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B01234	Foole upon foole, or, Six sortes of sottes. A flat foole, a leane foole, a merry foole, [brace] and [brace] a fatt foole, a cleane foole, a verrie foole. Shewing their liues, humours and behauiours, with their want of wit in their shew of wisdome. Not so strange as true.	Armin, Robert, fl. 1610.	1605 (1605)	STC 772.5; ESTC S124178	31,244	44

FOOLE VPON FOOLE OR Sixe sortes of Sottes A flat Foole and A fatt Foole A leane Foole and A cleane Foole A merry Foole and A verrie Foole. Shewing their liues humours and behauiours with their want of witte in their shew of wisedome Not so strange as true Omnia sunt sex Clonnico del mondo Snuffe LONDON Printed for William Ferbrand dwelling in Popes-head Allie neare the Royall Exchange 1605. TO THE READER as much health as to my selfe SWeete Signior I salute thee kindly how vnkindly so euer you salute my labour desiring thy loue not thy dislyke Mee thinkes it were of all thinges more then strange that men lyuing should liue grieuing and one to repine at an others prosperitie it may be thou wilt wonder that I doe well yet I wonder not that thou thinkest ill for the common course is such the more is the pittie What i st a new Booke sayes one I sayes another t is call'd Foole vpon Foole Nay like enough sayes the first Fooles write as their witte workes Why do we not know that sometimes the ayre purgeth with vncomfortable sleete as profitable raine Are all Wits euer prosperous no times are leaden dull Age weakens and Wits must needes decline Euery one then saue one and do what a can not what a would But I am tedious to thee and to my selfe bid my Booke welcome it may be I may liue to make thee amendes if not no more but this such a one dy'de in thy debt Adew and read true How Iacke Oates playde at Cardes all alone IAcke Oates sitting at Cardes all alone was dealing to himselfe at Vide-rusfe for that was the game he ioyed in and as he spide a Knaue Ah knaue art there quoth hee When he spide a King King by your leaue quoth he if he spied a Queene Queene Richard art come quoth he and would kneele downe and bid God blesse her Maiestie meaning indeed the then Queene whom he heard Sir William Hollis his Maister so much to pray for But heere is the Iest Iacke as I say being at Cardes all alone spying a Knaue and saying Ah Knaue art there A simple Seruingman being in the Hall waighting his maisters comming walking by and hearing him say so thought he had called him Knaue tooke the matter in dudgin and miscalled the Foole another Seruingman more foolish then both tooke Iackes part so that in short time they two fell together by the eares who being parted Iacke Oates giues them each one a Knaue and so takes them into the Buttry to drinke the Knight comes in seeing the Hall not yet quiet askt the matter Iacke comes I le tell thee Willy quoth hee As I was a playing at Cardes one seeing I wonne all I playde for would needes haue the Knaue from mee which as very a Knaue is hee seeing would needes beare him Knaue for company so to bid them both welcome to thy house I haue bin to intreat the Knaue thy Butler to make them drinke I sayes Sir William and you like a Knaue made them fall out I answered Iacke and your drinke Sir knaue made them friendes Sir William laughing departed How Iacke hit a Noble-man a boxe on the eare Newes came to Sir William that such a Nobleman was comming to his house great prouision was made for his welcome and amongst all Iacke Oates put on his now Motley coate a cleane Muckender and his new shooes Much preparation was made which were too long to tell for I le assure ye it was one of the greatest Earles in England vnfit to name here but the Knight and his Ladie met him at the gate to entertaine him Sir William with a low congy saluted him the good Ladie as is the Courtly custom was kist of this Noble man Iacke Oates seeing him kisse his Lady on the sodaine giues the Earle a sound boxe on the eare knaue quoth he kisse Sir Willies wife the good Knight amazed at this caused him to be whipt but the kinde Noble man knowing simplicitie the ground of his errour would not suffer it but putting it vp left him and entred the house Iacke seeing they were sad and he had done amisse had this wit in simplicitie to shaddowe it he comes after and askt the Earle where his hand was Here quoth hee with that he shakes him by it