanke By vs mine Host could not great profit reape Our meat and lodging was so good and cheape That to his praise thus much I 'l truly tell He vs'd vs kindly euery way and well And though my lines before are merry writ Where-e'r I meet him I 'l acknowledge it To see the Castle there I did desire And vp the Hill I softly did aspire Whereas it stands impregnable in strength Large in Circumference height bredth and lengâ—â— Built on a fertile plat of ground that they Haue yeerely growing twenty loads of Hay Great Ordnance store pasture for Kine and Hoâ—â— Rampires and Walls t' withstand inuasiue forces â—hat it be well with truth and courage man'd â—â—â—ition victuall'd then it can withstand â—â—he powers of twenty Tamberlaines the Great â—â—â— the end with shame they would Retreat â—â—â— is gouern'd by a graue and prudent * â—â— Honourable the Lord Zâ—nch Lord Warden of the â—â—â— ports Lord Whole Iustice doth to each their right afford Whole worth within the Castle and without â—he fiue Ports and the country all about â—he people with much loue doe still recite â—â—â— he makes the wrongers render Right â—he kindnesse I receiued there was such â—ut my remembrance cannot be too much â—â—wa Gun thrice eight foot length of Brasse â—nd in a Wheele I saw a comely Asse â—â—â—â—â— like a Dog that 's turning of a Spit â—nd draw as it were from the infernall pit â—hose deepe Abisse is perpendicular â—he hundred fathome or well neere as farre â—â—christaline so cleere and coole a water â—ut will in Summer make a mans teeth chatter â—â—d when to see it vp I there had stood â—ranke thereof and found it sweet and good â—â—â— farewell Castle Douer Douer Peere â—â—rewell Oast Bradshaw thanks for my good cheer â—â—â— bonny Barke to Sea was bound againe â—â—â— Thursday morne we lanch'd into the Maine â—â—â— Folston â— and by Sangates ancient Castle â—rainst the rugged waues we tugge and wrastle â—â—â— Hyde by Ruâ—â—ey and by Rumney Marsh â—â—â— Tyde against vs and the winde blew harsh â—wixt Eolus and Neptune was such strife â—â—at I ne'r felt worse weather in my life â—â—t and retost retost and tost againe â—â—â— rumbling tumbling on the rowling Maine â—boystrous breaking Billowes curled locks â—petuoâ—sly did beate against the Rockes â—â—â— winde much like a Horse whose wind is broke â—â—â— thicke and short that we were like to choake â—it cutragiously the billowes shaues â—â—â— Gusts like dust blown from the bryny waues â—â—â— thus the winds and seas robustious gods â—â—â— by the eares starke mad at furious ods â—â—ender Ship turmoyld 'twixt shores and Seas â—â—ft or low as stormes and slawes did please â—â—â—etimes vpon a foaming Mountaines top â—â—hose height did seeme the heau'ns to vnderprop â—â—en straight to such profundity she fell â—â—â— she diu'd into the deepest Hell â—â—â— Clowds like ripe Apostumes burst showr'd â—â—eir mastery watery substance headlong powr'd â—â—â— though all things were mutable and fickle â—â—ey all agreed to soâ—se vs in a pickle â—â—â— waters fresh and salt from Seas and Skye â—â—â—ich with our sweat ioynd in triplicity That looking each on other there we saw We neither were halfe stewd nor yet halfe raw But neither hot or cold good flesh or fishes For Caniballs we haâ— beene ex'lent dishes Bright Phoeâ—us hid his golden head with feare Not daring to behold the dangers there Whilst in that straight or Exigent we stand We see and wish to land yet durst not land Like rowling Hills the Billowes beate and roate Against the melancholly Beachie shore That if we landed neither strength or wit Could saue our Boate from being sunke or split To keepe the Sea sterne puffing Eols breath Did threaten still to blow vs all to death The waues amaine vnbid oft boorded vs Whilst we almost three houres beleaguerd thus On euery side with danger and distresse Resolu'd to run on shore at Dengie Nesse There stand some thirteene Cottages together To shelter Fishermen from winde and weather And there some people were as I suppos'd Although the dores and windowes all were clos'dâ— I neere the land into the Sea soone leapt To see what people those same houses kept I knock'd and cal'd at each from house to house But found no forme of mankinde Man or * No dwelling within neere three miles of â—ose Cottages Mouse This newes all sad and comfortlesse and cold Vnto my company I straightwayes told Assuring them the best way I did thinke Was to hale vp the Boate although she sinke Resolued thus we all together please To put her head to shore her sterne to Seas They leaping ouerboâ—rd amidst the Billowes We pluck'd her vp vnsunke like stout tall fellows Thus being wet from top to toe we strip'd Except our shirts and vp and downe weskip'd Till winde and Sunne our wants did well supply And made our outsides and our insides dry Two miles froÌ„ thence a ragged * The townes name is Lydd two miles from Rumney in Kent town there stood To which I went to buy some drinke and food Where kindely ouer-reckon'd well misus'd Was and with much courtesie abus'd Mine Oastesse did account it for no trouble For single fare to make my payment double Yet did her mind and mine agree together That I once gone would neuer more come thither The Cabbins where our Boat lay safe and well Belong'd to men which in this towne did dwell And one of them I thanke him lent vs then The Key to ope his hospitable Den A brazen Kettle and a pewter dish To serue our needs and dresse our flesh and fish Then from the Butchers we bought Lamb sheep Beere from the Alehouse and a Broome to sweepe Our Cottage that for want of vse was musty And most extremely rusty-fusty-dusty There two dayes space we Roast boile broile And toyle and moyle and keepe a noble coyle For onely we kept open house alone And he that wanted Beefe might haue a Stone Our Grandam Earth with beds did al befriend vs And bountifully all our lengths did lend vs That laughing or else lying * Our beds were Cables and Roper outry feather at the least â—â—â— fatham long downe did make Our backes and sides sore and our ribs to ake On Saturday the windes did seeme to cease And brawling Seas began to hold their peace When we like Tenants beggerly and poore Decreed to leaue the Key beneath the doore But
into their Countrey So that he earnestly disswaded me from the iourney if I loued my life and welfare at last he concluded his discourse with me by a summe of mony that he threw downe from a window thorow which he looked out into a sheete tied vp by the foure corners and hanging very neere the ground a hundred pieces of siluer each worth two shillings sterling which counteruailed ten pounds of our English mony this businesse I carried so secretly by the helpe of my Persian that neither our English Ambassadour nor any other of my Countrymen sauing one special priuate and intrinsicall friend had the least inkling of it till I had throughly accomplished my designe for I well knew that our Ambassadour would haue stopped and Barracadoed all my proceeding therein if he might haue had any notice thereof as indeed he signified vnto mee after I had effected my proiect alleaging this forsooth for his reason why he would haue hindred me because it would redound somewhat to the dishonour of our Nation that one of our Countrey should present himselfe in that beggerly and poore fashion to the King out of an insinuating humour to craue money of him But I answered our Ambassadour in that stout and resolute manner after I had ended my businesse that hee was contented to cease nibbling at me neuer had I more need of money in all my life then at that time for in truth I had but twenty shillings sterling left in my purse by reason of a mischance I had in one of the Turkes Cities called Emert in the country of Mesopotamia where a miscreant Turke stripped me of almost all my monyes according as I wrote vnto you in a very large letter the last yeere which I sent from the Court of this mighty Monarch by one of my Countrymen that went home by Sea in an English shippe laden with the commodities of this India which letter I hope came to your hands long since After I had beene with the King I went to a certain Noble and generous Christian of the Armenian race two dayes iourney from the Mogols court to the end to obserue certaine remarkeable matters in the same place to whom by meanes of my Persian tongue I was so welcome that hee entertained me with very ciuill courteous complement and at my departure gaue mee very bountifully twenty pieces of such kind of mony as the King had done before counteruayling forty shillings sterling About ten dayes after that I departed from Azmere the court of the Mogoll Prince to the end to begin my Pilgrimage after my long rest of fourteene moneths backe againe into Persia at what time our Ambassadour gaue mee a piece of Gold of this Kings Coyne worth foure and twenty shillings which I will saue if it bee possible till my ariuall in England so that I haue receiued for beneuolences since I came into this countrey twenty markes sterling sauing two shillings eight pence and by the way vpon the confines of Persia a little before I came into this country three and thirty shillings foure pence in Persian money of my Lady Sherly aâ— this present I haue in the City of Agra where-hence I wrote this letter about twelue pounds sterling which according to my manner of liuing vpon the way at two pence sterling a day for with that proportion I can liue pretty well such is the cheapnesse of all eateable things in Asia drinkable things costing nothing for seldome doe I drinke in my pilgrimage any other liquor then pure water will maintaine me very competently three yeeres in my trauell with meat drinke and clothes Of these gratuities which haue beene giuen me willingly would I send you some part as a demonstration of the filiall loue and affection which euery child bred in ciuility and humility ought to performe to his louing and good mother but the distance of space betwixt this place and England the hazard of mens liues in so long a iourney and also the infidelity of many men who though they liue to come home are vnwilling to render an account of the things they haue receiued doe not a little discourage mee to send any precious token vnto you but if I liue to come one day to Constantinople againe for thither I doe resolue to goe once more by the grace of Christ and therehence to take my passage by land into Christendome ouer renouned Greece I will make choice of some substantiall and faithfull Countriman by whom I will send some prety token as an expression of my dutifull and obedient respect vnto you I haue not had the oportunity to see the King of Persia as yet since I came into this country but I haue resolued to goe to him when I come next into his Territories and to search him out wheresoeuer I can find him in his Kingdome for seeing I can discourse with him in his Persian tongue I doubt not but that going vnto him in the forme of a Pilgrime hee will not onely entertaine me with good words but also bestow some worthy reward vpon me beseeming his dignity and person for which cause I am prouided before-hand with an excellent thing written in the Persian-tongue that I meane to present vnto him and thus I hope to get beneuolences of worthy persons to maintaine me in a competent manner in my whole pilgrimage till come into England which I hold to be as laudable and a more secure course then if I did continuall carry store of mony about mee In the letter which I wrote vnto you by an English ship the last yeere I made relation vnto you both of my iourney from the once holy Hierusalem hither and of the state of this Kings Court and the Customes of this Country therefore I hold it superfluous to repeat the same things againe but what the Countryes are that I meane to see betwixt this and Christendome and how long time I will spend in each country I am vnwilling to aduertise you of at this present desiring rather to signifie that vnto you after I haue performed my designe then before howbeit in few words I will tell you of certaine Cities of great renoune in former times but now partly ruined that I resolue by Gods helpe to see in Asia where I now am namely ancient Babylon and Nimrods Tower some few miles from Niniue and in the same the Sepulcher of the Prophet Ionas spacious and goodly Câ—â— in Egypt heretofore Memphis vpon the famous Riuer Nilus where Moses Aaron and the children of Israel liued with K. Pharaoh whose ruined Palace is shewed there till this day and a world of other moueable things as memorable as any City of the whole world yeeldeth sauing onely Ierusalem but in none of these or any other Cities of note doe I determine to linger as I haue done in other places as in Constantinople and Azmere in this Easterne India onely some few daies will I tarry in a principall citie of fame to obserue euery
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
therefore vp with them The Schismaticall Separaust I haue many times discourst with him and though hee be but a Botcher or a Button-maker and at the most a lumpe of opinionated ignorance yet he will seeme to wring the Scriptures to his opinions and presume to know more of the mysteries of Religion then any of our reuerend learned Bishops and Doctors I know this worke will be vnrelished in the pestiferous pallats of the dogmaticall Amsterdammarists but I doe must and will acknowledge a most reuerend honour and regard vnto the sacred memory of this blessed Virgin Lady Mother of our Lord and Redeemer IESVS and in my thoughts she shall euer haue superlatiue respect aboue all Angels Principalities Patriarkes Prophets Apostles Euangelists or Saints whatsoeuer vnder the blessed Trinity yet mistake me not as there is a difference betwixt the immortali Creator and a mortall creature so whilst I haue warrant sufficient from God himselfe to inuocate his name onely I will not giue Man Saint or Angell any honour that may bee derogatory to his Eternall Maiestie As amongst women she was blest aboue all being aboue all full of Grace so amongst Saints I beleeue she is supreme in Glory and it is an infallible truth that as the Romanists doe dishonour her much by their superstitious honourable seeming attributes so on the other part it is hellish and odious to God and good men either to forget her or which is worâ—e to remember her with impure thoughts or vnbeseeming speech for the excellency of so Diuine a Creature I confesse my selfe the meanest of men and most vnworthy of all to write of her that was the best of Women but my hope is that Charity will couer my faults and accept of my good meaning especially hauing endeuoured and striuen to doe my best So wishing all hearts to giue this holy Virgin such honour as may be pleasing to God which is that all should patterne their liues to her liues example in lowlinesse and humility and then they shall be exalted where she is in Glory with eternity IOHN TAYLOR THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE MOST BLESSED AMONGST ALL VVOMEN THE VIRGIN MARY The Mother of our Lord IESVS CHRIST BEfore the fire ayre water earth were fram'd Sunne Moone or any thing vnnam'd or naun'd God was who ne'r shal end nor ne'r began To whom all ages and all time 's a span By whose appointment each thing fades or growes And whose eternall knowledge all things knowes When Adams sinne pluck'd downe supernall lre And Iustice iudg'd him to infernall fire The Mercy did the execution stay And the great price of mans great debt did pay And as a Woman tempted Man to vice For which they both were thrust from Paradise So from a woman was a Sauiours birth That purchas'd Man a Heauen for losse of earth Our blest Redeemers Mother that blest Shee Before the World by God ordain'd to be A chosen vessell fittest of all other To be the Sonne of Gods most gracious Mother She is the Theame that doth my Muse inuite Vnworthy of such worthinesse to write I will no prayers nor inuocations frame For intercession to this heau'nly Dame Nor to her name one fruitlesse word shall runne To be my Mediatresse to her Sonne But to th' eternall Trinity alone I le sing He sigh He inuocate and mone I prize no creatures glory at that rate The great Creators praise t'extenuate But to th' Almighty ancunt of all dayes Be all dominion honour laud and praise I write the blest conception birth and life Of this beloued Mother Virgin Wife The ioyes the griefes the death and buriall place Of her most glorious gracious full of grace Her Father IOACHIM a vertuous man Had long liu'd childlesse with his wife S. ANNE And both of them did zealously intend If God did euer Sonne or Daughter send That they to him would dedicate it solely To be his seruant and to liue most holy God heard and granted freely their request And gaue them MARY of that sex the best At three yeeres age she to the Temple went And there eleu'n yeeres in deuotion spent At th' end of fourteene yeeres it came to passe This Virgin vnto IOSEPH spoused was Then after foure months time was past and gone Th' Almighty sent from his tribunall throne His great Ambassador which did vnfold The great'st ambassage euer yet was told Haile MARY full of heau'nly grace quoth he The high omnipotent Lord is with thee Blest amongst women oâ— Gods gracious doome And blessed be the fruâ—â— of thy blest wombe The Angels presence and the words he said This sacred vndefiled Maid dismaid Amazed musing what this message meant And wherefore God this messenger had sent Feare not said GAERIEL MARY most renown'd Thou with thy gracious God hast sauour foâ—â—â—â— For lo thou shalt conceiue and beare a Sunne By whom redemption and saluation's wonne And thou bis sauing Name shalt IESVS call Because hee'lâ— come to saue his people all She humbly mildly heau'ns high Nuncius heares But yet to be resolu'd of doubts and feares How can these things quoth she accomplisht be When no man hath knowledge had with me The Holy Ghost the Angell then replide Shall come vpon thee and thy God and guide The power of the most High shall shadow thee That Holy thing that of thee borne shall be Shall truely called be the Sonne of God Be whom Sinne Death and Hell shall downe be trod Then MARY to these speeches did accord And said Behold the hand-Maid of the Lord Be it to me ' according to ' thy well I am thine owne obedient seruant still This being said she turn'd her Angel tongne My soule doth magnist the Lord the song My spirit and all my faculties and doyce In God my Sauiour solely doth reioyce For though mans sinnes prouoke his grieuous wrath His humble hand-maid he remembred hath For now behold from this time hence I forth shall All generations me right blessed call He that is mighty me hath magnifide And bo'y is his name his mercies hide On them that feare him to prouoke his rage Throughout the spacious world from age to age With his strong arme he hath shew'd strength and batterd The proud and their imaginations scatterd He hath put downe the mighty from their seat The mecke and humble he exalted great To fill the hungry he is prouident When as the rich away are empty sent His mercies promis'd Abr'am and his seed He hath remembred and holpe Israels need This Song she sung with heart and holy spright To land her Makers mercy and his might And the like Song sung with so sweet a straine Was neuer nor shall e'r be sung againe When MARY by the Angels speech perceiu'd How old ELIZABETH a child conceiu'd To see her straight her pious minde was bent And to Ierusalem in three dayes she went And as the Virgin come from Nazareth Talk't with her kinfwoman ELIZABETH IOHN Baptist then vnnam'd an vnborne boy
