VRANIA sits at Helme and Pilot is For Thames thou hast the lactea via found Be thou with baies as that with stars is crownd THOMAS DEKKAR A Catalogue of all the seuerall Bookes contained in this VOLVME TAylors Vrania The first part of the troubles and destructions of Ierusalem The second part and finall destruction of Ierusalem by Titus and Vespasian The life and death of the most blessed amongst women The Virgin Mary the mother of our Lord Iesus Christ. Superbiae flagellum or the Whip of Pride Against cursing and swearing The fearefull Summer The Trauels of tweluepence The Armado or Nauy of Ships that saile as well by land as by sea The Begger or the praise of beggers beggery and begging Taylors Goose. Iacke a Lent Taylors pennilesse Pilgrimage or Iourney without money from London to Edenborough in Scotland and backe to London The Acts and exployts of Wood the great Eater in Kent Sir Gregory Nonsence A very merry Wherry voyage from London to Yorke with a paire of Oares A new Discouery by sea with a wherry from London to Salisbury A Kicksie winsie or a Lerry cum Twang Taylors Motto An Epicedium or mournfull death-song for Coriats supposed drowning The eight Wonder of the world or Coriats reuiuing Laugh and be fat Coriats Newes and letter with the Authours paraphrasing verses A Bawd very modest A Whore very honest A Thiefe very â—â—ue A Hangman very necessary The vnnaturall Father Taylors Reuenge against Fenner Fenners Defence A Cast ouer the water to Fenner The Water-mans suite concerning plâ—â—ers Wit and mirth A Dogge of Warre The World runs on wheeles The Nipping or snipping of abuses A briefe of the Chronicle from Brute to this present in Verse A Briefe of the Chronicle from the Norman Conquest to this present A Farewell to the Towre bottles The Marriage of the Princesse Elizabeth A funerall Elegie for King Iames. A funerall Elegy for the Earle of Nottingham A funerall Elegy for the Earle of Holdernesse A funerall Elegy for the Bishop of Winchester A funerall Elegy for the Duke of Richmond and Linox A funerall Elegy for Iohn Moray Esquire The Summe of the Bible in verse The Summe of the Booke of Martyrs in verse Archie his making peace with France The Praise of Hempseed Taylors Pastorall Three weekes and three dayes trauells from London into Germany Taylors Trauell to Bohemia An English mans loue to Bohemia The Dolphins danger and deliuerance The Cormorant Abraue Sea-fight by Captaine Iohn Weddell in the gulfe of Persia. The Sculler Christian admonitions The great O Toole The Churches deliuerances Prince Gâ—ales his welcome from Spaine The praise of cleane linnin These Bookes in number sixty three are heere Bound in one Volume scattred here and there They stand not thus in order in the booke But any man may finde them that will looke TO THE MOST HIGH MOST MIGHTY AND MOST ANCIENT PRODVCER SEDVCER AND ABVSER OF MANKIND THE WORLD MOst Potent and Powerfull Imposture take it not amisse that I a poore worme of your own breeding doe in waie of retribution giue you here the encrease of my Tallent which I haue beene almost 60 yeeres a gathering It was told me that when I first came to visit you that I cri'd and Waw'ld and that when I leaue you I shall sigh and grone and euer since I knew you I haue loued you so well for the good parts I haue seen in you that I could verie willingly be glad to change you for a better I know not what Title to put vpon you you haue as many stiles alreadie as the great Turke with the soldier you are a hard World with the Diuine you are a wicked world with the Lawyer you are a contentious world with the Courtier you are a slipperie world with most men a mad world and with all men a bad world The Diuell your brother and your sister the Flesh hath quite spoiled you of all your good qualities and conditions and worse then that they haue made you blinde that you cannot or will not see your owne faults and you haue blinded all your inhabitants that they can neither feele or perceiue their miseries for which cause I haue made bold to dedicate this Volume to your greatnesse wherein as in a glasse you may view your imperfections Here shall you see all your foure ages now combind in one first This is the Golden age for Gold can doe any thing it can both cleare and bleare the eies of Iustice it can turne Religion into Policie Pietie into periurie and what not Siluer indeed lookes white and white is the colour of Age Ergo the Siluer age which though it run in an inferiour straine to Gold yet it works wonders and without it there is no market kept in Church or Commonwealth for whosoeuer is King Pecunia is Queene The Brazen age is apparant in euerie mans impudencie most men and womens foreheads or our-sides which are their actions doe manifest that they liue in an age of Brasse Lastly the Iron age is palpably present for many soldiers who mainetaine their liues with daily seeking their deaths haue stomacks like Estriches and through want of meanes they eat vp their swords and pistols Amongst all these I haue long time noted your great bountie you haue beene so fauorable to giue some men as much ambition as serued them iustly for the breaking of their necks To some you haue giuen Abundance and you haue made that Abundance beget Auarice and that Auarice to beget destruction some you haue furnished with beautie and that beautie hath confounded chastitie on some you haue suddenly thrown honors and promotions and those you haue loaden with enuie slander continuall perplexities In a word your gifts are so mischieuously mixed as wit with beggerie follie with wealth and the like that I protest I am wearie of you which makes me thus bold to tell you of your iadish tricks You neuer fauored me and therefore I haue no reason to flatter you nor will I flatter you or any man that shall or will doe me fauour I neuer will make my tong like a plaisterers Trowell to dawbe and smooth ouer the vices or villanies of any with Sicophantizing Parasiticall flatterie World all that I craue of thee liuing is a graue when I am dead and although I flatter thee not yet I loue thee not nor haue I any reason for it for to mee thy fawnings haue been frownings thy beneuolence maleuolence the courtesies cares and crosses and thy riches innumerable restlesle perturbations besides when our blessed Sauior was vpon the earth thy estate was so vile and damnable that though he praied for his tormentors and crucifiers yet he onely excluded the World by name out of his praier saying I pray not for the world and can there be any hopes that thou art any better now then thou wert then nay it is to be doubted that thou art rather worse So that if any man will say that he hath occasion to
