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A07041	The iust censure and reproofe of Martin Iunior. Wherein the rash and vndiscreete headines of the foolish youth, is sharply mette with, and the boy hath his lesson taught him, I warrant you, by his reuerend and elder brother, Martin Senior, sonne and heire vnto the renowmed Martin Mar-prelate the Great. Where also, least the springall shold be vtterly discouraged in his good meaning, you shall finde, that hee is not bereaued of his due commendations	Marprelate, Martin, pseud.; Throckmorton, Job, 1545-1601, attributed name.; Penry, John, 1559-1593, attributed name.	1589 (1589)	STC 17458; ESTC S112313	18,559	34

Puritane noblemen gentlemen and people as with the ministers because this or the like course goeth not on forward And I can tell thee there would be gotten an hundreth thousand hands to this supplication of knowen men in the land all her Majesties most loyall and trustie louing subjects Thou mayest then well thinke what a stroke so many woulde strike together especiallie in so reasonable and just a suite And heereby our bishoppes shoulde be prooued to be Lord bishoppes in deede that is a A pretie briefe definition of a Lord bishop vngodlie and slaunderous lyars When her Majestie sawe that the Puritanes seeke not any intollerable course for if the foresaide petitions be not to be borne I know not what is sufferable as the bishops woulde pretend And further it should appeare that they are not a fewe and of small reputation but in a maner the strength of our land and the synowe of her Majesties royall gouernement which our bishops do falsely note with the names of Puritanes The consideration whereof I tell thee euen in policie woulde make that this their suite shoulde not be hastely rejected especially in such a time as wherein wee nowe liue in daunger of our ennemies abroad and therefore had neede of no causes of discouragement at home Whie man this were also such a course as it would descrie our bishops English to be plaine slaunder and treacherie against the trueth and the mainteiners thereof as indeede it is The bishops English wilt thou say Bishops English Now I pray you reuerend brother what is that Whie Iacke doest thou not vnderstand what our bishoppes English meaneth I doe not greatly maruell because I my selfe came but latelie vnto the knowledge of it aright But nowe that I haue bestowed a little studie that waie I doe thinke there are but a few in England that see into it as farre as I doe Semper excipio Platonem you know I alwayes gine place to my father for he made the first grammar and lexicon in our time for the vnderstanding hereof Thy small experience then considered I wonder not of thine ignorance in this poynt But to satisfie thy demaunde the bishops English is to wrest our language in such sorte as they will drawe a meaning out of our English wordes which the nature of the tougue can by no meanes beare As for example Receiue the Holy-Ghost I am sure that they woulde not for forty pence that Receiue a bishopricke shoulde be expounded vnto wish thou mayest receiue a bishopricke when they receiue the Holie-Ghost in good bishops English is as much as J pray God thou mayest receiue the Holy-ghost And againe My desire is that J may be baptized in this faith to their vnderstanding and in their dialect is after this sort My desire is not that J my selfe but that this childe vvherevnto J am a vvitnesse may bee baptized in this saith Further to intreate her Majestie and the Parliament that the miseries of the church may be redressed in the Prelates language is to seeke the ouerthrowe of the state and the disquietnesse of her subjects And if a man shoulde goe and aske thine vncle Canturburie but stay boy I meane not that thou shouldest goe and demaunde the question of him what it were in the tongue which he and his brethren doe commonly vse to put vp such a dutifull supplication as before I haue set downe why his answere woulde be presently that to deale in such a suire were to rebell against her Majestie to pull the crowne off of her head to make a faction to wrest the scepter out of her hand and to shake off all authoritie A wonderfull thing in thy conceit I knowe it will bee to thinke that humbly and duetifullie to entreate shoulde in the English tongue signifie by vnbrideled force vnduetifullie to compell and that to seeke the remoouing of vnlawefull callings out of the church should be to threaten that the lawfull magistrate should bee thrust out of the common-wealth but simple boy such English must thou studie to vnderstand or else thou shalt neuer be able to Pistle thine vncle Canturburie so learned lie as my father and I can doe And therefore I woulde wish that of the first money which thou meanest to bestowe in bookes thou wouldest buie thee thy fathers a These bookes act not yet printed Grammar and his lexicon with a briefe thing called his capita concerdantiarum and studie these well but one moneth and out o doubt thou shalt with the pretie skill which thou hast already be able to ouerturne anie catercap of them all I would thou knewest what great light to the vnderstanding of all the bishops treacheries a little time bestowed in these volumes haue affoorded vnto me Wel by this time I thinke thou perceiuest what a braue waie