the Inchanted Ilands by nomination by Banner by warlike atchieuements by natiuity by descent and processe matchlesse and vnparalleld Sir Thomas Parsons Knight of the Sunne great cousin Vermin to the seldome seene Queene of Fayries and hopefull heire apparant to her inuisible Kingdome VNmatchable Cheualiere I am bold to commit a poore Goose to your impregnable protection and patronage I knon there will be as much to doe in the keeping of her and with a much danger as was the conquest of the Golden Fleece the Apples of the Hesperides or the sauing of Andromeda by Perseus and but that your valiant atchieuements are knowne â—â— approued I would neuer haue put my Goose to your inuincible Guard the enemies that â—â— assault you or attempt to take her from you are many whom in dutious courtesie I will describe vnto yâ—â— First the Powlters will assaile you with a terrible battry of rotten Eg-shot to surrender the innocent Goose that they may murder imbowell pluâ—ke and prostitute her to sale of who giues most Seeâ—â—â— the Vthalâ—â—â— will come vpon you with a fresh alarum for her feathers to stuffe the empty paunches of then B Isters Pillowes and hungry Bed-tikes Thirdly the Cookes in squaarans aâ—â—i'd with Dripping pannes and sâ—â—s instead of Speares before they will lose their Fâ—â—s and theâ— king of their fingers to bâ—ote will fight heoly for the Goose till all smoke againe Fourthly the Apothecaries raâ—her then they will want the sweetnesse of the pinguidity or feâ—undâ—ous fat of the Gooses axungâ—a vulg â—â— called gâ—â—â— they will so pelt â—â—â—â— with pilâ—s instead of pellets that they will make all stinke againe Fiftly the kit â—â—a-maâ—de will throw sâ—alding â—ater at you but she will haue one of her wings to sweepe downe Câ—bwebs and dcspossesse Spiders of the habitations they haue built out of their owne bowels Sixtly the â—letâ—hers and Archers sâ—â—eare they will â—â—inke your skinne full of â—â—t-holes but they will haue â—er â—â—â— s to make them â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— dead then the Goose could liuing Seuenthly the Poets for her Quils will call another penny â—lâ—sse thread â—â—â— Parliament and ordaine Satiricall Statutes and Trâ—gâ—all Acts against you and â—â—â— their scattâ—red imaginations they will sâ—ale the skies as high as sullen Saturnes altitude and rake into the â—â— west pâ—â—sundâ—â—y of Barrathrum forraging thorow the earth ayre and seas but they will stigmatize canterize and Epigramatize Anagramatize you till you make a surrender Eigâ—tly the Lawyers well sirke and firâ—t you tossing you betwixt hard fortune and ill lucke that you will be almost mad or bee in great danger to have very littleâ—â— lest Ninthly the scriuâ—ners publike Nâ—tariâ—s or notorieus publiâ—â—ans will not onely ioyne with the Lawyers and the Poets against you but they will neuer procure you any money when you neede without excessiue brokage great credit or good security Tenthly Shop-keepers if you hold the Gooses Quils from them haue sworne that they will euer keepe you out of their bookes And lastly schoole-boyes will throw whole voleyes of stones at you where-euer they see you if you alow them not Pens though it be but to scrible or make ewes letters Thus hauing layd open to your Herculean view the labours and dangers that you are like to suffer in protecting the Goose Now I thinke it fit vnder correction to cloze vp my Dedication with some dutifull counsell that though your enemies are mightie and many and that they doe preuaile against you and with their multitude take from you both the flesh and feathers of the Goose which indeed belongs not to you nor doe I dedicate them to you yet here is your true honour and that which makes all me admire you that her better part her genious her intellectuall vnderstanding her capacity and reuerend grauity her wisedome and her very spirit neither man Deuill or Dragon is able to bereaue you of as long as you haue a sword to defend it I haue dedicated a Booke of a Begger at this time to Archy but most noble Sir onely to you my Goose so leauing you Not doubting of your acceptance and protection I wish you such increase of honour as is sutable to your Heroicke enicauâ—urs and vnimitable wisedome He that truely neither wonders or admires at your worthinesse IOHN TAYLOR TAYLORS GOOSE DESCRIBING THE VVILDE GOOSE THE Tame Goose the Taylors Goose the VVinchester Goose the Clack Goose the Soleand Goose the Huniburne Goose Goose vpon Goose the true nature and profit of all Geese the honourable victories of the Gray-Goose-wing the worthinesse of the Pen the Description of Goosetoft and Goose Fayre with the valour of the Gander By IOHN TAYLOR VVHen restlesse Phoebus seem'd himselfe to rest His flaming Carr descending to the West And Hesperus obscur'd her twinkling light Then in a sable mantle Madame night Tooke of the world the sole command and keepe Charming the eyes of mortals found a sleepe She sent dull Morpheus forth and Somnus both The Leaden Potentates of Sleepe and Sloth Who vnto euery one good rest imparts Saue Louers guilty mindes and carefull hearts The stealing houres creep'd on with sleeping pace When masqued Midnight shew'd her Ebon face When Hagges and Furies Witches Fairies Elues Ghosts Sprites Coblins doe disport themselues When send imaginarie dreames doe raigne In forme lesse formes in mans molested braine On such a time I sleeping in my bed An vnaccustom'd dreame came in any head Me thought as neere vnto a Riuers side Within a pleasant Groue I did abide That all the feathered birds that swims or flies Or liues betwixt the breeding earth and skies One at the least of euery seuerall sort Did for their recreation there resort There was such a variety of notes Such warbling such whistling froÌ„ their throates The Base the Tenor Trebble and the Meane All acting various Actions in one Sceane The sober Goose not thinking ought amisse Amongst the rest did harthly keake and hisse At which the Peacocke and the pyde-coate lay Said rake the feolish gaggling Goose away The Goose though angry with a modest looke Seem'd as she gently this affront would brooke When all the Fowles in generall out did breake Commanding her she should not dare to speake Away the meianc holly Goose return'd And in a banke of Reede she sate and mourn'd Complaining 'gainst the hatefull multitude And iustly taxing with Ingratitude The Race of all mortality and then Is none quoth she turniuing amongst men That will my true worth search and vnderstand And in my quarrell take a Pen in hand And in a stately high Heroicke stile My Predecessours noble Acts compile From age to age descending vnto me That my succeeding Issue all may see The admirable deedes that I haue done And runne that worthie course that I haue runne O impious age when there is no defence For Vertue and for hated Innocence When Flatt'rers Fooles and Fiddlers are rewarded When I must liue inpittied vnregarded Me thought these last words ended with a keake Of
Dice Is now most Gentleman-like exercise But for these few that in those dayes remaine Who are addicted to this shooting veine Let men but note their worthy disposition And we shall see they are of best condition Free honest spirits such as men may trust In all their actions constant true and iust It is a thing I haue obserued long An Archers mind is cleare from doing * For the most part this is generall wrong It is a * K. Henry the 8. did with the consent of the 2. estates in the Parliament enact a Stature for shootingâ— which Statute is still of force though not in vse note worthy respect and marke An Archer is no base defamed Sharke Not giuen to pride to couetousnesse or To swearing which all good men doe abhorre Nor doth he exercise or take delight To cheate to cogge to lye and to backe-bite But with most louing friendly conuersation He practiseth this manly recreation There was a Statute in th' eight Henries raigne Which Statute yet doth in full force remaine And as it stands in force so doth my Muse With that it were obseru'd and kept in vse Within these few yeeres I to mind doe call The Yeomen of the Guard were Archers all A hundred at a time I oft haue seene With Bowes Arrowes ride before the * Queene Elizabeth Queene Their Bowes in hand their Quiuers on their shoulders Was a most stately shew to the beholders And herein if men rightly doe obserue The Arrowes did for two good vses serue First for a shewe of great magnificence And trusty weapons for to guard their Prince Prince Charles our hope of Britaines happinesse Doth his affection oftentimes expresse With many Noble men of worthy race Doe with their best performance shooting grace And long may these * The Highland-men or Red-shanks in Scotland are exceeding good archers superiour Worthies liue Example to th' inferiour sort to giue That though this exercise be much declin'd May some supporters and defenders find King Sauls braue sonne true-hearted Ionathan * 2 â—am 1. 18. Dauids true friend a Prince a valiant man Did in this noble quality excell As the true story of his life doth tell King Dauid made a Law and did command That shooting should be taught within this land Thus from true Histories we plainely see That shooting is of great antiquity And that the glory of the Gooses wings Hath beene aduanc'd by Princes Lords and Kings And that yet Princes Peeres and Potentates And best of all conditions and estates Doe giue to Archery the praise and prise Of the best manly honest exercise The praise of the Gooses Quill ANd thus for shooters hauing shew'd my skill I 'le now say somewhat for the Gooses Quill Great Mars his Traine of Military men I leaue and turne the Shaft into a Pen The Gooses feather acteth sundry parts And is an Instrument both of Armes and Arts. Many diuine and heauenly mysteries And many memorable Histories Had with blind Ignorance beene ouer-growne And were 't not for the Pen had ne'r bin knowne The Muses might in Parnass hill haue staid Their fames had ne'r bin through the world displaid But that the Gooses Quill with full consent Was found to be the fittest Instrument To be their Nuntius and to disperse Their glory through the spacious Vniuerse Grammar that of all Science is the ground Without it in forgetfulnesse were drownd And Rethorick the sweet rule of eloquence Through the Goose Quill distils it's Quintessâ—â—â— Logick with definitions I am sure Were nothing or else very much obscure Astronomie would lye or lye forgot And scarce remembred or regarded not Arithmetick would erre exceedingly Forgetting to deuide and multiply Geometry would lose the Altitude The craslic Longitude and Latitude And Musick in poore case would be o're-throwne But that the Goose Quill pricks the Lessons downe Thus all the liberall Sciences are still In generall beholding to the Quill Embassages to farre remoted Princes Bonds Obligations Bills and Euidences Letters twixt foe and foe or friend and friend To gratulate instruct or reprehend Assurances where faith and troth is scant To make the faithlesse to keepe couenant The Potent weapon of the reuerend Law That can giue life or death saue hang or draw That with a Royall or a noble dash Can from the Kings Exchequer fetch the Cash To most shop-keepers it a reckoning makes What 's got or lost what he layes out or takes Without the Goose a Scriuener were a foole Her Quill is all his onely working toole And sure a Goose is of a wondrous nature Contrary to each other liuing creature Things that in water earth or ayre haue growth And feede and liue bite onely with the mouth But the Goose with sophisticated skill Doth bite most dangerously with her quill Yet is she free from prodigality And most of all bites partiality She oft with biting makes a Knight a detter * A shrewd biting beast And rankle to a Begger little better She oft hath bit a Gallant from his land With quick conueyance and by slight of hand Sometimes his biting is as durable As is a Gangren most incureable And many that into her fangs doe fall Doe take the Counters for their Hospitall A Forger or a Villaine that forsweares Or a False-witnesse she bites off their eares On me her pow'r she many times hath showne And made me pay more debts then were mine oâ—â—â— Thus doth her Quill bite more then doe her chaps To teach fooles to beware of after-claps They say in Latine that a Gooses name â—â— ANSER which made in Anagram SNARE in English which doth plaine declare That she to fooles and knaues will be a snare * Hereupon began the Prouerbes of good Goose bite not â—deede she oft hath beene a snare to mee â—y selfe was in the fault alas not shee The memorable honour of the Goose sauing the Capitoll at Rome Bvt now to shew her neuer-dying name And how at Rome she wan deseruing fame When barbarous Brennus cruell King of Galls And wasted Italy and raz'd Romes Walls When deuastation did depopulate With sword and furious fire the Romane state When many a throat was tyrannously cut And all the Citie to the sacke was put When many of the Citizens did flye â—â—to the Capitoll to liue and dye Whereas the Image of great Iupiter The rip rap thwick thwack thumping thunderer Was of refined gold adorn'd ador'd Where helples fooles poore helples helpe implor'd The Capitoll a goodly building was And did for strength by Art and Nature Passe â—o that the people that were there within Thought it impregnable that none could win But slender watch vpon the walls they kept And thinking all secure secure they flept They thought Ioues Statue and his Temple there Was a sure guard that foes they need not feare But Ioue these dangers did not vnderstand Or else he had some other worke in hand Perhaps poore Io like a Cow in shape He
