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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19455	The life, apprehensio[n,] arraignement, and execution of Char[les] Covrtney, alias Hollice, alias Worsley, and Clement Slie fencer with their escapes and breaking of prison: As also the true and hearty repentance of Charles Courtney w[ith] other passages, worthy the note and reading.; Life, apprehension, arraignement, and execution of Charles Courtney, alias Hollice, alias Worsley, and Clement Slie fencer.	Courtney, Charles, d. 1612.	1612 (1612)	STC 5878; ESTC S113923	14,342	28

glorious beames Titan had fully hid him in the West To coole the fetlockes of his weary teames When sunke with sorrow being captiuate I shed forth teares lamenting much my state My head on hand my elbow on my knee And teares did trickle downe my countenance then My countenance as sad as mans might be My dumps befitting well a Captiue man Fettered in prison passionate alone My sighes wrought teares and thus I gan to mone I that of late did liue a souldiers life And spent my seruice in my Countries good Now captiue lie where nought but cares are rife Where is no hope but losse of dearest blood This is befallen me cause I did mis-spend That time which God to better vse did lend Had I but stopt my eares where Syren sung And bound my selfe vnto Vlisses mast Or had I thought alas I am but young Too much t is all to venture on a cast I might haue liued from all dangers free Where now I die for life is not for me But I doe follow what I knew was vaine Instead of vertue I did vice imbrace My former pleasures now procure my paine And cause I lackt one sparke of timely grace The poysoned Aconite of death and woe Resolues to send a fatall ouerthrowe This makes my eies to gush out floods of teares My flesh to melt my eies and arteris rend My soule to seeke redresse to cure her feares For now my cause cannot afford one friend I that of late did number many a friend Now find them fled and no man comfort lende The Leafelesse tree with wrath of winters wind Best represents my wretched wasting state Fortune the wind the leaues my friends I find My selfe the tree that thus am erost by fate And yet in this we greatly differ may That it reuiues and I still pine away Villaines auaunt you bastards are by kind That doe perturbe the countries quiet state Shame to offend shun a corrupted minde And learne by me your former liues to hate Liue of your owne and braue it not with brags Least law condemne you in your proudest rags Drinke not the Haruest of your neighbours sweat Steale not at all thy God doth thee commaund Whose law to keepe your soueraigne doth intreate Thy health it is Gods lawe to vnderstand Obeying God God shall all harmes preuent Keeping Kings peace thy King is well content Like to the Woolfe in euery place you range Preying on lambe that neuer went astray And like Camelions must your suits be strange Who doth by kind change Colours euery day Without respect forgetting what you be Masking in sinne as if God could not see Abate presumption sinne is not a I est Though God forbeare yet he will strike at length God made thee man make not thy selfe a beast But seeke to loue thy God with soule and strength Ill gotte Ill spent your hopes in theft pretended Are griefe and shame and life in sorrowes ended Might sorrowing sobs with teares redeeme what 's past Or floods of teares suffice for foredone ils Behold my lookes with discontent orecast Whose heart doth rend whose eies fresh fountaines still And yet all this and all that I can doe Is small to that which I haue neede to doe My soule shall mourne for all my ill done deedes And I will weepe sole author of soules woe Repentance shall be my blacke mourning weedes I le bath my selfe in teares from top to toe And while life lasts which cannot now be long Grant mercie Lord this shall be all my song My heart through flesh shall issue sweating griefe And scald my bones with salt and brinish teares Through flesh and bone my heart shall begge reliefe On bended knees till bone my flesh out-weares All that I am I le spend in mourne for sinne And where I end afresh I will beginne If Maudlins teares did euer Christs feete wet And sweete her soule with true repentant teares If Peters mourning streames did mercy get For all his sinnes though he his Christ for sweares My sad laments abounding from my eies Sweete God accept and heare my mourne fullcries A wouuded soule a broken contrite heart Creepes in great'st throng thy mercies throne to touch The oyle of life King of my life impart Though sinne be great thy mercy 's thrice as much Oh thou that art in power and mercy great Send downe thy mercy from thy mercies seat My coloured suits I now exchange for blacke Till scarlet sinne be all as white as snow On me sweete time shall neuer turne his backe Nor shall his taske be more my tares to mow But with repentance furrow hopes for lorne Till God giue grace I sheafe vp better Corne. This little remnant of my life so poore I le teach to shun all sinne and vices all Giuer of all grace grant grace I sinne no more Establish me that I may neuer fall To thee my heart my soule and life I giue Who after death eternally may liue Direct my path euen for thy mercies sake Guide thou my steppes to keepe repentant waies Keepe me from sleepe in thee stil let me wake To laud thy name during these earthly daies And when from earth I shall dissolue to dust Grant that my soule may liue among the iust Ch. Courtney FINIS

