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A13415	All the vvorkes of Iohn Taylor the water-poet Beeing sixty and three in number. Collected into one volume by the author: vvith sundry new additions corrected, reuised, and newly imprinted, 1630.; Works	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.; Cockson, Thomas, engraver.	1630 (1630)	STC 23725; ESTC S117734	859,976	638

it vse to procure The Papbian pastime and the Cyprian game The sports of Venus and the acts of shame To breed the heat of Enpids lustfull flame Oft beauty hath faire chastity displac'd But chastity hath beauty euer grac'd For 't is a maxime Those haue euer bin That are most faire without most foule within Too oft hath beauty by disloyalty Branded it selfe with lasting infamy That one fraile creature nobly well descended Proud of her fairenes fouly hath offended And on her house and kindred laid a blot That the dishonor ne'r will be forgot But a faire feature vertuously inclin'd A beauteous outside and a pious mind Such are Gods Images Epitomies And Cabinets of heauens blest treasuries And therefore be thy feature faire or foule Let inward vertues beautifie the soule b Against Pride of our strength Pride of our strength shewes weaknes in our wit Because the Collicke or an Ague sit The rooth-ach or the pricking of a pin Oft lets the strength out and the weaknesse in The Tribe of Dans great glory * Iudges 16. 19. Samsons strength By a weake woman was orethrowne at length And sure there 's many do themselues much wrong In being proud because they are made strong For a great number liuing now there are Can wrastle throw the sledge or pitch the barre That on their backs foure hudred waight can beare And horse-shooes with their fists in sunder teare Yet neuer vse their strength in any thing To serue their God their Country or their King But with outragious acts their liues pursue As if God gaue them strength but as their due As though they like the Gyants could remoue And hurle great mountaines at the head of Ioue Or like Gargantua or Polipheme Or Gogmagog their boystrous fancies dreame That they more wonders by their strength can doe Then Hercules could e're attaine vnto Let those Goliabs that in strength take pride Know that the Lord of Hostes doth them deride And what they are that proudly brag and swell Of strength let any man but note them well If hurt or sickenesse make their strength decay A man shall neuer see such Cowes as they Be'ng strong their minds on God they neuer set In weakenesse iustly he doth them forget Strength thus like headstrong Iades they doe abuse it For want of Reasons bridle how to vse it a Against Pride of our hauing children Pride of our children's vaine our proper stem Must either dye from vs or we from them If our examples of the life we liue Inrich them not more then the gifts we giue If disobedient they despise instruction And will peruersly runne into destruction Much better had it bin we had not bin Begetters of such Imps of shame and sinne Children no duty to such Parents owe Who suffer vice their youth to ouergrow Neglect to teach thy sonne in younger yeeres He shall reiect thee in thy hoary haires The way to make our children vs obay Is that our selues from God runne not astray Such measure to our Maker as we mete T is iust that such we from our children get Th' Apostle Paul exhorteth more and lesse To be all children in maliciousnesse That is to say as children harmeles be So we should from maliciousnes be free Thus Pride of birth apparell wealth strength state And Pride of humane wisedome God doth hate Of knowledge learning beauty children and The Pride of Princes fauour cannot stand And Pride in any thing shall euermore Be bar'd and shut from heau'ns Eternall doore For whosoeuer will beleeue and looke Shall find examples in the sacred hooke That God hath euer 'gainst the proud withstood And that a proud heart neuer came to good He faith Pride is * Toby 4. 13. destruction and agen That Pride is * Toby 4. 13. hatefull before God and men How Prides beginning is from God to fall And of all sinne is the * Toby 4. 13. originall Who taketh hold on Pride in great affliction Shall be o'rethrowne fild with Gods malediction b Eccles 10. Pride was not made for man man hath no part In pride for God * Prouerbes 16. Pro. 29. Eccles. 