no Phisike can preuaile the sorowes of death doeth compasse me rounde about the policie of the worlde with feare bad me flie and vse Gods meanes as Lot did wheÌ„ Sodome was a fire But now doe I se who so escapeth honger and the sword shalbe ouertaken with the pestilence I am at the pittes brinke now begin I to waxe weake in bodie I am verie drie my paine dooeth increase he is gone that did strike me but I doe fele his wound that he gaue me Alas woe is my vile stinkyng carkas and filthie fleshe conceiued and borne in sinne depriued of originall iustice compared to a beaste in Adam fallen as a rotten Aple from a liuing trée What haue I gotten my Lorde God by my fall nothing els but onely darkenesse care miserie affliccion sickenesse paine agues and now in myne harte Death moste painfull it self Now for all my pompe healthe wealthe riches and vaine pleasures of this worlde this my bodie whiche I haue bothe costlâ—e clothed well fedde and garnished with all delites for whose sake I haue been couetous and sinned against Iesus Christe to maintaine thesame bodie From heÌ„ceforth therefore now shall I bee tourned into a stinkyng carrion for wormes delite dust claie rotten moste vile forsaken of al meÌ„ poore without substaunce naked without clothing sowen in dishonour forgotten of my posteritee Not knowen from henceforthe vanishe like a shadowe wither like a leafe and fade as a flower Oh vncertain life but moste assured death fie on this filthie shadowe of this worlde and flattryng of thesame with all the instrumentes of the fleshe Oh Lorde although I be in this extreame trouble yet haue mercie vppon me according to thy greate mercie and louing kindnes For I doe make my praier in the tyme of trouble trustyng that thou wilt heare me Roger. Maistres the fearfull thing that talked with my Maister is gone Let vs go heare what newes with him Vxor. I am glad it is past thankes be to God I will go with spede to se my housebande for he hath been in greate daunger Roger. Sir I am glad that he is gone the deuill go with him hath he taken all your gold Ciuis No I haue my golde in store for in the worlde I founde it and in the worlde I muste leaue it it is but vaine and can not helpe in the time of this my trouble God hath preuented me and somoned me to appere before his seat This death hath smitten me I must dye Vxor. Alas my good swete housebande what aileth you Or what would you haue me doe for you to helpe you in this case Ciuis Helpe me into some house where as I might sende for some manne of God to be my heauenlie Phisicion teachyng me the waie to the kyngdome of Christe Roger. Here is a house at hande and here is your horse also we will helpe you vp and carrie you to this place Vxor. Now sir you be come here into this place for gods sake discoÌ„fort not your self I trust you shall doe well you shall want nothing that maie be had for mony gold and siluer I will sende for your own brethren and sisters You shall haue withal spede the best learned Phisicians in this Realme in the meane tyme drinke Dragon water MithridatuÌ„ mingled togither to put this passioÌ„ from your hart Ride Roger and seke a Phisician with al spede spare not the horse Ciuis Soft sirra and speake with me and doe what that I dooe commaunde you in the name of Iesus Christ. Roger. Sir looke what your maistership shall commaunde me to dooe that will I dooe with all spede and tary not Ciuis Go thy waies and praie moister Theologus to come to me that I maie haue his counsaille praie him to come with speede deliuer him this token Roger. I shall in the meane tyme good maister be of good cheare for Gods sake Vxor. Alas what shall I doe my poore childreÌ„ Ciuis I haue set my worldly thinges in order for so hath Gods worde taught me to do I thanke God and my debtes shalbe truelie paied and whatsoeuer any poor man doeth owe me I do forgeue them and restitucioÌ„ shall I make with all spede to as many as I haue wronged And I shall leaue plentie to you and my children requiryng you to liue according to Gods commaundement obeiyng him all y e daies of your liues and remember death and to doe to all men as you would be doen vnto To liue chast either in Mariage or a life sole vse praier chast your bodies with abstinence Bee pitifully minded hate vice beware of wicked companie loue well the temple of god visite the prisoners and helpelesse this is good Religion in the iyes of God As nere as you can kéepe the commauÌ„dementes of the almightie God and beware of idlenes and pride of harte lamente no more good wife For who can kepe that must nedes a waie me thinke I heare Theologus come Theologus Sir God the heauenlie Phisicion blesse you and geue you the perfite consolacion of conscience in Christ his sonne and geue you grace mekelie to beare this his crosse Ciuis You are hartely welcome deare Theologus I haue thoughte it long since I did sende for you Theologus Your man declared