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A10089 Times anotomie [sic]. Containing: the poore mans plaint, Brittons trouble, and her triumph. The Popes pride, Romes treasons, and her destruction: affirming, that Gog, and Magog, both shall perish, the Church of Christ shall flourish, Iudeas race shall be restored, and the manner how this mightie worke shall be accomplished. Made by Robert Pricket, a souldier: and dedicated to all the lords of his Maiesties most honourable priuie Councell. Pricket, Robert. 1606 (1606) STC 20342; ESTC S115240 33,232 64

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curious cost As that the most haue best foundation lost Some thinke such power in them remaineth still As Gods commandements breake and keepe they will But if there did such strength in vs remaine God then should vse saluations meanes in vaine What Adam lost all humane race did lose And what he kept that for our part we chose Will to do good that force in Adam died Since when that grace was to his seed denied So in our selues sinne euery action staines That to do good in vs no power remaines From Heauen where God doth in his glory dwell By Adams fall he and his children fell And when to rise no meanes at all they knew The promisd seede did Death and hell subdue We are restor●●●●●d by our Redeemers hand Not of our selues but by his grace we stand Then let the soules of righteous men expresse That in their Christ doth liue their righteousnesse I sigh to heare some vilde ones vildly say That vnto life or death foredoomd are they A soule d●●●●●ownde vp in hellish desperation Saith he beleeues in Gods predestination Or heauen or hell or well or euill to do He hath or doth what hee 's ordaind vnto Taught by the deuil falsely affirme he can Without Gods will ther 's nothing done by man Our knowledge hath brought forth infectio●●●●●s fruite When hell borne ●●●●●mpes dares thus like deuils 〈◊〉 Eares stopt and hearts with burning Irons sear'd As ●●●●●uell are for Gods fierce wrath prepar'd Who thinkes of sinne that God the author is Shall be exempt from Gods eternall blisse The strength of Gods vncomprehended state Is that whereby we are predestina●●●●●e Yet doth he suffer what he doth not will Wherein his Power is vndeuided still The euill we doe he willes not to be done For in our selues that cause is first begun God by his Grace doth so mans soule attend As that we know what t is for to offend If euill we doe and shall his gr●●●●●ce reiect The fault is ours for done by our neglect Heauens iustice then most iustly doth dispence Presumptuous sinne is a most damn'd offence Doe well and then in Christ thy deeds are knowne Doe ●●●●●uill and sinne is in thy selfe thine owne Be not deceiu'd good workes thy faith must proue For God in Christ doth all good actions loue Christ dyed for me so each beleeuer saith As Infidels are men of fruitlesse faith Profession fi●●●●● it doth too much dissemble Not vsing that which most Christ doth resemble Where are the hands which should poore creatures cherish Christ saues not those that lets his members perish Do good to them that of faiths houshold be No the world delights their greatest wants to see On earth alas to whom should poore men flie In vaine their words tels forth their misery Honor which should the poore mans cause defend Helpes not that hope which doth thereon depend Compassion so in all estates is vanisht As by decree it were from all sorts banisht Religions name is but dessemblers mockery And seeming saincts are maskt in hells hipocrisie Oh in this age such is the worlds condition As this word poore doth spoile the poore petition Poore man poore hope poore to thy plaint not put Poore gainst it selfe it selfe al dores doeth shut The poore mans heart with griefe to death is stung In vayne he speaks that wants a goulden tongue Silent be he whose come his cause declareth A feeling sence which vnderstanding heareth An honest name diuine religion two Is bought and sould all this can money do Who to good fame by gou den steps can mount Him doth this world for worthiest man accompt Let vertue in a poore man cleerely shine A guilded gull is counted more diuine A sattin suite be dawb'd with siluer lace Beyond desart doth vildest clou●●●●●ship grace Immodest talke and shameles ribaldry With monstrous oathes is court like blasphemy In mony now there is such wondrous might As that a clowne will striue to be a knight Bright Honers wreath vaine idle fooles will craue it That want wherewith to keepe it when they haue it No doubt but now a gallant veluet company Three times a weeke may banquit with Duck Hum●●●●●ery In blood our gallants once cald to vse wor●●●●● 〈◊〉 