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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10706	The Irish hubbub, or, The English hue and crie briefly pursuing the base conditions, and most notorious offences of the vile, vaine, and wicked age, no lesse smarting then tickling : a merriment whereby to make the wise to laugh, and fooles to be angry / by Barnaby Rich ...	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1618 (1618)	STC 20989.7; ESTC S123522	50,488	68

their owne priuate profit then the publique commodity and can be contented to tolerate in others those vices that themselues are addicted to In the olde time they vsed to picture Iustice blindfold with a vaile before hir eyes signifying that Iustice should not see the parties between whom shee was to distribute but should performe hir office with equity and right without any respect of persons but now they haue put hir eyes quite out and haue likewise made her deafe she can neither heare nor see I thinke they haue peckt out hir eyes with Capons that were wont to bee brought vnto hir by couples and sometimes by halfe dozens I cannot say how she should be come to be so deafe vnlesse by the neighing of Coach horses or the rumbling of Coaches And Iustice hath her eares many times poysoned with vngracious tales that be whispered vnto her or how it comes to passe I know not but blind deafe they haue made hir she can neither heare nor see the pride the adultery the drunkennesse the bawdery the bribery the popery the impiety shee cannot see a Recusant a Preist a Papist a Iesuite our abhominations runne currant without controulment for alas Iustice is bereaued the vse of her senses shee can neither heare nor see She can a little smell and she can sometimes vent a horse a hawke a hogshead of wine sugar spice flesh fish fowle or any thing that comes vnder the name or title of a present She cannot indure the name of a bribe he that offers hir a bribe she thinks him a foole but for presents let them bring them till their backs do ake she will make them more weary in giuing then shee will be in taking I would be glad to fortifie my speeches with some example although not of the time present yet of the time past and I remember a matter that I thinke will serue my turne I cannot set you downe the yeere of our Lord the day of the moneth the certaine place or country nor the names of the parties by whom it was acted but true it is and if reports may bee beleeued and for a truth it hath passed many yeeres ago There was sometimes in what Countrey I know not but a Magistrate there was but amongst many controuersies that were depending before him there was one had bin of that continuance that the plaintiffe 〈◊〉 his better speed bestowed a hogshead of choice wine vpon this Magistrate for a present whereof the defendant hauing gotten intelligence to outwaigh his aduersaries hogshead of wine he presented this Magistrate with a very faire horse which was likewise accepted and receiued the plaintiffe vnderstanding of this horse thus giuen began to despaire of his owne successe thinking his hogshead of wine to be but lost bethought himselfe yet to goe drinke some part of it before it were all spent and with this determination had himselfe to dinner to this Magistrate where diuers other guests being at the Table and tasting of this wine which they felt to be good they began to praise and commend it one to the other onely this Gentleman that had giuen it drunke apace amongst the rest without any word speaking either in praise or dispraise which the Magistrate himselfe noting and marking with a smiling countenance began to cheere vp his guest saying vnto him mee thinks I heare euery body praising my wine but you your selfe you say nothing to it I would heare you say it were good The Gentleman that had the horse still sticking in his stomacke answered him in the best English he could speake I sai● ●●●d tooke to 〈◊〉 was 〈…〉 was makest 〈◊〉 a 〈…〉 They all began to laugh at this Gentleman 's to ad conceit that did thinke a horse had bin drowned in the wine but the Magistrate that best vnderstood his English would moue no further speeches but let the matter passe How the Gentleman sped after in his sute I cannot tell for we see the world is come to that passe that amongst those that doe follow sutes in Law he is commonly thought to haue most right that is able to giue most money For some Lawyers cannot speake till their tongues be ript with gold they had rather haue one eleuen shilling peece then all the Angels in heauen Then is not this a miserable age when money makes new law not honest Lawyers We haue so many P●●●dous in these dayes that can alter the case and for their owne 〈◊〉 will rule money to set men at strife and variance and hee s but a foolish Lawyer that cannot empty his Clyents purse before he end his sute There is no Law be it neuer so legitimate or truely begotten which with wrested glozes and subtle expositions they cannot bastardize They are pugnantia inter se there is no agreement amongst them but what one confirmes to day to morrow another will frustrate And we haue as many petty-foggers tramplers of the Law that doe much wrong the Lawes of the land that want both law wit and honesty that liue only by setting their neighbours together by the eares and then they prey vpon the poore ignorant people they are as bad in a Common-wealth as moths in a garment There be some Lawyers more wise then honest they come vp to London with an empty capcase and the Clyent with a full capcase but before the last Returne of the Terme the money is all in the Lawyers capcase and in requitall he stuffes the Clyents capcase with rotten papers and this fellow is so conuersant with the Diuell that euery day he goes to Hell to breakfast There be many miracles assigned to Saints that they say are good for all diseases they can giue sight to the blinde make the deafe to heare they can restore limbs that be cripled and make the lame to goe vpright they be good for Horse for Swine and many other beasts And women are not without their shee Saints to whom they doe implore when they would haue children and for a quick deliuerance when they be in labour They haue Saints to pray to when they be greeued with a third day ague when they be pained with the tooth-ach or when they would be reuenged of their angry husbands They haue Saints that be good amongst Poultry for Chickins when they haue the pip for Geese when they doe fit to haue a happy successe in Goslings And to be short there is no disease no sicknesse no greefe either amongst men or beasts that hath not his Physician among the Saints And this is the cause as may be supposed why Physicians haue not so large commings in as Lawyers for there is no controuersie or sute in Law be it neuer so litle neuer so iust neuer so honest that hath either Hee-Saint or Shee-Saint to defend or befrend it Some will say that it is a signe of a licentious Common-wealth where Lawyers and Physicians haue too great imployments and I thinke indeed they are most happy that

