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A13415	All the vvorkes of Iohn Taylor the water-poet Beeing sixty and three in number. Collected into one volume by the author: vvith sundry new additions corrected, reuised, and newly imprinted, 1630.; Works	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.; Cockson, Thomas, engraver.	1630 (1630)	STC 23725; ESTC S117734	859,976	638

Dice Is now most Gentleman-like exercise But for these few that in those dayes remaine Who are addicted to this shooting veine Let men but note their worthy disposition And we shall see they are of best condition Free honest spirits such as men may trust In all their actions constant true and iust It is a thing I haue obserued long An Archers mind is cleare from doing * For the most part this is generall wrong It is a * K. Henry the 8. did with the consent of the 2. estates in the Parliament enact a Stature for shooting● which Statute is still of force though not in vse note worthy respect and marke An Archer is no base defamed Sharke Not giuen to pride to couetousnesse or To swearing which all good men doe abhorre Nor doth he exercise or take delight To cheate to cogge to lye and to backe-bite But with most louing friendly conuersation He practiseth this manly recreation There was a Statute in th' eight Henries raigne Which Statute yet doth in full force remaine And as it stands in force so doth my Muse With that it were obseru'd and kept in vse Within these few yeeres I to mind doe call The Yeomen of the Guard were Archers all A hundred at a time I oft haue seene With Bowes Arrowes ride before the * Queene Elizabeth Queene Their Bowes in hand their Quiuers on their shoulders Was a most stately shew to the beholders And herein if men rightly doe obserue The Arrowes did for two good vses serue First for a shewe of great magnificence And trusty weapons for to guard their Prince Prince Charles our hope of Britaines happinesse Doth his affection oftentimes expresse With many Noble men of worthy race Doe with their best performance shooting grace And long may these * The Highland-men or Red-shanks in Scotland are exceeding good archers superiour Worthies liue Example to th' inferiour sort to giue That though this exercise be much declin'd May some supporters and defenders find King Sauls braue sonne true-hearted Ionathan * 2 ●am 1. 18. Dauids true friend a Prince a valiant man Did in this noble quality excell As the true story of his life doth tell King Dauid made a Law and did command That shooting should be taught within this land Thus from true Histories we plainely see That shooting is of great antiquity And that the glory of the Gooses wings Hath beene aduanc'd by Princes Lords and Kings And that yet Princes Peeres and Potentates And best of all conditions and estates Doe giue to Archery the praise and prise Of the best manly honest exercise The praise of the Gooses Quill ANd thus for shooters hauing shew'd my skill I 'le now say somewhat for the Gooses Quill Great Mars his Traine of Military men I leaue and turne the Shaft into a Pen The Gooses feather acteth sundry parts And is an Instrument both of Armes and Arts. Many diuine and heauenly mysteries And many memorable Histories Had with blind Ignorance beene ouer-growne And were 't not for the Pen had ne'r bin knowne The Muses might in Parnass hill haue staid Their fames had ne'r bin through the world displaid But that the Gooses Quill with full consent Was found to be the fittest Instrument To be their Nuntius and to disperse Their glory through the spacious Vniuerse Grammar that of all Science is the ground Without it in forgetfulnesse were drownd And Rethorick the sweet rule of eloquence Through the Goose Quill distils it's Quintess●●● Logick with definitions I am sure Were nothing or else very much obscure Astronomie would lye or lye forgot And scarce remembred or regarded not Arithmetick would erre exceedingly Forgetting to deuide and multiply Geometry would lose the Altitude The craslic Longitude and Latitude And Musick in poore case would be o're-throwne But that the Goose Quill pricks the Lessons downe Thus all the liberall Sciences are still In generall beholding to the Quill Embassages to farre remoted Princes Bonds Obligations Bills and Euidences Letters twixt foe and foe or friend and friend To gratulate instruct or reprehend Assurances where faith and troth is scant To make the faithlesse to keepe couenant The Potent weapon of the reuerend Law That can giue life or death saue hang or draw That with a Royall or a noble dash Can from the Kings Exchequer fetch the Cash To most shop-keepers it a reckoning makes What 's got or lost what he layes out or takes Without the Goose a Scriuener were a foole Her Quill is all his onely working toole And sure a Goose is of a wondrous nature Contrary to each other liuing creature Things that in water earth or ayre haue growth And feede and liue bite onely with the mouth But the Goose with sophisticated skill Doth bite most dangerously with her quill Yet is she free from prodigality And most of all bites partiality She oft with biting makes a Knight