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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15830	The cold yeare. 1614 A deepe snovv: in vvhich men and cattell haue perished, to the generall losse of farmers, grasiers, husbandmen, and all sorts of people in the countrie; and no lesse hurtfull to citizens. Written dialogue-wise, in a plaine familiar talke betweene a London shop-keeper, and a North-Country-man. In which, the reader shall finde many thinges for his profit.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1615 (1615)	STC 26091; ESTC S120329	13,942	26

driuen and beating in their faces that they could not looke vp to obserue the way they were thereby forced to muffle themselues in their Cloakes ouer head and cares and to trust to the poore Beastes vnder them to guide them to the Towne which they knew was not farre off Citt. So sir. Nor. But their Horses hauing libertie of Reynes giuen them sought to receiue as little of the blustering Stormes as their Maisters did and turning their heads as much as they could out of it left the beaten Path all hidden in Snow and forsaking the direct way to the Towne had gotten on a suddaine into one of the Woods as least foure or fiue Miles By which time the two Londoners wondring they were not yet at the Towne and being halfe dead with cold looked vp found themselues not onely out of their way but that the Sky was so darke that they had no hope to come into the right way againe Trees they saw on euery side and thicke Groues but not so much as the glimpse of a Candle a farre off in any house which is as a Loadstarre to a discomforted Traueller in the night no neither for all their listning could they heare the voyce either of Man or Beast to assure them that people were not farre off from them Citt. Most lamentable Nor. To stay there still was dangerous to goe forward they knew not whither more dangerous of two euils they made choyce of the least and that was to trust to the merry of Almighty God to preserue them in that place till morning Their Horses they tyed vp to a cold Maunger and to worse Prouander their Maisters had as bad an Inne as the Seruants Meate had they none Fire had they none no Bedde but the Earth no Light but the Starres of Heauen Citt. You make Water euen stand in mine Eyes at the report Nor. In this dolefull estate chearing vp one another the best that they could and walking vp and downe to keepe their numbed bodyes in heate behold one of the two what with cold and what with conceite of so vnfortunate an accident fell sodainely sicke What comfort was neere him none but his friend that stood at the same doore of mercie with him Citt. Alacke alacke Nor. That dangerous cold Feauer more and more shaking him the last fitte that held him ended both his sicknesse and his life Citt. Dyed hee there Nor. There in the Armes of his Friend and his mother the Earth hee dyed Citt. What a terrour was this to his dessolate Companion Nor. How could it be otherwise Yet God suffering one to liue least the Fowles of the Ayre should haue deuowred both and so their deaths not haue bin knowne Hee so soone as euer any light from heauen shewen-foorth tooke his way and leaue of his dead Friend to finde out some Towne and did so where to some of the dwellers relating the sadde storie of himselfe and Friend pittie as it could not otherwise choose so stirred in their bosomes that along they went with him to the dolefull place and spectacle which taking vp and hauing bestowed due rites of Buriall vpon it the other Friend ouer grieuing at the losse of his Companion and at so rare and vnheard of a Calamitie fell likewise extreamely sicke in the same Towne And whether he did recouer or not I haue not heard Citt. I haue not heard of a Newes that so deepely hath strucke sorrow into mee Nor. I beleeue you Let blacke Cloudes fly togeather heere be more of the same sadde coloure which I report not for certaine truthes but as flying Newes and these they are I heard that a company of Horse-men riding togeather spyed another Horseman ryding singly by himselfe some quarter of a Mile before them in plaine view and on a sodaine was vanished cleane out of sight at which they all much wondring considering the planenesse of the way and misdoubting the worst noted the place so neere as they could where they lost a sight of him And putting Spurres to their Horse came and found both Man and Horse into a Pitte of Snow strugling and striuing for life Whereupon leaping from their Horses with much adoe they saued both Horse and Man and