I finde an Hostesse with a Tongue As nimble as it had on Gimmols hung 'T will neuer tyre though it continuall toyl'd ' And went as yare as if it had bin Oyl'd All 's one for that for ought which I perceiue It is a fault which all our Mothers haue And is so firmely grafted in the Sexe That he 's an Asse that seemes thereat to vexe Apolloâ—s becames began to guild the Hils And West Southwest the winde the Welkin fiâ—s When I left Harwich and along we ' Row'd Against a smooth calme stood that stifly flow'd By Bawdsey Hauen and by Orsord Nasse And so by Aldbrough we at last did passe By Lestoffe we to Yarmouth made our way Our third dayes trauell being Saturday There did I see a Towne well fortifide Well gouern'd with all Natures wants supplide The situation in a wholsome ayre The buildings for the most part sumptuous faire The people courteous and industrious and With labour makes the Sea inrich the Land Besides for ought I know this one thing more The Towne can scarcely yeeld a man a Whore It is renownd for Fishing farre and neere And sure in Britaine it hath not a Peere But noble Nash thy fame shall liue alwaies Thy witty Pamphlet the red * It hath not a fellow in England for fishing A Bocâ—e called The praise of the red Herring Herring praise Hath done great Yarmouth much renowned right And put my artlesse Muse to silent quite On Sunday we a learned Sermon had Taught to confirme the good reforme the bad Acquaintance in the Towne I scarce had any And sought for none in feare to finde too many Much kindnesse to me by mine Host was done A Mariner nam'd William Richardson Besides mine Hostesse gaue to me at last A Cheese with which at Sea we brake our fast The gift was round and had no end indeed But yet we made an end of it with speed My thankes surmounts her bounty all men sees My gratitudes in Print But where 's the Cheese So on the Munday betwixt one and twaine I tooke my leaue and put to Sea againe Down Yarmouth Road we'row'd with cutting speed The winde all quiet Armes must doe the deed Along by Castor and Sea-bordring Townes Whose Cliffes shores abide stern Neptunes frowns Sometimes a mile from land and sometimes two As depthes or sands permitted vs to doe Till drawing toward night we did perceiue The winde at East and Seas began to heaue The rowling Billowes all in fury roares And tumbled vs we scarce could vse our Oares Thus on a Lee-shore darknesse 'gan to come The Sea grew high the winds 'gan hisse and hum The foaming curled waues the shore did beate As if the Ocean would all Norfolke â—ate To keepe at Sea was dangerous I did thinke To goe to Land I stood in doubt to sinke Thus landing or not landing I suppos'd We were in perill * And a ship Carpenter VVE were in a puzzell round about inclos'd At last to rowe to shore I thought it bâ—st Mongst many euils thinking that the least My men all pleas'd to doe as I command Did turne the Boats head opposite to land And with the highest waue that I could spie I bade them rowe to shore immediately When straight we all leap'd ouer-boord in haste Some to the knees and some vp to the waste Where sodainely 'twixt Owle-light and the darke We pluck'd the Boat beyond high-water marke And thus halfe sowsd halfe stewd with Sea swâ—â—â— We land at Cromer Towne halfe dry halfe wet But we supposing all was safe and well â—â—â— shunning * We were like Flounders aliue in a frying-pan that leap'd into the fire to saue themselues Sylla on Caribdis fell For why some Women and some Children there That saw vs land were all possest with feare And much amaz'd ran crying vp and downe That Enemies were come to take the Towne Some said that we were Pirats some said Theeues And what the women sayes the men beleeues With that foure Constables did quickly call Your ayde â— to Armes you men of Cromer all Then straitway forty men with rusty Bils Some arm'd in Ale all of approued skils Deuided into foure stout Regiments To guard the Towne from dangerous Euents Braue Captaine * These were the names the cumbersome Cromorian Constables Pescod did the Vantguard lead And Captaine Clarke the Rereward gouerned Whilst Captaine Wiseman and hot Captaine Kâ—mble Were in the mayne Battalia fierce and nimble One with his squadron watch'd me all the night Left from my lodging I should take my slight A second like a man of simple note Did by the Sea side all night watch my Boate The other two to make their names Renownd Did Guard the Town brauely walk the Rownd And thus my Boat my selfe and all my men Were stoutly Guarded and Regarded then For they were all so full with feare possest That without mirth it cannot be exprest My Inuention doth Curuet my Muse doth Caper My pen doth daunce out lines vpon the Paper And in a word I am as full of mirth As mighty men are at their first sonnes birth Methinkes Moriscoes are within my braines And Heyes and Antiques run through all my veines Heigh to the tune of Trenchmoore I could write The valiant men of Cromers sad affright As Sheepe doe feare the Wolfe or â—eese the Fox So all amazed were these sencelesse Blockes That had the Towne beene fir'd it is a doubt But that the women there had pist it out And from the men Reek'd such a fearefull sent That people three * People did come theâ—ther 3. or 4. miles about to know what the matter was miles thence mus'd what it ment And he the truth that narrowly had sifted Had found the Constables had need t' haue shifted They did examine me I answer'd than I was Iohn Taylor and a Waterman And that my honest fellow Iob and I Were seruants to King Iames his Maiesty How we to Yorke vpon a Mart were bound And that we landed fearing to be drownd When all this would not satisfie the Crew I freely op'd my Trunke and bade them view I shew'd them Bookes of Chronicles and Kings Some Prose some Verse and idle Sonettings I shew'd them all my Letters to the full Some to Yorkes Archbishop and some to Hull But had the twelue Apostles sure beene there My witnesses I had beene ne'r the * I had as good hâ—ue said nothing neere And let the vse all Oathes that I could vse They still were harder of beliefe then Iewes They wanted faith and had resolu'd before Not to beleeue what e'er we said or swore They said the world was full of much deceit And that my Letters might be * Diligent Officers counterfeit Besides there 's one thing bred the more dislike Because mine Host was knowne a Catholike These things concurring people came in Clusters And multitudes within my lodging Musters That I was almost wooried vnto death In
all very dutifully doe pay their tributes to the boundlesse Ocean of the Brewhouse For all the world knowes that if men and women did drinke no more then sufficed Nature â—â— if it were but a little extraordinary now and then vpon occasion or by chance as you may terme it if drinking were vsed in any reason or any reason vsed in drinking I pray ye what would become of the Brewer then Surely we doe liue in an age wherein * Some make a profit of quarelling some pick their â—â—â— out of conteâ—â—â— and â—cbate some thriue and grow â—â—â— gluttoâ—y many are brauely maintained by Bribery that cheating roguery villany but put al these together and â—â—yne to them all sorts of people else and they all in genâ—â—â— are drinkers and consequently the Brewers Câ—â—â—â—â—â—â— Customers the sueâ—â— deadly sins are euery mans Trade and liuing Pride is the maintainer of thousands which would else perish as Mercers Taylors Embroydrers Silk-meÌ„ Cutters Drawers Semâ—sters Laundresies of which functions there are millions which would starue but for Mâ—dam Pride with her changeable fashions Lâ—chery what a coÌ„tinual crop of profit it yeelâ—â— appeares by the gallant thriuing and gawdy outsides of many he and she priuate and paâ—â—â—like sinnerâ— both in Citiâ— and Suburbs Coâ—erousnesse is Embroydered with Extortioâ— and warmly lined and furred with oppression And though it be a diuell yet is it most Idolatrously adored honoured worshipped by those simple Sheepeheaded fooles whom It hath vndone and beggered I could speake of other vices how profitable they are to a Common-wealth but my inuention is thirsty and must haue one carouse more at the Brewhouse who as I take it hath a greater share then any in the gaines which spring from the worlds abuses for Pride is maintained by the humble yet one kinde of Pride doth liue and profit by another Letchery is supported by the cursed swarme of Bawdes Panders Pimps Apple-squires Whores and Knaues and so euery sinne liues and thriues by the members Agents Ministers and Clyents which doe belong vnto them but Drunkennesse playes at all all trades all qualities all functions and callings can bee drunke or tempore note at any great Feast or but at eurey ordinary dinner or supper almost when men are well satisfied with sufficiency that then the mystery of quaffing begins with healths to many an vnworthy person who perhaps would not giue the price of the Reckoning to saue all them from hanging which make themselues sicke with drinking such vnthankfull healths I my selfe haue ofâ—entimes dined or supped at a great mans Boord and when I haue risen the seruants of the house haue enforc'd me into the Seller or Battery where in the way of kindnesse they will make a mans belly like a Sowse-rub and inforce mee to drinke as if they had a commission vnder the diuels great seale to murder men with drinking with such a deale of complementall oratory As off with your Lap Wind vp your bottome Vp with your taplash â—nd many more eloquent phrases which Tulâ—â— or Demosthenâ—s neuer heard of that in conclusion I am perswaded three dayes fasting would haue bin more healthfull to mee then two houres feeding and swilling in that manâ—er If any man hang drowne stabbe or by aâ—y violent meanes make away his life the goods lands of any such person are forfeit to the vse of the King and I see no reason but those which kill themselues with drinking should be in the same estate and be buried in the high wayes with a stake droue thorow them And if I had but a grant of this suite I would not doubt but that in seuen yeeres if my charity would but agree with my wealth I might erect Almes-houses Free-schooles mend highwayes and make Bridges for I dare sweare that a number almost numberlesse haue confessed vpon their death-beds that at such and such a time in such and such a place they dranke so much which made them surfeite of which surfeite they languished and dyed * Let these Liues be considered if I lye or not The maine benefit of these superfluous and man-slaughtering expences comes to the Brewer so that if a Brewer be in any office I hold him to be a very ingratefull man if he punish a Drunkard for euery stiffe pot-valiant drunkard is a Post beame or Piller which holds vp the Brew-house for as the barke is to the tree so is a good drinker to a Brewer But you men of Salisbury wisely perceiuing how much Euil to your City hath come by the abuse of Good drinke you would now worke by contraries to draw Good for your poore out of these forepassed and present Euils To draw euill out of good is diuelish but to work or extract goodnesse out of what is euill is godly and worthy to be pursued The abuse of good drinke and excessiue drinking hath made many beggers amongst you to the inriching of a few Brewers and now you would turne the world off from the Barrels as I would off from the Coach-wheeles that the benefit of your new built Towne Brew-house might relieue many of those poore amongst you who haue formerly bin impouerished by the inriching of your Towne-Brewers It is no doubt but they will oppose this good worke of yours as the image-makers in Ephesus did Paul when hee preached against their idolatrous worshipping Diana but be not you discouraged for Nehemiah in time did build the Temple although Sanballat * Tobiah Arabians Ammonites many others did oppose him for as your intents are Pious so no doubt but God will make your euents prosperous Now to turne from Beere and Ale to faire water your Riuer I mean which if it be clensed then with the profit of your TowneBrewhouse and the commodity of the Riuer I thinke there will be scarce a begger or a loiterer to be found amongst you I haue written enough before concerning the benefit of it and to encourage such as seeme flow towards so good a worke which had it beene in the Low-Countries the Industrious Dutch would not so long haue neglected so beneficiall a blessing witnesse their abundance of Nauigable Riuers and ditches which with the only labour of men they haue cut and in most places where neuer God or Nature made any Riuer and lately there is a Riuer made nauigable to St. Teades in Huntington-shire wherein stood seuen Mills as impediments in the way And now the City of Canterbury are clearing their Riuer that Boats may passe to and fro betwixt them and Sandwitch Hauen the like is also in hand at Leedes in Yorkeshire Now if neither former or present examples can moue you if your owne wants cannot inforce you if assured profit cannot perswade you but that you will still be neglectiue and stupid then am I sorry that I haue written so much to so little purpose but my hopes are otherwayes if all blinde lame and couetous excuses be laid aside then those who are willing will be
but himselfe can speake beside If those that with their damnable intent Intended to blowe vp the Parlament Had had but him and halfe a dozen such In gun-powder 't would sure haue sau'd theÌ„ much For why their toÌ„gs with blown coÌ„bustious words Had done more scath then gunpowder or swords But let him hang vntill his clam'rous tongue Vntwist with smoother garbe this sawcie wrong Yet I imagine some strange secret worke Did in his hanging in the Basket lurke What greater fame could to his glorie rise Then with a rope to trauell t'ward the skies And there to doe his carkasse greatest grace Among the gods to giue him Momus place For Saturne Iupiter and Phaetons Dad Are all enamor'd on this louely lad Mars Venus and the tel-tale Mercurie Doe all desire Tom Coriats company And Luna sure thee 's quite besides her wits Still wauering changing with fantasticke fits T is thought shee neuer will come to her selfe Till shee possesse this worthy worthlesse else For he 's the man that Nature makes her casket To mount the skies in triumph in a basket But out alas my Muse where hast thou bin I should haue kept my selfe at Bosomes Inne And see how I haue scal'd the spungie clowds But t is his worth my meditations crowds To this extrauagant impertinence As being rauisht with his eminence But blame me not for hee 's the gigge of time WhoÌ„ sharpest wits haue whipâ— with sportfull rime And some would wear their sharp-edg'd Muses bluÌ„t If in his praise they longer time should hunt But here 's my comfort I am not alone That vnder this most pondrous burden groane There 's some like me haue in his laud bin bizzie But I haue made my pericranion dizzie To sing the worth of this all wordy squire Whom sea and land and fish and flesh admire And now his contemplation prompts his tong To tune his voyce to a more milder song His tongue that brake the peace must peace procure That like Achilles launce can wound and cure And once more Reader humbly I entreat That I in spowting Prose may now repeat His Oratories smooth-fac'd Epilogue O for some Academicke Pedagogue T' instruct my braine and helpe my art-lesse quill To mount his fame past Gads or Shooters hill 2. Oration THrice valorous followers of a foure times thrice treble more valiant Leader if I had the tongue of Hermes the Prolocutor to the gods or as many singers as hundreâ—-handed Bâ—iareus if surging Neptune were conuerted into inke or the rugged ragged face of our ancient mother Tellus were â—aper yet could not the verbali volubility or elocution of my voyce nor the agility dexterity or facility of my hands nor the spacious vnmeasurable numberlesse white innocent paper no none of all these could either speake write or by any other meanes declare or make a true explanation of the reuerence I beare to your Lordship and the deep heart-gnawing contrition that lyes congealed or conglutinated to my heart Then since out of the imbecillity of my rashnesse and the debility of my capacity I was so farre transported beyond the bounds of patience in all humility with a minde deiected with hands erected with knees genuflected with a heart affected and with a whole microcosme subiected I beg your Lordships gracelesse fauours that although my crime is vnmeasurable yet I hope your Lordship will not forget to become miserable No sooner was this last Oration vtterd bâ—â— that my Lord and all his counsaile mutterd to vnhang Thomas that had talked so wisely Epilogue to M r Coriat Thus to the Ocean of thy boundlesse fame I consecrate these rude vnpolish'd lines To thee whose Muse can men and monsters tame Whose wit the vault of wisdome vndermines Whose poudered phrases with combustions flame Like Glo-wormes in the darkest darke doe shine To them in all Sir reuerence I submit Thou mir'd admired Capcase cramd with wit FINIS MASTER THOMAS CORIAT TO HIS FRIENDS IN ENGLAND SENDS GREETING From Agra the Capitall City of the Dominion of the Great MOGOLL in the Easterne India Printed according to the true Copie of the Letter written with his owne hand in the Persian paper and sent home in the good Ship called the Globe belonging to the Company of East India Merchants With an addition of 200. Verses written by I. T. that like a Gentleman Vsher goes bare before his pragmaticall Prose in commendation of his Trauels SOme may perhaps suppose this Prose is mine But all that know thee will be sworne 't is thine For as 't was said b' a learned Cambridge Scholler Who knows the stile may smel it by the Collet The Prose I sweare is Coriats he did make it And who dares claime it from him let him take it Certaine Verses in commendations of this mirrour of footmanship this Catholique or vniuersall Traueller this European Asian African Pilgrime this well letterd well litterd discouerer and Cosmographicall describer Master Thomas Coriat of Odcombe O Thou whose sharpe toes cut the Globe in quarters Mongst Iews Greeks tyrannizing Tartars Whose glory through the vasty Welkin rumbles And whose great Acts more then mine Muses mumbles Whose rattling Fame Apollo's daughters thunders Midst Africk monsters and mongst Asian wonders Accept these footed Verses I implore thee That here Great Footman goe on foot before thee To â—â—â—g thy praise I would my Muse inforce â—â—â— that alas she is both harsh and hoarse And therefore pardon this my Loues Epistle For though she cannot sing I 'l make her whistle IN PRAISE OF THE AVTHOR MASTER THOMAS CORIAT THou that the world with pleasures ful hast pleasur'd And out of measure many kingdomes measur'd Whilst men like swine doe in their vices wallow And not one dares for 's eares thy steps to follow Not one within the Compasse of the Cope Like thee that dares suruay the Horoscope For who is he that dares call it a lye That thou hast trotted into Italie By th' edge of France and skirts of Spaine th' ast rambled Through Belgia through Germany th' ast ambled And Denmarke Sweden Norway Austria Pruce Poland Hungary Musconia With Thracia and the land of merry Greekes All these and more applaud thee that who seekes Vpon the top of Mount Olympus front Perhaps may see thy name insculp'd vpon 't And he that durst detract thy worth in Europe I wish he may be hang'd vp in a new rope It were a world of businesse to repeat Thy walkes through both the Asiaes lesse great Whereas no doubt but thou hast tane suruay Of China and the kingdome of Caâ—â—y Th' East Indies Persia Parthia Media Armenia and the great Ass-yria Caldea Iurie if we not mistake vs Thou hast o'r-look'd the Sea call'd Mortuus Lacus And I durst venter somewhat for a wager Thou hast seene Ionia Lidia Misia Maior Old Iliums Ruins and the wracks of Priam But of Inuention I alas so dry am I beat my braines and with outragious thumping My lines fall from my pen with
