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A07041	The iust censure and reproofe of Martin Iunior. Wherein the rash and vndiscreete headines of the foolish youth, is sharply mette with, and the boy hath his lesson taught him, I warrant you, by his reuerend and elder brother, Martin Senior, sonne and heire vnto the renowmed Martin Mar-prelate the Great. Where also, least the springall shold be vtterly discouraged in his good meaning, you shall finde, that hee is not bereaued of his due commendations	Marprelate, Martin, pseud.; Throckmorton, Job, 1545-1601, attributed name.; Penry, John, 1559-1593, attributed name.	1589 (1589)	STC 17458; ESTC S112313	18,559	34

accusations against our Puritans for their slackenes then wherwith you haue charged them as presently I will declare Secondlie I would haue propounded some things of mine own against our bishops or else it shoulde haue cost mee a fall And that should haue beene after this or the like sort I Martin Senior Gentleman sonne and heire to the reuerende and woorthie Metropolitane Martin Mar-prelate the Great doe protest affirme say propoūd and object against Iohn Canturburie and his brethren in maner and forme following First I protest and affirme that the foresaide Iohn Whitgift alias Canturburie which nameth himselfe archbishop of Canturburie is no Minister at all in the church of God but hath and doeth wrongfully vsurp and inuade the name and seate of the ministerie vnto the great detriment of the Church of God the vtter spoyle of the soules of men the likelie ruine of this common-wealth together with the great dishonour of her Majestie and the state And in this case do I affirme al the Lord bishops in England to be 2 Item I do protest that the entering in of this curssed man Iohn Whitgift and of all others our bishoppes in Englande is not an entring into the church of God by the doore Christ Iesus Wherefore I affirme all of them to be theeues robbers wolues and worriers of the flocke and therefore no true shepeheards 3 Item I do proclame the saide Iohn Canturburie with the rest of our Prelates to bee common simoniarkes such as make merchandize of church liuings and benefices by faculties dispensations c. and make as common a gaine of Church censures by absolutions commutations of penāce c. as anie men in the lande doe of their lawefull trades and occupations 4 Item I do propound and affirme that the said Iohn Canturburie and his brethren do hinder and lette with all their might the true knowledge of God amongest her Majesties louing subjectes the inhabitants of this kingdome and thereby besides their owne fore-prouided damnation are guiltie of the blood of infinite thousands 5 Item I doe proclaime that the saide Iohn Whitgift with the rest of his brethren doth spend and waste the patrimonie of the Church which ought to be employed in the maintenance of true faithfull Ministers and other church vses in the persecuting the true members of Christ her Majesties most trustie and louing subjects and also vpon their owne pompe and ambitious pride in maintening a rude vngodlie traine of vile men a companie of lewde and gracelesse children 6 Item I doe propound that the said Ioh. Whitgift and his brethren do as much as in them lieth sowe sedition and discontentednes betweene her Majestie and her true loyall subjectes by pretending that their pracrises in auoiding subscription and in depriuing men contrarie to lawe as for the surplise denieng to subscribe c. is at her Majesties commandement As though her Highnesse would commaund that which were contrarie vnto the true doctrine of our church and contrarie vnto her lawfull statutes and priuiledges Or as though shee woulde so delude her louing subjects as publikelie to maintaine that true doctrine and these godlie statutes which priuately shee woulde haue violate and troden vnder feete 7 Item I the saide Martin Senior do protest and affirme the saide Iohn Whitgift with the rest of his brethren to haue incurred the statute of premunire facies for depriuing of Ministers for not subscribing not wearing the surplise and for other their manifolde proceedings against law and equitie 8 Item I doe propound all our bishops for their saide practises to be ipso facto depriueable and that her Majestie if she will doe them but right may by lawe depriue them al to night before to morrowe 9 I do also propound and auouch the said Iohn Whitgift and the rest of his wicked fraternitie though by outwarde profession they are in the church yet to be none of the church but to haue vntill they repent and desire to bee receiued into the church cut themselues by the persecuting of the trueth and other their hamous sinnes from the church and so without their repentance from the interest and inheritance of the kingdom of heauen Item I do protest affirme that the true churche of God ought to haue no more to do with Io. Canturburie his brother and their synagogue namely with their Antichristian Courts of faculties c. with their officers of commissaries archedeacons chancellors officialles dumbe ministers c. then with the synagogue of Sathan And that hee their