through a Trunck or Prospective directly before the end of the Trunck is a Dung-hill his Imperzza I smell a Rat. 7. The Court Ape is expressed sitting mopping in a Tree full of flourishes above him this Imprezza The Cinnamon Tree 8. The City Ape is expressed as in a Rialto or Royall-Exchange Tapestrie-works Needle-works Chaines Girdles and Hangers Belts c. to life shadowed A walke as in the Exchange with Signes of eyther side On the one an Unicorn a Bull an Hart a Ram a Goate On the other directly opposite a Tigre a Panther an Elephant a Wolfe a Fox his Imprezza What doe ye lack 9. The Countrey Ape is expressed poring seriously upon an Almanack his Imprezza an Erra Pater 10. The Church Ape is expressed fat and corpulent a Mitre or corner-Cap upon his head the Basis or end ofa Steeple sticking out of his mouth his Imprezza Silence 11. The Judiciall Ape is expressed of meagre or sallow complexion wasted or decayed constitution close shaven in a Councellors Cap and Gowne a Rowle or Scedule in his hand his Imprezza Ambidexter 12. The Politicall Ape is expressed with a paire of Spectacles upon his Nose a paire of Compasles in his hand a Globe before him with a Jacob's-Staffe with which hee measures the Globe his Imprezza A sound head piece 13. The Chymicall Ape is expressed holding a payre of Bellowes wherewith he stands blowing against a solid Rock There are Kettles Landirons Candlesticks c. to bee shadowed implying his Chymick Art his Imprezza Fly Brasse 14. The Criticall Ape is expressed laughing and jeering extremely holding his sides as one oppressed with an unmoderate passion of Joy his Imprezza Hold sides 15. The Censuring Ape is portrayed according to his humor with a rugged ridged Countenance fiery and 〈◊〉 eyes corded Whipps in his hand Looking with an eye of scorne upon the rest of the Apâ—… his Mott A shots of Shallops And pointing at them with a jeering visage closeth in these words Have among you State-Shufflers Parthenia's Passions To the right Honorable THOMAS Viscount WENTWORTH Baron of Woodhouse Oversley and Newmarch Lord President of the Councell established in the North and one of his Majesties most honourable Privie Councell His thrice-honoured MECAENAS The western-Knights Pasquill MArshall an hall there Pray you Sir make roome For us poor Knights who in the fag-end come Mad is my Muse and now of late affrighted Out of her wits for feare she should be Knighted Knighted defend me Lord from such an honour I shall not git whole Cloaths to put upon her Nay since with Knights there is so great a doo I for my Summons will make ready too Come Masons come erect an Hospitâ—…ll Sith wee must all be Knights whom Statutes call For England never had unto this houre More * Chevaliers for number nor more poor Whence many of our Russetings deplore it That they ' r not worth so much as they paid for it Yea Almanacks I feare will beare record In Rubrick Letters next to th' yeare o th' Lord Which by Succeeding times will be recited How long 't is since yâ— Commonty was Knighted Yea Justice vows should she pay twenty five She cannot doe 't with honesty and thrive For some of her Bench-Whistlers States be such Their meanes vailes will scarce raise halfe so 〈◊〉 Yea I could pick out One of these who might Be made GRAND SOPHIE full as well as Knight For Justice-sake this imposition wave Lest they be forc'd to pay more then they have But since my Pinke 'mongst others runns a shelfe And ev'ry one is nearest to himselfe I must debate my Cause before I go Judge whether I speake reason friends or no. May my State-lov'd MECAENAS but give way To what the meanest of his Knights can say Now my good Lord your humble Suppliant comes To know the cause why he shoâ—…ld pay these Sums ` Object Our Princes Coronation by a Statute Inflicts these fines on those that were not at it Provided they have fourty pounds by yeare Of free-hold Land the Statute makes it cleare Answ. T is true but this reflecteth not on me For I was at that high solemnitie And I'â—…h best note my rurall Muse could sing Tendred my Poemes to my gratious King Object Yea but the Proclamation did forbid it You were not well advis'd then when you did it Answ. 'Slid should I neither then be here nor there But like a Ball hang hovering in the ayre O bject No though the Coronation wil'd you come The Proclamation wish'd you stay at home You should not have câ—…me up Sir Answ. No more did I For I as fortune fell was there allready Where my ambitious Muse did Knighthood crave But what I had I hold no more I have Discusse my Lord then each particular I shall be found in nought irregular I came not up I broke not th' Proclamation The Statute 's kept I was at Coronation At which I 'le justify with heart and hand I joy'd as much as any Knight i th' Land These duely weigh'd your Honour Umpire be Whether I pay the King or King pay me His regall 〈◊〉 receiv'd this Muse of mine And were this reason think you for my rime I sung my Sov'â—…igne heard me now wee say The Hearer not the Singer usd to pay I judge then what soe're to me is done Is by that figure Usteron Proteron You for the King demand of me a fee When it is meant that He should pay it mee But lest this should by me too much be thought So I goe free my Song shall go for nought But husht no more with this approv'd Position Your constant Servant closeth his Petition More Knights my Lord your State has little need on Let me be a poore Country Squire to breed on Now if these Reasons take no place my Lord I must Obey if you but speake the word A Knights fee for your Honour I have heere Knight and no Knight the Purchase is too deere But I 'm resolv'd my Reasons are so plaine Your squire may with his Coine go back againe AMPLITUDINI TUAE DEDITISSIMUS MUSOPHILUS EBORACENSIS EQUES EQUITUM HUMILLIMUS * Area quot spioas quot profert Silva myricaâ—… Curia quot curas Semina terrâ—…nes Quot scatebrâ—… venas quot 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 arâ—…nas Tot Milites inopeâ—… Angliâ—… 〈◊〉 Upon his Hon. Election of Deputation for Ireland FOr Ireland Lord what will become of me For Conscience-sake looke on my Familie Would you receive more honour then you have And so 〈◊〉 those whom you may save Is any one more earthly-blest then you Firme friends faire fates brave Bards corrivals few And who is hee that is so richly blest Will hatch his Airy in a forraine nest There the best Hawkâ—…s indeed they say are bred But there High-styers oft have perished Those that doe love my Lord doe hold it fit As th' Country honours him so should he it Admit my Lord that you entitled be