to me by the waie a pitifull storie which happened to you this daie Furder I had soner been with you but one maister Antonius sent for me but or I came he was dedde and Auarus and Ambodexter is in his house preparyng a solemne funerall for hym Ciuis Oh sir then I haue no cause to reherase the matter new again but seing my fleshe is nere the pit and in a maner my breathe faileth me beyng wouÌ„ded with death and that I am of twoo partes bodie and soule the one paste all cure the other in hope of saluacion I desire if it please God that I maie liue to thende of your oracions Declare vnto me what is the cause of sinne Theologus The Deuill was the first cause of sinne as it is written in Genesis how with a lie he deceiued the woman and thei that committe sinne are of the Deuill for he hath sinned from the beginnyng of the worlde and is the firste aucthour of sinne The seconde cause was manne declinyng from God and credityng the Deuill by whiche man sinne entred into the worlde and all the calamities and crosses therein as sorowe dread feare pouertie sickenesse and death it self all to punishe sinne Ciuis Oh lord how I haue erred I had thought God had been the cause As when I rede these woordes Indurabo cor Pharaonis I will indurate y e hart of Pharao with soche like places his induracion was the cause of his sinne and who did indurate him but God And when it is said ne nos inducas iÌ„ tentationem neither lede vs into temptacion c. Here I gathered it was God that led
shall alwayes doe you seruice and loue you with all my harte and bee at your Lordships commaundemente and to my power séeke to please you as my good lorde and Maister Mors. You are well ouertaken I am glad that we are met together I haue seen you sins that you were borne I haue thretened you in all your sicknesses but you did neuer see me nor remeÌ„bred me before this daie neither had I power to haue taken you with me vntill now For I haue commission to strike you with this blacke dart called the pestilence my maister hath so coÌ„maunded me as for golde I take no thought for it I loue it not no treasure can kepe me back the twinklyng of an iye from you you are my subiect and I am your lorde I will cut of your iourney separate your mariage but not cut of your yeres for thei ar determined when I should come this is your apointed time and when the time shalbe apointed me I will smite your wife childreÌ„ and seruauntes thei shall not bee hidden from me I will finde theim forthe be thei hiddeÌ„ neuer so secrete or flee neuer so swift or far of for I am so swifte that in the momente of an iye I can compasse the whole worlde and am of so wonderfull a nature that I can be in sondrie places at ones and in sondrie shapes in flames of fire I oftentimes doe coÌ„sume mankinde in the water I do kil theÌ„ I am marueilous in worke I spare nothing that hath life but I bring to an ende and to myne owne nature whiche is death Ciuis Sir I moste huÌ„bly desire you to suffer me to retourne home again into the citee and let my goodes in order to thuse of my wife and children to paie my debtes then godly to depart this worlde I desire no more Mors. I muste dispatche and strike you with this blacke darte I haue moche businesse to doe with the other twoo dartes Ciuis Oh fearfull Death what is these twoâ— other dartes in thine hande Mors. I will smite thee with this pestilent dart as I haue doen to many kingdomes citées and people bothe man and beast yong and old With this pale dart I will destroie infinite nombers with honger thei shall perishe for lacke of foode in destruccion of corne cattell wine oile fruit herbe grasse foule and fish I will make them eate their owne fleshe and make their own children to be soddeÌ„ and rosted for them With this thirde dart I will in battaill slaie in nomber more then the Starres of heauen and bathe my self in blood I spare not one neither Prince nor Peasant against whom I doe cast this dart I haue no respecte of any persone be thei neuer so noble riche stroÌ„g wise learned or cunning in Phisicke thei shall neuer preuaill against me but I will ouercome theim I come into the Kynges chamber at the time appoincted in force of Phisike and cast my darte that none shall se but fele I often come into the counting house and sodainly kille the money teller I ouerthrowe the Daunser and stoppe the breath of the singer and trippe the runner in his race I breake wedlockes and make many widdowes I doe sit in iudgemente with the Iudge vndoe the life of the prisoner and at leÌ„gth kill the Iudge also him self I doe somone the greate Bishops and cut theÌ„ through their rotchettes I vtterlie blemishe the beautie of al Courtiers And ende the miserie of the poore I will neuer leaue vntill all fleshe be vtterly destoied I am the greatest crosse and scourge of God Ciuis What is the cause O fearfull Death that thou doest scourge the face of y e yearth with thy