head and pope together with his foresaide rabble are not to bee accounted for that church whose censures we are to reuerence and obey and in the vnitie whereof we are to remaine Item particularly concerning Iohn Canturburie himselfe I doe affirme but yet no further then quatenus probabile that is by great likelihoodes that he is so finally hardened in his hainous sinnes against God and his church that as hee cannot be reclaimed for his mouth is full of cursing against God and his Saintes his feete are swift to shed the blood of the holie ones hee teareth in peeces the churches which hee ought to foster wilfully pulling the shepheards from their sheepe and so scattering them in a most lamentable sorte making much of wicked men that mainteine his popedome and smiting the righteous for gainesaying his wayes bringing in daily into the church either by himselfe or his hang Ions newe errors not heard of before Blaspheming the way of trueth And being rooted in mallice against that truth of Christ Iesus who is blessed for euer which he may see if he did not hood-winke himselfe hee with all his power contrarieth and striueth against the going forwarde of the Gospell least by the light thereof his sinnes shoulde be reprooued Finally hee hath in him too too many likelie testimonies of an heire of the kingdome of darkenesse where without his true turning vnto the Lorde hee shall liue in hell for euer And wicked man if thou meanest to bee elsewhere receiued that is into Christes kingdome turne thee from thy wickednes and let men and Angelles be witnesses of thy conuersion Thy high place cā not saue thee from his wrath whose truth thou suppressest and whose members thou doest persecute and imprison And I woulde not wishe thee to deferre thy repentance least thou callest with the foolish virgins when there is no opening Thou seest euen heere vpon earth manifest tokens of Gods anger towards thee For thou seekest for honour but alas I know none more contemptible then thy selfe the poorest faithfull minister in the Lord hath more true reuerence in one day then thou hast had since the first time of thy popedome There are almost none of Gods children but had as lieue see a serpent as meete thee not because they feare thy face but in as much as it greeueth them that their eyes are forced to looke vpon so wicked an enemie of God and his church Thine owne creatures them selues honour thee

The iust censure and reproofe of Martin Iunior Wherein the rash and vndiscreete headines of the foolish youth is sharply mette with and the boy hath his lesson taught him I warrant you by his reuerend and elder brother Martin Senior sonne and heire vnto the renowmed Martin Mar-prelate he Great Where also least the springall shold be vtterly discouraged in his good meaning you shall finde that hee is not bereaued of his due commendations The reproofe of Martin Iunior by his elder brother WHo then And boyes will now be a Pistle-making either without their fathers leaue or their elder brothers aduise we shall haue our fathers Art brought to a prettie passe within a while I could a told t is long agoe that my father would get him so many sons as Iohn Canturbury woulde haue no cause to sitte quiet at dinner or supper for looking to his young nephewes I thought boyes would be a doing But foolish stripling canst thou tell what thou hast done I weene not if my father should be hurt either at the Groine or at the suburbes of Lisbone is this the way either to cure him or to comforte him to publishe his scrabled and weather-beaten papers in this forte What if hee hadde in purpose to write no more seeing the daunger and trouble that comes of it Will this be any meanes to worke the olde mans quietnes for a foolish and a headie springal to go set abroad his papers Thou sawest wel enough that Martins doings were now almost forgot huisht And the a Beare witnes Reader that I giue my Lordes their right titles men of sinne themselues I meane the Canturburie Caiphas with the rest of his Antichristian beasts who beare his abominable marke were content in a maner to turne his purposes from a serious matter to a point of jesting wherewith they would haue onely rimers and stage-players that is plaine rogues as thou hast well noted to deale So that had not thy vntimely folly bewrayed it selfe it may be that the syllogismes whereby our father hath crackt the crowne of Canturbury should haue had no other answere or he himselfe none other punishment but this I faith lette him go Martin is a madde knaue Whereas now vppon this scrabbling and paltring of thine marke whether Iohn Canturburie will not sende for all the knaue pursuvants that belongs vnto his popedome and set them a worke with the confutation of Martin vsing some such speach as this is in the direction of them for the choice of their Arguments against him An Oration of Iohn Can turburie to the pursuvants when he directeth his warrants vnto them to post after Martin Now sirs is not her Majesties high commission and my selfe also being the chiefe thereof and one of her Majesties priuie counsell wel set vp with a company of messengers as