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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

Booke what newes what dost thou dreame Or art thou quite distract of sense bereaued Or do thy Thoughts discusse on dolefull Theame Bo. Yea sure I dream'd yet not by Dreames deceiued For in my Dreame me thought thou badst me post Through euery Countrie Citie farre and neare To take my lodging with each erabbed Host And beare the lash of each lend Censurer Aut. Why so thou must then run no time delay Stand not amaz'd at euery carping braine And if thou meetst a Cynicke by the way If he looke grim looke sterne on him againe But if graue Cato chance to meete with thee And deigne on thine his Iudgement to suspend Do thou him reuerence low with cap and knee Tell him for learn'd aduice to him I send Book What if proud Argas meet me in the street Who robs Apollo of that sacred Fire Which kindleth ardent rage in his cold sprite And driues his muddie-frost-bit-Braine t' aspire He 'le turne me ore and tosse me in his snare Chopping my Subiect in his snarling chaps And in his turning turne my coate threed-bare Within the pocket of his threed-bare stops Aut. What that staru'd hungrie catch-pole-paper knaue Who ne're durst looke harsh Horace in the face That stealing-Sense that Sentence-snatching slaue Who feeds on fragments scraped from each place What he that doth his Braines a begging send For some ragg'd Theame to comment on at large Catching a puddle-wharfe-Discourse by th' end Chaunts it like whore-house tales in westerne Barge Who he that still his Sun-burnt Sense inclines To turne his state till faine to turne his purse And teares his huing from lasciuious lines Turnes Good to Naught and Naught doth turne to worse What he whose Wit the whore and strumpet plaies Got great with child by Latines two or three And then cries out for midwife neuer staies Deliuerd of some monstrous Bastardie Turne him off to the whipping-post of Time Tell him his loathsome stinking breath infects thee Then turne his chaps to chop some rascall Rime To chew some hobling doggrell Balladrie But if he sweares he 'le turne thy coate with spight And turne thee leafe by leafe and line by line Bid him go turne his nap-lesse coate by night Who turnes his coate more oft then thou turn'st thine Book But he that on his Sattins seates his Thought Sinking to hell betweene his Dockesies armes Will turne his Fore-top sweare by heau'n t' is nought As though that oath coniur'd like Magicke charmes Aut. Turne that word Naught downe to his heart againe From whence that viprous terme forc't free accesse Where caues of vgly venim'd Snakes remaine There let naught sting his soule without redresse Book Yet will Carnalitie the vsuring Atheist The Murtherer the immane Sodomite The Cruell man and terr ene Sensualist Turne are my leaues and teare them in despite Turne backe with scorne my wholesome Counsell giu'n Turning me off my graue aduice expell Aut. Then turne them vp into the hands of Heau'n who 'le turne them downe into the chaps of hell Now get thee hence post on with turning Rime Turning thy sense to all thy selfe to paine And turne thy hap to euery turne of Time Though to thy selfe returnes the smallest gaine Vade ambula volens iusta R. B. De Argumento huius Libri encomium EN tibi depingit Diuúm benè gesta Libellus Funcra Magnatum lugubria Fota virorum Sicvolat ipsa dies velox vt semita Phoebi Ore vorat tacito fallitq volubilis aetas Tabida depellit cunctus incorpore morbos Instruit exemplis inopem detorquet aegrum Vis prudens fieri sis foelix temporis ipse Filius vt renouat varios aduertito motus Augescunt aliae gentes aliae minuuntur Mortenigra breuner mutantur saecla animantum Et quasicursores vitarum Lampada tradunt Fulmine diuino trepidat sic mundus iniquue Libri Authoris Encomium COgitur iste Liber mel tanquam floribus horte Musaico nitidis splendens lectisque coronis Tempore sis foelix foelix Genio quoque tempus Lauriferas laudes sapiens cantabit Apollo Tempure confulges insusus Palladis arte Tu quia Pernassimontes renouasque ruinas Tempore virescis brumali tempore flores Nectare perlautus hauslisq Aganyppidis vndis Tempore frendit Aper ringitq Lupus Leo rugit Tu tamen in mundo vt splendet lucebis Eóus Tempora temporibus transuertis tabida firmis Foelici viridis decoret te tempore laurus T. G. To the iudiciall Reader I write not of victorious Hanniball Of Romes old murthered sons nor Pompeys fall Of valiant Hector nor Achilles shield Burning Vesuvius nor th' Elysian field Nor of huge arme-strong Hercul's Iôle Of lone-sicke Attis nor beauteous Danaë To whom she prison'd in a mured Tower Old Saturnes sonne rain'd downe the siluer shower Nor of Ioues conquering heire nor Pryaps bed Nor of the sports of wanton Ganimed But of that Faire the fairest of Earths Faire To whom in troupes supernall Nymphs repaire A shining Diamond a radiant Bright Which in earths Center yeeldeth clearest Light A precious Pearle cleare as Aurora's Sun Whose hote-reflecting beames will not be done A glorious Starre to Heau'n and Earth combin'd The brightest Gemme that ere in Albion shin'd Of heighth of depth of earth of heau'n of hell Of vgly monsters shapes that do excell Ofioy of wo of horror mirth and feare Of restlesse Motions whirl'd about the Sphare And turn'd circumferent with Typhonian Time Thus Time hath task't me to a turning Rime Two ardent Passions kindled by Desire VVithin my breast at once began t' aspire Griefe bad me write but Ioy straight answerd nay Ioy bad me sing then Griefe aduis'd me stay Griefe waxed pale while Ioy more sterne did show Ioy sprightly stood Griefe scorn'd the ouerthrow Thus Ioy and Griefe striuing with aduerse spite Twixt Griefe and Ioy I fram'd my pen to write For turne-coate Time perforce directs my quill To vrge it sing consorting to his will But sith my Muse wants that Heroicke spirit In stately straines to eternize their merit Proiects her selfe to grauer Iudgements sight Catching swift-winged Time on instant flight If smooth-toung'd Caliop these lines peruse The want of Age doth want of Art excuse My head 's ingirt with iuie not with baies Ordain'd for deeper wits that merit praise Friendly scan all yet scandalize me not VVith the detracting Toung of euery Sot If well then censure well if ill dispraise it Yet would I know if he be wise that sayes it Nec Momum nec Mimum metuo TIME Is a Turne-coate OR Englands threefold Metamorphosis Post tristia Leta Panàite Pierides vestro sacra ostia vati YE foule-fac'd Furies which the Stygian keepe Ye grizly Feends of the Cymmerian deepe Ye hel-hounds droupe and howle in sulphur'd caues Stand ye amaz'd grim Plutoes damned slaues Rise vp from torride lakes and gaze afarre Loe Earth presents to Heau'n a glistering Starre Ye Powers diuine which in the heau'nsare fixed Ye Spirits that with the