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A13487
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The praise, antiquity, and commodity, of beggery, beggers, and begging. Iohn Taylor
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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1621
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STC 23786; ESTC S118267
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Corkes for bottles or for euery sixe Smelt Seacrab Flounder Playee or Whiting mop One as a Duty vnto me to drop Nor to marke Cheeses I le not beg at all Nor for the Mouse trap Geometricall Nor will I impudently beg for I and Nor with Ambition beg to haue Command Or meate or cloathes or that which few men giue I le neuer beg for money whilst I liue Yet money I esteeme a precious thing Because it beares and picture of my King Vnto my King I will a seruant be And make his pictures seruants vnto men One onely Begg'ry euer I 'le embrace I le beg for grace of him that can give grace Who all thinges feedes and fils and ouer-seeth Who giues and casteth no man in the teeth So much for that now on my Theame againe What vertues Begg'ry still doth entertaine First amongst Beggers there 's not one in twenty But hath the Art of memory most plenty When those that are possest with riches store If e're they were in Beggers state and poore They quite forget it and will euer hate The memory of any Beggers state For fortune fauour or benignity May rayse a Begger vnto Dignity When like a bladder puft with pride and pelfe Hee 'l neither know his betters nor himselfe But if a Begger hath bin wealthy euer He from his minde puts that remembrance neuer And thus if it be Rightly vnderstood A beggers Memory is euer good Nor he by Gluttony or swimish surfet Doth purchase Sicknes with his bodies forfeit On bonds or bills he borrowes not or lends He neither by extortion gets or spends No Vsury he neither takes or gines Oppresse he cannot yet opprest he liues Nor when he dyes he leaues no wrangling heyres To lose by Law that which was his or theirs Men that are blinde in iudgement may see this Which of the Rich or Beggers hath to oft blisse On which most pleasure Fortune seemes to hurle The Lowsie begger or the gowty Churle The Ragged begger sitting in the Stocks Or the Embrodered Gallant with the Pocks A Begger euery way is Adams Son For in a Garden Adam first begun And so a Begger euen from his birth Doth make his Garden the whole entire Earth The fieldes of Corne doth yeeld him straw and bread To Feed and Lodge and Hat to hide his head And in the stead of Cut-throat slaughtering Shambles Each Hedge allowes him Berryes from the brambles The Bullesse hedge Peake Hips and Hawes and Sloes Attends his appetite where e're he goes As for his Sallets better neuer was Then acute Sorrell and sweet three leau'd Grasse And as for Sawce he seldome is at Charges For euery Crabtree doth affoord them Vergis His banket somtimes is greene Beanes and Peason Nuts Peares Plumbes Apples as they are in season His musicke waytes on him in euery bush The Mauis Bulfinch Blackbird and the Thrush The mounting Larke sings in the lofty Sky And Robin Redbrest makes him melody The Nightingale chants most melodiously The chirping Sparrow and the chattering Pye My neighbour Cuckow alwayes in one tune Sings like a Townsman still in May and Iune These feather'd Fidlers sing and leape and play The begger takes delight and God doth pay Moreouer to accomplish his Content There 's nothing wants to please his sight or sent The Earth embrodered with the various hew Of Greene Red Yellow Purple Watchet Blew Carnation Crimson Damaske spotles White And euery colour that may please the sight The odoriserous Mint the Eglantine The Woodbine Primrose and the Cowslip fine The Honisuckle and the Daffadill The fragrant Time delights the Begger still He may plucke Violets in any place And Rue but very seldome hearbe of Grace Hearts-ease he hath and Loue and Idle both It in his bones hath a continuall growth His Drinke he neuer doth goe farre to looke Each Spring 's his Host his Hostesse is each Brooke Where he may quaffe and too 't againe by fits And neuer stand in feare to hurt his wits For why that Ale is Grandam Natures brewing And very seldome sets her Guests a spewing Vnmixt and vnsophisticated drinke That neuer makes men stagger reele and winke Besides a begger hath this pleasure more He neuer payes or neuer goes on score But let him drinke and quaffe both night and day Ther 's neither Chalke nor Post or ought to pay But after all this single-soal'd small Ale I thinke it best to tell a merry tale There was a Rich hard miserable Lord That kept a knauish Foole at bed and boord As Great men oft affected haue such Elues And lou'd a Foole as they haue lou'd themselues But Nature to this Foole such vertue gaue Two simples in one Compound Foole and Knaue This Noble Lord Ignobly did oppresse His Tenants raising Rents to such excesse That they their states not able to maintaine They turn'd starke beggers in a yeare or twaine Yet though this Lord were too too miserable He in his House kept a well furnish'd Table Great store of Beggers dayly at his Gate Which he did feed and much Compassionate For 't is within the power of mighty men To make fiue hundred Beggers and feed Ten. At last vpon a time the Lord and 's Foole Walk'd after Dinner their hot bloods to coole And seeing three or foure score Beggers stand To seeke Reliefe from his hard Clutched hand The Nobleman thus spake his Foole vnto Quoth he what shall I with these Beggers doe Since quoth the Foole you for my Iudgement call I thinke it best we straight wayes hang them all That were great pitty then the Lord reply'd For them and me our Sauiour equall dy'd Th' are Christians although beggers therefore yet Hanging 's vncharitable and vnsit Tush said the Foole they are but beggers thoe And thou canst spare them therefore let them goe If thou wilt doe as thou hast done before Thou canst in one yeare make as many more And he that can picke nothing from this tale Then let him with the begger drinke small Ale Thus is a Begger a strange kinde of creature And begg'ry is an Art that liues by Nature For he neglects all Trades all Occupations All functions Mysteries Artes and Corporations Hee 's his owne Law and doth euen what he lift And is a persit right Gimnosophist A Phylosophicall Pithagoras That without care his life away doth passe A Lawyer must for what he gets take paines And study night and day and toyle his braines With diligence to sift out Right from Wrong Writes trauels pleades with hands and feet and tong And for to end Debate doth oft debate With Rhetoricke and Logicke Intricate And after all his trauell and his toyle If that part which he pleads for get the foyle The Clyent blames the Lawyer and the Lawes And neuer mindes the badnes of his Cause T is better with a Begger that is Dumbe Whose tongue-lesse mouth doth onely vtter mum In study and in care no time he spends And hath his