by the former Laws and Provisions ordained the Commissioners appointed have limited power to examine the Bankrupt himselfe c. But â—â—me doubt hath beene made whether their power d d exâ—end to examine the wives of the Bankrupts coâ— hâ—â—g the same by reason whereof the Bankrupts 〈◊〉 doe daily conceale and convey away and â—ause to bee conveyed much part of their husbands monies wa es c. by meanes whereof much of the B nkrupts estate is concealed and deteined fâ—â—m 〈◊〉 Creditors For cleering the said doubt 〈◊〉 it Declared and Enacted by the Authority aâ—â—â—esaid that after such time as any person shallby 〈…〉 Commissioners executing the said Commission or â—he greater part of them bee lawfully 〈◊〉 or declared to be a Bankrupt the said â—â—mmissioners executing such Commission shall 〈◊〉 power and authority to examine upon Oath 〈…〉 â—â—fe and wives of all and every such Bankrupt for the finding out * 〈…〉 â—e this 〈…〉 and discovery of the estate and estates goods and chattels of such Bankrupt or Bankrupts â—â—ncealed secretly kept or disposed of by such 〈◊〉 or wives in their own persons or by their â—wne act or meanes or by any other person or perâ—â—â—s And that shee and they the said wife and w ves shall incur such danger and penalty for not c ming before the said Commissioners or for refusing to bee sworne and examined or for not disclosing the truth upon her or their examination or eâ—â—minations as in and by the said former Lawes or eyther of them is already made and provided against any other Person or Persons in like Cases And if any Bankrupt shall upon his or her exâ—mination taken before the said Comm ssioners be found fraudulently or deceitfully to have conveyed away his or her goods chattels c. to the value of twenty pounds or above purposely to hinder the execution of this Statute shall not upon his or her examination discover unto the said Commissioâ—ers and if it lie in their power deliver to the said Commissioners all that estate goods and chattels so fraudulently and deceitfully conveyed away shall or may bee indicted for such fraud or abuse at the Assizes or generall Sessions c. and if upon such Indictment or Indictments the Bankrupt bee thereof convicted hee or shee so convicted shall bee set upon the Pillory * Mark this my sorowfull Sisters woâ—ull wives to the br k n rater 〈◊〉 be not careâ—â—ssâ— o◠〈…〉 lâ—st ye become a 〈◊〉 spectacle oâ— the publick Pillory in some publick place for the space of two houres have one of his or her ears nailed to the Pillory and cut off And for that some doubt is conceived whether the CoÌ„missioners in case of resistance have power by the former Lawes to breake opâ—n or cause to bee broken open the House or Houses of such Bankrupts c. Bee it therefore Enacted That in execution of the said Commission it shall bee lawfull to and for the said Commissioners or any other Person or Persons by them or the greater part of them deputed by their warrant or warrants under their hands and seales to breake open the House or Houses chambers shops warehouses c. where the said Bankrupt or any of his or her goods or estate shall be or reputed to be and to seizâ— them and order the Body Goods and Chattels ready money and other estate of such Bankrupt as by the said former Lawes are limited and appointed And for the better division and distribution of the Lands Tenements Hereditaments c. amongst his or her Creditors Bee it Enacted that the Commissioners or the greatest part of them shall and may examin upon Oâ—th or by any other waies or meanes as to them shall seeme meete any Person or Persons for the finding out and discovery of the truth and certaintie of the severall debts due and owing to all such Creditor and Creditors as shall seeke reliefe by such course of Commission to bee sued forth as aforesaid And that all and every Creditor and Creditors having security for his or their severall Debts by Judgment Statute Recognizance c. or having made Attachment in London or any other place by virtue of any custome there used of the goods and chattels of any such Bankrupt whereof there is no Execution or Extent served and executed upon any the Lands Tenements H reditaments Goods Chattels and other estate of such Bankrupt before such time as hee or shee shall or doe become Bankrupt shâ—ll not bee relieved upon any such Judgement Statute Recognizance Specialty Attachment or other security for more then a rateable part of their just and due debts And bee it further Enacted That if any the Lands Tenements Goods Chattels Debts or other estate of any Bankrupt bee extended after such time as hee or shee is become a Bankrupt by any person or persons under colour of pretence of his or their being an accountant or any way indebted unto our Soveraigne his Heirs or Successors that then it shall bee lawfull to and for the said Commissioners to examine upon Oath whether the said Debt were due to such Debtor or Accomptant And if such contract