condemn'd to die and hang And by reprieue hath scap'd that bitter pang Will presently his old acquaintance call And ere he giues God thanks to drinking fall Why drunkards common are as lies or stealing And sober men are scarce like honest dealing When men doe meet the second word that 's spoke Is Where 's good liquour and a pipe of smoake The labouring man that for his hire doth serue Let Landlord tarry wife and children sterue With not a bit of bread within the house Yet hee 'l sit on the Ale-bench and carowse Thus like an Inundation drink doth drowne The Rich the Poore the Courtier and the Clowne Since then to be a drunkard is to be The sincke of Incest and Sodomitry Of Treason swearing fighting beg'ry murder And diuers more I then will goe no furder But here my Satyrs stinging whip I 'le waste In lashing dropsie drunkards out of taste How then can it be possible that such Who sell Wine Beere or Ale doe gaine so much Should punish drunkards as the Law commands In whose vaine spending their most gaining stands It were all one as if a Mercer did To weare Silke Veluet Cloth of Gold forbid And Victlers may as wisely punish those I rom whom their daily drinks great gettings growes I would haue all old drunkards to consent To put a Bill vp to the Parlament That those by quaffing that haue spent their wealth Consum'd their times their memory their health And by excessiue spending now are bare That Merchants Brewers Vintners should prepare Some Hospitals to keepe them in their age And cloath and feed them from fierce famines rage For euery one whose hard vnlucky lots Haue beene to be vndone by empting pots I hold it fit that those the pots that filde Should contribute those Almes houses to build Yet one obiection would this bill debarre Too many drunkards there already are And rather then this law would bate their store I feare 't would make them twise as many more For why to drink most men would be too bold Because they would haue pensions being old And men of purpose to this vice would fall To be true beads-men to this hospitall Then let it be as it already is But yet I hold it not to be amisse Those Drinke-sellers from office to exclude And so for that my Satyr doth conclude I could rippe vp a Catalogue of things Which thousand thousands to damnation flings But all my paines at last would be but idle It is not man can mens Affections bridle Sinne cannot be put downe with inke and paper No more then Sol is lightned with a Taper To Mistresse Rose Anagramma SORE SOund Rose though Sore thy Anagram doth meane Mistake it not it meanes no sore vncleane But it alludes vnto the lofty skie To which thy vertue shall both Sore and flye To my approued good friend M r. ROBARTE CVDDNER Anagramma Record and be true MY thoughts Record and their account is true I scarce haue better friends aliue then you A nest of Epigrams Fortune 1. T Is Fortunos glory to keepe Poets poore And crauâ— weake witted Idiots with her store And t is concluded in the wisest schooles The blinded drab shall euer fauour fooles Epigram 2. Loue. LOue is a dying life a liuing death A vapor shadow bubble and a breath An idle bable and a paltry toy Whose greatest Patron is a blinded boy But pardon loue my iudgement is vniust For what I spake of loue I meant of lust Epigram 3. Death THose that scape fortune th'extremes of loue Vnto their longest homes by death are droue Where Caesars Kaesars Subiects Abiects must Be all alike consum'd to durt and dust Death endeth all our cares or cares encrease It sends vs vnto lasting paine or peace Epigram 4. Fame VVHen Fortune Loue and Death their tasks haue doon Fame makes our liues through many ages run For be our liuing actions good or ill Fame keepes a record of our doings still By Fame Great Iulius Caesar euer liues And Fame infamous life to Nero giues Epigram 5. Time ALL making marring neuer turning Time To all that is is period and is prime Time weares out Fortune Loue and Death Fame And makes the world forget her proper name Thâ—â—'s nothing that so long on earth can last But in conclusion Time will lay it wast Epigram 6. Ka mee kae thee MY Muse hath vow'd reuenge shall haue her swindge To catch a Parrat in the Woodcocks sprindge Epigram 7. Solus THe land yeelds many Poets were I gone The water sure I durst besworne had none Epigram 8. Selfe-conceit SOme Poets are whose high pitcht lofty straines Are past the reach of euery vulgar wight To vnderstand which t will amaze weake braines So mysticall sophisticall they write No maruell others vnderstand them not For they scarce vnderstand themselues I wot Epigram 9. A couple ONe read my booke and said it wanted wit I wonder if he meant himselfe or it Of both if both two fooles were met I troe That wanted wit and euery foole doth so Epigram 10. Bacchus and Apollo THe thigh-borne bastard of the thundring Ioue WheÌ„ mens inuentioÌ„s are of wit most hollow He with his spitefull iuice their sprites doth mooue Vnto th' harmonious musicke of Apollo And in a word I would haue all men know it He must drinke wine that means to be a Poet. Epigram 11. Of translation I Vnderstand or knowe no forraigne tongue But their translations I doe much admire Much art much paines much