Dartes and who hath sente thee for that purpose Mors. Neither is the saiyng of the Philosophers or Poetes true whiche compt that I come by chauÌ„ce to mortall thinges or inquiring the cause of the matter or Depriuatione in materia or of generacion and corrupcion And some other do affirme that I do come through the coÌ„corse of the starres infecting the aire poisonyng liuing thinges And therefore the Heathen in fearfull Tragidies and stories haue admonished the vain worlde to repent by setting forth of me Death Some of theim daily had the dedde heddes of their parentes broughte to their tables to mortifie their vanitees withall And al these men whom I haue slain wer Heathen men But I am the messenger of God his scourge and crosse to all flesh good and bad and am the ende of life whiche do separate the bodie from the soule I am no feigned thyng by the wise braines of the Philosophers but onely through the disobedience of your first parentes Adam and Eua through whose fault all fleshe is corrupted subiecte to me Death for through sinne came death Truly my maisters anger was so great in your parentes that he suffered me to plague with my hande the beste in his churche as Abell Esaic Ieremie Zacharie Ihon Baptiste and Iesus Christ his onely sonne whiche suffred me and seing that my maister hath commaunded me not to spare his onelie childe with his Apostles holy Martires Dooest thou think that I should beare with thée or suffer any in this wicked worlde He sent me to Sodome with his Angels to burne theÌ„ To droun bloodie Pharao And to slea the kinges of the Heathen Also I was at their endes although al fleshe doth abhorre me Yet Iudas and all desperate men did call vpon me Thus doe I ende bothe good and bad but precious in the sight of the lorde is the death of his sainctes and many bee the scourges of wicked men I am in gods haÌ„des as the sworde is in the man of warres as it is written The lorde doeth kil quicken again And it is he that did create euil that is pain or death light and darkenesse And whereas he hath not set his stroÌ„g angell to bridle me I am mercilesse and will kill all where as the token is not set vp or his marke vpon them whom he doeth forbid me to touch And that is not vpon thee nor vpon many thousandes that liue most wretchedly Thy daies ar but a span long thou art like a flower in the field thy daies are passed like a shadowe Thou haste run thy race and thy daies are consumed like smoke and thou shalt scante liue to drawe thy breath I must destroie this thy yeâ— this mansion I am so commaunded haue here is thy rewarde suffer it paciently I muste goe presently to visite a greâ—te nomber sodainlie that doe not remember me I will cutte them doune with my sithe like grasse and kill them with my three fearfull dartes The paines of helle doe followe me to swallowe vp all fleshe that dooeth not repent them of their wickednesse Ciuis Oh wretched man that I am whether shall I â—â—ie for succoure Now my bodie is paste cure
erected a people to reigne with him in life which witnessed him in death The examples should moue al christians perfit mortificacion is not moche to lamente for our friendes diyng but rather by the example of their deathes to remeÌ„ber our ende and then we shall not sinne Therefore better it is to go to the house of mournyng then to the house of banquettyng And when it shall please God to call your housebande awaie and the daies of forgetfulnesse shall approch as euery thing vnder heaueÌ„ haue the time bothe of mourning and reioysing When you doe behold your self in a glasse remember your face shalbe leane and pale your nose rotten your teeth stinkyng and blacke your iyen dimme and blinde your eares deafe and running your heeres fallen awaie your veines brokeÌ„ your senues relaxed and wasted bones corrupted bowels full of roomes and all your fleshe coÌ„sumed Behold beholde you damosâ—ls of vanitees and lustie youthe the pleasure of this worlde howe it endeth with stincke filth c. not reserued after death to any good purpose as timber when it is cutte doune but because it is so vile and will infecte the aire The corps is inclosed in a pit as wee daily se where as it consumeth as I haue said Remember this be not proude of noble pareÌ„tage of riches beautie or cunning but rather consider wher are the old lustie kinges queenes lordes knightes ladies where are the old courtiers and valiaunte men of warre where are the Maiors of cities lawiers bisshops Phisicions where are all the pleasaunt Musicians wher are become the old coÌ„mons in euery kingdom wher is become the Popes rotten holines with all the infernall malignaÌ„t sinagoge of antichrist c. al are gone and passed like shadowes wasted and come to nothing as S. Augustine affirmeth Oh man saith he goe to the chanell house or graues take vp the bones marke well if thou canst know the maister from the seruaunte the faire from the foule the