reasonable time first to learne the languages of those Countries through which I am to passe betwixt the bounds of the Territories of this Prince and Christendome namely these three the Persian Turkish and Arab which I haue in some competent measure attained vnto by my labour and industry at the said Kings Court matters as auaileable vnto me as mony in my purse as being the chiefest or rather onely meane to get me mony if I should happen to be destitute a matter very incidentall to a poore Footman Pilgrim as my selfe in these heathen and Mahometan Countries through which I trauell Secondly that by the helpe of one of those languages I meane the Persian I might both procure vnto my selfe accesse vnto the King and bee able to expresse my mind vnto him about the matter for the which I should haue occasion to discourse with him These were the reasons that moued me so long to tarry at the Mogols Court during which time I abode in the house of the English Merchants my deare Countrimen not spending one little peece of mony either for diet washing lodging or any other thing And as for the Persian tongue which I studied very earnestly I attained to that reasonable skill and that in a fewe moneths that I made an Oration vnto the King before many of his Nobles in that language and after I had ended the same discoursed with his Maiesty also in that tongue very readily and familiarly the Copy of which speech though the tongue it selfe will seeme to an Englishman very strange and vncouth as hauing no kind of affinity with any of our Christian languages I haue for nouelty sake written out in this letter together with the translation thereof in English that you may shew it to some of my learned friends of the Clergy and also of the Temporalty in Euil and elswhere who belike will take some pleasure in reading so rare and vnusuall a tongue as this is The Persian is this that followeth The Copie of an Oration that I made in the Persian tongue to the Great Mogoll before diuers of his Nobles HAzaret Aallum pennah salamet fooker Daruces ve tehaungeshta hast am kernia emadam az wellagets door ganne az mulk Inglizan ke kessanaion petheeÌ„ mushacas cardand ke wellagets mazcoor der akers magrub bood ke mader hamma iezzaerts dunmast Sabebbe amadane mari mia boosti char cheez ast au val be dedane mobarreckdeedars Hazaret ke seete caramat ba hamma Trankestan reeseedast ooba tamam mulk Musulmanan der sheenedan awsaffe Hazaret daueeda amadam be deedane ast awne akdas mushar af geshtans duum bray deedane feelbay Hazaret kin chunm ianooar der heech mulk ne dedam seu in bray deedane nauswer dary ace shuâ—ma Ganga ke Serdare hamma daryaba dumiest Chaharum cen ast keyec ferm awne alishaion amayet fermoy and ke betwanam der wellayetts Vzbeck raftan ba shahre Samarcand bray Zeerat cardan cabbre mobarrec Saheb crawncab awsaffe tang oe mosachere oo der tamans aallum meshoor ast belkder wellagette Vzbec cencader meshoor neest chunan cheder mulc Iuglisan ast digr bishare eshteeac darambe deedane mobarrec mesare Saheb crawnca bray â—â—n saheb che awne samanche focheer de shabr stâ—lâ—l boodam ycaiaeb cohua amarat deedam dermâ—n yecush bawg nasdec sbaht mascoor coia che paâ—â—aâ— Eezawiawn che namesh Manuel bood che Saâ—â—â—â— crawnea cush mehmannec aseem cards bood beâ—dâ—â—â—â—â— gristane Sulten Baiasetra as iange aseem che sâ—â—â— bood nas dec shahre Bursa coimache Saheb craâ—â— Sultan Baiasetra de Zenicera tell aio bestand codâ— cafes nahadond cen char chees meera as mulche mâ—ium baneed tamia as mulc Room oo Arrac peeâ—â— geshta as door der cen mulc reseedam che châ—r bâ—sar pharsang raw dared beshare derd co moâ—â—â— casheedam che heech ches der een dunnia cencâ—â—â—n mohuet ne casheedast bray deedune mobarrec dedâ—â—s Hasereret own roos che be tacte shaugh ne shaughâ—â— musharaf fermoodand The English of it is this LOrd * This is the ordinary title that is giuen him by all strangers Protector of the world all haile to you I am a poore Traueller and worldseer which am come hither from a farre country namely England which ancient Historians thought to haue beene situated in the fartheâ— bounds of the West and which is the Queene of all the Ilands in the world The cause of my comming hither is for foure respects First to see the blessed face of your Maiesty whose wonderfull fame hath resounded ouer all Europe the Mahometan Countries When I heard of the fame of your Maiesty I hastened hither with speed and trauelled very cheerefully to see your glorious Court Secondly to see your Maiesties Elephants which kind of beasts I haue not seene in any other countrey Thirdly to see your famous Riuer Ganges which is the Captaine of all the Riuers of the world The fourth is this to intreat your Maiesty that you would vouchsafe to grant me your gracious Passe that I may travell into the Country of Tartaria to the City of Samarcand to visit the blessed Sepulcher of the Lord of the Corners this is a title that is giuen to Tamberlaine in this Country in that Persian language and whereas they call him the Lord of the Corners by that they mean that he was Lord of the corners of the world that is the highest and supreme Monarch of the Vniuerse whose fame by reason of his wars and victories is published ouer the whole world perhaps he is not altogether so famous â—n his own Country of Tartaria as in England Moreouer I haue a great desire to see the blessed Toombe of the Lord of the Corners for this cause for that when I was at Constantinople I saw a notable old building in a pleasant garden neere the said City where the Christian Emperor that was called Emanuel made a â—umptuous great Banquet to the Lord of the Corners after he had taken Sultan Baiazet in letters of Gold and put him in a cage of Iron These foure causes moued me to come out of by natiue Counrrey thus farre hauing trauelled a foot through Turkie and Persia so far haue I traced the world into this Countrey that my pilgrimage hath accomplished three thousand miles wherin I haue sustained much â—bour and toyle the like whereof no mortall â—â—an in this World did euer performe to see â—â—e blessed face of your Maiesty since the first day that you were inaugurated in your glorious Monarchall throne After I had ended my speech I had some â—â—ort discourse with him in the PersiaÌ„ tongue â—ho amongst other things told me that concerning my trauell to the City of Samarcand â—â— was not able to doe me any good because â—here was no great amity betwixt the Tartaâ—â—an Princes and himselfe so that his commendatory letters would doe mee no good â— Also he added that the Tartars did so deadly hate all Christians that they would certainely kill them when they came
multitude 'T is onely want of worke than makes them rude 'T is want of money and of manners too That makes them doe as too too oft they doo And euery good thing that in them is scant It still must be imputed to their want But leauing true men I must turne my stile To paltry Thieues whose glory is their guile For thrice three hundred of them from me tooke Some of them ready money some a Booke And set their hands to Bils to pay to me When I from Scotland should returned be Crownes pounds or Angels what they pleas'd to write I haue their filts to shew in blacke and white And after that I to Bohemia went And gaue out money and much money spent And for these things those Thieues in generall Will neither giue me gaine or Principall I lately wrote a * It is cald a Kicksie winesie or a Lerry cum twang Pamphlet to the Crue That spake their due for keeping of my due Wherein I gaue them thankes that had me paid And pardon'd those that in their graues were laid To those that were exceeding poore or fled Except good words I very little sed I praid for them that onely would and could not And I inueigh'd at those that could and would not And let those shifters their owne Iudges be If they haue not bin arrant Thieues to me For first and last they tooke with their good wils Neere fifteene hundred Bookes vpon their bils And all their hands if I the truth may vtter Are worse then obligations seald with butter For I haue in my store not worth a Louse As many Bils as well may thatch a House And there I haue the hands of Knights and Squires And Omnium gatherum cheating knaues and lyers Seuen hundred in a Galley mawfrey Close Which I would sell for fifteene pence the Groce They 'l neither pay with coÌ„ming nor with sending And are like old Boots past all hope of mending First they did rob me of my expectation And made me walke a long perambulation And as my * To whom I in all humility must euer acknowledge my obedience and dutifull thankfulnesse and seruice Royall Master when I came The good Prince and my Lord of Buckingham With many more of honour worship and Men of inferiour callings in this Land Were bountifull to me at my returne Yet I like one that doth one Candle burne In seeking of another spent their gifts To finde out sharkes and complements and shifts Theft is the best name I can giue their crime They rob me of my Bookes my coine and time Of others bounty and mine owne good hopes And for this These I leaue them to the Ropes I speake to those that can and will not pay When in the streets I meete them euery day They doe not much mistake if they doe thinke I wish them a I haue 700. Bils of their hands which in all comes to â—â—â—â— 300. â— hang'd for keeping of my chinke Thus haue I touch'd a crue of Thieuing fellowes That rob beyond the compasse of the Gallowes Whilest many little Thieues are hang'd vp dead That onely steale for need to finde them bread As Pharaâ—h's fat Kine did the leane deuoure So great Thieues swallow small ones by their pow'r And sure I thinke that common Burglaries Pick-pockets Highway Thieues and Pilferies And all that thus felloniously doe Thieue Are Thieues whose labours b The trade of Thieuing is very profitable to any men many doe relieue Who but poore Thieues doe Iaylors wants supply On whom doe Vnder-Keepers still rely From Thieuing money still is gotten thus For many a Warrant and a Mittimus And if men were not apt to filch and Thieue 'T were worse for many a high and vnder Shrieue The Halter-maker and the Smith are getters For fatall twist and pondrous bolts and setters The Carman hath a share amongst the rest Although not voluntary yet hee 's prest The Ballad-maker doth some profit reape And makes a Taburne Dirge exceeding cheape The whil'st the Printers and the dolefull Singers Doe in these gainfull businesse dip their fingers The very Hangman hath the sleight and skill To extract all his goods from others ill He is the Epilogue vnto the Law And from the iawes of death his life doth draw And last the Hangmans Broaker reapes the fruit By selling to one Thiefe anothers suit Besides Thieues are fit members for 't is knowne They make men caréfull how to keepe their owne For were it not for them we still should lye Rock'd in the Cradle of security Lull'd in base idlenesse and sluggish sloth Apt to all ill and to all goodnesse loth Which would infect vs and corrupt the blood And therefore for our healths sake Theeues are good And some men are so prone to steale I thinke It is as nat'rall as their meate and drinke They are borne to 't and cannot doe withall And must be filching still what e'r befall A wispe of rushes or a clod of land Or any wadde of hay that 's next to hand They 'l steale and for it haue a good excuse They doe 't to keepe their hands in vre or vse But not t' excuse a Thiefe in any case I say there are some crimes as void of grace On whom men scarce haue feeling or a thought Nor e'r like Thieues are to the Gallowes brought Those that obey false gods commit offence Against th' Eternall Gods Omnipotence Those that doe grauen Images adore Are worse then Thieues yet are not hang'd therefore T is treason high to take Gods name in vaine Yet most men do 't through frailty or for gaine The Sabbath is prophan'd continually Whilest the offenders pay small * Or none at all penalty And Parents are dishonour'd without awe The whilest the children doe escape the law And murther though 't be ne'r so soule and deadly Is oft times made man-slaughter or chance-medley Adultery's neighbourhood and fornication May be conniu'd at with a toleration A Witnesse that false testimony beares 'T is a great wonder if he lose his eares But sure the Prouerbe is as true as briefe A Lyer's euer worser then a Thiefe And 't is call'd Thrist when men their minds doe set To couer how their Neighbours goods to get To be vaine-glorious and ambitious proud Are Gentleman-like parts must be allow'd To beare an Enuy base and secretly 'T is counted Wisedome and great Policy To be a Drunkard and the Cat to whip Is call'd the King of all good Fellowship But for a Thiefe the whole world doth consent That hanging is the fittest punishment But if that Law were put in execution I thinke it would be Man-kindes dissolution And then we should haue Land and Tenements For nothing or for very easie Rents Whereby we see that man his wealth esteemes And better then his God his soule it deemes For let God be abusde and let his soule Runne greedily into offences soule He scarcely shall be question'd sor't but if Amongst