study doth belong And at the least regard should be their hyre But yet I would the French had held together And kept their pox and not translate them hether Epigram 12. Natures counterfeite WHen Adam was in Paradise first plac'd An dw th the rule of mortal things was grac'd Then roses pinkes and fragrant gilliflowres Adornd deckd forth Edens blessed bowâ—es But now each Gill weares flowres each Punk hath pinks And roses garnish Gallants shooes me thinks When rugged Winter robs fairy Floraes treasure Puncks can haue pinks and roses at their pleasure Epigram 13. The deuill take bribery A Man attach't for murdering of a man Vnto the for-man of his Iury sent Two score angels begging what he can He would his conscience straine law to preuent That his offences Iudge might iudge no further But make manslaughter of his wilfull murther The verdict was manslaughter to the Iudge The Iudge demanded how it could be so The for-man said his conscience much did grudge But forty angels did perswade him no. Well quoth the Iudge this case shall murther be If halfe those angels not appeare to me Thus when the law men to confusion driues The godlesse angels will preserue their liues Epigram 14. The deuill is a knaue I Shell dislikes the surplusse and the cope And calls them idle vestments of the Pope And mistresse Mande would goe to Church full faine But that the corner cap makes her refraine And Madam Idle is offended deepe The Preacher speakes
you stand In duty for your liues and honours bound To him for by him haue you beene renown'd Yet Death that 's common vnto euery one Should be intolerable vnto none And therefore let his noble spirit rest Amidst those ioyes which cannot be exprest Let those that liue his goodnesse imitate And yeeld vnto the course of mortall fate FINIS A FVNERALL ELEGIE IN THE SACRED MEMORY OF THE Right Reuerend Right Honourable and Learned Father in GOD LANCELOT Lord Bishop of VVinchester Deane of his Maiesties Chappell Prelate of the Right Honourable Order of the Garter and one of the Lords of his Maiestices most Honourable Priuie COVNCELL Who departed this life at his house in Southwarke on Munday the 25 th of September last 1626 and was Honourably Interred in Saint Sauiours Church in Southwarke the XI of Nouember TO THE WORSHIPFVLL AND RELIGIOVS GENTLE man M r. Iohn Parker Citizen of London and of the worshipfull Societie of Marchant-Taylors Right Worthy Sir IN these ingratefull daies of ours wherein mens merits are forgotten with the expiration of the life and that too many doe glory to leaue happy or vnhappy posterities behinde them to â—â—â— their memories liue when they are gone or else put a vaine hope of a long lasting same by eâ—â—â—cting painted vaine-glorious Sepulchers and marble Monuments whilst small are theâ—â—â— ber of those that by Piety Charity Noble and vertuous Actions and good life and conuersation â—â— seeke to attaine the neuer-fading memory of Eternity and true lmmortality so that it is a doubt whâ—ther the death of the good or the life of the bad are most to be lamented Yet although the true worthâ—â— this deceased Right Reuerend Right Honourable and right Learned Father whom God in merry â—â— taken from the euill to come is of that inuincible and impregenable strength that the flattery or battle of future time cannot beat it downe into the gulfe of obliuion and forget fulnesse yet though weâ—â— lesse I in dutious loue and reuerence to the Dead and true in affection to the liuing amongst whom â—â—â—â— of my departed Lords Friends and Seruants I am much endeared and oblieged vnto I haue set â—â— rudely to paper and as I could though not as I should I haue as it were onley look'd into the Suiâ—â—â—â— of a goodly City tasted Manna afarre off and touched the skirts or hem of his meritorious vertues whâ—â— I have made bold to dedicate to your Worships graue and iudicious view and censure humbly desirâ— your VVorship to accept my intention more then my Labour in hope whereof I cease to enlarge my Eâ—â—â— further wishing you such happinesse in this life as is correspondent to your worth and such felicity in â—â— life to come as is layd vp for good men in Heauen Your Worships to command IOHN TAYLOR A Silly Taper or a Candles light Are vaine additious to make Sol more bright â—â—â— can one little water-drop augment The mighty bounds of Neptunes continent The raging Winds that threaten sea and shore â—â—â— one mans breath is not increas'd the more â—â—â— or can a handfull of vnstable sand â—â—yse mounts of earth or amplifie the land â—â—â— that am the meanest man of men â—â—rane wanting learning meaner for the pen â—th glimering raper or a drop of raine â—â—not increase the light inlarge the maine â—â—â— any way in sitting tearmes set foth â—ght Reuerend Winchester Admired worth â—â—â—all the learned Poets of these dayes â—â—ght write and speake in his deserued prayse â—â—â— spend their inke and paper and their spirits â—â—â—â—add no fame or honour ot his merits â—â—â—as pute snow shewes whiter to the eye â—â—â—â—hen cole-black Crowes or swarty Rauens are by â—â—â—as the darknesse makes light seeme more cleare â—â—â—will his Vertues in my lines appeare â—â—â—speake his passage in this vale of strife London he had being first and life â—hose Parents as became their reputation â—â—â—bring him vp in worthy education â—â—â— Prem brooke Hall in Cambridge witnesse will â—hereas his noble memory liues still â—passing on in this his morall race â—â—ne'd by grace from higher place to place â—â—â—to the Deanery of Westminster â—â—â—to this Bishopricke of Chichester â—â— Iames did next to Elye him preferre â—ich learned Prince made him his Almoner â—â—â— by Gods prouidence nor his desire â—â—â—to Winchester translated higher â—â—â—of the Royall Chappell and beside Garters Prelate he was dignifide â—â—â—gracious Iames did in his wisedome see â—â—â— worthy Lords vpright integrity â—hom all loyall vertues were innate