With running they will swe●●●●●t most fearfully They le do no lesse vnto the fild once led Then Romes braue youthes for their great Pompay did Proud 〈◊〉 lookes in scorne of all disgraces Will turne their backes to saue their amorous faces A face starke nought in feare of present harmes Muffels it self with crosse wreth'd recreant armes whē once Sir mony Knight heares the fier'd mouth'd guns He startes and shakes and sweares and hence he runnes Disgrace not deares to touch the worthy merite Of any valiant well resolued spirit What i st the worst may not for money buy Honour much Loue and seeming honesty Rich let him be and who ca●●●●● hurt him then Knaues wrapt in wealth are counted honest men Honest if poore he this reward must haue Hang him ba●●●●●e roage proud begger impious knaue No place nor o●●●●●fice can the poore man buy Wealth neere so vilde can mount it selfe on high Such is the ●●●●●orce of this corrupted time Downe trampled poore helpes wealth aloft to clime Wealth doth so much from natures lawe digresse As that it feedes vpon the poore mans flesh Seauen lea●●●●●e beasts had of seauen fat oxen power But now seauen ●●●●●at do seauenty leane deuoure Rich men do make poore trad●●●●●s-men faint and sweat Who in their wants their cloathes and tooles must eate The science which made Englands weale to florish And of the poore did many thousands non●●●●●ish Must now inrich a forreine strangers store And leaue vs heapes of vnreleeued poore From England if raw cloathes might not be sent It would redresse poore p●●●●●oples languishment And pay farre more in taske and subsidy Then now is rais'd to Brittons Maiesty In common wealth a man may thousands see That common wealths-men doe disdaine to bee Selfe scraping gaine the children are of sloath In publique weale they are like mothes in cloath Monopoli●●●●●ans are they whose policy Commits a vilde yet vncheckt felony Let poore men thus of this or that complaine Rich men will hould the course whereby they gaine Who findeth fault with things that are amisse If he be poore he must affliction kis●●●●●e The poore man saith that Iustice wants a hand It beates the bad not helpes the good to stand That Soueraigne Mistres should the euill reiect But not refuse her children to protect Oppression swims amidst ex●●●●●ortions streames And doeth not know what restitution means Rich men do wrong no it 's right though it be wrong At lest he makes it so whose 〈◊〉 is strong A poore man struck his cry hates ●●●●●age doth threaten For crying then he must againe be beaten Poore men accus●●●●●d though no offence be proued Hate is th●●●●●ir meede they are of none beloued Do euill and then Iustice will seaze on thee Do well and
Times Anotomie Containing The poore mans plaint Brittons trouble and her triumph The Popes pride Romes treasons and her destruction Affirming That Gog and Magog both shall perish the Church of Christ shall flourish Iudeas race shall be restored and the manner how this mightie worke shall be accomplished Made by Robert Pricket a Souldier and dedicated to all the Lords of his Maiesties most honourable priuie Councell Multis pateo non multiloquis Imprinted at London by George Eld and are to be sold by Iohn Hodgets 1606. To the Right Honourable the Lords and others of his Maiesties most Honourable priuie Councell Robert Pricket wisheth all increase of Honour in this world and in the world to come life euerlasting MY honoured Lords it is a true saying that Conscientia est mille testes which sentence makes me confident because I know the vprightnes of my heart to God and faithfull and obedient loyalty vnto my King and loue to you the honourable Peeres and Princes of the State together with my honest zeale vnto my countries benefit is in the presence of heauens Maiestie testified by a thousand witnesses and therefore in the iustice of my hopes resolue I haue aduentured vnto your honours to dedicate this little booke and in the clearenes of my consciencs I cannot but expect a kind acceptance at your Lordships hands The last vntimely fruit which by a publicke print I rashly published gaue iust occasion to procure your dislike and my amisse there in was greater then at first I could conceiue for it is an euill not to be borne with when the greatest much more when so meane a subiect as my selfe shall dare to call in qrestion things formerly determined by the iustice of the Law iudgment of the honoured Peeres and prudent wisedome of a kingdomes most honourable Councellers and too high doth their presumption clime especially in a cause of so great consequence whose words would seeme as if they did desire so to extenuate an offence as that in respect of the offendor