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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02477	Newes out of Powles Churchyarde now newly renued and amplifyed according to the accidents of the present time. 1579. and otherwise entituled, syr Nummus. Written in English satyrs. Wherein is reprooued excessiue and vnlawfull seeking after riches, and the euill spending of the same. Compyled by E.H. Gent. Seene and allowed according to the order appointed.	Hake, Edward, fl. 1560-1604.	1579 (1579)	STC 12606; ESTC S106141	42,751	128

the streame and yet a while withdrawe My Pen from port of quiet pawse For time doth vrge me so The time alas infect with sinne Yea time wherein doth grow The rage of sinne and ryots force the raumping Serpents guile With all deceyt that maye be founde yea sinne almost to vile To be exprest or set to vewe But such is Sathans force Such are the harts of vanquisht thralles cleane frustrate of remorce Call call to minde you carelesse crewe Lay custome now a side And let your fayth with faithlesse fruites herein a while be tride Confirme the lyfe that you doe leade And ratifie the same And then le ts sée how wilfully you wander worthy blame First Auarice what force it hath what cursed cancre t is What running rot and curelesse wounde to men apparaunt is What great enorm this sin hath wrought What thirsting hath procurde The block the trée the beggers bagge such sequeale hath inurde And yet how ryfely now it raignes how graft in gréedy mindes How grounded t is in peoples harts a proofe our liuing findes No one abandons beastly trade nor maketh staye at all To practise fraude and fliching lore so gaine therby may fall The rich doth laye his goods for gaine and gapeth still to gett The substance of the néedie soule that gote the same by swett The néedie not vnlike deuise and seeke by subtile drifts To scrape for coyne and gaine to winne do séeke vngodly shifts So charitie excluded is and loue is kept aloofe And right is wronged through rewarde as falleth still in proofe And Userie about the Towne is maintaind as a trade And equitie to ease the wrong in matters dares not wade But well the Sinne shall not be hid nor cloked from the vew I will explane the practise here in wordes that doe ensew The Cormoraunt that coucheth ●vp and crams his cankerd bags Doth giue to hoord his gotten coyne and bowte the towne he lags To Broker doth he bende his course or happly vnto him The Broker bannes and weanes a mate for purpose very trim And twene them two are craftes conueyd and foxy falshoode wrought Twene them are traps so framed that thereby is Nummus caught O God what gaine doth guilefull gnuffe by loane of Nummus raise How doth he nick the debter now by hault exacting wayes Ten powndes in hundred nothing is ▪ and twentie is but small For halfe in halfe full oftentimes in loane among doth fall A siely man constraind of late to borowe for his neede Repaird vnto a Marchant man to borowe on his deede The Marchant as it is of course had Money none to lende But wares he proferd willingly and Dettor in the ende The same became and tooke to loane as much as did amount To thirty poundes of currant coyne by Marchantmans account Which wares so taken vp to loane to Broker are they brought The Broker to the Marchaunt he of whome the same were bought Full falsely doth returne them streight who now twise gaynes thereby For fyrste he soulde and now eftsoones the same agayne doth buye So that when this our siely soule should rayse thereof the summe Aboue the price of twenty pounde the credit will not come For ten in thirty could vouchsafe the Creditor to haue For recompence in Usurie O carelesse cankerd slaue O cawty cutthroate cullion wretch O Caterpyllers Féere O miserable Murtherer Canst thou abyde this geare ¶ The time is now at hande wherein thou straight account shalt make Wherin thou shalt Hell fire gain for gaine that thou didst take O Userer thou Sathans thrall and Butcher of the Fiende Thy Golde shall be transformde to muck thy plagues shall neuer ende But as thou doost thy Ocker vse t' oppresse thy neighbour héere Euen so the scorching flames of Hell thy caytyfe corps shall déere Thy rusty hoorde ascendes the skie thy dettors harme doth mount Unto the high supernall seate to call thée to account Thou greedy Gleade thou hūgry Hawke thou starueling Uultures mate How darste thou thus by rauine séeke to maintaine thine estate I sée how thou canst soare aloft like hungry Hawke tespye And catching Kite when pray shal spring for beste game bent to flye I sée thy subtile lagging pace and craftie colourde guile