THE Booke in meâ—ter of Robin Conscience against his Father Coâ—…e his Mother 〈…〉 â—is Sister Proud Beaâ—… 〈…〉 to beâ—â—d and 〈◊〉 of all people that will anoide the dangers thereof which is vnto condemnation Newly corrected by the Author Abacuc 2. Curssed be he that getteth any thing into his house by Couetousnes Esay 33. He shall dwell with God that is without Couetousnes 〈◊〉 way with Gods woord will not agrée Wherefore good Father in time héere repent And haue a respect vnto Christs Testament Father What Robin me thinks thou hast little wit Doost thou think scorne to come to promotion To marry with gentills I trow it is fit Hauing with them of money a good portion Beware of extortion What though it be gotten by craft and extortion By the Masse it is all my delight and pleasure To haue héere aboundance of worldly treasure Robin By extortion Father mary God it forefend That any Christian man therin should delight Father giue me no stolne goods my welth to amend Vnlesse I doo liue by the poore mans right As I feare that some doo both Lord and Knight Wherfore 〈◊〉 Father 〈◊〉 time heere repent And haue a respect vnto Christs Testament Father Ah Robin I perceiue now so God me saue That thou wilt be but a meane gentleman Séeing you be such a Conscionable knaue A shameles aunswer for a Parent Goe séeke thou thy liuing where that thou can Tush what care I though the people me ban By the Masse it is all my delight and pleasure To haue heere aboundance of worldly treasure Robin Oh Father séeke first héere the kingdome of Heauen And gather you vp of Gods treasure therin to lay And not wicked Mammon to fulfill the sinnes seuen for that were a very right damnable way Remember Father that you be but earth and clay Wherfore good Father I pray you yet repent And haue a respect vnto Christs Testament Father Robin wouldst thou not haue me to buy and sell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 buy sell and keepe in store so it be doon lawfully and in a right can Nor yet to kéepe in store for to doo me good By the masse if I follow thée or the Gospell At the length I might chance to lye in my hood Tush I will be counted heere for a lusty blood Séeing it is all my delight and pleasure I will haue aboundance of worldly treasure Robin Father you haue enough if you haue not too much For this I dare be holde héere to auow You haue ten times more ground and money in your hutch Then euer had my Grand-sire you will this allow Yet he kept a better house then euer did you Wherfore good Father amend and repent And haue a respect vnto Christs Testament Father Tush Robin thy talke is foolish and fond I know thy minde that thou goest about Thou wouldst haue me liue only by my land Be liberal vnto the poore And to kéepe open house for euery Iack rout No I will feast none but the rufling rout For it is all my delight and pleasure To haue héere aboundance of worldly treasure Robin Father I would haue you to liue so that God may be pleased And for your good life God will giue you méede Father spend your goods so that the poore may be eased For your riches be lent you to doo such a deede And do not spend all on the rich for they haue no néede Wherfore good Father in time yet repent And haue a respect vnto Christs Testament Father By the masse Robin I think thou art mad The bread of the needfull is the life of the poore Eccle. 3.4 Should I feast beggers mary fie for shame I dare say it would make some gentlemen sad That all rich men should haue such a name Yea I my selfe will confesse the same Séeing it is my whole delight and pleasure Heere beginneth Mother Newgise to talke with Robin her Sonne onely for the ease and pleasure of this world Very necessary to be read and marked of all newfangled women that they may auoide the desires therof Mother SOone Robert I heard say that your Father and you Haue had since you went great communication Concerning our welth which you will not allow You are of such a strange holy fashion But this shal be only my preparation To liue and goe gentle-like gallant and gay Séeing it is my chéefe desire alway Robin Mother like as I said of late vnto my Father Euen so I say now vnto you certaine I would wish you to desire Gods kingdome rather Then either welth ease pleasure or gaine Mother beware of apparell for it is but vaine Wherfore good Mother marke this thing well Yet liue and goe Christian like after the Gospell Mother Sonne I will liue easily now in mine olde age A wicked desire of new fangled Women And also goe as gallantly as I can deuise What though the people doo raile and rage And say that I goe painted vp like butter-flyes I will haue my clothes made of the new gife To liue and goe gentle like gallant and gay Oh Sonne it is my cheefe desire alway Robin Yet Mother remember the vertuous good wiues As Sara Rebecea and Rachell with many other moe Which clothed them-selues all the dayes of their liues With shamefastnes chastitie and sobrietie also Which contrary to their husbands minde would not goe Wherfor good Mother marke this thing well To liue and goe Christian like after the gospell Mother Sonne what though your father would not haue me goe clad Women of an euil condition Now after my minde by him in gorgious apparrell Should I be ruled by him nay then I were mad Yet had I rather with him pick a quarrell Though I for my labour had straight of the barrell For to liue and goe gentle like gallant and gay By the masse it is my chéefe desire alway Robin O Mother ye be now in a wicked minde Seeing you will disobay your husband for this You show your selfe to be vnnaturall and vnkinde And that you