openly reprehended for his folly was likewise admonished to beware of Gods iudgements that doth neuer faile to attend on those new Inuenters of vanities that doth not onely addict themselues vnto monstrous pride but by their abhominable example doth induce others to doe the like And as it was presaged so it came to passe for this Gentle-man vpon some occasion very shortly after being in France was there brought to an vntimely death and that by an extraordinarie accident The other remaines at this houre a spectacle of Gods heauy displeasure Yet the open exclamation that was made by Turners wife at the houre of her death in the place where shee was executed cannot be hidden when before the whole multitude that were there present shee so bitterly protested against the vanitie of those yellow-starchtbands that her outcryes as it was thought had taken such impression in the hearts of her hearers that yellow starcht bands would haue beene ashamed for euer after to haue shewed themselues about the neckes either of men that were wise or of women that were honest but wee see our expectation hath failed vs for they beganne euen then to bee more generall then they were before I doe exceedingly admire these idle-headed young Gallants or ruffianly Roaring-Boyes how they can walke the streets with one of these base odious vgly beastly bands this new diuellish inuented fashion looking as though they had scaped from the Diuell in hell and there had scorched his band where euerie one wonders to see this ape of fashion and points at him for a foole in this lewd example Well honest Countrey-women I bring you good newes I wish you now to looke vnto your selues if euer you intend to bee rich now is the time You know Tobacco is in great trading but you shall be Marchants and only for egges for whereas one pipe of Tobacco will suffice three or foure men at once now ten or twenty egges will hardly suffice to starch one of these yellow bands A fashion that I thinke shortly will be as conuersant amongst Taylors Tapsters and Tinkers as now they haue brought Tobacco But a great Magistrate to disgrace it enioyned the Haugman of London to become one of that Fraternitie and to follow the fashion and the better to enable him he bestowed of him some beneuolence to pay for his laundry And who was now so briske with a yellow feather in his hat and a yellow starcht band about his necke walking in the streets of London as was master Hangman so that my young Masters that haue but sithence fallen into that Trimme they doe but imitate the Hangmans president the which how ridiculous a matter it is I will leaue to themselues to thinke on All that I haue endeauoured is but to make good what I haue formerly auowed That a Foole will not bee-brought to leaue his Bable neither for the shame of the world nor for the loue of vertue and of my conscience if there were yet some other Lobcoculus that to shew his dexterity of wit would leaue his yellow and betake himselfe into greene red tawny or to any other coloured manner of starching he should haue followers that would bring it into a fashion this is a true prouerb A yellow band and a greene wit So that as of these yellow starcht bands I thinke the like of Tobacco it was first brought into England by some man of little vertue and afterwards brought into custome by those of lesse wit But they say Tobacco is physicall it is medicinable it is precious for all manner of diseases and they doe attribute more vertue to their Tobacco then Bellarmine doth to his Pope They say it will make a fat man leane a leane man fat he that hath fill'd his paunch till it be ready to burst they say a pipe of Tobacco will make him to disgest hee that wants meat to fill his hungry belly a pipe of Tobacco is as good a bait as halfe a dozen of Horse bread for a Carriers horse it is like the Shoo-makers leather that if your boots be too strait hee tells you it will reatch if too wide hee tels you it will shrinke So Tobacco it is good for encrease it is good for decrease it is good to take before meat it is good to take after meat it is good to take betweene meales it is good in the morning it is good in the euening it is good at mid-day it is good at mid-night it is good at all times at all seasons in the summer in the winter in the heat in the cold in the spring in the fallt it is good for all complexions for all constitutions for old men for young men for all diseases proceeding either from hot causes from cold causes from drie causes from moist causes A man may take it as often as he list as much as he list as little as hee list at the change of the Moone at the full of the Moone at the waine of the Moone vnder euery Signe vnder euery Planer vnder euery Aspect vnder euery Climate Now if the soueraignty of Tobacco be such as these men would perswade either Physicians be Dolts that doe prescribe vs so many obseruations or these be notable Fooles that doe thus take it But the conceit that is holden of Tobacco how precious it is against the French pox may make some that doe feele themselues to be distempered to be the more enclining to it Some other againe that be old Fishmongers and loue to follow the game doe vse to fish those pooles where they know the pox are easily caught doe therefore take Tobacco to preuent perills But how vnwise art thou that doest know thy selfe to be free from that loathed sicknesse and wilt yet be sucking at the Tobacco-pipe that euery pockie companion hath be slauered before thee whom wisemen haue euer shonned to drinke withall in one cup But let them be as free from that disease as they list hee that is still sucking at the Tobacco-pipe must yet take the imputation vpon him that doth seeme with such diligence to seeke out the remedy that is vsed for the cure But I am not so madde to thinke that euery man that doth take Tobacco doth therefore take it because he feeles himselfe to be diseased for then if his Maiesty had an imployment but of a small company of men that were healthfull and sound they would hardly bee found out either in England or in Ireland But this I thinke that the greatest number doth take Tobacco more for matter of custome then for matter of maladie Yet one thing I haue noted marke it he that list the Tobacconist that is obseruatiue that prescribeth himselfe set times and houres to take his Tobacco at those times and houres by himselfe prefixed will sooner omit his praiers to God then not performe his owne prescribed ceremony in taking Tobacco Hee that should bring one of these to the Horse-market in Smithfield and there offer him