I sée thy false dissembling sleight I sée thy playted wile Thou hast deuised by the Month for gaine to let thy ware Thy money eke from month to month thou canst right well forbeare But for eche shilling Caytife thou in surplysage wilt take A penie and of twentie shillings twentie pennies make And in that rate for fortie pounde so lent out in a yéere Thou wilt receiue twise forty pounds of lawfull Money cléere Thou wéenst to welter here for aye and wallowe in thy welth Thou neuer thinkst to sée the daye to part from this thy pelth But I will tell thée Cormorant thou fell and egre droane Eche pennie shall accountaunt be which thou hast let in loane And though as now the law be thine to laye beneath thy foote Yet then the furyes by decrée shall rende thy hart at roote When as the libell of thy lust and bayliwick abusde Shall thée condempne to Limboe pit and scalding lake confusde FINIS The Aucthor vpon the Booke in the defence of the gouernement of the Citie TWo sortes of men repaire vnto this Booke The one to carpe and cauell at my wordes The other through delyght thereon doth looke And reading it true iudgement well afordes He deemeth straight when haply I reproue That mine intent is vices to remoue But nowe tappease and satisfie the minde Of such as rashly ronne with open mouth At my reproofe which often here they finde I thus much say to them in my behoue I meane I touch I quip no priuate man For hate ne spite since first my worke began Nor yet doo I with chyldish rage stird vp Seeke to deface a worthy common state Of such as seldome drinke of sinfull Cup By matter such as I doo here debate For I protest I know no matter why I should so doo sith no man can deny That in the Towne are diuers sortes of men By whome the vertuous are supported styll With whome the wicked may at no tyme blen Their noysome drifts nor work the thing that 's yll By whome the poore and needie are sustainde And eke with whom true zeale hath styl remainde I meane both Judge Phistion Lawyer and The Marchaunt whom euen all I must commend With other else which in my Booke do stande I say of them there be whome to defende I neede not here Their lyues auoyde the blame And through good lyfe they wyn immortall fame FINIS Gentle Reader for the fillinge vp of emptie pages this letter written by the Author to his friende lying at the point of death is inserted SIr howe and in what wise euery man shoulde beare him selfe towarde his friende in time of health in time of prosperitie and strengthe moste men knowe yea suche is the

vntruste that is in man moe men can speake plausibly in time of good happe as we terme it then in time of siknes iudge vprightly Alas in time of sicknesse and in assaultes of death wherin the bodye is not more greuously oppressed then the minde diuersly distracted and the soule mightelye assaulted how fewe doe consider or at the leastwise do apply them selues to the relief of the poore afflicted soule to the strengthning of the féeble mynde and to the repelling of those bytter temptations and assaults of the common enemies of man kinde the olde Serpente the vaine wicked and vnconstant worlde and the fraile peruerse and rebellious flesh which alwayes doe attend and attempt the sicke enféebled and oppressed person Surely were it not that God in time of suche extremitye dothe mightelie comforte and confirme suche as be his in the promises of his mercye in the death of his deare Jesus and in the merytes of his passion it is not possible but that sicknes shoulde be intollerable death horryble Hel wictorious the bodye liuing to be a terrour to the mynde and the mynde so terrified and brought to desperation to be the perpetual dampnatioun of the bodye and soule Which thing considered and from my verye harte remembred I cannot choose but in this blessed battaile and I truste thoughe somewhat sharpe and egre yet most happy conflycte whervnto as a fellowe souldyer and adopted brother you are called for your tryall I cannot choose I saye but to the increase of your courage endeuoure to make plaine vnto you in all that I maye the fruit of affliction and the commoditye of death imparting with you suche weapons as for mine owne store the Lorde our Captaine hathe alloted vnto me to the ende that being conueniently appoynted you may resist and auoyde at all assayes and become bolde valiaunt constant and perseuerable to the death Touching which death notwithstanding it be gréeuous to the fraile flesh yet is it moste ioyfullye to be receyued as an vndoubted ende of all griefe for why it is the beginning of Joye and perpetuall tryumph wherevpon a certaine