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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95524	A brown dozen of drunkards: (ali-ass drink-hards) whipt, and shipt to the Isle of Gulls: for their abusing of Mr. Malt the bearded son, and Barley-broth the brainlesse daughter of Sir John Barley-corne. All joco-seriously descanted to our wine-drunk, wrath-drunk, zeale-drunk, staggering times. By one that hath drunk at S. Patricks well.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1648 (1648)	Wing T435; Thomason E451_14; ESTC R203750	18,191	22

Inkcornisme Rombismies Gallymawfreyes and Omnigetherums of English and Latine and some shreds of French too and in his Gibberish in Welsh and Cornish which he would have to go for Greek mixt also together in such a drunken hotch-potch of affected rope Rhetorick as makes him as ridiculous as a jangling Jay or prating Parrot which talks at randome she knowes not nor she cares not what all his discourse as too course for any judicious and solid eare being held onely to keep a fitting Symetry with Sir Simon Simple and Sir Gregory Non-sence such companions as most of our zeale-drunk Plebeians take with them up into most of our usurped Pulpits which they leave as fouly polluted with ignorance and arrogance as Foxes Fowmarts Weasells and Poulcats leave ill smells behind them where ever they come but having enough of this Windybaggs permitting him to fly with the wings of his wits fantastically feathered as an Ole in an evening I make as bold as welcome to descant a brother of his 10. Drunken Phylautus WHo double drunk with selfe-conceit as well as wine he is no sooner a note above Ela in his maultified mentall musick but then especially he conceits all his Geese to be Swans his Capons Cocks his Goats Sheep his Rats Rabbits and his Glow-worms blazing Stars and that he and not that whilom fantastike Parsons nor yet old Oberon is King of the Fayries or faire-eyes the great Duke of Eutopia and the grand Seignior of all that Land within the Orb of the Moone which the Authour of the Lunatick Moon-book Mathematically and Supposititiously describes unto us I must confesse when I observe the strange humours and conceits of his out-weaned worthlesse selfe which the Devill and drink infuseth into this proud drunken foole and note all the addle idle eggs which Bacchus hath in his braine I lesse marvell that a poor silly simple vulgar Mechanick Ideot drunk with meer blind and bewitching zeale and selfe-conceit of his supposititious and imaginary gifts should conceit himselfe to be as legall as able as gifted as called a Preacher as any of the Sons of the Prophets on whom God hath redoubled as the spirit of Elias on Elisha the spirit of preaching and whom the Church hath called to the Function of a Pastor But being as much ashamed that Doctor Carter Carrier Currier Brewer Dunce and Dulman should presume to equallize Doctor Worth Wisdome and Discretion as that Cumanus his Asse should jet it in a Lions skin or that any Midas should as an emblame of a sottish Auditor preferre Pans harsh poore pipe before Apolloes melodious Harp I sound retreat to stand and observe another strange Bacchanalian 11. Drunken Sip-Sobrius A Strange Hermaphrodite who in one houre changeth from drunk to sober as a Raven in few daies changeth from white to black in her hatching nest and as a Hare and Hiena are said in one yeare to change from male to female and as Camerarius in his Historicalls Goulart and Wolfius in their Admiranda instance in many changing Sexes from men to women as the witches in Livonia in the moneths of June and July are said to change from women into wolves so this Sip-Sobrius as though rope-maker-like he went backward and forward as some men and women with their words and works he is in a very trice both drunk and sober what operation the diversified musick of Timotheus had to cause Alexander first to put on his Armour to fight as a Lion then to calme him as mild as a Dove or to turne him to a sad melancholy and then by other strains to be joviall me thinks the same worke hath drink in this Camelionized metamorphosed Mault-worme Peernizing him from drunk to sober sooner then all solid preaching and powerfull oratorious perswafions can work upon the intoxicated braines of a mad Plebeian Enthusiast to turne him from a zeale-drunk self-conceited Teacher to his owne former garb of a sober Tradesman which being almost as impossible as to conjure down a Devill into hell his old Center or to gather the dispersed winds into Aeolus his bag againe I leave him and being bold to straine curtesie with the Clergie as well as the Laity I make up my Browne Dozen with 12. Drunken Clericus or Simplicius THe Countrey Vicar who to his meat must have liquor as well as others even as oft as a Lemman to his fauce as Mr. Howard told Queen Mary when she took away wines from the Clergie yea though many call him Sir Iohn Lack Latine yet with his good will this Senior Immerito will not lack liquids in which humour pace tanti viri I have oft seen I must confesse even learned Latinizing Beuclark himselfe and sometimes Ingenioso a Master of Arts as well as Tripes the prevaricating Sophister or Aristippized Randoll or Iunior