haue giuen him many a Iudas kisse Your act will declare how you haue doon amisse Wherfore good Mother marke this thing well Yet liue and goe Christian like after the Gospell Mother Sonne I will liue gentle like and goe at my pleasure Seeing thy Father for his substance might be a gentleman And though he were poore and had but little treasure A pointe of an vnthriftye Huswife Yet would I goe gallantly say he what he can For I would borrow or els pledge pot kettle or pan To liue and goe gentle-like gallant and gay Séeing it is my chéefe desire alway Robin O Mother I think you are past all shame You would make a right good man to fret Think you by your pledging to get you good name Or by bringing your husband into danger or det Fye that either rich or poore their mindes thus should set To maintaine their pride wherfore murke this thing well
Liue and goe Christian like after the gospell Mother Am I past shame thou péelde apish boy Thou malapert knaue controlest thou me Thou shalt fare the woorsse I swere by Saint Loy The brag of affinity that commeth of Nobility Or any that are of thy sect or propertie Wilt thou be against my estate or degree I come of the stocke to goe gallant and gay Wherfore it is my cheefe desire alway Robin Mother I doo not dispraise your stocke Nor yet your owne person will I discommend But I would haue you so liue to be of Christs flocke And so aske Godmercy with pride whom ye offend This is the hurt that I you pretend Wherfore good Mother marke this thing well Liue and goe Christian like after the Gospell Mother A proude enterprise of the base sorte of some women now a dayes I pray thée Soone Robert tell me no such tale For I will goe frocked and in a french hood I will haue my fine Cassockes and my round Verdingale Like one that came of a noble borne blood By the masse to think of it it dooth my hart good To liue and goe gentle like gallant and gay Oh it is my chéefe desire alway Robin With Nobilitie Mother you may not compare Although ye be rich héere in worldly substance Neither with apparrell nor yet ordinary fare To be equall with them you may not your selfe inhaunce For they haue their vocation and you haue but your chance Wherfore good Mother marke this thing well Liue and goe Christian like after the Gospell Mother Sonne liue they not Christian like that banket at the wine And goeth in their billaments of fine pearle and golde Also with broadered haire wherunto they inclne Spending much yeerly this trade to vpholde Thus setting foorth them selues both yong and olde Is not this Christian like gallant and gay Sonne this doo I chéefly desire alway Robin Christian like Mother no I will not so say But heathen indeed such pompe doo vse Saint Paule and Saint Peter dooth set foorth the array Marke well what Christian women should take and refuse Weare sover apparrell but desire no newes Wherfore good Mother marke this thing well Liue and goe Christian like after the Gospell Mother To weare sober apparrell what me anest thou by that My clothes are not drunke I would thou shouldst knowe I think thou speakest by my red silk hat But and I liue another yeer I will haue a better showe I will not goe thus sluttishly I trowe To liue and goe gentle like gallant and gay Séeing it is my cheefe desire alway Robin Mother the sober apparrell that I do meane Apparell for womeÌ„ both holy dayes and woorking dayes Is sadnes wisdome vertue and learning Also your bodily apparell is comely to be seene For your degree euen now in your going It is not sumptuous apparrell that is to Gods pleasing But a decent order wherfore marke this thing well Liue and goe Christian like after the gospell Mother Sonne holde thy peace for thy talke makes me weary A Robin Robin thou art a shrowd toward Childe If thy Father were of thy minde I could not be merry The desperat minde of wicked women Nay I had rather be dead by sweet Mary milde Farwell if thou proouest not a knaue I am beguilde If I do not liue gentle like to goe gallant and gay By the masse I would I were hanged vp out of the way Robin Such a tree such frute from it dooth proceed Fye Mother fye that you wish you such ill Repent your speaking and beware of the deed Vnlesse both your soule and body you doo kill I feare that the deuill with you hath wrought his will Now will I to my Sister to giue her some counsell For she hath many tricks to bring her vnto hell FINIS She Deuils are hard to turne Heere Prowd Beautye beginneth to talke with Robin her Brother for her proud fancye and wanton dallying Very necessary to be read and marked of all Maydens that seeke the vaine glory of this world and the vncomly trickes therin that they may auoide the dangers therof for feare of condemnation The Maide The name of Gods woord to the blasphemie therof BRother Robert yesterday as I vnderstand With my Father and Mother you were offended With her for her apparell and with him for his land Thou wouldst by the gospell haue them amended Mary I with my selfe haue thus pretended To be faire and feate nice and neate is a gay thing To colly and kis my pleasure it is for all your new learning Robin New learning Sister what you be very bolde Thus disdainfully to giue it such a name Gods woord indéed is both new and olde To set a woorke all things in right frame But you boast of knackes that will bring you to shame Wherfore measure your pleasure by Gods woord and will And you shall finde that your minde is whorish and ill Maide What whorish you knaue by the blessed masse Whore I am thus to sweare God giue thée sorrow Euill woorde corrupt good maners Dout not if I can bring my maisters to