it is no doubt That ther 's but one way in and many out But to a Ioyle there 's many waies to win Ten thousand tricks and sleight to clap men in And ther 's but one way out as I doe know Which is by satisfying what we owe. Owest thou the Law thy life dispatch and pay And from the Prison thou art freed away Dost thou owe mony quickly pay thy seere And farewell goe thy wayes man there 's the doeâ— As men in all that 's ill are Satans Apes So sundry sinnes bring death in sundry shapes Life from the God of life which is but one To all degrees one way giues life alone And so our seuerall frailties seuerall waies Our wretched Carkasses in prison layes But there 's but one way out that e'r I saw Which is by satisfying of the law The faults we doe in spring-time of our youth In Summer of our man-hood gather growth Then Haruests middle age doth make them ripe Which winters old age doth in prison gripe And thus the very seasons of the yeare Fit emblemes of our thraldome doe appeare In London and within a mile I weene There are of Iayles or Prisons full eighteene And sixty Whipping-posts and Stocks and Cage Where sin with shame and sorrow hath due wagâ—â— For though the a The Tower Tower be a Castle Royall Yet ther 's a Prison in 't for men disloyall Though for defence a Campe may there be fitted Yet for offence men thither are committed It is a house of fame and there is in 't A Palace for a Prince a Royall Mint b Besides Poleaxes Patutants Halâ—â—â— Iauelins Bartleaxes Crosbowes liâ—â—â— Pikes Pistolâ—â—â—â—â—â—â— tronels Great Ordnance Powder Shot Match Bils Boâ—â—â—â— Shafts swords pikes laÌ„ces shouels mattocks cry Bright armor muskets ready still I say To arme one hundred thousand in a day And last it is a prison vnto those That doe their Soueraigne or his lawes oppose c The Gatehouse The Gatehouse for a prison was ordain'd When in this land the third king Edward reign'd Good lodging roâ—mes and diet it affoords But I had rather lye at home on boords Since Ricbandii reigne the first d The Fleet. the Fleet hath â—â—â—â— A Prison as vpon records is seene For lodgings and for bowling there 's large space But yet I haue no stomacke to the place e Nevâ—â—â— Ludgate Old Neugais I perceiue a theeuish den But yet ther 's lodging for good honest men When second Henry here the Scepter swaid Then the foundation of that gate was laid But sixty six yeeres ere our â—auiours birth By Lâ—nd was f Ludgate Ludgate founded from the earth No Iayle for theeues though some perhaps is bâ—â—â—â— That breake in policie may there be had The g Poultrey Counter Counter in the Powltery is so old That it in History is not enrold And h Woodstreet Woodstreet Counters age we may denice Since Anno fifteene hundred fifty fiue â—â—â— me the one 's too old and one's too new â—â—â— as they bake a Gods name let them brew â—â—â— vnto my memory comes next There idlenesse and lechery is vext â—â—â— is a royall house of state and port Which the eighth King Henry built and there kept Court â—â— Edward somewhat ere his timelesse fall â—â— it away to be an Hospitall Which vse the City puts it well vnto â—â—â— many pious deeds they there doe doo â—â— yet for Vagabonds and Runnagates â—â— Where 's and idle knaues and such like mates â—â—â— little better then a Iayle to those There they chop chalke for meat and drinke and blowes â—â— this house those that 'gainst their wils doe dwell â—â—â— Well a Bride perhaps but not Bridewell a Bridewell â— Iayles or Prisons are in Southwarke plac'd â—â—â— Countor once S. Margrets Church defac'd â—â— M 〈…〉 the Kings Bench and White Lyon b White Lyon King Bench Marshalsea â—â—â—â— Clinke There some like Tantalus or like lxion â—â— inching paine of hunger daily feele â—â— vp and downe with sickle fortunes wheele â—â— some doe willingly make there abode Because they cannot liue so well abroad â—â— ther 's the Clinke where handsome lodgings be â—â— good may it doe them all for me â—â— but the Thames vnto S. Katherins then â—â—â—is another c The hole as S. Katherines hole or den for men â—â—tere in d East â—â—â— prison East-Smithfield little better â—â— to hold a theefe or paltry debter Then neere three Cranes a Iayle for Hereticks â—â—s Familists and Schismaticks â—â—â—worths Iayle within White Chappell stands And â—â—â—y God blesse me from their hands â—â— eighteene Iayles so neere the Citty bounded â—â—â— founded and maintain'd by men confounded â—â— one means meat may be anothers bane â—â— Keepers full springs from the Prisners wane â— hath beene still the vse and euer will â—â— one mans welfare comes from others ill â—â— as I said mans selfe is cause of all â—â—â— miseries that to him can be fall â— but our corps how euery member lyes Their seuerall offices and faculties â— our own iudgement will informe vs than â—â—â— himselfe twixt a prison and a man â— as man hath his limbs and linaments â—â—â—wes muscles nerues and ligaments â— Panicles his Arteries his Veines â—â—â— his membrancs and his beating braines e New prison f The Lord Wentworths â—â—â—â—â— So hath a Iayle h Were it not for these a Iaile would haue neither life nor soule Writs Warrants Attachments Arestings Actions Hues Cries Appeáchments With Garnish Sharing fees and Habeas Corpus Which feede some Iaylors fatter than a Porpus And last for euerlasting Executions Vntill the prisoners bodies dissolutions And if a man be hurt in legge or arme Or head or heele 't is said the man hath harme If inward griefe doe pinch in any part The anguish is a terror to the heart And should a Iayle want these things nam'd before It quickly would be miserable poore Like men dismembred or of sense berest With scarcely any life or being left For in mans corps like prisners alwayes lies His vertues and his foule iniquities And which of these his fancie liketh best Shall still be kept in bondage or releast As Wisdome Bounty and Humilitie Despised in these dayes of vanitie Some keepe so close not suffering them to walke So much as in bare thoughts or deeds or talke Whilst Folly and close-fifted Niggardize With Barbarisme haue ease and liberties Faith Hope and Charitie are pent vp close And doubt despaire and cruelty let loose Lust reuels it rich clad in Robes of Pride Friendship and Loue are liberty denide Whereby the liberall Arts in number seuen Are of their liberall liberties bereauen The whilst the seuen delightfull deadly sinnes The game and glory of the whole world wins The Cardnall vertues as vnworthy prices Are made but vassals to all Carnall vices The Muses are mew'd vp with woes and wants Whilst fortune followes knaues and Ignorants And thus within mans little Common-weale
â—â—â— charge of physicke or of being sicke Besides the word Hang is so much in vse That few or none will take 't as an abuse â—â—â— doth a great mans kindnesse much approue When he shall bid a man Behang'd in loue And with some men 't is common courtesie To say Farewell be hang'd that 's twice God bwy The pictures the dearest friends we haue Although their corps are rotten in the graue We hang them for a reuerend memory To vs and vnto our posterity â—â— hang their wiues in picture which haue cause To hang their persons wer 't not for the lawes â—â—â— hang their heires in pictures who would faine With their good fathers hang'd their lands to gaine â—â—â— oft haue seene good garments for mens wearing Haue very thrifily beene hang'd to ayring And I have seen those garments like good fellows Hang kindly with their master at the Gallowse â—â—â— then in to the Hangmans Wardrobe drop Haue beene againe hang'd in a Broakers shop Which after by a Cut purse bought might be And make another iourney to the Tree Twixt which and twixt the Broaker it might goe Or ride some twelue or thirteene times or moe Thus th'hangmans haruest and the Brokers grow They reape the crop which sin and shame doth sow There are rich Hangings made of Tapestrie Of Arras and of braue embrodery Those are for Princes and for men of worth T' adorne their roomes and set their greatnes forth But as dead bones in painted Tombes doe bide These b If all traitors hypocrites flatterers extortioners oppressours bribetakers cheaters panders bawds c. were hang'd vp in the woods on seuerall trees there is no Arras or Tapestry can grace and adorne a Princes Court as those Hangings could become a Common-wealth Hangings filthy rotten wals doe hide A Harts-horne to a post fast nailed on Serues well for men to hang their hats vpon But if they knew their heads would serue the turne They would not shift their hats from horne to horn Mens swords in Hangers Hang fast by their side Their Stirrops Hang when as they vse to ride Our Conies and our Deere are Hang'd in toiles Our meat hangs o'r the fire when as it boiles Our light Hangs in the Lanthorne all men fees Our fruit wee eat was hang'd vpon the trees Signes hang on posts shew whereas tradsmen dwels In steeples all men know are Hang'd the Bels The scales or ballance hangs where things are weigh'd Goods Hang'd in Craines that 's in or out conuei'd Yards failes sheets tacks lists caskets bolins braces Are fitly hang'd in their conuenient places The compasse that directs where windes doe blow Is Hang'd vpon the Needles point we know In stately buildings Timbet Lead and Stone Are Hang'd and hoist or Buildings would be none c Here is an army of Hangings Our Maps where in the world described be Are all Hang'd vp against the wals we see Our Cazements Hang as they doe ope and shut Our Curtaines Hang which bout our beds we put Our Hogs are Hang'd else Bacon we might looke Doores Hang on hinges or I am mistooke And many a trusty Padlocke Hangs no doubt To let in honest men and keepe knaues out Sea-Cabins Hang where poore men sleepe and rest Our Clokes Hang on our backs 't is manifest The Viall Citterne the Bandore and Lute Are cas'd or vncas'd all Hang'd vp and mute Our Linnen being wash'd must Hang to dry Or else Lice will Hang on and multiply Thus Hanging 's beneficiall to all States Whilst Gods dread curse Hangs o'r the reprobates And as for those that take my lines amis And will be pleas'd to be displeas'd with this For groats a piece nay lesse for three pence either I 'll giue them all leaue to be Hang'd together Since Hanging then is prou'd so naturall So beneficiall so generall So apt so necessary and so fit Our reason tels vs we should honour it It is a good mans life and 't is their death That rob and rifle men of goods and breath This kind of Hanging all offences ends From which God euer blesse me and my friends I from the Hangman this conclusion draw He is the fatall period of the Law If thieues or traytors into mischiefe runne If he haue done with them then they hane done 'T is often seene that many haplesse men Haue beene condemn'd and iudg'd reprieu'd agen And pardon'd haue committed new transgressions And in againe oft many a Size and Sessions When many warnings mend them not therefore The Hangman warnes them they offend no more Hee 's the Catastrophe and Epilogue Of many of the desperate Catalogue And he is one that cannot wanted be But still God keepe him farre enough from me THE DESCRIPTION OF TYBVRNE I Haue heard sundry men oft times dispute Of trees that in one yeere will twice beare fruit But if a man note Tyburne will appeare That that 's a tree that beares twelue times a yeere I muse it should so fruitfull be for why I vnderstand the root of it is dry It beares no leafe no blossome or no bud The raine that makes it fructifie is bloud I further note the fruit which it produces Doth seldome serue for profitable vses Except the skilfull Surgions industry Doe make Defection or Anatomy It blossomes buds and beares all three together And in one houre doth liue and die and wither Like Sodom Apples they are in conceit For touch'd they turne to dust and ashes streight Besides I find this tree hath neuer bin Like other fruit trees wall'd or hedged in But in the high-way standing many a yeere It neuer yet was rob'd as I could heart The reason is apparent to our eyes That what it beares are dead commodities And yet sometimes such grace to it is giuen The dying fruit is well prepar'd for heauen And many times a man may gather thence Remorse deuotion and true penitence And from that tree I thinke more soules ascend To that Coelestiall ioy which ne'r shall end I say more soules from thence to heau'n doe come Than from all * Except Pauls Churchyard and Saint Gregories where â—â—ny inhabitants are dwelling as Drapers Stationers â—â—â— Trunk and â—ragic all blacke Bottle-makers who now and thâ—â— doe dye there whom I doe verily beleeue haue soules â—â—â— except the Close at Salisbury with all Cathedrall Churchyards and others where any body dwels if it be but a Summer â—â—â— Sexton Church-yards throughout Christendome The reason is the bodies all are dead And all the soules to ioy or woe are fled Perhaps a weeke a day or two or three Before they in the Church-yards buried bee But at this Tree in twinkling of an eye The soule and body part immediatly There death the fatall parting blow doth strike And in Church-yards is seldome seene the like Besides they are assisted with the almes Of peoples charitable prayers and Psalmes Which are the wings that lift the hou'ring spirit By faith through grace true glory to inherit Concerning this
Hall that hee had lawfully sold his Land and had receiued the summe aboue said in full satisfaction and payment and his said friend did vow and protest many times vnto him with such oathes and vehement curses that hee neuer would deceiue his trust but that at any time when hee would command all those forged Bonds and Leafes that hee would surrender them vnto him and that he should neuer bee damnifide by them or him to the value of one halfe-penny Vpon which protestations he said he was enticed to vndoe himselfe out of all his earthly possessions and by a false oath to make hazzard of his inheritance in Heauen In Ireland he staid not long but came ouer againe and was by his friend perswaded to goe into the Low Countries which hee did neuer minding his Wife and two small Children which he had by her hauing likewise a brace of bastards by his Whore as some say but he said that but one of them was of his begetting But he after some stay in Holland saw that he could not fadge there according to his desire and withal suspecting that hee was cheated of his Land and aboue all much perplexed in his Conscience for the false oath that hee had taken pondering his miserable estate and ruing his vnkindnesse to his Wife and vnnaturall dealing to his Children thinking with himselfe what course were best to take to helpe himselfe out of so many miseries which did incompasse him he â—â—â— ouer againe into England to his too dare friend demanding of him his Bonds and â—â—â— of his Land which hee had put him in â—â—â— with all But then his friend did manifest â—â—â— selfe what he was and told him plainly that he had no writings nor any Land of his â—â—â— what he had dearely bought and paid for All which Rowse replyed vnto him was false â—â— his owne Conscience knew Then said the other Haue I not here in my custody your land and Seale to confirme my lawfull possession of your Land and moreouer haue I not a Record of an Oath in open Court which you tooke concerning the truth of all our bargaine And seeing that I haue all these especial points of the Law as an Oath Indenâ—â—â— and a sure possession take what course you will for I am resolued to hold what I â—â—â— These or the like words in effect passed betwixt Rowse and his friend Trusty Roger which entring at his eares pierced his heart like Daggers and being out of money and credit a man much infamous for his bad life indebted beyond all possible meanes of payment a periured wretch to coozen himselfe â—â—â— no place or meanes to feed or lodge and fearefull of being arrested hauing so much â—â—â— his Wife and so little regarded his Children being now brought to the pits â—â—â— of disperation not knowing amongst these â—â—â— which way to turne himselfe hee resolued at last to goe home to Ewell againe to his much wronged Wife for his last â—â—â— in extremity The poore Woman receiued him with ioy and his Children with all gladnesse welcomed home â—â— prodigal Father with whom he reâ—â—â—â—â—â— much discontentment and perplexâ—â—â— of mind the Diuell still tempting him to â—â—â— and despaire putting him in mind of his former better estate comparing pleaâ—â—â—â—â—â— with present miseries and he reuolâ—â—â—â—â—â— he had beene a man in that Towne â—â—â— a Gentlemans companion of good reputation and calling that hee had Friends â—â—â— Money Apparell and Credit with meanes sufficient to haue left for the maintenance of his Family and that now he had nothing left him but pouerty and beggery and that his two Children were like to bee left to goe from doore to doore for their liuing Bâ—eing thus tormented and tost with restlesse imaginations he seeing daily to his further griefe the poore case of his Children and fearing that worse would befall them hereafter he resolued to worke some meanes to take away their languishing liues by a speedy and vntimely death the which practice of his by the Diuels instigation and assistance he effected as followeth To bee sure that no body should stop or preuent his diuellish enterprise hee sent his Wife to London in a friuolous errand for a riding Coat and shee being gone somewhat timely and too soone in the morning both her children being in bed and fast asleepe being two very pretty Girles one of the age of sixe yeeres and the other foure yeeres old none being in the house but themselues their vnfortunate Father and his ghostly Counseller the dores being fast locked hee hauing an excellent Spring of water in the Celler of his house which to a good mind that would haue imploy'd it well would haue beene a blessing for the water is of that Christaline purity and cleernesse that Queene Elizabeth of famous memory would daily send for it for her owne vse in which hee purposed to drowne his poore innocent children sleeping for hee going into the Chamber where they lay tooke the yongest of them named Elizabeth forth of her bed and carried her downe the Stayres into his Celler and there put her in the Spring of Water holding downe her head vnder that pure Element with his hands till at last the poore harmelesse soule and body parted one from another Which first Act of this his inhumane Tragedy being ended hee carried the dead corps vp three payre of stayres and laying it downe on the floore left it and went downe into the Chamber where his other Daughter named Mary was in bed being newly awaked and seeing her father demanded of him where her Sister was To whom hee made answer that hee would bring her where shee was So taking her in his armes he carried her downe towards the Celler and as hee was on the Celler stayres shee asked him what he would doe and whither hee would carry her Feare nothing my Childe quoth hee I will bring thee vp againe presently and being come to the Spring as before he had done with the other so hee performed his last vnfatherly deed vpon her and to be as good as his word carried her vp the stayres and laid her by her sister that done he laid them out and couered them both with a sheete walking vp and downe his house weeping and lamenting his owne misery and his friends treachery that was the maine ground of all his misfortunes and the death of his Children and though there was time and opportunity enough for him to flye and to seeke for safety yet the burthen and guilt of his conscience was so heauy to him and his desperate case was so extreme that he neuer offered to depart but as a man weary of his life would and did stay till such time as hee was apprehended and sent to Prison where he lay till hee was rewarded with a iust deserued death What his other intents were after hee had drowned his Children is vncertaine for he drew his sword and laid it naked on a Table and after hee gat a poore
