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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

concludeth After this Suite as I am now resolved Shall be decree'd determin'd and dissolved I 'le take a long farwell of my Laws journey Unlesse it be by Proxie or Atturney For who from Hippocrene would Rivers draw Must not imploy his Bucket in the Law Farre from Courts clamour then I 'le build my nest 'A smooth-composed line requireth rest Privacy likewise He highly affected though by sundrie Persons of ranke and quality mainly diswaded So as on a time when at Milan a Diet was intended wherein the Peeres and Commons of the Realme were to be assembled redresse of all State-aggrievances generally expected Writs exhibited Bills preferred and he for a Burgesse in the Lower House by generall Suffrage elected yet he rejected this honour privatly retired to his Country mannour the reason whereof being demanded he briefely returned this answer One askt of me what might be my intent To leave the Towne in time of Parliament Why answered I because I held it fit When th' City hath ingross'd the Country wit And that scarce seven wise Masters now were left Which were not to the Parliament enfeoft That purposely I to the Country cam Where I am held a nimble-pated man For though a Swan's a Swan yet when th' Swan's gon A white-plum'd Chough is held a comely one Where this Author now remaines it is diversly conjectured some reporting him to be now at Florence where he is made Remembrancer of the City others report that coasting through the Province of Cecuba upon some disgrace offer'd by him to a Lyrick who contended with him for the masterprize in Poetrie he was by the inhabitants of that place surprized and in a Vinepresse squezed to death for the truth whereof I will not stand much Let this suffice that this Poem now published was writ by him in the xxxv yeare of his age which being gratefully accepted shall be by others of his works no lesse usefull if the Manuscripts may be procured hereafter seconded The Draught or Portraict of every Ape with their distinct properties chararacters and differences expressed in severall peeces 1 THE Ape of Honour Is to have a little Flag Banner or Streamer in his claw wherein are to appeare severall Coates Armes Crests c. the Emmet Hedghog Cuckow Seagull Owle c. The princip●ll Crest a Rat-Rampant which is the only Imprezza this Ape of honour hath 2. The Ape of Pleasure Is expressed by sporting with a Marmosite with this Imprezza Dainty content 3. The Ape of Vaine-glory Is Characterized or Emblematized thus Hee is carried by four Apes in a Case resembling a Cabinet windowes of each side and all open to discover him sitting in State his Imprezza Heaven upon Earth 4. The Ape of Fancy is expressed by hastning towards a Lure made of Feathers Ribbands Garters Gloves Rings c. Which Cupid winged and hovering in the Ayre is showne throwing out his Imprezza Love is my Lure 5. The Ape of Fashion is expressed in his doublet and hose phantastically made up a plume of feathers in his head amorously eying himselfe in a glasse his Imprezza I like my humor well 6. The Ape of Observation is expressed looking through a Trunck or Prospective directly before the end of the Trunck is a Dung-hill his Imperzza I smell a Rat. 7. The Court Ape is expressed sitting mopping in a Tree full of flourishes above him this Imprezza The Cinnamon Tree 8. The City Ape is expressed as in a Rialto or Royall-Exchange Tapestrie-works Needle-works Chaines Girdles and Hangers Belts c. to life shadowed A walke as in the Exchange with Signes of eyther side On the one an Unicorn a Bull an Hart a Ram a Goate On the other directly opposite a Tigre a Panther an Elephant a Wolfe a Fox his Imprezza What doe ye lack 9. The Countrey Ape is expressed poring seriously upon an Almanack his Imprezza an Erra Pater 10. The Church Ape is expressed fat and corpulent a Mitre or corner-Cap upon his head the Basis or end of a Steeple sticking out of his mouth his Imprezza Silence 11. The Judiciall Ape is expressed of meagre or sallow complexion wasted or decayed constitution close shaven in a Councellors Cap and Gowne a Rowle or Scedule in his hand his Imprezza Ambidexter 12. The Politicall Ape is expressed with a paire of Spectacles upon his Nose a paire of Compasses in his hand a Globe before him with a Jacob's-Staffe with which hee measures the Globe his Imprezza A sound head piece 13. The Chymicall Ape is expressed holding a payre of Bellowes wherewith he stands blowing against a solid Rock There are Kettles Landirons Candlesticks c. to bee shadowed implying his Chymick Art his Imprezza Fly Brasse 14. The Criticall Ape is expressed laughing and jeering extremely holding his sides as one oppressed with an immoderate passion of Joy his Imprezza Hold sides 15. The Censuring Ape is portrayed according to his humor with a rugged ridged Countenance fiery and spleenefull eyes corded-Whipps in his hand Looking with an eye of scorne upon the rest of the Apes his Mott A shole of Shallops And pointing at them with a jeering visage closeth in these words Have among you State-Shufflers Parthenia's Passions To the right Honorable THOMAS Viscount WENTWORTH Afterwards Created Earle of STRAFFORD Baron of Woodhouse Oversley and Newmarch Lord President of the Councell established in the North and one of his Majesties most honourable Privie Councell O quando renascitus aller His thrice-honoured MECAENAS The western-Knights Pasquill MArshall an hall there Pray you Sir make roome For us poor Knights who in the fag-end come Mad is my Muse and now of late affrighted Out of her wits for feare she should be Knighted Knighted defend me Lord from such an h●nour I shall not git whole Cloaths to put upon her Nay since with Knights there is so great a doo I for my Summons will make ready too Come Masons come erect an Hospitall Sith wee must all be Knights whom Statutes call For England never had unto this houre More* Chevaliers for number nor more poor Whence many of our Russetings deplore it That they ' r not worth so much as they paid for it Yea Almanacks I feare will beare record In Rubrick Letters next to th' yeare o th' Lord Which by Succeeding times will be recited How long 't is since the Commonty was Knighted Yea Justice vows should she pay twenty five She cannot doe 't with honesty and thrive For some of her Bench-Whistlers States be such Their meanes vailes will scarce raise halfe so much Yea I could pick out One of these who might Be made GRAND SOPHIE full as well as Knight For Justice-sake this imposition wave Lest they be forc'd to pay more then they have But since my Pinke ' mongst others runns a shelfe And ev'ry one is nearest to himselfe I must debate my Cause before I go Judge whether I speake reason friends or no. May my State-lov'd