This all Saints us'd where were we joyn'd in one Wee ' d hold our Passage happy to be gone Weake be our nerves and arteries to fight Heav'ns Ord'nance is the Shot gives us delight And in these aged-deafned Eares sound louder Then any Shot that takes his Charge from Pouder From the first Warre some have not struck astroke But from the Campe betook them to their booke Or if their profit did not that way look They plide the Plough-share or the Sheepheards Crooke For we collected by our Conquering Foes What Heav'n decreed 't was folly to oppose For this our Composition has beene payd Wherein his GRACE afforded One such ayd That even in Gold-smiths Hall He did apply His hand and sought their fine to qualify Had not a Ridge of Hasles stood i th' way And with a rough obstruction rais'd his pay Burn't Child fire dreads Our pennance has beene such We acted little but wee suffer'd much Had no mans hand beene Conscious of more guilt Much blood had beene preserv'd that has been spilt Some of us may be Hermits for our yeares There 's no occasion then from us of feares Besides SOME Justices were call'd of late Which would sound harshly to a ruin'd State Doe not Assesse us then vnlesse 't be showne That we enjoy more fortunes then our owne Much lesse I 'me sure then we might justly claime Heav'ns steere our Bark in this tempestuous Maine ` Your self 's the North-Starre that directs our Saile Geere our Land-voyage with a prosperous Gale Pensions Debts Portions have our States so reft Like Banbery Cheese there 's nought save pairings left And if we must both Crum and Crust forgo Wee 'l welcome want because heav'n order'd so In hope when you these Golden Mines obtaine These Taxes shall be paide us back againe But Grace appeares th' Instructions give consent That those who entertaine this Government With a Compòsed and Submissive will Should be exempt from this Assessing Bill And sure Experience taught us so much wit To know what Soveraignty is and to submit Wee 'r now become Good Boyes thanks be to God First take correction after kisse the Rod. They who intend t' improve their Means at Court Must take a wrong and give a Congie for 't Tender the favour these instructions shew So yours prey not on us wee ' l pray for you Wishing with all our hearts Heav'n would decre Our Purse as full as wee 'r of Charitie If all this will not doe we hope our Zeale Unto the State will grant us an Appeale Wherein by plea if we appeare not free May this same Grand Assesse re-doubled bee But rather then offend wee 'l meekly fall Under your Doome without Appeale at all This renders no disgust So you reprive us Wee 'l try what benefit the Law may give us Wherein if we unfortunately slip Wee 'l hold th' Adventure worse then HAMDENS Ship Should none of all these Arrows hit the marks But like Tiresias Shafts be shot i th' darke Our onely way to cement this Division Is to officiate and take th' Commission Which if it may with your affection sute To th' Tenure of that Writ wee 'l execute And doe as justly too or wee 'd be sory As wee were dealt withall so ends the story After his Assesse at Penrith Addressed to his Honour January 31. 1655. HOw now Mount I to twenty pounds Assesse When my Rint-charges rise to such a rate As no inferiour Judgement could hold lesse Then free indulgence to my squiezed State You doom I melt shall I the Cause impart Your Honours civill usage won my heart Yet that those Grounds were good I stood upon Peruse these Reasons Sir and I have don What 's twenty pounds Assesse to him that may Improve the State more by his Pen then Pay When He to forraine Nations shall make knowne The Bounty and great Pity you have showne To State-Delinquents when with face to face They ' r look'd upon like Children of Grace As th' late Act of Oblivion seem'd to approve That we were all One Familie of love Thrice Sacred Cement when Revenge must cease And Patience smile on forepast Injuries By which your Fame might to Successions ring To have Power and not to doe 's a noble thing A Princely-Lyon Ire when hostile force Puts off the Roabs of Rage and donns Remorce No Marble Topaz Ivory Thracian Stone Could reare you Shrines more to be look't upon Nor more admir'd Statues are works of time True worth admits no period nor decline Now to my selfe Should I in briefe relate The forme of th' Spartan or the Theban State In their necessitous times you might perceive What Priviledges they to Pen-men gave For by their Annals I shall make 't appeare From all Assessments They exempted were First that their Writings might disperse their Fame Next that their Penns more gingerly might blame The Errors of those times and Palliate In a smooth Style th' Abuses of the State Seeking by artfull secret mists to smother The Soile of Sinne but to display the Other Sometimes have I extoll'd you in this sort And if too much pray God forgive me for 't Nor did I onely in that Land-skip show State-virtues but emergent vices too Good faces are with Moals much beautifide Venus seem'd fair'st when Nais sat beside Vice setts off Vertue best No 〈◊〉 spread Their Lustre more then when they ' r set in Lead There 's none that ever knew me One of those That for a Diadem could learn to gloze For had I practised the Art to Flatter Th' increase of Fortune had deprav'd my Nature Yet had I prov'd Proficient in that Art I 'le tell you Sir the secrets of my Heart For I dare venture to unrivet it To one of Honour Judgement Worth and Wit I 'm confident I had not so long waited On your Commission to be Decimated Since SELDAN that Authentick Instrument And constant Servant to the Parlament Directly prov'd no Tenths at all were due Unto the Clergy then much lesse to you Whom though our Rabbies labour'd to confute They might have Silence kept with more repute For such Antiquity and Reason met As his Assertions were not answer'd yet BESIDES all this the Spartan State decree'd That all such Parents as their Children breed In Arts and Studies of Philosophie From all Assessments should exempted be And by deductions from Rint-charges granted Supply those Tacklings Education wanted Which Law one day when Cleon did oppose Tyrtaeus in defence o th' Edict rose Saying If these so neare us might not share In our Provision and Parentall care May this strict opposition be obey'd And al Male-children henceforth Eunuchs made Which smart Reply drove th' Court to such a laughter As the like Motion ne're was heard of after To those object 'T is folly to delay This Grand Assesse our Souldiers must have pay My answer is I 'm Natures deepest debter I love a Souldier well but Children
