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A06529
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The massacre of money
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T. A.; Achelley, Thomas.; Aylworth, Thomas.; Andrewe, Thomas.
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1602
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STC 17.3; ESTC S100462
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THE MASSACRE of Money Terunteo seu vitiosa nuce non emitur LONDON Printed by Thomas Creede for Thomas Bushell 1602. TO THE WORshipfull vertuous and most worthy Gentlemen M. VVilliam and M. Frauncis Bedles health and theyr hearts content ALthough your worthinesse may seeme in all mens iudgements to merit a more polisht stile or better contriued plot then you are likely to finde here yet that my affection may bee somewhat answerable to your great deseruings I make bold to tender you this youngling Poesie which for the worth is not equiualent to your dignitie yet being the first fruites of my labours I trust will be accepted of you which if I finde when my riper yeares shall attaine to better knowledge I will endeuour to make my proceedings answere more fully to your merits Till then let this slender worke be a true signall of the dutious affection I beare you which to augment I will endeuour continually Your approued friend and seruant T. A. Proemium THou silent nurse of still securitie That do'st in hollow closets shâ—â— mine eyes Mother of darkenesse Queene of secrecie Pleasing grim labour with restes liberties Thou that death-like enfeeblest euery sence The shadow of this earth's circumference Bereaue my pen of all amazing feare Turne disturbation forth to mutinies Let me be bold in this darke Hemispheare A thought conceiued dreame to canonize And whiles pale Cinthia courts her Paramour Muse sing my dreamed Moneys Massacre Dread Pallas teach me to anatomize The hidden inside of close errours maske Let me descry the ranke absurdities That Folly sets her schollers for a taske Folly blind Folly is inthronized And for a Queene by fooles authorized Ye foule dissembling frye of flatterers Coner your faces from my speedie glance Ye fawning Gnathoe's ye damn'd pilferers I will vnmaske your hooded countenance Ye gold-intombing hellish vsurers Foresee yours and your moneys massacres I am in labour and the time expect To be deliuered of a 〈◊〉 dreame Good fortune as a midwife I respect Fauour a nurse to cherish my young theame True iudgement in the schooles of equitie Weigh my compendious toyle and industrie If Nicenes daughter Curiositie Offer to view these youngling lines of mine Be bolde to tell her that her critique eye Had need weare spectacles ere she can signe The clowdie acoents whose birth then was found When Negro night enuironed this round If Aristarchus from his withered lippe Let fall a drop of Aqua-fortis hoâ—ie Or if in Satyres oyle his penne he dippe And in the margeant paint an enuious spotte Tell him my Muse if he could see his face He would descry mine offred his disgrace But whosoe'r from his impartialleie Will cast sweete lookes on these laborious lines Weighing my accents with iust equitie And so speake of them as in them he findes Him as a fautour honour still will I And to his praise ere bend my poesie The Massacre of Money BEfore the heauen had put on heau'ns face Or Neptunes waues a chanel'd sea had found Before earth knew her now abiding place Or ayre had residence aboue the ground Or fire assum'd the highest place of all To make her brightnesse more maiesticall Before the Sunne knew his ecliptique line Or the round balles of fire their wheeling spheares Before the forked Moone began to shine Or any Comet in the ayre appeares A clotter'd Chaos and confused mould Was all this glorious all which we behold But natures nature God omnipotent Bestow'd a formall shape on all this frame Making each thing erst shapelesse competent Creating man to celebrate his fame Then did the golden age repleat with treasures Bring in the Cornucopia of pleasures No threatning lawe with sharpe spurd punishment Gaue out edicts to curbe a lawlesse rowte Blacke mutiny in prison then was pent And outrage still was kept aloofe by scowte No man came to the Iudge with cap in hand The iudgement still of euery one did stand The loftie Pines men on the mountaines finde That now are plowing vp the Ocean No sayles bigge-belly'd with the wanton winde Hast to a farre remoued region Men knew no countreys but their natiue soyle None offred to attempt an others spoyle No towne was circled with entrenched walles No trumpet gaue alarum to the fight No sword was knowne nor vsed no Iron balles From out the wherring Cannons mouth tooke flight No plow did cut the entralles of the earth Yet all of corne did neuer know the dearth Where were your vines ye glutted Bacchanalls What winepresse had you then to crush your grapes Where were your iunkets where your festiualls Where were your ryots where your virgin-rapes Men fed on hippes and hawes curnels and cherries Sloes peares and bulleis apples nuttes and berries Yet in this age was euery man a king All freely wearing royall diadems Content was held the chiefe and worthi'st thing Exceeding riches glory gold or iems All men were peace-embracers and content In euery minde sate Prince and President The ground disdain'd the plowes vnciuill touch It scorn'd all muckie putrifaction Yet did it yeeld of fruite and graine as much As by the plough-mans toile some function The streames ran milke and spatious flouds of wine Fill'd vp the shores oh glorious happie time But now Ioues father into Limbo thrust The siluer age put downe the golden world Pride swollen Iupiter iudge most vniust This heape of pleasure to Auernus hurld Ioue dimming all golds glorious raies of sun-shine Siluer in pride sets vp her glitt'ring moone-shine Before of all things was continuall spring But now foure seasons of the yeare are fram'd The date is out of euer-flourishing Spring Sommer Autumne Winter they are nam'd The ayre began with feruent heate to swelt And Hiems nipping colde of all was felt Then did the oxe with wearie labour hale The rough plough-share on Tellus harmlesse face Then euery man gan digge on hill and dale And in the furrowes throwe the corne apace The seas were filled with a frequent oare That neuer knew the waight of ship before The siluer age now bad the world adieu Brasse next succeeding beares supremacie No sooner did the world his visage view But straight resign'd him all authoritie Though base of mettall yet in impudence He did surpasse siluer 's preheminence He brought the world to brazen ignorance He taught the souldier to manage armes He made true iudgement stoupe to arrogance In euery eare he sounds deaths shrill alarmes Neighbor seekes Neighbors Nation Nations woe One countrey lusts an others ouerthrowe Iron steppes in and chaseth brasse away Bid vertue now goe seeke a residence Errour hath here set vp continuall stay And who admires not errours eminence Who loues not folly nay we may auerre There is no man but willingly doth erre Treason hath built her nest amidst the cloudes Leuelling with aspiring ayme at Ioue