guests I stood not much vpon the vndertaking of it and the rather because I knew good chéere and of frée Cost was both baite and line and would draw my Gudgeon at ease The time is come supper ready the Cloath is laid my gallants in the roome attending for M. Gardener his wife and my selfe who at the houre appointed made our appearance when according to Course to some that were there before and the worthiest in shew I must entreate of them to bid these friends welcome who are especially mine and what Curtesie soeuer they extended towards them I should euer approue it manifested towards me whereby the good woman is with al Curtesies placed at the vpper end of the Table and a chaire with a soft Cushion prouided for the good man euery one is ready to carue vnto her and all are as forward to quaffe vnto him Supper ended and the signe of the wine beganne to shew in his face a noise of Fidlers was prouided to come in iust in the Nicke and now in the Deuils name we must needs goe daunce when in protesting of Loue imbracing and hugging of him one of the Crue whose fingers were nimbler then the rest had daunced the Key out of his pocket Intelligence was straight giuen to me of that which was done and by meas priuately borne to the rest with strickt warning to kéepe him vp in his mirth for by his wealth we were in hope to be euer made About then slippe the healthes more Iouiall then before whilst three of vs on the sudden slunke downe the stares hast to the house open the doore and vp into the Chambers where we found that we came for and stoode not long a Culling out but like craftie Marchants taking vp our Commodities by the great we were now onely puzled how and in what to Carry it from thence But I being my Crafts-Master puld off a fetherbed ript vp the ticke powred out the Fethers and in this Case for Conueiance wee put as much plate and Iewels as wee could find and conueniently carry away Onely one bagge of monie of some thirty pound was scattered about the Roome the bagge brooke It was not farre off but for the instant we had a warehouse prouided for the Harbouring of it My Confederates all this while kept them at the tauerne excusing mine and the others suddaine departure to some extraordinarie businesse which wee had to doe When they thought we had our purpose call for a reckoning paid it and so like honest louing familiar friends wee quietly and peaceably departed the Tauerne By this Master Gardner with his wife come home to their house find their doore shut there was no hurt in that bids his wife light a candle there was no hurt in that but missing his key was forced to breake the doore open comming vp into his chamber espying the feathers scattered all about one roome and money about another the windows shut and walles safe not without cause my old friend began to wonder at that and béeing suddainly affrighted flées to his Counting-house where when he saw what ransacke was made what a pittifull heat was my olde Grandfire in let enery one iudge It was no time for him to delay Enquiry was made amongst the neighbours what passengers they had seene goe into his house since his departure suspition was had of vs search euery where was made for vs Hue and Crie into all places sent after vs all ports and hauens laid for vs our habits and personages described warning left at all Gold-smithes and Iewellers if any such plate came to be sold to make stay of it all Newgate Coniurers set a worke with promise of great reward if by their Art they could find any of vs out But wée béeing lodged secure from present danger began to consult what meanes might be vsed for our frée escape Some were so fearefull as it hath bin still my happe to robbe with cowards that they would haue giuen one legge and their shares in the Robbery to haue had the other legge safe in France I knew my selfe as safe here as in France but ayming at the full purchase holding it no sinne to deceiue the deceiuers perswaded them how dangerous it was to abide here and told them that I knew the malice of Gardner to be such nothing could satisfie him but life or restitution this feare infected them all they that before thought scorne of my company now became sutors to mee to plot their escape I conueyed them with spéed to an old Sea-thiefe an acquaintance of mine which dwelt néere the Sea coast that would at any time for a small gratuitie conuey a Fellon or one in danger out of this land told them he must haue a great reward for his paines and for the plate iewels we would share thē there where hée tooke shippe for I made them beléeue this Sea-thiefe was still full of money to furnish these occasions Hée béeing acquainted with my purport perswaded them their securest harbour was on shipboord till he could prouide me money vpon these pawnes They béeing all shipt one night I caused a false alarme to be sent that they were pursued my selfe taken the towne laid for their apprehensions This newes made them forget what they staied for preferring their liues before any thing else cried Hoist sayle away to France the wind béeing then good away they went and left me with my old Sea-thiefe reuelling in the towne So all the plate and iewels which we tooke from Gardner which amoūted to a good round summe of which some nine or tenne should haue shared I shared to my selfe onely some money they got from mee nothing to their expectations and some charge they put me to in sending them away Now hauing conueyed them safe away I must vse a course to protect my selfe I knew all places where it was knowne I had any acquaintance was laid for mée with promise of reward to them that could apprehend mée so that my safest refuge was where I was least knowne In one place I would neuer abide long but coursing the countries I happened to lodge at Dunstable where I was taken vpon Suspition of Felonie béeing knowne by my horse was committed to Bedford Gaole and notice of my apprehension was giuen vnto Gardner who procured authoritie to fetch mée from Bedford to London Whither I was safely and with great care conueyed And béeing brought to Newgate was lodged on the Masters side where my smooth tongue ciuill carriage and friendly courtesie not onely to the worthiest and best estéemed on that side but euen to the worst boy in the house had gotten me such a good opinion amongst them that I was of euery one beloued and pittied and euery one behind my backe commended mée to the Kéeper and would often produce me for example to others But all this was but a curtaine to shadow my villanie for when I séemed fréest from thought of wrong I was most busie to worke my