opinion should bee taught eyther to taxe the Lawe with crueltie or the State with inhumanity he therefore whose actions shall but beare a shew as if they were directed vnto some such purpose iustly deserueth to be punnished And yet may it please your Honours I must needes confesse my punnishment was compounded of an absolute Lenitie without in the least sort beeing mixt with any apparance of Seueritie 〈◊〉 as I am in this respect bound vnto you all my Lords so principally my thanks must humbly runne vnto the Right Honorable the Earle of Salisbury by whose loue and bountie my cause was fauourably censured my liberty procured and my wants relieued Concerning the worthinesse of whose euer honourable disposition I would largely speake but that I know true honoured vertue whose euer constant wisdome and approued Iudgement laboureth to performe each vertuous and well commended office so as it cannot but by a certaine kinde of supreame excellence worthily deserue worlds praise yet will it not indure to heare it selfe praised As iust cause there is so now I doe reioyce to see that Mars and Mercurie are in Coniunction ioyned the powerfull Venus Lady of that house and mightie Iupiter with kinde Apect Predominate Maiestie Honour Wisdome loue and wisdomes gouernment haue wrought a happie worke vnto them all be still continued and increast the glory of each best esteemed happinesse And that Emperiall greatest vnion maker whose prudent iudgement laboureth in peace for to vnite great Brittons Monarchie in him and in his Royall line shall most Princely and potent Monarches be establish●●●●●d by 〈◊〉 Empires and Kingdomes shall bee vnto their Christ vnite●●●●● Conquest and Triumph shall for euer waite vpon the Regall Scepter of their awfull gouernment Oh let the loue of all good Subiects vnto them remaine as constant as they are constantly of heauen beloued In this little worke which I haue called Times Anotomie the first part wherof was finisht by me almost two years since I doe with a religious anger chid●●●●● the violont and presumptious rage of vnrul'd abuses because I greeue to see the grosse impieties which our time commits bree●●●●●ely therefore I haue Anotomis'd those euills which do ass●●●●●ct the world And in the prosses of my bookes discorse my reprehentions may paraduenture be accounted round and sharpe But Co●●●●●siue vseth not to be applied vnto the slesh that is sound and where it hath no power to to●●●●●ch it procures no smar●●●●● and therefore cannot be offensiue vnto you my Lords whose iudgement wisdome vertue and Iustice alwaies bou●●●●●ded ●●●●●n the most honorable life of v●●●●●stained vprightnesse lab●●●●●reth by all meanes p●●●●●ssible to purge our land from those iniquities against which my poore and vnresp●●●●●cted words complaine But when they shall from your perfection passe vnto the generall much disord●●●●●red multitude where imperfection swelles with misdemeaners sur●●●●●eting if the●●●●● it be there chance to light vppon an ill compounded outside closed vp vlser whose vnseene hollownesse in it selfe containes 〈◊〉 payson of some grosse corruptions Coare there let them sinke and worke and purge and by the rootes pluck vp that which puts do●●●●●ne the race of man from heauens eternal most glorious and vncompared felicity Some lit●●●●●le part of my most pi●●●●●h-lesse worke is drawne from obseruation●●●●● Philosophicall the rightly termed Agar seruant to Saray a●●●●●d hand-made to diuinity for signes of times and seasons 〈◊〉 the starres created and sonne and moone were made times gouernors all which do by a speciall influence vnto time presage times future accedents and doe prescribe right well opproued and most worthily commended documents so far forth as the al pourful Mai●●●●●sty of the Creator be not tyed to the 〈◊〉 included in the Creature and what in this case I hau●●●●● breifly specified I hope my pen hath vsed such moderation a●●●●● that no word in this vnworthy worke shal be offensiue to your honored wisdomes Against the Sea and seate of Blasphemy I do in this my writing most desire with greatest force to beare ●●●●●y selfe because from Rome that cursed Babilon proceeds each ●●●●●ellborne dangerous mischiefe by which our King and State is 〈◊〉 alwayes hath beene menaced I haue therefore directly pointed a●●●●● the approued neerenesse of proud Romes destruction farther shewing that both Gog and Magog shall be 〈◊〉 extinct and vtterly caste out by the wrathfull furie of a mercilesse confusion and haue briefly giuen an Index vnto the manner how this mightie worke shall be accomplished grounding the truth of my discription vpon obseruations grounded on holy Writ that most Sacred and Diuine authoritie And though that in a plaine and moderne verse I haue describde the waightie Accedents of Time yet if your Honors will vouchsafe to read I hope you shall finde me much to differ from an idle Poet●●●●● vsuall course for without hauing respect to a vaine varietie of words or painted circumstance I haue onely applyed my indeuours vnto the effectuall life
