To come i' th euening they must haue a roome And ouer one bare pint will sit and prate And burne a Candle out perhaps thereat Whilst all the Drawers must stay vp and waite Vpon these fellowes be it ne're so late The whilst a Candle in the Kitchin wasts Another to his end i th' Seller hasts One with the Guests another at the Barre Thus for one pint foure Candles burning are By day light this I haue seene some to doe Call for a pint a Pipe and Candle to By that time he hath done 't is quickly counted To what large summe the Vintners gaines amounted Besides all this his charge is euer great For seruants wages cloathes and fire and meate For linnen washing Trenchers losse of Plate For Glasses broken by the course of Fate Besides he hath some scores which if you looke They make his posts looke white blacke his booke And if a debter seau'n long yeares doe stay But sixe pence for a quart of wine hee 'll pay When if a Merchant doe a Vintner trust For the forbearance deere he answere must And when some Guests haue liquor in their braines How they will swagger in their roaring straines Out goes their swords and by the eares they fall And now and then one's nail'd vnto the wall The man and 's wife abus'd his seruants beaten No moneyes pay'd for what is drunke or eaten His house in question brought a man is kill'd His and his wiues heart both with sorrow fill'd And whereas other Trades their labours end At night till midnight He doth still attend At euery Groomes commaund officiously He waits and takes hard words most curteously He that amongst these harmes can purchase profit Much good may 't doe him he is worthy of it My Master Vintners Trade I thought to touch Because I cannot thinke his gaines is much I loue them all my lines here manifests And so God send them honest sober guests From thence vnto the Wine-Marchant I went He presently me to the Market sent For Butter and for Egges I was exchang'd And to the Countrey with my Dame I rang'd Her Husband gaue me to a lab'ring Ditcher He to the Alehouse went and bang'd the Pitcher To stay long there I was exceeding loath They vs'd so much deceit with nick and froath My Master Host vnto the Brewer gaue me The Malt-man came on Monday and would haue me He to the Alehouse brought me backe in hast From thence I quickly to the Baker past My seruice there was very short and briefe He plac'd me with a Miller and a Thiefe That was a merry Master for the nonce He got his liuing cogging with two stones I next dwelt with a Butcher that had tricks To liue and thriue by Mutton and by pricks Thus haue I oft beene tossed too and fro From bad to worse from misery to woe From miserable Slaues to Prodigalls To arrant Theeues and to good Hospitalls To good and bad to true men and to Taylers To Fidlers Pipers Fishmongers and Saylers To Mercers Grocers Drapers Tinkers Pedlers To Fruiterers for Pipins Plumbs and Medlers To Silk-men Sadlers Turners Tylers Glasiers To Tripewiues Mealmé Gardners Grasiers Brasiers To Plummers Bricklay'rs Smithes and Carpenters To Dyers Goldsmithes and to Playsterers To Noble-men to Water-men to Ioyners To honest men to Knaues to clipping Coyners To Knights to Beggers Scriu'ners Colliers Lawyers To Stationers to Printers Silk-men Sawyers To fooles to wise-men Dunces and to Doctors To Harlots Varlots Serieants Bayliffes Proctors To Papists Protestants and Puritans To Traytors Subiects Matchiuillians To Catchpoles Beadles Iaylors Ironmongers To Cookes whose labours do asswage mens hungers To Cuckolds Bawdes to greasie Pimps and Panders To Cowards valiant men and stout Commanders To Fishers Fowlers Shepheards Queristers To Feather-makers Girdlers Barristers To Players Bearewards Fencers to good fellowes To those that make no breath yet can make bellowes To Pewt'rers Shoomakers and Buttonmakers To Marshals men and dirty kennell-rakers To Leather-sellers Armourers and Curriers To Iuglers Iesters Masons Barbars Spurriers To Woodmongers to Tapsters and to Salters To Ropemakers for Cables Ropes and Halters To Paynters Poynters Hackney-men and Skinners To Hearb-wiues Fish-wiues such scolding sinners To Cutlers Parrators to Posts to Iudges To Druggists Felmongers and to toyling Drudges To Hatters Powlterers Coniurers and Farmers To Priests Clerks Sextanes Sorcerers and Charmers To Bowyers Chaundlers and Astronomers To Gulls to Gallants and Embroyderers To Basket-makers Milke-maydes Iewellers To Comfit-makers and Soliciters To Yeomen Hostlers and to vnder Shrieues To Millainers to Chamberlaines and Thieues To Cappers Faulkners Plow-men Haberdashers To Coopers