long as we haue you to goe of our busines What thinke you Haue you beene carefull of vs and our places to sinde vs out the presse and letters wherewith these seditious Martins are printed Or haue you diligently soght mee out Walde-graue the Printer Newman the Cobler Sharpe the booke binder of Northampton and that seditious Welch man Penry who you shall see will prooue the Author of all these libelles I thanke you Maister Munday you are a good Gentleman of your worde Ah thou Iudar thou that hast alreadie betrayed the Papistes I thinke meanest to betray vs also Diddest thou not assure me without all doubt that thou wouldest bring mee in Penry Newman Walde-graue presse letters and all before Saint Andrewes day last And nowe thou seest we are as farre to seeke for them as euer we were Nay vnlesse we haue them now they are like to trouble a But not the church of Christ good vncle you doe not so greatly eare though they did our Churche more then euer they did For here is a yong Martin hatched out of some poysoned egge of that seditious libeller Old Martin Why truly it grieues me at the heart that I by her Maiesties fauor hauing more authoritie in mine hande to represse these Puritanes then any bishop else hath had in England these thirtie yeeres yet shoulde be more troubled and molested by them these sixe yeeres then all my predecessors haue beene these six and twentie yeeres And all this commeth by reason of your vnfaithfulnes and negligence whome wee send for them Well I giue you warning looke better vnto your offices or else let mee be damned body and soule b Neuer condition for the matter man for except thou repent thou arte sure of that alreadie if I turne you not all out of your places Therefore looke to it for nowe euery one of you shal haue warrants both for himselfe and as many as you will substitute vnder you besides Bring vs whomesoeuer you suspect your warrants shall serue you to doe it And if you can sinde vs eyther young or olde Martin Penry or Walde-graue so that you bring the presse and letters hee shall haue fortie poundes for his labour who so euer will bring them his charges and all bonie cleare But if you bring vs neither Martin the presse nor those aforenamed neuer looke vs in the face more And me thinkes for your owne good you shoulde be carefull to get in these seditious men for if we that are Lordes of the Cleargie go downe once then shall you be sure to fall for poore men you haue nothing but what you get in c And you haue nothing neither your selues but what you get in the seruice of your Lorde and Master the diuel our seruice that are your Lordes and Maisters And me thinkes if these wayward men had anie conscience in them they woulde not seeke our ouerthrowe with tooth and naile as they doe seoing so many honest poore men yea and manie a good Gentleman too by my troth liue onely by vs and our places Well if euer you meane to do anie good in this matter take mee this course which wee here in commission haue thought meetest let a six or seuen of you or your substitutes that stay heere in London watch mee Paules Churchyard especially haue an eie to Boyles shop at the Rose And let some one or two of you that are vnknowen goe in thither and if there be any strāgers in the shop fall in talke with them of Martin commend him and especially his sonnes last libell and heere hee that will take that course take me this that if need be you may shew it shewing that by great friendshippe you gote one of them saying also that you vnderstoode a man might there helpe his friend to some if he were acquainted with Master Boyle and offer largely for it Now sir if any shall either enter with you vnto any speches against the state and in defence of these libelles or else if any can procure you to the sight of the bookes be sure to bring them before vs. Though you learne not their names yet

him beeing so well horsed as he is And therefore follie for one of his young sonnes to thinke his strength sufficient to beare the encounter It may be thou wilt say that thy father is euerie day in the weeke able to make as many men of his owne charges I woulde he were else if hee be it is more then I knowe I promise thee and I thinke more then thou canst prooue But howsoeuer it goes thou seest what a credite it is for an English Priest to haue so many men following of him as in the day of judgement there may be enough of those that ware his liuerie to witnes against him that in this life he was a monstrous Antichristian pope and a most bloody oppressor of Gods Saints Be it my father were dead as you seeme to giue out and for mine owne parte I will not gainesay you because I for my parte maie truelie saie that his eldest childe neuer knewe him and therefore is ignorant whether he be liuing or dead yet brother Martin I doe see in the publishing of these things by you two great slippes committed the one of inconsideracie the other of vnduetifulnes Your rashnes and want of wisedome other men I see are like to feele your vnduetifulnes is onelie towardes my selfe which I cannot well put vp and because of thy rashnes Marke whether those poore men