â—â—â—â—him a priuy Councellour of State â—â—â—his honours still did higher grow â— minde in meeke humillity was low â—â—â—like a blessed Samuel was he â—yned from his infancy to be â—iant souldier of Christs faithfull Campe â—in God Church a learn'd illustrious Lamp â—â—â—â—at the lord to Abraham did say From thy Country and thy Kin away â—â—â—from thy Fathers house I charge thee goe â—â—â—Lord that I to thee will showe â—is right reuerend Lord was from his youth â—â—â—from the world to Gods eternall truth â—being one in Heau ' ns high businesse sent â—igh in this world yet from the world he went For though the world is as 't is vnderstood Mans natiue Country as he 's flesh and blood Yet is his worldly part a prison foule Wherein in bondage lyes his purer soule Which soule is heauenly makes heauen her aime And here she 's in the World not of the same So this deceased Subiect of my muse He liu'd and grieu'd to see the worldsabuse And like a â—eremy â—â— had â—â—â—ments He sigh'd and greu'd bewaynng the euents Which haue and doe and dad â—â— are like Vpon this woefull age of ours to strike He saw and grieu'd a what all men should grieue How goodnesse small reipect could here achieue And how the chiefest good that men doe craue Is pompe and wealth and rich appreil braue How man will for his body haue good food Good fire good cloathes good house and lodging good And all the care's how these goods may be had And few men cared though their soules be bad Thus the sraile World in pous â—â—â— Strooke in his Christian heart griefes deepe impression That all that worldly was he quite â—orgor And vs'd the World as if hee vs'd itâ— oâ— Hee by the Spirit of God perceiued plaine That all earthes pompe and glory is but vayne And therefore with a lowly minde and meeke He did Christs righteousnesse kingdome seeke For which euen as our Sauiours word is past His earthly treasures were vppon him cast For still the word of God confirm'd shall be I 'le honour them saith he that honour me His heart was free from an ambitious thought No popular applause of men he sought His pride was godly a true Christian pride To know Christ and to know him crucifide And though fraile men are with vaine toyes intis'd Hee with'd to be disolu'd to be with Christ. His charity was not in out-ward show No Pharisey-like Trumpet ere did blow To make the World applause with
yeares till you are gone And being gone you 'l wealth and honour win Whilst ryot here at home addes sin to sin You God assisting may doe mighty things Make Kings of Captiues and of Captiues Kings Riches and loue those that suruiue shall gaine And Fame and Heauen the Portion of the slaine The wounds and scars more beautifull will make Those that doe weare them for true honours sake Since God then in his loue did preordaine That you should be his Champions to maintaine His quarrell and his causeâ— a fig for foes God being with you how can man oppose Some may obiect Your enemies are store If so your fame and victori'es the more Men doe win honour when they cope with men The Eagle will not tryumph o're a Wren The Lyon with the Mouse will not contend Nor men 'Gainst boyes and women wars will bend But clouds of dust and smoake and bloud and sweat Are the maine meanes that will true honour get Thus to Fames altitude must men aspire By noble actions won through sword and fire By trumpets Clangor drums guns flute of fife For as there is an end to euery life And man well knowes that one day he must end it Let him keep 't well defend and brauely spend it O griefe to see how many stout men lye Halfe rotten in their beds before they dye Some by soule surfets some by odious whoring In misery lye stinking and deploring And e're a lingring death their sad life ends They are most tedious loathsome to their friends Wasting in Physicke which addes woe to griefe That which should yeeld their families reliefe At last when wished death their cares doe cure Their names like to their bodies lye obscure Whereas the Souldier with a Christian brest Wars for his Soueraigues peace and Countries rest He to his Makers will his will inclines And ne're gainst Heauen impatiently repines He to his Sauiour sayes that thou art mine And being thou redeem'st me I am thine That if I liue or dye or dye or liue Blest be thy name whether thou take or giue This resolution pierces heauens high roofe And armes a Souldier more then Cannon proofe Suppose his life ends by some noble wounds His Soule to Heauen from whence it came rebâ—unds Suppose blowne vp with powder vp he flyes Fire his impurity repurifies Suppose a shot pierce through his breast or head He nobly liu'd and nobly he is dead He lyes not bedred stinking nor doth raue Blaspheming against him that should him saue Nor he in Physicke doth consume and spend That which himselfe and others should defend He doth not languish drawing loathsome breath But dyes before his friends doe wish his death And though his earthly part to earth doth passe His fame outweares a Monument of brasse Most worthy Country-men couragious hearts Now is the time now act braue manly parts Remember you are Sonnes vnto such Sires Whose sacred memories the world admires Make your names fearefull to your foes againe Like Talbot to the French or Drake to Spaine Thinke on braue valiant Essex and Mountiâ—y And Sidney that did Englands foes destroy With noble Norris Williams and the Veeres The Grayes the Willing â—biâ—s all peerelesse Peeres And when you thinke what glory they haue won Some worthy actions by you will be done 34. Battels fought in France by Englishmen since the Conquest Henry the sixth Remember Poiâ—tiers Cressy Agincourt With Bullein Turwin Turnyes warlike sport And more our honours higher to aduance Our King of England was crown'd King of France In Paris thus all France we did prouoake T' obey and serue vnder the English yoake In Ireland 18. bloudy fields we fought And that fierce Nation to subiection brought