misdemeanors of our youth Whose unconfined wills are rather bent To ill then good unless they feel restraint But for as much as I have heard Some say That great-mens power hath ever born much sway In Seates of Justice which should be so pure As neither power could awe nor love allure That you from course of Justice less may swerve Observe the Rule which Cato did observe Who on â—… time when he in judgement sat Professing truth the scope he aymed at Receiv'd a Letter which in post-haste came From One who was esteem'd a special man Then in the State addressed to this end To spare pronouncing judgement on his Friend But He suspecting what th' contents might â—…e Meant to prevent him by this Policie And that he might procede in judgment better Fiâ—…st Sentenc'd him and after read the Letter O then to all alike just judgement render As you the safety of the State doe tender Grant great ones no exemption who alledge They may offend by writ of Priviledge But make them know that you have pow'r to strikâ—… If they impugn the Law all men alike This if you do which â—…onscience bids you doe Good men will love and ill men feare you too Yea God himself who 's present in your Court Sees your uprightness and shâ—…ll bless you for'â—… And you strife-stirring Lawyers who have sold Too oft your souls more oft your tongues for gold Like some foule Leprosy my Muse would shun you But that the State complaines so much upou you Eye your profession and examine then If you your selves be such condition'd men As both the State requireth at your hands And with the form of your profession stands And what is this but that you should take heed What cause you take in hand for whom you plead Whom you peâ—…swade and with perswasion mad Saying their cause is good when it is bad How you doe earne your fees for some mens aym Are by delayes to multiply their gaines For know that you who should judicious bee Are first to weigh the cause then take your fee And if 't be such a Cause 't will bear no water Perswade your Client to compound the matter But if the cause be good fall soundly to it And slight it not for so you might undo it What shame were 't then to see men of your Coâ—… Distemperd with a swelling in the throat A dangerous infectious disease Spâ—…ung from the practice of Demosthenes Whom the Milâ—…sians feeing on a time That to their cause he might the more incline Hee when he should the matter fully break Had got the Squinancie and could not speak O take you heed of this lest God withhold Speech from your tongues thus tipt and tide witâ—… Gold And you the Gentry who retaine the name But not thâ—… Worth of those from whence you came You who should be life hope and all that 's deere Both to your selves and such as neighbour neere Observe yoâ—…r ranke and in your ranke so live As to your House you may no scandall give Alasse for griefe that ere it should be sed So many hopefull Plants are withered Such ancient houses where reliefe was found By way-beat Passengers now raz't to ground And whence comes this but from improvidencâ—… Neglect of State profusenese of expence So as me thinks I heare poore earth complaine And chide her brats for being so profane That th' antient badge of Hospitality Should be defac'd by prodigality Cloaths made to cover shame and colour sin Are now habilliments to glory in Meates given to suffice nature not delight Must satisfy our liqu'rish appetite Drinks to refresh times so distemper'd are Must drink down debt apply a cure to care Of which disorderd rank I knew of late A youth of faire and eminent estate Who in few yeares had hiâ—… estate â—…o seeke from pissing Conduit that doth stand in Cheap But in my judgement there is none of these Brings ruine to our ancient families So much as profane swearing which doth call Like that hand-writing showne upon the wall For vengeance on them that the same do use Gods curse must nere depart from swearers House And yet I see and sigh to say I see How in this Land where God should honour'd be With duest praises for her great increase Of earthly blessings and continued peace The Gentry of our Ile should think no shame With new coin'd oaths to profane his name Which is their Parents fault who so much love them That when they hear them swear they 'l scarce reprove them Yea though they curse ere they be wean'd from teat And learne to sweare before they learn to speak They must not be rebuk'd but mark their ends And you 'l conclude their Parents their worst frends And you deceitful Tradesmen whose great'st care It to contrive dark shops to vent false ware Scorne with injurious practise to deceive Such as in you their trust reposed have And day by day the Chandlers case remember As you the welfare of your necks do tender Lastly to you my Brethren who by nature Are woodmen borne and gotten by a Satyre Examine ere you publish any line For I must tell you 't is a dang'rous time The State is jealous and will have an eye On such wild-headed waggs as you and I. Be warie then good Boyes and have a care Least in my censure yee do likewise share Which could not chuse but turne to your disgrace Besides your lothsom lodging in this place Where trust me though I doe not lye with any Spight of my teeth I goe to bed with many And which is strange Backbiters have I more Since I lay here then e're I had before But heark while I am taxing others sin My fellows they are roaring now within I must withdraw my Keeper he doth call And now my grate is shut good-night to all Exit Spectrum A Postscript NO sooner was my Grate closed than I from my Prospect barred retiring my self to my rest which was as restlesse as my fortunes haplesse my friends hopelesse and helplesse Neither did this lessen but heighten my misery to have mine eye barred from liberty by being shut from my Prospect of vanity But beggars must be no choosers nor prisoners disposers with Patience I retired resolving to enjoy my selfe though of all outward joyes deprived and joy in the liberty of my minde though of bodily freedom restrained Neither indeed to doe As surlie Cerberus right was my Argus-eyed Porter so relentlesse as wholly to restrain mee for his promise was unto mee next morning betime to tender mee a courtesie by giving mee free recourse to my Grate where I resolved to spend the next day in a serious survey of such passengers and passages as happily might encounter mee and make themselves objects to an embleme of misery But see how humane purposes are diverted implying that nothing can bee by man so long as hee is man firmly resolved For next day addressing my selfe to my old taske I
