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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42225	Guzman, Hinde, and Hannam outstript being a discovery of the whole art, mistery and antiquity of theeves and theeving, with their statutes, laws, customs and practises, together with many new and unheard of cheats and trepannings.; Desordenada codicia de los bienes agenos. English	García, Carlos, doctor.; W. M. (William Melvin)	1657 (1657)	Wing G211; ESTC R23341	63,892	284

to injoy their Mistresses and mine to get out of the harbour by the cheating trickes that I put upon them it seem'd to us the longest day of all the yeare Every time the clocke struck they despaired fearing to misse the telling of the houres as these do who hope for a thing that they earnestly desire and after this care they were in anextacie considering what they would do in the possession of their loves as if they had alreadie verily past the night and overcome the difficulty This doubting and hammering of theirs served me well to my purpose that they might not perceive the gulleries that I put upon them and the smoake that I sold them Whereby I finde that those who paint Love blinde have great good reason for them because that if they not bin so they would have perceived all my promises to be nothing but winde and that the meanes which I propounded to them were for no other end but to gull them * ⁎ * CHAP. X. In which he proceedeth to relate his invention begun with some discourses of Love between the Governour of the house and this Gallie-slave THenight being come which be a day for me inlightning the heaven with infinite numbers of starres so bright and resplendent that they dazeled the light of the day and filled my soule with joy when my honest Governour enters the Gallie brave Gallant and clothed with the best apparell that he had because that amongst other directions that I had given as well to him as to his Master the chiefe was that they should be fine brave as being a thing most requisite and necessarie for Magick skill and having saluted me with close embracements he said to me friend that thou maist know that I can doe what I will at the Captaines hands and that I want not goodwill to help thee thou shalt know that through my intreatie he gives thee leave to leave off thy chaine for this night and it may be for ever that thou maist walke with greater libertie and performe thy businesse and what is necessarie for it and though the Captaine made some difficultie I dealt so earnestly that I obtained this favour in earnest of that which I desire to do for thee I who then was more knavish and more dissembled then soolish fellinto some suspition imagining that this liberalitie offered ere it was desired was fained and but only to try me wherfore I answered him Sir I thanke you for the care you have had of me obtaining of my Master that he will take off my chaine a favour which I would kindly accept if it were possible but it is not because I must not change the estate that I am in nor one point of that which is of my estate it being necessarie that he who shall make this tryall must make in the same estate apparell that he is accustomed to weare and so I may not goe but in mine owne clothes with the chaine because otherwise we shall do nothing The Governour was not a little contented with my answer being assured that there was in me no kinde of deceite nor malice but the pure and simple truth pittying me beleeved assuredly that there was more passion in my words then Iustice he embraced me the second time saying friend God who is wont to give the salve according to the wound hath brought thee to this Gallie that by it thou mightst come to the knowledge of my Master and enjoy the speciall favours which thou shouldst promise to thy selfe from his liberalitie if the businesse fall out well How well answered I him hath the Captaine any suspition that I would deceive him No by the world answer'd the Governour seeing that though thou wouldst doe it thou couldst not but it is the great desire that we both have to soften the hardnesse of these she-Tygers and to turne them to our love that makes us thinke that impossible which is easie for thee to doe and this is usuall amongst Lovers I never was one answer'd I and though I should be more in love then was Narcissus I should never perswade my selfe that day were night that oxen flie and other fantasticall imaginations that haunt Lovers which rather may be called follies and idle thoughts then love-passions It well appeareth that his darts have not strucke thee saith the Governour for if thou hadst tried them thou wouldst not have spoken with so great freedome and so little trouble Know friend that Physitians ranke this disease amongst Melancholike passions into which the diseased falleth beleeving that which is not and framing a thousand phantasies and visions which have no other ground but their perverse and corrupt imagination which workes the same effect in Lovers giving them an impression of jealouse to an other of disdaine to an other of favour making a mountaine of nothing all which is bred of a burning desire which they have to