Besides Tyroues rebellion which foule strife Cost England many a pound lost many a life And before we were Scotlands or it ours How often haue we with opposed powers In most vnneighboutly vnfriendly manners With hostile armes displaying bloudy banners With various victories on eyther side Now vp now downe our fortunes haue beene tride What one fight wins the other loosing yeelds In more then sixescore bloudie foughten fields But since that we and they and they and we More neere then brethren now conioyned be Those scattering powers we each gainst other lead Being one knit body to one royall head Then let this Iland East West South and North Ioyntly in these braue warres emblaze out worth And as there was a strife that once befell Twixt men of Iuda and of Israel Contending which should loue King Dauid best And who in him had greatest interest Long may contention onely then be thus Twixt vsand Scotland and twixt them and vs Stil friendly striuing which of vs can be Most true and loyall to his Maiesty This is a strife will please the God of peace And this contending will our loues encrease You hardy Scots remember royall Bruce And what stout Wallace valour did produce The glorious name of Stewards Hamiltons The Erâ—â—kine Mâ—rayes ndâ— he Leuingstons The noble Ramseyes and th' illustrious Hayes The valiant Dowglasses the Grimes and Grayes Great Sir Iames Dowglas a most valiant Knight Lead seauenty battels with victorious fight Not by Lieutenants or by deputation But he in person wan his reputation The Turkes and Sarazens he ouercame Where ending life he purchast end lesse fame And his true noble worth is well deriu'd To worthies of that name that since suruiu'd The praise of Sir Iames Dowglas in the Raigne of King Robert Bruce 1330. In 13. maine battel she ouercame Gods enemies and as last was slaine Then since both Nations did and doe abound With men approu'd and through all lands renown'd Through Europs and through Asia further farre Then is our blest Redeemers Sepulchre Through all the Coasts of tawny Affrica And through the bounds of rich America And as the world our worths acknowledge must Let not our valour sleeping lye and rust â—â— to immortalize our Britaines name Let it from imbers burst into a flame We haue that Land and shape our Elders had Their courages were good can ours be bad Their deeds did manifest their worthy mindes Then how can we degenerate from kindes â—â— former times we were so giuen to warre Witnesse the broyles 'twixt Yorke and Lancaster Hauing no place to sorreigne Foes to goe Amongst our selues we made our selues a Foe Fall threescore yeares with fierce vnkind alarmes Were practis'd fierce vnciuill ciuill armes Whilst fourescore Peeres of the bloud royall dyde With hundred thousands Comâ—oners beside Thus Englishmen to wars did beare good will They would be doing although doing ill And Scotlands Hystorie auoucheth cleare Of many ciuill warres and turmoyles there Rebellion discord rapine and foule spoyle Hath pierc'd the bowels of their Natiue soyle Themselues against themselues Peeres against Peers And kin with kin together by the cares The friend gainst friend each other hath withstood Vnfriendly friends weltering in their bloud Thus we with them and they with vs contending And we our selues
feete And makes them his perfume alongst the streets A fourth hath got a powne'd Pommander box With woorme-wood iuice or sweating of a Fox Rue steep'd in vineger they hold it good To cheere the sences and preserue the blood Whilst Bellets Bonefire-like and faggots dry Are burnt i' th streetes the Aire to purifie Thou great Almightis giue them time and space And purifie them with thy heauenly Grace Make their repentance Incense whose sweet faure May mount vnto thy Throne and gaine thy fâ—ure Thus euery sence that should the heart delight Are Ministers and organs to affright The Citizens doe from the City runne The Countries feares the Citizens doe shunne Both feare the Plague but neither feares one iot The euill wayes which hath the plague begot This is the way this sickenes to preuent Feare to offend more then the punishment All trades are dead or almost out of breath But such as line by sickenesse or by death The Mercers Grocers Silk-men Goldsmiths Dâ—per Are out of Season like noone burning Tapers All functions faile almost through want of buyer And euery art and mysterie turne Dyers The very Water-men giue ouer plying Their rowing tade doth faile they fall to dring Some men there are that râ—â—e by others falls Propheticke Augurists in vrinals Those are right water-men and rowe so well They either land their fares in Heau'n or Hell I neuer knew them yet to make a stay And land at Purgatory by the way The Reason very plainely doth appeare Their patients feele their Pargatory here But this much Reader you must vnderstand They commonly are paid before they land Next vnto him th' Apothecarie thriues By Physicke bills and his preseruatiues Worme-eaten Sextons mighty gaines doe witine And natty Grane-makers great commings in And Cossin-makers are well paid their rent For many a woefull woodden tenement For which the Trunk-makers in Pauls Church-yard A large Reuenue this sad yeere haue shar'd Their liuing Customers for Trunkes were fled They now made chests or Cossins for the dead The Searchers of each corps good gainers be The Bearers haue a profitable fee And last the Dog-killers great gaines abounds For Brayning brawling currs and foisting hounds These are the grane trades that doe get and saue Whose grauity brings many to theit graue Thus grieued Lonaon sit'd with mones and grones Is like a Golgotha of dead mens bones The field where death his bloudy fray doth fight And kild a thousand in a day and night Faire houses that were latee exceeding deare At fifty or an hundred pounds a yeare The Landlords are so pittifull of late They le let them at a quarter of the rate So he that is a mightie moneyed man Let him but