ALL THE WORKES OF IOHN TAYLOR THE WATER-POET Being 63 in Number COLLECTED INTO ONE VOLUM By the Author With Sundry new Additions Corrected Reuised and newly IMPRINTED 1630. ALL THE WORKES OF IOHN TAYLOR THE WATER-POET Beeing Sixty and three in Number Collected into one Volume by the AVTHOR VVith sundry new Additions corrected reuised and newly Imprinted 1630. AT LONDON Printed by J.B. for IAMES BOLER at the signe of the Marigold in Pauls Churchyard 1630. To the Right HonouraBLE THE LORD MARQVESSE HAMILTON Master of the Horse to his MAIESTIE IAMES HAMILLTON ANAGRAMMA I AMM ALL HONESTY Of words 't is vaine to vse a Multitude Your very Name all Goodnesse doth include TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THE Lord Steward of his Maiesties Honourable HOVSEHOLD WILLIAM HERBERT EARLE OF PENBROKE ANAGRAMMA LIBERALY MEEKâ— FOR REPVTE HONOVRABLE What can be more then is explained here T' expresse a worthy well deseruing Peere TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THE LORD Chamberlaine of his Maiesties most Honourable HOVSEHOLD PHILIP HERBERT EARLE OFF MONTGOMERY ANAGRAMMA FIRME FAITH BEGOT ALL MY PROPER HONER Firme faith begot miâ—e honor sayes my name And my firme faith shalleuer keepe the same To the Author Iohn Taylor WAst euer keowne to any time before That so much skill in Poesie could be Th'attendant to a Skull or painefull oare Thou liu'st in water but the fire in thee That mounting Element that made thee chuse To court Vrania the diuinest Muse. Row on to watermen did neuer blow Agale so good none so much goodnesse know THOMAS BREWER IOhannes Tailerus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ira an honesté lusi Lusi et stigmata pessimis inussi Paucis paruâ— furunt sed oh meorum Ira ipsa arbitra siste tu librorum Virus euome honesté an ipse lusi Respon Ars niuea hos lenit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 VErbis verbera corripi merentes Non est ira â—sed ampla mititudo Esse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 decet Poetam Sed non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 renendum est Frendens rabula carnifex vocetur Qui aurem vellit is artifex habetur Quo sque vrit leuis ira commerentes Hos lenit niuea arâ— scitè monentis Ergo ludis honesté amor notabit Naeuos leniter hostis aggrauabit T. G. Ad amicum meritò dilectum Iohannem Tailor alià s aquinatem vulgó Poëtam aquaticum hendecasyllabae QVod numen Thamesis vagae per vndas Plectro ludit eburno deorum Physis dicitur eius hic sacerdos Fundit millia mille ab ore cantus His mulcens lepidum artibus popellum Hunc quaerit Dea hunc docet sua illi Tam secreta libenter illa pandit Quam tam rara decenter ille pendit Hic verò rutilos Tagi lapillos Et grandes Orientis vniones Si his mysteria tanta conferantur Tricas quisquiliasque censet omnes De te sabula tota mi Iohannes Verso nomine scito praedicatur Parnassus cerebrum tuum est bifurcus Cor fons est Helicon sedentque linguâ Et Musae Charites venustiores Ipse es tu tibi suggerens Apollo Extrà nil opus inuocare Diues Naturae tibi sat fauor ministrans Intus pectore delitet feraci Quod multis labor improbus dat aegré Suffuratio et impudens librorum Instinctus genij tui ingenique Momento intimat euge perge lymphas Plus vltra Thamesis beate Cygnos Moeandri vada tortuosa curui Non tot quot Thamesis canora nutrit Te vicisse iuuabit hos canendo Nos iuuabit omnia imprimendo Hoc si feceris vnda dum manebit Atque aestus Thamesis manebis ipse Et campanus vt est propheta Aquinas Anglicanus eris poeta Aquinas T. 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To my worthy and well-deseruing friend our wel-known hydropoet IOHN TAYLOR Some till their throats ake cry alowd and hollo To aucupate great fauors from Apollo One Bacchus and some other Venus vrges To blesse their brain-brats Those caerulean surges Gyrdling the earth emball thy nerues and season Those animall parts quick Organs of mans reason This Nimph-adored sountaine farre excells Aganipe Aon all that Bubulkes wells These daunst about thy Quinbro-boâ—te to kisse thee And often since roare out because they misse thee These wyned with loue sicke Thame the banks o'rswel water To visit their ingenious darlings Cell Blue Neptunes salt tempred with Thames sweet Make thee both tart and pleasing What theater Of late could Cinthius halfe staru'd mists perswade T' applaud nay not to hisse at what they made Then call on Neptune still let Delos sinke Or swimme for thee let Phoebus looke or winke VVhilst his poore Priests grow mad with ill successe That still the more they write they please the lesse Thine Amphitritean Muse growes more arrident And Phoebus tripos stoopes to Neptunes trident R. 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To his friend the Author IN sport I hitherto haue told thy same But now thy Muse doth merit greater Name Soares high to Heau'n from earth and water flies And leaâ—ing baser matters mounts the skies Where hidden knowledge she doth sweetly sing Carelesse of each inferiour common thing Oh that my Soule could follow her in this To shun fowle sin and seeke eternall blisse Her strength growes great and may God euer send Me to amend my â—aults as she doth mend ROBERT BRANTHWAITE To my honest friend Iohn Taylor WHat shall I say kind Friend to let thee know How worthily I doe this worke esteeme Whereof I thinke I cannot too much deeme From which I find a world of wit doth flow The poore vnpollisht praise I can bestow Vpon ' this well deseruing worke of thine Which heere I freely offer at thy Shrine Is like a Taper when the Sunne doth showe Or bellowes helpe for Eol's breath to blow For thou as much hast soard beyond the flraine Whereto our common Muses doe attaine As Cintyhaes light exceeds the wormes that glowâ— And were my Muse reple at with learned phrase The world should know thy work deserueth praise Thine in the best of friendship RICHARD LEIGH To the deseruing author Iohn Taylor IT is disputed much among the wise If that there be a water in the skyes If there be one no Water-man before Was euer knowne to row in 't with his Oare If none such is thy high surmounting pen It soares aboue the straine of Watermen Whether there be or no seeke farre and neere Th' art matchlesse sure in this eur hemispheere WILLIAM BRANTHWAITE Cant. To my friend Iohn Taylor ROw on good Water-man and looke back still Thus as thou dost vpon the Muses Hill To guide thee in thy course Thy Boate's a sphaere Where thine Vrania moues diuinely cleare Well hast thou pli'd and with thy learned Oare Cut through a Riner to a nobler shore Then euer any landed-at Thy saile Made all of clowdes swels with a prosp'rous gale Some say there is a Ferriman of Hell The Ferriman of Heau'n I now know well And that 's thy selfe transporting soules to Blisse
