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A02836	Quodlibets lately come ouer from New Britaniola, old Newfound-land Epigrams and other small parcels, both morall and diuine. The first foure bookes being the authors owne: the rest translated out of that excellent epigrammatist, Mr. Iohn Owen, and other rare authors: with two epistles of that excellently wittie doctor, Francis Rablais: translated out of his French at large. All of them composed and done at Harbor-Grace in Britaniola, anciently called Newfound-Land. / By R.H. sometimes Gouernour of the plantation there.	Hayman, Robert, 1578 or 9-1631?.; Owen, John, 1560?-1622. Epigrammata. Book 1-4. English. Selections.; Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?; Habert, Francois, ca. 1508-ca. 1561.	1628 (1628)	STC 12974; ESTC S106081	67,153	134

Lawes And the ten bloody persecutions Was by th' authority of Romes great ones 92. Two Prouerbs coupled As those that get goods ill doe them ill spend So an ill life makes an vngodly end 93. Good Counsell ill Example Those that perswade others to Godlinesse And liue themselues vngodly nerethelesse Are like a ships Cooke that calls all to prayer And yet the greazie Carle will net come there 94. To an Vpstart Thine old friends thou forget'st hauing got wealth No maruaile for thou hast forgot thy selfe 95. Christ in the middest He that on earth with low humility Betwixt two Theeues vpon Mount Caluary Acted his Passiue-actiue Passion In highest heauen in supreme dignity Seating himselfe betwixt the Deity Acts his Actiue-passiue compassion O let me beare what thou dost act in me And act what may be suffered by Thee 96. Gods Word is a two-edged Sword Gods Word wounds both wayes like a two-edg'd Sword The Preachers and the Hearers of the Word The fore edge wounds the Hearers on the pate The backe-edge on the Preachers doth rebate 97. To the admirably witty and excellently learned Sir Nicholas Smith Knight of Lorkbeare neere Exeter my ancient friend Taking occasion of an Anigram of his N. S. Tulaus mihi cos es Praises on duller wits a sharp edge breeds Your Wit 's all edge he no such whet-stone needs Yet your steeld Iudgement sharpe inuention Temperd with learning and discretion Millions of praises merits as their due Who knowes you well knowes well that I speake true 98. To the right worshipfull William Noy Esquire one of the Benchers of Lincolnes Inue long since of my acquaintance both in Oxford and London Noah the second father of all soules Had in his Arke all beasts and feathered fowles You in your Arke as in a plenteous hoord Haue stor'd what Wit or Learning can afford For all Lawes Common Ciuill or Diuine For Histories of old or of our time For Morall Learning or Philosophy You are an exact liuing Library But your rich mind mixt with no base allay Is ancient Opher of the old assay I may feare drowing lanch I further forth In the large full deepe Deluge of your worth 99. To the right worshipfull Nicholas Ducke Esquire one of the Benchers of Lincolnes Inne and Recorder of the City of Exeter my Cousin German Although those Creatures called by your name For their delight in dirt deserue much blame And though that some of your profession Are glad when they haue got possession Of the foule end or will dirt a cleere case You in your Circuittread a cleaner pase I know it you abhorre those sordid things And where 't was foule before you cleere the springs For which wise honest men you high esteemes May your yong Duckling paddle in like streames 100. To the right worshipfull Arthur Ducke Doctor of the Ciuill Law and Chancellor of London Bath and Wells my Cousin German To correct Sinne and Folly to disgrace To find out Truth and Cunning steps to trace To doe this mildly with an vpright pace Are vertues in you fitted for your place 101. An Epithalamium On the Marriage of Doctor Arthur Ducke with one of the Daughters and Coheires of Henry Southworth Esquire Amongst your best friends I am not ingrate To God who hath you giuen so good a mate Faire Vertuous Louing with a great estate Would I had such another at the rate 102. To the right worshipfull William Hackwell Esquire one of the Benehers of Lincolnes Inne my ancient kind friend Your large compleat sollid sufficiency Hid in the vaile of your wise modesty Your quaint neat learning your acute quicke wit And sincere heart for great employments fit Beside your Law wherein you doe excell Because you little shew of your great deale None can know well except they know you well 103. To the Reuerend George Hackwell Doctor in Diuinity Archdeacon of Surry my ancient kind friend Should I dilate all your great gifts at large Which for my weake Muse were too hard a charge An Epigram would to a volume grow If I their large particulars should show You haue your brothers whole sufficiency Saue for his Law you haue Diuinity This may I adde and with great ioy relate For which to you oblig'd is our whole State In our blest best plot you haue sow'd good seeds Which doe out-grow Natures quick-growing weeds 104. To the right worshipfull Iohn Barker Esquire late Maior