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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13457	The great O Toole	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1622 (1622)	STC 23762; ESTC S118219	5,847	24

In Memorabilis Effigies VEiw and behold his Monumentall Pictor Whose trade was Armes whose Fortune still was Victor Looke on Truncheon how it is becrowned By which you may perceiue how hee 's Renowned His Beard a Graue bush Naturally fitted Shewes by the store of hayre how he is witted And howsoeuer Times or Seasons change-thinges This Captaine very truely hath done strange-thinges Whilst some perhaps will say these lines do scoffe him Read what the Inside of the Booke speakes of him Iohn Taylor These 8. Lines by an vnknowne Author GReat Moguls Landlord and both Indies King Whose selfe admiring Fame doth lowdly Ring Writes 4. score yeares More Kingdomes he hath right to The Stars say so And for them he will Fight too And though this worthlesse Age will not belieue him But clatter spatter slaunder scoffe and grieue him Yet hee and all the world in this agree That such another TOOLE will neuer bee ARTHURUS SEVERUS O-TOOLE NONESUCH AEtatis 80. Great Mogul's Landlord of both Indies King Whose self-admiring fame doth loudly ring Writes fourscore Years more Kingdoms he hath right to for them he will fight too And though this worthless Age will not believe him But clatter spatter slander scoff to grieve him Yet He and all the World in this agree That such another Toole will never be THE GREAT O Toole ENglands Scotlands Irelands Mirror Mars his fellow Rebels Terror These Lines doe gallop for their pleasure Writ with neither feete or measure Because Prose Verse or Anticke Story Cannot Blaze O Tooles great Glory LONDON Printed for Henry Gosson 1622. AN ENCOMIVM OR ENCO-MI-ASS-TRICK dedicated to the vnlimited memory of Arthur O Toole or O Toole the Great Being the Son and Heyre of Brian O Toole Lord of Poores Court and farre Collen in the County of Dublin in the Kingdome of Ireland The Mars and Mercury the Agamemnon and Vlisses both for Wisedome and Valour in the Kingdomes of Great Britaine and Ireland Prologue BRaue Vsquebough that fierce Hibernian liquor Assist my braine and make my wit run quicker To heate my Muse like to a well warm'd Chimney I beg thy merry ayde kinde Polihimny I list not to call Fables into question Nor of Baboones or idle b●bles jest I on And yet if Sence or reason heere you looke for For neither or for either read this Booke for And if perchance I doe in any word lye Doe as I writ it reade it o're absurdly Though in these dayes there are a Crew of fond men That for inuention striue to goe beyond men And write so humerous Dogmaticall To please my Lord and Lady what d' ee Call With Inkehorne tearmes stiffe quilted and bumbasted And though not vnderstood yet are well tasted And therefore I le not reach beyond the bounds of My weake capacity nor search the sounds of Deepe Natures secrets or Arts spacious cirquit My Muse is free from those my selfe will her quit But leauing Idle toyes with toyle endure I on To write the praise of this braue bolde Centurion The Argument and meaning of this following History IN all Ages and Countryes it hath euer bin knowne that Famous men haue florished whose worthy Actions and Eminency of place haue euer beene as conspicuous Beacons Burning and blazing to the Spectators view the sparkes flames wherof hath sometimes kindled Courage in the most coldest and Effeminate Cowards as Thersites amongst the Grecians Amadis de Gaule and Sir Huon of Burdeaux in France Sir Beuis Gogmagog Chinon Palmerine Lancelot Sir Tristram amongst vs heere in England Sir Degre Sir Grime and Sir Gray Steele in Scotland Don Quixot with the Spaniards Gargantua almost no where Sir Dagonet and Sir Triamore any where all these and many more of the like Ranke haue fill'd whole Volumes with the ayrie Imaginations of their vnknowne and vnmatchable worthes So Ireland amongst the rest had the Honor to produce and breed a sparke of Valour Wisedome and Magnanimity to whom all the Nation of the World must giue place The Great O Toole is the toole that my Muse takes in hand whose praises if they should be set forth to the full would make Apollo and the Muses Barren To whom the Nine Worthyes were neuer to be compared betwixt whom and Haniball Scipio the Great Pompey or Tamberlaine was such oddes that it was vnfit the best of them should holde his stirrop and who by his owne Report in whome Ireland may reioyce and England be merry whose Youth was Dedicated to Mars and his Age to Westminster which ancient Citty is now honour'd with his beloued Residence ¶ To the Honor of the Noble Captaine O Toole THou Famous man Est west North Southward From Boreas colde rump t' Austers slauering mouth ward I call Apolloes daughters all to witnes Much would I praise thee but my Wit wants fitnes But thou thy selfe of thy selfe canst speake so-well That though my Rimes not altogether goe-well Yet if the Worlds applause would not attend thee were all tongues mute thy own tongue would commend thee Thy selfe vnto thy selfe art Fames Trump blasting To make thy name like Buffe tough long and lasting Yet graunt me thou braue man that ne're feard coulers T' accept the poore Lines of an Artles Scullers Thy Bilboe ofte bath'd in the blood of Foe mans Like Caius Marius Consull of the Romans When thou hast seem'd more dreadfull in thy harnesse Then Babels Generall great Holophernes More in commaund then was Nabuchadnezar And more renownd then Cayus Iulius Caesar Vpon thy foes brest thou hast often troad free As on the Pagans did braue Boloignes Godfrey Fierce Methridates the stout King of Pontus If thou dost lead vs dares not to confront vs Thy matchles vallour ten to one more tride is Then euer was the Libian strong Alcides And all men know that neuer such an od piece Of fighting mettle sprung from Mars his Codpiece Vpon the maine land and the raging Ocean Thy courage hath attaind thee high promotion Thou neuer fear'dst to combate with Gargante Thy fame 's beyond the battle of Lepanto The mighty Alexander of Macedo Nere fought as thou hast done with thy Toledo We hold thee for a worthy and no base one But one that could haue won the fleece from Iason Thou durst oppose 'gainst Bore Beare Wolfe or Lion And from the torturing wheele to fetch Ixion And I acknowledge that thy matchles vallour is To kill Pasiphaes or the Bull of Phalleris Though age hath ouertane thee yet thy will is To grapple with an Aiax or Achilles Or with Hells Monarch enuious ill fac'd Pluto And proue him by his hornes a dambd Cornuto Thou fearst no Diuell nor no Demogorgon Nor yet the valiant Welchman Shon a Morgan So that most Wizards and most fortune tellers Approue thee for the greatst of Monster quellers And absolute and potent Dominator For War or Counsell both by land and Water In times of tumult thou amongst the Irish Hast made them skip ore bogs and quagmires mirish