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A02477	Newes out of Powles Churchyarde now newly renued and amplifyed according to the accidents of the present time. 1579. and otherwise entituled, syr Nummus. Written in English satyrs. Wherein is reprooued excessiue and vnlawfull seeking after riches, and the euill spending of the same. Compyled by E.H. Gent. Seene and allowed according to the order appointed.	Hake, Edward, fl. 1560-1604.	1579 (1579)	STC 12606; ESTC S106141	42,751	128

the streame and yet a while withdrawe My Pen from port of quiet pawse For time doth vrge me so The time alas infect with sinne Yea time wherein doth grow The rage of sinne and ryots force the raumping Serpents guile With all deceyt that maye be founde yea sinne almost to vile To be exprest or set to vewe But such is Sathans force Such are the harts of vanquisht thralles cleane frustrate of remorce Call call to minde you carelesse crewe Lay custome now a side And let your fayth with faithlesse fruites herein a while be tride Confirme the lyfe that you doe leade And ratifie the same And then le ts sée how wilfully you wander worthy blame First Auarice what force it hath what cursed cancre t is What running rot and curelesse wounde to men apparaunt is What great enorm this sin hath wrought What thirsting hath procurde The block the trée the beggers bagge such sequeale hath inurde And yet how ryfely now it raignes how graft in gréedy mindes How grounded t is in peoples harts a proofe our liuing findes No one abandons beastly trade nor maketh staye at all To practise fraude and fliching lore so gaine therby may fall The rich doth laye his goods for gaine and gapeth still to gett The substance of the néedie soule that gote the same by swett The néedie not vnlike deuise and seeke by subtile drifts To scrape for coyne and gaine to winne do séeke vngodly shifts So charitie excluded is and loue is kept aloofe And right is wronged through rewarde as falleth still in proofe And Userie about the Towne is maintaind as a trade And equitie to ease the wrong in matters dares not wade But well the Sinne shall not be hid nor cloked from the vew I will explane the practise here in wordes that doe ensew The Cormoraunt that coucheth ●vp and crams his cankerd bags Doth giue to hoord his gotten coyne and bowte the towne he lags To Broker doth he bende his course or happly vnto him The Broker bannes and weanes a mate for purpose very trim And twene them two are craftes conueyd and foxy falshoode wrought Twene them are traps so framed that thereby is Nummus caught O God what gaine doth guilefull gnuffe by loane of Nummus raise How doth he nick the debter now by hault exacting wayes Ten powndes in hundred nothing is ▪ and twentie is but small For halfe in halfe full oftentimes in loane among doth fall A siely man constraind of late to borowe for his neede Repaird vnto a Marchant man to borowe on his deede The Marchant as it is of course had Money none to lende But wares he proferd willingly and Dettor in the ende The same became and tooke to loane as much as did amount To thirty poundes of currant coyne by Marchantmans account Which wares so taken vp to loane to Broker are they brought The Broker to the Marchaunt he of whome the same were bought Full falsely doth returne them streight who now twise gaynes thereby For fyrste he soulde and now eftsoones the same agayne doth buye So that when this our siely soule should rayse thereof the summe Aboue the price of twenty pounde the credit will not come For ten in thirty could vouchsafe the Creditor to haue For recompence in Usurie O carelesse cankerd slaue O cawty cutthroate cullion wretch O Caterpyllers Féere O miserable Murtherer Canst thou abyde this geare ¶ The time is now at hande wherein thou straight account shalt make Wherin thou shalt Hell fire gain for gaine that thou didst take O Userer thou Sathans thrall and Butcher of the Fiende Thy Golde shall be transformde to muck thy plagues shall neuer ende But as thou doost thy Ocker vse t' oppresse thy neighbour héere Euen so the scorching flames of Hell thy caytyfe corps shall déere Thy rusty hoorde ascendes the skie thy dettors harme doth mount Unto the high supernall seate to call thée to account Thou greedy Gleade thou hūgry Hawke thou starueling Uultures mate How darste thou thus by rauine séeke to maintaine thine estate I sée how thou canst soare aloft like hungry Hawke tespye And catching Kite when pray shal spring for beste game bent to flye I sée thy subtile lagging pace and craftie colourde guile I sée thy false dissembling sleight I sée