of the City of Bristoll my louing and kind brother in Law Bristoll your Birth place where you haue augmented Much your much left you is well recompenced In Counsell Office and in Parliament For her good you haue shew'd your good intent As you doe grace the place that did you breed I pray your Sonnes sonnes may there so succeed 105 To the wise and learned S. B. K. Knight A Poet rich a Iudge and a Iust man In few but you are all these found in one 106 To the right worshipfull Iohn Doughty Alderman of Bristoll of his right worthy wife my especiall good friends I haue heard many say they 'd not remarry If before them their kind wiues should miscarry I feare some of them from their words would vary Should your wife dye sad sole you would remaine I haue sufficient reason for my aime You cannot find so good a wife againe 107. To the worshipfull Richard Long of Bristoll Merchant and his good wife my kind and louing friends Vnthankefulnes is the great Sinne of Sinnes But Thankefulnes to Kindnes kindnes winnes For your deare loue accept my thankes therefore An honest heart is grieu'd he can no more 108 To the Reuerend Doctor Thomas Winnife Deane of Glocester Prebend of Pauls and Chaplaine to King CHARLES anciently of my acquaintance in Exceter Colledge in Oxford Your sollid learning and sincere behauiour Haue worthily brought you into great fauour And you are Deane of Gloria Caesaris Such Chaplaines our great Caesars glory is 109 To the right worshipfull Richard Spicer Doctor of Physicke my louing and kind Kinsman Apollo first Inuentor of your Arte His hidden secrets doth to you impart Old Galen Auicen and all the rest Haue with their knowledge your graue iudgement blest You are both wise and happy in your skill Doing continuall good and no man ill 110. To the right worshipfull Robert Viluain Doctor of Physicke my ancient friend in Exeter Colledge in Oxford Let me change your Paternall name Vilvaine Somewhat more aptly and call you Feele-vaine In Physicke still you are as good as any And with your Recipe's you haue holp't many Wherefore in troopes the to sicke you repaire Who hath your helpe need not of health despaire 111. To the Reuerend learned acute and witty Master Charles Fitz-Geoffery Bachelor in Diuinity my especiall kind friend most excellent Poet. Blind Poet Homer you doe equalize Though he saw more with none then most with eyes Our Geoffery Chaucer who wrote quaintly neat In verse you match equall him in conceit Featur'd

We know thee rich and thou think'st thy selfe fine Thou think'st we loue thee we know we loue thine 69. Why Physicians thriue not in Bristoll In Bristoll Water-tumblers get small wealth There Doctor good-wine keepes them all in health 70. To my Readers An Arsee-versee Request to my Friend Iohn Owen Doe not with my leaues make thy backeside bright Rather with them doe thou Tobacco light I 'd rather haue them vp in flames to flye Then to be stiffled basely priuily 71. Health and Wealth Health is a Iewell yet though shining wealth Can buy rich Iewels it cannot buy health 72. To Inuocators of Saints To Saints you offer supplication And say Gods face beholding they them know This is a strange bold speculation Whence came the Doctor that first told you so In Gods Word wee doe read that God sees all Of such a glasse no mention made at all 73. To those Papists who shew their ignorant Deuotion in their Aue Maries How long shall Ignorance lead you astray Whil'st to our Lady you 'd a prayer say You her salute and needlesse for her pray 74. To one of the Elders of the sanctified Parlor of Amsterdam Though thou maist call my merriments my folly They are my Pills to purge my melancholly They would purge thine too wert not thou Foole-holy 75. Great mens entertainement Though rich mens troubles kindnes are esteem'd Yet poore mens kidnes troubles are still deem'd 77. To a Bad-minded Cholericke vngratefull man Thou soone forget'st those wrongs thou dost to Men All small wrongs done to thee thou dost remember Euery good turne thou dost thou count'st it ten For good done to thee thy record is slender Kindnes from thee like vomits make thee sweate Thou swallow'st others kindnes as thy meate 78. To Master Fabian Sanford Master of our Shippe and voyage in Newfound-Land and may serue for all Masters trading there Men wearied are with labour other-where But you are weary when you want it here And what in England would quite tire a horse Here the want of it tyres you ten times worse Labour was first a curse to curbe mans pride The want of it makes you to curse chafe chide To see you worke thus better would me please Did you not worke thus vpon Sabbath Dayes 79. Goodnes and Greatnes To my good and louing Cousin Mistris Thomasin Spicer wife to Doctor Richard Spicer Physicion Goodnes and Greatnes falling at debate Which should be highest in mens estimate After much strife they vpon this did rest Great-goodnes and Good-greatnes is the best 80. Mary Magdalens Teares To my pretty Neece Marie Barker To wash Christs feet Maries Bath was her teares To wipe them drie her Towell was her haires What her teares could