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A05599	Scotlands vvelcome to her native sonne, and soveraigne lord, King Charles wherein is also contained, the maner of his coronation, and convocation of Parliament; the whole grievances, and abuses of the common-wealth of this kingdome, with diverse other relations, never heretofore published. Worthy to be by all the nobles and gentry perused; and to be layed vp in the hearts, and chests of the whole commouns, whose interests may best claime it, either in meane, or maner, from which their priuiledges, and fortunes are drawne, as from the loadstar of true direction. By William Lithgovv, the bonaventure, of Europe, Asia, and Africa.	Lithgow, William, 1582-1645?	1633 (1633)	STC 15716; ESTC S108590	34,052	62

More then the Schollers bring for boording meant Thus Learning goes to ruyne Books grow skant Meanes they haue none and maintenance they want There is no gayne nor no preferment neither Now following learning nor desert but rather The greatest Dunsse if rich is soonest plac'd And rarest Schollers lacking meanes defac'd Thus Airts grow Airtles wit repyning wit When Asses must in Lyons Cabines sit Tythes too should build blest Hospitals and doe Erect Schooles Bridges and sustaine them too But where they should doe good they doe most ill Being abus'd by vse and corrupt will For Sir take heed what greef is this and crosse To my poore Commouns and a yearely losse That when their Cornes are shorne stoukd dead and dry They can not get them teinded Nay and why Some grudge or malice moves despight to wound The hopefull Haru'st and rot their Cornes on ground This is no rare thing on their Stowks thats seene Snow-coverd Tops below they 're grass-growne greene Which often breeds great famyne and great skant And plagues my Commouns with a Heart-broke want For which they grieue in this long deformation And hope to haue from Thee a reformation Which GOD may grant and blesse thy judgment too For to considder what Oppressours doe So so reclayme them deale them at thy pleasure For GOD and godlynesse and for thy Treasure Which being in thine hand and then to farme Them back on Lords will bread a double harme For worse and worse my Commouns shall bee crost And all thy good intentions therein lost Then let my Tythes be brought to money rent For Thee from Land-Lord and the poore Tennent So may they sheare and lead and stakke their Corne At Mid-night Midday afternoone or Morne Which shall bee their advantage and my gayne When Barnes and Yards are fill'd with tymely grayne I haue some Sycophants ly at thy Court Disturbers of my peace and there resort Still hatching of mischiefe projecting ends Which to my Countreyes ruine onely tends And though they burrowd Lyfe Lands Birth and Blood Of Mee they 're still repaying ill for good For having spent their meanes so now their braynes They spend in forging of seditious straynes Still this or that devysing runne such courses That for their crosses they 're repayd with curses Nay I must call them Bandits Rebells bred And Fugitiues from jure Poena fled Then then dread Sir take heed such Snakes may sting And wound the judgment of a prudent King As for this Valuation who can tell What 's meant thereby or can my Preachers well With one out of each Parish lay the ground What euery Land is worth or may be found No no its labour lost and I pray God Wee bee not scourgd for it by his just rod A lesser fault then this made Israell quake When David of his People count would make But value stock and brock Tythes fruites and all God must giue encrease or the reckning fall So Tymes vntymely haue their tyme mispent On base Ingratitude and bounty shent What 's worth without wealth merit without Loue Birth without Vertue greatnes without Iove Bairnes without duetye Parents without care Friends without Credit Towne without repayre Lyfe without Learning Servants without paynes Faith without good works Comerce without gaynes Hope without repentance Wit without Reason Greefe without Patience Mirth out of season Command without Pow'r Prince without People State without gouernment Church without Steeple Preachers without rent Poets but reward Rich Men without rueth Honour but regard Iudges without Iustice Agents but sees Clarks without decreets Lawyers without pleas Tillage without soyle Trafficque without peace Grace without godlynes Sheep without fleece Pryde without puissance Loue vnles acquent Wyves without Children wealth without Content All which are toyles lost labour lost in vayne And drudging care for profit without gayne Discordant things still contrare ends oppose The cause not the effect wee should suppose So Fates agree so accidents and Clymes Conclude this age must see such woefull Tymes So Grammer Schooles are ruynd Learning rare Boords are so