Weauers Scullions Coblers Thrashers To Hunts-men Gunners Grauers Rhethoritians To Coachmen Tuckers Potters and Musitians To Reapers Spinners Caruers and Suruayors To Orators to Cariers and Puruayors To Clothiars to Logitians Mowers Shermen To Clockmakers Collectors Miners Carmen Tobacco-sellers Netmakers men Boyes To Sharkes Stales Nims Lifts Foysts Cheats Stands Decoyes T'a Cut-purse and a Pocket picking Hound To as mad Rogues as euer trod on ground To married men to Batchellers to Lads To sober Fellowes and to drunken Swads To Maydes to Wiues to Widdowes and to Whores To liberall mindes and hungry hide-bound Bores To Midwiues Chimney-sweepers Beadles Nurses To Scampsters Laundresses and Gossips purses To Drummers Draymen Pyrates Drawers Glouers To Trumpets Whitsters Ratcatchers and Drouers To Hang-men Side-men to Churchwardens Cryers To Fluits Horse-coursers Sellers and to Buyers To Prisoners to Night-farmers and to Broome-men To all estates of Forraigners and Free-men I could name more if so my Muse did please Of Mowse Traps and tormentors to kill Fleas For Ballads Table-bookes and Conny-skins For ends of Gold and Siluer Poynts and Pins For Knights and Madames made of Ginger-bread And many a stale and musty maydenhead These Masters haue I seru'd and thousands more Of all degrees and Trades on seas and shore And amongst all the places that I had Whereas I found one good I got ten bad If I did serue a poore man but one day I fiue yeare for it with the rich would stay I haue bin Twelue-pence seauenty od long yeare And to the world I 'le make it plaine appeare That where I had one Master lou'd the poore I had ten Drunkards that did loue a Whore For each houres seruice good men had of mee To my great griefe I seru'd bad people three I weare the Kings badge yet flie from the King And to a Misers Chest I profit bring The words I haue are Latine which implies That I should waite vpon the learn'd and wise But for one Scholler that can vnderstand I haue seru'd twenty Artlesse fooles command My seruice to the Poets haue bin euill I ranne more swift from them then from the Deuill I know not well the cause but they and I Together long could ne're keepe company I haue a true excuse that will defend me They loue mee not which makes e'm quickly spend me But there 's no great
Hee 'll hazard and endanger limb and life And thus by way of argument 't is pend A Shilling is a Souldiers loued friend A Shilling's much more auntient then a pound And in pronouncing giues a better sound As for example which is most mouth-filling Of fifty pounds or of a thousand shilling A thousand pounds may make the accent rore But twenty thousand shillings soundeth more Thus of two sillables I am compacted When into one the pounds are all extracted The Germane Dollors are my Iuniors farre So are the Copesticks of the Brabander The Spanish Royall piece of foure and eight On me for my antiquity may waite The Floren Guelder and French Cardecus To me are vpstarts if Records be true The Grosh Potchandle Stiuer Doyte and Sowse Compar'd with me are all scarce worth a Lowse Nor can the Atcheson or the Baubee For my antiquity compare with me The halfe Crowne is on horseback mounted hie Yet neuer trauail'd halfe so farre as I The Scottish Mark 's a dang'rous piece of Coyne 'T is iust a hanging price if one purloyne There 's no such hazard in the stealing mee I am three halfe-pence lower in degree And as in pence I for a Iury stand I haue eleuen Coynes vnder my command And to grace all the rest my proper selfe Like a Graund Iury-man make vp the Twelfe But for men shall not thinke I bragge or prate Those whom I doe command I 'le nominate Nine pence three quarters with his Harpe befriends me And sixe pence with halfe seruice still attends me The foure pence halfe-penny next comes fidling on The Groat my third part doth depend vpon The three-pence is a quarter wayter still The two pence in sixe parts attends my will Three halfe-pence stoopes to my commanding sway And eight of them at once doth me obay The single pence are all my little Cozens And doe attend my seruice by the dozens Three farthings by sixteenes attend in plenty And halfe-pence to the summe of foure and twenty And last for Pages on my State doth waite Of dapper farthing Tokens forty eight But ere I did attaine my shape and forme I'abid the brunt of many a furious storme For this the world I would haue well to wot Mine honour was with paines and danger got I past the raging Seas and flaming fire And gain'd a Face and Crosse for all my hire It would almost dissolue a heart of