rent from him to make an open passage to the beneâ—â—lent charitie of such pious persons as is your Worship for you are the true Souldiers â—â— the Countrey whose warres concerne the domestique peace of our Nation as such as myselfe doth the forreine My breeding was Geâ—tle Sir and my birth English a yonger brother and driuen to my shifts to auoyde the foule accidents of home-bred miseries I measured forreine paces and was deliuered abroad of my breeding at home in which estate the hand of your bounty must support me or â—â—â— calamity will crawle ouer me which hath no Surgeon but the gallowes to which I hope the Law will not deliuer me seeing it tame so faire a face as the reuerend aspect of your master-ships countenance By this time you must suppose that his bounty being awak'd he giues him somewhat when with our respondent prayer hee thus takes his bene vale May the Iermes be euerlasting to thee thou man of tongue and may contentions grow and multiply may Actions beget Actions and Cases engender Cases as thicke as hops may euery day of the yeere be a Shrouetuesday let Proclamations forbid fighting to encrease actions of battry that thy Cassocke may be three pilde and the welts of thy Gowne may not grow threed-bare Perhaps he meetes with same Countrey Farmer or some honest Russet home spu plaine dealing â—â—â—â— sugâ—er whom he assaults with a valley of his â—â—â— braâ—â—does in manner and forme following You shall doe well to take notice Countrey-man and friend that I am a Souldier and a Gentleman who hauing bin made Fortunes Tennis-ball was lately cast vpon these coasts of my Countrey by the merciles cruelty of the raging tempestuous seas where I haue beene in that distresse that the whole Christian world durst not so much as looke on mine Armes haue beene feared by all the enemies that euer beheld them aduanc'd and my command hath beene dreadfull through Europe Asia Africa and America from the Sunnes Easterne rising to his Westerne declination I was the first man that entred despight the mouth of the Cannon into the famous City of Pertrega a City fiue times greater then Constantinople where the great Turke then kept his Seraglio Basha Caphy Basha Inda and Mustapha Despot of Seruta being my prisoners whose ransomes yeelded my sword three millions of Hungarian Duckets with which returning thinking to make thee and the rest of my Nation rich the ship which transported me being ouer-laden tooke such a leake not a mortall eye being able to see one penny of that vncountable treasure my selfe as you see preserued a miserable spectacle of vnfortunate chance for getting astride vpon a demyculuering of braste I was weather-beaten three leagues on shore as you see an ominous map of man-quelling calamity to the reliefe whereof my fellow and friend for so my now pouertie makes mee vouchsafe to call thee I must intreat thy manhood by offring a parcell of thy substance make no delayes Sir for I would bee loth to exercise my valour on thee and make thee the first Christian that should feele the impregnable strength and valour of my victorious arme which hath done to death to many Turkes Pagans and Infidels as cannot be truely numbred After all this super slâ—us sustian the poore man â—â—â—â— drawes and giues him some small mâ—te more for feare crâ—â—ing then either for loue or charity His fury being abated he takes his leaue thus Faire be thy Haruest and foule thy Winter that plenty may fill they Barnes and feare of scarcity raise thy price may thy Land-lord liue vnmarryed that thy fine may not be raisde to buy thy new Land-lady a French petricoate or a new Blockt Beauer nor thy rents raisde to keepe her tire in fashion INuention many thousand wayes could go To shew their variations to and fro For as vpon the some of man attends The world the flesh the deuil where wicked frieÌ„ds So likewise hath a Begger other three With whom his humour neuer could agree * A Iustice of Peace is as the world to a Begger a Beadle as the flesh and a Constable as the â—â—â—â— A lustice to the world he doth compare And for his flesh a Beadle is a mare But he that he of all accounts most euill He thinks a Constable to be the Deuill And 't is as easie for him as to drinke To blind the world and make a * A Iustice will winke or connueâ—â—â— at a Heaue faults when partly for pity and partly to auoid trouble lustice winke The Beadle for the flesh 't is little paine Which smart he can recouer soone againe But yet the Deuils the Constaâ— a spirit From hole to hole that hunts him like a ferrit * A whipping will be soone cured Both day and night he haunts him as a ghost And of all furies he torments him most All 's one for that though to me things fall out ill A Beggar seldome rides vp Holbenn hill Nor is he taken with a thâ—â—â— trap And made dispute with Doctor Stories * A Constable is a hugbeare to a Begger cap. A common thâ—efe for euery great he gaines His life doth â—â—â—ture besides all his paines For euery thing he cares or drinkes I weares To lose his cares or gaine a rope he feares * â—â—â—â—â—â— But for a Begger be it hee or shee They are from all these choaking dangers free And though for sinne when mankind first began A curse was laid on all the race of man That of his labours he should liue and eate And get his bread by trauell and by sweate But it that any from this curse be free A Begger must he be and none but he For euery foole most certainely doth know A Begger doth not dig delue plow or sow He neither harrowes