their care our neighbours House a fire bids us beware I follow'd warlike Tillie at the tayle When with streight siege he closed Frankindale To Berg'apsome I did my progresse make Where I much muz'd how Spynola could scape When in his Campe hee was so gyrt about As feare got in but nothing could get out Though plots seeme deepe one may their bottom sink But I were mad if I ' de speake all I think Nor is my observation so restrain'd As if it earthly objects only aim'd More high Mysterious speculation's given To view those Signes and Wonders are in heaven Prodigious formes and figures in the ayre All which impressions lately frequent were Neere sieged Prague and other Cities too Who have sustain'd what foe or fate could doe At Turein two miles from Egeria Within the kingdome of Bohemia Next to a Stew where I with others stood I saw a Table and a Form sweat blood Which I observ'd and forthwith did divine There would succeed a blood effusing time From whence dislodg'd no sooner did I come Unto the famous City Lintium Then there appeared a fear-increasing vision Which ore the City shewd this apparition Two Swords stood pointing one against another With furious Armies skirmishing together All which I made th' inhabitants beleeve Would some impressions in their City leave Assuring them to make mine Art more knowne These ayrie Armies would surprize the Towne This caus'd a strict watch to be duely kept And I did laugh at this while others wept For it was far above my element To know what these strange Apparitions meant Though my conjectures were esteem'd more true Then th' unknown Palmistry of any Jew But lest the Statute bring me into question This is the least I use in my profession Unlesse in forrain Countries where there be So few that practise this same Mysterie As they will lodg a Wizard in their brest But ever prize North-Britain Wizards best Thus I 've inrich'd my selfe with Observation And gaind me such renoune within this Nation That be my weekly Corrants nere so strange They passe for current-novells on th' Exchange So as upon my knowledge their esteeme Hath staid the vent of better labors cleane Yea there be divers Stationers in the Citie Who had been broke the more had beene the pitie Had not my high priz'd travels been brought hether Which kept them up from going down the wether And now these are which seems to mee most rare Held by our Stage-gulls for oracular Not any story or occurrent passes But is authentick truth with these sage-Asses Who neighbourly confer upon a bench Of such a Rampire Palisado Trench Of such a Conquest such a Battaile lost And what a world of Christian lives it cost This they peruse which they perusing send Into the Country to some speciall friend Who may p◅take these news without delay And these become as credulous fools as they For though to give my thriving-works their due Scarce among twenty one relation's true Yet on their truth not one of them will stand But spread their fame abroad from hand to hand Nor bee my Corants only Ale house talke Nor for Duke Humfries Knights who Pauls doe walke For I have seene the very Pulpits smooke With some extractions rifled from my booke Which howsoere they could not well beare water Yet would they serve for want of better matter But there 's no place so highly prizeth mee As where out Ordinary Gallants bee For there am I admir'd and to my grace Preferred ever to the highest place Where my loose glibbrie tongue is prating still Travels more strange then those of Mandevill Yea you shall see some score of Gallants stand Each with a Table booke within their hand To take observance of such speciall heads As from the forge of my discourse proceeds Which they relating duely now and then Makes them esteem'd for most accomplish'd men Now what may you imagine I deserve When these extract but that which I observe And gaine such praise as those Land-gulls who hear them Account them highly blest who neighbour neer thē But now because I 'm to my Country come I le shew you what I have observ'd at home And in each sev'rall place where I have beene Briefly unfold what I have heard or seene In Court I liv'd and living felt no scant But bravely surfeited on others want It was my ayme and I did ayme aright To winde me in with some Great-favorite Whose gracefull count'nance might support me still In all my courses were they good or ill Where I observ'd more good might be effected By meanes of One who was in Court respected Were his Cause ne're so faultie nor so weake Then a good Cause if he no friends could make The reason was though Justice bore ev'n hand From some of these there came a countermand Which cause he was a great Antagonist They durst not his authority resist Or else his meanes advanc'd them to that place Which mov'd them veile to him in any Case For this I held a grounded observation Justice to Greatnesse ever had relation For some of these oft get a place worth chusing By being married to a great-mans Cousin So firm's the linke of mutuall allyance Against all opposits it pleads defiance For other silken-Apes who spend their time In making their seer-bodies brisk and fine I hold it needlesse here to make report Because ther 's such an Ape just now in Court Who will describe himselfe in every lim Which makes me leave that labor unto him For our Court-Ladies very few I know Who racket it with their Comradoes now Our spritely Lords doe either Treasure lack Or else they want agility of back So as amongst a number ther 's scarce one But shee is eyther mortifide or gone One did I heare of but the other day Who now has throwne her lighter Roabs away And by a firm-friend whom she well approv'd Sent to the wife of that same Lord she lov'd How she resolv'd her good esteeme to win By wearing of a mourning-gowne for him But what 's the answer shee return'd to her I wish quoth she your Lady may not weare But what becomes her best in publique sight Her Suite must sute her selfe her selfe is light But if with mee shee 'll keepe a mourning part Shee must not mourn in Habit but in Heart And so no question doth shee for long since Shee lost the eye of her concupiscence Which makes me hope the eye-light of her mind Is cleerer far since th' outward eye was blind Thus be our Ladies matchlesse Converts held To whom no Suiters make but are repeld Though One I know nor was old Lais liker Unto her selfe then shee is to a striker In City likewise I remain'd a while Where I observ'd how Trades-men did beguile And in some darke part of their shop tooke care How they might vent their most deceitfull ware Here did I stay farre longer then I need That I with laughter might my humor feed For here