flint To be so vs'd as I was in the Mint The paines of Purgatory cannot be But fictions to those things that fell on me For what I did endure had man but felt It had like Kitchinstuffe haue made him melt Then my Tormentors all at once agrees From my great heat to let me coole or freeze And dead and cold me then againe they martir'd Me all in pieces they be cut and quartir'd Weighing the mangled mammocks they pronounce That fiue of me in weight should be an ounce Then to the Anuile was I brought in hast Whereas with Hammers they did me bumbast And there they neuer left belab'ring mee Vntill they brought me to the shape you see Thus I mine honour and my forme did win Through many dreadfull dangers I was in And though there scarce doth memory remaine What I was e're the sixt King Edwards raigne Yet long before his time I was in value As read in good true written Stories shall you My stamp when Rome did keepe the world in awe Was foure swift Steedes that did a Chariot draw Which figur'd that I too and fro should runne An endlesse Iourney that would nere be done I am made endlesse round which doth portend Till the world end my Iourney ne're shall end And men may plainely in my roundnesse see An Emblem of the worlds rotundity Round is the Globe round is the Hemisphere Round runs the Moon and Sun each month and yeere Round ran the Empire from th' Assirian Kings Round vnto Persia Greece and Rome it flings Round to great Britaine it is come I know Whence hem'd round with the Sea it cannot goe But the maine cause that makes it stay and stand Is where 't is guarded by th' Almighties hand Round from the North to East to South and West All Arts haue still ranne round 't is manifest The Iewes th' Egiptians Calates Persians Deuis'd Arts and were Astrologians And true experience doth approue it thus Their knowledge is runne round from them to vs. The age of man goes round a child at first And like a child returnes vnto his dust His body and his limbs his eyes his head All in round formes are made and fashioned The roots the fruits the flowers and the Trees All in a round conformity agrees Our drinking healths run round with nimble quicknes Vntill at last to many healths brings sicknes VVhen store of money to mens hands doe come They say they haue receiu'd a good round summe And when a man doth take a Knaue vp soundly 'T is said he told him of his faults most roundly The Hang-man hangs a Traytor or a Thiefe And is about his businesse round and briefe Round are the dishes where we put our meate Our Cups wherein we drinke are round compleat Round is our Butter round our Cheeses are Round are the cloathes which on our backs we weare Beasts fowles and fish that euery where abound Are for the most part euery where made round Round are all wedding Rings implying still Mens cares runne round like horses in a Mill. Thus hauing plainely shew'd why and wherefore I am made round now to my taske once more About my circle I a Poesie haue The Title God vnto the King first gaue The circle that encompasseth my face Declares my Soueraignes Title by Gods grace Vpon my other side is POSVI DEVM Whereto is added ADIVTOREM MEVM The which last Poesie Annagrammatiz'd Wisedome admit me power true compriz'd Wisedome at first vpon me did bestowe Such power that for a Shilling I should goe When Wisedome gaue me power I was then A seruant not a Master vnto men Now Power makes me Wisedome force perforce Improper like the Cart before the Horse For in this Age so many friends I finde My power 's before and Wisedome comes behinde He that for me and for my kin can rake Is wise although a Coxcomb for my sake He that wants me shall be esteem'd an Asse Although he be as wise as e're man was For there 's such league one in Triplicity Sworne firme betwixt the Deuill the world and I That those who to the one true seruants bee Are captiue bondslaues vnto all the three Great sway vpon the earth to vs is giuen For well we know we ne're shall come in heau'n And all that in vs take delight and mirth Their onely heau'n is here vpon the earth And couetous they are not in this case Because they couet for no better place So much for that now to my shape againe You see my face is