beforenamed to wit Penry Sharpe Walde graue Newman c. with many other good men who I dare sware for them did neuer medle nor make at anie time with the metropoliticall writings of our renowmed father shal not be now as hotlie pursued after as euer they were And al this comes of thy foolish and paltrie meddling in matters too high for thy capacitie And thus other men are like to smart by thy follie As for my selfe to omitte the honourable mention that my father my father I saie Quem honoris causa nomino quoties nomino nomino autem saepissime made of me in his writings whereas hee did not once vouchsafe to speake a worde of such a dilling as thou art I should haue thought that the verie name of an elder brother shold haue taught thee that there had beene one in the world to whome by right of inheritance the Pistling of bishops had belonged after the decease of reuerend Martin himselfe Whie who should sette out my fathers writings but I Martin Senior his sonne At the least who should publish them without my leaue So that herein thy vndutifulnes is no lesse thē thy headie and rash inconsideracie To retourne againe vnto our reuerend father Of all other things I would wish thee not to come within his reach if hee be liuing for an thou doest I can tell thee hee le giue thee such a lesson for thy saweinesse as I thinke thou shalt neuer be Lord bishop while thou liuest For it may bee that the expectation which menne haue conceiued of the proofe of such points My father I tell you sauing his worship standes vpon the credit o his children as thou hast laid downe will force him to alter his purpose in More worke for the Cooper and fall a proouing of these thinges least men should hold themselues deluded by thee And will this be no paine thinke you sir boy Will it be no labour for a man hauing finished a booke to alter his course and make it wholie newe And this thou knowest he must do vnlesse his wisedom hath before hand preuented the inconuenience I deny not in deede but it is easier for him to alter his course then for any one writer that I knowe of because hee hath chosen him such a methode as no man else besides hath done Nay his syllogismes exiomes method and all are of his owne making hee will borrowe none of these common schoole rules no not so much as the common grāmar as it apeareth by that excellent point of poetrie written in Latin by him against Doctor Wingken de Werd D. Prime There thou shalt see such grammar such Arte such wit and conueiance of matter as for the varietie of the learning and the pleasauntnesse of the stile the like is not else-where to bee found But least I should vtterly discourage thee poore knaue I will before I touch the rest of thine ouer sights attribute vnto thee thy deserued commondations I confesse then that thou canst doe prentily well thou canst enter reasonablie into the synows of thine vncle Canturburies popedome and make a tollerable Anatomie thereof I must needs also say for thee Iacke that thou fearest none of these popes And I promise thee I thinke thou hast a pretie mother wit of thine owne but poore boy thou wantest wisedome withall to gouerne thy witte Thou wantest that which thine vncka Bridges hath not that is wisdome to direct thee in the carriage of those pretie crochets that thou hast in thy head And the poore old Drone o Sarum lacks that altogether wherewith thou arte prettily furnished viz. a naturall wit Neither doe I deny boy but that thou art Tom tell-troth euen like thy father and that thou canst not abide to speake vnto thine vnckle Cantur by circumloquutions and paraphrases but simply and plainely thou breakest thy minde vnto him and tellest him vnto his face without al these friuolous circumstances of What is your name and Who gaue you that name of An t please your worshippe c. Thou tellest him plainelie to his face I say that he is a very Antichristian beast and an intollerable oppressour of Gods Church And mee thought when I read that point in thy Epilogue then thought I it will prooue a vengeable boy in time For mee thinks that already patrizat sat bene certe And trust mee Iacke I commend thee for thy plainenesse And doe so still boy for trueth neuer shames the Maister I warrant thee and take it o my word For indeed thine vncle Cantur is no lesse thē a most vile and curssed tyrant in the Church And a plain Antichrist he is euen by the doctrine of the Church of England and so by the doctrine of our Church are the rest of our curssed bishops in the proofe of which point by and by I will a little insist And because manie take snuffe that my father shoulde account them yea and prooue them petrie Antichrists I will manifestlie prooue them to be so euen by the doctrine of the Church of Englande maintained by statute and her Majesties roiall priuiledge For my father now hath taught vs suche a waie to reason against these Caiphases in the Theses set downe by thee as wil anger al the vains in Iohn Canturburies heart And that is to shew that they are ennemies vnto the doctrine of our church Vnto the point I will come anone But first brother Martin I will schoole you in a pointe or two for your learning in these things wherein I finde your Epilogue to be vnperfite First then I trow I woulde haue had some other manner of

