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A29231	An excellent piece of conceipted poesy, divided into two subjects, A voice from the vault, and An age for apes with other exquisite ayers, and select fancies ... and extracted from the choicest wits of our age.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.	1658 (1658)	Wing B4263; ESTC R12156	147,455	339

induced to prosecute this Argument being a matter of such generall consequence as many Families must suffer while they surfeit and want the staffe of bread while they grow fat with the bread of deceit Neither am I ignorant how many impious ●mps of that Societie make the Royall Exchange their Plotting-Gallerie or State Con●istory where they project ruine to their Creditor and advancement to their seldom-thriving-Successor Nay which ●s worse I have seen in my time one of these Bankrupt Merchants after recovery of their pretended ●reach brave it with su●h insolency as I have wondred how a Christian face could bee so brazed or with such impudence glazed as so soone to forget his sinne or sleight his shame but what will not an habituate custome produce especially where greatnesse becomes a sub●er●uge to guiltinesse It was an ancieat Law among the Persians That whosoever was more ready to receive then requite should suffer death What Censure then should be pronounced on these who receive more then is given them retain more then is due unto them and infringe their faith to such as repose trust in them Violation or breach of faith was so odious and contemptible a thing to Heathen men as they preferred a noble end before so ignoble a brand their reputation was their glory their honour was their prize and their good name that precious odor which perfumed them living and embalm'd them dying When a poore woman complained to Tamberlaine That one of his Souldiers had drunke some of her milke for which hee had not paid he caused the Souldier whom the woman accused to bee brought forth and for this pettie injury to bee ript up that it might appeare whether her accusation were true or false which if it had proved otherwise then shee affirmed h●d been on her selfe inverted by inflicting on this woman the selfe same punishment which was practised on this Delinquent If a Souldier whose prof●ssion is commonly injurie and repine des●●ved so h●avy a Censure for so light and veniall an error what may hee seeme to deserve who professeth all urbanitie liveth in a State famous for civilitie and whose very garbe is a complement of honestie Sure with all reservancy of respect to you before whom I speake I cannot imagine how any Censure can be too rigorous to men of a condition so odious and injurious How much this Speech was approved and silently applaud●d might appeare by the serious attention of the whole H use so as doubtlesse the Bill had past pres●nt y upon the delivery of this Speech had not O●e whose Copyhold this Case concerned boulted upright who pulling a little downe hi● gregorian which was displac't a little by hastie t●king ●ff his Bever sha●pning his peake and erecting his d●stended mouchato's proceeded in this answere not only to avert the force of those object on● already presse● but to divert their intentions towards this Act to the furthering whereof hee saw the House generally inclined It is admirable to note with what prepared facilitie and singular proprietie the tongue can make expression of the minde in any subject which it intends either to dignifie or disgrace so as to use Anacharsis words It had need of a more strong restraint then Nature How violent this Gentleman who spake last hath been in disgracing yea suppressing the ancient company of Breakers you have partly heard and the reasons hee alledged to confirme his discourse which I must ingeniously confesse were both many and weighty so as I perceive by outward appearances that they have left such deepe impression in this honorable Assembly as the prints thereof cannot bee easiliy razed unlesse reasons of equall or more high consequence bee produced to answere those wh●ch have beene already objected First therefore I will lay open unto you what an excellent ground of State-policie relies on the continuance of these broken Merchants whose suppression would bee an occasion of sundry maine inconveniences in the publick State for if prevention bee the life of policie how soone would this life be extinguished if it had no subjects of prevention whereby it might bee exercised If there were no Breakers to circumvent the Merchants needed no policie to prevent which would in time inure them to securitie and make them ignorant in the cautions of preventing policie Yea But it is objected that these Bankrupt Merchants are profest enemies to all civill Commerce Admit this were so yet in some Cases it is as necessarie to have enemies as friends Nasica when the Roman Common-weal was supposed to bee in most secure estate because free of their enemies affirmed That though the Achaians and Carthaginians were both brought under the yoke of bondage yet they were in most danger because none were left whom they might eyther feare for danger or who should keepe them in awe The like course observed Oenomademus in the I le of Chios when hee counselled his fellowes That they should not expell all their enemies but still leave some in the City lest quoth hee being void of all our enemies we should begin to quarrel with our friends Besides if our wealthy Traders should not somtimes encounter with these rubs their much prosperity would make them insolent so as labouring with their owne burden they would become profuse Rioters in the smooth progresse of their fortunes so as I may properly retort the last Speakers words upon himselfe and confidently affi me That these Decayed Merchants are excellent Phlebotomists to purge the ful bodies of such Tradesmen who by continuance of Commerce are grown to●●●ch Telephus when hee could finde none amongst his friends to cure his wound permitted his ●nemy to doe it So hee who purposed to kill Prometheus the Thessalian opened his Imposthume with his Sword this Imposthum'd Member is the rich Tradesman who must be lanced before he can be cured a continued successe in Commerce hath corrupted him prosperitie which best declares what men bee hath transported him so as by all likelyhood hee would hazard the loste of himselfe if hee encountred with no losses to make him feele himselfe the wisedome therefore of the time hath found out an expert Chyrurgeon to lance him and lancing cure him an experienc'd Physician to purge him and purging recover him an exquisite Gardiner to prune him and pruning refine him And would you have such a singular Artist Censured Besides all this reflect on the benefit which redounds to the publick State in their death as well as life for these broken Merchants having raised and inhanced their Fortunes no sooner die then they invest their wives in whatsoever their thriving providence hath scrap'd together who after some extorted teares forc'd with much pumping from the Lymbeck of their eyes plant their affection on some younger brother to whom they make an entayl'd estate of whatsoever was left them by this B eaker Thus like honest men though much against their will they make decayed Gallants their inheritors who sing a requiem for their Soules while they