and sayes I mistooke it before knowing not your eare from your hand being so like one another Iacke thought hee had mended the matter but now he was whipt indeede and had his payment altogether Thus fooles thinking to bee wise become flat foolish but all is one Iacke neuer repented him How a Minstrell became a foole artificiall and had Iacke Oates his reward for his labour AT a Christmas time when great logs furnish the Hall fire when Brawne is in season in deede all Reueling is regarded this gallant knight kept open house for all commers where Beefe Beere and Bread was no niggard Amongst all the pleasures prouided a Noyse of Minstrelles and a Lincolnshire Bagpipe was prepared the Minstrels for the great Ceamber the Bagpipe for the Hall the Minstrels to serue vp the Knights meate and the Bagpipe for the common dauncing Iacke could not endure to be in the common Hall for indeede the foole was a little proude minded and therefore was altogether in the great Chamber at my Ladies or Sir Williams elbo one time being very melancholy the Knight to rouse him vp saide hence foole hence I le haue another foole thou shalt dwell no longer with me Iack to this answered little though indeed ye could not anger him worse A Gentleman at the boord answeres if it please you sir I le bring ye another foole soone I pray ye do quoth the knight and he shall be welcome Iacke fell a crying and departed mad and angry downe into the great Hall and being strong armed as before I described him caught the Bagpipes from the piper knocke them about his pate that he laid the fellow for dead on the ground and all broken carries the pipes vp into the great Chamber and layes them on the fire The Knigt knowing by Iacke that some thing was amisse sends downe to see newes of this iest came the knight angry but to no purpose for he loued the foole aboue all that the houshold knew else Iacke had paide for it for the common peoples dauncing was spoiled sent downe Iacke and had him out of his sight Iacke cryes hang sir Willy hang sir Willy departes Sir William not knowing how to amend the matter caused the Piper to be caried to bed who was very ill and said I would now giue a gold noble for a foole indeede to anger him throughly one of the Minstrels whispered a Gentleman in the eare and sayd if it pleased him he would whereat the Gentleman laught the Knight demaunded the reason of his laughing I pray you tell mee quoth he for laughing could neuer come in a better time the foole hath madded me If

him taking him for a worthy personage which pleased him In he comes and finding the King at dinner and the Cardinal by attending to disgrace him that he neuer loued Harry saies he lend me ten pound What to do saies the King To pay thrée or foure of the Cardinals creditors quoth hee to whom my word is past and they are come now for their money That thou shalt Wil quoth he Creditors of mine sayes the Cardinall I le giue your Grace my head if any man can iustly aske me a penny No saies Will lend mee ten pounds if I pay it not where thou owest it I le giue thée twenty for it Doe so saies the King That I wil my Liege saies the Cardinal though I know I owe none With that he lends Wil Sommers ten pound Will goes to the gate and distributes it to the poore and brought the empty bag there is thy bag againe sayes he and thy creditors are satisfied and my word out of danger Who receyued it sayes the King the Brewer or the Baker Neyther Harry sayes Will Sommers But Cardinal answere me in one thing To whom doest thou owe thy soule To God quoth he To whom thy wealth To the poore saies he Take thy forfet Harry sayes the foole open confession opē penance his head is thine for to the poore at the gate I payd his debt which he yéelds is due or if thy stony heart wil not yéeld it so saue thy head by denying thy word lend it me thou knowest I am poore and haue neither wealth nor wit what thou lendest to the poore God wil pay thée ten fold he is my surety arrest him for by my troth hang me when I pay thée The King laught at the iest and so did the Cardinall for a shew but it grieued him to iest away ten poūd so yet worse tricks then this Will Sommers serued him after for indéed he could neuer abide him and the forfeiture of his head had like to haue bene payd had he not poysoned himselfe How this merry Foole Will Sommers eate a messe of Milke without a spoone THere was in the time