deare and Stipends waxe so bare That good house-houlders Country-men I spy Can hardly boord their Bairnes abroad and why Broughs are so fingring Schoole-Masters so needy Lore at such rate and Victuallers so greedy That now most Bairnes with Sheep and Ploughs are found Which makes so many Ignorants abound With Rustick Caryage Manners harsh and rude And decent Comlynes is quite seclude For what makes Nature civill myld and meek Kynd wyse affable gentle slow to speek But good education well bred well taught In Morall Precepts and divynely fraught With learned Wisdome whence discretion flowes And Vnderstanding too for Learning growes To bee the light of Nature and I fynd It s the ornament of a pregnant Mynd And though it were but for to read and wryte It is a needfull vse and yeelds delyte To euery good Conception giues direction To know aright and so serues for correction And thus the Ruther which behauiour rules Though graft in Nature is refynd by Schooles So would to GOD. in tyme a course were tane That Schooles and Schollers were repayrd againe Another great abuse is this that when Men runne in Suretyship for other Men Or els morgadgd in debt yet will not pay Their Creditors nor thy just Lawes obey But scorning horning Caption Rebells turne And in despight of Pow'r all where sojourne Arm'd with Rebellion Pistols Sword and Dagger Threatning to kill they roare it out and swagger They boast their Creditours and plague the Poore Even rambling through best Townes from doore to doore Whilst neither Shrieue nor Iustice will lay hould Vpon these Rebells nay although they could They will not why some one respect or other Dry●e in de●ayes whilst they thy Lawes downe smother And thus this Land is ouer runne and crost With lawles Bankerouts and Iustice lost Some newly broke as civill Cheaters doe Guard Barwick and makes Barw●ck guard them too It sti●l keeps Garrison all Men may see In stead of Souldiers now fled Spendthrifts bee This border Towne lyke to that seat of Rome From Sword and Spoyle to cousenage is come The one absolving sin the other debt Though neither can nor could such freedome get Nay Barwick jumps with Rome in more then this Slaughter Adultry Incest what 's amisse In ciuill Law or Church it will protect them Though Iustice Vengeance crying sins detect them Then who should curbe this sheltring or restrayne it But thou gainst whom and thy lawes they maintaine it There 's too of late a new eclipsd miscaryage But rather ane abuse of honest marryage For now young persons fauncyeing other loues Without consent of Parents thus it proues Or of their pastors approbation neither Of Towne nor Parish nay of Friend or Father Away they goe to England there they 're marryed And sometymes too lyke Partyes turne miscaryed Where fayling of Church rites this yoke they draw That lawles Loue may be

Stations to decay And no great wonder how can they abide When Thou and Thine shall els where still resyde For Edinburghs fortresse it stoutely stands High-tip-toe rockd o'relooking Sea and Lands Where Iames the Iust of blest renowne thy Syre Was borne and got the Crowne of this Empyre Would Soundbroughhead in Zetland were intrenchd And Skalloway neare Laxford too reflanchd And that Orcadian Kirkwall eke rampierd With Cafasound that harbour much admir'd Then would these Iles Septentrion safer bee When made defensiue gainst the Hostile S●● But for most other parts few can offend them S●a-sandy Shelfs and Craggy Coasts defend them As for my westerne Iles they need no hould Each ●●ander himselfe is Bulwark bould Yet Sir looke to it least my Forts decay And these thy Mansions fall and rot away Now come I to Land-passages and see I find defects would GOD could helped bee Where are these Bridges over Rivers plac'd Which sometymes haue my Body maynely grac'd Nay they 're ruind els vtterly decay'd Whose vntected Arches spoi●'d are quite deray'd Most waters now haue neither Bridge nor Boat Which makes so many sink or helplesse float What should I speake of Perths outragious Tay That shortly twyse hath tane her Bridge away But wayle the losse that Towne receav'd thereby And for remeed to Thee my Sou'raigne cry O Gracious Sir cause build that Bridge againe And flank each Columne with hornd Arches twaine T●● stones more long and larger than before The Arches wyder doubling on each Shoare Which made more high and wyde the strugling flood May ca●mely vent and not proue half so rude For which good work the Countrey being easd Thou shalst be praisd and GOD therein well pleasd There many other Rivers Brookes and Strands Streames Rills and Torrents march-divyding Lands Would faine be bridg'd made passable and plank'd Men might find way and Benefactors thank'd But where 's the Earle Baron Laird or Knight Will prove so charitable though he might 〈◊〉 there 