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A13415 All the vvorkes of Iohn Taylor the water-poet Beeing sixty and three in number. Collected into one volume by the author: vvith sundry new additions corrected, reuised, and newly imprinted, 1630.; Works Taylor, John, 1580-1653.; Cockson, Thomas, engraver. 1630 (1630) STC 23725; ESTC S117734 859,976 638

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was buried at Winchester 115. Saint Edward 1043. 116. Harold the second 1066. SAint Edward from the Danes this Kingdom freed● And for he had no Heyre he heere decreed That William Duke of Normandy should be Next King but Harold seem ●●● to agree As soone as Edward was laid in his Toombe This hasty Harold mounted in his roome But William came from Normanay amaine By whom King Harold was vnking'd and slaine The end of the first part The second part William Conquerour An. Dom. 1066. VVHen Britains Romanes Saxons Danes had done The Normans fiftly England● glory won● New Lords brought in new Lawes incontinent And all were Conquer'd but the County Kent King William after he had all surpriz'd Insulted domineer'd and tyranniz'd All Englishmen like slaues their doores must lock On paine of death each night at eight of clocke The English from all Offic● were disgrac'd And in their places the proud French were plac'd ●●ill beating down the right with wrong on wrong Disdaining men should speake the English tongue And so to bring our memory to naught The Grammar and the Lawes in French were taught King Swanus Sonnes with Danes a mighty band Arriu'd in Humber to inuade the Land Then Yorke was burnt the wealth away was borne And Danes on Composition home did turne A dearth in England was so great that heere Cats Dogs and mans flesh was our wofull cheere The Mercians and Northumbers they rebel'd Strong warres the Scott within our Country held The I le of Ely did the King surprize He caus'd the Rebels lose hands feet and eyes The Normans did rebell and were subdu'd Danes came and fled with all their multitude The Kings sonne Robert by the French Kings ayd Did diuers parts of Normandy inuade The Scots spoild England with all might and maine And Durbans Bishop in a broyle was slaine Heere euery Acre of mens Lands were measur'd And by a heauy taxe the King was treasur'd Slaine by a Deere the Kings sonne lost his life And Glassenbury Monkes were kill'd in strife The English Nobles almost were decay'd And euery place of rule the Normans swai'd And all mens goods and lands and coyn were rated Through England and vnto the King related The French mens pride did England ouerwhelme And grieuous tributes did oppresse the Realme Churches and Chappels were throwne down with speed ●o make New Forrest as the King decreed Who hauing rul'd in trouble toyle and care And tryannously pol'd this Kingdome bare Neere twenty one yeeres death was then his bane He lyes in Normandy enterr'd at Cane William Conquerour was crowned on Christmas-day 1067 the yeere then beginning on that day In the ●●●● Forrest in Hampshire called New Forrest ●●ere this King had defaced many Churches wherein the ●●● of God was called vpon and placed wild Beasts for His disportun the same Forrest two of his owne sonnes were ●●●● Prince Robert killed by a Deere and William Rufus by a Knight shooting at a Deere William Rufus An. Dom. 1087. WIlliam the cruell Conquerours second Sonne With ease got what his Fathers paines had won Oppressed England he opprest and prest And great Exactions wrongfully did wrest For Symony and base corrupting gold The King most Churches and Church-liuings sold And more his Subiects vilely to abuse Against them he in armes did arme the Iewes And swore if they the victory did gaine That he their faithlesse faith would entertaine Vpon his eldest brother hee raysd warres His youngest brother troubled him with iarres At London such a furious winde did blow Which did sixe hundred houses ouerthrow The City Gloster was by Welshmen sack'd Northumberland was by King William wrack'd William de Oue and William de Aluery In cruell torments dyed at Salisbury Duke Robert laid all Normandy to gage Vnto the King warres with the Turkes to wage Westminster Hall was built the Danes came in And th' Orchades and the I le of Man did win But as the King was hunting in Hampshire Sir Walter T●rr●ll shooting at a Deere The Arrow glauncing'gainst a Tree by chance Th' vnhappy King kild by the ha●lesse Glaunce A Comers Cart to Winchester did bring The Corps where vnbemoand they laid the King Rufus In the 8. yeere of his reigne the Christian Army went