the Money fiue dayes before the Play to certifie them That I was otherwise employed and would not come in regard of the Wrong done vnto mee in setting vp my Answere without my Consent My Man deliuered the Message bâ—â— lost the Money at Play emboldening himselfe vpon the Wrongs I had receiued which I haue since payed And the same day I receiued a Letter out of Warwickeshire from my Father That he was not well wishing me and my wife to repayre vnto him with all possible speed Now you that are Parents of Children or children to Parents Iudge whether I ought rather to disobay my Father or displease Iohn Taylor Purâ—â—se my Fathers hate or lose a Scullers loue and I hope yoâ— will say I had sufficient cause to keepe mee â—â—â— the Hope But fearing my homely Truth though it be sufficient to plead my Honestly is not answer â—â—â— to your expectation of my Practise in Poesie I will as neere as I can fit my Muse to your liking which is my content And euer rest honester by Land then Taylor by Water WILL. FENNOR Although I cannot Rogue it as he can Yet will I shew my selfe on honest man An Apologie to the Anagram of my Name made by no Scholler but a Sculler IT were a simple Tree thy breath could shake But see meere Malice how thou dost mistake For what thy Title would bestow on me Thy selfe art Author of New Villanie But since thou vrgest me marke how I 'l blase That name which thou with villany wouldst gluse â—â—â— I will ope the Casement and cleare Light Shall chase thy blacke verse to eternall Night When the first William Duke of Normandy â—â—yl'd from the Coasts of France to Britany Amongst his best Rankes came a Chiualiere Whose name in French was called le Fognierâ— Which then our English Tong so well did tender â—â—â— him the Name and Title of Defender On the Sea-coasts he did defend so well That for his Chrest he beares the Scallop shell Since briefer Language giues vs Fennors dame Not can thy impudence impaire the same And for a Token of wrong'd Innocence I doe be resume my first name for Defence My Anagram if thou but rightly scan Then thou wilt find 't is I will feare no man How can I then feare thee that art a Taylor Aâ—â—â— of Fustian and a ragged raylor A dish that is worth the feeding on When thou art best in Lent th' art but Poore Iohn An Anagram vpon the Scullers Name IOHN TAYLOR Anagramma O Hate rayle on O Hate rayle on or this Rayle on O Hate For spight of Rayling I must dedicate An answere to thy Theame though ne't so large Will sink thy Scullers Boat though 't were a Barge To halter vp your Muse my Muse beginnes I 'l trusse the â—â—de for breaking peoples shinnes Then Monster doe thy worst yerke out thy fill Thou canst not touch my goodnesse with thy ill Though Horse breake their Bridles and escape My Lines shall loâ—d an Asse or whippe â—n Ape To his approued Foe Iohn Taylor I Haue looke ouer with my best Prospectiues And view'd the tenor of thy base Inuectiues But if thou knowst how slenderly I weigh them Thou wouldst not make such labor to display them All that my Lyntia in thy vaine discernes Is Roguish Language such as Newgate learnes I thinke thou hast beene tutor'd in the Stewes For thine 's the perfect speech they onely vse Base Roguish Wishes Cursing and Reuiling Tempestuous Raylings and good names defiling Yet maugre Mallice Iohn I pittie thee For all the paâ—â—â— thou hast bestow'd on mee And were my purse but of abilitie I 'd recompence thy labours horriblle But since my meanes vnable is to right thee Marke how my Penne in kindnes shall requite thee A will bestow a sheet or two of Paper Ind fit the burning of a Tallow Taper To tell thee thou art monstrous insolent Although thy Verse is lame and impotent And at the highest thou art but partaker With Libell spreaders or some Ballad-maker But doe not thinke thou deaâ—st with Coriat Whose bosome thou didst bolt a Story at Nor looke not for such batterie at my walls As 'gainst the Knight o' th Sun or Archibals Expect not Captaine Ottooles vnderstanding No no against a Bulwarke thou art banding Of better temper and a nobler spirit Then euer thy base bosome could inherit 'Gainst Cynthia like a Wolfe thou 'lt bark howle Whereby thou shewst thy iudgement dark foule Thou grieu'st my muse with her reflecting rayes Hath quite eclipst a famous Scullers praise Thou wouldst haue Poesie in none to flourish But in thy selfe O thou art too too curtish Banish this selfe-conceit false shadie dreames Hang in thy heart and driue thee to extremes But why doe I presume to counsell thee That hat'st good counsell as thou hatest me Wherefore I leaue thy brazen impudence To answer thy Reuenge with my Defence Defence HOw Rascall-like thou dealst with me at first Thou shewst from what antiquitie th' art nurst How darst thou of thy Satyre-musicke boast That now standst bound vnto the whipping post But I will spare thee thou intemperate Asse Vntill in Bride well thou shalt currant passe Thou sayst I had better with the Deuill deale By which thou dost thy wickednesse reueale But I haue nought to doe with him or thee If thou be his companion God blesse me To crouch or whyne thou giu'st me no occassion But I must laugh at thy absurd perswasion Thou art that Lernean Snake squeeze thine owne gall But 't is too bad to make thee Inke withall Th' ast gone so long to Styx for mingled Inke That all thy verses in mens nosthrils stinke For pens the Scritch-Owles feathers are too tough A Gooses wing for thee is good ynough Thou hast emblaz'd me Basest slaue of men That name I freely send thee backe agen Vntill the world hath better eyes to see Which is the basest lacke my selfe or thee Thou call'st me Rogue so artificiall That I must iudge thee for one naturall The iniurie proceeded from thy tongue And yet thou wouldst make me thy cloake for wrong But do'st thou thinke the matter is no more But hand my selfe thy counsell I abhore And take thou heed of this inchanted spell Iohn Tayler ended like Achitophel What foolish Asse like thee would take in hand To play a Play that couldst not vnderstand What thine owne folly is thou art so blind Onely to basenesse thou art well inclin'd Do'st thinke I had no businesse but to wait On thy detested Popperies conceit Yet I protest hadst thou but sent the Bill For me to answer I 'd haue shew'd my skill Which would haue beene so much to thy disgrace That thou againe durst ne'r haue shew'd thy face Canst thou imagine that I went away For feare of thee or thy contemned Play Know foole when on the Stage I purchas'd worth I scorn'd so send for thee to helpe me forth And put the case that I should challenge thee Thy
be scandaliz'd for it If a Mercer a Grocer a Gold smith or any other of the best Trades be a Traytor a Thiefe or a Debosht Drunkard it were impudent ignorance for the Vices of a few that all the rest of the function should bee reproch'd I will make no odious comparisons but I am perswaded that there are as many honest men of our company as of any other such as doe make a conscience of what they doe such as wil not wrong others though it might be gainfull to themselues Such who are both Religious and Charitable and whose greatest care is to liue in Gods feare that they may die in his fauour And for those that are vnruly ignorant and brutish there is no company hath sharper Lawes or more seuerely executed as the Counters can testifie once a weeke Little ease can witnesse often The whip and the Whipper like a roaring diuell doth many times affirme the naked truth and banishment from the Riuer of Thames for euer now and then cuts off a bad member Besides Fines and Forfeitures are laid vpon the heads of petty offenders that few or none escapes vnpunished if their faults be knowne If the gout be in a mans toe all the body is grieued if a finger ake the rest of the members hath a share in the paine but if many of the Ioynts and members be putrifide then the heart cannot chuse but be craz'd with eare if not wounded so is it with our company that the Abuses and Vices of the worst inferiour members as Gracelesse Godlesse Reprobates are sometimes like a Plague infectious to their betters and a daily heart-griefe to all honest men who are scandalized by their damnable demeanors But all they doe or can doe is nothing to the defaming of the Company for it were very absurd because one in his drinke hath kild a man to impute the fault to the wine or the drinke that he dranke when the blame lies in the drunkard that abus'd Gods good Creatures in taking too much so a Watermans trade is honest necessary and not to be wanted howsoeuer it is abus'd by misgouern'd vnciuill companions If a Water-man would be false in his trade I muse what falshood he could vse hee hath no false weights or measures to curtoll a mans passage but he will land a man for his money and not bate him an inch of the place he is appointed His shop is not darke like a Wollen-Drapers on purpose because the buyer shall not see the coursnesse of the Cloath or the falsenesse of the Colour no his worke and ware is seene and knowne and hee vtters it with the sweat of hiâ— browes the worst fault is that like a Lawyer he will take more then his see if anybody will giue it him very thankfully his bare fare he will take willingly vpon necessity but lesse then his fare or many times nothing me thinkes goes against stomacke I haue seene a Vsurer who hath beene â—â—â— onely for the graue these seuen yeeres being more then halfe rotten with the Gowt the Cough and the Murre who hath lost his conscience to get money and perhaps win damnation who is not able to goe by land and yet will not pay his Fare by water but like the picture of misery will either beg his passage of some seruing-man or bargaine with a Waterman to giue him two pence for sixe penni worth of labour such I haue seene and such there are too many who if they were once buried the wheele of Time would turne and what they got vniustly by extortion oppression and grinding the faces of the poore what they haue vncharitably pinch'd in keeping backe the labourers hyre their Sons or heires perhaps will consume in Law who shall possesse most of that ill gotten goods or else Drinke it Dice it Drab it Reuel and ruffle it till al is gone and as their fathers before them made others to rot in prison so their prodigall Sonnes are holed in some loathsome Iayle being lowzy lodging on the boords and liue vpon the Boxe and the Almes-basket Moreouer too many there are that passe the bounds of liberality and spend most prodigally on a Whore on the diuell of India Tobacco on the superfluous Quarts and Pintes of the blood of Bacchus Sack and Claret Spanish and French on vnlawfull Games and in a word on a thousand vanities they wil carelesly and beyond expectation cast away their cash but vpon a Water-man that hath rowed till his heart ake and sweats till hee hath not a dry thread about him the Gentlemens bounty is asleepe and hee will pay him by the Statute or if hee giue him two pence more he hath done a huge worke beyond the merrit of Suttons Hospitall I my selfe haue often met with a Roaring boy or one of the cursed crew that hath had nothing about him but a Sattin outside to couer â—â—â— his knauery and that none of his owne â—â—ther witnesse his Mercer and his Taylor â—â—â— this Gallant must be shipp'd in a paire of â—â—â— at least but his gay slop hath no sooâ—â—â—â— the Cushions but with a volley of â—â—â— coynd outlies newly brought from hell â—â—â— Bermoodoes by the Ghost of a Knight â—â—â— the poft he hath neuer left Roaring row â—â—â— row a pox on you row as if his punke â—â—ld stay too long for his pestiferous perâ—â—â—â— and when his scuruinesse is landed where â—â—â— leases hee hath told meâ— I must waite on â—â—â— and he will returne to mee presently â—â—â— I shall carry him backe againe and bee â—â—d all together then haue I attended fiue â—â— six houres like Iohn Noakes for nothing â—â—â— my cheating sharke hauing neither mony â—â—â— honesty hath neuer come at mee but â—â—â— some other paire of stayres and in the â—â—â— fashion coozened another Water-man â—â—â— his Boat-hire We must and doe with thankfulnesse conâ—â—â—â—â—â— that the Nobility Gentry and all others â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— of this Kingdome haue hoâ—â—â—â—â—â— worthy and charitable considerations of â—â—â— want of meanes and multitude of men â—â—â— they doe know that house rent and victuâ—â—â—â—â—â— are at foure times the rate which it was â—â—â— when the Statute was made in Queene Maâ—â—â— â—â—â—â—â— for our fares and as the price of â—â— thing is raised except to â—â—â—â—â—mens labors â—â—â— doe they in conscience very liberally rayse â—â—â— hires accordingly And as before I haue written out grade isâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— vsefull and necessary both for the Kings â—ruice and the Commons commodity that it â—â—â— not to be or cannot be wanted and by how â—â—â— the more a Water-man is neere to his â—â—esty to the Queenes Maiesty to the Prinâ—es â—â— Highnesse to the Nobility the Gentry â—â—â— the best of the Commonaity of this Kingâ—ome â—â—â— and sometimes of forraine Nations so â—â—ch the â—â—â—â—â—â—ight Water-men to behaue â—â—emselues honestly and soberly in their â—â—â—â—â—â—â—here are many better trades and quaâ—ties â—â—â— that scarce the best of their Companies â—â—â—â— their â—â—ues â—â—â—â— do come so often and so â—â—â—â—â—â— presence
perhaps you shall haue an Irish footman with a â—acket eudgeld down the shoulders and skirs with yellow or orenge tâ—wny Lace may â—â—â—t from London 3. or 4. score miles to one of there decayed Mansions when the simâ—ring scornfull Passe the supposed â—â—â— of the house with a mischiefe who is indeed a kinde of creature retired for a while into the Countrey to escape the whip in the City â—hee demands out of the window scarce ready and dressing herselfe in a glasse at noone Fellow what is thine Errand hast thou letters to me And if it be about dinner a man may sooner blow vp the gates of Bergen â—p Zome with a Charme then get entrance within the bounds of their Barr'd Bolted and Barracadoed Wicket About two of Clocke it may bee walking an house or twaine Sir Sellaâ—â— comes downe vntrust with a Pipe of Tobacco in his fist to know your businesse hauing first peeped thorow a broken pane of Glasse to see whether you come to demand any money or old debt or not when after a few hollow dry complements without drinke he turnes you out at the gate his worshippe returning to his Stoue What Townes are laide waste what fields lye vntilled what goodly houses are turn'd to the habitations of Howlets Daives and Hobgâ—â— what numbers of poore are increased yea examine this last yeere but the Register books or buriaâ—â— of our gred â—est Townes and Pariâ—â—â— of the land as Winondham in Norfolke Wâ—â— Chappell neere Evâ—don and many other and see how many haue beene buried weekely that haue meerely perished for want of breaâ— whâ—â—â— Pride and Luxury dam vp our streetesâ— Barracado our high waies and are ready euen to driue ouer their Graues whom their vnmercifull Pride hath famiâ—hed Whence come Leather to be so deare but by reason or as I should say against reason â—â—â— the multitude of Coaches and Corâ—oâ—â—â— who consume and take vp the best Hides â—â—â— can be gotten in our Kingdome â—â—â— that I cannot buy a paire of Boots for my â—â—â— vnder an Angell nor my Wife a paâ—â—â— of Shooes though her foote be vnder the â—â—â— vnder eight roates of three â—â—â— by which meanes many honest shooâ—â—â— are either vndone or vndoing and â—â—â— numbers of poore Christians are enforced â—â— got â—are footed in the cold Winters till â—â—â— very beâ—â—mmeâ—nesse some their toâ—â— â—â—â—â—â—â— their feeâ—â—â—â—â—â— rotted off to the â—â—â— lesse increases of crooked Cripples â—â—â— woodden â—â—â— beggers of which sort of â—â—â—â—â—â— wretches euery streâ—â—â—â— pleâ—â—ifully stored with to the scorne of other â—â—â—ions and the shame and obloquy of our â—â—ne The Saddlers being an ancient a worthy and a vsefull Company they haue almost ouerthrowne the whole Trade to the vndoing of â—â—ny honest families For whereas within our memories our Nobility and Gentry would â—ideâ— well mounted and sometimes walke on â—â—â— gallantly attended with three or foureâ—â—ore braue fellowes in blue coates which was a glory to our Nation and gaue more â—â—â—â— to the beholders then forty of your Leather tumbrels Then men preseru'd their bodies strong and able by walking riding and other manly exercises Then Saddleâ—s were a good Trade and the name of a Coach was Heathen Greek Who euer saw but vpon â—â—traordinary occasions Sir Philip Sidney Sir â—â—â—is Drake Sir Iohn Norris Sir William