29 Matt. 23. Luk 1418. Luke 1. Iudith 9. abherreth a proud heart And 't is decreed by the Almighties doome That pride vnto a fearefull fall shall come A person that is prend ne'r pleas'd God yet For how can they please him whom they forget Yet as before I said againe I le say That pride to such a hight is growne this day That many a thousand thousand familie Wer 't not for pride would begge or starue and dye And the most part of them are men of might Who in prides quarrell will both speake and fight I therefore haue no hope to put her downe But Satyre-like to tell her of her owne There is another pride which I must touch It is so bad so base so too too much a Against libellers Most of these Libellers haue an Itching veine of Riming which with much seratching makes scuruy lines so from itch to scratch from scratch to scuruy from scuruy to scabbed they proceed in time with their b●●thing to be termed by knaues and fooles scald Poets Which is if any good mans fortune be To rise to Honourable dignitie Or through infirmity or wilfulnesse Men fall vnhappily into distresse That Libellers doe spirt their wits like froth To raile at Honor and dishonor both These Mungrell whelpes are euer snarling still Hating mens goodnesse glorying in their ill Like blood-hound ●●rs they daily hunt and sent And rime and Iigge on others detriment Supposing it a very vertuous thing To be an arrant Knaue in libelling Forsooth these Screech-owles would be cal'd the wits Whose flashes flye abroad by girds and fits Who doe their mangy Muses magnifie Making their sports of mens calamity But yet for all their hatefull hellith mirth They are the vilest cowards on the earth For there 's not one that doth a libell frame Dares for his eares subscribe to it his name T is a base brutish pride to take a pen And libell on the miseries of men For why all men are mortall weake and fraile And all from what they should be fall and saile And therefore men should in these slip'ry times Bewaile mens miseries and hate their crimes Let him that stands take heed he doth not fall And not reioyce in mens mis-haps at all It is too much for Libellers to meddle To make their Muse a Hangman or a Beadle At mens misfortunes to deride and iest To adde distresse to those that are distrest As I doe hold mens vices to be vile So at their miseries I le neuer smile And in a word left tediousnesse offend A Libelier's a Knaue and there 's an end Thus hauing of Prides various formes related And how of God and good men it is hated I thinke it fit some Lines in praise to write Of Vertues which to Pride are opposite For vice with shew of

yeeres after the cities of York Rochester and Bathe were burnt Hee reigned 18. yeeres 10 moneths and was buried at Feuersham Henry the second An Dom. 1154. THis King vnto the Empresse Maud was Heyre And lawfully obtain'd the Regall Chayre He was couragious and yet most vnchaste Which Vice his other Vertues all defac'd He lou'd faire Rosamond the worlds faire Ros● For which his wife and children turn'd his foes He made his sonne Copartner in his Crowne Who rais'd strong warres to put his Father downe Faire Rosamond at Woodstock by the Queene Was poyson'd in reuengefull iealous spleene In toyle and trouble with his Sonnes and Peere● The King raign'd almost fiue and thirty yeeres Hee neere his death did curse his day of birth Hee curst his Sonnes and sadly le●t the earth Hee at Founteuerard in his Tombe was laid And his Son Richard next the Scepter swa●d Henry the 2. In the 12. yeer of this King an earthqu●●● in Norfolk Suffolk and Eiye that made ●●●●●● shaking the sleeples and ouerthrew men that stood on this feete Nicholas Breakespeare an English man was ●●ope of Rome and was named Adrian the fourth hee gaue ●●● Lord-shippe of Ireland to King Henry Richard Cordelion An. Dom. 1189. THis braue victorious Lyon-hearted Prince The foes of Christ in ●●●y did conuince Whilst at Ierusalem he wan Renowne His Brother Iohn at home vsurp'd his Crowne And as he home return'd his owne to gaine By Austria's Duke the King was Prisoner ●ane His ransome was an hundred thousand pound Which paid in England he againe was crown'd Yet after nine full yeeres and 9. months raigne Hee with a Shot was kild in Aquit●ne His buriall at Founteuerard was thought meet At his dead Fathers second Henries feet Richard the 1. he conquered the kingdome of Cypresse and he tooke from the Infidels the Cities of Acon Ioppa and deliuered them to Christians In his 2. yeere the ●●s of the renowned King Arthur were found at Glastenbury King Richards bowels were buried at Chalne Castle in Aquitane his heart at Roane and his body at Founteuerard King Iohn An. Dom. 1199. IOhn Earle of Morton tooke the regall Seate His state his toyle his pompe his cares all great The French