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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04564	The nine worthies of London explayning the honourable exercise of armes, the vertues of the valiant, and the memorable attempts of magnanimious minds. Pleasant for gentlemen, not vnseemely for magistrates, and most profitable for prentises. Compiled by Richard Iohnson.	Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?	1592 (1592)	STC 14686; ESTC S121088	23,709	54

The nine Worthies of London Explayning the honourable exercise of Armes the vertues of the valiant and the memorable attempts of magnanimious minds PLEASANT FOR GENTLEmen not vnseemly for Magistrates and most profitable for Prentises Compiled by Richard Iohnson Imprinted at London by Thomas Orwin for Humfrey Lownes and are to be sold at his shop at the west doore of Paules 1592. To the right Honourable sir William Webbe Knight Lord Maior of the famous Citie of London Richard Iohnson wisheth health with increase of honour BEING not altogether right honorable vnacquainted with the fame of this wel gouerned citie the heade of our English florishing common wealth I thought nothing considering it somewhat touched my dutie could be more acceptable to your Honour then such principles as first grounded the same as well by domesticall policie of peace as forraine excellence in resolution of warre This caused me to collect from our London gardens such especiall flowers that sauoured as well in the wrath of Winter as in the pride of Sommer keeping one equiuolence at all kinde of seasons Flowers of chiualrie right honorable I meane some that haue sucked honie frō the Bee sweetnesse from warre and were possessed in that high place of prudence wherof your Lordship now partaketh Other some that haue beene more inferiour members and yet haue giuen especial ayde to the head beene buckler to the best and therby reached to the aspiring toppe of armes If your Lordship shall but like of it proceeding from the barren braine of a poore apprentice that dare not promise moulhils much lesse mountaines I shall thinke this by-exercise which I vndertooke to expell idlenesse a worke of worth whatsoeuer the gentle cauld kind that are vngently inkindled shall with ostentation inueigh These right Honorable the nine VVorthies of London now vnable to defend themselues seeke their protection vnder your gracious fauour and the Authour pricked on by Fame to be patronagde for his willing labour whereof not misdoubting I humbly commit your Honour to the defence of heauen and the guider of all iust equalitie Your L in all humble dutie to be commaunded Richard Iohnson To the Gentlemen Readers as well Prentices as others AL is not gold Gentlemen that glisters nor all drosse that makes but a darke shew so should copper some time be currant pearles of no price Aesope for all his crutchback had a quick wit Cleanthes though in the night he caried the watertankard yet in the day would dispute with Philosophers A meane man may look vpon a king and a wren build her nest by an Egle. In the games of Olympus any man might trie his strength and when Apelles liued others were not forbid to paint So gentlemen though now a dayes many great Poets flourish from whose eloquent workes you take both pleasure and profite yet I trust inferiours whose pens dare not compare with Apollos shall not bee contemned or put to silence Euery weede hath his vertue studious trauaile though without skill may manifest good will Vouchsafe then intertainment to this new come guest his simple truth shewes he is without deceyte and his plaine speech proues he flatters not He can not beast of Art nor claime the priuiledge of scholasticall cunning what he sayth is not curious being without any great praemeditation or practise more then his necessarie affaires would permit If his vnpollished discourses may merit the least motion of your good liking let the enuious fret and the captious malice melt themselues neither the obiection of Mechanicall by such as are themselues diabolicall whose vicious basenesse in a selfe conceyte presuming aboue the best is in deede but the dregges and refuse of the worst nor the reproch of prouerbiall scoffes as Ne sutor vltra crepidam shall discorage me from proceeding to inuent how further to content you And so trusting to my fortune and ending in my hap neither dispairing of your censures nor fearing what the maleuolent can inflict Yours to commaund as he may Richard Iohnson A Catalogue or briefe Table declaring the names of these worthie men and when they liued First SIr VVilliam VValworth Fishmonger in the time of Richard the second Second Sir Henrie Pitchard Vintener in the time of Edward the third Third Sir VVilliam Seuenoake Grocer in the time of Henrie the fift Fourth Sir Thomas VVhite Marchant-tailer in the time of Queene Marie Fift Sir Iohn Bonham Mercer in the time of Edward the first Sixt. Sir Christopher Croker Vintener in the time of Edward the third Seuenth Sir Iohn Haukwood Marchant-tailer in the time of Edward the third Eight Sir Hugh Cauerley Silke-weauer in the time of Edward the third Ninth Sir Henrie Maleueret Grocer in the time of Henrie the fourth To the Gentlemen Readers GEntlemen being incouraged through your gentle acceptance of my Cynthia I haue once more aduentured on your Curtesies hoping to finde you as I haue done hertofore friendly Being determined to write of somthing yet not resolued of any thing I considered with my selfe if one should write of Loue they will say why euery one writes of Loue if of Vertue why who regards Vertue To be short I could thinke of nothing but either it was common or not at all in request At length I bethought my selfe of a Subiect both new as hauing neuer beene written vpon before and pleasing as I thought because Mans Nature commonly loues to heare that praised with whose pressence hee is most pleased Erasmus the glory of Netherland and the refiner of the Latin Tongue wrote a whole Booke in th● prayse of Folly Then if so excellent a Scholler writ in praise of Vanity why may not I write in praise of that which is profitable There are no two Countreys where Gold is esteemed lesse than in India and more then in England the reason is because the Indians are barbarous and our Nation ciuill I haue giuen Pecunia the title of a Woman Both for the termination of the Word and because as Women are shee is lov'd of men The brauest Voyages in the World haue beene made for Gold for it men haue venterd by Sea to the furthest part of the Earth In the Pursute wherof Englands Nestor and Neptune Haukins and Drake lost their liues Vpon the Deathes of the which two of the first I writ this The Waters were his Winding sheete the Sea was made his Toome Yet for his fame the Ocean Sea was not sufficient roome Of the latter this England his hart his Corps the Waters haue And that which raysd his fame because his grave The Praetorians after the death of Pertinax in the election of a new Emperour more esteemed the money of Iulianus then either the vertue of Seuerus or the Valour of Pessennius Then of what great estimation and account this Lady Pecunia both hath beene in the Worlde and is at this present I leaue to your Iudgement But what speake I so much of her praise in my Epistle that haue commended her so