this supplication which I speake of were to prooue our bishops to be treacherous and vile slaunderers For hereby her Majestie should perceiue that the rumors which the bishops raise falsly concerning the great daunger that woulde ensue vnto her crowne by the reformation which the Puritanes seeke and labor for are nothing els but in a cunning and mysticall kind of vnnaturall English to translate The Puritanes by the establishing of the kingdome of Christ seeke the sure vpholding of the crovvne and dignitie of their dread soueraigne ladie Elizabeth into this handsome bishoplike miter The Puritanes by their platforme of reformation seeke the vtter ruine and subuersion of Ladie Elizabeth her Crovvne and d●gnitie I am sure her Majestie woulde welfauouredlie laugh at such a translation as this is and yet beholde such she must be content with if shee will vouchsafe to yeelde her eares vnto a bishops perswasion Yet thus much must I say of them namelie that although they bee not the best expounders of wordes that euer I read yet doe they neuer translate anie thing everbo ad verbum which by learned men is commended as an especial vertue in a translator But O that I as simple as I am might reade a lecture or twoo concerning this bishoplike translation if not before her Majestie yet at the least before some of her nobles I woulde not doubt but to vnfolde such a deale of strange English and yet the verie vernacula viz. the naturall mother tongue of our vnnaturall Prelates as was neuer heard of in this land since the Saxons time Here I knowe that thou arte readie to enquire two points of mee for thine instruction the one how our Prelates can be prooued Antichristes by the church of England the other howe thou mayest come by those bookes of my father before quoted Well thus I will brieflie aunsweare thee in both For the first Maister Tindall in the Preface of his booke called The Obedience of a Christian man pag. 102. prooueth them to bee Antichristes in as much as in their doctrine and their dooings concerning nonresidencie they are directlie against Christ and his worde I charge thee reade the

place because at this time I am not at leisure to set it downe I can tell thee the reading of it wil be double woorth thy paines My fathers bookes afore spoken of are not in print I confesse I would they were Yet it may be I could direct thee where to go to haue mine But bicause I meane yet further to punish thee for thy slippes in thy Pistle I will not doe thee that plea sure For now in deede it commeth into my mind that thou hast dealt foolishlie in two points beside all other thy fore-reckoned ouersights First thou hast hereby exasperated against thy father and other poore men his well willers not onely thy vncle Caiphas but hast set on the most of thine neames to giue their aduise howe to entrap him and his fauourers For tenne to one but that Beelzebub of London will discharge the pursuvants to go to their busines with this or the like madmonition My Masters you must not sleepe in this matter The maintenāce of the peace of our church standeth now in your faithfulnes and care They are desperately set to ouerthrowe al. And by the masse I will be a pursuvant my selfe rather then abide this tumult And if I were I trowe I would watch about Trauerse his house in Milke streete who go in and out there and I would know what they caried vnder their cloakes too euen anie of them al. There is Paget at Hounslo I beshrewe my heart if I would shewe him anie such fauour as my Lordes Grace heere doeth They are naught they are naught all the packe of them I le trust none of them all There is Cartwright too at Warwicke he hath got him such a companie of disciples both of the worshipful and other of the poorer sort as we haue no cause to thanke him Neuer tell me that he is too graue to trouble himselfe with Martins conceits Tush they will doe anie thing to ouerthrow vs that they might haue our liuings anie o them all I knowe what a good liuing is able to do with the best of vs all Cartwright seekes the peace of our Church no otherwise then his platforme may stand And you knowe my Lord that there is no biting to the olde snake And I doe not see o my troth but that Martins abetters may be worse then himselfe and doe more mischiefe Therefore goe me to all their houses spare mee none of them knights gentlemen and all For I trust the high commission may go to anie knight yea or noble mans house in England Therfore my Lords I woulde wish that some continuall spie may be in all those places which are most suspected And let him learne to be wise to creepe into acquaintance with some of the preciser sorte and looke smoothlie for a time vntill hee can execute his commission Lo yongman do not you deserue stripes for fleshing on these blood-hounds in this fort Let men looke to keep them in as good temper as possiblie they can yet wil they haue a The manifest token of a mad dog a blacke tooth in their heads do what we may But yet I would haue born with all this if thou haddest taken a little paines in ryming with Mar-Martin that the cater-caps may knowe howe the meanest of my fathers sonnes is able to answeare them both at blunt and sharpe And for thy further instruction against an other time heere is a sample for thee of that which in such like cases thou