thy playted wile Thou hast deuised by the Month for gaine to let thy ware Thy money eke from month to month thou canst right well forbeare But for eche shilling Caytife thou in surplysage wilt take A penie and of twentie shillings twentie pennies make And in that rate for fortie pounde so lent out in a yéere Thou wilt receiue twise forty pounds of lawfull Money cléere Thou wéenst to welter here for aye and wallowe in thy welth Thou neuer thinkst to sée the daye to part from this thy pelth But I will tell thée Cormorant thou fell and egre droane Eche pennie shall accountaunt be which thou hast let in loane And though as now the law be thine to laye beneath thy foote Yet then the furyes by decrée shall rende thy hart at roote When as the libell of thy lust and bayliwick abusde Shall thée condempne to Limboe pit and scalding lake confusde FINIS The Aucthor vpon the Booke in the defence of the gouernement of the Citie TWo sortes of men repaire vnto this Booke The one to carpe and cauell at my wordes The other through delyght thereon doth looke And reading it true iudgement well afordes He deemeth straight when haply I reproue That mine intent is vices to remoue But nowe tappease and satisfie the minde Of such as rashly ronne with open mouth At my reproofe which often here they finde I thus much say to them in my behoue I meane I touch I quip no priuate man For hate ne spite since first my worke began Nor yet doo I with chyldish rage stird vp Seeke to deface a worthy common state Of such as seldome drinke of sinfull Cup By matter such as I doo here debate For I protest I know no matter why I should so doo sith no man can deny That in the Towne are diuers sortes of men By whome the vertuous are supported styll With whome the wicked may at no tyme blen Their noysome drifts nor work the thing that 's yll By whome the poore and needie are sustainde And eke with whom true zeale hath styl remainde I meane both Judge Phistion Lawyer and The Marchaunt whom euen all I must commend With other else which in my Booke do stande I say of them there be whome to defende I neede not here Their lyues auoyde the blame And through good lyfe they wyn immortall fame FINIS Gentle Reader for the fillinge vp of emptie pages this letter written by the Author to his friende lying at the point of death is inserted SIr howe and in what wise euery man shoulde beare him selfe towarde his friende in time of health in time of prosperitie and strengthe moste men knowe yea suche is the

❧ Newes out of Powles Churchyarde Now newly renued and amplifyed according to the accidents of the present time 1579. and Otherwise entituled syr Nummus Written in English Satyrs Wherein is reprooued excessiue and vnlawfull seeking after riches and the euill spending of the same Compyled by E. H. Gent. Seene and allowed according to the order appointed Horatius Aetas parentum peior auis tulit Nos nequiores mox daturos Progeniem vitiosiorem Well get thy goods and spend them well well gotten keepe the same Beware of hoorde hoorde hate doth bring and vile reprochfull name Non mordet qui monet Non vulnerat sed sanat ❧ To the high and Honorable and his especiall good Lorde Lorde Robert Dudley Earle of Leycester Baron of Denbigh and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter high Stewarde of her Maiesties Burrow of new Windsore Edw Hake vndersteward there wisheth dayly preseruation with increase of honor to Gods glory SIth grace hath graffed in your Noble brest Farre grater gifts then tipe of mundane gle● Sith high renowme your Honour the rest To Vertue yeeld and counteruayled bee With great effect of Vertues worthy vew I make it bolde for vertues ayde to sew And though my gift as slender to the shoe Vnworthy seeme to shrowde himselfe as now● In blessed Bay from force of deadly foe Yet Vertue may your Lordships pitie bowe To fense the Booke beset with deadly hate For that the same explanes the present state And sets to vew the vices of the time In Nouell Verse and Satyrs sharpe effect Still drawne along and pend in playnest rime For sole intent good liuing to erect And sinne rescinde which rifely raignes abroade In peoples harts full fraught with sinfull loade Sith so I say therefore your Noble hart Let grace so guide and bend to Vertues bayte That Satirs these though seeming somwhat tart May shielded be from such as lie in waite The same to shend and bring to fowle decaye To deadly shame and mortall malice aye So shall your Lordship shewe your selfe to bee Sole vertues stay and friend vnto the good So hate to sinne shal men apparaunt see And loue set forth