not cleanse nor haires makes dry Her Corrall lips did wipe and mundifie She did anoynt him with a sweet rich oyle And spared for no cost nor for no toyle This Storie merits to be Registred And to be practised as well as read 81. To my Neece and God-daughter Grace Barkes I promist you should doe good and fly ill Before that you had power or will or skill Lame Nature I knew could not walke that pace Without Gods Grace therefore I nam'd you Grace Let mild Grace so sway Nature in you then That you may obtaine Grace with God and Men. 82. To a namelesse wise modest faire Gentlewoman my louing and kind Friend whom reciprocally I loue as hartily Iuno is wealth Pallas is vertue wit Venus Loue beautie is in Poets writ Pallas and Venus haue in you their treasure Why should hard Iuno offer vs such measure 83. To our most Royall Queene MARY Wife Daughter and Sister to three Famous Kings Venus and Pallas at your birth conspir'd To make a worke of all to be admir'd Venus with admir'd feature did you grace Diuine complection an Angellike face Pallas inspir'd a quicke sweet nimble spirit Vertue and wit of admirable merit But I admire them most how they could place So much so admirable in so small space And they themselues admir'd when they had ended A Piece which they knew could not be amended 84. To the same most Royall Queene When wise Columbus offerd his New-land To Wise men they him held vaine foolish fond Yet a wise Woman of an happy wit With god successe aduentur'd vpon it Then the wise-men their wisedomes did repent And their heires since their follies doe lament My New-land Madam is already knowne The way the ayre the earth all therein growne It only wants a Woman of your spirit To mak 't a Land fit for your Heires t' inherit Sweet dreaded Queene your helpe here will doe well Be here a Famous second Isabell. 85. A Newfound-land Poeticall Picture of the admirable exactly featur'd young Gentlewoman Mistris Anne Lowe eldest Daughter to Sir Gabriel Lowe Knight my delicate Mistris The Preface to her Picture At sight Loue drewe your picture on my heart In Newfound-Land I limm'd it by my Art 86 The Pourtraite If Paris vpon Ida hill had seene You 'mongst the Three the Apple yours had beene Had curious Zeuxis seene your-all-excelling Whilst Iunoes Picture he was pencelling You had him eas'd in his various collection For Beautie hath in you a full Connection 87. To the faire and vertuous Gentlewoman Mistris Mary Winter the younger worthy of all loue Your budding beauty wit grace modesty I did admire euen in your infancy These blessed buds each growne to a faire flowre Much haue I lou'd since my first lawfull houre Whome few crosse-Winters haue made old and sad One such fayre Winter would make young and glad 88. To the same beauteous modest Virgin an Aenigma Had not false shuffling Fortune paltered Hymen had Hyems long since altered 88. To a faire modest Creature who deserues a worthy name though she desires here to be namelesse Niggardly Venus beauty doth impart To diuers diuersly and but in part To one a dainty Eye a cherry Cheeke To some a tempting Lip Brests white and sleeke To diuers ill-shap'd bodies a sweet face Cleane made Legs or a white hand doth some grace On Thee more free her gifts She doth bestow For Shee hath set Thee out in Folio 90. To my outwardly faire and inwardly vertuous kind friend Mistris Marie Rogers widdow since marryed to Master Iohn Barker of Bristoll Merchant my kind and louing Brother in Law Lillies and Roses on your face are spred Yet trust not too much to your white and red Lillies will fade Roses their leaues will shed These flowres may dye long before you are dead Your inward beautie which all doe not see Then white and red and you more lasting be 91. To the faire vertuous wittie widdow Mistris Sara Smeyths If it be true as some doe know too well To Louers Heauen we passe through Louers Hell Be confident you shall enjoy Earths glorie For you on Earth are past your Purgatorie 92. To my kind and worthy Friend Mistris E. B. wife to Captaine H. B. By my Captaines

bones to eate Flesh on Fasting dayes Thou holdst thou saist the old Religion Yet I know the new Dyet best likes thee That which thou call'st the new opinion I hold yet the old Dyet best likes mee 29. Poperies Pedigree Papistry is an old Religion Some part more old then Circumcision And some as ancient as are Moses Lawes From whose Lees she some Ceremonies drawes Which she will hold by old tradition It is indeed a new hodg-podgerie Of Iewish rites elder Idolatry Of these old simples a new composition 30. The Married to the Chaste It would this World quickly depopulate If euery one should dye in your estate 31. The Chaste to the Married Therein you haue the odds herein wee 'r euen You fill the world but we doe people heauen 32. A Description of a Puritane out of this part of the Letany From Blindnesse of Heart Pride Vaine glory c. Though Puritanes the Letany deride Yet out of it they best may be descride They are blind-hearted Proud Vaine-glorious Deepe Hypocrites Hatefull and Enuious Malitious in a full high excesse And full