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A65464	Maggots, or, Poems on several subjects, never before handled by a schollar.	Wesley, Samuel, 1662-1735.	1685 (1685)	Wing W1375; ESTC R33583	64,762	190

Or somewhat like it tho' perhaps he may be as apt to censure others in that case as many have him If this ben't enough I would desire such as are yet dissatisfi'd to take notice that tho' for Reasons told half-an-hour-agon this was printed yet I could never be vain enough to think 't would procure the Author much Reputation and therefore as I wa'n't over ambitious of seeing my worthy Name adorning a Pissing-Post or glittering in a Term-Catalogue so nor did I think it worth the while to throw away better time in making it more correct or shewing it to any person not troubling my few Friends with my Resolution to publish it If any are so unconscionable that all this won't satisfie ' ●m but either for old Acquaintance or new Remembrance they must be finding or making faults the comfort on 't is I have the same liberty and am as free to think what I please of theirs if ever they have or may come under the Predicament of the Author I can't remember any thing more but You 're very welcome Gentlemen And therefore to conclude with the help of the Accademy of Complements and my Book-seller's Epistle So I rest Yours Yours Yours In ten thousand Obligations of Love and Service c. Books lately published by J. Dunton A Very delightful and useful Treatise Entituled Heavenly Pastime or pleasant Observations on all the most remarkable passages throughout the Holy Bible of the Old and New Testament newly Allegoriz'd in several pleasant Dialogues Poems Similitudes Paraphrases and Divine Fancies To which is added 1 The miraculous manner of the production of our Old Grandmother Eve with the supposed manner of Adam's first Nuptial Addresses to her and the pleasant Circumstances of their Marriage 2 You have an Account of Eve's first Addresses to Adam and her Industry in making a Garment for her Husband 3 You have a pleasant Account of Adam and Eve's Winter Suits their Lodging and first Building with an Account in what pretty manner they first invented a fire to warm them 4 You have abundance of supposed Dialogues very full of delightful reading c. The Pilgrim's Guide To which is added The Sick Man's Passing-bell Both by Iohn Dunton A Continuation of Morning-Exercise Questions and Cases of Conscience practically resolved by 31 Reverend and able Divines in the City of London In a large 4 to The Progress of Sin or the Travels of Vngodliness in an Allegory As also the manner of his Apprehension Arraignment Tryal Condemnation and Execution The second Edition To which is now added Vngodliness's Voyage to Sea with many pleasant Additions besides By B. Keach Illustrated with five lively Cuts Price bound 1 s. The Travels of True Godliness in an Allegory The seventh Edition To which is now added five lively Cuts together with True Godliness's Voyage to Sea with many new Additions besides By B. K●a●h Author of War with the Devil Price Bound 1 s. Maggots On a Maggot THE Maggot Bites I must begin Muse pray be civil enter in Ransack my addled pate with Care And muster all the Maggots there Just at the Gate you ' l bless your Eyes To find one of so large a Size 'T is true he 's hardly full as tall As the two striplings in Guildhall Yet is he Jolly Fat and Plump With dainty Curls from Snowt to Rump a And struts says Iordan what he can As goodly as any Alderman The Law of Poetry's not broke If since an Horse in Homer spoke I steal for my dear Worms Occasions A scrap of Livy's fine Orations b And 't will no doubt as much be said By him as them for whom 't was made Within a Nut-shells Pulpit large As grave as Iudge that 's giving charge Swelling as big as Iustled Bully Thus he holds forth like t' other Tully Take notice all that hither come c Romanus ego civis sum 'T was I my self 't was I possest Scaevola's mighty Brain and Breast I was the Worm in 's Crown that made The Hec. Porsenna's camp invade I did the' Heroick Iobb 't was I d That made his Paw like Drum-stick fry 'T would make the dullest Maggot smile To ' observe his pretty motions while His Mutton-Fist did Hiz and Broil Of which I an account could give ye e Truer by far than Goodman●Livy When the Spark Tarquin did prevail For all ●●oretia's Tooth and Nail And which if true were ungenteel Kiss't her