beardlesse smooth and plaine Because my Soueraigne was a child 't is knowne When as he did put on the English Crowne But had my stamp beene bearded as with haire Long before this is had beene worne out bare For why with me the vnthrifts euery day With my face downewards do at shoue-boord play That had I had a beard you my suppose Th 'had worne it off as they haue done my nose Yet doth my bare face sometimes now and than Make a young beardlesse Boy outface a man For any Boy and I doe both agree To outface any man that doth want me A crosse I beare vpon my other side A glorious figure of true Christian pride And with that crosse I any man can crosse From wrong to iniury from harme to losse And in me is such working powerfulnesse That those that haue me and both crosse and blesse The English and French Armes the Lyons flowres Shewes Fraunce a subiect once to Englands powres And when my Master did respire his breath His sisters Mary and Elizabeth Ordain'd new Twelue-pences with me to ioyne But altred not my badge vpon my Coyne Except a little which King Philip did Which Queene Elizabeth did soone forbid But since the comming of my Soueraigne Iames The Badge vpon my back more worth proclaimes And to mixe state with truth truth with delight Vpon the armes I carie thus I write Vpon the Kings Armes THree Lyons Passant borne by former Kings Subdues the Harp quarters the flowers of France Fourth Lyon Rampant equall honour brings Though hauing power to warre doth peace aduance Vnited in great Iames this Royall stile King of great Britaine Fraunce and Irelands Ile Thus Readers hauing printed for your reading My birth my rising my estate and breeding My Badge my face my Crosse my Annagram How mighty in my great command I am Now will I tell some trauels I haue had And humors of my Masters good and bad Some as I can remember I 'le recite Should I name all 't were almost infinite ONE ask'd the Cinnick wise Athenian The cause why siluer look'd so pale and wan He in reply was quick and answer'd straite Because so many for it lay in waite And did men thinke in what diuersity Of fashions men for me in waite doe lye They would agree together in a tale That I had reason to looke wan and pale I haue of Treason bin made Instrument To betray Kingdomes and to circumuent To vndermine and to subuert the states Of Empires and of mighty Potentates I haue caus'd murder cruell Homicide Foule Fratricide vnnaturall Paricide For which a curse doth vnto me remaine A Runnagate and Vagabond like Caine. And though that God in thund'ring Maiestie For bad man to haue any Gods but he Yet many thousands that commaund forget Not minding God their mindes on me they set To purchase me men haue forsworne and sworne And from the Booke of life their names haue torne For me the Sabaoth is prophan'd with workes Of Christians labours worse then Iewes or Turkes For me those Parents that haue nurst and bred Their Children by them are dishonoured For to haue me to endlesse ioy or woe Some children care not where their Fathers goe I with the deu'ls sole helpe my sole partaker Haue bin an vniuersall Cuckold-maker For where nor wit or beauty could come in In any shape I could admittance win I make the Husband sometimes keepe the dore The whil'st for me his wife doth play the whore And many times to moue all hell to laughter I made a Mother Bawde vnto her daughter I forc'd a Virgine cast off continence And Chastity and put on Impudence I made a reuerend Iudge to take a Bribe I made a Scribe a forged Name subscribe I caus'd a Miser sell his soule to hell Because I here on Earth with him should dwell And eighteene yeares he kept me day and night Lock'd in a Chest not seeing any light And though my lot was thus a Slaue to be Yet was he a farre worser Slaue to me For he had vow'd himselfe to death to pine Rather then spend one penny pot of wine Although he late had swallow'd downe his throat Stinking fresh Herrings threescore for a Groat And he did bide this slauish misery On purpose to debarre my liberty At last this poore rich base penurious Knaue Was borne the way of all flesh to his Graue And his braue heire vpon his backe had got A mourning merry sute long look'd I wote He the next day let flie the ill got treasure And I began to see some worldly pleasure From my old Masters Chest I was assum'd To my young Masters Pockets sweet perfum'd ' Ta bawdy house of the last new translation He bare me with him for his recreation There for a maydenhead he plaid a game Where eightscore more before had done the same There did my Master Knaue discharge the score And went and left me with my Mistris Whore I stay'd not in her seruice long for shee Was not two dayes before she set me free For hauing got a Frenchified heate She was prescrib'd a Dyet and a sweat She gaue me to the Surgeon for some Lotion For Vnguents and a gentle working Potion For Plaisters and for Oyntments in a Box And so I left my Mistris with a Pox. The Surgeon me