then thou shalt contempned bee From good desert 〈◊〉 reward is stealing Trust wan ing truth doth vse perfidious dealing Like 〈◊〉 fish let poore men swimme or flie They haue no meanes to shunne their misery A poore man whilst his greefe woes passion weepeth Dispai●●●●●e the dore of his affliction keepeth A minde whose thoughts no force no●●●●● danger feares Is forc't to weepe his wife and childrens teares Vaine sighes vaine teares when want proclaimes 〈◊〉 woe The poore man knowes not vnto whom to goe Poore man poore wife poore children all reiected Apes Parrets Dogges and Monkeys more respected The poore mans words plainely and truely tels He cannot finde the place where Mercy dwels And yet he seekes and hath a long time sought His labou●●●●● hath his woes inlargement wrought For whilst he waites on time best time obseruing Himselfe and his by want of food are steruing Those hands cannot their Countries weale preserue Which in their Count●●●●●y must indure to sterue Hard world when loue to do●●●●● a thing most iust Shall cause the poore that wrong indure they must Iustice loue 〈◊〉 and faith all these are raced When things well done must be with force disgraced When Law commands an action to be done Why should that act into vilde scandall runne If so the law and makers thereof must In cause of euill be iustly blamed first To King and State a Souldiers honest loue Hath causde his heart sad woes extreames to proue A Sou●●●●●diers h●●●●●nd halfe staru'd and wanting might Shall for them both want force and power to fight No peace on earth though seeming most secure Can well resolue how long it shall indure When warres sta●●●●●u'd force threatens a kingdoms land B●●●●●st safetie then liues in the Souldiers hand In peace me thinkes those men should not be ste●●●●●ued By whom the strength of peace is best preserued I●●●●● to respect time present barbarous be The time to come should wisdomes eyes foresee All those great nations which themselues dispe●●●●●se Vpon the bosome of worlds vniuerse For rash attempts are not so much condemned As is that I le in which our selues are hemined P●●●●●oud witte that is with selfe conceitment swolne Makes fast the dore when first the steed is stolne An after-wit is counted Englands guise A forehand lookes iudiciall wisdomes eyes For gaine men will their liues and country sell A generall spoile makes some to prosper well Our Corne that goes vnto corruptions friend May feed a strength against our selues to bend We not respect although both heauen and ear●●●●●h Doe in their course foretell a threatned dearth As Dragons we our selues desire to bite Our hands our selues doe most vnkindly smite Warres weapons we vnto those countries send Whose vse at last will most our selues offend We haue no feare our land no danger knowes Vntill it feeles the force of dangers blowes Britaine hath foes who in their thoughts doe striue How best they may our countries harme contriue But this I thinke our ●●●●●ame shall thus be spred We may be beat but neuer conquered I would to God our land may so prouide As we at first might kill presumptions pride Peace smiles on vs but view heauens motion well Combustious times doth Sunne and Moone foretell This yeares Eclipse a fatall period maketh And God thereby all earths foundation shaketn The Planets in their ●●●●●spects differ farre From former time by course irregular The Crab and Goate whose Circles doe deuide The sweating Summer from frostie Winters tide Keepe still the times of auncient nomination But want the force of wonted operation Ver Eastus Autumn●●●●● Hymen all growne strange Seeme as they would their seasons each exchange Celestiall fyers that round this world impale And should from hence corruptions dregs exhale Leaues them beneath that noysome pestilence On earth might fetch materiall cause from thence When from the graue corruptions slime doth soake Mantling the earth in clouds of stiucking smoake Deuouring creatures in that fogge shall breed Earths brest shall then her children scarcely feed Corruption grosse thick fatte sad slimie slowe Shall by the Sunne to a combustion growe Those dreggs congeald by steps to hugenesse creepes By Ayery Orbes a wandring motion keepes Turning about from place to place their sent Spreading themselues on earths vast continent Taking the shapes