passe I will haue knacks indeed you knaue by tomorrow Yet will I for them neither beg steale nor horrow Oh to be faire and feate nice and neate is a gay thing To colly and kis my pleasure it is for all your new learning Robin Sister it becommeth maides to be gentle of speach Both to man wife and childe whersoeuer they gee That your woords and woorkes your children may teache To liue in the feare of God héerafter also Would you be and doo as you liâ—â— no sister no. But measure your pleasure by Gods woord and will And you shall finde that your minde is whorish and ill Maide Iack sauce I say thou lout thou hoddie peake I defie thy teaching I would thou know Doost thou take vpon thee to learne me speake By the masse but for shame thou shouldst beare me a blow As I am of person so my behauiour shall show Oh to be faire and feate nice and neate is a gay thing To colly and kis my pleasure it is for all your new learning Robin Salomon declareth this by the beautifull rout A faire woman without discrete manners saith he Is like a ring of golde on a Swines snout The which is a thing sister vncomely to see And now surely by you it well may spoken be If you measure your pleasure by Gods woord and will You shall finde that your minde is whorish and ill Maide By my troth for a knaue I will thée allow All the dayes of thy life thou shalt be none other Doost thou liken me and my maners vnto a sow Mary I defie thée though thou art my brother Sir my fashions doo please my Father and Mother Oh to be faire and feate nice and neate is a gay thing To colly and kis my pleasure it is for all your new learning Robin Sister can you be fayrer
then God hath you made Feater or neater by policye or wit I aske you because your coulour oft dooth fade And your clothes very grossely about you do sit If you vse any thing not honest and fit Then measure your pleasure by Gods woord and will And you shall finde that your minde is whorish and ill Maide The practises and motions of Sathan and are vsed of those that be his fathers darlings now a dayes If God make my face as browne as a berry I can painte it white and ruddish withall And if God make me looke as red as a Cherry I can drie vp my blood with Chalke in a wall If God make me grosse I can pent my selfe small To be faire and feate nice and neate is a gay thing To colly and kisse my pleasure it is for all your new learning Robin Oh what a damnable euill that either Christian or Turke Should trans-forme them selues from their first creation What Lucifer woman will amend Gods woorke They farre excell the Sodomites in this abomination O pride out of measure O sathans generation Measure this pleasure by Gods woord and will And you shall finde that your mind is whorish and ill Maide Tush I can dye my haire be it neuer so black I can make it shine like golde in a little space The workes of the euill Also to tire vp my head I haue such a knack That some maides will delight to follow my trace I can lay out my haire to set out my face Oh to be faire and feate nice and neate is a gay thing To colly and kisse my pleasure it is for all your new learning Robin To dye and to fleare your haire so abroad Surely sister you doo it shamfully vse For with the Scriptures it dooth not accord That maides nor wiues their haire should so abuse Couer it for shame it is the vse of the 〈◊〉 Wherfore measure your pleasure vp Gods woord and 〈◊〉 And you shall finde that your minde is whorish and ill Maide The decking and balming of proud liuing Idols Brother thou art but a foole me thus so checke For I will haue my Pomande is of 〈…〉 smell Also my Chaines of golde to hang about my necke And my broadered haire while I at home dwell Stomachers of golds becommeth me well To be faire and feate nice and neate is a gay thing To colly and kis my pleasure it is for all your new learning Robin Sister in the third of Esay the Lord saith plaine For your broadered haire you shall haue baldnes For your Chaines of golde you shall haue halters certaine For your Pomanders and muske you shal haue stink doutles And for your stomachers sack-cloth this he dooth confes Wherfore measure your pleasure by Gods woord and will And you shall finde that your minde is whorish and ill Maide If the Lord plague all those that so leade their liues With halters and stinkings and with baldnes of head Great shame it will be both for maidens and wiues Feare and shame much fin doth tame That so tire them selues dayly till they goe to bed To be thus plagued marry I had rather to be dead To be faire and feate nice and neate is a gay thing To colly and kis my pleasure it is for all your new learning Robin Sister your colling and kissing will haue an euill end To clatter and flatter is no maidenlike way Your gladnes and madnes dooth God sore offend To intice men to vice is all your chéefest play In their sight your delight is for to goe gay Wherfore measure your pleasure by Gods woord and will And you shall finde that your minde is whorish and ill Maide I perceiue that thou wouldst haue me liue like a mome I will talke no 〈…〉 I must depart By the 〈…〉 My 〈…〉 If thou be thy talk◠〈…〉 Father conuert Then 〈…〉 Were 〈…〉 Robin Sister 〈◊〉 haue you and saâ—e youâ— if it be his pleasure And present to 〈…〉 your life is now euill Look in 〈…〉 to haue heauenly treasure There 〈◊〉 to be medâ— your proud harâ— to kill Make haste for to taste of Gods holy will 〈◊〉 it is he 〈…〉 to those that be penitent Wherfore yet euermore 〈…〉 Christs Testament FINIS To talke well with some women dooth as much good As a sicke man to eate vp a loade of greene wood AT London Printed by Edward Allde