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A11386
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A description of time applied to this present time. With times merry orders to be observed.
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Saltonstall, Wye, fl. 1630-1640.
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1638
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STC 21643; ESTC S102979
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A Description of Time Applied 〈◊〉 this present Time With Times merry Orders to be observed Men doe blame Time while they their Time do spend Vnto no purpose or to a bad end LONDON Printed by I. O. for Francis Grâ—ve and are to be sold at his Shop on Snow Hill neare the Sarazens head 1638. THE DESCRIPTION of Time Applyed to this present Time WHereas Time hath seene much vanity which is all laid upon Times old Shoulders and wheras Times ears have beene tyr'd with Tales of Cocks and buls lying swearing and complementing scoffes and jeeres while one cryes O Times O Manners another saies What Times are these another sings no other song but Here 's an Age would make a man mad Time therefore to cleere himselfe and to shew that the World is deceived in laying the blame of all matters upon Times backe hath here set downe his abuses and certaine merry orders to be observed that so the World may not grudge at the present Time nor Time bee offended with the vice and vanity of the World but both live merrily according to these orders following O Mortalls why doe you complaine of Time Read here my griefe and wrongs in every line You oftentimes doe wish that I would stay When you are at the Ale-house or at play But never thinke that Time with his sharpe Sithe Mowes downe by houres and daies your mortal life And when you commit any wickednesse And thereby bring your selves to great distresse Then with poore Time you presently are mad And thinke me evill because you are bad What should Time doe if he should strive to please All those who are sicke of a mad disease And are so discontented with old Time Who quietly doth runne through every Signe For if that he would get the Land-lords praise Then he must turne himselfe to quarter-Quarter-dayes Or if the Tennants curses he would shunne Then he must make the Quarter slowly come If he would please the Virgin he must bring A Suiter to her in her youthfull Spring If he would please the Old man he must stay His Houre-glasse and his houre of Death delay Or if he would the Cittizens love earne Then he must adde to the yeare a fifth Terme One sayes that Time is now growne very hard And that his gates against the poore are barr'd Another sayes it is a wanton Time When men are onely guilty of that crime For Time is much asham'd by Day and Night To see such sights as doe him much affright And make his old gray Fore-lock stand on end To see how some doe prodigally spend Their precious houres in drinking and in swearing Making a shew and to the world appearing Brave Gallants who are onely outward shapes Of Gentlemen or rather but their Apes For they esteeme that Vertue cannot be The formall cause of true Gentility Or that poore undiscerned Vertue can Give onely being to a Gentleman But let them passe they that doe thus abuse Poore Time shall want Time which they scorne to use And in a word most men their Time doe spend Unto no purpose or to a bad end Times Orders to be observed FIrst let no Woman presume to paint her face that hath beautie enough of her owne for though she have colour for her chéeke yet shée shall have none for her immodesty then Times chéeke will looke fresh and lively Let Taylers never cosen Gentlemâ—n in their Sutes by the Custome of London nor take up more than will serve conspiring with the Mercer to gull the Gentry Let them never make any lâ—â—se bodied gownes for Women so that they can never hold their owne Let them never sowe any garments in such hasty manner that y e seames are presently all unript let them never put in bad linings into any Sute and kéepe the other for themselves And lastly let them never with long Bills assault and set upon Gentlemen these Orders being observed the hands of Time will not be guiltie of so much théeving and stealing Let Hosts Hostesses all Uictuallers give nor afford any more drinke either Wine or Béere or Ale than wil moderately suffice their guests let them not like briars and bushes hang about their armes and make them stay when they would bée gone or are indeede gone already Let them remember to fill their Pots and suffer no Drunkard to spend that in one houre or Day which should maintaine him and perhaps his Wife and Children all the Weeke These Orders being observed Hosts and Hostesses shall live honestly Tradesmen shall live thriftily and Time shall be counted no Drunkard Also it is ordered by Time that hee that spends money before hee hath it shall bee counted a forward fellow and a cunning man but because women are like this yeere to have tender eyes therefore they shall have mourning Gownes made with great sleeves that they may mourne for their Husbands decease in their Gownes and laugh in their sleeves Moreover it is ordained that if any men have a red Nose betweene this and Iuly they shall forfeit all the shooes in their shops but if his wife be a scold then the case is alter'd for he may goe to the Ale-house by the priviledge of bad Husbands Also if any one drinke more than will doe him good it is ordayned by Time that 〈◊〉 morning his head shall be cut off and set up for the Signe of the Foxe and Goose. for by this meanes the Drunkards in these Times will be fewer Besides it is decreed and ordained that if Husbands and their Wives fall out about cutting of a legge of Mutton before they have eate the Porridge that then the Gray Mare is the better Horse but yet to the terrour of all scolding tongues all scoldâ— shall be forced to eate hot Porridge til they coole the fury of their tongues and when they will not be rul'd by reason some wives shall be duckt upon a Feather-bed and made quiet thereby and so the eares of Time shall not be disquieted with the noise of scolding in the streets Furthermore it is ordained that Oyster wives and the other cryers of commodities shall get an Art to cry softly that men shall never talke any thing of their Neighbour but that which is good and that scraping of â—renchers and the babling of fooles shall he silenc'd Also Sextons shall invent a new way to ring Bellâ— without making any noise Smiths 〈◊〉 viles shall be lin'd with Cushions Roarerâ—â— shall grow hoarse for want of money Scolds as I said shall grow tongue ty'd Carts and Coach-wheeles shall bee lin'd with Bombast order shall be taken with Water-men that they shall not make such a bawling Prentices in a Terme-time shall not dare to cry What lacke you but shall fall asléepe upon their Shop-bookes and generally all noises shall be put downe and silenc'd whereby the eares of Time are offended as most especially all drunkes quarrelling and prating in Ale-houses and singing of Catches when they be more than halfe