drew them foorth In labouring to doe which not farre from him lay three or foure men more and their Horses vnder them buried in the same Pitte of Snow Citt. To second this report of youres A Customer of mine no longer agone then yesterday told mee heere in my Shoppe that vpon New-market Heath in Cambridge shire three men in seuerall places were found dead in the same manner Nor. Not vnlikly And in many other Countries many more both Men Women and Children haue perished that neuer will come within reach of our knowledge Cit. It is to be feared Nor. Amongst so much sowre meate I should do you wrong if I did not set one pleasing Dish before you I will therefore tell you a merry Tale of a Collier that happened since this great Snow Cit. I shall be glad to heare it Nor. I call it merry in respect of the sodaine accident attending on it albeit it fell out sadly enough for the poore Collier And thus it was Citt. Come on Sir Nor. In my approching neere London I ouertooke a Collier and his Teame loaden walking as stately as if they scornd to carry Coales for their pace was iust like that of Malt-mens Horses when they march to London with full Sackes on their backes I asked honest Grimme Why hee made no more haste to put heate into his Horses and him selfe seeing the Weather so cold Not so cryed hee no more haste then good Soft Fire makes sweete Malt Let mee trotte to day that I may amble more easily to morrow If I should put my Horses into a chafe they may hap put me into such a cold sweate as the last day a Brother of mine a Coale-carrier too fell into which strucke him so to the heart that fiue loade of Coales cannot yet warme him Cit. Belike then hee tooke an extraordinary cold Nor. You shall heare I prayde my black-facde Gentleman to tell the Newes out And so his whissle lying still he reported That a Collier going to London with a load of Coales hee himselfe ryding by on a little sorrie Nagge it fortuned that a Gentleman discharging his Birding-peece at Fowle some of the small Shott flying through a Hedge happened to tickle my fellow Colliers Nagge which hotte showre put more courage into him then euer the Whip was able to giue him insomuch that he ran away with the Collier as fast as if hee had been ryding to Hell to serue their Fornaces there with Fyring the whole Teame spying their Maister in his vn-vsuall post-gallop and frighted with the noyse of the Peece left the High-way their ordinarie beaten path and as if the Diuell had daunc'd in one of the Sackes after the Collier they ran who cryed Hey and Hoe and

to be feared that in some of our farre Countries Sommer will haue made his progresse a good way into our Land before the Earth will disgest these cold Pellets off from her stomacke Citt. It is to be feared indeed the more is the pitty Nor. Why I will tell you Sir if you saw some places by which I haue passed but within these three weeks you would verily thinke that Freezland were come ouer Sea swimming on a cake of Ice and that it was lodged in England Nay you would if you dwelt as coldly and miserably as some poore people of our owne Nation doe you would almost sweare that those partes of England lay vnder the Frozen Zone and scarce remember there were a Sunne in Heauen so seldome doe his fyres cast any heate vpon them Citt. But I pray Sir What are the greatest hurtes and miseries that people with you so farre from vs complaine of And what kind of world is it with you in the Countrie Nor. The world with vs of the Country runns vpon the old retten wheeles for all the Northern Cloth that is wouen in our Country will scarce make a Gowne to keepe Charitie warme shee goes so a-cold Those that are Rich had neuer more Money and Couetousnesse had neuer lesse pittie There was neuer in any Age more Money stirring if Curmundgions would let it come foorth nor euer in any Age more stirre to get Money Farmers now are slaues to racking prodigall Landlords and those Landlords are more seruile slaues to their owne Riots and Luxurie But these are the common Diseases of euery Kingdome and therfore but common newes But your desire Sir is to know how wee spend the dayes of our frosty and snowy-lock'd Age in the Countrie Citt. That I would heare indeed Father Nor. Beleeue me Sir as wickedly you must thinke as you can heere in the Cittie It goes as hard with vs as it does with you if not harder The same cold hand of Winter is thrust into our bosomes the same sharpe and bitter Ayre strikes woundes into our bodyes the same Snowy flakes and flockes of Heauen fall on our Heades and