art to performe if I or my father should set thee a worke ¶ The first rising generation and originall of Mar-Martin From Sarum came a gooses egge with specks and spots bepatched A priest of Lambeth coucht thereon Mar-Martin engendred of Canturburie and Sarum thus was Mar-Martin hatched Whence hath Mar-Martin all his wit but from that egge of Sarum The rest coms all from great Sir Iohn who rings vs all this larum What can the cokatrice hatch vp but serpent like himselfe What sees the Ape within the glasse but a deformed Elfe Then must Mar-Martin haue some smell of forge or else of fire A sotte in wit a beast in minde for so was damine and fire Or else thou mightest haue requited him in this Epitaph thus If that Mar-Martin die the death that to the dog is due Vpon his tomb engrane this verse you shal find it true He lies endiched here that from the ladder toppe Did once beblesse the people thus but first he kist the rope Mar-Martins auricular confession from the toppe of a giber Come neere quoth he take heede by me I loued to lie by ryming T is just you see and doth agrece that now I die by climing What wretch but I that vowed to lie all falshoode still defending Who may say fie No beast but I. loe here you see my ending I liued a wretch I die the stretch my daies and death agree Whose life is blameful his death is shameful be warnd ye rogues by mee The justest I hated the godliest I rated and thus I railed my fill The good I detested the best things I wrested to serue mine owne beastlie will Religion I lothed my selfe I betrothed to all the lewd snares of sinne T is shame to saye more take heede of a whore her a Beleeue him then but drinke not with him markes sticke yet in my skinne Aske you the cause I spurnd at Gods laws and hence comes all my wracke Where should he dwel that feares not hel but with the furies blacke A beast that braues a tongue that raues wil God reuenge in ire Then vengeance must for God is iust fall to Mar-Martins hire My tongue in ribaudrie Take example then my cleargie Chapleins by this lamentable fall of your Mar-Martin My heart in villanie My life in treacherie Hath wrought me my fall I stroue for the prelacie And so shooke off honestie O vile indignitie Yet woulde this were all Loe youth though I were loth to file my fingers with such a brothell beast as this Mar-Martin is yet because thou diddest let him goe by thee mee thought halfe vnbranded I was the willinger as thou seest to giue him a wipe or twoo which I beleeue he wil neuer claw off with honestie while he liues And I would wish him with the rest of the rimers if they be wise to take heede of my next Pistle Indeede I denie not but thou hast said pretily to him neither woulde I haue thee discouraged in thy good and honorable course against these prelates Neuertheles I muze thou diddest let him go cleare away with his poperie of sir Nicholas Priestes Also where like a good Catholike hee counsels vs we thanke him to say a rounde Pater noster for Q. Elizabeth I muze thou saidst nothing to that considering how much her Majestie is beholden to him in that regarde And much more had shee beene if hee had added an Aue Marie to it those both together with a peece of S. Iohns Gospell about ones loines woulde haue beene a principall receit for the collicke But sure nowe I thinke on it he brought it in one lie but to make vp his ryme And if you scanne it well t is a pretie one marke it well O England novv ful often must thou Pater noster say How sayst thou hast thou anie skil in Musike If thou haue then I am sure thou wilt confesse with mee that this bastarde pentamenter verse hath a fine sweete loose at the latter ende with a draught of Darbie ale But what sayest thou to it Whether likest thou better of these Nicholas Priestes that can so amble away with the Pater noster or of that little priest of Surrey who bade his maide in her extreamitie of sickenesse say Magnificat say Magnificat Well boy to drawe to an ende notwithstanding thy small defectes perswade thy selfe that I loue thee doubt not of that And here before we part take this one graue lesson of thine elder brother Be silent and close heare manie conferre with few And in this point doe as I doe know not thy father though thou mayest For I tell thee if I shoulde meete him in the streete I woulde neuer aske him blessing walke smoothely and circumspectly and if anie ofter to talke with thee of Martin talke thou straite of the voyage into Portugal or of the happie death of the Duke of Guyse or some such accident but meddle not with thy father Onely if thou haue gathered anie thing in visitation for thy father and hast a longing to acquaint him therewith doe no more but intreate him to signifie in some secret printed Pistle where a will haue it lefte and thatle serue thy turne as good as the best The reason whie wee must not knowe our father is that I feare least some of vs shoulde fall into Iohn Canturburie his hand and then hee le threaten vs with the racke vnlesse wee bewray all we knowe And what get we then by our knowledge For I had rather be ignorant or Thatle do me no good then know Thatle hurt me ka M. Martin Senior Farewell boy and learne to reuerence thy elder brother Pag. 6. line 18. for giue all the good reade go all the ground Pag. 14. line 12. for auoiding reade vrging