poor Soul against her will Was 't not a very pleasant Whimm f That she should kill her self for him When I that saw it durst have sworn She was as Innocent as Child unborn Pray let not Livy's Shams prevail I was the Worm in Pate and Tail That made the Matron bravely dye A Sacrifice to Chastity Good Folks that Love your Necks stand clear g For I must leap five hundred Year 'T was I brought down that Rampant Gypsie h Whose Love and Pearls made Tony tipsie And when she him no more could clasp i The Maggot bit as well's the Asp I stood at the Beds-feet Intent On her Last Will and Testament I come she cryed I com' dear Hony And then kickt up with Tony Tony But I 'me not only bold and valiant For Wit an 't please ye too 's my Talent And by a better Title I May plead for God of Poesie Than those whom each dull Thief abuses In Dogrel Phoebus and the Muses When Virgil all day long did write k And lickt his pretty Cubbs at night I roll'd about his Brain and there Aeneas Good and Dido fair Now plac'd a Scolding now a Billing l Sometimes begetting sometimes killing What e're he of old Sybill prate 'T was I that propt his H●roes Fate And when Post-horses he did lack m Lugg'd him to Hell a-Pick-a-Pack I am the very God and like ye That fell in Love with Mrs. Psiche Let none my just pretensions scorn For Cupid was a Maggot born Then thriv'd and grew and by degrees Like his harmonious Brother-Bees Thrust out a Leg and then a Wing And Bow and Arrows for a Sting n And when I please my self to Dart Into a ravisht Lovers Heart 'T is I who all their Souls inspire With soft Wishes gay Desire Melting Looks and amorous Fire Hold hold 't is time to grow more humble o Least I like Phaeton should tumble I 'll Mount no more but here sit steady Since I 'me a Goddikin already NOTES a And strut say Iordan what he can As goodly as any Alderman The Incomparable Mr. Jordan quem honoris causa nomino who has made London as famous by his Lord Mayors day Poetry as ever Pryn did Mount Orgueil b And 't will no doubt as much be said By him as them for whom 't was made I suppose few Consciences but are a little too Costive in this Case and for all Mr. Livy's Authority are apt to believe Scaevola had other things to mind than making fine speeches and round Periods when his Fist was frying c Romanus ego Civis

or nothing at all In his Verses fig. 3. That 's made of Wood For this block of a Lover Poet Scrivener c. was by Occupation a Ioyner or some such wooden Trade of which he had a touch in a former Lampoon In answer to his Letter he had this following An Answer to the Ioyner's smart Letter Why Lad HOw now Lad witty these cold mornings 'T is well if this don't prognosticate some Plague for certainly a Comet is n't half so prodigious But indeed Friend Thomas it terrifies the Coccles of my Heart lest thou should'st at this rate run out in a little time longer thy Right Reverend Master and Right Worshipful Self with Charges to Scrivener and School-boy I think thou 'st claw'd it off Lad and the Mallet of thy Invention joyned with the peaceable Chizzel of thy pestilent Wit has for once obtunded the Cerebrocity of every sawcy Rogue of a Rival In good sober sadness there 's Nonsence enow to perswade one it came all every bit and scrap and Chip of it out o' thy n'own dear Noddle but that as the black old Gentleman thy Friend would have it who ow'd thee a spight for once in thy life courting virtuous Women 't is writ and spelt at such a rate none but such an incorrigible Blockhead could ever blunder on But who can help 't We must e'ne take 't for better for worse seeing there 's no Remedy and therefore Here 's t' ye agen alas poor Thing Is your queasie Gu● surfeited with all the Tripe-women Kitchin-stuff-wenches Hogs-feet Butter-Whores and Scullions in our Street that you have all so sudden such a muckle mind to what 's meat for your Masters 'T would be worth the while now to launch out into the due Applause of thy portly paunch and person but only thy sweet Face my joy is so much like a Slough that I 'm already founder'd Horse and Man and therefore lest I should marr thy Marriage thinking one can't pick and choose in the case e'ne best recommend thee to an honest Cindar-woman or the Tankard-bearer's hump-backt Lady with whom as I am credibly inform'd you used to have intimate familiarity and converse in the corner of the Cellar So I rest Yours DIALOGUES I. Dialogue Between