plants lops fells nor rakes Nor any way he paines or labour takes Let swine be meazeld let sheepe die and rot Let moraine kill the cattell he cares not He will not worke and sweat and yet hee 'l feed And each mans labour must supply his need Thus without paines or care his life hee 'l spend And liues vntill he dies and ther 's an end But I this reckning of beggry make That it much better is to giue then take Yet if my substance will not serue to giue I le of my betters take with thankes and liue FINIS TO THE MIGHTIE MONARCH OF MONTZAGO THE MODELL OF MAGNANIMITY the map of man-darring Monster-quellers the thrice three times trebble triple renowned Alphebo ornamented honorable Knight of Standsalio Treldedo Maroua Fregero Andalowsia and the skie-scaling mountaine of Muffetto Illustrious Pheander victorious and valorous Champion to Don Phoebus great Duke of Delphos and the Oracle of Apollo Marquesse of Muzetta and the lake Asse-phaltites Earle of Vtopia Lord and Dominator of the Promontory of Polipratemost The vnconquer'd all conquering Mayden Knight by reuelation by creation by procreation and contentation the vnmatched Phoenix and fourefold Commander of
from whom it was so free of the loane of this Lent that would bee knowne First then you must conceiue that the true Etimologie or ancient name of this Lent is Lean-tide which being Anagramatiz'd Landit for the chiefeâ—prouision that he is furnished withall being fish and such sea-faring fare that except he land it there will bee but cold takings in the fish markets for Iack a Lent hath no societie affinitie or propinquitie with flesh and blood and by reason of his leannesse as Nymshag an acient Vtopian Philosopher declares in his Treatise of the Antiquitie of Ginger-bread Lib. 7. Pag. 30000. hee should haue beene a foot man to a Prince of that Empire named Lurguish Haddernot but Lent shewed him the tricke of a right footman and ran away from him faster then an Irish Lackquey and from that time to this was neuer seenâ— in Vtopia Besides he hath the Art of Legerdemaine beyond all the Iuglers in Egypt or Europe for with a tricke that he hath he is in England Scotland France Ireland and the most part of the Christian world at one and the selfe same time yet for all this nimblenesse and quicke agility he was neuer seene to sweare which is no maruell because he hath not any fat or pinguidity in his incorporeall corps He hath a wise named Fasting as leane as himselfe yet sure I thinke she is as honest as barren but it were very dangerous for an Epicure or a Puritan to haue a bastard by her for there were no other hope but that the father of the brat if it should proue male would tutor it in all disobedience against both Lent and Fasting for although Lent and Abstinence be but forty dayes endurance yet to these valiant men of their teeth it seemes forty yeeres for they put the Letter e into the word Fast and turne it into Feast And though a man eate fish till his guts crack yet if he eate no flesh he fasts because he eates as fast as he can For the word Fast is to be taken in many sences as to fast from feeding and to feed fast to be bown to fast and to be bound fast The Fast from feeding is diuers wayes performed 1 Some there are that fast for pure deuotion with a zealous abstinence from any kind of corporall foode for a space because they will bring downe and curbe their vnbridled affections and tame their fleshly desires that so the exercise of spirituall contemplation may be the more seruent their repentance more vnfained and their prayers more acceptable 2 Another Fast is hypocriticall or sophisticall as a holy Maid that inioyned her selfe to abstaine foure dayes from any meate whatsoeuer and being locked vp close in a roome she had nothing but her two Books to feede vpon but the Bookes were two painted Boxes made in the forme of great Bibles with claspes and bosses the inside not hauing one word of God in them nor any fault escaped in the printing but the one well fild with Suckets and sweet meates and the other with Wine vpon which this deuout Votary did fast with zealous meditation eating vp the contents of one Booke and drinking contentedly the other Then there is a Fast called in spight of your teeth and that is Will yee nill yee when a mans stomacke is in Folio and knowes not where to haue a dinner in Decimo sexto This Fast I haue often met withall at the Court and at diuers great mens houses not because there hath wanted meat but because some hâ—â—â— wanted manners and I haue wanted impâ—dence But Iack a Lents Fast is otherwise then â—â—â—â— these for I am as willing to fast with him as â—â—â—â— feast with Shrouetide for hee hath an army â—â—â—â— various dishes an hoast of diuers fishes wâ—â—â— fallets sawces sweet meates Wine Aâ—â—â— Beere fruit rootes Reasons Almonds Spices â— with which I haue often and care not mucâ— to doe more often made as good a shiftâ—â—â—â—â—â— fast and with as good a zeale performed it â—â—â—â— a Brownist will goe to plow vpon a Christmas day Thus hauing shewed the originall of this Iack it followes next that I declare his yeerely entertainâ—ment into this I le of Great Britaine what priuiledges he hath to whom he is best welcome who are glad of his departure what friends or foes he hath and when he inhabiteth all the yeere after his going from hence Alwayes before Lent there comes wadling fat grosse bursten-gutted groome called Shroue-Tuesday one whose manners shewes theâ—â— he is better fed then taught and indeed he is the onely monster for feeding amongst all the dayes of the yeere for he denoures more fâ—â—â— in foureteene houres then this whole Kingdome doth or at the least should doe in â—â—â—â— weekes after such boyling and broyling such roasting and toasting such stewing and breâ—ing such baking frying mincing cutting caruing deuouring and gorbellyed gurmoâ—â— dizing that a man would thinke people did take in two months prouision at once into their paunches or that they did ballast their bellâ—â—â— with meate for a voyage to Constantinople or â—â—â—â— the West Indies Moreouer it is a goodly fight to see how the Cookes in Great mens Kitchins