possesse that which they love But to be willing to perswade this unto him who hath not tried it is to desire to draw water with a sive and to weigh the earth I am no Doctor Master Governour I answer'd him nor yet Batcehler because being left yong friendlesse and poore I lived also without knowledge having only foure words of Latin Neverthelesse by the use of reason well knowen of all sciences I understood the smal reason that Lovers have to be so oft troubled upon so small occasion as they are troubled because of necessitie their affections tend to two points to wit that the woman must be good or evil faithfull or disloyall If she be good faithfull answerable to your affection in mutuall love it is a great follie to be jealous over her if she be unfaithfull and known for such a one there needs no other counsel but not to trust her nor love her Whence may be cōcluded that all the accidents to which you say lovers are subject are the overflowings of follie and wants of wit it being a notable extravagancie to love one that hateth this being supposed that hatred cannot be the subject of love nor love of hatred seeing we ordinarily love them that bind us thereto by their love If it went by experience saith the Governor thou wilt lose thy cause because usually they hate these that love them best taking the sight of a dying man for the occasion of their hate and it is a voice in them now a dayes turned into a nature to shun those that follow them and to abhorre those who adore them as the Captaine and I have hitherto made a long and unhappy tryall Thinke not so Master Governour I answer'd that you have made a good conclusion for if you will have the patience to heare me I will make you see clearely in what your arguments faile and know that love ceaseth not to love nor hatred to hate there being no law of nature and he that foster'd you in this philosophy hath fed you with bad milke because that Love

be compared than to the depriving of libertie seeing it bringeth man to such extremitie that he abhorreth himselfe his being his ranke and his estate He knoweth well this truth which I write who hath sometimes beene in prison laded with chaines and with irons subject to the rage of that terrible abode cursing though Noble and well borne his being his condition and Noblenesse grieving to be that which he is and wishing to be a great deale meaner In midst of which despaire hee envieth the peaceable condition and tranquillity of the Commons and could wish to have beene borne of the most base dregs of the people He curseth his actions and his studies the points of honour which his parents taught him the vnderstanding which he hath thinking with himselfe that if he were a privat man he should not at all see himselfe in so miserable and so extreame a perplexitie and that this would not be litle enough for him if despaire left him amongst the folke of that same sort and nature but it goeth on refining and consuming him in the fire of impatience in such sort that it draweth him out of his reasonable being and bringeth him to that of a brute beast and to the most base and infinite kindes of them that groaning for libertie he envieth the bird that flieth the Dog that barketh the Pismire that travelleth and desireth to be one of them And the venome of this fierce beast stayeth not there for tying harder the cords of a poore prisoner it draweth him out of the ranke and file of living creatures making him desire to be a tree an image or a stone bringing him to nothing and making him bewaile that ever hee was borne in the world By which it is clearely seene that the want of liberty making so unhappy a change in man as to throw him headlong from the highest most perfect of his inclination and appetite to the basest and lowest and from the image and likenesse of God to nothing this is the most strong and most rigorous paine that can be imagined and that which truely doth better represent the essential paine of Hell To the accidentall paine doe correspond the innumerable afflictions and calamities which follow the depriving of libertie amongst which are the stinke of the prison the disorderly frame of the buildings the defamed companie the continuall and huge lewd voices the diversitie of nations the differing humors the shame the persecution the disgrace the mocquerie the crueltie the blowes the torments the poverty and the miseries without number which are suffered in prison of the which and of other depriving of libertie the lively patterne of Hell is framed and composed As touching the executioners and officers no man will deny but that all the earth is full of incarnat Divells more obstinate and more accursed in their kinde than those of Hell the most part of them being fallen as Lucifer and his followers from the Heaven of honour I will say that for the deserving and sinnes which they have committed the Angell Saint Michael who is the Iustice hath drawne them from the fellowship and dwelling of the good and they seeing themselves beaten downe and dishonoured have taken vpon them the office of Divels to avenge themselves of the poore innocent soules running day night thorow the streets