should haue a Nation purg'd and pure And as Elizabeth when she went hence Was wayted on as did be seeme a Prince Of all degrees to tend her Maiestie Neere forty thousand in that yeere did dye That as she was belou'd of high and lowe So at her death their deaths their loues did showe Whereby the world did note Elizabeth Was louingly attended after death So mighty Iames the worlds admired mireur True faiths defending friend sterne Foe to Errour When he Great Britains glorious Crown did leaue A Crowne of endlesse glory to receaue Then presently in lesse then eight months space Full eighty thousand follow him a pace And now that Royall Iames intombed lyes And that onr gracious Charles his roome supplies As Heau'n did for his Father formerly A sinfull Nation cleanse and purifie So God for him these things to passe doth bring And mends the Subiects for so good a King Vpon whose Throne may peace and plenty rest And he and his Eternally be blest NOw for a Conclusion in Prose I must haue one touch more at the vncharitablenesse and ingratitude of those beastly barbarous cruell Country Canibals whom neither the entreaty of the healthy or misery of the sicke could moue to any sparke of humanity or Christian compassion their ingratitude being such that although the Citty of London hath continually extended her bounty towards the Countries in generall and particular necessities for repairing their Churches Bridges and high wayes for their wrackes by sea for their losses by fire for their â—inundations by water for many Free-scholes Alme-houses other workes of piety and charity most largely and aboundantly expressed and most apparantly knowne vnto them yet notwithstanding all these and much more then I can recollect these Grunting Girigashites these Hog-rubbing Gadarens suffers the distressed sonnes and daughters of this famous fostering City to languish pine starue and dye in their streetes fields ditches and high-wayes giuing or allowing them no reliefe whilest they liued or burials being dead whose liues in many places might haue beene saued with the harbours and entertainment which the currish Nabals did afford their swine They haue their excuses and by the fault of their hard-heartednesse vpon the strict command from the Iustices and Magistrates alas a staffe is quickely found to beate a dogg for let it be granted that the Iustices and men of Authoritie did command and counsell then to be wary and carefull yet I am sure that neither God or any Christian or good Magistrate did euer command or exhort them to be cruell vnmercifull vnthankefull barbarous inhumane or vncharitable for it there were â—â— are any either Iustice or other of that hellis and hoggish disposition let him or them expect to howle with Diues for being so vncompassionate What haue you beene but murtherers of your Christian brethren and sisters for the rule of charity saith that whosoeuer heeor they be that may relieue or helpe the necessities of others and doth reiect or neglect it by which meanes those that are in want doe perish that they are murtherers and as many of our Country Innes and Ale-houses haue vnchang'd their signes because they will giue no harbour vpon any condition to neither whole or sicke so without Repentance and Gods great mercy some of them must expect to hang in hell for their inhospitable want or pittie What madnesse did possesse you did you thinke that none but Citizens were marked for death that onely a blacke or ciuill fuâ— of apparell with a Ruffe-band was onely the Plagues liuery No you shall find it otherwayes for a Russet Coat or a sheepe-skin couer is no Armour of proofe against Gods Arrowes though you shut vp barracado your dores and windowes as hard as your hearts and heads were Ramd against your distressed brethren yet death will find you and leaue you to iudgement The Booke of God doth yeeld vs many presidents and examples that we are to be carefull to preserue life it is madnesse to stand wilfully vnder a falling house or to sleep whilst the water ouer-flow vs to runne desperatly into the fire or not auoid a shot or a stroke of a sword It is lawfull to auoid famine to shun the Leper the great or small Pox and many other diseases for if Physicke be good to restore health it is wisdome to preserue health to preuent Physicke The skilfull Mariner in a dangerous storme or tempest will make the hest haste he can into a safe hauen or a good harbour I am commanded to loue my neighbour and to bee carefull to helpe him in the preseruation of his life and therefore I must be respectfull of mine owne Our Sauiour Christ although he was God omnipotent whose becke or the least of his commands could haue consumed Herod and crushed him and his Tyraâ—ny to nothing yet did he please not to vse the power and strength of his Godhead but for our instruction and example shewing the weaknesse and imbecillity of his humanity hee fled from Herod into Egypt By this which hath beene written it is apparent that it is lawfull for any man to absent himselfe if his calling will permit the same from manifest and approaching danger oâ— his life Beasts Fowles and Fishes will shunne their destruction Wormes and contemptible vermine as lice and slâ—as will crawle creepe and skip to saue themselues from death therefore man that hath being Life Sence Reason and Hope of immortalitie may lawfully seeke his owne preseruation But if there be any that haue out of a slauish or vnchristian-like feare fled or runne-away from this famous City in this lamentable visitation I meane such as left neither prayer or purse to relieue those that vnderwent the grieuous burthens of sickenesse and calamity such as trusted more in the Country aide then in heauenly prouidence such as imagined that their safety was by their owne care and industry not remembring that their sinnes and transgressions haue helped to pull downe Gods wrath vpon their afflicted brethren and Sisters I say if any such there be that attribute their preseruation to their owne discreet carriage giuing the praise to the meanes not much minding the All-sufficient cause and Giuer of the meanes If any such haue fallen into the vncourteous pawes of the sordid Rusticles or Clownish Coridons let them know that Gods blessings are worth thankes and that they were iuslly plagued for their vnthankefulnesse And some haue beene too swift and fearefull in flying so many haue beene too slow and aduenturous in staying depending too much vpon a common and desperate opinion that their times are fixed that their dayes are numbred that their liues are limited so that till God hath appointed they shall not dye and that it lyes not in them or any power of man to lengthen life All these Assertions are true and I must needs grant vnto them But for as much as God is the Land Lord of life and puts it as his Tenants in our frailc Tenements although
