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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

❧ 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