markets and publike places of the Citie smelling out and searching for people to lay them in prison And these are they who commonly are called Sergeants who drag a poore man to prison with such rage and tyrannie as these in the perpetuall Hell could not utter more And if we be able to find any difference betweene them it is this that the Divells of Hell fly from the signe of the Crosse but those of the prison love reverence and adore that happy signe in such sort that hee who would deale well with them and somewhat turne their rigour into a litle pitie it is necessarie that hee have alwayes the Crosse in his hands for at what time hee shall leave it they will torment him ten times more than his sinne can deserve but they having met with him they say a Pater noster for the soule which they take untill they come to da nobis hodie and they goe not at all any further These Divells are those who walke commonly through the streetes and places of the Citie seeking for soules in the most secret corners the multitude and trade of whom is so great that I doe not thinke there are more Legions of Divels in Hell than there be Sergeants in the Common-wealth Amongst them there be some that goe on horsebacke who have charge to travell into the Countrey unto places farre remote from the Citie and to bring men into prison from places most solitarie and quiet These for that they being of a more haughtie nature than the others we may call Orientalls from the Region of fire and these are called Archers or Messengers the Legion or companie of whom hath for their Chieftaine or Captaine a great Divell whom they call Provest There are other Divels in this Hell the inferiors of the aforenamed who goe ordinarily by tens or twenties in a companie disguised and masked to spie if they can catch one poore soule by treacherie they are so cowardly so effeminate and dastardly that they meete sometimes to the number of fortie and all to take one man and yet they dare not adventure to take him their selves alone without the assistance and aide of a Divell with a long gown who vsually accompanieth them They goe alwayes atter'd torne and naked and this is the lowest and most infinite Legion of all as the Hob-goblins vnder ground whom the people have beene accustomed to call Apparitors Every Legion of these Divells have an infinite number of halfe-divells who goe disguised and covered through the Citie Spanish apparitors what sort of people taking notice of all that is done there with great subtiltie and craft They take and change every day a thousand formes and shapes shewing themselves in every companie in a severall manner at one occasion going like countrey-men in an other like strangers by by of one profession and by and by of another These are they who with great sleight and subtiltie discover the price after the same manner as the lying dogs doe the partridges bringing the aforesaid Divels to the proper place of the soule which they would take and pointing it out as with the finger and these we call Spies and amongst them they are called Recorders There be other Divels who are esteemed more noble and more courteous whose office is to repeale penalties commissions requests to baile a soule and to take the burthen on themselves answering for it every time that the Iudge asketh for it And though it be in their keeping they give it alwayes time and place to solicite its owne affaires to visite its Iudges and to pleade its cause vsing with it some pitie and friendship

Finally they have a nature mingled with goodnesse and malice and they are betweene Divels and Angels whom by reason of the familiaritie which they have with man wee may call them Airie Divells and these the common people call doore-keepers All these aforesaid divels others whom I leave to mention for avoiding prolixitie are found in the world every one of whom goeth severall waies leading soules into the Hell of prison all of them after the manner of evil spirits are divided into divers Legions and troopes Yet notwithstanding they torment not the soules because they enter not into Hell themselves onely they deliver them to Lucifers Lievetenant the Iayler returne incontinent vnto their walke for to give up their account to their Captaine of the tentations which they have practized that day and of the number of soules which they have carried that day to prison every one of them reckoning up the inventions wiles which he hath practized in his hellish Office There be also other divells which never go out of the prisō nor have any other imployment but to torment the poore soules which enter in thither And those are so tyrannous so cruel so wicked that they satisfie not their inraged hunger but by sucking the bloud the life of the poore captive that fals among their hands albeit they suffer him to breath so long while they have emptied his purse And these be the under porters servants of the Iayler who as a Prefident of that dreadfull dwelling receives the prisonner from the hands of the Sergeant and writes in his booke the day of his entring his accusation his name and the name of that Divell that hath taken him These shut-up Divells have