the Land Lord knowes when the Tenant shall depart yet we are ignorant and know neither when where nor how therefore though there bee no flying from death when God hath appointed it so we not knowning the time when wee shall dye must seeke to preserue life by shunning perils and dangers of death let vs make much of life whilst we haue it for wee doe not know how long we shall keepe it and let vs haue a care to liue well and then I am sure wee are out of feare to dye ill Being it is both naturall lawfull and commendable to auoid all these dangers aforesaid I hold it much reason to shunne the place or person infected with the Plague or Pestilence But here may arise an obiection for Master Mulligrubs Mistris Fump Goodman Beetle the Constable Gaffer Lagg the Hedgborough and Block the Tythingman will say that they did but seeke their owne safeties and preseruations in not entertaining the Londoners for they were ignorant and did not know who were in health or cleare and who were infectious in which regard they thought it the surest course to relieue or harbour none at all this is partly answered before for no man doth or can taxe them for being wary and carefull but for their vnchariblenesse and vnchristianlike dealing both to the quicke and dead for the Towne of Henden in Middlesex seuen miles from London was a good Country president if the rest had the grace to haue followed it for they relieued the sicke they buried the dead in Christian buriall and they being but a small Village did charitably collect eight pounds at the lest which they sent to relieue the poore of Saint Andrewes in Holborne besides they allowed good weekely wages to two men to attend and bury such as dyed and though they are no Pharises to ploclaime their owne charity yet I could not ouerslip their deserued commendations In many other places there hath been much goodnesse and Christian loue exprest for the which no doubt but there is more then an earthly reward in store For I taxe not all Townes and Villages though I thinke most of them doe harbour some in the shapes of men with the mindes of Monsters A man sicke of an Ague lying on the ground at Maydenhead in Barkeshire with his Fit violently on him had stones cast at him by two men of the Towne whom I could name and when they could not cause him to rise one of them tooke a Hitcher or long Boate-hooke and hitch'd in the sicke mans Breeches drawing him backward with his face groueling on the ground drawing him so vnder the Bridge in a dry place where hee lay till his Fit was gone and hauing lost a new Hat went his way One was cast dead into the Thames at Stanes and drawne with a Boat and a rope downe some part of the Riuer and dragged to shore and indiched One at Richmond was drawne naked in the night by his owne Wife and Boy and cast into the Thames where the next day the corpâ— was found One at Stanes carried his dead Wife on his backe in a Coffin and faine to be Bearer Priest Clarke Sexton and Graue-maker himselfe thete and many more I could speake vpon knowledge and should I write all that I am truely informed of my Booke would out-swell the limits of a Pamphlet let it suffice that God hath not forgotten to be gracious and mercifull our sicknesse he hath turned to health our mourning into ioy and our desolations into full and wholesome habitations and though the Country in many places doth beginne to share in this Contagion let them not doubt but they shall finde the City more charitable and hospitable then they deserue or can expect And so God in mercy turne his fierce wrath both from them and vs. FINIS TO ALL THOSE THAT HAVE BEENE ARE VVILL OR WOVLD BE MASTERS OF A SHILLING OR TWELVE-PENCE SIR Iohn Mandeuill an English Knight a famous Trauailer and discouerer of forraine Maners Regions and Rarieties Christopher Collumbus Magellane Hernando Cortez Don Diego de Almagro Drake Hawkins Frosbushir Baskeruile Cauendish and many more worthy Trauailers of our owne other Nations whose honourable dangerous laudable atchieuements haue made their meritorius names to be Recorded to the admiration of the time past present and to future postcrity yet if it be well considered it will plainely appeare that all their laborious endeauours had an end with their liues But the Trauailer that Itreate of the Thrice-treble-triumphant Troynouantine Twelue-pence is like a perpetuall motion in a continuall trauell to whose Iourney there can be no end vntill the world come to a finall dissolution and period For the progresse of Coriat was but a walke in regard of my Shillings per ambulation and if the inke and Paper-murthering fictions should be true of Amadis de Gaule Huon Sir Egre Beuis Guy the Mirrour of Knighthood the seuen Champions Chinon Sir Dagonet Triamore Monsieur Mallegrindo Knight of the frozen Ile If it were possible that all their lyes should be true of the great Trauels of those imaginarse and neuer seene worthies yet must they all come short of the praise that is due to my trauelling Twelue-pence I could haue bussied my braines about many other subiects as quicke Epigrams biting Satyres Sharpe Iambicks soothing Elegies pleasant Pastorals Odes Madrigals or Roundelayes alluring Sonnets flattering Epithalamiums or lying Epitaphs Panegericks or name-seruing Acrosticks and Annagrams losty Tragedie lowly Comedie riddling Morall or stately Heroicks either of all these I could haue poorely handled but that any Muse stumbled by chance vpon