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A11120
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The knaue of clubbs
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Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630?
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1609
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STC 21387; ESTC S105178
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Resurrexit non est hic Your God is risen and gon A cowards hould chalenge that was beaten with a broome-staffe WHereas of late thou didst prouoke mine ire To burne in choler like mount Aetnaes fire Rowsing my courage forth of valours den To fight with monsters and to combat men Know I am for thee from the cannon-shot Vnto the smallest bodkin can be got Name any weapon whatsoe're thou wilt May-pole or ship-mast for to run a tilt On horse or foote in armor or in shirt Thou shalt finde me true valorous expert Pike-staffe and Pistoll Musket two-hand sword Or any weapon Europe can afford Let fauchon Polax Launce or Halbert try With Flemings-kniues either to steake or snye I l'e meete thee naked to the very skin And stab with pen-kniues Caesars wounds therin At length this Gull that seemd of tongue so tall Was by his aduersary met withall Whose blowes the champions fury did allay And with a sticke his rapier tooke away The Deuils health-drinker WHo dares dispraise Tobacco While the smoke is in my nose Or say but fogh my pipe dooth smell I would I knew but those Durst offer such indignitie To that which I preferre For all the broode of Black-a-moores Will sweare I doe not erre In taking this same worthy whiffe What valiant caueleere That will not make his nostrils smoke At cups of wine and beere VVhen as my purse cannot affoord My stomacke flesh or fish I sup with smoke and feede aswell And fat as one can wish Come into any company Though not a crosse you haue Yet offer them Tobacco And their liquor you shall haue They say old hospitalitie Kept chimnies smoaking still Now what our chimnies want of that Our smoaking noses will Much victuals serue for gluttony To fatten men like swine But hee 's a frugall man indeed That with a leafe can dine And needes no napkin for his hands His fingers ends to wipe But keepes his kitchin in a box And rost-meat in a pipe This is the way to helpe deere yeares A meale a day 's inough Take out Tobacco for the rest By pipe or else in snuffe And you shall finde it phisicall Within a yeare will shrinke so small That one his guts may span T is full of phisicke rare effects It worketh sundry waies The leafe greene dry steept burnd the dust Haue each their speciall praise It makes some sober that are drunke Some drunke of sober sence And all the moisture hurts the braine It fetcheth smoaking thence All the foure Elements vnite When you Tobacco take For Earth and Water Aire and Fire Do a coniunction make Your pipe is Earth the fires therein The Aire your breathing smoke Good liquor must be present too For feare you chance to choake Heere Gentlemen a health t' ee all T' is passing good and strong I would speake more but from the pipe I cannot stay so long AT Gads-hill late where men are theeuish crost An honest friend his purse with ten pounds lost And as the villains were new gone away Three horsmen came to whome the man did say Oh gentlemen most happy all you be To scape two theeues euen now haue robed me t' was great good fortune that til now you staide Nay frind qd they thou art deceiu'd they say'd The theeues were happie as the matter stands For by our stay they haue escaped our hands Hipocrisie thou lying knaue well met I haue thee Rascall in my paper net Thou that wilt sell saluation for a shilling And entertaine thine owne damnation willing Thou goest about with many a lie and fable To get thy dyet at anothers table Yet louest no man be he small or greate Thy loue extends no farther then his meate But villaine take this guerdon for thy hyer Be first of all approou'd a common lyer Then for each time thy cursed tongue hath tript Be thou from great mens houses soundly whipt And last of all when God and men detest thee A Hempen halter with a noose molest thee A shee-deuill made tame by a Smith A Smug of Vulcan forging trade Besmoak'd with sea cole fire The rarest man to help a horse That Carmen could desire For any Iade he phisicke had That euer load did draw The apoplexie falling euill The head-ache crampe or haw Poll-euill canker in the eye Or vlcer in the nose The lampasse crest-fall withers greife The nauill-gall all those with diuers teadious to rehearse Crowne-scab and quitter-bone Strangulion glaunders yellowes wormes Smug would giue ground to none Yet this rare smith to cure one plague That vext him was too young Which made him weary of his life It was his wiues curst tongue If to the ale house he had gon To take or giue a pot Being of a dry complexion For a Smith you know is hot His wife was present at his heeles And rong him out this peale Rogue rascall villain theefe slaue Her almes thus would she deale Come home thou drunkard to thy worke Each knaue hath thee at becke A pox take such a husband And the Deuill breake thy necke Thou sittest at the ale-house heere While I at home do spare Not caring so thy guts be full How thy poore wife doth fare Thy seruants do euen what they list Thy children they may starue Hanging 's to good for such a rogue Farre worse thou doest deserue Out filthy beast I loath thy lookes And hate thee like a toad Drunke e'ry day vngodly wretch And when thou hast thy load Call for Tobacco that thou art As blacke within as soote Before the Lord wer 't not for shame I 'de stampe thee vnder foote Get thee to worke out villaine out Thou drinkst not one drop more I would these whores that trust such knaues Might ne're be paid their score They neuer knew what sorrowe ment But griefes to others giue A mischiefe light on Hostesses That doe by drunkards liue This was her daily kindest phrase From morning vntill night That Smug would tremble like a leafe When she appear'd in sight At length more wearied with her tongue Then trauell tires a iade Vnto himselfe most resolute A cruell vow he made Which was when she did scould againe Which sure would be next morowe To knocke her downe most valiantly And make an end of sorowe This being decreed his wife next day Begins a fresh alarme Wth rogue and theefe Smug takes a barre Of Iron breakes her arme The neighbors all admire at this To heare the patient Smith Had broake an arme of his curst wife To tame her tongue therewith Wel there 's a surgeon fetcht in hast To take the queane in cure Who for the space of many months Did extreame paine indure For of all flesh ash rowes they say Is very hard to heale Therefore no wiseman willingly Will haue therewith to deale But cur'd at length though long before And like to cost her life The Smith did aske the Surgeon In the hearing of his wife What would content him for his paines Who of an honnest minde Did answere thus I see y' are poore Therefore I 'le vse you kinde I 'le take but fortie shillings friend With that I 'le be content Why then quoth Smug hould heere 's foure pound Which paiment thus is ment One arme I pay for hath bene broke And tother forty hould Against I breake her other arme The next time she doth scould His wife heares this and sees him pay Before hand for a cure Doth liue most gentle quiet meeke Guiding her tongue so sure That Smug became a happy Smith Vnto his hearts desire And had her euer at commaund In all he could require The knaue of Clubs his part hath plaide But now we want Hart Diamond Spade To shew themselues like in true shape The reason why they do escape Is this of late they fell at iarre Disperst asunder very farre Hearts in the country at new-cut And Spades in new-gate safe is shut And Diamonds he is gon to seas Sicke of the scuruy which disease If he escape and get on shore We will present you with al foure And make them march vnto the presse To vtter all their roguishnes So till they be together drawne Pray keepe the Knaue of Clubs in pawne FINIS