a Thatcher and a Gardener for Precedency on occasion of a Pot of Ale with this Inscription Detur Digniori Thatcher DOwn down to the Clod out of which thou art made Nor with Tinder-box-hoof my Ladder invade The Pot shall be mine in spight of thy Spade Gardener And dares the poor Thatcher with the Gardener vye Sure his Noddle's grown giddy with sitting so high Let our Titles be try'd by the next that comes by Thatcher Content Gardener And content and look over the plain Where Cuddy the Shepherd comes trotting amai● Who but he should decide which is best of the twain Thatcher Tho' a Shepherd may be partial he 's honest and true He 's old and he 's grave and he Justice will do And Cuddy will be equal to me and to you Gardener ●ut look he 's just here pr'y thee tell him the Tale Thatcher ●ay Cuddy and judge whether Trade must prevail ●or the best of our two wins a Pot of good Ale Cuddy ●ll stay while I can but then quickly begin 〈◊〉 either expect the Honour to win 〈◊〉 my Landlord in haste has sent for me in Gardener ●ce straining of Complements now would be vain 〈◊〉 eldest and noblest of Trades I 'le maintain 〈◊〉 Gardener was Adam but a Thatcher was Cain Thatcher Not so fast Mr. Gard'ner with Reeds and with Boughs His Father before him had cover'd a House b Sure you dare not deny what Dubartas avows Gardener The Hero's from Gardens and Solitudes came And sallying from thence fill'd the World with their Name But who ever heard of a Thatcher of Fame Thatcher c Epicurus indeed from a Garden did rise But Atheism never can a Thatcher surprize d Since he alwayes is viewing the Sun and the S●ys Gardener From the tops of their Houses Aegyptian● must ow● e To the rest of the World Idolatry's flown And too many Gods are scarce better tha● none Thatcher If you 're driven into Aegypt and fly fro● the Greek Very far from your Lodge one need not 〈◊〉 see f To find out the omnipotent Onion and Lee● Gardener Their Trophies Kings Captains and Emperors bring And all over-board for one Shovel they fling But who ever heard of a Thatcher a King Thatcher The Gallows and Garden when all other means fails Thus Dennis when scap'd from Si●ilian Jayls g Fell from cutting of throats to cutting of tails Gardener Each Beggar the name of the Thatcher can tell For nothing you 're fit but a Cottage and Cell I with Princes and Lords by their Palace● dwell Thatcher Thatch keeps out all Care as well as all Cold. Besides by my Grandsire I 've often been told h That Straw has been Cov'ring for Churches of old Gardener Scarce once in a Moon you mount from the ground And another Trade too or you 'll starve must be found I ha' still pleasant work that holds all the year round Thatcher No doubt on 't and Winter must never infest Your fortunate Regions with Summer still blest Nor fix you like a Cuckow clung up in his Nest Cuddy Brave Boys both so well you each other abuse There 's hardly between you a halter to chuse I j●dge that to make one another amends I drink off the Ale you shake hands and be Friends NOTES a A Gard'ner was Adam but a Thatcher was Cain Thus demonstrated Cain built a City before any Iron-work was invented he could not therefore have Tiles to cover it Ergo 't was done with Thatch or somewhat equivalent b Sure you dare not deny what Dubartas avows Dubartas in his Poem of the Creation describes Adam's rude draught of building in that manner c Epicurus indeed from a Gard'ner did rise Epicurus his Study and Schools being in a Garden was so notorious that his Principles are thence call'd The Doctrine of the Garden d But Atheism never can a Thatcher surprize Since he always is viewing the Sun and the Skys This even the Epicureans confess a strong Inducement to the belief of a supream Being the Author of the World and therefore give their Followers a Caution against it So Lucretius Book 5. p. 141. For even those few exalted Souls that know The Gods must live at ease not look below Free from all medling Cares from hate and love If they admire if view the World above They wonder how those glorious Beings move They are entrap'd they bind their slavish Chain And sink to their religious Fears again Mr. Creeches Translation e From the tops of their Houses Aegyptians must own To the rest of the World Idolatry's flown If the Gardener puts a fallacy on the Thatcher let him look to it himself I only am to explain his meaning thus far That in Aegypt from the tops of their