they doe is for their Country sake And that this expedition will confer Store of estate upon our Ilander Then what rich oare in every cliffe abounds The fishie rivers and faire spacious-grounds That without tillage yeeld them fruit enough Without the help of either Share or plough Besides what commerce will accrue thereby To Albions people and her Seignory Thus our Lot-novices are drawne to th' bait And brought to bite not knowing what deceit Lies shrouded under covert and pretence O country profit Dove-like innocence But heare A prize and that the greatst of all Befall'n a Taylor who upon his stall Scarce could sustaine his wife and family With stealing shreads and other michery And now 's advanc'd by fortune and his Lot To many hundreds and yet knoweth not His better fate till that some friend of his Come to bring tidings of his sodain blisse Where finding him heeling a paire of hose Or such like botcherie He skrues his nose After an upstart Gallant leaves his boord Which many a peece of stolen stuffe can afford Then streight hee claps a peece or two in th' hand O his good Nuncio And thinks what land Where best to purchase for his sunne and heire Whose heritage was lists then do repaire His Bakers with their scroules and call him cosin With Item for so many dozen dozen All undefraid yet much they 'l not importune Because they heare the issue of his fortune Which they admire with knee and vailed head And now this loopehole must be worshipped Whose Stile by letters is engraven thus The Shrine of Sutor Vestiarius And this the Country gull no sooner heares Then he is rapt with hope and therefore beares Some stakes of hazard in this Lottery And hopes in time to hit as prosprously As ere the yard-man did and had no doubt If that he could with lots have holden out Till he had gain'd his purchase but how short He came of that his own eares can report Where all he got so little was his thank For his disbursements was a Paper-blank And yet O hope how strong an Oratour Art thou in thy perswasion where thy power Extracts content from shadows telling vs That such events may fall out thus or thus Which though they have no possibility Yet hope assures them for a certainty This moves us oft to lose the substances And reall use of things for semblances Meerely phantastick fictions which proceed From the distemper of an addle head And such Ixion-like make their receit Too overweening of their own conceit Admiring Merrha-like what ere they make That nought is good but what they undertake Where if event prove sometime sinister To their intent they presently aver The ground whereon they built the plot was good Hows'ere the sequell may be understood O strang condition of depraved men Where fancy is distracted how or when Their own affections know not but proceed In their intendments without better heed Then purblind Appius in his Cassian lot Who for two Romane talents got a groat And was not this an excellent receit For such a summe disbursed O deceit As ancient as authentick for wee see Acts of this kind gaine an impunitie Because those grand Cayrs that doe profit by them Are all too great for poor ones to discry them Laws are like spider-webs small flies are tane Whiles greater flies break in and out againe But th' lot I draw 's cleere of another kind Where many are of th' Carthaginian mind That brave Arminius and we follow him Who thought it better farre to lose then win In Hymens Lottery yet in affection Whe●e single numbers be there 's no perfection Because too naked if that one partake Not of an other and assume his make To make this number complete but we find Saith Timon that made perfect in the mind Where Contemplation reigneth which can be Hardly united with Effeminacie True yet the State if with discretion us'd And not through wanton dalliance abus'd Which staines the light of wedlock may be said And rightly too of merit honoured Where two divided bodies become one by an interiour union bone of bone Having recourse to the Creation when Women had their beginning from us men So as that Mould which gave to us creation Being rib-formd gave Woman generation And much I wonder whence these Womens pride Had propagation if from Adam's side Why should they glory in their beauties fl wrs Since their perfection is not theirs but ours But if as other Sages do aver Eve took this from her Lawyer Lucifer Why should they such esteeme of beauty make But rather hate it for the Serpents sake Who under colour of commending faire Tells them by art they 'r fairer then they were Whence * These practise how to dye well more than to live well they becom so pure hath art displaind them Made by themselves not as God hath made them Yet some there be whose * Which as St. Ambrose saith no age shall extinguish no death can take away no sicknesse corrupt Amb. de Virg. lib. 1. vertues make them faire And such seeme never fairer then they are Whose native beauty doth her light retaine Wh lest what art daubs is soon dissolv'd again But stay a Prize most welcom what may 't be A Maid of Dian's train whose modestie Is without reach of Scandal shee it is That 's fallne to thee to consummate thy blisse Farwell then Contemplation I have got A rarer prize and I will take my Lot The Cuckow Lalus once laugh'd to heare the Cuckow sing Thinking it boded some mans cuckolding Where now in Spring prime season of the yeare The Cuckows note sounds harshest in his eare For he suspicious Sot doth make his life A Scout to schoole th' abuses of his wife HOw now you stutting Raskal are you made To tax our wives abuses and upbraid These manlie-horned monsters which appaere Not rare for they 're dispers'd in every Sheere And now have got prescription to maintaine That they their Predecessors style retaine And must a scab one that 's scarse taught to speak With his harsh tongue our ignominie seeke Filling his hatefull bill with * Fronde rep ens rostrum repetitâ voce lacessit Acteonem solitos balbutiendo modos hawthorne leaves And pestring poore Actaeon with new grieves Unnurtur'd Lossell canst thou f nd out none To make thy Libel on but such an one That has no time to answer such as thou Having a wife finds him enough to doe And must thou sit neere to his garden walke And like a stammering gossip 'gin to talk What ere thou sees or hea●es nay somtime more Then thou didst ever see or heare before Is there no Law against thy impudence No punnishment our wrongs to recompence Me thinks if men of lower ranke forbore To chastise thee that hast incenst them sore Yet such as be of higher quality Should with impatience beare such injury And yet these branched great ones when they spy thee Will laugh one