Puritane noblemen gentlemen and people as with the ministers because this or the like course goeth not on forward And I can tell thee there would be gotten an hundreth thousand hands to this supplication of knowen men in the land all her Majesties most loyall and trustie louing subjects Thou mayest then well thinke what a stroke so many woulde strike together especiallie in so reasonable and just a suite And heereby our bishoppes shoulde be prooued to be Lord bishoppes in deede that is a A pretie briefe definition of a Lord bishop vngodlie and slaunderous lyars When her Majestie sawe that the Puritanes seeke not any intollerable course for if the foresaide petitions be not to be borne I know not what is sufferable as the bishops woulde pretend And further it should appeare that they are not a fewe and of small reputation but in a maner the strength of our land and the synowe of her Majesties royall gouernement which our bishops do falsely note with the names of Puritanes The consideration whereof I tell thee euen in policie woulde make that this their suite shoulde not be hastely rejected especially in such a time as wherein wee nowe liue in daunger of our ennemies abroad and therefore had neede of no causes of discouragement at home Whie man this were also such a course as it would descrie our bishops English to be plaine slaunder and treacherie against the trueth and the mainteiners thereof as indeede it is The bishops English wilt thou say Bishops English Now I pray you reuerend brother what is that Whie Iacke doest thou not vnderstand what our bishoppes English meaneth I doe not greatly maruell because I my selfe came but latelie vnto the knowledge of it aright But nowe that I haue bestowed a little studie that waie I doe thinke there are but a few in England that see into it as farre as I doe Semper excipio Platonem you know I alwayes gine place to my father for he made the first grammar and lexicon in our time for the vnderstanding hereof Thy small experience then considered I wonder not of thine ignorance in this poynt But to satisfie thy demaunde the bishops English is to wrest our language in such sorte as they will drawe a meaning out of our English wordes which the nature of the tougue can by no meanes beare As for example Receiue the Holy-Ghost I am sure that they woulde not for forty pence that Receiue a bishopricke shoulde be expounded vnto wish thou mayest receiue a bishopricke when they receiue the Holie-Ghost in good bishops English is as much as J pray God thou mayest receiue the Holy-ghost And againe My desire is that J may be baptized in this faith to their vnderstanding and in their dialect is after this sort My desire is not that J my selfe but that this childe vvherevnto J am a vvitnesse may bee baptized in this saith Further to intreate her Majestie and the Parliament that the miseries of the church may be redressed in the Prelates language is to seeke the ouerthrowe of the state and the disquietnesse of her subjects And if a man shoulde goe and aske thine vncle Canturburie but stay boy I meane not that thou shouldest goe and demaunde the question of him what it were in the tongue which he and his brethren doe commonly vse to put vp such a dutifull supplication as before I haue set downe why his answere woulde be presently that to deale in such a suire were to rebell against her Majestie to pull the crowne off of her head to make a faction to wrest the scepter out of her hand and to shake off all authoritie A wonderfull thing in thy conceit I knowe it will bee to thinke that humbly and duetifullie to entreate shoulde in the English tongue signifie by vnbrideled force vnduetifullie to compell and that to seeke the remoouing of vnlawefull callings out of the church should be to threaten that the lawfull magistrate should bee thrust out of the common-wealth but simple boy such English must thou studie to vnderstand or else thou shalt neuer be able to Pistle thine vncle Canturburie so learned lie as my father and I can doe And therefore I woulde wish that of the first money which thou meanest to bestowe in bookes thou wouldest buie thee thy fathers a These bookes act not yet printed Grammar and his lexicon with a briefe thing called his capita concerdantiarum and studie these well but one moneth and out o doubt thou shalt with the pretie skill which thou hast already be able to ouerturne anie catercap of them all I would thou knewest what great light to the vnderstanding of all the bishops treacheries a little time bestowed in these volumes haue affoorded vnto me Wel by this time I thinke thou perceiuest what a braue waie this supplication which I speake of were to prooue our bishops to be treacherous and vile slaunderers For hereby her Majestie should perceiue that the rumors which the bishops raise falsly concerning the great daunger that woulde ensue vnto her crowne by the reformation which the Puritanes seeke and labor for are nothing els but in a cunning and mysticall kind