and Senior vix Sanior Bachalaurius Baculo non Lauro dignus with many fellowes as right good fellowes in Colledges as Noah was a good Lawyer Butler a good Physitian and Paracelsus a good Chimist and although that Carp-fish that Aristarchus or stark-ass that Tymonist that Misanthropist yea that dogged Cynick if not formall Pharisee that Samet more precise then wise brain-sick Zealist who will not only friske away from the best gifted Preacher as a young Heifer with a tick on her taile out of a fresh pasture leaping over hedges or as a wild Deere or Rascall trips over the mountaines at chop of a Beagle but will shoot his fooles bolts at him that he is a friend to Publicans or Sinners if he see him but semel in anno ridens Apolle raro aut nunquam now and then in an Inne or Tavern though perhaps upon as lawfull an occasion as the Spies had who lodged in Rahabs Inne in Jerico or as Josoph had when he took up his lodging in Bethlem I say such a criticall or hypocriticall censor had need to have either his braines took out and washt with salt and sage or his inwards purg'd from the over-flowings of gall and swellings of the spleen yet neverthelesse as I would have all of Levies Tribe to steere from the rocks of the least offence because a little mote is seen in their eyes a little mire on their coat and that which is drunkennesse saith a Father in others is sacriledge in them so for my part sepe bilem vestri movere tumultus it oft stirres up my passion as well as compassion to see so many excellent good parts pains graces and wits not only washed but as once Noahs for a time drowned in drink at least soiled as Pearls in a quagmire as they tax the finnes of others so the observing vulgars taxing some of them not for legall using but too much abusing both Bacchus Tobacco and all strong liquids in their quiffs and their quasss that they oft drink till there be no wine in their pots wits in their pates nor wealth in their purses in most Climes some ecclipsing and clonding all the best of their shining gifts by the interposition of a lunatick watery Plannet many more commonly then commendably taking their liquors till their liquors take them as the Lobster catch'd the Cat when the Cat thought to catch the Lobster and as the Wasp catch'd the Welsh-man by the nose when her thought to eatch the Wasp by the laps of her yellow Jerkin carousing as freely all sorts of strong liquids whether Derby Ale or Nantwich Whiskings or Bristow Beer or Glocestershire Sydar or Worcestershire Perry or Welch Meath and Metheglin or French Claret or Germane Rennish or sweet Muscadine and Malmsie or Spanish Sack well mixt with sugar as zeale with discretion all quaft as freely as the Turks their Cossa the Graecians their Falern and Vinum Cos the Irish their Aqua vitae and Vsque bangh or the Iesuites in Paris their vinum Sorbonicum Jesuiticum I resolve to tell you the truth as giving you thirteen to the Dozen to Anatomize 13. Drunken Tom Tell-troath TO give you the full or foole of him he is one that either never read or never understood nor regarded Alberius magnus that great All-beard nor Wickerus nor Baptista Porta nor Levinus Lemnius de secretis nor Cardan de occultis nor any writings of hid things and secrets which he no more heeds nor observes to keep then most in this false and sickle age heed or keep faith truth honesty justice credit or conscience which most of them are fled to heaven to complaine of their want of entertainment upon earth Of all others he is unfit to be a Secretary as a woman who for the most part writes Romane hand few of that sex Secretary eversince Fulvia bewrayed the secrets of Cataline Martia of Comodus Dalilah of Sampson or Fabia of her husband Fabius concerning that which Augustus revealed to him of adopting Tyberius to be his successor in the Empire what ever he knows must out at one hole or other were I a King and he as familiar with me as Schoogan with the French King I would make him of my privy rather then of my counsell least he kept it no better then a sive or a riddle keeps water what I would have known or divugled I would tell him he would vent it sooner in his cups then if I told it in a Barbers shop a Milne a Market a Schoole-house amongst boyes a Bake-house amongst wenches or at a Gooseups feast onely commending one good thing in him as once one just act in Cambises I leave him and that is that he never lets any secrets rot in his mouth as a Romane once Apologized to cause him to have a stinking breath But least we hunt him and his fellowes out of breath for their being foxt like Foxes till they stink again giving them a breathing time to repent and to weep if it be but drunken tears in their Dog-sick vomits we reprieve them till the next Sessions where more of their fellowes God willing shall be arraigned with them at Bacchus his Barre and as we find some dozen and a halfe more of them guilty after whipping and stripping they shall have a shipping into Drunkallia or the Isle of Gulls for their too bold and base abusing of Sir John Barly corne and M. Mault his bearded son and M. Barly-broth his brainelesse daughter as in a manner unworthy till they mend their manners to stay or stagger any longer in the Isle of Man FINIS