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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13505	Taylor's motto Et habeo, et careo, et curo.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.; Cockson, Thomas, engraver.	1621 (1621)	STC 23800; ESTC S118325	25,644	70

doe For till seuen yeares be past and gone away We are vncapable to doe or pray Our Adolescency till our manly growth We wast in vanitie and tricks of youth And as we trauell to our iorneyes end The more we liue the more we doe offend In sixty yeares three thousand Sabba●hs be Which are some eight yeares in account we see But of those Sundayes let vs thinke agen How little seruice God hath had of men And to the holiest man it will appeare About one hundred houres in a yeare And so in threescore yeares God hath not one Wherein his seruice we attend vpon And if that lesse thē one t' account were brought How many a nap and many a wauering thought And wandring fancies doe vs round beset That many times the text we doe forget Thinke but of this and then the yeare before Must be abated halfe or somewhat more Thus many a Christian sixty yeares hath trod The earth and not sixe months hath seru'd his God When we our liues vnequally thus share In thinking ●f it I am full of care I care in all my actions so to liue That no occasion of offence I giue To any man with either pen or tongue In name or fame or goods to doe them wrong For he 's the greatest murderer aliue That doth a man of his good name depriue With base columnious slanders and false lies T is the worst villainy of villanes To blast a good mans name with scandals breath Makes his dishonor long suruiue his death For Infamie's a colour dyde in graine Which scarce obliuion can wash out againe As nothing's dearer then a mans good name So nothing wounds more deeper then defame Nature gaue man a paire of eares and eyes And but one tongue which certainly implies That though our sight and hearing still is free Yet must we not speake all we heare or see Then he 's a Viper that doth lyes inuent To worke thereby anothers detriment 'T is sinne to slander a notorious Knaue But sinne and shame a good man to depraue Thus good or bad or whatsoe're they are To doe to neither of them wrong I care I care to get good Bookes and I take heed And care what I doe either write or read Though some through ignorance some throgh spite Haue said that I can neither read nor write But though my lines no scholership proclaime Ye● I at learning haue a kind of ayme And I haue gatherd much good obseruations From many humane and diuine translations I was well entred forty Winters since As farre as possum in my Accidence And reading but from ●ossu● to posset There I was mir'de and could no further get Which when I thinke vpon with mind deiected I care to thinke how learning I neglect●d The Poet Quid or Ouid if you will Being in English much hath helpt my skill And Homer too and Virgil I haue seene And reading them I haue much better'd beene Godfrey of Bulloyne well by Fairfax done Du Bartas that much loue hath rightly wonne Old Chaucer Si●ney Spencer Daniel Nash I dipt my finger where they vs'd to wash As I haue read these Poets I haue noted Much good which in my memory is quoted Of Histories I haue perusde some store As no man of my function hath done more The Golden legend I did ouer tosse And found the Gold mixt with a deale of drosse I haue read Plutarchs Morals and his Liues And like a Bee suckt Hony from those Hiues Iosephus of the Iewes Knowles of the Turks Marcus Aurclius and Gueuara's works Lloyd Grimstone Montaigne and Suetonius Agrippa whom some call Cornelius Graue Seneca and Cambden Purchas Speed Old Monumentall Fox and Hollinshead And that sole Booke of Bookes which God hath giuen The blest eternall Testaments of heauen That I haue read and I with care confesse My selfe vnworthy of such happinesse And many more good Bookes I haue with care Lookt on their goods and neuer stole their ware For no booke to my hands could euer come If it were but the treat●se of Tom Thumb Or Scoggins Iests or any simple play Or monstrous newes came Trundling in my way All these and ten times more some good some bad I haue from them much obseruation had And so with care and study I haue writ These bookes the issue of a barren wit The most of them are verse but I suppose It is much ease to name them here in prose The names of many of the bookes that I haue written First the Sculler Vpon Coriat three merry bookes called Odcombs complaint Coriats resurrection and Laugh and be fat The nipping or snipping of Abuses Two mad things against Fenor Taylors Vrania The marriage of the Princesse An Elegy on Prince Henry Two bookes of all the Kings of England Three weekes three dayes and three houres obseruations in Germany Trauels to Scotland Trauels to Prague in Bohemia An Englishmans loue to Bohemia The Bible in verse The Booke of Martyrs in verse The praise of Hempseed A kicksy winsy The great O Toole Iack a Lent The praise of Beggery Tayl●rs Goose. Faire and foule weather The life and death of the Virgin Mary The Whip of Pride And lastly since the reigne of th' Emperour OTTO Was neuer seene the like of TAYLORS MOTTO All these and some which I haue quite forgot With care as is aforesaid I haue wrote I care how to conclude this carefull straine In care I care how to get out againe I care for food and lodging fire and rayment And what I owe I care to make good payment But most of all I care and will endeuer To liue so carefull that I may liue euer Thus without wronging any man a iot I shew I haue what euery man hath not My wants are such that I forgiue them free That would but steale the most of them from me My cares are many as I here expresse Poore cousin Germans vnto carelessenesse I haue a knowledge some men will read this I want the knowledge how their liking is I care in all that I herein haue pend To please the good and shew the bad to mend And those that will not thus be satisfide I haue a spirit that doth them deride I flattry want mens likings to obtaine I care to loue those tha● lo●e me againe Thus be mens ●udgements steady or vnsteady To like my Booke the ●are is tane already The Prouerb sayes that hast makes often wast Then wha● is wast imp●te it to my hast This Booke was written not that here I boast Put houres together in three dayes at most And giue me but my breakfast I le maintaine To write another e're I eate againe But well or ill or howsoe're t is pen'd L●k't as you list and so I make an END * Sil●●sters nagram ● His I●j●sties ●ame in ●u Bar●as 〈…〉 I should beleeue all were Gold that glisters In my English Latine Richard Swary I finde or coynd this worthy word The Heralds of this Office dwell at Nullibi * Le●rned 〈◊〉 l●ds 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 ●omes neere Curro Some 6 or 8. lines are old of mine owne ●ut I haue 〈◊〉 vari●d ●hem Shall Gods gifts bee common to good bad and our boats be priuate onely to the good * The character of a Watermā Thames a watermans best friend whom hee delights to crosse * Strange Eloquence * Bookes that I haue read of Poesie Part of the Bookes of History that I haue read * I was m●ch beholding to this Emperors name to make vp the meeter