doe fry in their masters suet and sweat in their own grease that if euer a Cooke be worth the â—â—â—â—ting it is when Shroue-Tuesday is in towne foâ—â— he is so stued and larded roasted basted and almost ouer-roasted that a man may eate the rawest bit of him and neuer take a surfet In a word they are that day extreme cholericke and too hot for any man to meddle with being Monarchs of the Marow-bones Marquesses of the Mutton Lords high Regents of the Spit and the Kettle Barons of the Gridiron and sole Commanders of the Frying-pan And all this hurly burly is for no other purpose but to stop the mouth of this Land-wheale Shroue-Tuesday At whose entrance in the morning all the whole Kingdome is in quiet but by that time the clocke strikes eleuen which by the helpe of a knauish Sexton is commonly before nine then there is a bell rung cald The Pancake Bell the sound whereof makes thousands of people distracted and forgetfull either of manner or humanitie Then there is a thing clad wheaten flowre which the sulphory Necromanticke Cookes doe mingle with water egges spice and other tragicall magicall inchantments and then they put it by little and little into a Frying-pan of boyling suet where it makes a confused dismall hissing like the Learnean Snakes in the reeds of Acheron â—tix or Phlegeton vntill at last by the skill of the Cooke it is transform'd into the forme of a Flap-iack which in our translation is cald a Pancake which ominous incantation the ignorant people doe deuoure very greedily hauing for the most part well dined before but they haue no sooner swallowed that sweet candyed baite but straight their wits forsake them and they runne starke mad assembling in routs and throngs numberlesse of vngouerned numbers with vnciuill ciuill commotions
Greeke Whereas thy name thy age and Odcombs towne Are workemanly ingrau'd to thy renowne Beleaguerd round with three such female shapes Whose features would enforce the gods to rapes France Germany and smug-fac'd Italy Attend thee in a kind triplicity France giues thee clusters of the fruitfull vine And Germany layes out t' adorne thy shrine And Italie doth wittily inuite thee And prittily she sayes she will delight thee But yet thy entertainement was but bitter At Bergamo with horses in their litter Whose iadish kindnesse in thy stomacke stickes Who for thy welcome flung thee coltish kickes Thy begging from the high-way Purse-takers Describes thee for a learned wiseakers â—o thus thy single worth is praised double For rare inuention neuer counts it trouble With timelesse reasons and with Reasons verse Thy great Odcombian glory to rehearse But yet whilst they in pleasures lap doe lull thee Amidst thy praise egregiously they gull thee Th' art made Tom Table-talke mongst gulls and gallants Thy book and thee such esteemed tallants When they are tired with thy trauels treading Then hauing nought to do they fall to reading Thy wits false-galloping perambulation Which ease the Readers more then a purgation But to proceed I 'l recapitulate The praise that doth thy worth accommodate Thy Character in learn'd admired Prose The perfect inside of thy humour showes Attended with thy copious names Acrosticke To shew thee wisest being most fantasticke All these Noblemen and Gentlemen that are named in the following book did write merry commendatory verses which were called the Odcombian banquet and were inserted in Mr Coriats booke intituled Coriats Câ—udities Vpon which verses I haue seuerally and particularly paraphrased Next which in doggrell rime is writ I wot Thy name thy birth and place where thou wast got Thy education manners and thy learning Thy going outward and thy home returning Yet there I finde the Writer hath tane leaue Midst words that seeme thy same aloft to heaue That for no little foole he doth account thee But with the greatest vp aloft doth mount thee Th' art lik'ned to a Ducke a Drake a Beare A iadish Gelding that was made to beare An Owle that sings no wit to whit to who That nothing well can sing nor say nor doe Incipit Henricus Neuill de Aberguenie Then follows next a friend that faine would knight thee But that he fears he should do more then right thee Yet wheÌ„ his verses praise on cock-horse heues thee He found thee Thomas Thomas he leaues thee Iohannes Harringtonde Bâ—â— The Goose that guarded Rome with sentles gagling Is here implor'd t' assist the Ganders stragling A pen made of her quill would lift thee fooae As high as is the thorn-bush in the Moone Incipit Ludonicus Lâ—wknor Fooles past and present and to come they say To thee in generall must all giue way Apuleius asse nor Mida's lolling cares No fellowship with thee braue Coriat beares For 't is concluded 'mongst the wizards all To make thee Master of Gul-finches hall Incipit Henricus Goodyer Old Odcombs odnesse makes not thee vneuen Nor carelesly set all at six and seuen Thy person 's odde vnparaleld vnmatchd But yet thy Action 's to the person patch'd Thy body and thy mind are twins in sadnesse Which makes thee euen in the midst of odnesse What-â—r thou odly dost is eu'nly meant In Idiotisme thou art eu'n an Innocent Thy booke and thee are shap'd to like each other That if I looke on t 'one I see the tother Th' art light th' art heauy merry midst thy sadnesse And still art wisest midst of all thy madnesse So odly euen thy feet thy iourney trod That in conclusion thou art euenly odde Incipit â—â—â—nnes Paiton Iunior Thou saw'st so many cities townes and garisons That Caesar must not make with thee comparisons Great Iulius Commentaries lies and rots As good for nothing but stoppe mustard pots For Coriats booke is onely in request All other volumes now may lye and rest Blind Homer in his writings tooke great paines Yet he and thee doe differ many graines For in my minde I hold it most vnfit To liken Homers verses to thy Writ Incipit Henricus Poole Next followes one whose lines aloft doe raise Don Coriat chiefe Diego of our daies To praise thy booke or thee he knowes not whether It makes him study to praise both or neither At last he learnedly lets flie at large Compares thy booke vnto a Westerne Barge And saies 't is