a detter * A shrewd biting beast And rankle to a Begger little better She oft hath bit a Gallant from his land With quick conueyance and by slight of hand Sometimes his biting is as durable As is a Gangren most incureable And many that into her fangs doe fall Doe take the Counters for their Hospitall A Forger or a Villaine that forsweares Or a False-witnesse she bites off their eares On me her pow'r she many times hath showne And made me pay more debts then were mine o●●● Thus doth her Quill bite more then doe her chaps To teach fooles to beware of after-claps They say in Latine that a Gooses name ●● ANSER which made in Anagram SNARE in English which doth plaine declare That she to fooles and knaues will be a snare * Hereupon began the Prouerbes of good Goose bite not ●deede she oft hath beene a snare to mee ●y selfe was in the fault alas not shee The memorable honour of the Goose sauing the Capitoll at Rome Bvt now to shew her neuer-dying name And how at Rome she wan deseruing fame When barbarous Brennus cruell King of Galls And wasted Italy and raz'd Romes Walls When deuastation did depopulate With sword and furious fire the Romane state When many a throat was tyrannously cut And all the Citie to the sacke was put When many of the Citizens did flye ●●to the Capitoll to liue and dye Whereas the Image of great Iupiter The rip rap thwick thwack thumping thunderer Was of refined gold adorn'd ador'd Where helples fooles poore helples helpe implor'd The Capitoll a goodly building was And did for strength by Art and Nature Passe ●o that the people that were there within Thought it impregnable that none could win But slender watch vpon the walls they kept And thinking all secure secure they flept They thought Ioues Statue and his Temple there Was a sure guard that foes they need not feare But Ioue these dangers did not vnderstand Or else he had some other worke in hand Perhaps poore Io like a Cow in shape He

hee in Progresse went Of whores Bawds Panders such a Rabblement Sixe hundred Waggons History reports Attended onely on these braue consorts This was a Royall whoremaster indeed A speciall a Or rather Malefactor Benefactor at their need But now since Heli●gabalm deceast I thinke the world with whores is so increast That if it had an Emperour as mad He might haue twice so many as he had For by experience wee see euery day That bad things doe increase good things decay And vertue with much care from vertue breeds Vice freely springs from vice like stinking weeds Sardanapalus King of Babylon Was to his whores such a companion That hee in their attire did fow and sing An exercise vnfitting for a King This seruent Lust which some call ardent Loue Did cause the Bastard b Hercules of the mighty Ioue To please his Iole hee tooke a Wheele And laying by his Club did spin and Reele Great Ioue himselfe could not this snare escape Lust led him on to many a shamelesse Rape Poore Hebe Hele * Iupiter transformed himselfe into all these shapes to attaine his desire Darna and Europae Alcmena lo Sem●●● and Leada Antiopa Asterie Gan●●●●●● These and a number more his fancy fed To compasse which his shifts were manifold T' a Bull a Ram a Swan a showre of Gold To dreadfull Thunder and consuming fire And all to quench his inward flames desire Apollo turn'd faire Daphus into a The Bay tree of Lawrell Bay Because shee from his Lust did flye away Hee lou'd his Hiacinct and his Coronis As feruently as Venus and Adonis So much hee from his God-head did decline That for a wench he kept Admetus Kine And many other gods haue gone astray If all he true which Ouids Booke doth say Thus to fulfill their Lusts and win their Truls Wee see that these vngodly gods were Guls. The mighty Captaine b Aebilles who was flaine besotted to his death for the loue of Polixena of the Mermidons Being captiu'd to these base passions Met an vntimely vnexpected slaughter For faire Polixena King Priams daughter Lucrecia's Rape was Tarquins ouerthrow Shame often payes the debt that sinne doth owe. What Philomela lost and Tereus wonne It causde the luft full Farther c Tereus King of Thrace ate of his owne Sonne It is made into pyment by his wife Pr●gne ●ate his Sonne In this vice Nero tooke such beastly ioy He married was to Sporus a yong Boy And d A Tyrant Prince in Corinth Periander was with Lust so led He with Mellissa lay when shee was dead Pigmaliou e Plutarch with an Image made of Stone Did loue and lodge I 'le rather lye alone Aristophanes ioyn'd in loue would be To a shee Asse but what an Asse was he A Roman f Appius murthered himselfe because V●rginias father had slaine her to free her from his L●●● Appius did in Iale abide For loue of faire Virginia where hee dyde Our second Henry g King Henry the second King of England Aged Childish fond On the faire feature of faire Rosamond That it rais'd most vnnaturall hatefull strife Betwixt himselfe his children and his wife The end of which was that the iealous Queene Did poyson h At 〈…〉 Rosamond in furious spleene The fourth King Edward lower did descend He to a Goldsmiths wife i Mistris Shore his loue did bend This sugred sinne hath beene so