to Ierusalem vnder the conduct of Godfry Duke of Bulleine in which warres serued Robert Duke of Normandy the Kings eldest brother who pawned his Dukedome for 16666. pounds weight of siluer In the 11. yeere the Lands of the late Earle Godwine sunk in the sea and are to this day called Godwine ●ands This King died the 2. of August 1100. He reigned 12. yeeres 11. Moneths and was buried at Winchester Henry the first An. Dom. 1100. THis Henry for his wisedome Beuclarke nam'd Th'vnlawfull Lawes and measures he reclaim'd The Norman Duke eld'st Brother to the King To claime the Crowne a mighty Hoast did bring Saint Barthol●mewes was founded and Saint Gyles And Henry stop'd Duke Roberts mouth with wiles Then peace was made but after warres did rise The King tooke's brother and put out his eyes Here Windsor Church and Castle were erected And Wales rebeld most sharpely was corrected All the King's Sonnes and eight score persons more Were drown'd by tempest neere the Norman shore Thus all his Ioy in Childrens losse bereft Saue onely Maud the Widdow Empresse left Whom Geffrey Anioy's Earle to wife did get From whom did spring the name Plantagenet The King proclaim'd his Daughter or her seede After his death should in the Realme succeede And after thirty fiue yeeres time was past King Henry by a surfet breath'd his last Much trouble in his dayes this Kingdome wearied He dyed and dead at Redding he lies buried Thus God that lifts the low casts downe the high Caus'd all the Conquerors sonnes vntimely dye Henry the ● He held the Crowne wrongfully from his elder brother Robert Duke of Normandy and ouercomming him in battell most vnnaturally put out his e●es he reigned 35. yeeres his braines eyes and bowels were buried at Roane in France and the rest of his body at Redding his Phisicion that opened his head was killed suddainely with the stench of his brai●er King Stephen An. Dom. 1135. STephen Earle of B●loig● th' Earle of Bloy● his son From th' Empresse M●nd this famous Kingdome won Domestike forraigne dangerous discords 'Twixt factions factions of the King and 's Lords Wars 'twixt the King and th' Empresse for the crown Both tasted Fortunes fauours and her frowne Now vp now downe like balles at Tennis tost Till Stephen gain'd the goale and th ' Empresse lost And after eighteene yeeres were come and gone The King not hauing any lawfull Sonne He dyed and chang'd his Kingdome his strength For a small Sepulcher of sixe foote length King Stephen He was noble valiant liberall and politique and almost in continuall trouble In the 1. yeere of his reigne a fire burnt all the streete from London-stone East to Pauls and West to Algate and within 2.
eldest daughter to Henry the 7. from whom our graci●●● soueraigne is ●ineally descended Henry the eight An. Dom. 1509. FRom both the Lines and both the Ioynes did spring Of York Lancaster this mighty King Katherine that was his brothers wife of late He tooke to wife and crown'd her Queene in state Empson and Dudley lost their heads at Tower For racking the poore Commons by their power Warres dreadfull wars arose 'twixt vs and French Lord Edward Howard drowned by mis-chance At Brest he was high Admirall in fight Cast ouerboord dy'd like a valiant Knight In England Suffolks Duke did lose his head The King to Turwin did an army lead Turney he wonne with his victorious blade King Iames of Scotland England did inuade But Surries Earle● the Scotsh King ouercame Who lost life there but wonne immortall fame Now Cardinall Wolsey in the Kings high Grace Was rais'd to honours from great place to place Lordship on Lordship laid vpon his backe Vntill the burthen was the bearers wracke The Duke of Buckingham his head did lose And La●ber stoutly did the Pope oppose ●●finde ignorance that long had look'd awry Began to see Truth with a clearer eye And then the King inspir'd with seruent Zeale Reformed both the Church and Common weale ●●●●● with his power Omnipotent Did make this King his gracious Instrument ●●T'vnmaske his Truth from Antichristian fables And purge this wofull Land from Babels bables This king at Boloigne was victorious ●● peace and warre Magnifique Glorious ●● his rage bounty he did oft expresse His Liberality to bee excesse ●●● Reuels Iusts and Turnies he spent more Then fiue of his Fore-fathers did before His Auarice was all for Noble fame Amongst the Worthies to inrole his Name A valiant Champion for the Faiths defence Was the great Title of this mightie Prince ●●●● wiues he had 3 Kates 2. Aunes one Iane Two were diuorc'd two at the blocke were slaine One sonne and two