this Twelue-peny subiect wherein I would haue the Reader to consider what in some places I speake onely of a Shilling or Twelue-pence and in some places generally of Money â—â— haue set downe the manner of my Shillings shifting of Masters more often then the Serieants doe for they vse the old Sherifs like Almanacks out of date and yeerely serue the new but Twelue-pence hath sometimes twelue sixteene or twenty Masters in a day In a word Reader I doe not beg your fauour â—raue your acceptance entreat your kindnesse implore your loue or request your friendship for it is not any of these in particular that seeke or care for but generally at all I ayme and for all I hope and being in that hope I leaue you to Reade and Iudge of my insuing Labours and my Twelue-pences Trauels Yours as you please to be mine IOHN TAYLOR THE TRAVELS OF TVVELVE-PENCE Imagine Reader to his griefe and glory Twelue-pence him selfe declares his wandring story Relating how he first was borne and bred And how about the world he Trauailed IF any one as I dare boldly done a No man dares confesse his whole life and actions as my Twelue-pence doth His Bitth his breeding and his Life declare Let him appeare and I dare lay my necke He wil be hang'd or else deserue a checke From vast America's rude barbarous bounds b Where
But let our wils attend vpon his will And let this will be our direction still Let not Pleibeans be inquisitiue Or into any profound State-businesse diue We in fiue hundred and nere sixty yeare Since first the Norman did the Scepter beare Haue many hopefull royall Princes had Who as Heau'n pleas'd to blesse were good or bad Beanclarke was first who was first Henry crown'd For learning and for wisdome high renown'd Beyond the verge of Christendomes Swift Fame Did make the world admire his noble name The blacke Prince Edward all his life time ran The race of an accomplisht Gentleman His valour and tryumphant victories Did still the world and mount vnto the skyes The warlike Henry of that name the fist With his innated vertue vp did lift His name and fame to such perspicuous grace Which time or no obliuion can deface Prince Aâ—â—hur whom our Chronicks record To be a vertuous and a hopefull Lord His budding fortunes were by death preuented And as he liued belou'd he dy'd lamented His brother Henry from his fall did spring First to be Prince of Wales then Englands King He was magnificent and fortunate According to the greatnesse of his state Next Edward his vndoubted heyre by birth Who for the sins of men vpon the earth God tooke him hence as he began to bloome Whose worthy memory mens hearts intoâ— be Prince Henry last a Prince of as great hope As ere was any yet beneath the Copâ— He liu'd and dy'd be wailed and renown'd And left this Land with teares or sorrow drown'd Then onely this illustrious bâ—â—â— remain'd Our gracious Charles by Heauenâ— high grace ordâ—in'd To be our loy whose vertues as I gather Will length the life of his beloued Father True loue and honour made his Highneste please Aduenturously to passe ore Lands and Seas With hazard of his royall person and In that the hope of all our happy Land But blessed be his Name whose great protection Preseru'd him still from change of ayres infectiorn That gaue him health and strength mongst suâ—dry Nations T' endure and like their dyers variations That though to others these things might be strange Yet did this Princely vlgour neuer change But with a strong and able constitution He bore out all with manly resolution Loue sometimes made the Gods themselues disguise And mussle vp their mighty Dieties And vertuous Princes of the Gods haue â—ds When Princes goodnesse doe outgoe the Gods Then foolish man this is no worke of thine But operation of the power Diuine Let God alone with what he hath in hand 'T is sawcy folly madnesse to withstand What his eternall wisedome hath decreed Who better knowes then we doe what we need To him le ts pray for his most safe protection Him we implore for his most sure direction Let his assistance be Prince Charles his guide That in the end God may be glorifide Let vs amendment in our liues expresse And let our thankes be more our sins be lesse Amongst the rest this is to bee remembred that two Watermen at the Tower Wharfe burnt both their Boats in a Bonefire most merrily FINIS AN ENGLISH-MANS LOVE TO BOHEMIA DEDICATED To the Honourable well approued and accomplisht Souldier Sir ANDREVV GRAY Knight Colonell of the Forces of Great Britaine in this Noble Bohemian Preparation SIR ANDREVV GRAIâ— Anagramma I GARDE IN WARRES Honourable Knight THere are two especiall Causes that haue moued me most boldly to thrust these rude lines into the world The first is my heartie affection to the generality of the cause you vndertake which I beleeue God and his best seruants doe affect and the other is my loue and seruice which I owe to your worthy Selfe in particular for many vnde serued friendships which I haue receiued from you and many of your noble friends for your sake Ingratitude is a Deuill so farre worse them all the deuils that if I should craue harbour of me in the likenesse of an Angell of light yet it would neuer by perswaded to entertaine it My thankfull acknowledgement of your goodnesse towards me is my prayers and best wishes which shall euer be a poore requitall towards you not forgetting my thankes in the behalfe of all the worthy Ladies and others of that Angelicall sex that are maried and resident in London whose chast honours you as became a true Knight defended when an audacious Frenchman most slaunderously did without exception sweare there was not one honest Women dwelling within the bounds of this populous Citie but that they had all generally abused the bed of Mariage then did your noble selfe inforce the pestiferous peasant to swallow his odious calumny and in humilitie to comfesse there were fifty thousand or a greater number that neuer had wronged their Husbands in that vnlawfull act I haue made bold to speake of this matter here because the abuse was so generall and your quarrell so Honourable which I thinke vnfit to be buried in silence or forgetfulnesse howsoeuer