was originally made it shall and may bee lawfull to and for the said Commissioners to order determine and dispose of all such Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods Chattels and Debts so extended as aforesaid to and for the use of the Creditors which shall seeke reliefe by the said Commission And for that it often falls out that many persons before they become Bankrupt doe convey their goods to other men upon good consideration yet still doe keepe the same and are reputed the owners thereof and dispose the same as their owne Bee it Enacted That if at any time hereafter any person or persons shall become Bankâ—upt and at such time as they shall become Bankrupt shall by the consent and permission of the true owner and proprietarie have in their possession order and disposition any goods or chattels whereof they shall bee reputed owners and take upon them the sale alteration or disposition as owners that in every such case the said Commissioners or the greater part of them shall have power to sell and dispose the same to and for the benefit of the Creditors which shall seeke reliefe by the said Commission as fully as any other part of the estate of the Bankrupt And for the better payment of debts and discouraging men to become Bankrupts Bee it further Enacted that the said Commissioners on whom this Authority is expresly conferred or the greater number of them shall have power by virtue of this Act by Deede indented and inrolled within six moneths after the making thereof in some of his Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster to grant bargain sell and convey any Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whereof any Bankrupt is 〈◊〉 shall be in any waies seized of any estate in tayle in possession reversion or remainder and whereof no reversion or remainder is
in his life appeares To have his hatefull skin pul'd ore his eares Yet has this got a Pardon and much more By an imposed fine beg'd long before For this same worldly wise oppressing Hammon Hath made him friends by his unrighteous MaÌ„mon Fore-seeing well he stood on such false ground His naughty cause would force him to compound Whence there appears great wrong for it is sed Such have his Fine as nere were injured The poore-ones suffer and their wrong express But all their cries can get them no redress Which if our Prince so gracious is he knew Hee 'd cause him make what restitution's due And feed none such in their unbounded riot Who with their surfeits doe the State disquiet But see by talking of these corrupt Benches I 'de like to have forgot three of my Senses Nor were 't a wonder Some by being crost In course of Justice all their Senses lost Well might I then forget my Senses too Having with unjust men so much to doe But I have heard more than I meane to tell My Eare is clos'd now must I to my Smell THis Sense in mee doth such delight begit As Mines of Treasures shall not purchase it In every secret corner of my Grate I can Smell some abuses in the State Here one both great and of as strong a savor By going brisk and neate creepes into favor Another holds concurrence with the time And hee will fall before he will not clime Here a brave spritely Youth who as they say Was but a Ladies page the other day And such was femal bounty liv'd upon her Refines my Smell with his perfumed honor There one who hath more worship farr then wit And more estate than pate to mannage it Here one a lovely Lady in her time Paints to repaire those Lillies that decline Who old in yeeres but youthfull in desire Cold in the pulse but hot in fancies fire And her I Smell for though her face be dyed With purest colours she is Mortified No Saint yet earthly sented for her breath Proves she is mortall and must cope with death But who coms here I smel one neer approaching What Madam would doe all the day long Coaching I know her well shee doth a Husband want And 's held the only choice Court-visitant For feminine discourse though now and then She talks so broad she 'd shame a thousand men How far this Dame is out of knowledg growne Some ten yeeres since shee came but to the town With a french fidler and sung northern jigs And after sold false Tyres and Periwigs The very first inventresse of Goats haire Ceruse from Venice and adultrate ware Besides shee purchas'd of a Jew of late A fucus for the face at such a rate As had Some Ladies nere desir'd to try it And paid well for 't shee had been loser by it Yet howsoere this Maquerella trade She 's tane in Court and City for a maid Though I suspect for I have heard it said Shee stood in neede once of Lucina's ayd But shee is now grown great what matter then If Lais like shee cope with twenty men For there is none held now in all our Nation So fâ—râ—â—â— give young Ladies education So gâ—aâ—efull in her carriage and discourse Though vertue say shee never heard a worse For shee whom vertue guides will never seeke With shop bought beauty to adorn