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Nonsence upon sence, or, Sence, upon nonsence chuse you either or neither : written upon white paper, in a browne study, betwixt Lammas day and Cambridge, in the yeare aforesayd / by John Taylor.
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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Jeffery Chausers Cipresse Gowne Thersites with a Rush knock'd Ajax downe Imperious Momus wrot th' Atlantick story Of wars betwixt Achilles and John Dory 'T was dedicated to the Isle of Lundy An Emblem â—ight of transit gloria mundi Let not the distances of place molest us Abidos is not forty miles from Sestus As Hero lov'd Leander I 'le agree Though he and she were mad what 's that to me 'T is likely Cleopatra and Antonius Met but saw not the Cardinail Barronius The Capitoll and silken Rack Tarpeyus In a Seadan to Lichfield shall convey us And like a wheele-barrow we 'le cut and curry And fetch good newes from Shropshire and from Surry There is no Eunuch of the Race of Brutus That either can confute us or cornute us Old Solon was no Jester nor no Jyber And English Thames is better then Romes Tyber I tooke a Cammell and to Naples went I Of pickled Sausedges I found great plenty The Gudgeon catcher there o're top'd the Nobles And put the Viceroy in a peck of troubles Brave tag rag multitude of Omnium Gatherum Shuffle 'um together and the Devill father 'um But now and then was squeez'd a rich Delinquent By which good means away the precious chinke went Renowned was the Rascall Massennello In fifteen dayes he was raw ripe and mellow Laugh laugh thou whining foole Heraclitus And weep thou grinning Asse Democratus The gray Horse is the better Mare by halfe The Bull at Bear-Garden and Walthams Calfe Are reconcil'd but not concluded fully Who pleaded best Demosthenes or Tully I am indifferent fill the other Kan Logick hath Art to make an Ape a man I weeping sing to thinke upon the Quibblins 'Twixt Romane and Imperiall Guelphs and Giblins How Munsters John a Leide and Knipperdoling Were barberous Barbers in the Art of poling From Sence and Nonsence I am wide quoth Wallice But not so far as Oxford is from Callice Give me a Leash of merry Blades right Bilboes True tatterd Rogues in Breech Shirts Skirts and Elboes And each of them will make a fit diciple To ride up Holborne to the tree that 's triple A man may think his purse is turn'd a Round-head When all the crosses in it are confounded 'T is said that Poetry a thriving trade is And gets a world of wealth from Lords and Ladies The devill they do false shamefull Lowne thou ly'st And when thou canst no longer live thou dy'st Lend me Rhamnussnes Flanders blade I 'le lash The sober Centaures turn great Oaks to Ash A long Dev'ls broath be sure you bring a spoon Our mornings shall begin at afternoone And Minos Eacus nor Rhadamantus May roare and rant but never shall out rant us As we are temporall le ts be temporisers We scorne to be surpriz'd we 'le be surprizers Let 's make grim Pluto stink the welkin rumble And Hollophernes bluster Now and grumble Rending up mighty thistles by the roots Because an Hostler stole away his boots Then with á multiplying Gally pot I 'le know the projects of the crafty Scot And then he shall be forc'd to hide his head In Tenebris in Poland or in Swead Fough this Tobacco stinks thou dirty Hag Abato faire I le put thee in a bag Search Asia Affrick and America To find the Goddesse Berecinthia And know how Pirramus and Thisbe fell Together by the eares late in Bridewell Words are but winde in terme time but vacations Are fit to publish silent Proclamations There was a businesse never vnderstood The womans suit in Law was just and good She lost the day this did her cause disgrace The Lawyer put some ill into her case Before I le live this life I le take a Knife And drown my selfe and then what needs a Wife Strange things are done by art and humane power Quinborough Castle landed neare the Tower Much like a prodigy old time playd Rex A Kentish Castle came to Middlesex May not a man cal'd Newgate dwell at Highgate And wed a Widdow at the Pye at Algate Therefore let us like or dislike Presbytery It will work finely if it once besquitter ye Bring me a Salamander from Surat in France The Alps and the Pirenian hills shall dance In Greenwich Parke there smiling Nioby Shall laugh and lye down like an Oyster Pye Fame is a lying slut she told me tales That in October Christmas came from Wales Believe it take the wings of Icarus And walke to Hounsditch and to Erebus There tell them plainly how the case stands here And bring us word how matters do go there Unto the Market I le run presently And there a peck of troubles I will buy One told me they would multiply and grow All England with them I will plant and sow Which as they ripen dayly I le take care That every living soule shall have a share I le serve my selfe first and I le have such store In time of need to serve a thousand more But I forget my Theame O soule offence This Nonsence hath a taste of