riche from the poor the wise from the foole c. thou canst not do it it is impossible to know theÌ„ Well world well What dooest thou promise vnto all them which doe loue thee perhaps moche riches or dignitee How noisome to y e soule is riches the verie minister of or to all ciuill rule and mischief as damnable vsury adulterie treason murder it maketh one proude high minded and forgetful of him self It deludeth hym with flatterers and curtises of Hypocrisie it is the mother of vainglorie and nourisher of pride and idle life and lothlie glotonie It is remembred by our maister Iesus Christe whiche calleth it thornes and by his Apostles which nameth it the roote of all ill It is the maister of some riche men and women which kepeth it to their greate hurt And the foolishe prodigall waster whiche commonlie succedeth the gatherer spendeth it sone awaie in wickednes as it is saied easie gotten goodes are sone spent Therefore sufficient or a meane is well to a christen maÌ„ for sondrie causes For thei that will beâ— riche fall into sondrie temptacions cares broken sléepes he gapeth and looketh for moche spendeth little he can not be merie for feare of losse The more he getteth he is neuer satified that is a couetous man but still desireth neuer pacified like vnto the drie man in a hotte burning feuer Riches hath poisoned the churche and transformed the clergie specially in Roome emong the Popes and many greate men whose auncitours did kepe plentifull houses of the one halfe Whiche now is come to passe that now a daies in keping hospitalite or ministring of charite but breaks vp houses and hurt many poore euen for the loue of one glotton himself which wil not well spend it nor for his childreÌ„ which can not well vse riches For we do se how God doeth plague the séede of extorcioners vile vsurers c. What if thei had mountaines of gold so increased dolour of mind and death stealeth on all fleshe like a theif and smiteth the money louer the vsurer the oppressour the golden watcheman the greate officer marchaunt the wise gentleman that hath purchased so moche What is thende of this gere a dedde carkesse and scant a good winding shete out of the dore he must to graue he shall fare well Gloria mundi and welcome silie wormes I praie God that this tourneth not to damnacion Oh what is become of riche Senior Antonius Treasurers Capax Rapax Tenax Ambodexter ill gotten goodes are worse spent Sower swetenes and slipping Ise the golden intangled hoke and the drinke of Midas hath vtterly destroied him and or euer he was aware death hath slain hym He loued so well this world and life in the same that if his Phisicion might haue saued his life he would haue loste one of his handes and suffred his fleshe to haue béen cut with some broken bones with the coÌ„tinuaunce of paine ache and griefe with dreadfull slepes And when he did se no remedie the terrour of conscience tormented him vexed him and ouercame him made him rage and curse the time of his birthe his life was so horrible in the iyes of God and manne whose iudgement I doe commende to God but surelie greate plagues doe remain for the vngodlie Therfore let vs be conuerted and turne clene from our sinnes and wickednesse and so there shall no sinne do vs harme Let vs fast and praie hate euill and cleane to good make restitucion forgeue our enemies abhorre vice and be sorie that we can not be sorier Remember our accomptes and come bee tymes vnto the Lorde make no tariyng to turne vnto the Lorde put not of from daie to diae For sodainly shall his wrath come and in time of vengeaunce shall he destroy vs and except we doe all repente we shall perishe saieth Christ. Let vs repent therefore and turne vnto god that he maie forgeue vs that our sinnes maie bee dooen awaie that we maie saie From plague pestileÌ„ce and famine from battaill and murder and from sodain death oh lorde deliuer vs. From hardnes of harte and contempt of thy worde and coÌ„maundement whiche is the greatest cause of the wrathe and indignacion oh good Lorde deliuer thy people for thy holy names sake Amen AmeÌ„ Almightie and moste dere father of heauen we moste humbly beseche thee for Iesus sake haue mercie vppon this thy seruaunte whiche now is nailed to the painfull crosse of death for Adams offence impute no sinne vnto this penitente whiche moste willyng hath submitted hymself to thy fatherly correccioÌ„ but behold thy soÌ„ne on the right hand the onely mediatour for al the elected whose names are written in the booke of life Let this thy seruaunt we beseche thee most mightie God haue clene remission and forgeuenes of all his sinne by thought worde and deede committed againste thy diuine Maiestie now in this perille of death assiste hym with thy holie