godly man wryteth If thou haddest a good conscience thou woldest not flye death And againe why haste thou pleasure in that wretched body whose felowshippe doth nothing els but violentlye withdrawe and deteine thee from the king ▪ come of euerlasting glorie O cousen what else but a place of exile is the miserable bodie to the Soule And to what thinge else maye this our lyfe more aptlye be compared then to an horswaie or stage playe where men do assemble to behoulde sondrye feates and where euerye man laboureth in all that he maye to winne praise promotion and authoritye after the ende of his tragicall part God onelye is permanent immortall euer lastinge All things else are transitorye and subiecte to corruption They be constituted corruptible and mortall and must be consumed of time and ha● their endes by corruption The S●●e shall passe for it was made but for mans vse The Moone and the starres shall perish for they were created but for the necessitye of man Heauen and earth shall decaye for they conteine but a place of exile and prison for the body of man yea the body of man also shall perish for it is but as an enemy to exercyse the soule and to make it apte to apprehend by fayth the Joyes of heauen and crowne of immortalytie Moste certaine I saye it is that the frayle body shal be resolued to earthe there shall sléepe till the soule returne vnto it and tyll the members be restored to their right places Wherefore sithe earth and corruption is the ende of the bodye yea the end of all things that were made created and that the same ende of the bodye is the beginning of lyfe wishe for death wishe for a peaceable departure and finding the same imbrace it saying in your hart Come Lord come Jesus make haste and tary not Come Lorde that I maye be one with thée and coheyre of the kingdome purchased with thy precious bloud Deere Cosen and beloued in the Lorde lette not longe sickenesse discourage you neyther be you in anywise perplexed or gréeued with the lowe state and constitutiō of your body And in and aboue all thinges let not hyndraunce in worldly affayres disquyet you As you haue begonne so further the will of the Lord and be ready to receiue whatsoeuer he wil lay vpō you For the gretest affliction misery that man may or doth suffer in this lyfe is not worthie the leaste of those treasures which God will bestowe vpon him in the lyfe to come which is durable permanent glorious altogither full of blessednes And assure your selfe for so God hath promised and wyll not goe one iote from his worde that he wyll laye no more vpon you then by his grace and strengthe you shal be able to heare althoughe he séeme somewhat sharply to correct you and somewhat seuerely to deale with you for who is he whome the Lorde chasteneth not Surely surely whome he loueth the same dothe he chasten in him is he delighted as the father in his son offering himself vnto him as a déere father to his sonne whereas if we refuse chastycement we are no sonnes but bastards and not inheritable by any right Ioseph was afficted and delyuered by y lord Dauid was chastised and he acknowledged the Lorde and founde reliefe in his Soule Tobias was corrected and he founde health Iob was tryed was made perfect What shoulde I say euen all the Appostles all the Prophets yea and all the good men that euer were haue bine tryed by affliction chosen by persecutō and crowned by patience abydinge the wyll and pleasure of god Wherefore be strong in the Lord desire of him in your hart the his will may be wrought in you that you may with a glad hart receyue whatsoeuer his Maiesty shal lay vpon you Assure your selfe that this your present sicknes is either for punishment of sinne for exercise of your faith or to that death And therfore if it be for punishment beséeche him to giue you patienceand assure your selfe vpon repentaunce to haue frée full remission in Christ If it be for tryall giue him thanks if it be to the death reioise in it thinke it is y greatest gift that euer he gaue you in this world being the very passage to the heauenlye and Angelicall Paradice And pray euen from the bottom of your hart that neyther the loue of the worlde nor the feare of the same death may distracte you from the desire of it Be not carefull to leaue your kinsfolckes friends and acquaintaunce let it not gréeue you to part from your goods nor haue any loue depending vpon any earthly thinge whatsoeuer As for your Kinsfolkes and worldly friendes at your Graue they wil leaue you and within a while after forget you and shortlye after that shall dye themselues and be forgotten themselues also