pitty thy all worthlesse worke In darke obscurity at home should lurke And then thy blunted courage to encourage Couragiously he counsels thee to forrage 'Mongst forraine Regions and t' obserue their state That to thy Country-men thou might'st relate At thy returne their manners liues and law Belcht from the tumbrell of thy gorged maw Incipit Robertus Philips This worthy man thy fame on high doth heaue Yet Mounsieur Leg-stretcher pray giue me leaue He saies that men doe much mistake thy age That thinke thou art not past the making sage T is hard to make a foole of one that 's wise For wit doth pitty folly not despise But for to make a wife man of a foole To such a Clarke we both may goe to schoole Yet much I feare to learne it is too late Our youthfull age with wit is out of date He sayes If any one a foole dares call thee Let not his thundring big-mouth'd words apall thee But in thine owne defence draw out thy toole Thy Booke he means which will his courage coole For why thy Booke shall like a brazen shield Defend thy cause and thee the glory yeeld An asse I 'm sure could ne'r obserue so much Because an asses businesse is not such Yet if an asse could write as well as run He then perhaps might doe as thou hast done But t is impossible a simple creature Should doe such things like thee aboue his nature Thou Aiax of the frothie Whitson Ale Let AEolus breathe with many a friendly gale Fill full thy sailes that after-times may know What thou to these our times dost friendly show That as of thee the like was neuer heard They crowne thee with a Marrot or a Mard Incipit Dudleius Digges Here 's one affirmes thy booke is onely thine How basely thou didst steale nor yet purloyne But from the labour of thy legges and braine This heire of thine did life and soule obtaine Thou art no cuckold men may iustly gather Because the childe is made so like the father In nat'rall fashion and in nat'rall wit Despight of Art 't is Nat'rall euery whit Incipit Rowlandus Cotton Columbus Magelan nor dreadfull Drake These three like thee did neuer iourny take Thou vntir'd trauelling admired iemme No man that 's wife will liken thee to them The Calfe thy booke may call thee fire and dam Thy body is the Dad thy minde the Mam. Thy toylesome carkasse got this child of worth Which thy elaborate wit produced forth Now Ioues sweet benison
hauing past with troubles griefes and cares This transitory life this vale of teares Yet LANCELOT ANDREWES name doth this portend All sure All due content Crownes all art end FINIS True louing Sorrovv â—â—TTIRED IN A ROBE OF VNFAINED â—efe presented vpon occasion of the much bewailed Funerall that Gracious and Illustrious Prince LEVVIS STEVVARD â—â—e of Richmond and Linox Earle of Newcastle and Darnely Lord of Torboltâ—n and â—â—uen Baron of Settrington Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter Lord High â—â—â—â—irall great Chamberlain of Scotland Lord high Steward to the Kings most â—â—lent Maiesties most Honourable Houshold Gentleman of his Maiesties Bed-chamber â—â—â— one of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Councell for England and Scotland who â—â—â—â—departed this life at White-hall on Thursday the 12 of February 1624. whose obsequies were solemnly and Princely celebrated on Munday the 19 of Aprill following described in forme as followeth Dedicated generally to all his worthy Friends and louing Seruants and particularly to that trusty and welbeloued Seruant of his Arthur Neassmith ANd first my Muse findes that his Graces name Significantly makes an Anagram LEWIS STEWARDE Anagram VERTV IS WEL EAS'D His Vertues such continuall paines did take For King and Countrie Church and peoples sake That for Earths courtly toyle to him 't was giuen His VERTV IS WEL EAS'D t 'the Court of Heauen A Funerall Elegie GReat God that to thy self wilt take thine own By sundry waies and means to man vnknown Whose Eye of prouidence doth still perceiue When where why who to take or else to leaue Whose mercy and whose Iustice equall are Both Infinite to punish or to spare All men doe know that men to dye are borne And from the earth must to the earth returne But Time and Circumstance coniecture may For some great cause thou took'st this Duke away Amongst vs lurks so many a foule offence Which giues thee cause to take good men from hence And that this Prince was good as well as great His life and timelesse losse doth well repeate Deuout and zealous to his God aboue True to his King as did his seruice proue Discreet in Counsell Noble in his minde Most Charitablly Honourably kinde So Affable so Hopefull vnto all And so Repleat with vertues generall That we may say This Land in losing him Hath lost a gracious Peere a prop a lim It must be true that well he spends his daies Whose actions doe attaine all peoples praise And surely I suppose hee doth not liue Who of this Duke a bad report can giue So full endu'd he was of all good parts With Noble Courtesie he wan all hearts To loue and honour his admired minde So well addicted and so well enclin'd That as a Diamond in gold transfixt His vertues with his greatnesse were so mixt That he as one of an immortall Race Made Vertue vertuous and gaue Grace to grace Then since his goodnesse was so generall The losse of him is Gen'rall vnto all This being true let 's recollect our spirits And weigh his worth with our vnworthy merits The manner of the Funerall 8. Conductors with black staues poore Gowns 10â— Seruants to Gentlemen and Esquires in Cloakes 50. Seruants to Knights 46. Seruants to Baroness â—â— Three Trumpeters Then came the Standard borne by Sir Geâ—â— Samms Knight accompanyed with an Officer of Armes The first Horse couered with blacke cloth â—â—â— with Scutchions Shoffron and Plumes ledly a groâ—â— Heere went seruants to Baron younger Sonnes â—â—â— some others of like quality in number 15. The seruants to Knights of the Priuy Councell,30 Seruants to Earles younger Sonnes 24. Seruants to Viscounnts eldest Sonnes 6. Then the Schollers of Westminster in â—ounâ—â— Surplices their Masters following in mourning Goâ—â— Three Trumpeters The Guiators borne by Sir Andrew Boyd