's no Commoun-wealth nor commoun works 〈◊〉 of them building Nests for Chimney Storks But to 〈◊〉 trueth in times past and of late 〈…〉 and Cl●ister had their swagg●ing state Th●se good and beneficiall deeds abounded Which now by vs are ruind rent and wounded And yet my Nobles brooke these Tythes and rents Supply'd this charge which many one repents For them what good they doe therewith it s knowne They fat thems●lues then leaue it to their owne Then to helpe this cause eu'ry Land-Lord lo Through whose just bounds thy Market Streets do goe To build sustaine repayre what 's in decay And over lets to make free passage way But if this task may seeme to great for one Then let the Shyre helpe him where it 's done And as the work to modifie the meane Wherein the vulgars formost still are seene So shall this Nation blesse Thee praise them too When Landed Men this Christian good shall do Now for my losses by the Hostile Sea These long fiue yeares in numbers many be The Divelish Dunkirker ransacks my Ships And with the scourge of Pryde my fortune whips Along the shivring tops of rouzing billowes Menassing Mars and Neptune all he swallowes Within the throat of Hatred and he fills Their Flandrian Ports with Masts as high as Hills My Men are captiues and their goods are lost To them and theirs thy foe of too free cost Enjoyeth all and then at randon lets Mens liues and freedome if he ransome gets And ly even as they please on Aermouths coast Or Humber mouth where all my Ships are lost Where then my Cursars Where thy Men of war Nay when they see them hover off a far And basely suffer thine Enemies to prey Vpon thy subjects making no supply If this be right or if warres be intended I wish a better course els they were ended Besides these Sea-bred griefs ah now I see Through spatious Europe a deformitie What strange combustions tumults and vproares Are here and there alwhere the Sword it goares O wretched Tyme most barbarous and rude To see the Christian World drunk dead with blood And not one Kingdome left without cursd jarres So vniversall are these woefull warres Kings against Kings Nation against Nation Perfites the Prophecy of Desolation The like deludge reciprocating stryfe Was not since last Rome lost her Tribune lyfe O woefull warre which lessens wealth and strength And brings the ruynes of ruine at length It doth dishonour Honour and degrad The mighty Man from what his greatnesse had Even like the rage of the impetuous flood Debording from his banks leaues slyme and mood To choke the fertile plaines supplants the rootes Of Hearbs and Trees defaceth quite the fruits Of grapes and grayne and often breaks the walls Of strongest Townes whereon destruction falls Even so the fury of the bloody Warre In breking downe the bonds of Peace debarre The links of Loue and Alliance quite defaceth The libertie of Nature and disgraceth The ornaments of Tyme and cuts the throat Of Martiall Darlings then casts vp the lot Of desolation which destroyeth all Which can to meane or mighty Men befall What though to lyfe we all but one way came Yet diverse wayes we go out of the same So fatall Sword decrees Deaths worst and best Man 's Epilogue to be nunc mortuus est Then heere 's the Catastrophe warfare brings For Pre●er losse the present thought of things As Christendome may curse that Counte of Torne The day that he was got bred breathd or borne For diverse causes in Matthias tyme Which ah of late turn'd to a vulgar cryme So may a lesser World a greater cur●e Impose on some whose ruind drifts were worse But tush let Fortune wag the Balls runne on The Wheele in pieces chatter all is One There is a day when Tyme shall bring to dust There falshood and false houours most injust Let Caperculion Musick Nigromancers French fidling playes and blind dissembling Dauncer● Enveigle heavie Tymes and runne the Snout Of trecherie vpon a fakeles rout There is a Maskerat will ones discover The lenth twixt Reize and Calz from Calz to Do●●r Take heed of Sinons teares take heed of this False-smyling Clepho with a Iudas kisse Mongst sweetest flowres the link-layd Serpents ly And lurking sting the harmelese goers by So vnder fairest words the fal●est heart Doth pry and dyue to work some grievous smart For it is incident to Courteours still To speak one way and haue another will But much more in the Minion who pretends A Sou'raigne Mateship for his trechrous ends Which though his greatnesse springs not from true merit But from the pow'r of loue which Kings inherit Yet often and too often ab I find That Kingly favours breed a false false mynd And seldome eu'r escapes without retort So doubtful are the dangers of a Court. So present tymes may for example trade On Duke de Lerma whom Don Phillip made His Mineon and his Oracle his guide The King being simple meek and