â—â—â— Sir Roger Williams or whom I should â—â—â—e nam'd first the famous Lord Gray and â—â—â—â—â—â—ghby with the renowned George Earle of Camberland or Robert Earle of Essex These soâ—â—es of Mars who in their times were the glorious Brooches of our Nation and admirable terrour to our Enemies these I say did â—â—â—e small vses of Coaches and there were â—â—o mayne reasons for it the one was that there were but few Coaches in most of their â—â—nesâ— and the second reason is they were â—â—lly foes to all sloth and effeminacy The â—â—â— was Sir Francis Vere with thousands others but what should I talke further This is the tarrling rowling rumbling age and The VVorld runs on VVheeles The hackney-men who were wont to haue furnished Trauellers â—â— all places with fitting and seruiceable horses for any iourney by the multitude of Coaâ—â—â—â—â—â— vndone by the dozens and the whole Common-wealth most abominably iaded â—â—in many places a man had as good to ride vpon a woodden post as to poast it vpoÌ„ one of â—â—â— hunger-staru'd hirelings which enormiâ—â—â— can be imputed to nothing but the Coaâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—sion is the Hackneymans confusion Nor haue we poore Water-men the least â—â—â— to complaine against this infernall swarm of Trade-spillers who like the Grashoppers or Caterpiller 's of Egypt haue so ouerrun the land that we can get no liuing vpon the water for I dare truely affirme that euery day in any Tearme especially if the Court be at VVhitchall they do rob vs of our liuings and carry Fiue hundred sixty fares daily from vs which numbers of passengers were wont to supply our necessities and enable vs sufficiently with meanes to doe our Prince and Countrey seruice and all the whole fry of our famous whores whose ancient Lodgings were neere S. Katherines the Bankeside Laâ—nbethMarsh Westminster VVhite Fryers Coleharbor or any other place neer the Thames who were wont after they had any good Trading or reasonable commings in to take a Boate and aire themselues vpon the water yea and by your leaue be very liberall too I say as a Mercer said once A whores mony is as good as a Ladies and a bawdes as currant as a Midwiues Tush those times are past and our Hackney Coaches haue hurried al our hackney customers quite out of our â—each toward the North parts of the City where they are daily practised in the Coach that by often iolting they may the better endure the Cart vpon any occasion and indeed many times a hired Coachman with a basket-hilted blade hang'd or executed about his shoulders in a belt with a cloake of some pide colour with two or three change of Laces about may manne a brace or a Leash of these curuetting Cockatrices to their places of recreation and so saue them the charge of maintaining as Sir Pandarus or an Apple-squire which seruice indeed to speake the truth a Waterman is altogether vnfit for the worst is most of them are such Loggerheads that they either will not learne but as I thinke would scorne to bee taught so that if the Sculler had not been paid when he was paid it is to be doubted that he should neuer haue bâ—â—paidâ— for the coachman hath gotteÌ„ all the custom from the Scullers paymistris This is one apparant reason why all the whores haue forsaken vs and spend their cash so free frequent vpon those ingenious well-practiz'd seruiceable hired coachmen but a Pox take em all whither doe my wits run after whores and knaues I pray you but note the streetes and the chambers or lodgings in Fleetstreet or the Strand how they are pestered with them especially after a Mask or a Play at the Court where
Were by his reading graced and made better And howsoeuer they were good or ill His bourty shew'd he did accept them still He was so good and gracious vate me That â— the vilest wretch on earth should be If for his sake I had not writ this Verse My last poore dutie to his Royall Hearse Two causes made me this sad Poems wrue The first my humble dutie did inurte The last to shunne that vice which doth include All other vices foule Ingratitude FINIS FOR The sacred memoriall of the great Noble and ancient Example of Vertue and Honor the Illustrious and welbeloued Lord CHARLES HOWARD Earle of Nottingham Iustice in Eyre of all his Maiesties Forrests Parks and Chases on this side Trent Knight of the Honourable Order of the Garter and one of the Lords of his Maiesties most Honourable Pâ—iuie Councell Who departed this Life at his Mannour of Halâ—ing in Surrey on Thurseday the 14. of December 1624. and was buried at Rigate amongst his Honourable Ancestors the 20. of December last 1624. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE Right Worshipfull of both Sexes who had either alliance by Marriage Consanguinity by Birth or bore loue to the Right Noble and truly vertuous deceased I Humbly craue your Worthinessetâ— excuse This boldnesse of my poore vnlearned Muse That hath presum'd so high a pitch to flye In praise of Vertue and Nobility I know this taske most fit for Learned men For Homer Ouid or for Virgils pen But for I with him haue both seru'd and sail'd My gratefull duty hath so farre preuail'd Boldly to write true Honours late decease Whilst better Muses please to hold their peace And thus much to the world my Verse proclaimes That neither gaine nor flattery are my aimes But loue and duty to the Noble dead Hath caus'd me cause these Lines be published And therefore I entreat your gen'rous Hearts Tâ— accept my duty pardon my deserts Beare with my weakenesse winke at my defects Good purposes doe merit good effects Poore earthen Vessels may hold precious Wint And I presume that in this booke of mine In many places you shall something finde To please each Noble will affected minde And for excuse my Muse doth humbly plead That you 'l forbeare to iudge before you read He that is euer a true wel-wisher and â—â—â—sequious Seruant to your Honours Worships and Noble Personages Iohn Taylor SOme few yeeres since I rode to my Lords Mannour of Halcing in Surrey where I presented his Lordship with a Manuscript or written Booke of the names and degrees of all the Knights of the Noble Order of the Garter since the first institution by king Edward the third which was of mine owne collections out of Windsor Cattle and some authontike â—â—â—â— His Lordship receiued it gratefully and rewarded me honorably in the which Booke was â—â—â— Anagram of his name and Earledome of Nottingham which â—old very 〈…〉 to be heâ—reâ—â—â— under Printed because it falles correspondent to the reuerence of his â—â— and the happinesse which the words import Charles Howard Earle of Nottinghame Anagramma O Heauen cals and hath true Glorie for me And happy was this happy Anagram Heauen calls Charles Howard Earle of Nottingham And he obeyd the call and gain'd true glory For change of earthly Titles transitory For the sacred Memoriall of the Great Noble and Ancient example of Vertue and Honour the Illustrious and welbeloued Lord Charles Howard Earle of Nottingham Iustice in Eyre of all his Maiesties Forrests Parks and Chases on this side Trent Knight of the Honorable Order of the Garter and one of the Lords of his Maiesties most Honorable priuy Councell WHat English Muse forbeares to shead a teare For Englands Nestor grauest oldest Peere Not onely old in number of his dayes But old in vertue all good mens praise Whose actions all his pilgrimage did passe More full of honour then his title was And though his corps be seuer'd from his spirit And that the world sufficient knowes his merit Yet shall my poore vnworthy artlesse Verse â—â— dutious seruice wait vpon his Hearse My selfe his Honour on the Seas attended And with his bounty haue I beene befriended And to acquite me from vnthankfulnesse My lines shall here my gratitude expresse No monumentall Marble reard on hie He needs t'emblaze him to posterity No flattring Epitaph he needs to haue To be engrau'd vpon a gawdie graue His life and actions are his Monument Which fills each kingdome Clime and Continent And when their memories shall stinke and dye Who in most stately sepulchers doe lay Then royall histories shall still relate To each degree or age or sex or state The vertue valour bounty and the fame Of Englands all-beloued Nottingham And Noble hearts his memory shall retaine Vntill the world to Chaos turne againe That yeere of wonderment call'd eighty eight When fraud and force did our destruction wait When Hell and Rome and Spaine did all agree That wee should vanquish'd and inuaded be Our foes at Sea thirty one thousand men With neere foure hundred ships and â—â—â—lies then Then this White Lyon rowz'd with â—â—â—â—â—ue Defending both his ounrry and his Queene Like second Mars to battell braue he wenâ— God making him his worthy instrument His Chiefraine Champion and his Generall With sixe score ships and Vessels great aâ—â—â—mall To conquer those that did for conquest â—â—â— And foyle the pow'r of Hell and â—â—â— and â—â— Then valour was with resolution mixt And manhood with true Fâ—uoâ—â— â—â—â— When death and danger â—â—â—â—tned euery where Braue Charles all â—earel 〈…〉 â—â—â— did encourage can When roring cannons counâ—â—â— heau'ns thunder And slaughteâ—d men their vessels â—â—â— vnder The Sun eclips'd with â—â—â—â— skies darke and dim And batt'ring bullets seuered â—im from liâ—â— When as that Sea might bee the Rea Sea call'd Then he with dreadlesse courage vnappaâ—l'd Like a bright Bâ—acon or a blazing Staire Approu'd himselfe a thunder â—â—olr of warre Whose valour and example valiantly Pursu'd and wonne a glorious victory And then by him through the Almighties hand Preserued from inuasion was this Land So that who euer shall his Tombe passe by And shall enquire who there doth buried lye If answere be but made He 's in this Graue Who did in Eighty eight this Kingdome saue Then is the â—otall told and seruice best Where with this little Land was euer blest At * 1596 Cales likewise the Sea-fight we did win By his direction and graue disciplin The Spanish ships soone from his force retir'd Some torne some sunke some taken and some fir'd And whensoere he gaue the ouerthrow He nere insulted ore his conquerd foe But like a Noble Lyon euery way He scorn'd to prey vpon a yeelding prey With pitty piety and true remorce His clemency was mixt with manly force Vnto his foes a noble care he had Nor would affliction to affliction adde So that his enemies much cause did find To loue and honour his true noble mind Yet 'gainst offenders he was sharply
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
hath one Necke yet I perceiue Sheepe being dead two neckes of Mutton haue Foure legs each liuing Sheepe hath but once slaine Although he loose none yet he hath but twaine Now for the honour of the valiant Ram If I were learn'd more treble then I am Yet could I not sufficiently expresse His wondrous worth and exc'llent worthinesse For by Altronomers 't is verifide Aries How that the Ram in heauen is stellifide And of the twelue is plac'd head figne of all Where Sol keepes first his Equinoctiall For hauing at the Bull drunke Aprils showres And with y e Twins May deck'd â— earth with flowers And scorch'd the Crab in Iune with burning beams Made Iulies Lyon chafe with fierie gleames In August solace to the Virgin giuen With Battance in September made Time euen Octobers Scorpion with declining course And passing by December Archers force Then hauing past Novembers frozen Goats He next to Ianus Waterie Signe doth floate He to the Lenten Signe in February And so bright Phoebus ends his yeres vagarie Then to the Ram in March in his careere He mounts on which this Sonnet's written heere Sonnet NOw cheerefull Sol in his illustrious Carre To glad the Earth his Iourney gins to take And now his glorious beames he doth vnbarre What absence marr'd his presence now doth make Now he Earths weeping visage gins to dry With Eols breath and his bright heauenly heat fly March dust like clouds through ayre doth march Dead-seeming Trees and Plants new life doth get Thus when the Worlds eyeâ—azler takes his Inne At the coelestiall Ram then Winter 's done And then Dame Nature doth her liueriespinne Of flowers and fruits which all the Earth puts on Thus when Apollo doth to Aries come The Earth is freed from Winters Martyrdome Thus haue I prou'd the' Ram a luckie signe Wherein Heau'n Earth and Sun and Ayre combine To haue their vniuersall comforts hurld Vpon the Face of the decaying world With twelue signes each mans body's gouerned And Aties or the Ram doth rule the head Then are their iudgements foolish fond and base That take the name of Ramhead in disgrace 'T is honour for the head to haue the name Deriued from tie Ram that rules the same And that the Ram doth rule the head I know For euery Almanacke the same doth show To be cald Ramhead is a title of honour and a name proper to all men He that sels wood is call'd a Woodmonger He that sels fish call'd a Fishmonger He that doth brew is call'd a Brewer and He 's call'd a Landlord that takes rent for Land He that bakes Bread scornes not the name of Baker He that makes Cuckolds is a Cuckold-maker So as the Ram doth rule the head I see By Constellation all men Ramheads be And as the twelue Celestiall signes beare sway And with their motions passe mans life away The Ram the head the Bull the neake and throte Twins shoulders Crab doth rule the brest I note But 't is the Lyons portion and his part To be the valiant ruler of the heart A comfort for Cuckolds that though a man hath a Rams head yet he hath a Lyons heart From whence such men may gather this reliefe That though a Ramhead may be cause of griefe Yet Nature hath this remedie found out They should haue Lyons hearts to beare it stout And to desend and keepe the head from harme The Anagram of Ram I finde is Arm. Thus is a Ramhead arm'd against all feare He needs no helmet or no head-piece weare To speake more in the plurall number Rams It yeilds signifique warre like Anagrams For Rams is Mars Mars is the God of Warre And Rams is Arms Arms warres munitions are And from the fierce encounters which they make Our Tilts and Tournyes did beginnings take For as the Rams retire and meet with rage So men doe in their warre-like equipage Strange mysteries in the words Ram or Rams the Rams the first runners at Tilt and first teachers of warlike battell Iosephus Beller Lib. 3. cop 9 Rams horacs the first Trumpets And long e're powder from Hels damned den Was monstrously produc'd to murther men The Ram an Engine call'd a Ram did teach To batter downe a wall or make a breach And now some places of defence gainst shot Haue from the Ram the name of Rampiers got First warlike trumpets that Ie're heard nam'd At Ierscho were all of Rams hornes fram'd For at the Rams horne Trumpets fearefull blast Their curled Walls were suddenly downe cast Thus is the Ram with many vertues stor'd And was in AEgygt for a God ador'd And like a Captaine he the flocke doth lead As fits their Generall their Prince or head Thus haue I prou'd a Sheepe a beast of price Cleane and reputed fit for Sacrifice And sleeping waking earely or else late It still doth chew the cud and ruminate Of all Beasts in the worlds circumference For meekenesse profit and for innocence I haue approu'd a Sheepe most excellent That with least cost doth giue man most content There 's such instinct of Nature in the Lambe By bleating It mongst thousands knowes the dam For which the name of Aguoscendo knowing Is giuen to a Lambe its knowledge showing Agnus Great knowledge in the Lambe But to consider more seriously the wonderfull blessing that the whole world hath had and hath by Sheepe at this present I thinke it not amisse to vse the words of an ingenuous and well affected Poet of our time Master T. M. where he truly saith No Ram no Lambe no Lambe no Sheepe no Sheepe no Wooll no Wooll no Woolman no Woolman no Spinner no Spinner no Weauer no Weauer no Cloth no Cloth no Clothier no Clothier no Clothworker Fuller Tucker Shearman Draper or scarcely a rich Dyer And what infinite numbers of people rich and poore haue liued and doe liue hauing their whole dependance from the poore sheepes back all men of iudgement will acknowledge besides I thinke it not amisse to set downe the names of many worthy men who haue bene free of London of such Trades and mysteries whereof the Sheepe is the originall vnder God And first to begin with the Right Worshipfull Company of Drapers with the names of such as haue borne the honourable Office and Dignitie of Lord Maier of London with their pious deeds and diuers other persons of the said Company their names and memorable Charities with the liue remembrance of the Worshipfull Companie of Clothworkers And first I begin with the first Anno 1189. In the beginning of the raigne of King Richard the first Sir Henry Fitz Allen Draper was the first Lord Maior of London who continued in that dignity twenty foure yeres together till the fourteenth yeare of King Iohn 1212 when he dyed he was a worthy benefactor to his Company and gaue Houses to the vse of the poore in the Parish of Saint Mary Bothaw in walbrooke Ward Anno 1252. Iohn Talason Draper Maior 1253. Richard Hardell Draper 6.