of Will Sommers an other artificiall Iester or foole in the Court whose subtilty heapt vp wealth in rewards gifts giuen him which Wil Sommers could neuer abide him for but indeed lightly one foole cannot indure the sight of another as Iacke Oates did the Minstrell in the flat fooles story and one begger is wo another by the dore should goe This Iester was a byg man of a great voyce long black locks and a very big round beard On a time of purpose Will Sommers watcht to disgrace him when hee was iuggling and iesting before the King Will Sommers brings vp a messe of milk and a manchet Harry sayes he lend me a spoone Foole sayes the Iester vse thy hand help hands I haue no lands meanes that saying would warrant his grosse féeding I sayes Will Sommers beasts will féede so and beasts will bid other doe as they will doe themselues Will sayes the King thou knowest I haue none True Harry sayes he I know that therefore I aske thée and I would but for doing thée harme thou hadst no tongue to graunt that foole his next sute but I must eat my creame some way The King the Iester and all gathers about him to sée him eat it Wil begins thus to ryme ouer his milke This bit Harry I giue to thee and this next bit must serue for me Both which I le eat apace This bit Madam vnto you and this bit I my selfe eat now And all the rest vpon thy face Meaning the foole in whose beard head the bread and milk was thick sown his eyes almost put out Wil Sommers he gets him gone for feare This lusty Iester forgetting himselfe in fury drawes his dagger begins to protest Nay saies the King are ye so hote clap him fast and though he drawes his dagger here yet let him put it vp in another place The poore abused Iester was iested out of countenance lay in durance a great while till Wil Sommers was fayne to after he had broke his head to giue him a playster get him out agayne but neuer after came my Iuggler in the Court more so néere the King being such a dangerous man to draw in the presence of A very Foole ❧ How Iohn of the Hospitall the very foole walkt and preacht in Paules Church and was bidden to dinner THis innocent Ideot that neuer harmed any before I enter any further I will let you vnderstand in two words how hee came to be of the Hospitall of Christs Church Some certayne yeres since but not a few yeres there dwelt a poore blind woman in Bow lane in London called by the name of blind Alice who had this foole of a child to lead her in whose house he would sit eyther on the staires or in a corner sing Psalmes or preach to himselfe of Peter and Paul because hee delighted to goe to Sermons with blind Alice heard the Preacher talke of them It chanced the Worshipful of the City good Benefactors to the poore to take her into Christes Hospitall with whome Iohn went as a guide to lead her who being olde after she dyed he was to be turned out of doore but the City more desirous to pity then to be cruell placed him as a fostered fatherlesse chylde and they did well in it too seeing hee was one of Gods creatures though some difference in persons Well to go forward in what I promised you Iohn went to S. Paules Church in London to méete with M. Nowel the Deane whose bounty to him was great the toole knew it well ynough whom he would duely attend after his preaching for euer he gaue him at their méeting a groat and he would bring it to his Nurse Well M. Deane preached not that day whereupon Iohn stands in a corner with boyes flocking about him and begins to preach himselfe holding vp his muckender for his booke and reades his text It is written sayes he in the 3. chapter of Paul to the Corinthians Brethren you must not sweare for that was lightly al his text then thus he begins Whereas or whereunto it is written for because you must beléeue it for surely else we are no Christiās Write the sermon boy sayes he as the Hospital boyes do then one must write on his hand with his finger and then hee would go forward thus The world is proud and God is angry if we do not repent Good friend giue me a pin or good friend giue mée a poynt as it came in his mind and so sucking vp his driuell and breath together would pray and make an end which being done who bids me home to dinner now saies Iohn The boyes that knew his qualities answers that do I Iohn Thank ye friend sayes he goes home to his owne dwelling at Christs Church But at this time one wealthy Marchants son