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 Hand Must kill downe right before he understand Should apprehend remorse when as by doses He weighs his Physick out but not the losses Of his abused Patients who with grones Must loose their lives and substance both at once These haning novght to give must be forsaken And if they die the care is quickly taken Or a Civilian though Conscience be Thâ—… Oâ—…ject 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 their examples tell him what to doe And will secure him onely let pretences Guilded with sanctity disguise offences Or that a Rorâ—…r will his Oathes forbeare Or shudder when he does Gods judgements heare Oâ—… leave his Brothells or his midnight revells Oâ—… leave consorting with his femal Devels For so he should abandon all his joy And loose the Title of a roâ—…ing Boy No Sir these taskes surpasse a Critick straine And make him wash the Blackamoore in vaine Yet I persâ—…ade me you â—…xprest your zeale In your dimensions to the Commonweale And that your meaning was to waine the State From some of that which all good people hate But where sinne 's grow to ripenesse you must know Good meanings and intentions will not doe So delicate aâ—…e these corrupted times As none must taxe or taint â—…heir swâ—…lling crimes But tell me in good sadnesse what 's the cause To think your Lives more powerful then our Lawes If an Oppressor hatefull Contracts make Our Laws can bring him like a Beare to th' stake The Cunningst Church thiefâ—… be he neere so great When once detected for a Counterfeate Must not uncensur'd passe nor any one Who in a civill State shall throw a Bone So as in my Opinion 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 Satyrâ—… lose it This moved some as in their workâ—…s 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 〈◊〉 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 drawnâ—… the shapes Of vicious Silke wormes in this Age of Apeâ—… Which shadow'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 Weaknesse of courage or timiditie For in a Cause where I intend to doâ—… Service to God I ne're did terror know Nor doe I see ought in this vale of tearâ—… Which should beget in me such fruitlesse feareâ—… The Substance I enjoy I nâ—…re did gather But as a Birth-right left me by my Father For had my fortunes hung upon my care My part had com'd 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 shâ—…ll-willingly forgoe the same To honour God and magnisie his name Nor is my health so good that I should feare When s'ere 't please God my dissolution here Besides gray-hayres have caus'd me change my song Assuring me my dayes cannot be long Should I then in my Glorious Makers sight Play servile Sycophant or Parasite Should I now when my one foot is in grave Learne the obsequious posture of a knave Should I contemne my Soule when death is nie Or complement when I should learne to die Should I who ne're could fawne in all my dayes An unjust Man against my conscience praise No heav'ns forbid that I should taxe that thing In Subjects which I would not in a King Or praise that in a King which I 'le not doe Even in his Groome or meanest Subject too For howsoâ—…'re our Statists Some times frowne Seeing those darling vices of their owne Touch't to the quicke yet why should good men feare Such Impes who Sattin in and out side weare No in that cause where I desire to please My gratious God I scorne the threates of these But I returne unto my Critick now And will informe him too what he shall doe I know the Sate Sir desperately sick Where some Sores should be Lanced to the quick For they must not bee smooth'd or smeer'd with Oyle Least they attract a more impressive soile But how should this be done or how applde Before the member grow quite mortifide An art-full and experienc'd hand were fit And to that active hand a pregnant wit A grave and serious outside too would prove That they were types of what their selves did move For him unfit I hold to chastize sin Whose youth admits no downe upon his chin He should be of authority and power If he would be a powerfull monitour For such mens words like nayles enforce our passion Struck by the Rulers of a Congregation Yea this our owne experience doth teach We eye as much the person as the speech For if he be a man of worth or prize Speake what he will his person makes it wise Besides that life of his should be approv'd That his example may be better lov'd For it redounds unto the Teachers shame To taxe when he is guilty of the same Who aymes to shoote his shaft at many men Mâ—…y chance to hit himselfe too now and then Unlesse he blamelesse be which is so rare As to seeke such our labours we may spare Lest then this frumpe should in our dish be laid Phisitian cure thy selfe as hath been said Our Lifes should forme our Lines that after times May say our Life 's did paralel our Lines But why should we pursue this fruitlesse taske By striving Great-mens errors to unmaske Their discontent may by some censure move us But them we cannot hurt so far above us I hold it best then Critick we begin To let these Peers take their Careere in sin While we restraine our liberty of pen Untill we see Gods judgement waken them Have we not known of late some raised high That they with more disgrace and shame might die Who would have thought in such a civill State I