to the Physitian sent From him I to th' Apothecaery went But there I thought that Hell I had beene in And all the Fiends had in his Boxes bin For it appear'd to me that all his drugs Had got the names of the infernall Bugs Zarzaparilla Colloquintida Auxungia Porci Cassia Fistula Egiptiacum Album Camphiratum Blacke Oxicrotium and white Sublimatum But soone my Master freed me from my feare He to the Tauerne went and left me there And whilst I in the Vintners house remain'd Some knowledge of my Masters state I gain'd Let no man say that drunke my selfe I showe For what I speake I vnderstand and knowe I 'le shew some discommodities that waite For the most part on euery Vintners state First if a rowe of houses stand together All of one bignesse form'd no oddes in either If one of them be to a Vintner let Amongst the rest at double rent 't is set Next if French Wine be twenty pounds the Tonne But a poore penny in a quart is wonne Besides he sometimes in the Caske doth finde Of Lees sixe Gallons for a Lagge behinde And more when in the Celler it is laid The Carmen and Wine-Porters must be paid And by misfortune if the Caske be weake Three or foure Gallons in the ground may leake Or taking vent it may grow dead and flat And then the Vintner little gets by that And if he be a fellow of free hart He now and then must giue a pint or quart His Candles night and day are burning still Within his Seller lest his Wines should spill And if two Kennell-rakers chance to come
loue lost twixt them and mee VVe keepe asunder and so best agree They that doe loue me best beyond Sea dwell For there I am like to a soule in hell From whence there 's no returning and so I In the Low Countries or in Germanie If they doe get me once vpon their shore 'T is ten to one I ne're see England more I haue seru'd Cut-purses and high-way Fellowes And I haue brought ten thousand to the Gallowes Were he the arrantst Thiefe that euer ' twang'd For my loue he would venture to be hang'd Some Scriueners and some Post Knights it appeares For louing me too much haue lost their eares There 's many a reuerend Bawde rode in a Cart For bearing vnto me a louing hart There 's many a sweet-fac'd Punk hath bin perplext Whip'd and behinde her back much grieu'd vext Some of my Masters would take paines to haue me And like to Barbars wash clip poll and shaue me In this I onely differ from a Whore We both haue wicked followers great store The Whore they may kisse clip and coll and strip Me they may safely kisse but neuer clip And now and then like immitating Apes With Brasse Tin Iron they 'd counterfeit my shapes They lou'd me more then honesty requires But commonly the Hangman payes their hires Thus though I be but of a small account I haue had power to make my Masters mount And some againe by their owne bad endeuour I haue had power to sinke them downe for euer To some I am in comming showe as Lead But quicke as Quick siluer againe soone fled Suppose that any mischiefe that could be Had lately bin by th' onely meanes of me As casting good men into great distresse T' vndoe the Widdow and the Fatherlesse A long delaide sure longer to prolong Or hang'd a guiltlesse man that did no wrong Corrupted a chaste Mayd intic'd a Wife To folly and to loath her Husbands life If I had bin the meanes to worke all this Or ten times more such actions of amisse Yet doe I looke as white as Innocence And neuer blush at the most vile offence Nay more there 's none will for my faults refraine me But euery one will straitway entertaine me If treason through my means be thought or wrought I neuer am vnto my triall brought For I haue had the triall touch before And am so knowne I shall be tride no more For though I be in ill chiefe formost Actor No man suspects me for a malefactor And if there be one man that wlll reueale me There are at least ten thousand will conceale me Indeed I was a Pagan borne at first And since in Christendome I haue beene nurst So they might haue me to encrease their pelfe Many are turn'd worse Pagans then my selfe For I no God or diety did know To whom I should my loue and seruice show But they forsake their God whom they know well And make a God of me an Infidell So though I be but of a Heathen state I am no base Apostate Reprobate Looke on the hearbs the flow'rs the fruits the Trees Fowles of the ayre the painefull lab'ring Bees And aske their Owners why they breed and spring His answere is they must him money bring Note but the toyling Plow-man he is sowing He 's hedging ditching raking reaping mowing Goes to bed late and rises before day And