of vnnaturall English to translate The Puritanes by the establishing of the kingdome of Christ seeke the sure vpholding of the crovvne and dignitie of their dread soueraigne ladie Elizabeth into this handsome bishoplike miter The Puritanes by their platforme of reformation seeke the vtter ruine and subuersion of Ladie Elizabeth her Crovvne and d●gnitie I am sure her Majestie woulde welfauouredlie laugh at such a translation as this is and yet beholde such she must be content with if shee will vouchsafe to yeelde her eares vnto a bishops perswasion Yet thus much must I say of them namelie that although they bee not the best expounders of wordes that euer I read yet doe they neuer translate anie thing everbo ad verbum which by learned men is commended as an especial vertue in a translator But O that I as simple as I am might reade a lecture or twoo concerning this bishoplike translation if not before her Majestie yet at the least before some of her nobles I woulde not doubt but to vnfolde such a deale of strange English and yet the verie vernacula viz. the naturall mother tongue of our vnnaturall Prelates as was neuer heard of in this land since the Saxons time Here I knowe that thou arte readie to enquire two points of mee for thine instruction the one how our Prelates can be prooued Antichristes by the church of England the other howe thou mayest come by those bookes of my father before quoted Well thus I will brieflie aunsweare thee in both For the first Maister Tindall in the Preface of his booke called The Obedience of a Christian man pag. 102. prooueth them to bee Antichristes in as much as in their doctrine and their dooings concerning nonresidencie they are directlie against Christ and his worde I charge thee reade the

place because at this time I am not at leisure to set it downe I can tell thee the reading of it wil be double woorth thy paines My fathers bookes afore spoken of are not in print I confesse I would they were Yet it may be I could direct thee where to go to haue mine But bicause I meane yet further to punish thee for thy slippes in thy Pistle I will not doe thee that plea sure For now in deede it commeth into my mind that thou hast dealt foolishlie in two points beside all other thy fore-reckoned ouersights First thou hast hereby exasperated against thy father and other poore men his well willers not onely thy vncle Caiphas but hast set on the most of thine neames to giue their aduise howe to entrap him and his fauourers For tenne to one but that Beelzebub of London will discharge the pursuvants to go to their busines with this or the like madmonition My Masters you must not sleepe in this matter The maintenāce of the peace of our church standeth now in your faithfulnes and care They are desperately set to ouerthrowe al. And by the masse I will be a pursuvant my selfe rather then abide this tumult And if I were I trowe I would watch about Trauerse his house in Milke streete who go in and out there and I would know what they caried vnder their cloakes too euen anie of them al. There is Paget at Hounslo I beshrewe my heart if I would shewe him anie such fauour as my Lordes Grace heere doeth They are naught they are naught all the packe of them I le trust none of them all There is Cartwright too at Warwicke he hath got him such a companie of disciples both of the worshipful and other of the poorer sort as we haue no cause to thanke him Neuer tell me that he is too graue to trouble himselfe with Martins conceits Tush they will doe anie thing to ouerthrow vs that they might haue our liuings anie o them all I knowe what a good liuing is able to do with the best of vs all Cartwright seekes the peace of our Church no otherwise then his platforme may stand And you knowe my Lord that there is no biting to the olde snake And I doe not see o my troth but that Martins abetters may be worse then himselfe and doe more mischiefe Therefore goe me to all their houses spare mee none of them knights gentlemen and all For I trust the high commission may go to anie knight yea or noble mans house in England Therfore my Lords I woulde wish that some continuall spie may be in all those places which are most suspected And let him learne to be wise to creepe into acquaintance with some of the preciser sorte and looke smoothlie for a time vntill hee can execute his commission Lo yongman do not you deserue stripes for fleshing on these blood-hounds in this fort Let men looke to keep them in as good temper as possiblie they can yet wil they haue a The manifest token of a mad dog a blacke tooth in their heads do what we may But yet I would haue born with all this if thou haddest taken a little paines in ryming with Mar-Martin that the cater-caps may knowe howe the meanest of my fathers sonnes is able to answeare them both at blunt and sharpe And for thy further instruction against an other time heere is a sample for thee of that which in such like cases thou art to performe if I or my father should set thee a worke ¶ The first rising generation and originall of Mar-Martin From Sarum came a gooses egge with specks and spots bepatched A