causes Antonius At what time of the yere dooeth the Pestilence caste forthe her poison Medicus In the time of Haruest saieth Hypocrates are moste sharpe and dedlie sicknesses but lesse daunger in the Spring time and in the time of sondrie chaunge of Windes when the weather is hotte and moiste Antonius To what persones I praie you doeth the Pestilence come Medicus Moste chiefly to them vnder the place infected then to slotishe beastlie people that kepe their houses and lodginges vnclene their meate drincke and clothyng moste noisome their labour and trauell immoderate or to theim whiche lacke prouident wisedome to preuente the same by good diete aire Medicine c. Or to the bodies hotte and moiste And these bodies doe infecte other cleane bodies and wheras many people do dwell on heapes together as Auicen saieth Et communicat multitudine hominum c. Fen. j. Tra. iiij Antonius By what signe or token is this perilous plague or stripe of the Pestilence best knowen emong the Phisicions Go not about the bushe with subtile woordes but plainlie speake the truthe to me beyng in this fearfull daunger as you doe well knowe that I am in Medicus The signes are moste manifest whiche are the starres rūning course or rase after their causes Oh the most fearfull eclipses of the Sunne and Moone those heauenlie bodies are manifest signes of the pestilence emōg men and the starres cadente in the beginning of Haruest or in the moneth of September or moche South winde or Easte winde in the Canicular daies with stormes and cloudes and very cold nightes and extreme hot daies moche chaunge of weather in a litle time or whē birds do forsake their egges flies or thinges breding vnder the grounde do flie high by swarmes into the aire or death of fishe or cattelle or any dearth going before these ar the signes of the pestilēce euident presages of thesame Antonius These are good signes generalle but particulare what manifest tokens doe signifie the Plague or Pestilence in a mannes owne proper bodie Medicus Thei whiche are smitten with this stroke or plague are not so open in the spirites as in other sicknesses are but straite winded thei doe swone and vomite yellowe chollour swelled in the stomacke with moche pain breaking forth with stinking sweat The extreme partes verie cold but the internal partes boiling with heate and burnyng no reste bloode distillyng from the nose Urine somewhat watrie and sometyme thicke with stincke sometyme of colour yellowe sometyme blacke skaldyng of the tonge ordure moste stinkyng with redde iyen corrupted mouthe with blacknes quicke pulse and depe but weake hedache altered voice losse of memorie sometime with ragyng in strong people These and soche like are the manifest signes how the hart hath drawen the venome to it by attraccion of the aire by the inspiracion of the arters to the harte and so confirming it to be the perilous feuer Pestilēciall This is moste true of this cometh foule bubos antaxis and carbuncles sores through putrifaccion as Galene saieth li.iii. De presage Auicen Fe. i. tract iiii Gal. lib. i. De diffe cap. iiii Rasis de constitutione pestilētiae ad mansorem Also this feuer is skante to be recouered and almoste past help whē these Symptomatas doe appere as Galene saieth .iii. De praesage ex pul qua propter neque hos curare tentandum erit Antonius You haue declared vnto me a fearfull tale of the Plague whereof thousandes haue and shall die a pitifull case how it cometh emong people sodainly euen as you haue shewed the cause primatiue in thaire The antecedent when thesame aire is drawen into the hart by attracciō of the arters the coniunct when it with boiling heat doeth chaunge by putrifaccion nature into the worse parte and almoste paste cure of any Phisician when it is come to this poincte as I gather by your late talke which doth putte me in greate feare of my life But I will common with you for others whiche are not infected howe maie thei bee moste safely defended maister Doctor Medicus Would you fain knowe Surely I will declare thee the beste defence that I can I will hide nothyng First of all let all men women and children auoide out of the ill aire into a good soile and then accordyng to their age strengthe of nature and complexion let eueryone of theim with some good Medicene drawe from the bodie superfluous moisture and deminishe humor hotte and drie and vse the regimente of diete to driyng sharped with vineger or tart thynges and lesser meates not so moche wine as thei haue vsed in custome neither Potage Milke vnripe fruictes hotte Spices dates or Honie or swete meates wine with Suger are not tolorable No anger or perturbacions of the minde specially the passion called feare for that doe drawe the spirites and bloode inwardes to the harte and is a verie meane to receiue this plage Neither vse actes venerous nor bathyng either with fume Stoue or warme water for this cause thei all dooe open the poores of the body neither quassyng or moche drinking euen so thirst or drines is not tolorable or immoderate exercise or labour speciallie after meate Musicke