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A kicksey winsey: or a lerry come-twang: wherein Iohn Taylor hath satyrically suited 800. of his bad debters, that will not pay him for his returne of his iourney from Scotland
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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A Kicksey Winsey OR A Lerry Come-Twang Wherein Iohn Taylor hath Satyrically suited 800 of his bad debters that will not pay him for his returne of his Iourney from Scotland My debters like 7. eeles with slip'rie tailes One sort I cach 6. slips away and failes LONDON Printed by Nicholas Okes for Mathew Walbanck dwelling at Grayes Inne Gate 1619. TO THE VVORTHIE GENTLEMAN Maister Raphe Wormlaighton the hopefull Sonne of his Noble Father Raphe Wormlaighton Esquier GRaies Inne Wormlaighton a true Scholler right With loue and thankes you paid me at first sight Your worthy father gaue me what was due And for his loue I giue my thanks to you I. T. TO THE MIRROR OF GOODFELLOWSHIP THE PATterne of true Friendship and the onely nonparallell of iouiall Entertainment Maister George Hilton at the signe of the horshooe at Daintree Iohn Tailor wisheth dayly increace of good Guests true payment hearts content in this life and afterward as much happinesse as his soule can desire KInde Sir I haue seen oftentimes men offring to snuff acandle haue against their wils put it cleane out and an vnskilfull Chirurgian taking a small greene wound in hand hath brought it to an olde Vlcer I would be loath for my part to imitate either of these examples for my intent is confession of the wrong I did you an endeauor to make amends I do cōfesse that I did you wrong in print in my book of my Trauels now in print I doe make you a publike satisfaction For I protest to God that I haue heard so much good report of you that I am double sorry that I was so mistaken and that I haue beene so long time before I haue printed my recantation It was your Tapsters want of wit and my want of discretion that was the grounds of my too much credulity and temerity For his part I wish him no more harme but that chalke may bee his best payments Thunder may sowre his Hogsheads Rats may gnaw out his spiggots at midnight himselfe to commit his wit to the keeping of a foole while he liues And your hostlers for gaping so greedily like gudgeons vpon me I pray that they may euery day mourne in litter and horsdung But these are but Iests by the way for as many as knowes you haue told mee that if you had beene at home my entertainement had been better if it had beene so it had beene more then you owed mee and more then I at that time could haue requited but I would haue stretched my wit vpon the centers of Inuention in the praise of Innes and Inkeepers I would haue put the forgetfull world in minde of the good seruice that Rahab the Inne-keeper did at Iericho in hiding and preseruing the spies that were sent by Caleb and Ioshua I would haue made the obliuious logger-headed Age remember that the Redeemer of the World did grace an Inne with his blessed birth What place then but an Inne was the High Court of Heauen and Earth the residence and lodging of the Immortall King of neuer ending Eternity This and more I would haue done but what is past cannot be recalled and it is too late to put old omittings to new Committings And so my noble and thrice worthy hoste of hostes I omit not to commit you and yours to the protection of the Lord of Hostes desiring you to take this merry Pamphlet in good part or in earnest of my better amends and as a qualifier of your iust anger Yours in the best of his endeauours to be commanded IOHN TAYLOR The VVhy and the VVherefore I Haue published this Pamphlet to let my rich debters vnderstand that as often as I meete them I doe looke that they should pay mee and although I am shamefaste in not asking my due yet I would not haue them shamelesse in detaining it from me because the summes are but small and very easie for them in generall to pay and would doe me a particular good to receiue Secondly I haue sent this into the world to informe some that though their want doe shun and auoyd my sight and company that they are much deceiued in my disposition for I euer did esteeme an honest heart and a willing minde as well as their performances Thirdly there are some great men who by reason of their extraordinary imployments my small acquaintance and lesse meanes of accesse vnto them with my want of impudency and their mens want of courtesie to informe them all these are lets and demurres against my satisfaction Lastly the daily abuses that I haue concerning the booke of my Trauels wherein I am accused for lies and falsifications but I doe and euer will stedfastly stand to the truth of euery tittle of it except the abuse that I did to Maister Hilton at Daintree that was not done on known malice neither but on blinde ignorant information and there is a second Edition of my bookes of Trauels comming forth wherein I will Satyrize Cauterize and Stigmatize all the whole kennell of curres that dares maliciously snarle against manifest apparant and well knowne truthes In the meane space you that are my debters if you please to pay me you shall therein put your selues out of a bad number amongst which you yet are placed if you wil not pay me take this bone to gnaw vpon That I do hope to be euer better furnished with mony then you shall bee with honesty I. T. A Table of the generall heads containing seuen parts 1 THose that haue paid 2 Those that would pay if they could 3 Those that walke inuisible and are not to be found 4 Those that say they will pay who knowes when 5 Those that are dead 6 Those that are fled 7 Those Rorers that can pay and wil not Those that do euer meane to pay Nothing at all this booke doth say To such my Satyre talketh still As haue not paid nor neuer will A Kicksey Winsey OR A Lerry Come-Twang Wherein Iohn Taylor hath Satyrically suited 800. of his bad debters that will not pay him for his returne of his iourney from Scotland 1. My thankes to those that haue paid YOur worthy Worthies of that liberall Tribe Who freely gaue your words or did subscribe And were not ich'd with the vaine-glorious worme To write and lie but promise and performe Black Swans of Brittaine I protest you arr And seeme to me each one a Blazing Starre For this inconstant Age so few affoords Of men whose deedes do counterpoise their words That finding one me thinkes I see a wonder More then Decembers fruit or Winters Thunder Ingratitude I hold a vice so vile That I could ne're endur 't a breathing while And therefore ere I 'le proue a thanklesse Iade Time in his course shall runne quite retrograde Yea euery thing shall hate his proper kinde Before I 'le harbour an ingratefull minde And still I vow to quit you in some part With my best wishes and a thankefull heart So much to