of all Vncharitablenesse A Prayer hereupon Since all tart Puritanes are furnisht thus From such false Knaues Good Lord deliuer vs. 33. Loue is betwixt Equals Rich friends for rich friends will ride runne and row Through dirt and dangers cheerefully they 'll goe If poore friends come home to them for a pleasure They cannot find the Gentleman at leisure 34. The difference betwixt good men and bad is best seene after death Good men like waxe-lights blow'n out sauour well Bad men like tallow leaue a stinking smell Bad mens Fame may flame more while they haue breath But Good mens Name smell sweeter after death 35. To Sir Peirce Penny-lesse Though little coyne thy purse-lesse pocket lyne Yet with great company thou art ta'en vp For often with Duke Humfrey thou dost dyne And often with Sir Thomas Gresham sup 36 The reward of Charity To a rich Friend Would'st thou be pittied after thou art dead Be pittifull whil'st thou thy life dost lead If whilst thou liu'st the poore thou dost releeue Fearing the like supply for thee they 'll greeue If now thou giu'st them nought when thou art gone They will be glad hoping for a new gowne 37. What haue Foolish men to doe with Princes Secrets Thought vpon on the preparation of a great Fleet and may serue for all such actions hereafter Fond men doe wonder where this Fleet shall goe I should more wonder if that I should know 38. A Secret of State Though Peace be loue lyer honourabler then Warre Yet warlike Kings most lou'd and honor'd are 39. Kings Paramount Subiection What wayes Kings walke Subjects the same will goe And many Kings expect they should doe soe Therefore should Kings follow the King Almightie Kings are Gods Subiects if they gouerne rightly 40. Why Women are longer attyring of themselues then Men. Women tyring themselues haue many lets Their Fillets Frontlets Partlets and Bracelets Whilst downe-right-neatlesse-plaine men haue but one A Duoblet double-let in putting on 41 Christ and Antichrist Christ in the Temple shopboords ouerthrew Whipt thence the buying and the selling crue The Pope in his Church sets vp his free Faire And whips all those that will not buy his Ware 42. Wise men may be mistaken Puritanes ragged Reason of the rag of Popery and Papists rotten Reason of thread-bare Antiquitie Some too precize will not some customes vse Because that Papists did them once abuse As good a reason in sinceritie As Papists oldnesse without veritie Though these deserue to be hist off the Schooles Yet they are held by those that are no Fooles 42 Vnrighteous Mammon Poets faind Pluto God of wealth and Hell For they perceiu'd few got their riches well 44. A Dialogue betwixt a Wise King and a good Christian. The Wise King My neighbours secrets I desire to know That I their priuate plots may ouerthrow The good Christian. I doe neglect my Neighbours words and deedes I carefully suruey mine owne proceeds The Wise King If that my friends offer to doe me harme I smite them first and seeke them to disarme The good Christian. Though that my Foes doe wrong me euery houre I doe them all the good lyes in my power The Wise King By these and Iustice I shall wisely raigne The Good Christian. By this and faith Heauens Kingdome I shall gaine 45. Sad-Mens liues are longer then Merry-Mens A Paradox To him whose heauy griefe hath no allay Of lightning comfort three houres is a day But vnto him that hath his hearts content Friday is come ere he thinkes Tuesday spent 46. Poperies principall Absurdities Of all the hud-winkt trickes in Popery This is the lamentablest foppery When God is made to speake and to command Men in a tongue they doe not vnderstand And Men commanded are to Sing and Pray To such fond things that know not what they say And these men hauing madly sadly pray'd Themselues doe not know what themselues haue said 47. Of those who are too Kinde too Courteous c. Who ouerdoe good things Exuberant goodnesse good mens names haue stain'd Their too ranke Vertue is by some disdain'd Yet 't is not Vice but Vertue ouer strain'd 48. Some Mens Testament is not their Will He that will nothing spare whil'st he doth liue And when he dyes vnwillingly doth giue Bequeathing what he gladly would keepe still Makes a good Testament but an ill Will 49. Why Wiues can make no Wills Men dying make their Will● why cannot Wiues Because Wiues haue their wills during their liues 50. A iust Retaliation Dead Men bite not great reason is there then That we which now doe liue should not bite them 51. A Prayer Lord send me Patience and Humility And then send Plenty or Aduersity So if I be obseru'd or disrespected I shall not be puft vp nor yet deiected 52. Reuerent Graue Preachers On holy dayes I would heare such a Man Graue holy full of good instruction 53 Neat quaint nimble Pulpit Wits These nimble Lads are fit for working dayes Their witty Sermons may keepe some from playes 54. Diuers complections and diuers Conditions A quiet chast mind in flesh faire and neate Is like to dainty sawce and dainty meate A hansome body with a mind debaust Is like to dainty meate sluttishly saust A good wise mind in flesh ill-fauoured Is course meate sweetly saust well-sauoured A froward lewde mind in an ill shap't seate Is scuruy-scuruy sawce and scuruy meate 55. Our Births and Deaths Reioycing and Mourning When we are borne our friends reioyce we cry But we reioyce our friends mourne when we dye 56. The Vanity of a Papisticall Shift You say you worship not the wood nor stone For that 's but the representation Wise Heathen vs'd this Fine Distinction Millions that know not this subtility Commit plaine palpable Idolatry Which you in them doe take some paines to breed That on their offerings you may fatly feed