obtain'd some say as mucâ—… With Rostock Beare who overthrew the Dutch Which story made me laugh for on a time A boon-Companion and a friend of mine Telling this tale one of a light conceit Which made the jest more full replied streight By thus retorting it Now by this light I wonder much why you 'r not made a Knight For if to healths such knightly vailes befall You's drinke a health with any of them all But to the purpose though I force a smile I 'd rather mone th' abuses of our I le Again to see those who have well deserv'd How they can shew their warlike bodies carv'd Their arms disjoynted or their legs cut off Yet for all this rewarded with a scoff Their service wants least solace for out Peace Makes us conceive small pitty toward these Yet their designes were glorious and the cause For which they fought deserv'd no lesse applause But see their end for all the time they serv'd The most of these are eyther hang'd or starv'd Now to propose some due reward to these Nought were more fit if it the State would please Than to injoyne the miserable Chrone I meane the usurous oppressing one Whose only sport it is and recreation To see a dearth of grain in all our Nation Who grates regrates grinds and engrosseth all Laughs when our markets rise grives when they fall Who will not sell his Corn if men should die But stops his eare against their ruthfull crye Then to injoyn I say his stonie heart Some portion of his substance to impart To a deserving Souldier and know My reason 's this why I would have it so This earth-adoring and admiring wretch Who craves no more then that he may be rich Lives safe at home his family attend him But all this while the Souldier doth defend him Snayle-like at home hee ever makes aboad And little feels the dangers are abroad While the encamped Souldier doth endure The worst extremes the Miser to secure From sleep hee wakes with noyse of least alarm Surveys the Campe prevents ensuing harm Rampiers he reares Fortes Bulwarks Palisadoes Mures Countermures stores his wel-rig'd Armadoes The key-cold ground the field-bed wher he rests him Where not one minute but some fear molests him All which he beares with patience for this Elfe Who cares not who fall so he save himselfe Now ought not he to share in his encrease Who by his danger doth secure his peace Do wee not see each one relieve his Cur Who on the night-time barks and makes a stur To shield his masters house from those would venter But for fear of discovery to enter And shall a Cur so kindly be entreated And a poor Souldier of his right defeated Can one delight so much a Cur to cherish And suffer one endow'd with reason perish Nor for my self do I this comfort seek For as I think I 'm in for all the week Although perchance I have as great delight In a good cause as any one to fight And would be loth to spare my dearest blood If shedding it might do my Countrey good But diverse means are form'd for diverse men Some are to fight with pike and some with pen Eyther of which requires aspirit stout To vanquish fiends within or foes without But say can neither eye eare taste nor smell Afford thee ought that may content thee well Can no choice object to thy eye appeare Nor no melodious accent to thy eare No fragrant perfume to refresh thy Scent While thou art here in lists of thraldom pent No sense-affecting-solacing repast That may delight or relish thy distast Can none of these thy drooping spirit cheere Or ease thy griefe while thou art lodged here Yes yes in every faculty I find Somthing to give contentment to my mind For thus I argue If these breed such loathing I must infer on earth there can be nothing Bee 't nere so pleasant-seeming or so moving That may in any measure merit loving Which to confirme as I conceiv'd distast In all those former Senses that are past Now for my love I bear the Commonweale Heare but the griefs I for her sake do feele MUch do I feele for even my heart doth ake Not for my self but for my Country sake Wherein ther 's nought doth me so neerly touch As to see great-men wrong the State so much For ther 's no place we heare not some of these Tax'd and reprov'd for their Monopolies Which they will beg that they their turns may serve No matter though the common-people starve O age me thinks thou art distracted growne To squeeze a whole State for advancing one And what 's that one a profuse Rioter Who spends upon a painted Sepulcher What ere he gains by begging thus the poor Are forced to maintain a great mans whoor They want he surfeits they may pine and die Hee hears but takes small pitty on their crie They crave one crum of comfort he denies them And when he meets them stops his nose flies them He all enjoys whatso'ere may like him well And on his foot-cloth rides in state to Hell O yee high peering Mounts incline your ear Unto the counsel of a Prisoner For do not think although I be in thrall That I will humor any of you all I have not learn'd to flatter hitherto And I do scorn to take the trade up now But what 's my counsell Labour to deserve Well of your Prince whom you are bound to serve Hate to inhance your State or fill your purses With wofull widows tears and poor-mens curses That gaine must needs be ill be 't more or lesse That 's suck'd and strained from the fatherlesse Scorne to enrich your selves by others hate Or rayse your selves by razing of the State And for as much I heare that Some of you Which I protest doth much my grief renue Support your Followers in an uâ—…just cause Against the course and tenure of the Laws So as they care not what they undertake Because they shall be favor'd for your sake Surcease for shame to countenance a wrong Either by Letter or perswasive tongue For there is nought on earth right sure I am Detracteth more from any Noble-man Then with the brand of injury to stain him For love of any onâ—… that doth retain him For this such deep impression leavs behind it As on your graves succeeding times shâ—…ll find it Where it will live long after you be dead And sprinkle hatefull poyson on your seed And you the reverend Judges of the Land Stand in defence of right whosoe're withstand Your just proceedings let no favor draw you Nor fear of any great-one over-aw you Doe you not think it were a shame to heare Such men as you who on your shoulders beare The burden of the State and should take care To guard the Prince and those his Subjects are E're to decline from doing what is right For love or lucre enmity or might Patrons and Patterns you should be of truth To curbe the