the Welsh the Scotsh all prou'd his foes The Pope King Iohn did from his Crowne depose His Lords rebel'd from France the Dolphin came And Wasted England much with sword and flame And after seuenteene yeeres were full expir'd King Iohn being poysoned to his graue retir'd King Iohn In the 8. yeere many men Women and cattell ● slain● with thunder and many houses burnt and the ●●●● was beaten downe with haile as bigge as goose egges Some say the King was poyson'd by a monke and others ●rite that he died of a surfeit at Newark but his life was full of troubles and after his death he was by base villaines ●●●d and l●●t naked without any thing to couer the corpes hee was buried at Worcester Henry the third An. Dom. 1216. Wars bloody wars the French in England made Strong holds Towns Towres Castles they inuade ●●t afterwards it was K. Henries chance By force perforce to force them backe to France Great discord 'twixt the King and Barons were ●nd factions did the Realme in pieces teare A world of mischiefes did this Land abide And fifty sixe yeeres raign'd the King and dy'd Henry the 3. This King was born at Winchester crowned at Glocester buried at Westminster In the 17. of his reigne on the 8. of Aprill 1233. there were 5 Sonnes in the firmament and the naturall Sun was as red as blood Edward Long-●hanks An. Dom. 1271. THis was a hardy wise Victorious King The Welshmen he did to subiection bring He Scotland wan and brought from thence by fate Their Crowne their Scepter Chaire and Cloth of state That Kingdome with oppression sore he brusde Much tyranny and bloodshed there he vsde When thirty fiue yeeres he the Crowne had kept At Westminster he with his Father slept Edward the 1. In the 13. yeere his sonne Edward was borne at Carnaruan who was the first sonne of any King of England that was Prince of Wales Edward of Carnaruan An. Dom. 1307. THe hard mis-haps that did this King attend The wretched life and lamentable end Which he endur'd the like hath ne'r bin seene Depos'd and poyson'd by his cruell Queene Which when the poyson had no force to kill Another way she wrought her wicked will Into his Fundament a red hot Spit Was thrust which made his Royall heart to split In his 8. yeere such a death that dogges and horses were good food many ate their owne children and old prisoners tore such as were newly committed in pieces and deuoured them halfe liuing The King reigned 19. yeeres 6. moneths Edward the third An. Dom. 1326. IN Peace and warre this King was right good He did reuenge his murdred Fathers blood Hee and the blacke Prince his most valiant Sonne The Field at Cressle and at Poytiers wonne At first and last in his victorious raigne Of French and Scots were six score thousand slaine And more his glory further to aduance He tooke the Kings of Scotland and of France The noble order of the Garter he At Windsor instituted caus'd to be When fifty yeeres this Land had him obaid At Westminster he in his tombe was laid In his 12. yeere he quartered the Armes of England and France as they are at this day Henry Pichard Vintuer in his Moral●y feasted at once Edward King of England Dauid King of Scotland Iohn King of France the King of Cypres the Prince of Wales the Dolphin of France with many other great Personages of Honour and Worship Richard the second An. Dom. 1377. YOng King rash co●sell lawes right neglected The good put downe the bad in State erected The Court with knaues flat'rers here did swarm The Kingdome like a Farme was let to Farme The Commons tost in Armies Routes and throngs And by soule treason would redresse soule wrongs In this Kings raigne began the Ciuill warre Vnnaturally 'twixt Yorke and Lancaster Oppression on oppression breedes Confusion Bad Prologue bad Proceeding bad Conclusion King Richard twenty two yeeres raign'd misse-led Deposed and at Po●●r●s knock'd ith'head This King was Grandchild to Edward the 3. and sonne to the black Prince he was borne at Burdeux in France and was but 11. yeeres old when he was crowned so that all his miserable Calamity may be imputed to him not hauing or not regarding good counsell Henry the fourth An. Dom. 1399. THe Crown wrong got frō the wrong'doing king More griefe then ioy did to King Henry bring France England Scotland Wales arose in Armes And menac'd Henry with most fierce Alarmes Hot Percy Dowglas Mortimer Glendowre At Shrewsbury the King orethrew their power He fourteene yeeres did raigne and then did dye At Canterbury buried he doth lye Henry the 4. Hee began his reigne the 29. of September 1399. and the 14.