Too much too little hurts Light Corne beares ground that 's not with dressing dight Without some learning wit growes vaine and light As too much dressing cause weeds ranck and bad So too much Learning makes a quicke wit mad 21. Greatnes and Loue moue not in one Spheare Greatnes soares vpward Loue is downeward mou'd Hence 't is that Greatnes Loues not nor is Lou'd 22. To an enuied Fauorite right worthy of his preferment Enuious and bad 'gainst vertue goodnesse fight Would Good and wise did vnderstand you right 23. To a casheard Fauorite who hath deserued his disgrace I grieue at thy disgrace blush at thy shame But this drawes teares Thou hast deseru'd the same 24. How Little how Great The least of all the fixed Stars they say Is some times bigger then the earth and Sea Poore little I that from earth haue my birth Am but a clod compared to the Earth How little now how great shall I be then When I in Heauen like to a Starre shall shine 25. On Young weekely Newes-writers old Chroniclers Currantiers lye by Vbiquity But Chroniclers lye by Authority Newes-writers Trauellers are Historians old Trauellers and old men to lye may be bold Not then Not there cannot their lyes vnfold 26. Conscience Whilst concious men of smallest sinnes haue ruth Bold sinners count great Sinnes but tricks of youth 27. To a weake braind Good-fellow Thy braine is weake strong drinke thou canst not beare Follow my Rule Strong drinke doe thou forbeare 28. The only Foundation Rocke of Christs Church To the Diuines of Rome Out of the Creed wherein we both consent Peter I proue is not the Rocke Christ ment Doe we belieue in God of all the maker In that the Iew with vs is a partaker Doe we belieue that Christ was borne and dy'd And that he was vnjustly Crucifi'd The Turke beleues so and sayes he did stand Till theirs came mediating at Gods right hand That he shall Iudge all that beleeue in him Both Iew and Turke Forgiuenes of all sinne Belieue the fleshes Resurrection The blessed Saints holy Communion And life eternall almost as we doe And that their Church is Catholicke and true They doe beleeue the Spirits influence Though not like vs but in a larger sense But all within our Creed which doth conduce To proue Christ Iesus is the only sluce Of our Saluation and Gods only Sonne In that we Christians doe beleeue alone This is the Rocke whereon Christs Church is built Take away this all our Faiths frame will tylt And this was Peters wise confession Whence I deduce this firme conclusion Not Peter his confession the Rock is And Christ said not On Thee but Vpon This. 29. An honest wrong'd Mans Meditations Since for my Loue Friends me vnkindly serue God will not vse me as I doe deserue 30. The good effects of Corrections Sea-water though 't be salt salt meates makes fresh So doth correction our ill liues redresse 31. Preachers Fame and Ayme Young Preachers to doe well doe take much paine That all may doe well is old Preachers ayme 32. To the Reader This one fault Reader pardon and endure If striuing to be briefe I grow obscure 33. A Christian Meditation I hope and I doe faithfully beleeue That God in loue will me Saluation giue I hope and my assured firme faith is God will accept my Loue to him and his I hope by faith his Loue will me afford All this only through Iesus Christ our Lord. 34. A Messe of Mistakers Lewd loose large lust is loue with Familists Papists chiefe Hope in their owne workes consists Some Protestants on barren Faith relye Atheists haue no Faith Hope nor Charity 35. An Appendix to this Epigram Loue is the fruite Hope the leaues Faith the tree Who hath a perfect Faith hath all these three Only by such a Faith men saued be 36. A Guilty Conscience When God did call to Adam Where art thou He meant not thereby where or in what place God knew in which bush he was well enough But Where art Adam that is In what case 37. To giue the Church of Rome her due To a Separatist Though thou art loth to put it in thy Creed The Church of Rome is a true Church indeed So is a Thiefe a true truely a man Although he be not truely a true one How is it else that Children there baptizde By other Christians Christians are agnizde 38. To Quick siluer headded Innouators Because of the vncertainty of Wits Our Law commands a certainty in Writs For as good cause is our Church Lythurgie Wisly reduced to a certainty If that were yeelded to that some men seeke We should haue new Church-Seruice euery weeke 39. Faire Good Wiues Cleare-skind true colour'd Wiues with exact