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city_n	john_n	knight_n	william_n	14,754	5	9.0210	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02622	Time is a turne-coate. Or Englands three-fold metamorphosis VVherin is acted the pensiue mans epilogomena, to Londons late lamentable heroicall comi-tragedie. Also a panegyricall pageant-speech or idylion pronounced to the citie of London, vpon the entrance of her long expected comfort. Written by Iohn Hanson.	Hanson, John, fl. 1604.	1604 (1604)	STC 12750; ESTC S118582	34,101	89

TIME Is a Turne-Coate OR Englands three-fold Metamorphosis Wherin is acted the Pensiue mans Epilogomena to Londons late lamentable Heroicall Comi-Tragedie ALSO A Panegyricall Pageant-speech or Idylion pronounced to the Citie of London vpon the entrance of her long expected Comfort Qui color ater erat nunc est contrarius atro Written by IOHN HANSON LONDON Printed for I. H. and are to be sold at the signe of the Bible in Paules Church-yard 1604. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR THOMAS BENNET KNIGHT LORD MAIOR OF the famous Citie of London the right Worshipfull Sir William Romley and Sir Thomas Midleton Knights and Sheriffes of the same Citie increase of honor and euer-flourishing felicitie RIGHT Honorable and right Worshipfull I haue long expected that some men of greater experience and grauer iudgment then my self ere this should haue bent their studies to cōgratulate your prosperous designements with their learned Labours not onely in this regard that it hath seemed gracious in the eyes of Heauen to turne the time of destruction into mirth and exhilaration to dispell the cloudes of desolation from the splendant Sun of this Citie and to seale vp the iawes of that starued Tyger rauening and ranging too and fro with insatiate appetite to gormandize indefinitely without partialitie but also in respect of the proceedings in your general functions and callings therein manifesting your ardent zeale to the Church and Commonwealth in the reformation of some particular and monstrous enormities nurced and fostred vp in the same Citie wounding the hearts of many with the sting of Securitie who thereby fall into a Lethargie of their owne ruination they being naturally like the Basilisk who by stinging a man prouoketh him to conclude his destruction with the period of a sweet sleepe which to discusse vpon more amply were but to light a torch when the Sunne boasteth in his vertical point or to multiplie leaues to a greene tree But perceiuing the turne of Times euent to fall out opposite to my expectation and a time of respiration exhibited vnto me by sacred Prouidence for Deus nobis haec otiafecit I though most vnfit not so much in regard of my litle scholership and reading as in respect of my iuuenilitie and lesse experience though Assiduè discens plurima fiam senex haue thought it not impertinent to my dutie as also consonant to your dignities to cast this poore mite of feruent affection and congratulation into the rich treasurie of your honorable and worshipfull Patronage being inforced hereupon to vse the meanes of that poore man who hauing neither gold nor iewels presented both his hands full of running water to Artaxerxes And the rather for that I behold many presidents and pregnant demonstrations of a flourishing Spring-tide of happinesse substituted to your predomination and gouernment in the constituting of necessarie and requisite lawes for the supplanting and depopulating of vice and being constituted are strictly obserued and executed by your importunate industrie which as Caesar saith is Fortunae Imperator and vrgeth an assent vltra vires rationis leading this citie as peaceable Conductors or as Theodosius did Rome to a fruitfull Autumne For Archidamus being asked what made the Lacedaemonian kingdome to flourish answered First the lawes and next the Magistrates obseruing the Lawes and Aristotle saith that Magistratus est custos legis also Xenophon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Non differt bonus Princeps à patre bono Whereupon may be inferred that Magistrates as Patres patriae ought seriously and with iudiciall precaution not onely to prescribe ordinances tending to the generall benefite of a citie or commonwealth but also to be respectiue as the father tendreth the successiue fortune of his child with care and vigilancie that they foreslow not their progression in the performance of their due execution for Non decet principem virum totam noctem dormire cui populi gubernacula commissasunt à cuius cura pendent ingentia rerum momenta But lest any man should obiect against me that I pretend by a kind of aemulation and blandiloquence to adorne your merits like a Barbarian image as Alexander was by Midius or on the contrarie to taxe me of calumniation with this inueterate Axiome In medio tutissimus ibis which two proue the Canker-worms of a flourishing countrie for Diogenes the Cynicke being asked what kind of beasts are most deuouring he answered that of tame beasts the Flatterer and of wild beasts the Back-biter therefore so to abandon the first as not culpable of the last I will cleaue to the golden Medium breaking off that discourse and cease to discusse vpon such a Theame And now to returne to my old taske I humbly intreate your fauourable entertainment to these my vnpolished lines being hewed out and squared by one of the meanest of Appolloes Artificers And I the more seriously desire it for that I am deeply resolued they shal find a sufficient shelter vnder the wings of your Honorable and Worshipfull names and Patronage as vnder the receptacle of a strong fortified Testudo against the yelping chaps of those snarling Zoylists qui potiùs pro consuetudine quàm proferocitate latrant barking more for custome then curstnesse who by disgorging their mud-mixed censures vpon the studious essayes of particulars for Apollo nullos habet inimicos nisi nimbos do resolue with themselues by that meanes to win a purchase of a laureall applause and to erect an eternall monument of reputation to themselues vpon the disgraces of other mens indeauours but thereby prouing culpable to thēselues of their owne ignorance and ripping vp the bowels of their imperfections and grosse fatuities in the calumniating of ingenious enterprises and by bringing backe with impudent arrogance those stolne sparkes which they snatched frō Appolloes sacred flames whereby the moistned muddie motions of their brains are enforced to euaporate in a smoothering heate do appeare to the world to surpasse in immanitie the Anthropophagi or Canibals who though they gormandize on other mens flesh yet will not deuoure themselues Thus hoping that these vnlettered lines shal passe without disturbance vnder the couert of your worthie protections I humbly intreat your Honor and Worships to admit this poore pittance into your rich banquetting-house of acceptation and tolleration with no lesse willing mind then by course of affectionate congratulation it is presented vnto your hands which if it may find free accesse I will turne my sequele essayes with the turne of ensuing Time more deepely to conuerse with the Muses thereby to bring foorth a further manifestation of my ardent affection towards your worthie personages In the meane time Heauens prosper your worthie proceedings London 26. of March 1604. Your Honor and Worships humbly deuoted John Hanson The Author and his Booke Book HElpe helpe alas else am I quite vndone O shroud me close from sight of these blacke feends Who wound with Scorpions stings I cannot shunne Alas for ayde some ayde sweet gentle friends Aut. Why how now