from whence they first did grow In Ayerie formes like men and beasts they show When so they doe themselues with wonder spreed It tels they still expect on Death to feed Amidst some plaine so are those Mea●●●●●ures spred As were an armie there imbattelled And when they thus on heapes together cluster They fummon men vnto a generall muster But humaine eyes amazde cannot dispence With reasons force of Natures influence Inuolued heapes growne once vnmeasured great They striue to rise against the Clowdes to beat Exhaled once in rotten showers doe fall Infectious drops such as men Mill-dewes call And then at last in Midle Region fed They are with force from thence exturbated And hauing climbde the vpper Regions hem To blazing fierie Commets tourned then For so our God by mightie wonder makes Prodigious fiers threatning Kingdomes states Then shall the vilde ones of this world dispaire When they behold such flames amidst the ayre A while beneath those exhalations stayes Which shortly will foretell some dangerous dayes But not to build on humaine foolery I thus much ground on scriptures Prophecie EVen in the dayes when the seauenth Angell should Begin to blow his Trumpet then God would His Ministrie accomplished should be As to his Prophets before reueald had he The Angeli hath long time his Trumpet blowne Which to the world worlds latter end hath showne Before which time the worlds Deceiuers must By wraths fierce hand be all in sunder burst And first falles he with stroake of Yron rod Who in Gods Church doth sit as he were God With suttell craft when he suspects his fall By secret force himselfe defend he shall When as gainst him a long feard power doth grow Such as before the world could neuer showe Then desperate mad his anger and his feare Against that power a secret wrath shall beare To hell his hope doth for assistance flie And then corrupt earths Princes secretly An hoast of tigers shal them selues combine With sauage hogges to spoyle the 〈◊〉 vine And thinke from grapes to draw a bleding flood When in one night shal raine a shower of blood A winter gre●●●●●ne their somers hope doth make They thinke their force shal cause ●●●●●oues Iland shake That downe they might heauens goulden Pallace take A strenth shall rise from hells infernall lake The Leopard the Wolfe the Fox all these Shall vnawares vppon the Lyon sease The Lyon rows d his foes shall soone be torne With him shall ioyne the princely Vnicorne And push the best with his all clensing horne And make him wish he neuer had bin borne Hells dogs shal thinke oa●●●●●e mountayne tops to clime But breake their necks before their wisht for
require All these Consum'd by flame of rutheles fire No age makes record of so foule a sinne Since god did first to frame this world begyn Doomes day to England now bin threatned hath Ore which heauens God hath shak●●●●●e his hand of wrath Oh may our deedes his mercy so Commend As still his grace may Britons I le defend But now behold the fruites of Romish faith And know for truth what Popish doctrine saith Of binding and of loosing Popes haue got A strength which knittes of euery euill the knot And makes damnation seeme saluation sure If so thereby Rome may her gaine procure What most she craues is euery course to take How best she may her selfe worlds Monarch make The Pope that saith himselfe worlds God to be Speakes truth for so 's the deuill as well as he But Pope from Peter doth deriue his race And saith to him belongs the keyes of grace And he Christs vicar of all Gods church the head Must be supreame all Kings his frowne must dread With any oath he can at large dispence And at his pleasure pardon each offence Aboue Gods word he doth himselfe auow And his construction must the world allow True Christians they onely his doctrine likes And all the rest are damned Heretikes Gainst this the Lyon of the Tribe of Iuda cries And tels the Pope that like a diuell he lyes But still the Pope will keepe heauens golden gate And doth from thence Kings excomunicate No King on earth must haue his name inrold Vnlesse that first on him his Crowne he hold And al the world that on his sea not dwels Are Ethnicks Pagans faithlesse Insidels Those that not grow vpon his stock intire Are branches wilde fit for destructions fire Such hath he power to any death to put And from lifes tree those saplesse twigs to cut Without the Church as Iewes and Turkes they be That will not yeeld to his supremacie And Popish Romaines they are taught to know It lawfull is to worke their ouerthrow That will not yeeld obedience to the Pope In whose behalfe is giuen so large a scope That Traytors doe for heauenly merite hope Though thence the deuill doth