features With wise mild chaste Soules are the best of Creatures 40. Faire Shrewes Cleare-skind faire colour'd Wiues with exact features With shrewd lew'd wild minds are the worst of creatures 41. A Probleme hereupon If fine flesh be so ill with an ill mind What is a foule outside thus inward lin'd 42. A Trestick to these three Disticks by way of Answer To all constant Batchelers especially to my Good Friend Mr. Roger Michell Caribdis one the other Sylla is And though the first an harbour be of blisse You steare the safest course these Rockes to misse 43. To an honest old doting Man such as I may be if I liue a little longer A Lyer should haue a good memory For want of it thou vtterest many a Lye Thou dost remember many things in great But the particulars thou dost forget Thou tell'st thy Lyes without ill thought or paine Th' are no malicious Lyes nor Lyes for gaine 44. A Crue of Cursing Companions To the Bishop of Rome With Bell Booke Candle each Ascension day Thou cursest vs who for thee yeerely pray But on good Fryday the Greeke Patriark Doth banne thee branding thee with this lewd marke He stiles thee Father of Corruption Of Ancient Fathers the corrupting One They saw long since thy knauish forgery As we now see thy Purging Knauery 45. To the same man He that doth dead Saints Reliques Idolize Their liuing writings lewdly falsifies 46. Enuies Dyet Old wits haue seuerall wayes drest Enuies food Each hath his sawce if rightly vnderstood Her owne heart her owne flesh A Toade A Bone Which she deuoureth sitting all alone Though these are faire This dish doth me best please When I find her gnawing a wreathe of Bayes For her chiefe food Is well deserued praise 47. To a hansome Whore One told me what a pretty face thou hast And it 's great pitty that thou art not chaste But I did tell him that did tell it me That if thou wert not Faire thou chaste wouldst be 48. The mad life of a mad Sea-man of Warre He liues and thriues by death and by decay He drinkes sweares curseth sometimes he doth pray That he may meet somewhat to be his prey And spends the rest in sleepe

Companion With one I 'd giue you your deserued due And with the other serue and follow you 97. To the right Honourable Sir George Caluert Knight Baron of Baltamore and Lord of Aualon in Britaniola who came ouer to see his Land there 1627. Great Shebae's wise Queene traueld farre to see Whether the truth did with report agree You by report perswaded laid out much Then wisely came to see if it were such You came and saw admir'd what you had seene With like successe as the wise Sheba Queene If euery Sharer heere would take like paine This Land would soone be peopled to their gaine 98. To the same right wise and right worthy Noble-man This shall be said whil'st that the world doth stand Your Honor 't was first honoured this Land 99. To the right worshipfull Planters of Bristoll-Hope in the new Kingdome of Britaniola When I to you your Bristoll-Hope commend Reck'ning your gaine if you would thither send What you can spare You little credit me The mischiefe is you 'le not come here and see Here you would quickly see more then my selfe Then would you style it Bristols-Hope of wealth 100. To the right worshipfull William Robinson of Tinwell in Rutland shire Esquire come ouer to see Newfound-Land with my Lord of Baltamore 1627. Strange not to see stones here aboue the ground Large vntrencht bottomes vnder water drown'd Hills and Plaines full of trees both small and great And dryer bottomes deepe of Turfe and Peace When England was vs'd for a Fishing place By Coasters only 't was in the same case And so vnlouely't had continued still Had not our Ancestors vs'd paines and skill How much bad ground with mattock and with spade Since we were borne hath there beene good ground made You and I rooted haue Trees Brakes and stone Both for succeeding good and for our owne 101. To the first Planters of Newfound-land What ayme you at in your Plantation Sought you the Honour of our Nation Or did you hope to raise your owne renowne Or else to adde a Kingdome to a Crowne Or Christs true Doctrine for to propagate Or drawe Saluages to a blessed state Or our o're peopled Kingdome to relieue Or shew poore men where they may richly liue Or poore mens children godly to maintaine Or amy'd you at your owne sweete priuate gaine All these you had atchiu'd before this day And all these you haue balk't by your delay 102. To my Reuerend kind friend Master Erasmus Sturton Preacher of the Word of God and Parson of Ferry Land in the Prouince of Avalon in Newfound-Land No man should be more welcome to this place Then such as you Angels of Peace and Grace As you were sent here by the Lords command Be you the blest Apostle of this Land To Infidels doe you Euangelize Making chose that are rude sober and wise I pray that Lord that did you hither send You may our cursings swearing iouring mend 103. To my very louing and discreet Friend Master Peter Miller of Bristoll You askt me once What here was our chiefe dish In Winter Fowle in Summer choyce of Fish But wee should need good Stomackes