Knight â—â—â— companyed with an Officer of Armes The second Horse led by a Groome and furnished the former Barons seruants 60. Bishops seruants 10. Earles eldest Sonnes seruants 15. Viscount seruants 10. Marquesses eldest Sonnes seruants 3 Trumpeters The Banker of the augmentation borne by a kniâ—â— companied with an Officer of Armes The third Horse led by another Groome of his Grâ—â— Stable furnished as the others Earles seruant maâ—â—â— set and Dukes seruants The Lord Priuy-Seales Seruantâ— President of the Cuoncell Seruant Lord Treasurers Seruant Lord Keepers Seruant And Lord Archbishops Seruant 3 Trumpeters The Banner of Steward borne by â—â— Iohn Steward accompanied with an Officer of Armesâ— The fourth Horse sed by a Yeoman of his Graces â—â—â—ble And then our fraileties truely will confesse God tooke him hence for our vnworthinesse Death was in Message from th' Almighty sent To summon him to Heau'ns high Parliament He chang'd his Gracious Title transitory And by the grace of God attain'd true Glory And as his King had his integrity So did the Commons share his Clemency Which was so pleasing to his Makers sight That bounteously he did his life requite That Lambe-like mildely hence hee tooke him sleeping To his Eternall euer-blessed keeping Thus as his name includes so God is pleas'd From worldly sorrows VERTV IS WEL EAS'D No sicknesse or no physicke made him languish He lay not long in heart-tormenting anguish But as Gods feare was planted in his brest â—â—â—oat his Rest God tooke him to his Rest. When like a good Tree laden full of fruite Of Grace of Vertue Honour and Repute Euen in his best estate too good for Earth Then did his soule put on a second Birth And though his part of fraile mortality Yet Monumentall Marble heere doth lye As thousands weeping soules with deepe laments â—â—â—s his most woefull mourning Monuments â—â—â— daily see whose visages doe show That Hee 's inter'd within their hearts below Whose faces seeme an Epitaph to beare That men may Reade who is intombed there Epitaph GOod Gracious Great Richmond Linox Duke God King and Countries seruant heere doth lye â—hose liuing Merits merit no rebuke â—â—â—â— whose liues losse lamenting Memory â—â—â—â—â— hearts are groning Graues of griefes and cares â—hich when we dye wee 'l leaue vnto our heyres ME thinks the Sable Mourners did appeare As if in forme they numbring Figures were â—â—â— 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Whilst all that view'd like Ciphers did combine Their mourning with the Mourners to vnite Which made thier Lamentations infinite And Infinite are now his Ioyes aboue With the Eternall God of peace and loue Where for a mortall Duke dome he hath wonne Through boundlesse merits of th'Amighties Son â—â—â— Kingdome that 's immortall where hee sings â—erpetuall praise vnto the King of Kings Thus what the Earth surrendred heau'n hath seaz'd Most blest LEWIS STEWARDE VERTV IS WEL EAS'D ble furnished as the other Seruants to his Grace in Cloakes Officers to his Grauce in Gownes 3 Trumpeters The Banner of Steward and the augmentation quartered with it borne by a Baronet accompanied with a Herald of Armes The 5 Horse led by a Yeoman of his Graces Stable furnished as the
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 Absâ—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 Elishaâ—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 Nebuâ—hadnâ—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 Iâ—dah and their Kings This Booke againe againe Recordance brings Their plagues of plague of â—â—mineâ—â—lâ—uery sword For their contemâ—ing heau'ns All sauing word Mâ—â—â—ssâ—â—â— Praâ—er Mâ—â—â—ssâ—â— almost drown'd in black despaire Gaines mercy by repentance and by prayer Ezrs. The Persian Monarch Câ—â—â—â— granteth haue The Iewes once more their freedomâ— should receiue When at Ierusâ—lâ—m they make abâ—d They all with zeale â—â—â—â—â— the house of God Malicious men with poysnous â—â—â—â—â— fild Makes Artaâ—â—â— â—irdeâ— tho'e that build Yet God so workes that Israels is loâ—e and zâ—ale Resâ—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 â—â—â—â—â— 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 exâ—lâ—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 â—ll woeâ—â— defends I â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— quoth he into this world And â—â—â—â—d herâ—â—â—â—â—â— I shall be hurâ—d God giues and takes according to his word And blessed euer bee the liuing Lord. Psâ—lmes The blessed Kingly Prophet sweetly sings â—â—â—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 Isaâ—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 Ezeâ—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 Graâ—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 Niniâ—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 vnâ—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 Nahâ—m The Niniâ—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 teâ—ches them a heauenly forme of Prayer Zephaniaâ— He fils the good with hope the bad with â—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 reproâ—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 heauoâ—ly call Apâ—â—ryphâ— These bookes doe all in generall intimate The State