thither make what haste he can Let him disburse his gold and siluer heape And purchase London 't is exceeding cheape But if he tarrie but one three months more I hope 't will be as deare as 't was before A Country cottage that but lately went At foure markes or at three pounds yeerely rent A Citizen whose meere necessity Doth force him now into the Country fly Is glad to hire two Chambers of a Carter And pray pay with thankes fiue Pounds a quarter Then here 's the alteration of this yeare The Citties cheapenes makes the Country deare Besides another mischiefe is I see A man dares not besicke although he be Let him complaine but of the sioâ—c or gout The plague hath strooke him presently they doubt My selfe hath beene perplexed now and then With the wind Collick yeeres aboue thrice ten Wh'ch in the Country I drust not repeate Although my pangs gripes paines were great For to be sicke of any kind of griefe Would make a man worse welcome then a thiefe To be drunke sicke which or'st did credit winne Was fear'd infectious and held worse then sinne This made me and a many more beside Their griefes to smother and their paines to hide To tell a mery tale with Visage glad When as the Collick almost made me mad Thus meere dissembling many practis'd then And mid'st of paine seem'd pleasant amongst men For why the smallest sigh or grone or shrieke Would make a man his meat and lodging seeke This was the wretched Londoners hard case Most hardly welcome into any place Whil'st Country people where so'ere they went Would stop their Noses to auoid their sent When as the case did oft most plaine appeare 'T was onely they themselues that stunke with feare Nature was dead or from the Country runne A Father durst not entertaine his Sonne The Mother sees her Daughter and doth feare her Commands her on her blessing not come neere her Affinity nor any kinde of Kinne Or ancient friendship could true welcome winne The Children scarcely would their Parents know Or did if they but slender duty shew Thus feare made nature most vnnaturall Duty vndutifull or very small No friendship or else cold and miserable And generally all vncharitable Nor London Letters little better spod They would not be receiu'd much lesse be read But cast into the fire and burnt with speed As if they had bin Hereticks indeed And late I saw vpon a Sabbath day Some Citizens at Church prepar'd to pray But as they had bin excommunicate The good Church-wardeÌ„s thrust them out the gate Another Country vertue I 'le repeat The peoples charity was growne so great That whatsoeuer Londonor did dye In Church or Church-yard should not buried lye Thus were they scorn'd despised banished Excluded from the Church aliue and dead Aliue their bodies could no harbour haue And dead not be allow'd a Christian Graue Thus was the Countryes kindnesse cold and small No house no Church no Christian buriall Oh thou that on the winged windes dost sit And seest our misery remedy it Althogh we haue deseru'd thy vengeance hot Yet in thy jury Lord consume vs not But in thy mercies sheath thy slaying sword Deliuer vs according to thy word Shut vp thy Quiuer stay thy angry rod That all the world may know thou art our God Oh open wide the gate of thy compassion Assure our soules that thou art câ—â—r Saluation Then all our thoughts words works wee 'le frame To magnifie thy great and glorious Name The wayes of God are intricate no doubt Vnsearchable and passe mans finding out He at his pleasure worketh wond'rous things And in his hand doth hold the hearts of Kings And for the loue which to our King he beares By sickenes he our sinfull Country cleares That he may be a Patrone and a guide Vnto a people purg'd and purifi'd This by a president is manifest When famous late Elizabeth deceast Before our gracious Iames put on the Crowne Gods hand did cut superstuous branches downe Not that they then that were of life bereft Were greater sinners then the number left But that the Plague should then the Kingdome cleare The good to comfort and the bad to feare That as a good King God did vs assure So he
Sword and Flame â—â—d almost all that Kingdome ouer-run â—â—ll where I fought triumphantly I won â—hrough Blood and Death my glory I obtain'd â—â— in the end when all my Acts were done â—â— Sepulcher was all the game I gain'd For though great Kings contend for earthly sway Death binds them to the peace and parts the fray An. Dom. 1272. Nouember Wednesday Edward the first was 35 yeares old when he beganne to reigne but at the death of his Father he was in warres in the Holy Lâ—â—d against the Saracens So that he returned not home till the next yeere a â—time hee was crowned the 14 day of December in the second yeere of his reigne the â—â—â—â—minsâ—ty of â—â—â— Coroâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— performed by Robert Kâ—lwarby Arâ—â—â—â—â—â— of Canterbury at Westminster Thus King brought Wales wholy vnto subsection to the crowne of England he effect â—â—â—â— peace be caused all coâ—â—â—â—tred Iudges and Officers of Note to be must exemplertly pâ—â—nâ—â—ea with sines â—â— priâ—â—men and bantshment A Nauy of 60 English sâ—â—ps ouâ—â—â—ams and tooke 800 ships of France An. 1293. Sir William Wallace A Noble vaâ—â—â—ant Scoâ— aâ—d warrâ— vpon King Edward and in the seruice of his Countrey did much â—â—â—â—â—â— to England The King caâ—â—â— this Sonne Edward being an inâ—â—rt to be the first Prince of Wales that was of toâ— English blood Since when all the Kings of Englands elaest Sonnes are by right Princes of Wales 284 Iewes were executed for â—â—â—ptes of the Kings coyne An 1280. King Edward caused Bayâ—trds Castle to be buils in London now the mansion house of the Right Honourable Earle of Pembâ—â—â—â— In the 15 yeers of this kings reigne Wheate was sold for 3 d the Bâ—sheâ— and the next yeere being 1288 it was sold for 18 d the Bushâ—â— which in those dâ—â—ies was accouÌ„ted a great price but after as long as