generall That it hath made the strongest Champions fall For Sichen rauisht k She was Iacobs daughter whose Rape was accutsedly reuenged by her brethren Si●ers ●●● Leui Genesis Dina for which deed A number of the Sichemites did bleed And Samson in the prime of manly strength By Dalila was ouercome at length King Dauid frailely fell and felt the paine And with much sorrow was restor'd againe Though Saul his foe he no way would offend Yet this sinne made him kill his loyall friend Ammon with l ● Sam 11. m ● Sam. 13. Thamar Incest did commit And Absalon depriu'd his life for it And Salomon allow'd most Royall meanes To keepe three hundred Queenes seuen hundred queanes By whose meanes to Idolatry he fell Almost as low as to the gares of Hell At last repeating he makes declaration That all was vanity and spirits vexation Aboundance of examples men may finde Of Kings and Princes to this vice inclin'd Which is no way for meaner men to goe Because their betters oft haue wandred so For they were plagu'd of God and so shall we Much more if of their sinne we partners be To shew what Women haue beene plagued in The bottomlesse Abysse of this sweet sinne There are examples of them infinite Which I ne'r meane to read much lesse to write To please the Reader though I 'l set downe some As they vnto my memory doe come Flora a Whore in Rome great wealth did win By her deare trading and her Commings in Which wealth she freely gaue when she did dye Vnto the Roman people generally For which they all to shew their thanks vnto her Made her a Goddesse and did Reuerence doe her And L●is of Corinth ask'd Demosthenes One hundred Crownes for one nights businesse For which a crue of Whores did set vpon her A Whore she was and whores to death did stone her There was a famous Whore a She was seruant to Exanthus and fellow to Esop the Fabulist Rhodope nam'd Who for her gaine at such high price she gam'd That she most liberall did the charges beare A stately high Piramides to reare Great Iulius Caesar was much ouerseene With Cleopatra the AEgyptian Queene And after she insnar'd Marke Antony For which they both by their owne hands did dye b Queene of Babylon slaine by her Sonne whom shee would haue had to haue lyen with her Semiramis plaid the inhumane Trull And was enamour'd with a beastly Bull So did c Pasipha wife to Minos King of ●●●le Pasipha but me thinks 't is strange That Queenes so farre from womenhood should range Muba Adonis mother caus'd her father The flower of her virginitie to gather If wife Vlysses had not well beene arm'd Inchanting Circe had his honor charm'd When youthfull Paris stole the lustfull Punke Faire Hellen had the ship that bore them sunke Then thirty Kings in peace at home had staid Nor Troy or Troians in their ruines laid Faire d Messalina and Faustine two Empresses Messalina a most royall Whore Wife vnto Cla●dius the Emperour The sports of Venus in the Stewes did play Sometimes full fiue and twenty times a day Marcus Aurelius did faire Paustine wed And she with Whoring did behorne his head And many Princes and great Potentates With Vulcans crest haue arm'd their noble pates This to the poorest Cuck old seemes a bliss That he with mighty Monarchs sharer is That though to be cornuted be a griefe Yet to haue such braue partners is reliefe These Whores and Whore-masters which I

so himselfe himselfe doth ouerthrow The Philistines his childrens bloud did spill And with his Sword King Saul King Saul did kill 2. Samuel King Deuids royall heart is fild with woe For Ionathan and Saul his friend and foe In Regall state he liues and flourisheth And loues Sauls Grandchild lame Mephibosheth Affection blinds him on Vriahs wife T' accomplish which her husband lost his life The King 's reprou'd by Nathan and repents And by repenting heau'ns high wrach preuents Incestuous Amnon Abs●lon doth kill For forcing Tamar gainst her Virgin will He 's reconcil'd vnto his louing Sire And proudly to the Kingdome doth aspire The old King flees and ouer Iordane hies The Sonne pursuing and the Father flyes Achitophel himselfe hangs in dispaire And Absolon dyes hanged by the haire The King for his rebellious Sonne doth mourne His people numbred are at his returne The Lord is wrath the pestilence increast That seuenty thousand dye and then it ceast 1. Kings The Kingly Prophet valiant Dauid dyes His Throne is left to Salomon the wise False Adoniah Ioab Shimei kild By his command as erst his Father wild With speed he sends for workmen from farte Coasts To build a Temple to the Lord of Hosts Before or after him was neuer such That had of wisedome or of wealth so much A thousand women some wed some vnwed This wise King to Idolatry misled He dyes and 's buried by his fathers toome And Rehoboam doth succeed his roome Now Israel from Iudah is diuided Both Kingdomes by bad Kings are badly guided Yet God to Iacobs seed doth promise keepe And raises faithfull Pastors for his sheepe 2. Kings Eliah worketh wonders with his word By inspiration of the liuing Lord He 's taken vp aliue and his blest Spirit Doth doubly in Elisha●s breast inherit Some Kings doe gouerne well most gouerne ill