all to haue my company hee 'll say For me with dagled Gownes and duty ham'd The Hall at Westminster i th' Tearme is cram'd Such writing running sweating interceading Remouing Causes Pleading Counter-pleading Aske the cause why the answere true will be Their wrangling and their strife is all for me Looke in the Towne how folkes throng to and fro So thicke one cannot for another goe And how the Shops with Wares are furnish'd out How euery one stares pryes and gapes about Demaund the reason all will answere make They watch and waite cause they would money take I know not why my reputation 's such But still my credit hath beene wondrous much I am more willing taken now and then Then a seal'd Bond of any Aldermen For by long proofe the Prouerbe true doth say That ready money euer will away I am no worse then I haue beene of old When thrice my worth for me was bought and sold For I could once haue paide a quarters rent For a small Garden and a Tenement And that for me of Barly Wheat or Rye Three times as much as now a man might buy The cause why now I not so much attaine Is that I am not lighter halfe a graine But that through greedinesse and hatefull pride I still am ill imployde and worse applide For though the world be in a tott'ring state Yet am I constant alwayes at one rate Let house land cloathes food high or lower rise I am in value alwayes at one sise Raise the price vp or let it fall downe lowe A shilling is but Twelue pence all men knowe I am the same I was 't is onely men Haue lost the consciences they harbour'd then I might as they might vse me be a blessing And they make me the cause of their transgressing Some to obtaine me into mischiefe runne And some to spend me haue destruction wonne There 's many a Master where I vs'd to dwell That tooke delight with me to purchase hell And all the vicious wayes they ranne aside They made the deuill and I their onely guide Perhaps their Fathers went to hell to haue me And their mad heires runne the same way to leaue me The whilst a haire-braind'd needy crew beset me And gallop to the deu'll amayne to get me Thus vilely how to get and keepe and spend me Three quarters of the world doe still attend me I haue made Mariages in many a place Where hath bin neither beauty wit or grace All 's one for that I am of that high price I can make vice seeme vertue vertue vice I am of that great power and high command In ioyning house to house and land to land That where one hath a dwelling to abide One hundred knowes not where their heads to hide And as one may three hundred Tenants haue Fiue hundred knowes not where to haue a graue For though from Earth man hath originall And to the Earth from whence he came doth fall Though he be Earth and can claime nought but earth As the fraile portion due vnto his birth Yet many thousands that the earth doth breed Haue no place certaine where to lodge or feed In which respect mens pleasures are behinde The Birds and Beasts for they contentment finde With the prouision that dame Nature giues Free without money euery Creature liues Their foode attire their Caues dens holes and nests They haue and hold as their owne interests And man that hath a reasonable soule Whose reason countermaunds each beast and fowle Within whose face a Maiestie is seated Beyond all Creatures that were
Iosephus doth of Dauids Tombe thus write How th'hidden Treasure there was infinite The Basons Candlestickes and Censors all Lampes Organs Instruments most Musicall Ports Altar Tables Hindges the Gates to holde They were all made of pure Refined Golde Besides 600. Shields and Targets more The King causde all with Golde bee plated o're Besides the Richnes of his Royall Throne The like whereof elsewhere was neuer none When the Great Macedonian did subdue Darius and his haples Persian Crew 'T is said his Treasure did so much abound Twenty nine thousand Tallents there was found And more he faith if we may Credit this How that in Susa and Persepolis They found of Siluer to Encrease their store One hundred seauenty thousand Talents more When Cirus Conquer'd Cressus Cressus lost Three hundred Millions of good Golde almost 'T is writ that Midas Treasure so amounted Innumerable not to be Accounted Sardanapalus an Assirian King Neere eight score Millions to the Fire did bring VVhere Fifteene dayes did burne his house and pelfe His whores and 'mongst the rest his wretched selfe And Plutarch faith Marke Anthony spent cleare Of Golde full Sixe score Millions in one yeare VVhat should I speake of Cleopatraes Treasures Or wealth or Triumphs of the Roman Caesars Or