The King liued the price came to 5â— the Bashell King Edwards Armiâ—â—â—ew 70000 of the Scots in one day as the â—â—ttâ—k of Fauâ—â—rke Sir William Wallace was betrayed taken and brought out of Scotland and executed in Smithfield has head being set on London Bridge and his quarters sent into Scotland yes be is by â—â—â—â—â— men had in Honorable remembrance The warres â—â—â— so set in this Kings reigne betwixt him and the Scots that as â—enerall times there were more then 130000 men slaine on both parts yet amongst all our English Kings that past before him Edward was not inferiour today he was religious valiant victorious wise affable of a comely Maâ—estmall Aspect and proportion he had two wiues the first was Eleanor daughter to Ferdinand the third King of Castile the second was Margaret daughter to Philip surnamed Hardy King of France by them hee had 4 Sonnes and 10 Daughters bee reigned neere 35 yeeres and was burried at Westminster 1307. July 7. EDWARD THE II KING OF ENGLAND LORD OF IRELAND DVKE OF AQVITAINE c. SOone after was my fathers corps inter'd Whilst Fate and Fortune did on me attend And to the Royall Throne I was prefer'd With Aâ—e Ceaser euery knee did bend But all these fickle ioyes did fading end Peirce Gaueston to thee my loue combind My friendship to thee scarce left me a friend But made my Queene Peeres People all vnkind I tortur'd both in body and in mind Was vanquisht by the Scots at Bannocki Rourne And I enfor'cd b flight some safety find Yet taken by my Wife at my returne A red-hot Spit my Bowels through did gore Such misery no slaue endured more Anno Dom. 1307 Iuly 8. Edward the second surnamed Carnaruan â—… cause he was born at Carnaruan Castle is Wales was crowned at Westminster by the hands of William Bishop of Winchester deputy for Robert Archbishop of Canterbury then absent in exile â—â— 24 of February next following He was much â—â—â—â—cted to follow the aduice and counsell of light â—â—â—â— which caused the Nobility to rebel against him â—â—â— at the first he ouercame them and tooke Thomas Earle of Lancaster a Peers of the blood their chief Leader fate in iudgment himself on him at Pomfret where the Earle had iudgment giuen against him to be drawne for is Treason for his murder spoyle burning robberies to be hangd and for his shamefull flying away to be beheaded but because â—â—â— was of the Kings kindred he was only beheaded â—â—â— the last such of the Barons as had escap'd â—â—â— the Mortimers with the helpe of the Queene â—â—â— the yong Prince then come out of France newly tooke the King and imprisoned him neuer â—â—â— kingdome in more â—â—sery then this Kings â—â—â— for his immoderate loue to Peirce Gauâ—â—â—â— a meane Gentleman of France was the cause of the Kings and has owne destruction with the â—â—â— calamity of the â—â—â—â—â— kingdom This Gaueston â—â—â— banished hence by the Kings father was in â—â—â— times exil'd but at his third â—â—â—rne Guy â—â—â— Watwick took him in Warwick Castle â—â—â— his head to be snore off which so inraged the â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—ing King that bee vowed reuenge vpon all â—â—â— Lords others who were the causers of Gauestâ— death in the meane space Robert Bruce King Scots gaue King Edward a mighty ouerâ—â—â— place cal'd Bannocksbourne where the English â—â—â— their confederates Hollanders Brabanders â—â—â— landers Flemings Picards Gascognes â—â—â— mans Poloiners wer in number ooooo â—â—â— foot yet were discomfited with the losse of 5000 â—â—â— the King in great danger to be taken famine foul and pestilence at once afflicted England so that â—â—â— ple did eat one another halfe-aliue and the â—â—â— scarce able to bury the deed The King prepares for reuenge against his Lords for Gaueston â—â—â— Hugh Dispencer from meane estate to be â—â—â— Chamberlaine The King caused 2â— of his â—â—â— suffer death diuers â—â—â—â—â—â— He makes a second â—â—â— against Scotland â—â—â—â— againe with great â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— This was the miserable â—â—â— this King who was deposed the Spencers â—â—â— Edward reign'd 19 years 7 months and 17 days EDWARD THE IIJ KING OF ENGLAND And FRANCE LORD OF IRELAND IN Peace and War my Stars auspicious stood False Fortune stedfast held her wauering wheele I did reuenge my Fathers butcher'd blood I forced France my furious force to feele I warr'd on Scotland with triumphing Steele Afflicting them with slaughtering Sword and Fire That Kingdome then diuided needs must reele Betwixt the Bruces and the Balliols ire Thus daily still my glory mounted higher With black Prince Edward my victorious Sonne Vnto the top of honour wee alpire By manly Princely worthy actions done But all my Triumphs fortunes strength and force Age brought to death death turn'd to a Coarse Anno 1327 Ianuary 25 Saturday Edward the 3 being borne at Windsor being 15 yeers old was crowned by Walter Reignolds Arcbishop of Canterbury â— in his 2 yeere Edward his Father was murthred The Court in those daies was seldome without a vipeÌ„ for as Gaueston was the foreruÌ„ner of the Spencers in ambition rapine pride and confusion So the Spencers were the