And what the good reformes the bad doth spill Till Isr'el Iudah King and Kingdome 's lost To great Nebu●hadn●zzar and his host 1. Chronicles Here euery Tribe is numbred to their names To their memorials and immortall fames And Dauids acts t' instruct misguided men Are briefly here recorded all agen 2. Chronicles The state of Israel I●dah and their Kings This Booke againe againe Recordance brings Their plagues of plague of ●●mine●●l●uery sword For their contem●ing heau'ns All sauing word M●●●ss●●● Pra●er M●●●ss●● almost drown'd in black despaire Gaines mercy by repentance and by prayer Ezrs. The Persian Monarch C●●●● granteth haue The Iewes once more their freedom● should receiue When at Ierus●l●m they make ab●d They all with zeale ●●●●● the house of God Malicious men with poysnous ●●●●● fild Makes Arta●●● ●irde● tho'e that build Yet God so workes that Israels is lo●e and z●ale Res●mes againe their ancient Church and weale Nehemiah The booke of Ezra doth concord with this Commanding good forbidding what 's amisse And godly Nehemiah ●●●●● reform'd What sinne and Sathan had long time deform'd Esther Here he that dwels in heauen doth deride Queene Vshy's and ambitious Hamans pride The Iewes are sau'd by Esters suite from death And Haman and his Sons hang'd loose their breath Poore Mordecay is held in high account And to great greatnesse humbly he doth mount Thus God doth raise all those his Lawes doe seeke He layes the lofty low ex●l●s the meeke Iob. No lusse of Sonnes and Daughters goods and all Make not this man into impatience fall Assailing Sathan tempring wife false friends With perfect patience he ●ll woe●● defends I ●●●●●●●● quoth he into this world And ●●●●d her●●●●●● I shall be hur●d God giues and takes according to his word And blessed euer bee the liuing Lord. Ps●lmes The blessed Kingly Prophet sweetly sings ●●●nall praises to the King of Kings Gods Power Iustice Mercy Fauour looke For they are comprehended in this Booke Prouerbs The wisest man that euer man begot In heauenly Prouerbs shewes what 's good what 's not Ecclessiastes Health strength wit valour wordly wisdome pelfe All 's nought and worse then vanity it selfe Salomons song This Song may well be call'd the Song of Songs It to the heauenly Bride and Groome belongs It truely shewes Christs loue vnto his loue His Church his Wife his Virgin Spouse his Doue Isa●ah This worthy Prophet truely doth foretell How Christ shall come to conquer death and hell Rewards vnto the godly he repeats And to the godlesse he denounceth threats Ieremy This Man of God long time before foreshoes Ierusalems Captiuity and woes Lamentations He wishes here his head a fountaine deepe That he might weepe weepe nothing else but weep That he might gush forth flowing streames fo teares For Iuaah's thraldome misery and feares Eze●hiel In Babylon this Prophet Captiue is And there he prophesies of bale and blisse How all must come to passe the Lord hath said How Iudgement surely comes although dalayed Daniel The Kings darke dreame the Prophet doth expound For which he 's highly honour'd and renown'd Nabuchadnezzar doth an Image frame Commands all paine of death t' adore the same Three godly Iewes by no meanes will fall downe And for contempt are in the fornace throwne Where midst the flames vnhurt they sweetly sing Which wonder doth conuert the tyrant King Here Daniel Prophesies of Christ to come Of Babel Persia Gra●ia and Rome Hosea He tels misgouern'd Israel their sinnes And how the losse of grace destruction winnes Ioel. This Prophet tels the stubborne hearted Iewes How heau'ns consuming wrath apace ensues He therefore doth perswade them to contrition And by contrition they shall haue remission Amos. Mans thanklesse heart and Gods vnmeasur'd loue This Prophet doth to Isr'els faces proue Obadiah He comforts Pudah ouer-prest with woes And prophesies destruction of their foes Ionah Here Ionah tels the Nini●itrs except Repentance wrath of Heauen doe intercept In forty dayes high low rich poore great small The Lords hot fury shall consume them all With hearts vn●aign'd the sinfull Citie mournes The Lord grants mercy Ionah backe returnes Micah He speakes of Isr'els and of Iuda's crimes And tels them their confusion comes betimes Nah●m The Nini●ites againe forsake the Lord And are subdu'd by the Assirian sword This Prophet comforts those that are opprest And tels the godly they shall be releast Habakkuk He doth be waile th' oppression of the poore For mercy humbly he doth God implore To keepe the Captiu'd Iewes from fell despaire He te●ches them a heauenly forme of Prayer Zephania● He fils the good with hope the bad with ●eare And tels the Iewes their thraldome draweth neere Haggay He exhorteth them to patience in their paine And bids them build the Temple once againe Zachariah He tels the Iewes why they haue plagued beene He bids them shunne Idolatry and sinne Malachi For sinne he doth repro●e both Peince and Priest And shewes the comming both of Iohn and Christ. Which Christ shall be a Sauiour vnto all That with true faith obey his heauo●ly call Ap●●ryph● These bookes doe all in generall intimate The State