to saue the sinfull bloud And so shall I encouragde in my paine Proceede and set my Pen to Booke againe And euer pray the liuing God of might Your Lordship so to guide by gift of grace That you may stande accepted in his sight Whilst here you liue and in the ende a place Receiue with such as vertues path haue traste And liue with them that vertue haue imbraste Your Lordships most humbly at commaundment Edw. Hake To the Gentle Reader IT pleaseth the Printer Gentle Reader as thou séeist after twelue yéeres scilence to hale againe into the lighte this my litle booke of englishe Satyrs which else mighte haue soonge vnto it selfe ●cce nunc in puluere dormio what his gaine shal be I knowe not and I am perswaded that gaine is not the onely no nor the chiefest ende hée respecteth But on the other part what I shal gaine that am the Author of the book none can be so ignoraunt but hée maye easilye ghesse Once money I gaine none at this time either for writing altering or correcting of the same hereof I stand so cléere that bothe I and my booke may be bould to exempt our selues from the reache of mine owne Argument which consisteth in the reproouing of those who by male engine lie in wait for sir Nummus And thus much be spoken to preuent the obprobry reproche that this way might be raysed against me As for prayse and commendation if the sharpnes of my Satyrs were not matter sufficient to settle me against the expectation thereof yet I am not so farre from Judgement I thanke God but that I know in part what is lackinge aswell in the inuention as in the verse of the booke that shoulde carye away commendation amongst the better sort of english Poetes of our tyme And indéede it is a matter that I stryue nothing at all to attaine vnto For if I did I woulde frequent the meanes which are reading and practise neyther whereof I haue bene acquainted with to any purpose since the first thrée yéeres which I spent in the Innes of Chauncery being now aboue a dosen of yéeres passed And so longe is it sithens these Satyres were first made and set foorth euen as I maye saye in my childishe yéeres whereof notwithstanding verye lyttle or nothing I repent mée Only I wishe that all that I haue written published heretofore were by me reuised and that I might haue lycense and laysure to runne them ouer againe hereby to make them a little more substanciall if my habilitye serued thereto which being once done and performed how forwarde I woulde bée from thensfoorth in setting forth of bookes shoulde appeare vnto the worlde by the continuance of my silence For to speake a truthe it is not méete we shoulde cloye the worlde with to many bookes of weake handling especially whiles the learned trauailes and profitable labours of worthye wryters are fayne to kéepe the doore as I maye terme it or which is more to lie buried in silēce But touching this my booke I haue not abridged it of any one Satyre that was in the first edytion thereof neyther haue I added vnto it any other whole Satyr But I haue enlarged here and there one and haue corrected that whole booke in many places I confesse I coulde haue béene wylling to haue increased the number by ij or iij. Satyrs at the least Namely of vndershreeues and Baylliffs one And of Informers and Sompners or Apparitours other twoo Which offycers if they all so be how they abuse the Subiects and people of this Realme at this daye by intollerable Extortions bryberies trecheries and deceyts what whole Shier and in euerye Shier what Cytie Towne or Uillage is not hable haboundauntly to declare But these togither with the exquisite handling of mine allowable Argument I muste be contented to omitte as neyther hauynge laysure nor through want of laysure skill sufficient to accomplishe the same For I tell you it is no matter of meane ymportaunce firste to searche and syfte owte the wrenches and wyles shyfts practises and deceytes that the lewde sorte of this people which I feare me are the greater number of them doe vse to gette money with And then hauing so searched and syfted them owte from nooke to crooke to sette foorthe the same in apt and conuenient discourse For which causes gentle Reader be contented and affoord me thine indyfferent Judgement in this that I haue alreadye done And if thou finde therein any matter or reprehension more fytte to haue bene handled by men of grauer Censure and more agréeable callinge Forasmuche as it reacheth no farther then to the reprouing of vice and the same also wrytten in that age of mine when as vice withoute the grace of God mighte rather haue drawen me to her league then haue