faire daughters he did leaue Who each from other did the Crowne receiue The first was Edward Mary next whose death Left State and Realme to Queene Elizabeth He thirty eight yeeres kept this Royall Roome At windsor hee 's enter'd without a Tombe L●●th Edenbourgh and diuers other parts of Scotland were spoyled by Sir Iohn Dudley Lord Viscount ●sle Lord high Admirall of England with a Navy of 200 tall Ships Anno 1544. King Henry went to Boloigne hee ●●●● France the 13. of Iuly and into Boloigne the 25. of September in which yeere were taken 300. French ●hips for prices Edward the sixt An. Dom. 1546. HAd this Kings reigne bin long as it was good Religion in a peaceable state had stood What might haue his age bin when his blest youth ●o valiantly aduanc'd Gods sacred truth At nine yeeres age the Crowne on him hee tooke And ere sixteene he Crowne and life for sooke Too good for earth th' Almighty tooke his spirit And Westminster his Carkas doth inherit In his 5. yeere a strange Earth-quake did much harm● in diuers places of Surry and a sweating sicknesse generally ouer England that dispatched those that were in good health in 12. houres or 24. at the most In one weeke there dyed of it in London 806. the most of them being men of best strength Queene Mary An. Dom. 1553. AFter a while this Queene had worne the Crown Idolatry was rais'd and Truth put downe The Masse the Images the Beades and Altars By tyrannie by fire and sword and Halters Th'vngodly bloudy Antichristian sway Men were force perforce forced to obey Now burning Bonner London Bishop he Was from the Ma●s●al-sea againe ●● free Iohn Dudley great Duke of Northumberland And Sir Iohn Gates dyed by the Headsmans hand With them Sir Thomas Palmer likewise dy'd Hoping for heau'n through ●●●●● Crucified In Latine Seruice must be sung and said Because men should not know for what they pra●'d The Emp'rors sonne great Philip King of Spaine A marriage with Queene Mary did obtaine Against which match Sir Thomas Wyat rose With powers of Kent the Spaniards to oppose But Wyat was or'throwne his armie fled And on the Tower hill after lost his head Lord Gray the Duke of Suffolke also dy'd An Axe his Corps did from his head diuide A little after the Lord Thomas Gray The Dukes owne brother went that headlesse way A Millers sonne assum'd King Edward● name And falsely in that name the Crowne did claime But he was tane and iustly whip'd and tortur'd And claiming it once more was hang'd quarterd King Philip won Saint Quintins with great cost But after to our shame was Callice lost Callice was lost which threescore yeeres and ten Had beene a Garrison for Englishmen Thus by Gods mercy Englands Queene did dye And England gain'd much ease and rest thereby Fiue yeeres and 4. months was her bloudy reigne And all her glory doth one graue containe Though of her selfe this Queene was well inclin'd Bad-minded counsell altred much her minde She married Philip King of Spaine on Saint Iames his day 1554. at Winchester Callice was won by Edward the 3. in the 21. of his reigne 1347. and it was lost the I. of Ianuary 1557. after the English-men had possest it 210. yeeres August 7. 1558. a tempest neere Nottingham beat downe 2. Townes and Churches and cast the Bels to the further side of the Church-yard threw whole sheetes of Lead 400. foot into the fields where they were crumpled together like burns parchment the streame and mud of the Riuer of Trent was blowne a-land a quarter of a mile a childe blowne out of a mans hand 100. foot and kild there fell hayle 15. Inches about Queene Elizabeth An. Dom. 1558. A Debora a Iudith a Susanna A Virgin a Virago a Diana Couragious Zealous Learned Wise and Chasle With heauenly earthly gifts adorn'd and grac'd Victorious glorious bountious gracious good And one whose vertues dignifi'd her bloud That Muses Graces Armes and liberall Arts Amongst all Queens proclaim'd her Queen of hearts She did repurifie this Land once more From the infection of the Romish whore Now Abbies Abbots Fri'rs Monks Nuns Stews Masses and Masse-priests that mens soules abuse Were all cast downe Lamps Tapers Relikes Beads And Superstitions that mans soule misse-leads All Popish pardons Buls Consessions With Crossings Cristening bels Saints Intercessions The Altars Idols Images downe cast All Pilgrimage and Superstitious Fast Th'acknowledging the Pope for supreme head The holy water and the god of bread The mumbling Mattins and the pickpurse Masse These bables this good Queene did turne to grasse She caus'd Gods seruice to be said and sung In our owne vnderstanding English tongue In Scotland and in France fierce warres she held The Irish she subdu'd when they rebeld The Netherlands her name doe still admire And Spaine her like againe doth not desire When forty foure yeers reigne was past and gone She chang'd her earthly for a heauenly Throne At Greenwich she was borne at Richmond dy'd At
