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A02836	Quodlibets lately come ouer from New Britaniola, old Newfound-land Epigrams and other small parcels, both morall and diuine. The first foure bookes being the authors owne: the rest translated out of that excellent epigrammatist, Mr. Iohn Owen, and other rare authors: with two epistles of that excellently wittie doctor, Francis Rablais: translated out of his French at large. All of them composed and done at Harbor-Grace in Britaniola, anciently called Newfound-Land. / By R.H. sometimes Gouernour of the plantation there.	Hayman, Robert, 1578 or 9-1631?.; Owen, John, 1560?-1622. Epigrammata. Book 1-4. English. Selections.; Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?; Habert, Francois, ca. 1508-ca. 1561.	1628 (1628)	STC 12974; ESTC S106081	67,153	134

giu'n eyes to you Thou canst at once little of this earth see But with one turne halfe Heau'n obseru'd may bee Since Heau'n is louely why lou'st thou Earth rather Wantons doe loue their Mam more then the father 188 Cor vnum via vna To King Iames the first King of Great Brittaine Two Scepters in thy two hands thou dost hold Thy Subiects languages are iust foure-fold Though Brittaine folke in tongues deuided bee Yet all their hearts vnited are in thee The Diuell it was that first deuided hearts Speach God diuided into many parts 189 A King and a Prophet A King out of his Countrey hath no place A Prophet in his Country hath no grace 190 Vertues Attendance These two like Genij follow Vertue still A good one and a bad Glory Ill-will 192 To a foolish inquisitiue vaine prattler Many fond questions thou dost aske of me To all I answer little vnto thee 'T is not because thy questioning is much But because thy fond questions are such 193 Sleepe is the image of Death When I doe sleep I seeme as I were dead Yet no part of my life 's more sweetned Therefore 't were strange that death should bitter be Since sleep deaths image is so sweet to me 194 How worldly men range their cares First we send for the Lawyer in all haste For our first care is to care for our wealth Next the Physicion with request is graste The second care is to care for our health Diuines that should be first may come at leasure If vnbid they come they may goe at pleasure 206 A Lawyers life To plead thy Clyents cause and please thy wife Little for thy selfe thou dost spend thy life Addition In little quietnesse but in much strife 207 Preachers and Players Preachers like Heraclite mourne for our sinne Prayers like Democrite at our faults grinne One alwaies laughs the other mournes alwaies One tells our faults the other our sinnes wayes 215 Schoole-boyes study When I was young I was a studying boy My study was when 't would be playing Day 216 Euery thing is as it takes If Archy should one foolishly aduise And it speed well he shall be iudged wise If wise aduice should come to an ill passe Though Cato's 't were he should be iudg'd an asse 217 How to handle griefe Grieue onely for those griefes which now thou hast T is too late for to grieue griefes that are past To grieue for griefes to come 't will too long last 223 The Poet of his Maecenas Not words for words good coyne he me affords Maecenas to his Poet. Hauing no coyne for coyne thou coynest words 225 Blind Homer Whe'r it be true that men doe write of thee That thou ne'r saw'st I 'm sure thy writings see 227 To goe about worse then the Goute Thou hast two diffring griefes I vnderstand One in thy feet th' other in thy wiues hand For when thy feet are fett'red with the goute Thy wiues sore nimble hand ferkes thee about 235 Pride is womans Colloquintida Learned neate young faire modest and bening Wert thou not proud thou wert a pretty thing 24 Of King Brute To Master Camden Bookes may be burnt and monuments decay My lines may dye and so in time thine may Yet whil'st some of the Brittaine blood shall liue The story of King Brute some will beleeue 246 To a couetous Carle Wealth thou hast scrap'd vp for a thousand yeares A hundred yeares is more then thou canst liue Yet to scrape vp more wealth thou bendst thy cares And thinkst a short life will long comfort giue Thou say'st If I liue long I shall be rich Liue I long I must dye should bee thy speach 247 Death and life are neere Neighbours One Natures skreene Death and life hang so neere As doth the muddy Earth to waters cleere Of lifes white Death blacke Nature makes one robe Euen as the Earth and Water makes one Globe 248 Moores Eutopia and Mercurius Brittanicus Moore shew'd the best the worst world 's shew'd by thee Thou shew'st what is and he shewes what should be 259. Vide ad Cor. vers HOPE FAITH CHARITY Epist. 