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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93625	The speech of a warden to the fellowes of his company: touching the great affaires of the kingdome. Wherein your judgement will stand amazed to decide whether his wisdome or learning did exceed. And doubtlesse is such a speech as was never spoken by any warden since the Citie was made a corporation. / Published by Antibrownistus Puritanomastix.	Puritanomastix, Antibrownistus.; Puritanomastix, Antibrownistus. Three speeches, being such speeches as the like were never spoken in the city.	1642 (1642)	Wing S4862; Thomason E200_47; ESTC R13378	6,888	8

of Bankerouts I would have you all learne it And I confesse I my selfe would follow it but that it doth not agree with the rules of Citie pride for then I should be compelled to forsake my Wardenship and my wife to give the wall which would breake her heart or else breed such a dissention betwixt us that she would breake mine But I say by vertue of this ingeniously mischievous pretence you might inrich your debt Bookes to a treble estate and never come within the compasse of controlement and so cozen your Creditors and the Comissioners of Bankerours with a clenly neat excuse and invisible peece of knavery I even tickle with the conceit of it you may thereby preserve your money to buy Land in Ireland and so after the Conquest have that estate there in reality which now you doe but pretend to have Now truely I thanke you all for that loving Him it is a most evident token of your pronenesse to take my advice and I doubt not but to my glory and your comfort it will be followed with speedy effect especially if the King be not pacified and returne home againe The second cause why I presse this Designe as I said before is the mighty benefit which thereby will acrew he that adventures two hundred pounds for a thousand Acres purchaseth for the said two hundred pounds five and twenty pounds a yeere at six pence an Acre per annum I made my man Jehos●phat Singularily cast it up this morning And this kinde of profit is peculiar onely to us money-mungers The benefit which will redound to the Souldiers is of another nature viz. that transparent and invisible treasure called Honour the proper advancement of all resolved spirits For alas what should they doe with Lands or estates to hinder their brave atchievements and redoubted under-takings It is enough they come home with halfe their lims thereby enabled to be Pentioners of the County Treasury under the limitation of maimed Souldiers in genteele ragges and not a louse that creepes upon those rags but a gentleman by the Law of Armes the totall of their whole Revenue consisting of honourable scars and rusty Whinyards that will not be pawned arguments of more validity for them to swagger and dam and sinke withall then infinite wealth could be and may but their idoll Fortune be so favourable as to afford them meanes to procure Ale and Tobacco why they will live as happily as the great Tuk● though meat and cloathes be things utterly worne out of their memories And so much for this Designe Now for my period my ultimum my nil ultra the very Garland of my good Will to the Publique and that is the feares and jealousies which doe now possesse the Kingdome I will but onely grunt you out a modicum a touch a relish a short twang of them and then end with the same modesty gravity and wisdome that I began Concerning these Feares and Jealousies they are of a most dangerous nature and high consequence the greatest that ever was in any Time or Nation but truly neither I nor any-man living can tell what they are or from whence they should arise but without all doubt there is great cause or else there would not be such talking of them And it appeares by an example here present for all you that now snore so lowd could not have beene so sleepy had not Fears and Jealousies kept you waking Besides now I thinke out there are some apparent causes as my self do feare lest Jehosophat should get my Daughter Dorcas with child for Jehosophat is a notable boy and hath said prayers at a Conventickle and the girle hath a strain both of Father and mother in her You neighbour Gripe do fear least your wife should know you keep a whore at Putney and you brother Brush fear least you should be hangd for speaking high treason a gainst the King and truly we all fear one thing or other And for our Jealousies all of us here present that have hansome wives are jealous of them and not without good cause and those that have not are jealous of other women and some are jealous of their servants so that you see there are both Fears and Jealousies grounded upon considerable causes Now truly how to prevent the effects of these Fears and Jealousies is not within the compasse of my Ingenuity For it is not the Militia the stopping of Ports and holding Garison Towns that can keep our Wives Daughters and Servants honest if they have a minde to cockolds or try whether they be able to fructifie No no Italian Locks will not do it nay for ought I know your wife neighbor Spider may be just now at it for I saw Green the Felt-maker go that way as I came toth Hal O tremble not neighbor she hath no doubt discretion to do nothing but what is spirituall and secret meerly to take down the pride of the flesh for I le assure you that Act is as great a help to the mortification of fleshly desires as the longest fast that ever was kept Now there are other Fears and Jealousies but as I said so I say again I cannot imagine from whence they should proceed unlesse we should fear lest the Devill should too soon take a swift Vengeance on us for our damnable Extortions and Cousenage in the sale of out Commodities And yet why should we fear that we are already sure on Well since there is no remedy we will fear still and be jealous still And without all question when the Danger comes upon us we shall know the cause thereof In the mean time I will sit down and fall asleep and hold my peace FINIS