when I 'me at Ordinarie Where like true Heire of bounty I must show Farre more profuse then vulgar Gallants doe I have a Tweake too one of my retenue Who will expect a share in my revenue If Phebus had no light could Phebe shine No more can She without some ayde of mine Now can one thinke I on this charge should sit And have no meanes at all to second it A fire must fuell have or it goes out A Lampe must needes have oyle applide unto 't Springs Rivers feed Seas are by Rivers fed Bees sucke sweet flowers and so are nourished While these in distinct nourishment doe share Mâ—…st I Chameleon-like be fed with Ayre No I have meanes in Court to shew my light For I 'me esteem'd a speciall Favorite To such a Peere whose greatnesse can support The lowest Shrub that grows within his Court Much more such State aspiring Pines as I Who on his grace without desert rely For if I should desert or merit weigh I 'de make a Conscience of those tricks I play But bare might I be as the slough stript Snake If of my pranks I should a Conscience make For this my maxim is He that will blush Or value honesty more then a Rush Or so precize hee 'l no advantage take May thrive in Court but he 's not very like But not it rests that I my tricks doe show Which showne judge if I may not thrive or no. In Court I live and flourish where I live Apt to receive but seldom apt to give In ev'ry Boat a private Oare-I have Where th' bargain 's ill I neither win nor save For I 've a braine has wit enough to plot And for a Conscience I know it not Because this Conscience such a Scarcrow is As it deterreth us from what 's amiss Which if wee should observe it would be like Within short time to overthrow us quite If any State-employment be in hand I by some secret Agent understand Whereto it tends compounding with a friend To whom by meanes the State doth recommend This publick taske that I may share with him In th' benefit that he 's employed in Which if he grant to raise his estimate I recommend his service to the State Extolling his deserts saying 'T were fit Such men as he should reape a benefit By their employments otherwise 't would seeme The State were weak could not judge of them Yet I may sweare sincerely from my heart I little prize or value his desert My chiefest ayme and principallest care Is how I may in his preferment share For to that end did I his worth improve Causing him thinke 't was only for his love Whereas peculiar profit drew me to it Nor care I much if all the world doe know it For these are usuall projects now a dayes And if contrived nimblie merit praise In th' undertaker yea I know a Man High in the Courts esteeme who now and than For all his outward lustre will not stick To gul the State with this familiar trick If any one whose service hath beene tride Sue by some meanes for to be gratifide That he his hopes on stronger stayes may ground He with this gracefull Courtier doth compound That if he shall procure him such a Summe For all the former service he hath done He shall be Sharer with him and receave Two parts and more of all that he shall have This moves this spritely Courtier to perswade That such a summe of money may be paid For such State service which above compare Deserv's due guerdon for his onely care As he pretends is to preferre the suite Of them whose name hath purchas'd them repute The State weighs his deserts and doth bestow What 's fit and equall for his service too But when it 's to be paid this understand Seldome a fourth part comes to th' owners hand For his perswasive Orator will share Above the former composition farre Telling him how if 't had not beene for him He had not got the value of a pin Then fit it were that he three parts allot To him by whom his entire suite was got Thus must we plot and reape the greatest gaine Through their deserts who in the Camp remaine Subject to all those miseries of warre Which on the Souldier still inflicted are Our soft down beds be all the harms we feele Our silken Roabes our Harnesse and our Steele Our Crystall springs of luscious Hypocrice Our humors taste no warlike enterprize Our Congies Cringes amorous salutes Our Love-inducing Sonnets warbling Lutes Our Masks Tilts Triumphs obsequious greetings Our closs encounters in our Entry-meetings Our deere Eringo love-provocatives Our Julips Apozems Preservatives Our secret plots to work our ends thereby Closing our drifts within an Oyster pye Our private aymes to purchase such a wife By laying siege now in her husbands life Our french Moriscoes motives of delight Our Parachito Monkey Marmosite Our Arbour daliance when we make resort To those sweet groves and gardens of the Court Move us to joy in such a happy birth As those who doe enjoy their heav'n on earth In brief what 's choice we have it and contemn Those weake delights are us'd by vulgar men Here you shall see a man of discipline One who came off right bravely in his time With all observance make recourse to us That we would deigne to be propitious To his preferred Suite which wee set light Hows'ere his cause seeme equall and upright The reason is this Supplicant is poor And with a bounteous hand can scarcely shoure Into our boundlesse skrips what wee expect This is the cause his Suit takes no effect Thus in the Court doe wee our lustre shew And on inferior groundlings take a view With such contempt as they who us behold Would hardly think us made both of one mold For come wee within distance but of those Wee hold a Pomander streight to our nose Lest their ranke breath should any way infect us Or that the popular might more respect us Yet I protest I can no reason see That wee of them more cautulous should bee For any such infectious ayre I say Then they of us corrupter far then they But far be it removed from my brest To hatch least thought of stayning my own nest For ther 's enow that will this staine encrease In ev'ry coast though I should hold my peace Now from the Court to City must I goe Where I my tricks am purposed to show Which I 'm indifferent please they or displease But to display them briefly they be these I have choice Spies and Tarriers in the towne Who by their long experience now are growne Ripe in observance now the use I make Of these is this they serious notice take Of such commodities as bear most sway And at what speciall rate they goe away Which known I hold it thriving policy To make a Suit for this Monopoly By which the trades-men shall be forc'd to stand Till they seeke composition at my