1. cap. 13.8 13. We haue three ladders to helpe vs to heau'n One hath foure steps one fiue and one hath seu'n Hope reacheth to the Moone Faith to the Sunne But Charity doth reach vp to Gods Throne Addition Hope as the Moone is alwaies variable Faith as the Sunne more constant yet vnstable When both these with the World shall be consum'd Loue into endlesse ioyes shall be assum'd 249 Of himselfe Some men doe say I am a Poet no way They doe say true because the truth I say 254 The nullity of our Lawes How many lawes are made or rather none Not kept or not made we may count all one That former lawes be kept if an Act were That would be kept as all the others are 257 Besides women and children In holy Bible it is somewhere read Women and children were not reckoned And by the Ciuill and the Common Law Womens and childrens gifts are worth a straw VVomen and children are exempt from warre VVomen and children long-side coates doe weare And on the chins neither of them haue haire VVomen and children shead teares with much ease Faire words and toyes women and children please And last of Loue and Dallyance we may say Venus a VVoman was Cupid a Boy Addition A disparison betweene these Children fondly blab truth and fooles their brothers VVomen haue learn'd more wisdome from their mothers 258 Of those that make the Scripture a Nose of Waxe Doth holy Writ promise vs any good 'T is easily beleeu'd and vnderstood Doth it require ought or reprooue our sinne 'T is a hard speech wee haue no faith therein 262 The Harpe and Harrow of the Court An enuious and a flattering knaue These agree not though in one place they dwell Momus of none Gnatho of all speakes well 263 The foure efficient causes of man What is mans forme Onely a garish toy What is his matter Frailty and annoy ●hough for this cause we may these two neglect Making and finall cause we must respect 64 Deaths sweet and sowre To those that haue their liues in much mirth spent Death's sadnes is to sad men merriment Or thus To those that liue in sinne Death is good night Good morrow 't is to those that liue vpright 266 Death and life One way we liue Death many wayes is had All 's for the best Death is good life is bad 267 An old decrepit man A Builder Old and weake thou build'st many a faire roome What build'st thou now A house or else a Tombe 269 An Envious mans Charity The dead thou spar'st the liuing thou dost bite Yet rather then I 'd dye I 'le beare thy spite 273 Great Brittaine vnited euerlastingly As in beginning 't was is now agen Euer shall be till this world ends Amen FINIS An excellent Anagram on this excellent Poets name with the verses annexed translated Iohannes Audoenus

That saying of thy Nature is not ment 95 To an one-eyed Souldier Of thy two eyes thou now hast left but one Which by his moistnesse alway seemes to mone One eye being lost why alway weeps the other Because that in the warres he lost his brother 96 Why there is no peace in Europe Princes make warre and soone their warres doe cease Oft times they warre to haue the better peace Diuines striue and with Venome fill their veines With gall their stomackes and with spite their braines Longer and worse they warre with quills and words Then Princes vse to doe with fire and swords 97 An Antidote lest women should be proud When thou thy faire face see'st in thy fine glasse Be not puft vp because it beauty has Brittle and fraile is thy faire fine neate feature How like thy fine glasse art thou pretty Creature 100 Natures Horizon Two Elements we see not fire and aire Water and Earth wee see 'cause they are neere So wee know men and beasts that are below High Angels highest God we doe not know 105 An ambo dexter A Fencer with a two-hand Scabberd If Pompey ouercome I am his man If Caesar winne I 'm a Caesarian 113 A Kings behauiour To King Iames. All subiects in their manners follow Kings What they doe bids forbearing forbids things A Kings behauiour swayes his subiects lyues As the first moouer all the fixt starres driues 114 The head is worth all the body besides To King Iames. Reason and senses in the head resides Nothing in man worth any thing besides 115 Kings feare Death What Kings feare most what men feare them to tell Fame boldly tells them and the passing Bell. 118 A Losing Gaine Adam did lose a rib to get a wife Poore gaine by her he lost eternall Life 119 Head Tyres Huge high-topt-wyres and tyres with toyes bespred Doe rather build then beautifie the head 121 The East and Westerne Churches The right hand Faith is in the worlds left Coast The right hand of the world hath left faith most 127 To his Reader Thirsty those are that doe eat