I craue your pardon and worthy acceptance whilst I most obsequiously remaine Euer to be commanded by you IOHN TAYLOR AN ENGLISH-MANS LOVE TO BOHEMIA With a friendly Farewell to all the noble Souldiers that goe from great Britaine to that honourable Expedition As ALSO The most part of the Kings Princes Dukes Marquisses Earles Bishops and other friendly Confederates that are combined with the Bohemian part WArres noble warres and manly braue designes Where glorious valour in bright Armour shines Where God with guards of Angels doth defend And best of Christian Princes doe befriend Where mighty Kings in glittering burnisht armes Lead bloudy brusing battels and alarmes Where honour truth loue royall reputation Make Realmes and Nations ioyne in combination Bohemia Denmarks and Hungaria The vpper and the lower Bauaria The two great Counties of the Paâ—â—atine The King of Sweden friendly doth combine The Marquesse and Elector Brandenburge The Dukes of Brunswicke and of Lunenburge Of Holstein Deuxpont and of Wittemberge Of the Low-Saxons of Mackelberge Braue Hessens Lantsgraue Anholts worthy * Prince of Tuscaniâ— Prince The inhance Townes whom force cannot conuince Prince Mauricâ— and the States of Netherlands And th' ancient Knights of th' Empire lend their hands fam'd These and a number more then I haue nam'd Whose worths and valours through the world are With many a Marquesse Bishop Lord and Knight Toppose foule wrong and to defend faire right Whose warlike troopes assembled brauely are To ayde a gracious Prince in a iust warre Byshops of Haâ—â—flads Magenberg Hoeshriâ—â—â—senburgh The Marquesse of Auspasts â—â—ullinbag Dwilâ—gh The Count Palatine of â—â—â—tricks and Luxemburgh Tho States of vâ—â—â—â—and Sauoy For God for Natures and for Nations Lawes This martiall Army vndertakes this cause And true borne Britaines worthy Countrymen Resume your ancient honors once agen I know your valiant minds are sharpe and keene To serue you Souereignes daughter Bohems Queen I know you need to spur to set you on But you thinke dayes are
Did in his Mothers belly leape with ioy Both Christ and Iohn vnborae yet Iohn knew there His great Redeemer and his God was neere When Ioseph his pure wife with child espide And knew he neuer her accompanide His heart was sad he knew not what to say But in suspect would put her quite away Then from the high Almighty Lord supreme An Angell came to Ioseph in a Dreame And said Feare not with MARY to abide For that which in her blest wombe doth recide Is by the Holy Ghost in wonder done For of thy wise there shall be borne a Sonne From him alone Redemption all begins And he shall saue his people from their sinnes This being said the Angell past away And Ioseph with his Virgin-wife did stay Then he and she with speed prepared them To goe to Dauids Citty Bethelem Through winters weather frost wind and snow Foure weary daies in trauell they bestow But when to Bethlem they approched were Small friendship lesse welcome they found there No chamber nor no fire to warme them at For harbor onely they a Stable gat The Inne was full of more respected guests Of Drankards Swearers and of godlesse beasts Those all had roomes whilst Glory and all Grace But among beasts could haue no lodging place There by protection of th' Almighties wing Was borne the Lord of Lords and King of Kings Our God with vs our great Emanuel Our Iesus and our vanquisher of hell There in a cratch a â—â— well was brought forth More then ten thousand thousand worlds is worth There did the humane nature and diuine The Godhead with the Manhood both combine There was this Maiden-mother brought to bed Where Oxen Kine and Horses lodg'd and fed There this bright Queene of Queenes with heau'nly my Did hug her Lord her Life her God her Boy Her Sonne her Sauiour her immortall Blisse Her sole Redeemer she might rocke and kisse Oh blessed Lady of all Ladies blest Blessed for euer for thy sacred brest Fed him that all the famisht soules did feed Of the lost sheepe of Israels forlorne seed A Stable being Heau'n and earths great Court When forty dayes were ended in that sort This Virgin-Mother and this Maiden-Bride All pure yet by the Law was purifide Old Simeon being in the Temple than He saw the Sonne of God and Sonne of man He in his aged armes the Babe imbrac'd And ioying in his heart he so was grac'd He with these wordswisht that his life might cease Lord let thy Seruant now depart in peace Mine eyes haue seene thy great saluation My Loue my Iesus my Redemption Vnto the Genteles euerlasting light To Israel the glory and the might Hope faith and zeale truth constancy and loue To sing this Song did good old Simeon moue Then turning to our Lady most diuine Thy Sonne said he shall once stand for a signe And he shall be the cause that many shall By faith or vnbeliefe arise or fall He shall be raild vpon without desert And then sorrowes sword pierce through thy heart As Iesus fame grew dayly more and more The tyrant Herod is amazed sore The Sages said Borne was great Iudaes King Which did vsurping Herods conscience fling For Herod was an Idumean base Not of the Kings of Iudahs Royall Race And hearing one of Dauids true-borne Line Was borne he fear'd his State he should resigne And well he knew he kept the Iewes in awe With slauish feare not loue 'gainst right and law For t is most true A Prince that 's fear'd of many Must many feare and scarce be lou'd of any Herod beleaguer'd with doubts feares and woes That Iesus should him of his Crowne depose He Chaf'd and vext and almost grew starke mad To vsurpation he did murther adde An Edict sprung from his hell-hatched braine Commanding ad male Infants should be slaine Of two yeares old and vnder through the Land Supposing Iesus could not scape his hand But God to Ioseph downe an Angell sent Commanding him by slight he should preuent The murd'rers malice and to Egypt flye To saue our Sauiour siem his tyranny Our blessed Lady with a carefull flight Her blessed Babe away did beare by night Whilst Bethelem with bloody villaines swarmes That murth'red Infants in their mothers armes Some slaughter'd in their cradles some in bed Some at