it is no doubt That ther 's but one way in and many out But to a Ioyle there 's many waies to win Ten thousand tricks and sleight to clap men in And ther 's but one way out as I doe know Which is by satisfying what we owe. Owest thou the Law thy life dispatch and pay And from the Prison thou art freed away Dost thou owe mony quickly pay thy seere And farewell goe thy wayes man there 's the doeâ— As men in all that 's ill are Satans Apes So sundry sinnes bring death in sundry shapes Life from the God of life which is but one To all degrees one way giues life alone And so our seuerall frailties seuerall waies Our wretched Carkasses in prison layes But there 's but one way out that e'r I saw Which is by satisfying of the law The faults we doe in spring-time of our youth In Summer of our man-hood gather growth Then Haruests middle age doth make them ripe Which winters old age doth in prison gripe And thus the very seasons of the yeare Fit emblemes of our thraldome doe appeare In London and within a mile I weene There are of Iayles or Prisons full eighteene And sixty Whipping-posts and Stocks and Cage Where sin with shame and sorrow hath due wagâ—â— For though the a The Tower Tower be a Castle Royall Yet ther 's a Prison in 't for men disloyall Though for defence a Campe may there be fitted Yet for offence men thither are committed It is a house of fame and there is in 't A Palace for a Prince a Royall Mint b Besides Poleaxes Patutants Halâ—â—â— Iauelins Bartleaxes Crosbowes liâ—â—â— Pikes Pistolâ—â—â—â—â—â—â— tronels Great Ordnance Powder Shot Match Bils Boâ—â—â—â— Shafts swords pikes laÌ„ces shouels mattocks cry Bright armor muskets ready still I say To arme one hundred thousand in a day And last it is a prison vnto those That doe their Soueraigne or his lawes oppose c The Gatehouse The Gatehouse for a prison was ordain'd When in this land the third king Edward reign'd Good lodging roâ—mes and diet it affoords But I had rather lye at home on boords Since Ricbandii reigne the first d The Fleet. the Fleet hath â—â—â—â— A Prison as vpon records is seene For lodgings and for bowling there 's large space But yet I haue no stomacke to the place e Nevâ—â—â— Ludgate Old Neugais I perceiue a theeuish den But yet ther 's lodging for good honest men When second Henry here the Scepter swaid Then the foundation of that gate was laid But sixty six yeeres ere our â—auiours birth By Lâ—nd was f Ludgate Ludgate founded from the earth No Iayle for theeues though some perhaps is bâ—â—â—â— That breake in policie may there be had The g Poultrey Counter Counter in the Powltery is so old That it in History is not enrold And h Woodstreet Woodstreet Counters age we may denice Since Anno fifteene hundred fifty fiue â—â—â— me the one 's too old and one's too new â—â—â— as they bake a Gods name let them brew â—â—â— vnto my memory comes next There idlenesse and lechery is vext â—â—â— is a royall house of state and port Which the eighth King Henry built and there kept Court â—â— Edward somewhat ere his timelesse fall â—â— it away to be an Hospitall Which vse the City puts it well vnto â—â—â— many pious deeds they there doe doo â—â— yet for Vagabonds and Runnagates â—â— Where 's and idle knaues and such like mates â—â—â— little better then a Iayle to those There they chop chalke for meat and drinke and blowes â—â— this house those that 'gainst their wils doe dwell â—â—â— Well a Bride perhaps but not Bridewell a Bridewell â— Iayles or Prisons are in Southwarke plac'd â—â—â— Countor once S. Margrets Church defac'd â—â— M 〈…〉 the Kings Bench and White Lyon b White Lyon King Bench Marshalsea â—â—â—â— Clinke There some like Tantalus or like lxion â—â— inching paine of hunger daily feele â—â— vp and downe with sickle fortunes wheele â—â— some doe willingly make there abode Because they cannot liue so well abroad â—â— ther 's the Clinke where handsome lodgings be â—â— good may it doe them all for me â—â— but the Thames vnto S. Katherins then â—â—â—is another c The hole as S. Katherines hole or den for men â—â—tere in d East â—â—â— prison East-Smithfield little better â—â— to hold a theefe or paltry debter Then neere three Cranes a Iayle for Hereticks â—â—s Familists and Schismaticks â—â—â—worths Iayle within White Chappell stands And â—â—â—y God blesse me from their hands â—â— eighteene Iayles so neere the Citty bounded â—â—â— founded and maintain'd by men confounded â—â— one means meat may be anothers bane â—â— Keepers full springs from the Prisners wane â— hath beene still the vse and euer will â—â— one mans welfare comes from others ill â—â— as I said mans selfe is cause of all â—â—â— miseries that to him can be fall â— but our corps how euery member lyes Their seuerall offices and faculties â— our own iudgement will informe vs than â—â—â— himselfe twixt a prison and a man â— as man hath his limbs and linaments â—â—â—wes muscles nerues and ligaments â— Panicles his Arteries his Veines â—â—â— his membrancs and his beating braines e New prison f The Lord Wentworths â—â—â—â—â— So hath a Iayle h Were it not for these a Iaile would haue neither life nor soule Writs Warrants Attachments Arestings Actions Hues Cries Appeáchments With Garnish Sharing fees and Habeas Corpus Which feede some Iaylors fatter than a Porpus And last for euerlasting Executions Vntill the prisoners bodies dissolutions And if a man be hurt in legge or arme Or head or heele 't is said the man hath harme If inward griefe doe pinch in any part The anguish is a terror to the heart And should a Iayle want these things nam'd before It quickly would be miserable poore Like men dismembred or of sense berest With scarcely any life or being left For in mans corps like prisners alwayes lies His vertues and his foule iniquities And which of these his fancie liketh best Shall still be kept in bondage or releast As Wisdome Bounty and Humilitie Despised in these dayes of vanitie Some keepe so close not suffering them to walke So much as in bare thoughts or deeds or talke Whilst Folly and close-fifted Niggardize With Barbarisme haue ease and liberties Faith Hope and Charitie are pent vp close And doubt despaire and cruelty let loose Lust reuels it rich clad in Robes of Pride Friendship and Loue are liberty denide Whereby the liberall Arts in number seuen Are of their liberall liberties bereauen The whilst the seuen delightfull deadly sinnes The game and glory of the whole world wins The Cardnall vertues as vnworthy prices Are made but vassals to all Carnall vices The Muses are mew'd vp with woes and wants Whilst fortune followes knaues and Ignorants And thus within mans little Common-weale