pluck them in a Rope If for Romes sake they kill their lawfull King Bald iades for them shall trotting trentalls sing And they because so vilde a deed●●●●● they did For Saints at Rome shall be canonized The Pope such power vnto himselfe doth take As he a diuell a Saint can quickly make Heere briefely see the power of Rome set downe Aboue the world himselfe himselfe doth crowne Aboue Gods word and sacred Lawes diuine The monsters proud ambitious steps doe clime And from his seate of blasphemie hath flowne The fire that should haue King and Realmes vp blowne Villaines that would the world in sunder riue Say for Religions sake they did contriue That damned plot oh hellish insolence When deuils will make Religion euils desence The actors in a worke more then Tyrannicall They did themselues their countries purgers call In all they did meerely their countries loue Did them vnto the vildest actions moue They would not leaue her but like Champions stand Till they from bondage had freed their natiue land They but resolu'd to be most mercilesse To free the Catholicks from their long distresse From desperate times disease euils strength to loose They were inforc'd a desperate salue to choose The worst of euill was b●●●●●st in their esteeme From worse then euill their countrie to redeeme The Pope might them for faithfull Christians take When what they did was for religions sake Their plot found out the very place to sack Where all the lawes were made that wrought their wrack And this conceit in them a hope prefers They should be thought Gods iustice ministers These Realmes with Rome in vnion to vnite Was all the cause for which their hopes did fight For Romes auaile and for the Church her good King Kingdomes they would haue drownd in bloud For these good deedes whatsoeuer did befall Saints at the least the Pope would make them all Now see their worke and cause for which th●●●●●y wrought And iudge how well Rome hath her children ●●●●●aught Their euill to doe they were so confident As to performe't they tooke the Sacrament Christs Royall body substanciall flesh and bloud They say they eate and dranke and thereby stood Bound to performe the euill which they intended Oh then how farre should be their faith commended Here doth my Muse want words my thoughts to speake And doth into a strange admirement breake Oh God how durst these me●●●●● Sathanicall Imbru'de in bloud with hearts Tyrannicall Made blacke with treason gainst Gods annointed King Themselues before heauens Iesus Christ to bring And though from bread they can him not 〈◊〉 Yet in the signe he 's representatiue And bread not chang'd yet holy scripture saith By it we feed on Iesus Chris●●●●● by faith Not to dispute but say as they accoumpt Into what height doe their presumption mount When as a wretch before his God shall stand And thinke he holdes his Maker in his hand And yet with soule all stain'd as black as hell Euen at that instant doth in damnation dwell And records God and in him all the Trinitie To be the witnesse of his hell-borne villanie And sweares by them with desperate hand to act The vildenesse of the very vildest fact And thus resolu'd his Sauiour vp he eates So arm'd in proofe a King and State he threates Oh fearefull thing the seale of mans saluation Seales vp to them assured condemnation Yet they so blinde in faithlesse hopes doe trust And thinke thereby their vildest actions iust Heere see the strong delusion that should mocke The race cast from the number of Christs flocke Heere see the cup of worlds abhominations And know the whore that breaths forth execrations Against heauens throne the Lambe and all his Saints And yet she so her damned vildenesse paints As that she seemes of holinesse the seate But God for her hath laid vp iudgments great She and her pack that had our fall compounded Shall be ere long by Gods fierce wrath confounded And they that did for vs one flame desire God hath for them prepar'd an endlesse fire NOw would my Muse desire to expresse In vildest euill false traytors readinesse Catesbie so soone as he did Winter mooue Consent straight ioynd the worst of euill to proue There needed no perswasion to be vsde Hels motion was at first not once refusde What course so ere hell could to him propound His liues aduenture he thereon would ground So all the rest with selfe-same swismesse ranne To worke an euill the like nere wrought by man Their labour then their care and diligence Their watchfull heed their bountie and expence Their desperate and resolued confidence Till death to fight gainst heauen in hels defence Approues what power the deuill doth beare in those That serue his will and to his Aul●●●●●ers goes In England now