we did not know the riuer we hired a Bohemian waterman to guide vs 15. dutch miles to the Towne of Dreason in Saxony But 4 miles short of that Towne which was the first Towne in the Saxon Country called Pirne where we were stayed 5. houres without the Gates till such time as the Burgamaster would be pleased to examine vs in the meane space our waterman not daring to abide the terrible tryall of examination because the Duke of Saxon was in Armes against the King of Beame he ran away and left vs to bring the boat downe the riuer 600. English miles our selues to Hamburgh But now to close vp all I will relate what rare dyet excellent cookery and sweet Lodging we had in our journey in Germany first for our comfort after very hard getting of houseroome our lodginge was euery night in straw where lying together well littered we honestly alwayes left our sheets behinde vs then at our suppers at a table square and so broad that two men can hardly shake hands ouer it we being some twelue about it Our first dish being a raw Cabbadge of the quantity of halfe a pecke cut and chopped small with the fat of resty bacon powred vpon it in stead of oyle which dish must be emptied before we could get any more Our second dish perhaps a peoke of boyld apples hony the Apples being boyled skins cores stalkes all Thirdly 100. Gudgeons newly taken perhaps yet as salt as if they had beene three years pickled or twice at the East Iadies boyld with scayles guts and all and buried in Ginger like sawdust a fresh pike as salt as brine boyld in flat milke with a pound of Garlicke This was the manner of the most part of our dyet and if we did aske them why they did salt their meate so vnreasonable there answer was that their beere could not be consumed except their meate were salted extraordinarily If a man finde a fault or seeme distasted with there beastly dyet he is in danger to be thrust out of doores and take vp his lodging in the streets and in the conclusion when dinner or supper is ended then comes mine Host or his leather lip'd Froe with a sawcy reekoning of what they please which sounds in our eares like a harsh Epilogue after a bad play for what they say we must pay their words are irreuocable like the ancient Kings of Persia and we must not question or aske how and how it can be so much but pay them their demand without grumbling to halfe a farthing Which made mee call to miad sixe seuerall principals that doe belong to a traueller as patience silence warinesse watchfulnesse and a good stomacke and a purse well moneyed for if he want any one of these perhaps the other fiue will neuer bring him to his iournies end A mans patience must be such that though he be a Barron he must beare all abuses either in words lodging diet or almost any thing though offered from or by a sowter tinker or a Merchant of tripes and turneps his silence must be that though he beare and vnderstand himselfe wronged yet he must be as dumbe as a Gudgeon or a Wniting mop and though his mouth be shut his warinesse must be such that his eares must be euer open to listen and ouer-heare all danger that may be complotted against him his wateâ—fulnesse must be so that he must seldome sleepe with both his eyes at once least his throat be cut before he wake againe But for his stomacke hee must eate grasse with a horse and draffe with the hogs for hee that cannot eate pickel'd herring broth and dirty puddings shall many times fast by authority and goe to bed without his supper and last of all he must haue Fortunatus or a Prince his purse that must be like a Drunkards dagger euer drawne to pay bountifully for such wash and graines as his valiant stomacke hath ouercome conquered and deuoured but of this a little in verse Sixe things vnto a Trauailer belongs An Asses backe t' abide and beare all wrongs A fishes tongue mute grudging speech forbearing A Harts quick eare all dangers ouer hearing A dogs eyes that must wake as they doe sleepe And by such watch his corpes from perill keepe A swines sweet homely tast that must digest All Fish Flesh Rootes Fowle foule and beastly drest And last he must haue euer at his call A purse well lynde with coyne to pay for all With this kinde of lodging and dyer and with tedious labour sometimes night and day wee came in 14. dayes 607. miles from Prague in Bohemia to Hambrogh on the hither skirts of Germany the Riuer hauing aboue 1000. shelues and sands and 800. Ilands so that a man cannot see on which side of them to goe there being 240. mils chained in boats on the first streame and a number numberlesse of Oakes other trees sunke with the violence of the Riuer and sometimes fogs mists that we could not see a boats length from vs besides great Rockes and stones that were falne into the water that any or many of these impediments do often ouerthrow boates drown passengers yet I my fellow Tilbery we being both his Maiesties watermen did by Gods assistance safely escape them all and brought our selues as is afore said to Hamborogh where being windebound 10. dayes I thanke the English Merchants I was well welcommed vntill a â—â—st it pleased God the winde came faire I â—â—oke ship and after nine dayes and nights of various weather I giue praise to the Almighty I came home to my house in London on Saturday the 28. of September 1620. You that haue bought this grieue not at the cost There 's something worthy your noting all 's not lost First halfe a Constable is well bumbasted If there were nothing else your coynes not wasted Then I relate of hils and dales and downes Of churches Chappels Pallaces and Townes And then to make amends although but small I tell a tale of a great tub withall With many a Gallowes Gybbet and wheele â—â—â—â—â— Where murd'rers bones are broke from head to How rich Bohemia is in wealth and food Of all things which for man or beast is good How in the Court at Prague'a Princely place A gracious Queene vouchsafed me to grace How on the sixteenth day of August last King Fredericke to his royall Army past How fifty thousand were in armes araid Of the Kings force beside t' Hungarian ayde And how Bohemia strongly can appose And cuffe and curry all their daring foes Then though no newes of state may heere be had I know here 's something will make good men glad No bringer of strange tales I meane to be Nor I le beleeue none that are told to me FINIS PRINCE CHARLES HIS VVEL COME FROM SPAINE Who Landed at Portsmouth on Sunday the 5. of October and came safely to London on Munday the 6. of the same 1623. WITH The Triumphs
commanded to be kept holiday so that no shops were opened no manner of worke was done from morning to night but carying and recarying Wood to make Bonfires ringing filling emptying of pots thaâ—al seemed as if the world was newly preserued from some second Flood as indeed our whole Kingdome was from a flood of griefe to the sale happy hauen of happinesse Moreouer his Highnesse happy and ioyfull comming on that day was a putting off an execution which sixe men and two women condemned male factors were to suffer at Tyburne wherby hee was the most fortunate cause of their reprieues and sauing and a larger time of repentance to amend their iiues The very Vintners burnt their bushes in Fleetstreet and other places and their wine was burnt all ouer London and Westminster into all colours of the Rainebow whole Pints Quarts Pottles and Gallons were made into Bonefires of Sacke and Claret whilst good fellowes like louing Salamanders swallowed those liquid fires most sweetly and affectionately But as concerning this fuell of Bacchus a great many would not stay or could not endure to see it burnt and so deuoured those French and Spanish Billets and Faggots raw which afterwards being warmed with shooting laughing singing and Leaping the heat burst out so hotly that it appeared in many a high coloured face till in the end the fire was quenched in the embers and ashes of sleepe And to the intent all estates should be merry there were diuers Noblemen Gentlemen and other that gaue store of gold to the poore some gaue vessels of wine in the streets Thu was the whole day spent till the darke night came and then began the second part of Englands joy for the nights Loue did as it were scorne to be outstripped with the dayes affection and obedience Amongst the rest the Spanish Ambassadors both at Exeter house in the Strand and at Ely house in Holborne did expresse their Loues by their charges and reioycings Then began a most merry and ioyfull confusion of Billets Faggots Bauins and Logs Baskets buckets and tubs were hotly and merrily consumed Buts Pipes Hogsheads Teirces puncheons Barrels Kilderkins Firkins Ruâ—lets and Dryfats most brauely blazed and suffered Some in Smithfield burnt their old Coaches and I wish they had all beene so well bestowed washing boules and beetles went to wracke old graters and stooles were turn'd to ashes mouse-traps and tinder boxes came tolight and hee or shee that had but foure tokens or as much credit committed their whole estate to fire and faggot insomuch that Chandlers-shops and store-houses were almost willingly emptied But in Paules Churchyard was exceeding benighted tryumphs for on the crosse round about were placed on the batlements and on the top of it as many burning Linkes as the Prince his Hignesse was yeares old and in some good distance from the Crosse were two mighty bone fires besides there was a crosse of wood erected which extended into foure branches and vpon euery branch a pitch barrel was fastned and one in the middest on the top which made a braue shew in the burning â— then were there Crâ—ssit Lights and most excellent fire-workes with squibs cracker rackets which most delightfully flew euery way And it is certaine to be proued that betwixt Paules Churchyard and London bridge in the nearest way that could be gone there were 108. Bonefires told many of them hauing at least one Load of wood in each some lesse I speake not of othe Streets Lanes which are out of that way besides the Strand Westminster and Holborne with hundreds of places which I saw not All these and much more was done here in London Westminster and the adioyning places nor is it to be doubted but that all Cities Townes and Villages will generally and particulary shew their louing obedience and affections Here is set forth the long and tedious Iourney with the seuerall stages or places where men take Post-horse quite through the Spacious Kingdome of France and so throughout into Spaine to the Citty of Madrid being in all 141. seuerall stages or PosteTowns some 8 some 10.12 or 16. miles from each other being in all about 1100. miles London Saint Leu Darford Lufarder Rochester Escouen Sittingbourne Saint Dennis Canterbury PARIS Douer La Burlarayur CALLICE Longuemeaux Le Bison Chator Marquessa Bonur Bulloigne Estampe Newchattell Guillerua Franeaz Angueruille Montruell Shaupillary Newpon Shateâ—gaillad Bernai Artenay Noieane Sercott Abeuille ORLEANCâ— Aillyle hanc dordes Saint Minion Flaircourt Nostra Dama Piguigny de Clara. Amiens Lestroya shemina Hancourt Le Laurena der â—ux Flaire Maide Briteur Mondinaux Rauigny BLOIS Saint Remy Les Montriba Cleremont Lambin Râ—ucellei Mont Richard Vr Leige Lochez Vr voya de Lion Varenur Cusac Liguer Le port de Crussac La bay Le Charbon blanc Perlane Le port de la Ba. Shatibben stil La Tredeuir BOVRDEAVX Chaffener Le petit Burdeaux POICTIERS Rufigni Hauborre Vr porte Aiâ—utete Troia Vinour Pooter Vmenicur Belleene Couer Muret Chour Allispostel Chouffa Le Brouheer Villafoignant Ien Guiller Aiger Laharee Gouruille Les Sperroone St. Seuerdeau x Chastel Villara Maior Chasteauneuf Saint Vincent Nonnauille Le Cabalon Barbefieux Les Anders Raignar Vnposte Aioutee La Grole BAYON Mou Lien Bidarbe Plonte Balc S. Ian de Luz Chauignon Arinanat What Townes are named in this Catalogue since you read Callice are all standing in France Now we come to relate of the passage through Spaine to the City of Madrid And first after your passage from Bayon you come shortly into the Kingdome of Nauarre which is now in the King of Spaines Dominions the first place therein where they take Post-horse is named Yron or Feria Poypela Oyason Miranda Eseruand Maiogur Tollousette Sogure Tolosa Brenica Verafrangij Castil de pione Segaur Quinta Pallâ— Gallarette BVRGOS Andiâ—amer Bisbregur VITORIA Songâ—ide â—â—â—ma â—â—habon â—â—andadeduera â—â—â—ubia Fressenuille Canaâ—uille Chastel St. Augustine St. Mresieur Acauenda Bouteagur MADRID Thus hauing shewed the long and dangerous tract by Land and from London to Madrid wee may herein see is part how much we are all bound to be thankfull to our great good God who hath so healthfully happily and timely preserued and â—â—â—â—ned our gracious Prince so wishedly after so many perils past on his part so many doubts and feares on ours vpon the which I haue for a conclusion written these following verses THe Prince of Princes and the King of Kings Whose Eye of Prauidence foresees all things To whom what euer was or ere shall be Is present still before his Maiesty Who doth dispose of all things as he list And graspeth Time in his eternall fist He sees and knowes for vs what 's bad or good And all things is by him well vnderstood Mens weake coniectures no way can areed What 's in th' immortall Parlament decreed And what the Trinitie concludeth there We must expect it with obedience here Then let not any man presume so farre To search what the Almighties councels are
pickt the purse damn'd the Soule Because they knew the Pope and all his crue Hâ—â— hounds whoÌ„ heauern in rage on earth did spue And in a word they thus were ouer-trod Because they truly seru'd the liuing God This was the maine and onely cause of all Because they would not offer vnto Bâ—el The Popes outragious and couragious actor Was Bishop Bonner hells most trusty factor Romes hangman and the firebrand of this Realme That with a sloud of bloud did ouerwhelme The true beleeuers of Gods holy truth He burchered not regarding age or youth With him was ioyn'd a man almost as ill Who tooke delight Gods seruants bleud to spill Cal'd Stephen Gardner Englands Chanceller And Bishop of the Sea of Winchester These two did striue each other to excell Who should doe greatest seruice vnto Hell Vntill at last God heard his seruants cry And each of them did die immediately Thus when Iâ—honah heard the iust complaints Of his beloued poore afflicted Saints Then this too cruell Pope defending Queene The bloudiest Princesse that this land hath seene She did decease and persecution ceast And tired wofullâ— Englands purchast rest Queene Mary being dead her welcome death Reuin'd our ioyes in blest ELIZABETH Innumerable were her woes and cares Abundance were the subtill wiles and snares Which Sathan and his Ministers oft laid To reaue the life of that most harmelesse Maid She was accus'd abus'd reuil'd miscal'd She was from prison vnto prison hal'd Long in the Tower she shas close prisner shut Her louing seruants all way were put From thence to Windsor thence to Woodstocke sent Closely mewd vp from all the worlds content But God whose mercies euer did defend her Did in her greatest Sorrow comfort send her He did behold her from his Throne on hie And kept her as the apple of his eye Let Hell and Hell-hounds still attempt to spill Yet the Almighty guards his Seruants still And he at lest did ease her Sorrowes mone And rais'd her to her lawfall awfull throne This Royall Deborah this Princely Dame Whose life made all the world admire her fame As Iudith in Bet hâ—lias same was spread For cutting off great Holophernès head So our Eliza stoutly did begin Vntopping and beheading Romish sin Shee purg'd the Land of Papistryâ—agen Shee liu'd belou'd of God admir'd of men Shee made the Antichristian Kingdome quake She made the mighty power of Spaine to shake As farre as Sunne and Moone dispears'd her Rayes So farre and farther went her matchlesse praise She was at home abroad in euery part Loadstar and Loadstone to each eye and heart Supported onely by Gods powerfull hand She foure and forty yeares did rule this Land And then she lest her Royall Princely Seat She chang'd earths greatnesse to be heauenly great Thus did this Westerne Worlds great wouder dye She fell from height to be aduanc'd more hie Terrestriall Kings and Kingdomes all must fade Then blest is she that is immortall made Her death fild woefull England full of feares The Papists long'd for change with itching eares For her decease was all their onely hope To raise againe the doctrine of the Pope But he whose power is all omnipotent Diâ— their vnhappy hopelesse hopes preuent Succession lawfully did leaue the Crowne Vnto a Prince whose vertue and Renowne And learning did out-stripall Kings as sarre As doth the Sunne obseure a little starre What man that is but man could bassâ— more Romes seauenâ—headed purple beastly Whore How wisely hath he Bellarmine conâ—uted And how diuinely hath'he ost dispated How zealously he did Cods faith desend How often on Gods word he did attend How clement pious and how gracious good Was he as fits the greatnesse of his bloud Were 't not for him how should the Muâ—â—s doe He was their patterne and their patron too He was th' Apollo from whose radient Beames The quinteffence of Poetry our-streames And from the splendor of his piercing rayes A world of worthy writers won the bayes Yet all the worthy vertues so transparent And so well knowne to be in him inharent Could not perswade the Papists leaue their strife With cursed treasons to attempt his life For when their disputations helpt them not They would dispute in a damn'd powder plot In which the Romists went beyond the deuill For Hell could not inuent a plot so euill But he that plac'd him on his royall Throne The God of Iacob Iudahs holy one That God for Iesus sake I doe beseech With humble heart and with vnfained speech That he or his may Britaines Scepter sway Till time the world and all things passe away But now he 's gone into Eternall blissÌ„e Crowneâ— And with Eternall glory crowned is Long may King CHARLES weare Britaines royall And heauens best blessings raise his high Renowne FINIS GODS MANIFOLD MERCIES IN THESE MIRACVLOVS DELIverances of our Church of England from the yeare 1565. vntill this present 1630. particularly and briefly Described IOSHVA 4.21 22. 24. When your Children shall aske their Fathers in time to come What meaneth this Pillar Then yee shall let your Children know saying THESE ARE THE DELIVERIES WHICH GOD HATH VOVCHSAFED TO HIS CHVRCH IN ENGLAND SINCE THE BEGINNING OF QVEENE ELIZABETHS RAIGNE TO THIS DAY That all the People of the Earth might know the hand of the Lord that it is mightie that yee might feare the Lord your God for euer THere was a Bull in Rome was long a breeding Which Bull prou'd little better then a Calfe Was sent to England for some better feeding To fatten in his Holinesse behalfe The vertues that this Beast of Babell had In thundring manner was to banne and curse Raile at the Queene as it were raging mad Yet God be thanked she was ne're the worse The goodly Sire of it was Impious * Pius the fufh of that name Pope of Rome piuâ— Hee taught it learnedly to curse and banne And to our faces boldly to defie vs. It madly ouer England quickly ranne But what succeâ—â—e it had reade more and see The fruits of it herevnder written be This Bull did excommunicate and curse the Queene â—â—depâ—â—eth her from her Crowne it proclaimed her an Hereâ—â—â—â— it cursed all such as loued her it threatned damnation to all subiects as durâ—t obey her and it promised the kingdome of heauen to those that would oppose and kill her This was the effect and nature of this Popish Beast which all wise godly and vnder standing men did deride and contemne 1. A Priest call'd Moortâ—n by the Pope assign'd Northumberland and Westmerland seduceth With whom the Duke of * Duke of Norfolke and Earle of Northumberland beheaded Earle of Westmorland fled Norfolke is combin'd The whilst the Pope nocost or charge refuseth But pawnes his challices his Beads and Crosses Giues them his gracelesse blessing for their ayde The fruit where of were heads and honors losses God still defending Englands Royall Maid Thus we by proofe must thankefully confesse That where the pope doth