the dugge some newly borne strucke dead Some sweetly fast asleepe some smiles ewake All butcher'd for their Lord and Sauiours sake Their wofull mothers madly here and there Ran rending of their checkes their eyes and haire The Tyrant they with execrations curst And in despaire to desp'rate acts out-burst Some all in sury end their wofull liues By banefull poison halters or by kniues And som with sorrow were so fast combin'd They wept and wept and wept themselues starke blind And being blind to lengthen out their mones They piec'd their sorrows out with sighs grones Thus with vnceasing griefe in many a mother Teares sighs groues did one succeede the other But till the Tyrant Herods dayes were done The Virgin staid in Egypt with her Sonne Then backe to Nazareth they return'd againe When twelue yeeres age our Sauiour did attaine Her Sonne her selfe her Husband all of them Together trauell'd to Ierusalem The Virgin there much sorrow did endure The Most pure Mother lost her Child most pure Three daies with heauy hearts with care thought Their best belou'd they diligently sought But when she found her Lord she held most deare Ioy banisht griefe and loue exiled feare There in the Temple Iesus did confute The greatest Hebrew Doctors in dispute But Doctors all are dunces in this case To parley with th' Eternall Sonne of Grace Th' Immortall mighty Wisedome and the Word Can make all humane sapience meere absurd Soone after this as ancient Writers say God tooke the Virgins Virgin-spouse away Good Ioseph dide and went to heauenly rest Blest by th' Almighties mercy mongst the blest Thus Mary was of her Good-man â— creâ—t A Widdow Maiden Mother being lose In holy contemplation she did spend Her life for such a life as n'er shall end Search but the Scriptures as our Sauiour bid There shall you find the wonders that he did As first how he by his high power diuine At Canan turned Water into Wine How he did heale the blind deafe dumb lame How with his word he winds and seas did tame How he from men possest siends dispossest How he to all that came gaue ease and rest How with two fishes and fiue loaues of bread He fed fiue thousand how he rais'd the dead How all things that he euer did or taught Past and surpast all that are taught or wrought And by these miracles he sought each way To draw soules to him too long gene altray At last approacht the full preâ—xed time That GODS blest Sonne must dye for mans curst crime Then Iesus to Ierusalem did goe And left his Mother full of griefe and woe Oh woe of woes and
griefe surpassing griefe To see her Sauiour captiu'd as a thiefe Her Loue beyond all loues her Lord her all Into the hands of sinfull slaues to fall If but a mother haue a wicked sonne That hath to all disordred orders runne As treasons rapes blasphomings murther theft And by the Law must be of life berest Yet though he suffer iustly by desert His suff'ring surely wounds his mothers heart Suppose a woman haue a vertuous childe Religious honest and by nature milde And he must be to execution brought For some great fault he neuer did nor thought And she behold him when to death hee 's put Then sure tormenting griefe her heart must cut These griefes are all as nothing vnto this Of this blest Mother of eternall blisse Her gracious Sonne that neuer did aâ—nisse His gracelesse seruant with a Iudas kisse Betraid him vnto misbeleening slaues Where he was led away with bils and staues To Annaâ— Caiphae Pilate and to those That to th' Immortall God were mortall foes Ah Iudas couldst thou make so base account Of Him whose worth doth heauen and earth surmount Didst thou esteeme of 30. paltry pence More then the life of the eternall Prince O monstrous blindnesse that for so small gaine Sold endlesse blisse to buy perpetuall paine Is' t possible damn'd auarice could compell Thee sell heau'ns Kingdome for the sinke of hell Our Father Adam vnto all our woes Did for an Apple blessed Eden lose And Esau borne a Lord yet like a slaue His birth-right for a messe of pottage gaue And poore Gehizi telling of a lye His couetousnesse gain'd his leprosie And though the text their deeds doe disallow Yet they made better matches farre then thou I doe not heere impute this deed of shame On Iudas because Iudas was his name For of that name there haue beene men of might Who the great battels of the Lord did fight And others more But sure this impure blot Stickes to him as hee 's nam'd Iskarriott For in an Anagram Iskarriott is By letters transposition traytor kis ISKARRIOTT Anagramms TRAITOR KIS. KIsse Traytor kisse with an intent to kill And cry all haile when thou dost meane all ill And for thy fault no more shall Iudas be A name of treason and foule infamie But all that fault I 'le on Iskarriott throw Because the Anagram explaines it so Iskarriott for a bribe and with a kisse Betraid his Master the blest King of Blisse And after but too late with conscience wounded Amaz'd and in his senses quite confounded With crying Woe woe woe oh woe on me I haue betraid my Master for a fee Oh I haue sinned sinned past compare And want of grace and faith pluckes on despaire Oh too-too late it is to call for grace What shall I doe where is some secret place That I might shield me from the wrath of God I haue deseru'd his euerlasting rod. Then farewell grace and faith and hope and loue You are the gifts of the great God aboue You onely on th'Elect attendants be Despaire hell horror terror is for me My hainous sinne is of such force and might 'T will empt th' Exchequer of Gods mercy quite And therefore for his mercy I le not call But to my iust deseru'd perdition fall I still most gracelesse haue all grace withstood And now I haue betraid the guiltlesse blood My Lord and Master I haue sold for pelfe This hauing said despayring hang'd himselfe There we leaue him and now must be exprest Something of her from vvhom I haue digrest The Virgins heart vvith thousand griefs vvas nipâ— To see her Sauiour flouted hated vvhipt Despightfulnesse beyond despight vvas vs'd And vvith abuse past all abuse abus'd His apprehension grieu'd her heart full sore His cruell scourges grieu'd her ten times more And