you may thinke To eate such kind of things which with you stinke As Rauens Crowes Kytes Otters Poxes Beares Dogs Cats and Soyles Eaglets Hawks Hounds Hares Yet we haue Partriges and store of Deare And that I thinke with you is pretty cheere Yet let me tell you Sir what I loue best It s a Poore-Iohn that 's cleane and neatly drest There 's not a meat found in the Land or Seas Can Stomacks better please or lesse displease It is a fish of profit and of pleasure I le write more of it when I haue more leisure There and much more are here the ancient store Since we came hither we haue added more 104. To some discreet people who thinke any body good enough for a Plantation When you doe see an idle lewd young man You say hee 's fit for our Plantation Knowing your selfe to be rich sober wise You set your owne worth at an higher price I say such men as you are were more fit And most conuenient for first peopling it Such men as you would quickly profit here Lewd lazy Lubbers want wit grace and care 105. To the famous wise and learned Sisters the two Vniuersities of England Oxford and Cambridge The ancient Iewes did take a world of paine And traueld farre some Proselites to gaine The busie pated Iesuites in our dayes To make some theirs doe compasse Land and Seas The Mahumetan Heathen moderne Iew Doe daily striue to make some of their crue Yet to our shame we idly doe stand still And suffer God his number vp to fill Yee worthy Sisters raze this imputation Send forth your Sonnes vnto our New Plantation Yet send such as are Holy wise and able That may build Christs Church as these doe build Babel If you exceed not these in Righteousnes I need not tell your Wisedomes the successe 106. To answer a Friend who asked me Why I did not compose some Encomiasticks in praise of Noble men and Great Courtiers As my friend Iohn Owen hath done I knew the Court well in the old Queenes dayes I then knew Worthies worthy of great praise But now I am there such a stranger growne That none doe know me there there I know none Those few I here obserue with commendation Are Famous Starres in our New Constellation The end of the second Booke THE THIRD BOOKE OF QVODLIBETS Iustice Epigram KIngs doe correct those that Rebellious are And their good Subiects worthily preferre Iust Epigrams reproue those that offend And those that vertuous are she doth commend 2. To my delicate Readers When I doe read others neate dainty lines I almost doe despaire of my rude times Yet I haue fetch 't them farre they cost me deare Deare and farre fetcht they say is Ladies cheere 1. To my zealous and honest friend Master W. B. of Bristoll If thou canst not to thy preferrement come To be Christs red Rose in best martyrdome With Patience Faith Hope Loue and Constancie A pure blest white Rose in Christs Garden dye 4. Gods Loue The Deuils Malice He that made man only desires mans heart He that mard man tempts man in euery part 5. God rewards thankefull men What part of the Moon 's body doth reflect Her borrowed beames yeeldeth a faire prospect But that part of her that doth not doe so Spotty or darke or not at all doth show So what wee doe reflect on God the giuer With thankefulnes those Graces shine for euer But if his gifts thou challeng'st to be thine They 'll neuer doe thee Grace nor make thee shine 6. To a dissembling sober slye Protestor 'T is so or so as I 'me an honest man Is thy assuring Protestation When it 's as true as thou art such a one 7. Dissemblers coozen themselues Whilst in this life Dissemblers coozen some Themselues they coozen of the

leaue Your outward and your inward graces moue My tongue to praise you and my heart to loue I hope it will not God nor man offend If that in Loue your vertues I commend And by his Leaue who is yours in possession He loue and praise your goodnes in reuersion 93. To my perpetuall Valentine worthy Mistris Mary Tayler wife to Master Iohn Tayler Merchant of Bristoll My sweet discreet perpetuall Valentine In your faire brest vertue hath built a Shrine Bedecking it with flowres amongst the rest Mild bearing your not-bearing is not least You know the worthy husband that you haue Is worth more children then some fondlings craue Besides the blessed babes begot by good More comforts bring then some of flesh and blood Kind Valentine still let our comfort be Children there are ynow for you and me 94. To my best Cousin Mistris Elizabeth Flea wife to Master Thomas Flea of Exeter Merchant If one were safely lodg'd at his long rest I could wish you a Flea in my warme nest Who writes this loues Yee both so well he prayes Long may yee skip from Death like nimble Fleas 95. To the faire modest Mayd pretty Mrs. Martha Morris and of her hansome sister Mistris Marie Philips both of Bristoll Though Martha were with Mary angrie for 't Yet Christ told her She chose the better part Faire chaste mayd Martha you haue chose the best Your sister Mary a life of lesse rest 96. Another to the same being since married But since I heare that you haue chang'd your state I wish your choice may proue kind fortunate And that he may deserue you euery