no power nor authoritie to torment a soule which the others do bring in nor these others to take them but by the command of Iustice declared by some honourable Officer who with reason and truth by a signed writing chargeth these uncleane spirits to take such a soule As for the rest it may well be proved that every Sergeant hath power to leade a man to prison even so as every Divell may beare a soule to Hell seeing that there ordinarily entreth thither an infinite number of prisoners and every one imprisoned by his severall Iudge some answer before a Iudge with a long gown others before one with a short gown without reckoning many other officers of Iustice who as good Angels have authoritie and power to exercise it who have their appointed and praticular Divels who execute their commandment and will As touching the diversitie of the lodgings and places of their abode the curious shall see many differing in the prison every one fitted for the prisoners delight For hee who is not criminall and who is Noble is usually lodged in the lightsomest chambers and neatest contrived but understand that the Noblenesse of a prison consisteth in a good purse Those that be of a meaner qualitie deserving are fitted in certain darke black chambers where smoke and cinders continually bearesway The prison hath yet this property of Hel to take in all sort of sinners criminals being usually peopled and full of Theeves Ruffians Cut-purses Panders Whoores Murtherers Perjured men Bankrupts Cheaters Usurers Sorcerers in as great varietie as the living creatures that entered into Noahs Arke so that entry is not denied nor the gate shut against any Of this remarkeable variety the confused multitude of a prison is composed with a thousād other circumstances which accompanie it which because it is altogether disorderly without bounds Ishal not be able to reduce it to one terme or name nor to give it a definition which Universally comprehendeth all the miseries of this dreadfull dwelling if the curious Reader will not be contented with the Analogie and proportion which it hath with the perpetuall Hell The which being supposed as a thing most proper to a prison we shall be able to describe it by its properties by experience saying that a prison is no other thing but a land of calamitie adwelling of darkenes a habitation of miserie or an eternall horrour inhabited without any kind of order It is a confused Chaos without any distinction it is a bottomles pit of violence which hath nothing that is in its own center it is a tower of Babylon where all speake and none heare it is a medley against nature in which is seene the peace and agreement of two contraries mingling the Noble with the infamous the rich with the poore the civill with the criminall the sinner with the just it is a communaltie with agreement one whole by accident a composition without parts a Religion without orders or Lawes and a body without a head The prison is the grave of Noblenesle the banishment of courtesie the poyson of honour the center of infamie the quintessence of disparagement the hell of good wits the snare of pretences the paradise of cousenage the martyrdome of innocence the cloude of truth the treasure of despaire the fining-pot of friendship the wakener of rage the baite of impatience the mine of treasons a den of Foxes the refuge of vengeance the punishment of force and the headsman of life There he that yesterday was great to day is meane hee that was happy in the City now starveth there he that was richly clad is starke naked he that commanded obeyeth he that had his court full of caroches and rich saddles findeth not now one more to visite him There civilitie is turned into insolence courage to subtiltie shamelesse outfacing into vertue blasphemie into valour flattery into eloquence lyes to truth silence to noise modestie to boldnesse knowledge to ignorance and order to confusion And to end the miserie of that unluckie place I concludein saying that it is a forrest full of wilde beasts in which the one teareth the other eating his heart and drinking his bloud so that no scruple of conscience feare of God suspition of love compassion or other respect whatsoever which can have any shadow of vertue or of goodnesse is able to hinder them There one weepeth and another singeth one prayeth and another blasphemeth one sleepeth another walketh one goeth out another commeth in one is condemned another absolved one payeth another demandeth and frnally one shall hardly finde two of one exercise and will One will be eating in a corner another will pisse behind him and in the middle of them another shall pull off his shirt and strip himselfe starke naked Every one is imployed in his particular exercise they not having any other houre or time appointed for that save their will which being disordered free in its actions produceth them without any let or shame In that which concerneth the sustenance of life there is no order kept there among them because that hunger is their appetite their time of meales alwayes their table the bare board their sawce the nastinesse and filthy stinke and their musicke sneesing and belchings The