poore vndeserued seruant hauing formerly oftent ●●●es presented to your Highnesse many small Pamphlets the best fruits of my leane and sterill inuention and alwaies your Princely affability and beunty did expresse and manifest your Royall and generous disposition and whereas your Gracious Father of euer blessed and famous memory did not onely like and encourage but also more then reward the barren gleanings of my Poeticall inuentions so now I am bold to present vnto your Maiestie this my best and superlatiue part of my last studies I know Royall Sir that mans Pilgrimage here must haue a period and as the Tr●● falls East or West so it rises and He that knowes the heart doth know that I doe not hypocritically take to heart that many numberlesse Blasphemies Curses and Oathes which are carelesly presumptuously and damnably breathed euery day houre and minute against the Almighty and infinite Maiestie of God Sure I am that God takes my part in resisting and writing against these crying crimes and I am perswaded that your Maiestie hath an innated Christian hured of them I likewise know that all good men doe abhorre and detest them and as on the one side I will or would not be a Stoicke or Precisian nor on the other side an Atheist so in the mid-way I haue written this small Treatise to expresse my selfe a Christian and what a Christian in these points should be and though the worke be small and rudely compil'd though I the Author am altogether meritlesse of any good yet is the matter great and so great that it merits the protection of all such as doe acknowledge there is a God Wherefore I humbly beseech your Maiestie to accept and Patronize this poore labour of mine that your powerfull approuement of it may make it passe thorow all your Kingdomes and Territories Cum Priuilegio that children by reading it in their youths may haue an ingrafted hatred of these sinnes that elder people may thereby here formed from them that all in generall may loath and abhorre them that God may be honoured and our soules eternally saued Your Maiesties humble Subiect and seruant IOHN TAYLOR AGAINST CVRSING AND SVVEARING GOD by whose incomprehensible power all things were made of nothing Genesis 1. By whose vnspeakable mercy all true Beleeuers are Redeemed Isay 52 3. By whose Almighty Prouidence all things great and small are conserued Mat. 10. 29. And nothing can passe without it Pro. 16. 33. Whose Name is holy Luke 1. 49. Whose name is a strong Towre to defend the Righteous Pro. 28. 10. And a consuming fire against obstinate impenitent sinners Deut. 4. 24. Who is a jealous and reuenging God Nahum 1. 2. Who filleth Heauen and Earth and seeth all things Ieremie 23. 24. Who is the Lord of Hosts 2 Sem. 6. 17 18. Who hath sworne by Himselfe that to him euery knee shall bow in feare and reuerence of his dreadfull Maiesty Isay 45. 23. Who hath beene so gracious that he hath made Man onely for his owne seruice and so bountifull that he hath made all other Creatures for the seruice of Man who blessed him and gaue him power to blesse in the glorious Name of the Lord of Hosts 2 Sam. 6. 17 18. Who in a fearefull voyce of Thunder did in mount Sinai proclaime his sacred Law and denounced this dreadfull and terrible Iudgement that he would not hold him guiltlesse that takes his name in vaine euen that God hath forbidden vs to curse Exod 20. 7. But to blesse them that Curse vs Rom. 12. 14. Luke 6. 28. Mat. 5.44 Yet neuerthelesse by the temptation of that old and irreconciliable enemy of God and Man by the malice and mischiefe of that old Dragon and subtill Serpent the Deuill Man hath mounted and spred to such a height and bredth these execrable vices of Cursing Swearing and Blaspheming that all estates and conditions high and low great and small oldor young male and female are vniuersally possessed with these impieties and by long custome it is in a manner almost as naturall as eating drinking or sleeping as though there were no God that had forbad these crying crimes or no hell reserued for a punishment of them In this small Treatise I doe not put pose to condemne all sorts of Cursing or Swearing for that were to declare and pronounce my selfe Accursed but my intent is as God pleaseth to enable me to declare how farre these two brethren Curses and Oathes are lawfull or vnlawfull and because I find Cursing to be the most elder and of most antiquity I purpose first to shew as farre as I haue assured warrant my opinion concerning Curses and Execrations Curses and Cursing are deuided into foure seuerall kindes As First From God to Man Secondly From Man to Man Thirdly From Man to himselfe Fourthly From Man to God The first is Iust for God did neuer Curse any Man Family Tribe Kingdome or Nation but there was a iust deseruing of that Curse for Man being altogether sinfull and God infinitely Iust Gods Curse is due and iust for the transgression of Man The Second is vncharitable as when one Man curseth another for all Men that are Christians who haue one and the same Redemption in the blood of Christ●esus who doe in the Lords Prayer call God Our Father are forbidden to Curse and commanded to them that Curse vs. The third is when a man shall Curse himselfe which is more vncharitable for Charity should begin ar home and can that man be thought to wish well to any man that wisheth hurt to himselfe or may it be conceiued that he that is so gracelesse to Curse himselfe hath the grace to pray for another The fourth is when Man doth Curse God which is most damnable for can there be a most execrable sinne then such impious ingratitude that the Creature should Curse the Creator●● that the redeemed should Blaspheme hir Redeemer or that impiety should mount to such a height of impudency as to curse ' the blessed Spirit Of these foure in Order FOr the first God did most iustly Curse our first Parents in Paradise and in all People and Nations being of their of-spring are originally polluted with their transhressions and miserable subiects to the same Curse and doe all generally vndergoe the same punishment which is that the Man shall eate his Bread in sorrow labour and in the sweate of his face all the dayes of his life and that the Womaman shall bring forth her children in paine and sorrow and be subiect to the rule of her husband Genesis 3. Also the same time God Cursed the Earth for the sinne of Adam which Curse was that it should bring forth Thornes and Thistles and without mans great toyle and labour the Earth doth yeeld vs very small sustenance Likewise God did most iustly Curse Kain for murthering his innocent brother Abel● the Curse was that Kain should be a vagabond and a runnagate vpon the face of the Earth and that his labours should be accursed