wheÌ„ his blessed head with thorns was crown'd Then floods of griefe on griefe her soule did wouÌ„d But then redoubled was her griefe and feare When to his death his Crosse she saw him beare And lastly but alas not least nor last When he vpon the tree was nailed fast With bitter teares deep heart-wounding groues With sobs and sighs this Maiden-Mother moanes What tongue or pen can her great griefe vnfold When Christ said Woman now thy Sonne behold That voyce like Ice in Iune more cold and chill Did dangerously wound and almost kill Then as old Simeon prophesi'd before The sword of sorrow through her heart did gore And if 't were possible all womens woes One woman could within her brest inclose They were but puffes sparkes mole-hills drops of raine To whirl-winds meteors Kingdomes or the maine Vnto the woes griefes sorrowes sighs and teares Sobs gronings terrors and a world of feares Which did beset this Virgin on each side When as her Sonne her Lord and Sauiour dide Thus he to whom compar'd all things are drosse Humbled himselfe to death euen to the Crosse He that said Let there be and there was light He that made all things with his mighty might He by whom all things haue their life and breath He humbled himselfe vnto the death Vnto the death of the curst Crosse this he This he this He of hee 's did stoope for me For me this Wel-spring of my soules releefe Did suffer death on either hand a theefe The one of them had runne a theeuing race Rob'd God of Glory and himselfe of Grace He wanted liuely faith to apprehend To end his life for life that ne'r shall end With faithlesse doubts his minde is armed stiffe And doth reuile our Sauiour with an If. If that thou be the Sonne of God quoth he Come from the Crosse and saue thy selfe and me The other Theefe arm'd with a sauing faith Vnto his fellow turn'd and thus he saith Thou guilty wretch this man is free and cleare From any crime for which he suffers here We haue offended we haue iniur'd many But this man yet did neuer wrong to any We iustly are condemn'd he false accus'd He hath all wrong all right to vs is vs'd Hee 's innocent so are not thou and I We by the Law are iustly iudg'd to dye Thus the good Theefe euen at his latest cast Contrary to a Theefe spake truth at last And looking on our Sauiour faithfully Whilst Christ beheld him with a gracious eye These blest words were his prayers totall â—â—â— O Lord when thou shalt to thy Kingdome come Remember me Our Sauiour answer'd then A doctrine to confute despairing men Thou who by liuely faith laist hold on me This day in Paradise with me shalt be Thus as this theefes life was by theft supplide So now he stole heau'ns Kingdome when he dyde And I doe wish all Christians to agree Not t'liue as ill but dye as well as he Presumptuous sinnes are no way here excus'd For here but one was sau'd and one refus'd Despaire for sinnes hath here no rule or ground For as here 's one was lost so one was found To teach vs not to sinne with wilfull
pleasure And put repentance off to our last leasure To shew vs though we liu'd like Iewes and Turkes Yet Gods great mercy is aboue his workes To warne vs not presume or to despaire Here 's good example in this theeuing paire These seas of care with zealous fortitude This Virgin past among the multitude Oh gracious patterne of a sex so bad Oh the supernall patience that she had Her zeale her constancy her truth her loue The very best of women her doth proue Maids wiues and mothers all conforme your liues To hers the best of women maides or wiues But as her Sonnes death made her woes abound His resurrection all griefe did confound She saw him vanquish't and inglorious And after saw him Victor most victorious She saw him in contempt to lose his breath And after that she saw him conquer death She saw him blest a cursed death to dye And after saw him rise triumphantly Thus she that sorrowed most had comfort most Ioy doubly did returne for gladnesse lost And as before her torments tyranniz'd Her ioy could after not be equalliz'd Her Sonnes all-wondred resurrection Her Sauiours glorious ascension And last the Holy Ghost from heauen sent downe These mighty mercies all her ioyes did crowne Suppose a man that were exceeding poore Had got a thousand tunnes of golden ore How would his heart be lifted vp with mirth As this great masse of treasure most part earth But to be rob'd of all in 's height of glory Would not this lucklesse man be much more sory Then euer he was glad for in the minde Griefe more then ioy doth most abiding finde But then suppose that after all this lâ—sse The gold is well refined from the dresse And as the poore man doth his losse complaine His weath more pure should be relâ—â— againe Amidst his passions in this great reliefe I doubt not but his ioy would conquer griefe Euen so our bressed Lady hauing lost Her ioy her lewell she esteemed most Her all in all the heau'n and earths whole treasure Her gracious heart was grieued out of measure But when she found him in triumphant state No tongue or pen her ioy cou'd then relate She lost him poore and â—are and dead and cold She found him rich most glâ—â—â— to behold She lost him when vpon his backe was hurld The burthen of the sinnes of all the World She lost him mortall and immortall found him For crown of thorns a crown of glory crownd him Thus all her griefes her losse her cares and paine Return'd with ioyes inestimable gaine But now a true relation I will make How this blest Virgin did the world forsake 'T is probable that as our Sauiour bid Saint Iohn to take her home that so he did And it may be suppos'd she did abide With him and in his house vntill she dide Iohn did out-liue th'Apostles euery one For when Domitian held th' Imperiall Throne To th'Ile of Pathmos he was banisht then And there the Reuelation he did pen But whilst Iohn at Ierusalem did stay God tooke the blessed Virgins life away For after Christs Ascension it appeares She on the earth suruiued fifteene yeeres Full sixty three in all she did endure A sad glad pilgrimage a life most pure At sixty three yeeres age her life did fade Her soule most gracious was most glorious made Where with