Be gon my Censure shall not be disputed This is decree'd and must be executed Affrighted with the Censure of each Ape Fearing my selfe were one I did awake But finding it a dreame I thought it fit Only for pastime-sake to publish it Similis mihi Simia nulla est Upon the Censure of his Vision SOme Familist or punctuall Precisian Will sleight this worke because it is a Vision Saying That Visions are deceitfull things And to distraction our affection brings That this Luciferan Spirit takes the shape To gull th' imagination of an Ape Whence he inferres to prove these Visions evil That this same Ape is an incarnate devil All which I grant but likest of all other When he resembles such a Zealous Brother Truth is for sinns survey who would descry it Must closly doe 't or soone be censur'd by it Whereas 't were 'gainst all reason that to Prison One should be sent for sâ—… of a Vision But whether I be censured or no This will I say and you shall finde it so Viewing these grosse abuses of your minde This for a grounded maxim you shall finde Of all the Tyrants which the world affords Your owne affections are the fiercest Lords The life of POLYMORPHUS SIMIANUS Author of this Poem POlymorphus Simianus a Florentine born a younger brother but well descended and during his minority in all generous free-born Studies trained He was naturally affected to Poeâ—…ie from the delight whereof his Father being of 〈◊〉 esteeme in Florence laboured to waine him by diverting his course that way and importuning him to the study of the Law Whereto having for some yeares applyed his minde he grew in short time indifferently furnished Neither was his practise lesse usefull then his knowledge fruitfull Albeit inwardly 〈◊〉 could never relish nor palat that profession being as he termed it a practise whose materiall were extracted from extortion yet to give all possible content to his father he ever extended his best endeavour â—…ly to further what he could not favour Being now growne a pretty good proficient in a profession contrary to his element you shall heare upon whâ—… occasion he became degraded from the benefit of 〈◊〉 practise excluded and by a judicial though incompâ—…tible censure silenced Pleading one day with great vehemencie for his friend Farnesio a Citizen of approved honesty and whose cause deserved no lesse successe being in the judgement of the whole Court grounded vn equity and uprightnesse He perceived the Judge of the Court to be more indulgent to the Advers part 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the more he pressed it the more did the Judge sleight and disvalue it Wherefore being without expectancs of reliefe for his much injured friend as one 〈◊〉 transported with passion to see corruption seated 〈◊〉 the throne of Judgement or transpierced with aâ—…ction to see his honest friend so highly wronged with a spirit no lesse resolved then enraged he thus 〈◊〉 the Judge My Lord quoth he my comfort is thoâ—…gh this gentleman my clyent be by your Lordship injuriously censured the date of your commission for sitting on Judgement is almost expired so as our hope is by your Successour we shall be redressed Expired said the Judge how doe you means â—… I meane replied Simianus you are at the point of death Your reason quoth the Judge for I feale no such matter in my selfe The more dangerous is your malady answered Simianus for diseases insensible are ever held most incurable but to resolve your doubt with an infallible reason your Lordship knowes it is an ancient sacred ceremony herein Florence as in all other Catholique Countrieâ—… for 〈◊〉 sick immediatly before the approching inâ—… of their dissolution to receive from a religious man thereto ordained and consecrated extreme â—…ction The Judge perceiving whereto his meaning 〈◊〉 covertly implying corruption by those words â—…f extreme unction with present passion transported 〈◊〉 him forthwith to depart the Court in these words Sir for your small reverence to this place heare your censure So long as the State of Florence shall authorize me to sit in this Seat of iudgement I injoyne you Silence to caution others by your example to shew more reverence No 〈◊〉 was this heavie Censure pronounced then Simianus left the Court allthough he had many friendly Oraters who with their best perswasive Rhetorick laboured to mitigate the Judges censure whom they found steeled with relentlesse rigour About this 〈◊〉 when Simianus was silenced his father died by â—…hose death he was more troubled then with his former sentence disqâ—…eted for of such generall esteeme 〈◊〉 I formerly noted was this old man as he was no lesse for his wisedome and judgement approved then for his discreete carriage and amiable conversation generally loved so as his vertues gain'd his progeny â—…ch honour in Florence Simianus being thus by publique censure from hope of future preferment excluded of his fathers advice whose pietie was a mirror to his familie deprived and in some debts by reasons of his tâ—…a affable or easie disposition engaged being brought to these straits as one doubtfull where to retire it fortuned even then when he had resolved privately to convey himselfe from Florence and expose himselfe to some forraine adventures to fall in acquaintance with a Zealous brother of Amsterdam with whom in short time he grew so familiar aâ—… none but HE was of his Cabinet councell Away he must goe with him so powerfully had his zeal wrought with him unto Amsterdam where as he pretended he was a merchant of especiall note ranke and quality Simianus who had even from his infancy an excellent art of insinuating into mens knowledge professed that howsoever other occasions of maine consequence had reason to avert his resolution from that course yet so farre had the opinion of his sanctity the grounded conceit of his sincerity and those tyes of familiar society and sociable amity prevailed with him as he would leave his Countrey with hope of all promotion meerely for love of such a Zealous and faithfull Companion At Amsterdam within few Months after they arrived where Simianus found as many religions as the world had regions or the Gergason possessed with Legions but in principall esteeme grew he with a devout fraternity by meanes of this Zealous Merchant who made him acquainted with all those mysterious rites used and practised by that Saintly Society Within short time being a proper man and wâ—…ll approv'd of by the Sisterhood who had their free voices in the election of every Officer he stood in Election for a place which they call the Emunctorie the speciall charge whereof is this At a certaine time which upon signe given is duely observed when the Conventickle is full and all things in readinesse he it to snuffe out the Candles for the Zealous assemblie 〈◊〉 exercise their works of lightnesse in darknesse This Place by generall suffrage he obtained wherein he demeaned himselfe so closely to the Sisters content as no one Officer stood so deepe in