is good in this case and pleasaunt tales and to haue the meates well sauced with cleane sharp◠vineger Forget not to kepe the chamber and clothyng cleane no priues at hande a softe fire with perfumes in the mornyng Shift the lodgyng often tyme and close in the South Easte windes speciallie in the tyme of mistes Cloudes and windes And vse to smell vpon some pleasaunt perfume and to be letten blood a little at ones and to take Pilles contra Pestē that is a good preseruatiue against the plague Antonius These are good rules and happie are thei that do wisely obserue them in time place and maner accordingly but if one be new lie infected what remedie then as when a man is sicke and the sore appereth not Medicus A coming forthe like a bubos are signes of those partes from whiche thei doe swell as example in the lefte side hedde necke flanckes c. but often times the plage sore will not appere the verie cause is this nature is to weake and the poison of the infeccion to strong that it cannot be expelled and this is moste perilous of all whē soche a cruell conquerour doeth rain within the hart the principall part of life now possessed with death The causes of this I haue declared before with signes to y e same Not withstanding consider twoo thinges first whether it is in bodies sanguine and cholerike or theim whiche are flegmatike or melancholie or not The firste twoo blood is the cause the seconde .ij. abundaunce of euill humours Therfore let blood wheras it hath the victorie and purge whereas other humours haue predominacion or chief rule in some menne that haue verie strōg bodies first purge thā let blood Note this that what
benefite but of the apple in his mouth he getteth nothing of his promocions but onely one litle benefice yet his master wil snatche at that either to saue the wol or laÌ„ And so he hath onely the shels or glorious tittes of promocion but the geuer hath the swete kernels God ameÌ„de this good wife The third is one whiche sheweth the state of learned men labouring loÌ„g time in studie and diuine vertue whiche are wrapped in pouertie wanting the golden Rake or gaping mouth This man hath very fewe to preferre hym to that promocion he smiteth himself vpoÌ„ the breast he wepeth and lamenteth that vice should thus be exalted ignoraunce rewarded with glorie coueteous men spoilyng the Churche by the names of Patrones and geuers whiche are extorcioners and sellers thei care not to whoÌ„ so that it be raked Well well God of his mercie amende this euill Market Vxor. Upon that wall is painted a mans skin and tanned coloured like vnto Leather with the skin of the handes and feete nailes and heere remainyng and the skin is spred abrode in the whiche is written certain wordes whiche I doe not vnderstaÌ„de Ciuis Wife I wishe more soche leather or els fewer soche carcases as soche leather hath conteined in it It is the Skin of a wicked Iudge a Lawier whiche plaied on bothe handes This geÌ„tleman loued gold aboue God and crueltie aboue Iustice bothe his eares were stopped his iyen open he had respect of persones specially who brought in lucre and made hym humble curtesies them he would defend although their causes in righteousnesse deserued it not The innocent he oppressed that waÌ„ted and vndid many a maÌ„ His maister being a great prince in the whole multitude of the people and specially of the Lawiers to certifie them And to decline from euill and doe good to haue the eares open to heare both riche and poore alike in the seate of iudgemente to haue lame handes in takyng of money which is the roote of al euill emoÌ„g them Commaunded his Skin to be flain from his fleshe he beyng yet liuyng roaryng with blood runnyng from his bodie and died in a case moste miserable Uppon whose Skin is this writyng hangyng in the Iudgemente halle before the place of Iustice. Iudex qui non queret veritatem debet excoriari A Iudge whiche will for lucre not seke out the truthe in the lawe ought to haue his Skin flaine from his bodie Vxor. Here standeth a woman of moste excellent forme in shape and fairenes in beautie with a croune of riche gold with seuen precious stones fixed in the border of her croune couered with a costely mantell froÌ„ her pappes dounward her breastes naked the right brest geueth milke vnto y e mouth of the yong child on the right side And froÌ„ the left brest floweth blood into the mouthe of an other child what meaneth this Ciuis It is a goodly picture and signifieth the estate of an vniuersitie or multitude of scholers which cometh to be nourished in lerning Whiche mother the vniuersitie beyng crouned with the seuen liberall artes fixed in her croune and as many as taste of her doctrine in the better part in vertue to this ende to doe well be blessed thei do tast vpon the right breast but the left breaste yeldeth forthe doctrine of Errours Magiches Papistrie c. To this ende to persecute robbe and spoile Christes