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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20042	The belman of London Bringing to light the most notorious villanies that are now practised in the kingdome. Profitable for gentlemen, lawyers, merchants, citizens, farmers, masters of housholdes, and all sorts of seruants to mark, and delightfull for all men to reade.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1608 (1608)	STC 6482; ESTC S116075	56,082	75

The Belman of London BRINGING TO LIGHT THE MOST NOTORIOVS Villanies that are now practised in the Kingdome Profitable for Gentlemen Lawyers Merchants Cittizens Farmers Masters of Housholdes and all sorts of seruants to mark and delightfull for all men to reade Lege Perlege Relege The third impression with new aditions Printed at London for Nathaniell Butter 1608. A Table of the principall matters contained in this Booke A Discouerie of all the idle Vagabonds in England their conditions their Lawes amongst themselues their degrees and orders their meetings and their maners of liuing both men and women A discouerie of certaine secret villanies which borrowe to themselues the names of Lawes AS Cheating Law Vincents Law Courbing Law Lifting Law Sacking Law Fiue Iumpes at Leap-frog Bernards Lawe The black Art Prigging Law High Law Figging Law The poore BELMAN of London To all those that either by office are sworne to punish or in their owne loue to vertue wish to haue the disorders of a state amended humbly dedicateth these his discoueries AT your Gates the Belman of London beateth to awaken your eies to looke back after certaine Grand and common abuses that daily walke by you keeping aloofe in corners out of the reach of Law It must be the hand of your a●thoritie that must fetch in these Rebels to the weale-publike and your arme that must strike them I chuse you as Patrons not to my booke but to defend me from those Monsters whose dennes I breake open in this my discouery More dangerous they are to a State then a Ciuill warre because their vilanies are more subtill and more endu●ing The Belman not withstanding hath plaide the Owle who is the Embleme of wisdome for sleeping in the day as abhorring to behold the impie●ies of this last and worst age of the world In the night therefore hath hee stolne foorth and with the help of his Lanthorne and Candle by which is figured circumspection hath he brought to light that broode of mischiefe which is ingendered in the wombe of darkenesse Amonstrous birth is it and therefore worthy to be looked at from monstrous parents doth it proceede and therefore the sight of it to be fearefull But of such rare temper are your eyes that as if they had sunne-beames in them they are able to exhale vp all these contagious breaths which poyson a kingdome so to spe●se them into thin aire that they shall vtterly vanish and be no more offensiue In this blacke shore of mischiefe haue I sayled along and bene a faithfull discouerer of all the creekes rockes gulfes and quick-sands in and about it Be you therefore as second aduenturers and furnish men armed with Iustice and well furnished in all points with a desire to conquer these Sauages send them to set strong and fearfull footing amongst them It shall be honour to your felues and them and a rich benefit to the Republik wherein you liue For my own part I vow that as I dedicate these my labours to your hands so will I deuote my life to the safety of my Countrie in defending her from these Serpents I will waste out mine eies with my candles and watch from midnight till the rysing vp of the morning my Bell shall euer be ringing and that faithfull seruant of mine the Dog that follows me be euer biting of these wilde beastes till they be all driuen into one heard and so hun●ed into the toiles of the Lawe Accept therefore of this Night-prize my Graue and worthy Patrons drawne rudely and presented bouldly because I know the colours layde vppon it are not counterfeite as those of borrowd beauties but this is a picture of Villanie drawen to the life of purpose that life might be d●awne from it None can be offended with it but such as are guiltie to themselues that they are such as are inrold in this Muster booke for whose anger or whose stab I care not At no mans bosome doe I particularly strike but onely at the body of Vice in Generall if my manner of Fight with these dangerous Masters of the Ignoblest Science that euer was in any kingdome do get but plau●e the Belman shall shortly bid you to another Prize where you shall see him play at other kinde of weapons Deuoted night and day yours The Belman of London THE Bel-man of London Discoueing the most notable villanies now in the Kingdome THe world at the first was made of nothing and shal a the last bee cousumed to nothing The fashion of it is round for as a Circle is the most perfit figure So this the rarest and most absolute frame that euer the Creator made It was indeed excepting that which was like himselfe his Maister peice In this great world did he place a little world and as the lesser wheeles in a clock being set a going giue motion to the greatest and serue them as guides So that little world called man doth by his Art office and power controule the greater yet is there such a harmony in both their motions that though in quantitie they differ farre they agree in qualitie and though the one was made somewhat before the other yet are they so like that they seeme to be instruments belonging to one Engine For man is made vp by the mixture of foure complections Bloud Flegme Choller and Melancholly The world is a ball made vp of foure Elements Water Ayre Earth and Fire yea these very Elements haue likewise parts in him The world is circular So is man for let him stand vpright and extend forth his armes to the length A line drawen from his nauell to all the vtmost limits of his body makes his body Orbiculer And as man hath foure ages Infancie Child-hood Youth and olde age so hath the world in which foure measures of time are filled out the Risinges and fallings the growings vp and the witherings both of the one and the other The infancy of the world was the golden age not so called because men had at that time more golde then they haue now for not to deceiue you there was then not a peece of golde stirring but as this sacred mettall is the purest that the earth can bring foorth so the golden age was the best of all the foure and the most blessed For then all the earth was but one garden where without planting grew all sorts of trees which without grafting carryed all sortes of fruites the ground was not wrinckled with ●urrowes for there were then no Plough-men to misuse her beauty the Sea was not rugged for there were then no Ships to bruse her body there were no countries for there were no Kinges all the world was but one Land and all the people in it but one Nation who knew not how to obey any because none amongst them had a desire to commaūd their houses were y● shadowy couerings of trees their statelyest buildings were grauen bowes Iustice in those daies had eyes and Pittie eares for none could