her Son her Sauiour her Lord God She euerlastingly hath her abode In such fruition of immortall glory Which cannot be describ'd in mortall story There mounted meelâ—e she sits in Maiesty Exalted there is her humility There she that was adorned full of Grace Beheld her Maker and Redeemers face And there she is amongst all blessed spirits By imputation of our Sauiours merits She there shall euer and for euer sing Eternall praise vnto th' Eternall King When she had paid the debt that all must pay When from her corps her soule was past away To Gethsemany with lamenting cheare Her sacred body on the Beere they beare There in the earth a Iewell was inter'd That was before all earthly wights prefer'd That Holy wife that Mother that pure Maid At Gethsemany in her graue was laid LENVOY This worke deserues the worke of better wit But I like Pilate say What 's writ is writ If it be lik'd poore artlesse I am glad And Charity I hope will mend what 's bad I know my selfe the meanest amongst men The most vnlearnedst that e'r handled pen But as it is into the world I send it And therefore pray commend it or come to end it FINIS TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE WORTHY and Learned Gentleman S r. THOMAS Richardson Knight Lord Chiefe Iustice of his Maiesties Court of Common Pleas and Speaker in the High Court of PARLIAMENT c. A double Anagramme THOMAS RICHARDSON AS MAN HONORDE CHRIT SO CHRIST HONERD A MAN YOur name includes that As Man honorde Christ So God againe through Christ honord a Man For if Man truely honor the most High'st Then Christ to honor Man both will and can Right Worthy Lord this in your name is true You honor Christ and Christ hath honord you RIGHT HONOVRABLE BVt that I am assured that your Noble disposition in all parts is sutable to the inside of this Booke I should neuer haue dared to Dedicate it to your Patronage for as it is a Diuine Poem so haâ—â— your Worship a religious heart As it hath an honest intention so haue you a brest euer full of â—â—â— thoughts which bring forth worthy actions as it is a whip or Scourge against all sorts of priat so hâ—â—e you euer beene an vfaigned louer of Courteous humanity and humility I humbly beseech your Honour although the method and stile be plaine to be pleased to giue it fauourable entertainment for the honesty that is in it and the dutifull affection of the Author Who is most obsequiously obliged to your Honour IOHN TAYLOR TO NO MATTER VVHO NO GREAT MATTER VVHERE YET TO BE READ THERE IS MATTER WHY ALTHOVGH NOT MVCH MATTER WHEN IT is no matter in whose hands or censure this my Superibae Flagellum or Whipping or Stripping of Pride fall into If it come into the view of true Nobility or Gentry I know it will be charitably accepted If into the hands of degenerate yongsters that esteeme Pride more then all the Liberall Sciences who account the foure Cardinall vertues inferiour to their owne carnall vices such a one will put me off with a scornefull tush a pish or a mew and commit my Booke to the protection of Ajax If a wise man reade it I know it will be discreetly censur'd if a Foole his Bolt is soone shot and I am arm'd against it if a Learned man peruse it he will beare with my bad Schollership if an vnlearned I care not for his opinion if a man of knowledge view it he will pardon my ignorance if an ignorant Asse see it he will bray out his owne if an honest rich man spy it he will be
to you Next to the Court in generall I am bound To you for many friendships I haue found There when my purse hath often wanted bait To fill or feed it I haue had receite So much for that I 'le now no more rehearse They shew their loues in prose my thankes in verse When death Mecanas did of life depriue Few of his Noble Tribe were left aliue This makes inuention to be meane and hard When Pride and Auarice doth kill reward And yet me thinkes it plainely doth appeare Mens writings are as good as e're they were Good lines are like a Banquet ill imployd Where too much feeding hath the stomack cloyd Good verses fall sometimes by course of fate Into their hands that are preiudicate And though the Writer n'er so well hath pend Yet they 'le find fault with what they cannot mend Thus many a learned well composed line Hath bin a Pearle that 's cast before a swine Or more familiarly to make compare Like Aqua vitae giuen vnto a Mare These fellowes glutted with variety Hold good lines in a loath'd saciety Whilst paltry Riming Libels Tigges and Iests Are to their appetites continuall feasts With which their fancies they doe feed and fill And take the Ill for good the Good for ill Whilst like to Mōkeyes scorning wholsome meate They greedily doe poysnous spiders eate So let them feed vntill their humours burst And thus much bold to tell them heere I durst That Poetry is now as good as euer If to bounty relieue her would endeuer Mens mindes are worse then they haue bin of yore Inuention's good now as it was before Let liberality awake and then Fach Poet in his hand will take a pen. And with rare lines inrich a world of paper Shall make Apollo and the Muses caper SVPERBIAE FLAGELLVM OR THE VVHIP OF PRIDE VVHen all things were as wrap'd in sable night And a If any man fetch his Story higher let him take my booke for nought Ebon darknes muffled vp the light When neither Sun or Moone nor Stars had shinde And when no fire no Water Earth or Wind No Haruest Autumne Winter when no Spring No Bird Beast Fish nor any creeping thing When there was neither Time nor place nor space And silence did the Chaos round imbrace Then did the Archwork master of this All Create this Massie Vniuersall Ball And with his mighty Word brought all to passe Saying but Let there be and done it was Let there be Day Night Water Earth Hearbs Trees Let there be Sunne Moone Stars Fish Fowle that flees Beasts of the Field he said but Let there be And all things were created as we see Thus euery sensible and senselesse thing The High-Creators Word to passe did bring And as in viewing all his workes he stood He saw that all things were exceeding good Thus hauing furnisht Seas and Earth and Skies Abundantly with all varieties Like a Magnificent and