Churche God graunt that bothe these brestes maie geue good milke to nourishe the people of God in one holy doctrin to eche vocacioÌ„ to agrée in vnitee like brethreÌ„ and that the vniuersitees maie teache the learned actes â—ne true religion in this Christ our lorde Vxor. What is that picture whiche graffeth a golden Impe vpon a Leaden stocke with a bagge of money of greate bignesse hangyng aboute his necke Ciuis It should seme to be a pitifull case it is a noble couetous Senior whiche for goldes sake doe make dispargiment of his blood mariyng and sellyng his sonne and heire vnto some Extorcioner or shamelesse vsurers doughter whose fruites are so infected on the mothers side that thei will become as counterfecte craftie compounded mettall and neuer come to the true touch stone again The fine mettal is so corrupted through coueteousnesse and naturalâ—e coniunccion as we doe se graffes of trees fixe yong Impes although the Impe bee of a fine Pippin and graffed into an euill stocke You shall knowe that fruite by the tree a plague prepared for gentlemen for their abuse Vxor. Upon that Table before you is painted a naked manne liyng doune wounded vpon whom feedeth many Flies with fulle bealies and there commeth an other man whiche with a greene braunche of Rosemarie beate them awaie Ciuis It should appere by the circumstaunce that it is not hurtfull to keepe officers still in place for when thei haue filled their purses and haue all thinges accordinglie thei are well and if thei be remoued eftesones the newe hongrie Flies will vere the bodie of the common wealth and neuer cease vntill thei be also satisfied c. Vxor. Yet what is that man I praie you that sitteth in a riche throne a slepe and one dooe blowe in his care with a paire of golden bellowes and an other do picke his purse Ciuis That same is a mightie person ouercome with adulacioÌ„ or flatterie carelesse swimmyng in pleasure and vainglorie whom his men doe vse like an home Combe and daiely spoile hym of his riches by sondrie fraudes whiche he perceiueth not Vxor. And what meaneth yonder Mule holding his hedde so lowe with a plain black foote clothe shodde with golden shooes Ciuis Wife silence now is beste I will saie nothyng to the matter The Mule carieth a Maister that will dooe nothyng but for gold and the fooles of the worlde that loue debate and strief must shooe this Mule Vxor. Here is a rowe of pictures like Prelates painted one by an other in the border in three partes The first are barefooted men barehedded long garmentes and bookes in their handes some of them are bloodie The seconde companie are mitred shode with Shepherdes hookes in one hand and bookes in the other hande The third sort haue Swâ—ordes in their handes crouned with triple crounes clothed in kyngly robes with frounyng faces and bookes vnder their feete and nexte after them sitteth an olde mangie slaue naked with a triple croune makyng or patchyng of a Nette from whom goeth as it wer menne laden with tounes wooddes and treasure Ciuis Wife this is the true Churche of God and the malignaunte Sinagoge of Antichrist figured first the true Preachers and martyres of Gods churche simple menne whiche folowed moste nerest the testameÌ„t of Christe After this persecucion then entred Confessours good men whiche liued welle and accordyng to the Apostles doctrine were good Shepherdes withstoode the Wolues of heresies c. 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Incarnati 1564. Tuus ad oâ—a Guil. â—ullenus AMANTISSIMO AC PRObissimo viro magistro T. Gaylo Chyrurgo Guilihelmus Bullenus S. P. D. BOnam valetudinem cum corporis tum animi â–ª a deo opt max. tibi precor optime vir Nihil est hoc teÌ„pore quod tibi scribam quà m quòd libellum quem mihi donasti legi et iteruÌ„ legipro quo tibi ago gratias habeâ— vt pro sumno munere Nam ex eo intellexi amorem et animuÌ„ quem erga me geris operam tuam perspexi noÌ„ solum mihi sed omnibus qui vbique sunâ— Anglis futuram vtilitati Nostrum euiâ—â— omnimÌ„ haberi possunt amatores cultores libri tui insignissimi QuaÌ„ obrem quid magis mihi gratuÌ„ esse potuit hoc munere praesertim cum a tali Chirurgo mihi datuÌ„ sit cuius rei nuÌ„quam me capiet obliuio sed quantum potero gratias referri libenti animo faciam Opto te bene valere ac interim me tibi comendo doctissimo viro magistro Bactero humillime meis verbis gratias agi meque plu rimum comendare desidero Martij 28. Anno incarnati 1564. Tibi deditissiâ—â—â— Guiâ—â—helmus Bu. ¶ The Table of this presente booke A Poore manne seking relief Fol. 7. A wiues aunswer to the poore man idem A tale of the poore mannne against coueteousnes 2. â— 4 Antonius Capistranus the richeman 5. Antonius the Phisician idem A subtile marchaunt man 6. Antonies aungelles idem A swete texte idem A medler with no scripture 7. A good indifferent man idem An infidell idem A man of good religion 8. A papist a protestant idem A nulla