too much sence The Asse Goose Woodcocke Buzzard and the Gull Beat out their Braines and put them in my scull And tell the men of Gotham t is thought fit The Wise men there should lend me all their wit For Nonsence I will taxe all Christendome Great Emperours and Kings shall pay me some And many a Major or Justice of the Peace Will give me Tribute and the Tax increase To such a height that Cardinals from Rome Cuckolds and Constables shall pay me some Strong Hull with fata I Hell and Hallifax Shall naturally bring me tole and tax The mighty stock of Nonsence I will win Shall be the universall Magazine For Universities to worke upon The rich Philosophers admired Stone Then I make Poetsrich and Us'rers poore And thus resolv'd at this time write more This Dedication is humbly directed to a living man quartered into foure Offices viz. a Scavenger a Beadle a Cobler and halfe a Constable To the high and mighty Davidius Vulcanus Duke and Dominator of the Dunghils and absolute resolute dissolute Scavenger of the Towne and Territories of Gravesend in Norfolk great Master and Baron of the Wheelebarrow the only Farmer Transporter Lord of the Soyle and Privy searcher of all Mixens and Muckhils simple or compound in the Liberties aforesaid Cleanser clearer and avoyder of the most Turpitudinous Merdurinous excrementall offals Muck and Garbadge Refiner Purger Clarifier Purifier Mundifier Excluder and Expulser of Putrifactious and Pestiferous Contagions the Potentissimo Excellentissimo Invader Scatterer Disperser Consumer and Confounder of offensive unsavoury savours smels scents and vapours Great Soldan Sultan and Grand Signiour over all varieties of stinks and stinkards most Triumphant Termagant unresistable Conquerour and Commander of the major and minor the great and the lesse Turditanians chiefe Corigidor and Beadle of all the Precinct sole Transplanter Terrifier Controler and Corrector of Beggers and Vagabonds The terrible Hue and Cry Cryer chiefe Court Cryer Jayle-Keeper and onely confiner of the Hogs chiefe and most frequent vigilant Watchman demy Constable and Image of Authority the most accomplished Cobler exquisite Translater and exact Reformer of oppressed decayed wicked and oppressed seales And the onely justiciary rectifier underlayer and setter upright of such Brethren and Sisters as doe go aside and tread their foot awry in these dayes of vanity and paths of iniquity In hope Great Sir I have not abated you of the least tittle of your Title your Honorable stile being so high that no Christian Pagan Heathen Turke Jew Infidell Cuckold or Canniball can never climbe to the top of it there being a late report that your multiplicity and many affaires of State have distarbed your rest and impaired your health insomuch as it is thought your pericranion is crazed or cracked and you thereby in danger to fall into a Callenturian disease which is to be doubted may produce a Vertigo in your head whereby your wit may be troubled with a superfluous flax which may prove a molestation to your selfe and the whole Towne that hath in it selfe and in every place round about it more troubles then they can well beare But if their hard fortune should be that when you are working to your owne Ends and that you should call for your Aule and Death should mistake and bring you your Last whereby such a privy member as your selfe might be publickly lost it is feared griefe would overflow the whole Towne and that some of the Townesmen with the helpe of their Wives would runne starke horne mad To prevent this great detriment of such a losse as that Towne may undergo in this time of scarcity of wit wisdome and wise men for feare you should fall into the dangerous diseases of the Mubble-fubbles or the grumbling in the Gizzard Therefore 10 drive away dumps and to give you some Recreation I have made bold to present your Greatnesse with this Dedication which if you will vouchsafe but to read and understand and in so doing you shall do more for the Auhour then he ever was or shall do himselfe J. T Allandro pasqueto Mallatrumpa entangrino liuroe ILvento Chioli Mauritambull Teda fulgare Antro della campo il Danto Cordi sublima Pantathos stremo standina eschine vandri Bene in shendo tercia penthe dissadi Mecrops Sans sida vocifera Randa Bavinea Allatendrea quanto Eltrada Pizminov venta Mega Pollimunton Theorba quasie qaicunque Tripolina Tiphon Quabacondono sapho Terra tragmus sophye sunt diacalcitheo Geata Avostre Obserdandi Zhean De Fistye Cankie De Sallamanca Andalowsia Or thus you may English it in the transcending praise of the Authour and his Booke TIll PHEBUS blustring blasts shall cease to blow And AEOLUS shall hide his radient Raies Till VULCANS Forge be fram'd of SCITHIAN Snow And NEPTUNE like a Shepheard spend his dayes When SATURNE shall sell Mouse-traps and allow MARS to fing Madrigalls and Round delayes Then shall thy Booke and thee be out of Date And scorne the fury of consuming Fate To your Worthinesse in all Observance Devoted John Defistie Cankie Of Sallamanca in Andalusia FINIS