He like a partiall Iaylor oft doth deale Permits his goodnesse neuer to appeare And lets his badnesse ramble any where So Rorers Rascals Banquerouts politicke With money or with friends will finde a tricke Their Iaylor to corrupt and at their will They walke abroad and take their pleasure still Whilst naked vertue beggerly despis'd Beleguerd round with miseries surpris'd Of hope of any liberty defeated For passing of his word is meerely cheated And dungeond vp may tell the wals his mones And make relation to the senselesse stones Where sighs and grones teares may be his feast Whil'st man to man is worse than beast to beast Till death he there must take his fad abode Whil'st craft and coozenage walke at will abroad Thus these comparisons doe well agree Man to a Iayle may fitly likened bee The thought whereof may make him wish with speed To haue his prisoned soule releast and freed Thus Iayles and meditations of a Iayle May serue a Christian for his great auaile But now my Muse thus long in bondage pent Begins to thinke of her infranchizement And hauing of a Prison spoke her part She mounts vnto the Hangman and his Art THE NECESSITIE OF HANGING OF Hangings there 's diuersity of fashions Almost as many as are sundry Nations For in the world all things so hanged are That any thing vnhang'd is strange and rare Earth hangs in the concauity of Water And Water hangs within the Ayeres matter The Ayre hangs in the Fierie continent Thus Element doth hang in Element Without foundation all the Massie Globe Hangs which the skies encompasse like a Robe For as an a Simile egge the yolke within the white The white within the skin 's enuellop'd quite The skin within the shell doth outmost lye Eu'n so these Elements hang midst the side First all the world where mortals liue we see Within the Orbe of Luna hanged be Aboue her Mercurie his course doth steere And next aboue him is bright Vâ—â—â—s Sphere And in the fourth and middle firmament Sol keepes his hot and fiery Regiment Next aboue that rans Mars that star of warre Beyond him Iupiter that Iouiall starre Then last is fullen Saturnes ample bounds Who once in thirty yeeres the world surrounds This earthly Globe for which men fight brawle Compar'd to Heauen is like an b All the world is in comparison for greatnesse to the eauens as a hand-worme of a Nit may be compared to the world Attom small Or as a Needles point compar'd to it So it to Heauen may be compared fit And it doth Hang and hath its residence I' th centre of the skies circumference Thus to proue Hanging naturall I proue c Wee liue in a hanging world We in a Hanging world doe liue and moue Man is a little world wherein we see The great worlds abstract or epitomie And if we note each linament and lim There are not many parts vnhang'd of him His haire which to his head and beard belongs Hangs if not turn'd vp with the Barbers tongs His armes his hands his legges and feet we know Doe all hang pendant downe wards as they grow Ther 's nothing of him that doth hanging skip Except his eares his nether teeth and lip And when he 's crost or sullen any way He mumps and lowres and hangs the lip they say That I a wise mans sayings must approue Man is a tree whose root doth grow aboue Within his braines whose sprigs branches rooâ— From head to foot grow downward to the ground Thus world to world and man to man dothcall And tels him Hanging is most naturall The word Dependant doth informe our reason That Hanging will be neuer out of season All that depends doth hang which doth expresse That d Rich men are poore mens Gallowses Great men are like Iybbets for the lesse It is an old phrase many yeeres past gone That such a Lord hath many hangers on Thereby describing that all mens Attendants As it were hangers on were call'd e All dependants are hangers on Dependance And sure of all men they are best indeed Who haue most hangers on to cloath and feed For he that hath the meanes and not the grace To helpe the needie is a Miser base Hee 's no good Steward but a hatefull Thiefe That keepes from good Dependants their reliefe And of all Theeues he hanging doth deserue Who e All dependants are hangers on hath the power to feed and lets men steâ— To end this point this consequence I 'll grant He that hath wealth no hangers on can want For since the time that mankinde first began It is a destinie ordain'd to man The meane vpon the mighty should depend And all vpon the Mightiest should attend Thus through all ages Countries and Dominions We each on other hang like ropes of Onions Some wealthy slaues whose consciences condem Will hang themselues left others hang on them And some spend all on Hangers on so fast That they are forc'd to steale and hang at last If they from these Extremes themselues could weâ—â— There is betwixt them both a Golden meane Which would direct their superfluities They would not hang themselues for niggardine Nor wastefully or prodigally spend Till want bring them to hanging in the end And they and many others by their purse Might scape that hanging which is cald a curse f That 's a Roague There 's many a * That 's an Asse Gallant made of foole and feather Of Gold and Veluet Silke and Spanish leather Whose lagged Hangers on haue mou'd my minde â—osce prids goe goe before and shame behinde With scarce a button or an elboe whole â—â—ch or any shooe that 's worth a sole These that like golden Iybbets and their traines â—â— like poore tatter'd Theeues hang'd vp in chains â—â—â— that doth suffer Whores or Theeues or Knaues â—â—â— flattering Villaines or such kinde of slaues To hang vpon him and knowes what they are That man into a Gallowse I compare That Vintner I account no friend of mine Who for good money drawes me scuruie wine â—â—â— by the rule of Conscience not of Law That he is fitter made to hang then draw The Lawyer that at length doth spin mens causes With false delays and dilatory clauses Who makes a trade to broach and draw contention For him a hanging were a good preuention â—â— hols Muse come backe you beare my Rime To hanging in good carnest ere the time There are a many sorts of hangings yet Behinde which I by no meanes must forget The hanging is a necessary thing Which is a pretty gamball cald a a A Swing or stretch for exercise andâ— Swing And men of good repute I oft haue seene To hang and stretch and totter for the spleene This hanging is a military course Not by the Law but strength of armes and force Thâ—s euery morning for a little spurt â—â—â—man may hang himselfe and doe no hurt This hanging oft like Tyburne hath a tricke