triuiall matters 2 The Names of most of the Pagan and Heathenish Idols that haue beene and are honoured at this present 3 The profit and pleasure all Countries haue by Hemp-seed 4 How it propagates the Gospell 5 Nauigation with the Commodities it brings and carries 6 How many Trades and Functions liue by it 7 How when it is worne to ragges it is made into Paper 8 How many liue by it being Paper 9 The sacred memory of Patriarchs Prophets Euangelists Apostles and Fathers 10 The foure Monarchies 11 The seauen Wonders 12 Philosophers Historians Chronographers Poets ancient and moderne the best fort mentioned 13 The Anatomy of a Brownist or precise Amsterdamd Puritane 14 A Voyage in a Paper-boat to Quinborough 15 The description of a Sea-storme 16 The Names of the most famous Riuers in the World 17 The praise of the noble Riuer of Thames A. Preamble Preatrot Preagallop Preauick Preapace or Preface and Proface my Masters if your stomackes serue BOoke goe thy wayes and honest mirth prouoke And spightfull spirits with Melancholy choake â—â—â— I command thee where thou dost resort To be the bad mens terrour good mens sport Netre as thou canst I pray thee doe not misse In make them vnderstand what Hempseed Me thinkes I heare some knauish foolish head Accuse condemne and judge before bee read Saying the fellow that the same hath made It ame bouicke Waterman by trade And therefore it cannot worth reading be Being compil'd by such anoue as he Another spends his censure like Tom ladle Brings in his fine egs soure of which are adle Mewes and makes faces yet scarce knowes what 's what Hemp. seed quoth he what canbe writ of that Thus these deprauing minds their iudgements scatter Eyber against the Writer or the Matter But let them if they please reade this Preamble And they will finde that I haue made a scamble To sâ—ew my pocre plentious want of skill How Hemp-seed doth deserue preserue and kill I muse that neuer any exe'lent wit Of this forgotten subiect yet bath writ The theams is rich although esteemed meane Not scuvrulous prophane nor yet obsceane And such as taske may well become a quill To blaze it that hath all the grounds of skill This worke were no dishonour or abuse To Homer Ouid or to Marots Muse. A thousand Writers for their art renown'd Haue made farrt baser things their studies ground That men haue cause to raile ' gainst fruitlesse Rimes Vainely compil'd in past and present times And say O Hemp-seed how art thou forgotten By many Potts that are dead and rotten I And yet how many will forget the still Till they put on a Tyburne Pickadill The Names of most of such Authors or their Workes as haue writ vpon many poore subiects Erasmus that great Clerke of Rotterdam In praise of Folly many lines did frame The summe and pith of all his whole intents Showes Fooles are guilty and yet Innocents Another briefly barely did relate The naked honour of a bare bald Pate And for there 's not a haire twixt them and heau'n The title of tall men to them is giuen And sure they put their foes in such great dread That none dares touch a haire vpon their head Mountgomerie a fine Scholler did compile The Cherrry and the Sloe in learned stile Homer wrote brauely of the Frog and Rat And Virgil versifi'd vpon a Gnat Ouid set forth the Art of lustfull Loue. Another wrote the Treatise of the Deue. One with the Grashopper doth keepe a rut Another rimes vpon a Hazell Nut. One with a neat Sophisticke Paradoxe Sets sorth the commendations of the Poxe Signout Inamorato's Muse doth sing In honour of his Mistris Gloue or Ring Her Maske her Fanne her Pantosle her Glasse Her Any thing can turne him to an Asse Plinie and Aristotle Write of Bees Some write of Beggeries twenty foure degrees One of the Owle did learnedly endite And brought the Night bird welcome to day-light A second did defend with tooth and nayle The strange contentment men may find in Iayle A third doth the third Richard much commend And all his bloudy actions doth defend A fourth doth shew his wits exceeding quicknesse In praise of Tauerns healths and Drunken sicknesse A fift doth toyle hit Muse quite out of breath Of aduerse Fortune banishment or death A sixt the very Firmament doth harrow Writes of the Parret Popinjay and Sparrow The Storke the Cuckoe Nothing can escape The Horse the Dog asse foxe ferret and the ape Mounsieur de Gallia writes all night till noone Commending highly Tenâ—is or Baloone Anothers Museus high as Luna flies In praise of hoar sursse dropsies and bleare eyes The Gout Sciatica scab'd hams small legs Of thred-bare cloakes a jewes-trump or potch'd egges One all his wit at once in Rime discloses The admirable honour of red noses And how the nose magnificat at doth beare A tincturs that did neuer colour feare One doth her â—icke it throng hout our coast The vertue of muld-facke and ale and toast Another takes great paints with inke and pen Approuing fat men are true honest men Out makes the haâ—â—ig hâ—y vaâ—ty welkin ring In praise of Custards and a bag pudding Another â—theâ—â—â— inke and paper Exalting Dauncing makes his Muse to caper Anothers humour will nothing allow To bee more profitable â—â—â— a Cow Licking his lips in thinking that his theame Is milke cheese butter whay whig curds and creame Leather ana Veale and that which is most chiefe Tripes chitterlings or fresh powder'd beefe A number haue contagiously rehearsed And on Tobacco vpouriz'd and vearsed Maintaining that it was a drug deuine Fit to be seru'd by all the Sisters nine Yet this much of it I shall euer thinke The more men stirre in it the more 't will stinke A learned Knight of much esteeme and worth A pamphlet of a Priuie did set forth Which strong breath'd Ajax was well like'd because T was writ with wit and did deserue applause One wrote the Nightingale and lab'ring Ant. Another of the Flea and th'Elephant Tom Nash a witty pamphlet did endite In praise of Herrings both the red and write And some haue writ of Maggots and of Flies A world of fables fooleriâ—s and lies And this rare Hempsee a that such profit brings To all estates of subiects and of Kings Which rich commoditie of man should lacke He were not worth a shirt vnto his backe And shall is no tryamphant honour haue But lye dead buried in obliuions graue Some Critticks will perhaps my writing tax With falshood and maintaine their shirts are flax To such as those my answer shall be this That Flax the male and Hemp the female is And thier engendring procreatiue seed A thousand thousand helpes for man â—ath breed And as a man by glauncing vp his eye Sees in the aire a stocke of wilde Geese flye And ducks and woodcocks oyboth sexes be Though men doe name but one forbreuity There'eganders 'mongst the geese hens with the