salt meats first Would my salt lines might cause in thee such thirst 128 How to rule a wife Who begs not nor commands what he would haue His wife is not his Mistresse nor his slaue Addition A Probleme Yet some are so ill-natur'd or ill bred With whom request commands threats haue ill sped What bit is fit for beasts that so take head 131 To Anabaptists and such kind of mealy Brethren You build no Churches Churches you destroy This Zeale doth not heale but Christs Church annoy The Spirit you say doth presse you fiercely on What spirit is your spirit then A-badd-on 132 Alchymists folly God at the first of nothing all things wrought Our Alchymists reduce all things to nought 136 The Crosse in Cheapside ouer against Saint Peters and Pauls Crosse in the Booke-row Why is Saint Peters guilt Pauls crosse of lead Vnder Pauls Crosse are golden Lectures read 140 Seneca the Philosopher Thy writings are fine Epigrams in face They nothing want but Poets cinquepace 141 To the honourable wise iudicious Knight Sir Henry Neuil Sonne and Heire to the Lord of Aberguenny I thinke I heard you once say at your boord That your taste the sharp taste of salt abhord Wise Sir you need not to eat salt Wherefore All your wise talke hath salt in it good store 144 Contention is fit to dwell no where In heauen or Hell is no dissention In Heauen all good in Hell ill euery one In earth mens diuers dispositions Doe cause both long and strong diuisions Therefore the earth shall be quite emptied And heauen and hell be fully peopled 147 The poore mans poore comfort To a rich man Vnconstant Fortune quickly changeth cheare Hence springs my future Hope thy present Feare 149 The Heart Why is the right side of the Heart bereft And on the left plac'd Wisedome it hath left 156 The Worlds blacke Saunts or Musicke for the Deuill The World 's so full of shrill-voyc'd iangling Of deepe repyning and base murmuring The Base so deepe the Treble is so high That Meane and Tenor we cannot discry 159 The world growes worse and worse Our Syres were worse then theirs we worse then they For still the World growes worser eu'ry day If our posterity grow worse then we A worser race then theirs there cannot be 160 Londons Loadstone As Thames deuoures many small brookes and rills Soe smaller Townes with their wealth London fills But though that Thames empts it selfe in the Sea Wealth once at London neuer runnes a way 162 Fooles and Dwarfes Though wit or vertue haue in vs no treasure Yet we are Great mens sports and Great mens pleasure 163 Euery man is full of care Poore men haue care because that they are poore Rich men haue wealth and haue much care therefore Who hath no wife takes great care to haue one Who hath a wife hath more then who hath none 171 The blessed Virgin Mary the Mother of Christ Iesus A blessed Virgin that 's thy common Name Aboue all Women blest that is thy fame Thy Virgins blessed State had me nought wonne Had'st thou not beene the Mother of thy Sonne 173 New fashions in words Old words are new reuiu'd and those shall dye Which now are in discoursing prized high And with bold flights in our set speeches fly Our now new pleasant words will not please long Because they cannot still continue young And other newer words will them out-throng 180 To an Old Churle Thou that did'st neuer doe good any way When wilt begin to doe good Thou dost say When I dye to the poore I le leaue my state Who 's not wise till he dyes is wise too late 182 A fearefull Soules flesh-farewell Why should the immortall soule feare bodies death Feares shee to expire with the bodies breath Or feares she going hence she must resort To long long punishment but iudgement short Cold shaking feare of the hot fire of hell Makes this sad soule loth bid the flesh farewell Addition A good Christians Soules Flesh-farewell A thought so base hath not that soule surpriz'd Who knowes the flesh shall be immortaliz'd He feares no punishment who is assur'd Before he dye his pardon is procur'd Body and soule thus chear'd by Gods grace Part like friends pointing a new meeting place Therefore who hopes for Heauen and feares not Hell May chearefully bid the fraile flesh farewell An Epigram on both these Hee feares not death who hopes for Heauens glory He may feare Death that feareth purgatory Or he that thinkes this life shall end his story A Prayer hereupon Good dreadfull God though I liue fearefully Yet when I dye make me dye cheerefully 183 A woman may be too proud If I should praise thee thou wouldst prouder grow And thou already art too proud I trow 184 A muck-Worme Heau'n still views thee and thou shouldst it still view God gaue Heau'n lights and hath