the cheeke But ' zlid who 's this smels in my nose so rank Pandora that same Lady Mountebank Who keeps a Catalogue of all diseases And choice receits to cure them as shee pleases Besideâ— Provocatives shee has such plenty Hâ—r well-frequented Shop is never empty If an affection to a wench should move you Shee has a powder too will cause her love you Are you by night time troubled with the Mare About your great toe shee will ty a haire Or subject unto dreaming shee 'll assure you She has a soveraign oyle will throughly cure you Or pain'd with aches shee has in her pack A Balm that cur'd one tortur'd on the Rack Or hyde-bound she has by her such a Stone As it hath pow'r to raise the skin from bone Shee has a water that in little space Will take away all wrinkles from the face Reube the blood refresh a wasted brain And like Medaeas charme bring youth again And if you would beleeve what she 'll relate Shee 'll tell you of a cure shee wrought of late Upon a great and noble person too Who struck in age yet had a mind to woo A fresh young girle but he thought the sight Of his white-haires would dash his motion quite Which to prevent hee to this Artist came Who by receits as quickly cur'd the same Within four daies all his white-haires were reft him Which I beleeve for not a hayre was left him Briefly for all cures shee so far surpasses Galen and Paracelsus were but Asses Compar'd to her sith there be greater store Of Maladies then have been heretofore When nationall diseases that did show Their dire effects to some one place or two Are now grown universall for since than French Dutch Italian Neopolitan Have sought unto our Coast their Sores to carry Where they are grown in time hereditary But who is this I sent A sack of dust And mouldred ashes yet as full of lust As if her stirring blood begun to melt With thought of youth and nere had winter felt Has she no Husband me thinks she should stir him Shee has a Husband but she cares not for him Those that are chaste affect no choice but shee Would surfeit had shee not varietie So strong 's her appetite that in her plenty She glories more then if shee were but twenty Such sweetness brings sins custom as once in Delight in Sin removes all sense of Sin More do I smell for I am not invited But with my Smelling only am delighted A solemn bride-pie which upon my life Is for that fox-furd Burgomasters wife Now gone to marry and has hope to breed Yet has not one found tooth in all her head So as this youth struts by his old Trots side For all the world like Battus with his Bride But stand for see his Crest displaid in paste One who nere lov'd the church to church doth haste To spouse his youthfull Bride whom as 't is said Hee in her Husbands life time formalled Whose corpse scarce cold no nor the poorest worm Entred his coffin nor his shroud-sheet torn His Obits done or funeral-torch burn't out But shee 's so hot shee needs must go unto 't Where arm in arm and cheeke to cheeke they meete Leaving her dead Lord to his winding-sheete Whence I conclude as Sexton once did cry With a loud voice to such as passed by How short 's a womans grief within three daies Rosemary sprigs are turn'd to gilded Bayes Thus may you see when I no Flow'rs may take Of Weeds for need I can a posie make And smell them too although they give no Sent
those spels But they that know him think 't is something elss And will not stick vnder the Rose to speak That this same Docter is indeed his Tweak But what have they or I to doe with him If it be so 't is but a Lordly Sin Many have beene and so no doubt will be Bewitcht with Objectâ— meaner farre then she Yâ—t I 'me resolv'd they judge not farre amisse Who say that he 's Bewitcht for so he is For who unlesse drawne in by some impostor Would such a Blouse to his dishonour fostâ—r Now were it fit likâ— Glow-wormes to discover Mâ—ting and meetings of so great a Lover Admiâ— you know extortion in the Land In officers corâ—uptiâ—n under hand Symony Bâ—ocage Rapine Sacriledge Mâ—y you not see the Age grant priviledge Tâ— such State-epidemicall disâ—ases What profit gets it generally pleases Why Sir I see as much as you can see For my whole life is Albions scrutinie In City Court and Couâ—try I doe want For no inteâ—ligence for I doe hant Wâ—th ciâ—cumspection every nooke and angle And how our State-impostors doe intangle Ouâ— unexperienc'd New comes I observe it And how they ' r honour'd most that least deserve it All which I could display and draw the lines Of all their actions to succeeding times To make men wonder at but pray thee say Would this reclaime these State moaths any way Or dart a blush in any of their faces Or â—ake them wearie of their purchas'd places Or strike a terrour in their conscience Or einsâ—all lost justice to her Bench Wâ—uld it mâ—ke one man good that now is evil Or weane one sâ—ule from serving of the devill Lasse no Sir Though from God you have your warrant And faiâ—hfully perfoâ—m