fidian idem A fine garden idem A piller in a garden 9. Antonies armies idem A good obseruacion idem An exclamacion of SkeltoÌ„ 10 A saiyng of Chaucer 11. An admonishion of Lidgat ideÌ„ A young Courtier idem A saiyng of sir Dauie Linse to Englande and Scotland 12. A saiyng of the Phisicion 13. Aâ—arus a pettie fogger idem Amâ—o dexter idem A blacke Sainctus idem Amâ—o dexter gapeth for Antonius deatâ— 14. A maideÌ„ in Antonius house 14 A simple practise 15. A craftie villaine idem A cousin made 16. A periurer idem A serpent idem A good companie 17. A lande where as no sicknesse is 18. America idem A dredfull case 17. A troubled conscience 19. A Pothicaries repeÌ„taunce ideÌ„ A tyme to purge idem A yerely reward 20 A greate losse idem A knauishe lackey idem A mule loste 21. Aristotle de coelo mundo 22. A discripcion of the soule 23. Actus what it is 24. Aduersitee 25. Actrâ—â— de rei medicâ— .26 Auicen noteth of the pestil 27. Anticedent of the pestilence 28. Aire infected idem Auicens counsaill 30. A pouder for the plague 31. A drinke for the pestilence ideÌ„ A perfume for the pestileÌ„ce 32. A medicen for a carbuncle 34. A cauiat for a Chyrurgiâ—n 35. A lotion for a sore 36. A medicen for the plage sore 16 A Cicatrice moste best 39. A healyng oyntment idem A Cordiall idem An Epicures talke 40. A horsewoman 42. A nise cockney of London 43. A churle incarnate 53. A tale of Foxes idem An epitaph of a couetous 54. A young man well nurtred 56. A parler with many things 57 A taker a catcher 57. A wicked iudge 60. Note aduersitee 62. A lesson for a lubbar 65. A wretche which refused good counsaill idem A russen 67. Amber grice 69. A greate losse to England 70. A good common wealth idem A swimmyng lande 71. A praier in death 82 A letter to maister Willyam Aileward called CoÌ„scieÌ„ce 85. A letter to maister Richard Tuâ—ner of Canterburie 83. A letter to maister Thomas Gaile Chyrurgian idem B Beastes did speake Fol. 45 Borders in a cloth 57. to 86 Barnit fielde 44 Byrdes of straunge shapes 68 Bankruptes 65 C Clisters â—â— Closenes in vsury â—â— Children sicke of the mother Fol. 59 Cruell women 70 Christes death 82 Carbo antrax 33 Causes of the pestilonce 27 D Dogges and women 45 Death killeth Fol. 78 Death worketh Fol. 78 Death horrible Fol. 78 Death wil not be intreated 75 Death what it is 76 Death endeth all 7â— Death destroieth all 75 Death apereth with three dartes 74 F Flatterers of noble men â—1 Faire fieldes 73 Feare and dred ibi Fre will in man 83 G Gloses 17 God 23 Golden raake 58 Good ayre 29 Good obseruations 32 Gentle Roger. 75 Galen ad Pisonem 42 Gentleman what he is â—3 Galen de diffe feb â—â— H Honest landlordes 9 His wiues councell 33 Honger 76 Hosteler 56 I Ingratitude 48 Iacke Drake ibi Ionge Renob 52 Iacke a napes played at tabies â–ª 69 Ionge and folishe 67 K Knauery 50 M Mony doth great mischief 60 Mulier a naughty worde 57 Many vsurers 55 Magus and Iudas 58 Makeshiftes 66 Mendax is described ibi Mendax kinred armes 63 Mendax hath ben in florida â—â— MeÌ„dax briÌ„geth good newes 8 Mixed bodies 22 N Newes from Florida 63 No wâ—nde but turne some to profite 45 Noâ—e this well 48.50 P PhisitioÌ„ doth wel 25 vntil 40 Pirates vndoes 27 Promotion spirituall 59 Ponicamber 38 Perfuâ—â— idem Peace and vnite 64 Prudence 25 Pestilence 2â— Petty foggers 1â— Purging the body 36 R Rasis de peste 2â— Ruf. contra pestem 28 Rogers writing 46 Rogers pleasant talke by the waye 46. c. Rewarde in Christ no merit in vs. 83 Resurrection of the dead 84.85 T The iii. elementes 22 Trouble of mynde 29 The best remedy of y e plague 33 To know the Antrax 35 The tale of a Lion 46 The â—rutes of vsury 55 The Lorde Crumwell idem The discriptioÌ„ of Ro. prela 60 The Popes practise 61 The gretest crosse 77 The holy trinite 85 The holy churche idem W WeomeÌ„ haue wormes in their tongues 7 Witchcrafte 75 What the soule is 83 We can cary nothing away 79 Wher it taineth double bere 74 Who shall shoe the mule 62 Who may not blede 30 Well fished â—â— FINIS Psalm xv A constaunte manne by his gesture A blacke sanctus A craftie villaine Pettie Foggers sitte for the Pillerie Honeste felowes Gloses A good compaignie A dreadfull case A troubled conscience A great losse Aristo de câ—lâ— mundo The fower Elementes Mixed bodies God The three partes of the soule Example Temperance Aduersitee Prudence Profite Pleasure Uertue First eleccioÌ„ then operacioÌ„ Pestilence The cause of the pestilence Hypocrates de flatibus Galeâ—â—â— libri i. De differenâ—â—â—â— â–ª Feb. Cap. v. Aâ—tius de remedica libri v. Paulus libri ii â—afis â— li. de pest Galâ— libri i. De diffeâ—â—â—â— â–ª ca. iiii Hyp. 〈◊〉 xix Causes and signes of Pestilence Ruff. â—uictâ— Fatetur Actiuâ— Cap. xcv â—ibr v. viii Paulus Libri Cap. xxxv Primatime Antece lent Coniuncte Causes of the Pestilence Good aire Gale de ter i. ad Piâ—o Cap. xvi Ptul li. ca. xxxvi Auicen de preser a peste fâ—u