priest of Lambeth coucht thereon Mar-Martin engendred of Canturburie and Sarum thus was Mar-Martin hatched Whence hath Mar-Martin all his wit but from that egge of Sarum The rest coms all from great Sir Iohn who rings vs all this larum What can the cokatrice hatch vp but serpent like himselfe What sees the Ape within the glasse but a deformed Elfe Then must Mar-Martin haue some smell of forge or else of fire A sotte in wit a beast in minde for so was damine and fire Or else thou mightest haue requited him in this Epitaph thus If that Mar-Martin die the death that to the dog is due Vpon his tomb engrane this verse you shal find it true He lies endiched here that from the ladder toppe Did once beblesse the people thus but first he kist the rope Mar-Martins auricular confession from the toppe of a giber Come neere quoth he take heede by me I loued to lie by ryming T is just you see and doth agrece that now I die by climing What wretch but I that vowed to lie all falshoode still defending Who may say fie No beast but I. loe here you see my ending I liued a wretch I die the stretch my daies and death agree Whose life is blameful his death is shameful be warnd ye rogues by mee The justest I hated the godliest I rated and thus I railed my fill The good I detested the best things I wrested to serue mine owne beastlie will Religion I lothed my selfe I betrothed to all the lewd snares of sinne T is shame to saye more take heede of a whore her a Beleeue him then but drinke not with him markes sticke yet in my skinne Aske you the cause I spurnd at Gods laws and hence comes all my wracke Where should he dwel that feares not hel but with the furies blacke A beast that braues a tongue that raues wil God reuenge in ire Then vengeance must for God is iust fall to Mar-Martins hire My tongue in ribaudrie Take example then my cleargie Chapleins by this lamentable fall of your Mar-Martin My heart in villanie My life in treacherie Hath wrought me my fall I stroue for the prelacie And so shooke off honestie O vile indignitie Yet woulde this were all Loe youth though I were loth to file my fingers with such a brothell beast as this Mar-Martin is yet because thou diddest let him goe by thee mee thought halfe vnbranded I was the willinger as thou seest to giue him a wipe or twoo which I beleeue he wil neuer claw off with honestie while he liues And I would wish him with the rest of the rimers if they be wise to take heede of my next Pistle Indeede I denie not but thou hast said pretily to him neither woulde I haue thee discouraged in thy good and honorable course against these prelates Neuertheles I muze thou diddest let him go cleare away with his poperie of sir Nicholas Priestes Also where like a good Catholike hee counsels vs we thanke him to say a rounde Pater noster for Q. Elizabeth I muze thou saidst nothing to that considering how much her Majestie is beholden to him in that regarde And much more had shee beene if hee had added an Aue Marie to it those both together with a peece of S. Iohns Gospell about ones loines woulde haue beene a principall receit for the collicke But sure nowe I thinke on it he brought it in one lie but to make vp his ryme And if you scanne it well t is a pretie one marke it well O England novv ful often must thou Pater noster say How sayst thou hast thou anie skil in Musike If thou haue then I am sure thou wilt confesse with mee that this bastarde pentamenter verse hath a fine sweete loose at the latter ende with a draught of Darbie ale But what sayest thou to it Whether likest thou better of these Nicholas Priestes that can so amble away with the Pater noster or of that little priest of Surrey who bade his maide in her extreamitie of sickenesse say Magnificat say Magnificat Well boy to drawe to an ende notwithstanding thy small defectes perswade thy selfe that I loue thee doubt not of that And here before we part take this one graue lesson of thine elder brother Be silent and close heare manie conferre with few And in this point doe as I doe know not thy father though thou mayest For I tell thee if I shoulde meete him in the streete I woulde neuer aske him blessing walke smoothely and circumspectly and if anie ofter to talke with thee of Martin talke thou straite of the voyage into Portugal or of the happie death of the Duke of Guyse or some such accident but meddle not with thy father Onely if thou haue gathered anie thing in visitation for thy father and hast a longing to acquaint him therewith doe no more but intreate him to signifie in some secret printed Pistle where a will haue it lefte and thatle serue thy turne as good as the best The reason whie wee must not knowe our father is that I feare least some of vs shoulde fall into Iohn Canturburie his hand and then hee le threaten vs with the racke vnlesse wee bewray all we knowe And what get we then by our knowledge For I had rather be ignorant or Thatle do me no good then know Thatle hurt me ka M. Martin Senior Farewell boy and learne to reuerence thy elder brother Pag. 6. line 18. for giue all the good reade go all the ground Pag. 14. line 12. for auoiding reade vrging