golden promises which were neuer performed but with the taking of Buckinghams head at sha●●●●● after specified Now mischiefe beganne to 〈…〉 the Queene was accused of sorcery by the Potector Hastings Lord Chamberlaine was beheaded suddenly without either crime or ●●● in the Towre Poore Iane Shore was also taken and carried to the Towre her goods to the vallue of 3000 ma● kes were seazedon and confiscate to the vse of the Protector She was a woman hauing many good parts and howsoeuer by the command of King Edward the fourth and her owne fra●●● shee fell into ●●● with the King ●●● she was euer inclined and did much good and cannot be taxed in Histories for doing any man hurt The King and his brother were both standred with bastard Duke of Gloucester was proclaimed King which ●●● much modelly he refused though hee meant with all his ●●●●● to take it Anno 1483. RICHARD THE IIJ KING OF ENGLAND And FRANCE LORD OF IRELAND c. AMbition's like vnto quenchlesse thirst Ambition Angels threw from Heauen to Hell Ambition that infernall Hag accurst Ambitiously made me aspire rebell Ambition that damned Necromanticke Spell Made me clime proud with shame to tumble down By bloody murther I did all expell Whose right or might debard me from the Crown My smiles my gifts my fauours or my frowne Were fain'd corrupt vile flattry death and spite By cruell Tyranny I gat renowne Till Heau'n iust Iudge me iustly did require By blood I won by blood I lost the throne Detested liu'd dy'd lou'd bewail'd of none Anno 1483 June 22. Richard Duke of Glocester the 3 some of Richard Duke of Yorke the 3 Duke of Glocester and third of that name King of England Is tyranny and vsurpation griped the Scepter of the kingdome after hee he had proclaimed his Nephewes Bastardy his brother the deceased King Edward the fourths scandall and accused his own mother of adultry making his way to the Regality by the murther of his two innocent Nephewes which murther was committed by the bands of Sir Iames Tirrell Knight and one Myles Forrest and Iohn Dighton which villains murthered then in their bed and buried them beneath a paire of staires vnder an heape of stones in the Towne and in that ledging which in memory of that blanke deed is first named the bloody Towre their bodies were taken ● and againe buried obscurely no man knoweswhere By these means hauing gotten the Goale God ●●●●red his reigne to be his perpetuall sormens ●●●●● without and continuall horrory within the murtherers had part of their payment in this world for Myles Fo●rest ●otted aboue ground peece meale in S t Martins Str Iames Tirrell was executed for treason on the Towre-hill Dighton liu'd a hatted miscreant both of God and man the Duke of Buckingham though innocent of dthe murther yet hee suppresse the young Princes and raised the Tyrant and his end was the losse of his head at Salisbury Shortly after the Diuine iustice began to fall heauy vpon King Richard many of the Nobility and Gentrie for sooke him and fled into Britaine in France to Henry Earle of Richmond who was the onely heyre to the English crowne of the Line of the house of Lancaster king Richard in the dangers would haue procured a most wicked safety by marr●ing the Lady Elizabeth eldest daughter is his deceased brother King Edward the fourth the only inheritix of the house of York lawfull heyre to the Crowne but Gods prouidence and the Ladies vertue with stood that incestuous match shortly after Henry of Richmond arriued at Milford hauen in Wales where his Army encreasing met Richard at Redmere field neere Posworth seuen miles from Leicester where Richard vahautly fighting was slaine 1485 August 23 and was buried at Leycester HENRY THE VIJ KING OF ENGLAND And FRANCE LORD OF IRELAND ●Was the man by Gods high grace assign'd ●That for this restlesse Kingdome purchas'd rest ●ork and Lancaster in one combin'd ●● sundred had each other long opprest ●● strength and policy th' Almighty blest ●● good successe from first vnto the last ●● high ●houab turned to the best ● orld of perills which my youth o're past ●● white and red Rose I conioyned fast ●sacred Marriages coniugall band ●●ytors tam'd and treason stood agast ●● strong guarded by my Makers hand ●nglory and magnificence I raign'd And fame loue