deale He well deserues that doth deserue you well 97. To the pretty pert forward greene Mistris L. B. Nature tooke time your pretty parts to forme She hastes her worke in you since you were borne Your buds are forward though your leaues are greene I thinke you will be ripe at Eleuenteene 98. To the modest and vertuous Widdow Mistris Elizabeth Gye of Bristoll whose dead Husband Master Philip Gye was sometimes Gouernour of the Plantation in Newfound-Land where he and she liued many yeeres happily and contentedly Though Fortune presse you with too hard a hand I heare your heart is here in Newfound-Land 99. To a debausht Vniuersity A Complaint against Drunkennesse Thy Sonnes most famous Mother in old time To quench their thirst Pernassus hill did clime Some of thy Sonnes now thinke that hill too steepe Their Holliconian springs doe lye more deepe Their study now is where there is good drinke The Spigot is their Pen strong beere their Inke I could with Democrit ' laugh at this sinne If it in any other place had bin But in a place where all should be decent A sinne so nastie inconuenient So beastly so absurd worthy disdaine It straines me quite out of my merry straine I could with Heraclit ' lament and cry Or write complaints with wofull Ieremy Nay much-much more if that would expiate What 's past or following follies extirpate Many rare wits hath it infatued Their climbing merits quite precipited And hopes of ancient houses ruined Fooles and base sots this sinne hath made of them That by sobriety had beene braue men Yea I doe know many wise men there be Which for this dare not trust their Sonnes with thee Fearing this Cerberus this Dogge of Hell Within whose Ward all other follies dwell I hope thy Sister better lookes to hers Indulgent Elies are thy Officers If they will not assist my motion To apply Causticks and no Lotium Deare Mother on my knees I beg this boone Afford this inconuenient Vice no roome But whip it in thy Conuocation Or strip it of Matriculation 100. A short Iigge after this long Lachrymae Pauin As drunke as an old Begger once 't was said As drunke as a young Scholler now we reade 101. To the Reuerend Learned Sober and wise Gouernours in this Famous Vniuersity I heare this sinne you will shut out of doore It ioyes me so that I can write no more 102. That euery one may take his To my worthy Readers Faire modest learned sober wise and wittie Praising I praise you if those praises fit yee 103. To my vnworthy Reader Fond wicked misse-led if thou guilty be Although I name thee not yet I meane thee The end of the third Booke THE FOVRTH BOOKE OF QVODLIBETS An vnfinisht Booke 1. To the Reader SErmons and Epigrams haue a like end To improue to reproue and to amend Some passe without this vse 'cause they are witty And so doe many Sermons more 's the pitty 2. To the Reader Of my small course poore wares I cannot boast Owen and others haue the choyce ingrost And if that I on trust haue ta'ne vp any Owen hath done so too and so haue many 3. Redargution or payd with his owne money When Pontius call'd his neighbour Cuckold Asse Being mad to see him blinded as he was His Wife him standing by repli'd anon Fie Husband fie y' are such another man Nay I doe know quoth Pontius that there be Nine more in Towne in as bad case as he Then you know ten if you quoth she say true Fye Husband fie what an odde man are you 4. Catholique Apostolique Roman faith To Papists If the word Catholique yea truly straine To neither of vs doth it appertaine Apostolique we dare our selues afford And proue it by their practice and their word The now new Roman Faith yee stifly hold And brag of it as if it were the old 5. To elder Pelagians more fine later Papists and our refined Arminians Though seu'rall wayes you one opinion twine 'Twixt your conceipts there 's but a little line For all of you with free-grace are too bold Withgood workes laying on presumptuous hold With your weake works binding your boundlesse Maker Without whome none can be an vndertaker Whilst God tyes vs by Faith to doe good deeds You will tye God to you by your fond Creeds Satan that lowres at faithfull fearefull workes Likes your good deed because he knowes your querks At weake faith-propt due works Satan doth grieue At tip-toe good works he laughs in his sleeue It 's God that giues vs grace and makes vs able Hauing all done we are vnprofitable Worke and worke on with fond credulity Mercy with faith is our security 6. A Chronagram of the yeere wherein Queene Elizabeth dyed and King Iames came to the Crowne of England both of blessed memory Wee MaDe a HappIe Change thIs Yeere MDC III. This yeere of Grace by Gods especiall grace When all our foes expected our disgrace God crusht their malice and allai'd our feare We made a happy Change this Present yeere A Change we made but yet no Alteration Of former happines a transmigration Two froward Sisters long at enmity Became the birth-twinnes of Virginity From a chaste vertuous blessed barren wombe From the ill-boding North our Spring did come Whilst many wise foreseeing men did feare Who should with quietnes be