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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13524	The world runnes on vvheeles: or oddes, betwixt carts and coaches	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1623 (1623)	STC 23816; ESTC S101982	17,053	38

The meaning of the Embleme THe Deuill the Flesh the World doth Man oppos● And are his mighty and his mortall foes The Deuill and the whorish Flesh drawes still The World on Wheeles runs after with good wille For that which wee the World may iustly call I meane the lower Globe Terrestriall Is as the Deuill and a Whore doth please Drawne here and there and euery where with ease Those that their Liues to vertue heere doe frame Are in the World but yet not of the same Some such there are whom neither Flesh or Deuill Can wilfully drawe on to any euill But for the World as 't is the World you see It Runnes on Wheeles and who the Palfreys bee Which Embleme to the Reader doth display The Deuill and th● Flesh runnes swift away The Chayn'd ensnared World doth follow fast Till All into Perditions pit be cast The Picture topsie-turuie stands kew waw The World turn'd vpside downe as all men kn●● The World runnes on VVheeles Or Oddes betwixt Carts and Coaches LONDON Printed by E. A. for Henry Gosson 1623. ¶ To the noble Company of Cordwainers the worshipfull Company of Sadlers Woodmongers To the worthy honest and lawdable Company of Water-men And to the Sacred Society of Hackney-men And finally to as many as are grieued and vniustly impouerished and molested with The Worlds Running on Wheeles GEntlemen and Yeomen maruell not that I writ this Pamphlet in Prose now hauing before times set forth so many Bookes in verse The First Reason that mooued me to write thus was because I was Lame and durst not write Verses for feare they should be infected with my Griefe be lame too The Second Reason is because that I finde no good rime for a Coach but Broach Roach Encroach or such like And you knowe that the Coach hath ouer-throwne the good vse of the Broach Broch-turner turning the one to Rackes and the other to Iackes quite through the Kingdome The Roach is a drie Fish much like the vnprofitable profit of a Coach It will cost more the dressing and Appurtnances then 't is worth For the word Encroach I thinke that best befits it for I think neuer such an impudent prowd sawcie Intruder or Encroacher came into the world as a Coach is for it hath driuen many honest Families out of their Houses many Knights to Beggers Corporations to pouerty Almes deedes to all misdeedes Hospitality to extortion Plenty to famine Humility to pride Compassion to oppression and all Earthly goodnes almost to an vtter confusion These haue beene the causes why I writ this Booke in Prose and Dedicated it to all your good Companies knowing that you haue borne a heauy share in the Calamitie which these hyred Hackney hell-Carts haue put this Common-wealth vnto For in all my whole Discourse I doe not enueigh against any Coaches that belong to Persons of worth or qualitie but onely against the Catterpiller swarme of hyrelings they haue vndone my poore Trade whereof I am a Member and though I looke for no reformation yet I expect the benefit of an old Prouerbe Giue the loosers leaue to speake I haue Imbroadered it with mirth Quilted it with materiall stuffe Lac'd it with similitudes Sowed it with comparisons and in a word so playd the Taylor with it that I thinke it will fitte the wearing of any honest mans Reading Attention and Liking But howsoeuer I leaue both it and my selfe to remayne Yours as you are mine Iohn Taylor ¶ The VVorld runnes on Wheeles WHat a Murraine what piece of work haue we here The WORLD runs a Wheeles On my Conscience my Dung-cart will be most vnsauourly offended with it Ihaue heard the wordes often The World runs on Wheeles what like Pompeies Bridge at Ostend The great Gridyron in Christ-church The Landskips of China or the new found Instrument that goes by winding vp like a Iacke that a Gentleman entreated a Musitian to Rost him Sele●●ers Round vpon it Ha! how can you make this good Master Poet I haue heard that the World stands stock still neuer stirres but at an Earth-quake and then it trembles at the wickednes of the Inhabitants and like an olde Mother groanes vnder the misery of her vngracious Children well I will buy this volume of nuention for my Boyes to read at home in an Euening when they come from Schoole there may be some goodnes in it I promise you truely I haue found in some of these Bookes very shrewd Items yea and by your leaue somewhat is found in them now and then which the wisest of vs all may be the better for though you call them Pamphlets to tell you true I like em better that are plaine and merrily written to a good intent then those who are purposely stuffed and studyed to deceiue the world vndo a Country That tells vs of Proiects beyond the Moone of Golden Mines of Deuices to make the Thames run on the North side of London which may very easily be done by remouing London to the Banke-side of planting the I le of Dogs with Whiblins Corwhichets Mushromes Tobacco Tut I like none of these Let me see as I take it it is an inuectiue against Coaches or a proofe or tryall of the Antiquitie of Carts and Coaches T is so and Gods blessing light on his heart that wrote it for I thinke neuer since Phaeton brake his necke neuer Land hath endured more trouble molestation then this hath by the cōtinual rumbling of these vpstart 4. wheel'd Tortoyses as you may perhaps find anone For as concerning the Antiquity of the Cart I think it beyond the limmits of Record or writing Besides it hath a Reference or allusion to the Motion of the Heauens which turnes vpon the Equinoctiall Axeltree the two wheeles being the Articke and Antarticke Poles Moreouer though it be Poetically feygned that the Sunne whom I could haue called Phoebus Tytan Apollo Soll or Hiperion is drawne by his foure hot and headstrong Horses whose names as I take it are Aeolus Aethon Phlegon and Pyrois Yet doe I not finde that Triumphant Refulgent extinguisher of darknes is Coach'd but that he is continually Carted through the twelue signes of the Zodiaque And if Copernicus his opinion were to be allowed that the Firmament with the Orbs and Planets did stand vnmoueable and that onely 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 whirle round vpon but One Axeltree like a two wheeld 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 apparently seene that Charles his Cart which we by custome call Charles his Waine is most gloriously stellifide where in the large Circumserence of Heauen it is a most vsefull beneficiall Sea-marke and somtimes a Land-marke too guiding