what they were whose riches haue bin such Or who they are that now possesse too much But here 's the question seeing times of old Did yeeld such store of siluer and of gold And seeing daily more and more is found Digg'd in abundance from the solide ground I muse which way the deuill all is gone That I and thousand thousands can haue none I know my selfe as able to abuse it As any man that knowes well how to vse it But sure I neuer should my Master make it But as my seruant take it and forsake it I haue described in particular What Twelue-pence is how it hath trauell'd far How to all ages Sexes Trades and Arts It comes and goes it tarries and departs I could tell further how it doth command In pressing men to serue by sea or land How Bakers thirteene penny loaues doe giue All for a shilling and thriue well and liue How it a pottle of good Clarret buyes How 't is a quart of rich Canaries prise How for a thousand things 't is daily ranging And is so round a summe it needes no changing How vp and downe the world he still doth firrit And takes no more rest then an ayery spirit Then at the last my Muse to minde doth call The mighty power of money in generall And how all ages still haue had good store Musing the cause my selfe can haue no more And Money hauing writ all this for thee Shew not thy selfe ingratefull vnto mee But as I know thou canst so preethee grant That when I want thou wilt supply my want Reward thy Poet that doth set thee forth I 'le loue thee still according to thy worth FINIS No maÌ„ daâ—â— confesse hâ—â— whole lifeâ— actions as twelue-penâ—â— doth * Where the best mettaâ—â— doe grow Earth is nâ—â— barren whâ—â— is an Embâ—â— that they tâ—â— hoord or hâ—â— money barren of fruits of goâ—â—ness * Purchase * Polidore Virgil. Meâ—â—es might â—e the first â—â—uenter of â—oyne in Eâ—â—pt yet not â—f a Twelue-pence but I â—â—inke money â—as in â—â—ains time I am sure â—â—at Abraâ—am bought â— field for buâ—â—all with â—oney * A small piece of Spâ—â—nish Coyneâ—â— sixe of them to an Engliâ—â— penny * Souldiers â—â—â—â—ng tâ—eir 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will to 〈◊〉 * A brasse piece of Bohemians coynâ— twelue of them to a penny The Anatomy of twelue-pence or a shilling Fiue Shillings weighâ—â— an ounce * In Engliâ—â— I haue put â—â— placed Gâ—â— my helpeâ—â— * Annagraâ—â— of the Latâ—â— Motto of Posui plaâ—â—â—into Englisâ— words Wâ—â—dom admâ—â— me Power * The Annagram turn'd â—â—ckward â—isedome â—â—â—es behind â—â—â—ey * King Edw. aâ—s crowned 〈◊〉 nine yeares 〈◊〉 aâ—â— and â—â—ed before 〈◊〉 was 6. * Edw. shâ—â—lings for tâ—â— most part are used aâ— shooue-borâ—â— * Vpon tâ—â— Crosse of a Twelue-pence * Heere I meane geâ—â—ally of mâ—ney and simply of twelue pâ—â— * K. Edâ—â— Q. Marâ— Qu. Eâ—â— K 〈◊〉 all their â—â—â—lings of weight 〈◊〉 and before my 〈◊〉 pence * 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 â—iogenes Twelueâ—â—â— is at â—â—â—â— * On monâ—◠〈◊〉 or the 〈◊〉 of this 〈◊〉 true on 〈◊〉 owne â—â—â—wledge 〈◊〉 if a â—â—â—wer be 〈◊〉 so good â—â—â—an yet â—â—ry paltry 〈◊〉 will 〈◊〉 fill 〈◊〉 Wine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all 〈◊〉 Masters 〈◊〉 Twelue 〈◊〉 not in 〈◊〉 as they 〈◊〉 degree 〈◊〉 calling 〈◊〉 as hee â—â—â—â—iled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 good 〈◊〉 bad poore 〈◊〉 rich â—â—â—â—out any 〈◊〉 Heare are a strange galâ—â—mawfrey of Twelue-pences Masteâ—â— honest men and Knaâ—â—â— like hearbâ—â— and weedeâ— in a Hotchâ—potch * Poets and money are iâ— emulation * 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 * 〈◊〉 first and aâ—ongst Paâ—ans and â—â—eathen All men â—â—bour for â—â—ney buâ—â— with alâ—â— deuotion * Ready â—â—ney is as 〈◊〉 as any mâ—â—â—â— Bond. â—â—â—â—â—â—ng is â—â—nstant â—â—â—â—â—nce â—â—â— I speake â—â—ally of â—â—â—ey 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * And twâ—â— games more * False ' Di◠〈◊〉 shilling â—â—â—o Puritan 〈◊〉 all this â—peake not â—â—ainst hoâ—â—â—t mirth â—â—ndly Gaâ—â—ng nor good cheere but against the unlawfull use of these Recreâ—â—tions and abuse of Goâ—â— Ioshua 7. 2. Kings 5. Acts 5. Kings 10. 7. Purcas Chron. 22. A Tallent of Golde is in â—alue 600 â—rownes â—oseph in the â—â—â— Booke of â—is Antiquiâ—ies a And 〈◊〉 the Captanâ—â— 5000. Talents and 10000. peâ—â—ces of Gold and 1000 â— talents of Siâ—â—uer besidâ—â— Brasse and Iron b Quintâ—â— Curtius c 2 Citties in Persia. d About 60. Millions of Crownes e A King of Phrigia f A most Licentious Prince g Of Crownâ—â— which was pay 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Moneâ—â—