his sacred arrant When so small benâ—fit is wâ—ought by th' Pulpit Dâ—e you by Satyrizing hope to help it Is all the Tribe of Levi so farre short Or shallow to improve reprove exhort As thâ—y must silenc'd be while you begin To taxe theâ— Coat because â—hey taxe not sin You are too bold Sir in youâ— fluent straine And tenders that which none will entertaine For doe you thinke we live in such an Age A Clergie man will loose a Parsonage Before he scourge not sinne it cannot be For how should he relieve his familie His hopefull O â—ve branches with his Spouse With all the hâ—ly Meynie of his house If he should not dispence with his Creatour And smooth the sinne of his Impropriatour Or that an Officer in any Court Will rectifie himselfe by your report Or purchase to his soul least hope of blesse By taking of a poore man one fee lesse For though Extortion be I gâ—◠〈◊〉 a sin This course would goe well neere to begger him A place that at so deaâ—e a â—aâ—e is bought Most be imploy'd for gaine not soâ—d for nought Or that a Lawyer should his practise make Lessâ— for himselfe thâ—â— for his Clyents sake Or use that glibberie mâ—mber of hiâ— Tongue To further right and not to bolster wrong For so he shâ—ulâ— gâ—â—w out of practise quite And wrong himselfe by doing others right For right and wrong though they contraries be Yet wrong does right if it bring in a fee Or a Physitian whose Empyrick Hâ—nd Must kill downe right before he understand Should apprehend remorse when as by doses He weighs his Physick out but not the losses Oâ— his abused Patients who with gâ—ones Must loose their lives and substance both at once These hauing novght to give must be forsaken And if they die the care is quickly taken Or a Civilian thâ—ugh Conscience be Thâ— Oâ—j ct of his Law will loose his fee Or not protract a Cause and make a sturre By plodding some impertinent demurre For he such store of Presidents can show That then examples tell him what to doe And will secure him onely leâ— pretences Guilded with sanctity disguise offences Or that a Rorer wâ—ll his Oathes forbeare Or shudder when he does Gods judgements heare Or leave his Brothellâ— or his midnight revells Oâ— leave consorting with his fâ—mal Devels For so he should abandon all his joy And loose thâ— Title of a roring Bâ—y No Sâ—â— these taskes surpasse â— Critick straine And make him wash the Blackamoore in vaine Yet I pâ—â—sâ—ade me you exprest your zeale In youâ— dimensions to the Commonwâ—ale And that your meaning was to waine the State From some of that which all good people hate But where sinne 's grow to ripenessâ— you must know Good meanings and intentions will not doe So delicate aâ—e these corrupted times As none must taxe or taint heir swelling crimes But tell me in good sadnâ—sse what 's the cause To think your Lives more powerful â—hen our Lawes If an Oppressor hatefull Contractâ— make Our Laws can bring hâ—m hâ—â—â— a Bâ—â—re to th' stake The Cunningst Church thiefe be he neere so great When on e detectâ—d for a Counterfeatâ— Must not uncensnâ—'d passe nor any one Who in a civill State shall throw a Bone So as in my Opiâ—ion from the State Such Stigmaticks doe highly derogate Who judge their Muse mongst men t' have more command Then all the Lawes and Statutes of our Land But to remove this Error I thinke fit If any one have mind to shew his wit That in obscurer manner he disclose it Least too much plainenesse make the Satyre lose it This moved some as in their workes we find In Hieroglyphicks to expresse their mind Or like choyce Heralds to finde out a Crest Fitting the forme and nature of the Beast As some of our spruce-silken Curtaine Lords Who shew their worth in their imperious words Have beene displaid and shadow'd to their shame Yet know not who nor where they wounded them But most of these their Dingity have lost And can of nought but painted Scutchions boast This Course was held at first and ever since The freest from distaste and from offence For when we darkely write thanks be to Heav'n So small a portion of conceit is given To our Magnifico's as when they read us They understand us not or never heed us Which happy ignorance secures our pen And makes them laugh at us that nettle them In these darke colours have I drawne the shapes Of vicious Silke wormes in this Age of Apes Which shâ—dow'd with a Vision may doe good To purge if not to purifie the blood Nor would I have this to be held in me Weaknâ—sse of courage or timiditie For in a Cause where I intend to doe Service to God I ne're did terror know Nor doe I see ought in this vale of teares Which should beget in me such fruitlesse feares The Substance I enjoy I nere did gather But as a Birth-right left me by my Father For had my fortunes hung upon my care My part had com'â— unto an easie share But what I now possesse be it more or lesse I never wâ—sh God may it longer blesse Then I shall willingly forgoâ— the same To honour God and magnifie his name