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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11154	A search for money. Or The lamentable complaint for the losse of the wandring knight, Mounsieur l'Argent Or come along with me, I know thou louest money. Dedicated to all those that lack money. By William Rovvley.	Rowley, William, 1585?-1642?	1609 (1609)	STC 21424; ESTC S116275	22,472	38

A Search for Money Or The lamentable complaint for the losse of the wandring Knight Mounsieur l'Argent Or Come along with me I know thou louest Money Dedicated to all those that lack Money Frange nucis tegmen si cupis esse nucem By William Rowley Imprinted at London for Ioseph Hunt and are to be solde at Newgate Market neere Christ Church gate 1609. To his entire and deare-esteemed friend Maister Thomas Hobbs Health on earth Temporall and higher happinesse eternall IT is but a toy deare friend that I present you with but if you accept it not I shall lay the prouerbe to your charge qui parnum contemnit indignus est magno hee that refuseth a little kindnesse is vnworthy of a greater but I question it not nor would I haue you ouer affect it for the title sake for that it is a Searcher of Money perhaps you would haue beene willingly one of this inquisition but you shall not neede onely ouer-view this and take my opinion where he is and that is where I trust you shall neuer goe to seeke him I would define to you these two prepositions of and in that you are in the world though you must out of it 't is certeine but be not of the world though you beare earth about yee for then you are a wordling and haue affinitie with Money whose best part is but earth whose too much worshipt greatnesse in my iudgment is but as a bare-legd passage through many acres of briers for a handfull of rushes on the other side being found not worth halfe the toile but vse his companie as I do and that 's as I weare my gloues some-time on some-time of and many times leese them quite take this to refuse it the next search I make God willing shall bee for wisdome and then if you will go along with me wee le pace together till then Farewell Yours William Rowley To all those that lack money GEntlemen for so much you may be that want money and more they cannot bee that haue it bee that your comfort Yee are indeed the onelie Maecenasses and Patrons of Poesie for to your weake purses there are alwaies ioyned willing hearts and if not deedes at the least good wordes Similis simili gaudet I ioye most respected benefactors in your fellowshippe for from me yee are like to receiue nothing but good words will yee now vndertake an equall trauell with me I know not yet whither and let the destinies if they will reward our paines I knowe the walkes in Paules are stale to yee yee could tell extemporally I am sure howe many paces t' were betweene the quire and the West dore or like a Suffolke man answere at the second question dead sure there hath beene many of yee seene measuring the Longitude and Latitude of More-fields any time this two yeares and vpwards all but in the hard season of the great frost and then yee slid away the time vpon the Thames yee haue beene either eare-or-eye-witnesses or both to many madde voiages made of late yeares both by sea and land as the trauell to Rome with the returne in certaine daies the wild mo●rise to Norrige the fellowes going back-ward to Barwick another hopping from Yorke to London and the transforming of the top of Paules into a stable to these and many more ad one more what oddes with him now that will bring yee to the place where your lost and long wisht friend Mounsier Money is within two houres me thinkes yee smile now but you would laugh if it were so indeede you thinke it not possible now You hauing searcht so diligentlie and are yet without him but pluck vp a good hart hire but this hackney and vita pro vita hee will bring yee to the place for the prise of a peck of oates t is no great charge along with him but pace him not too fast for feare of stumbling if yee dislike this voiage returne to my stable againe if I horse yee not for better profit turne from a Gentile to a Iew spit at me there has beene time and labor a little of both to bring him to this small groweth Vale. frustra nihil Your ioynt friend in estate VVILLIAM ROVVLEY A search for Money COme my maisters all you that will bee of this priuie search to finde this wandring Knight Mounsieur Money lay by your armes and take your leggs and follow me Stay stay stay come not so fast I call not all those that would find him there would be left then scarce so many behinde as there was vndrown'd at the deluge but some of those as are fittest and most at leisure to search as some score of idle souldiers these are men that are experienc't to walke the round for walke yée must resolue ere yée finde him he shifts his lodging so oft or else he lyes so obscure he wil hardly be spoke with Wel I doubt not but yée will bee painfull in the quest onely your censures which way first to begin as the likelyest to finde the nearest way being the very Nominatiue case first to finde the construction and then haue with ●ée le ts first question his descent faith from earth of our o●rne kindred I would he were not so néere to vs in kindred then sure he would be néerer in kindnesse and then we must conclude comming from earth that thither he must returne and therefore is now on earth There may a doubt arise from hence too for being here can●nized na● Deified and made a God for therein we must néeds confesse our impure idolatr● it may be he has tane his glorious flight to heauen already That cannot bee neither sure Peter has bard the gates against him for hee that would not sell heauen to Monie on earth 't is most likely he will not sell heauen now once possest of it thinke yee then he hangs like a defected spirit in the ayre no hee is too massie or if he were wee haue Danaes inough to bring him showring downe in the fire thinke yee● neither I know them that haue runne through fire and water too and yet haue not found him the sea is lunatique too and mad folkes keepes no money he would sinke if he were there is he damnd by the curses of the poore and so gone to hell if hee bee wee le rake hell but wee le finde him no the Diuell builds they say to enlarge his kingdome and builders commonly are without money well then wee must returne to our first proposition that hee bides in his first element that 's earth conclude there to search for him then set up the staffe which way to begin conuenimus omnes 't is falne to the Cittie a hopefull way a first enter the gates before there be any opposition haue with yee Let us be carefull in our inquisition omit no halfe suspected place therefore let vs enquire at the Tailors shop for that stood next the gate if the beloued Mounsieur