and a tombe was all I gain'd Anno Dom. 1485 August 22 Monday Henry of that name the seuenth King of England was Earle of Richmond borne in Pembroke-Castle in Wales sonne of Edmund of Hadham Earle of Richmond Sonne of Owen Theodore and Queene Katherin the French King daughter late wife to King Henry the sist was crowned at Westminster the 30 day of October by the bands of Thomas Bourghchier Archbishop of Conterbury this Prince was wise valsant and fortunate Through many perals hazards he had past his life and attained the Royalty of Englands throne and with much prudence and mu●●●ble fortitude be gouerned this Land Maugre many dangerous attempts and treacherom consp●acses plott●● against hun and his designes had such ausptcsous euents thus still hee was victori●●● ouer surre●gne cuall and 〈…〉 troubles One Lambest Simnei a Bakers sonne claimed the crowns countersetting in●●●else to be Edward Earle of Warwicke sonne of George Duke of Clarence Some write that ●●e assumed to bee one of king Edward the fourthes sonne which was murthered in the Toure howsoeuer Hambert gat into Ireland and in Christ Church in Dublin was crowned King of England and Ireland hee with an Armie landed at Fowdrey in Lancashire but King Henry met him and at the battell of Stoke he took him prisoner pardon'd him his life and gaue him a turn-spits place in his kitchen and after maue him one of his saulkners Lambert was net long supprest but another of his stamp supphes his roome of a rebellious imposture Peter or Perkin Warbecke the sonne of a Iew borne in Torney claimed the Crowne by the counterfest stile of Richard Second sonne to King Edward the fourth Perkin gat into England and after into Scotland where ●●● preuailed that he was married to the Lady Katherin Gordon the Earle of Huntleys daughters K. Iames the fourths kinsnman the rebels in Kent were ouen thwone and their Captante the Lord Audley taken and beheaded Perkin came out of Scotland and moues the ●●● men to ayae him King Henry net ouercame and ●●● and pardon ' him another counterfest a shoemakers son named Ralph Milford ●●● the Crowne and purchast'd a balter Perkin Warback Sica from the King and againe was taken and executed as Tyburnc King Henry gaue his daughter the Lady Margaret in ●●● to Iames ●●e fourth King of Scotland Arthur Prince of Wales the eldest Sonne of Henry Married with the Lady Katherin daughter to the King of Spaine but the Prince dyed ●●● after The King gathered a ●●● masse of money to the general grieuance of the subiects he had three font Arthur Henry
Orbes and Planets did stand vnmoueable and that only the Terrestriall Globe turnes round daily according to the motion of Time yet could the World haue no resemblance of a foure-wheel'd Coach but in all reason it must whir●● round but vpon one Axeltree like a twowheelde Cart. Nor can the searching eye or most admirable Art of Astronomie euer yet finde that a Coach could attaine to that high exaltation of honour as to be placed in the Firmament It is apparantly seen that Charles his Cart which we by custome call Charles his Waine is most gloriously stellifide where in the large Circumference of Heauen it is a most vsefull and beneficiall Sea-marke and somtimes a Land-marke too guiding and directing in the right way such as trauaile on Neptunos waylesse Bosome and many which are often benighted in wilde and desert passages as my selfe can witnesse vpon New market heath where if that good ●●● had not Carted me to my Lodging I and my Horse might haue wandred I know not whither Moreouer as Man is the most noblest of all Creatures and all foure-footed Beasts are ordayned for his vse and seruice so a Cart is the Embleme of a Man and a Coach is the Figure of a Beast For as Man hath two legges a Cart h●●h two wheeles The Coach being in the like ●●● the true resemblance of a Beast by which is parabolically demonstrated vnto vs that as much as Men are superior to Beasts so much are honest and needfull Carts more nobly to be regarded esteemed aboue needlesse vpstart ●●●sticall and Time troubling Coaches And as necessities and things whose commodious vses cannot be wanted are to be respected before Toyes and trifles whose beginning is Folly continuance Pride and whose end is Ruine I say as necessity is to be preferred before superfluity so is the Cart before the Coach For Stones Timber Corne Wine ●eete or any thing that wants life there is a ●●● they should be carried because they are dead things and cannot goe on foot which necessity the honest Cart doth supply But the coach like a superfluous bable or