couer our Houses the same Sunne shines vpon vs but the same Sunne scarce heates vs so much as it does you The poore Plough-mans children sit crying and blowing their Nayles as lamentably as the Children Seruants of your poore Artificers Hunger pincheth their Cheekes as deepe into the Flesh as it doth into yours heere You cry out you are vndone by the extreame prices of Foode and Fuell and wee complaine wee are ready to die for want both of Uictualles and Wood. All your care is to prouide for your Wiues Children and Seruants in this time of sadnesse but Wee goe beyonde you in cares not onely our Wiues our Children and household Seruants are vnto vs a cause of sorrow but wee grieue asmuch to beholde the miserie of our poore Cattell in this frozen-hearted season as it doth to looke vpon our owne Affliction Our Beastes are our faythfull Seruants and doe their labours truely when wee set them to it they are our Nurses that giue vs Milke they are our Guides in our Iornies they are our Partners and helpe to inrich our State yea they are the very Upholders of a poore Farmers Lands and Liuings Alas then what Maister that loues his Seruant as hee ought but would almost breake his owne heart-stringes with sighing to see those pine and mourne as they doe Nay to see Flockes of Sheepe lustie and liuely to day and to morrow lying in heapes strangled in the Snow The Ground is bare and not worth a poore handfull of Grasse The Earth seemes barren and beares nothing or if shee doth most vnnaturally shee killes it presently or suffers it through cold to perish By which meanes the lustie Horse abates his flesh and hanges the head feeling his strength goe from him the Oxe standes bellowing the ragged Sheepe bleating the poore Lambe shiuering and staruing to death The poore Cottager that hath but a Cow to liue vpon must feed vpon hungry meales God knowes when the Beast her selfe hath but a bare Commons nay in searching to fill her belly with those hungry Meales is perhaps on a sodaine drowned in a ditch Hee that is not able to bid all his Cattell home and to feast them with Fodder out of his Barnes shall scarce haue Cattell at the end of Sommer to fetch in his Haruest which charge of feeding so many Mouthes is able to eate a Country-mans estate it by prouidence hee cannot preuent such stormes Adde vnto these Mischiefes these following Miseries that Hay to feed Cattell is not onely excessiue deare but so scant that none almost is to be had the like of Straw which is raysed to an exceeding price Then the spoyling of whole Warrens the rotting of our Pastures and Meddowes And last of all the vndooing of poore Carriers they being not able by reason of deepe Waters deepe Snowes and dangerous Wayes either to transport commodities and benefites from vs to your Cittie or from your Cittie to vs. And thus haue I to fatisfie your desire giuen you in a few wordes a description of an ample and our lamentable countrie Miserie happening vnto vs by reason of this cold and vncomfortable Weather Cit. The Story you haue told albeit it yet makes my heart bleed to thinke vpon the calamity of my poore Countreymen was vttered with so graue a iudgement and in a time so well befitting your age that I kept mine eares open and my lippes lockt vppe for I was loath to interupt you till all was told But I pray Sir besides this generall hurtes of which the whole Kingdome hath a smarting share what particuler accidents can you report worthy to be remembred for the strangenesse of them Nor. There is no mischeefe borne alone you know Calamities commonly are by birth Twinnes I will therefore like one of your London Traders giue ouer selling these sadde and bad Commodities in grosse and whole-saile and fall to put them away by retaile Cit. As I haue been your Customer for the one so I will pay you ready thankes as my best payment for the other Nor. I wish no better neyther doe I promise to put these Wares into your hands for the best that are but in such sort as they came to me so I hope you will receiue them Cit. Gladly Nor. Because then you are a Cittizen your selfe I will tell you what was truely reported to mee of a mischaunce happening to a couple of Londoners now since Christmas Citt. I hearken to you Sir Nor. They two hauing great occasion to ride into the North it fortuned that in passing ouer a great Heath or Commons on either side of which were Woods and beeing not aboue two Miles to their thinking from the next towne yet night approching and the Snow which then coldly and thickly fell being by the winde so sharply