vncharitable ●●●er doth seldom or neuer carry or help any ●ead or helplesse thing but on the contrary it helps those that can help themselues like Scog●●● when he greazd the fat Sow on the Butt●●● and carries men and women who are a●●● goe or run● Ergo the Cart is necessary and the Coach superfluous Besides I am verily perswaded that the ●●●est Coxcombe that euer was iolted in a ●●●● will not ●e so impudent but will con●●● that humility is to be preferred before ●●●● which being granted note the affa●ility ●● low lines of the Cart and the pride and in●●lency of the Coach For the carman humbly ●●●●● it on foot as his Beast doth whilest the ●●●●●● is mounted his fellow-horses and himselfe being all in a Liuery with as many ●●●●ieties of Laces facings Cloth and Colours ●●●●● in the R●●nebowe like a Motion or Pa●●● rides in state and loades the poure Beast which the carman doth not and if the Carmans horse bee melancholly or dull with hard and heauy labour then will he like a kinde Piper whistle him a fit of mirth to any tune from aboue Eela to below Gammoth of which generositie and courtesie your coachman is altogether ignorant for he neuer whistles but all his musicke is to rappe out an oath or blurt out a curse against his Teeme The word carmen as I find it in the Dictionary doth signifie a Verse or a Song and betwixt Carmen and Carmen there is some good correspondency for Versing Singing and Whistling are all three Musicall besides the Cart-horse is a more learned beast then the Coach-horse for scarse any Coachhorse in the world doth know any letter in the Booke when as euery Carthorse doth know the letter G very vnderstandingly If Adultery or Fornication bee committed in a Coach it may be grauely and discreetly punished in a Cart for as by this meanes the coach may be a running Bawdy-house of abomination so the Cart may and often is the sober modest and ciuill pac'd Instrument of Reformation so as the Coach may be vices infection the Cart often is vices correction It was a time of famous memorable misery when the Danes had tyrannicall insulting domination in this land for the slauery of the English was so insupportable that hee must Plow Sow Reape Thrash Winnow Grinde Sift Leauen Knead and Bake and the domineering Dane would doe nothing but sleepe play and eate the fruit of the Englishmans labour which well may bee alluded to the carefull Cars for let it plough carry and re-carry early or late all times weathers yet the hungry Coach gnawes him to the very bones Oh beware of a Coach as you would doe of a Tyger a Wolf or a Leuiathan I le assure you it eats more though it drinkes lesse then the Coachman and his whole Teeme it hath a mouth gaping on each side like a monster with which they haue swallowed all the good housekeeping in England It lately like a most insatiable deuouring Beast did eate vp a Knight a neighbour of mine in the County of N. a Wood of aboue 400. Akers as if it had beene but a bunch of Radish of another it deuoured a whole Castle as it had beene a Marchpane scarcely allowing the Knight and his Lady halfe a cold shoulder of Mutton to their suppers on a Thursday night out of which reuersion the Coachman and the Footeman could pick but hungry Vailes in another place passing through a Parke it could not be content to eate vp all the Deere and other grazing Cat●ell but it bitvp all the Oakes that stood bare-headed there to doe homage to their Lord and Maister euer since the conquest crushing their olde sides as easily as one of our fine Daines with a poysoned breath will snap a Cinamon stick or with as much facility as a Bewde will eate a Pipin Tart or swallow a ●●ewed Pruine For what call you the Towne where the great Oysters come from there it hath eaten vp a Church Chauncell Steeple Bells and all and it threatens a great Common that lyes neere which in diebus illis hath relieued thousands of poore people may so hungry it is that it will scarcely endure in a Gentlemans house a poore neighbours childe so much as to turne a Spit nor a Yeomans sonne to enter the house though but in good will to the Chamber maide who anciently from 16. to 36. was wont to haue his breeding either in the Burtry or Celler Stable or Larder and to bid good man Hobs good wife Grub or the youth of the parish welcome at a Christmas time but those dates are gone and their fellowes are neuer like to be seene about any of our to gallime houses There was a Knight an acquain●●ce of mine whoseh wole means in the world was but three score pounds a yeere and aboue 20. of the same went for his Wiues coach-●●●● now