sumptuous Feast For th' entertainment of some welcome Guest When Beasts and Birds and euery liuing Creature And the Earths fruits did multiply by Nature Then did th' Eternall Trinity betake It selfe to Councell and said Let vs make Not Let there be as vnto all things else But LET VS MAKE MAN that the rest excels According TO OVR IMAGE LET VS MAKE MAN and then did th' Almightie Red Earth take With which he formed Adam euery limme And hauing made him breathed life in him Loe thus the first Man neuer was a Child No way with sinne originall defil'd But with high Supernat'rall Vnderstanding He ouer all the World had sole commanding Yet though to him the Regency was giuen As Earths Lieutenant to the God of Heauen Though he commanded all created things As Deputy vnder the King of Kings Though he I so highly here was dignifide To humble him not to be puff'd with Pride He could not brag or boast of high borne birth For he was formed out of slime and earth No beast fish worme fowle herbe weed stone or tree But are of a more ancient house then he For they were made before him which proues this That their Antiquity is more then his Thus both himselfe and his beloued Spouse Are by Creation of the younger house And whilst they liu'd in perfect Holinesse b Imperfect Holinesse and Righteousnesse Their richest Garments were bare Nakednesse True Innocency were their chiefest weeds For Righteousnesse no Masque or Visor needs The royal'st robes that our first Parents had Was a free Conscience with Vprightnesse clad They needed ne'r to shift the cloathes they wore Was Nakednesse and they desir'd no more Vntill at last that Hell-polluting sin With Disobedience soil'd their Soules within And hauing lost their holines Perfection They held their Nakednes an Imperfection Then being both asham'd they both did frame Garments as weedes of their deserued shame Thus when as sinne had brought Gods curse on man Then shame to make Apparell first began E're man had sin'd most plaine it doth appeare He neither did or needed Garments weare For his Apparell did at first beginne To be the Robes of penance for his sinne Thus all the brood of Adam and of Eue The true vse of Apparell may perceiue That they are Liueries Badges vnto all Of our sinnes and our Parents wofull fall Then more then mad these mad-brain'd people be Or else they see and will not seeme to see That these same Robes with Pride that makes them swell Are tokens that our best desert is hell a Comparison Much like vnto a Traytor to his King That would his Countrey to destruction bring Whose Treasons being prou'd apparantly He by the Law is iustly mg'd to dye And when he lookes for his deserued death A Pardon comes and giues him longer breath I thinke this man most madly would appeare That would a halter in a glory weare Because he with a halter merited Of life to be quite desinherited But if he should vainegloriously persist To make a Rope of silke or golden twist And weare 't as a more honourable show Of his Rebellion then course hempe or towe Might not men iustly say he were an Asse Triumphing that he once a Villaine was And that he wore a halter for the nonce In pride that he deserued hanging once Such with our heau'nly Father is the Case Of our first Parents and their sinfull Race Apparell is the miserable signe That we are Traytors to our Lord diuine And we like Rebels still most pride doe take In that which still most humble should vs make Apparell is the prison for our sinne Which most should shame yet most we Glory in Apparell is the sheete of shame as 't were Which for our penance on our backs we beare For man Apparell neuer did receiue Till he eternall Death deseru'd to haue And thus Apparell to our sense doth tell Our sinnes 'gainst Heau'n and our desert of Hell How vaine is it for man a clod of Earth To boast of his high progeny
or Birth Because perhaps his Ancestors were good And sprung from Royall or from Noble blood Where Vertuous worth did in their minds inherit Who gain'd their Honours by Desert and Merit Whose seruice for their Country neuer fai'ld Who iustly liu'd belou'd and dyde bewaild Whose Affability and Charity Guided with pious true sincerity Who to their states lou'd all their liues to ioyne Loue before Lands Compassion before Coyne Yet when they dyde left wealth place state and name To Heires who bury all in Pride shame But as the Sacred Truth most truly faith No man is saued by anothers Faith So though some honourable Rascals haue Turn'd their good Fathers to their timelesse graue And like Ignoble noble Reprobates Possesse their names possessions and estates Yet for they want their Vertues and Deserts They are but Bastards to their better parts Manasses was good Hezechtahi sonne And with his Crowne into a Vice did runne The Sire the title of good King did gaine The Sonn's Abominations alt did staine Honour is better well deseru'd then had To haue it vndeseru'd that Honour 's bad In Rome an ancient Law there sometimes was Men should through Vertue vnto Honor passe And 't is a Rule that euermore hath bin That Honor 's best which a mans selfe doth win 'T is no Inheritance nor can it runne Successiuely from Father to the Sonne But if the Father nobly were inclin'd And that the Sonne retaine his worthy mind If with his Fathers goods he doth possesse His goodnesse all the world must then confesse That that Sonnes Honor doth it selfe display To be the Fathers equall euery way Thus good mens Honors can no Honor be To their degenerate posteritie But 't is a mans owne Vertue or his Vice That makes his Honor high or low in price Of Birth or Parents no man can be proud Pride of Apparell here is disallow'd Pride of our Riches is most Transitory Pride of our Beauty is a sading Glory Pride of our wisedome is most foolish sorly Pride of our holines is most vnholy Pride of our strength is weakenes in our thought And Pride in any thing is come to nought Pride hath bin Author of the worst of Eails * â—â—ay 14. 14. Transforming glorious Angels into Deuils When Babels Tow'r gan proudly to aspire With toungs confusion they were paid their hire Through Pride the King of Babels glory ceast * Daniel 4. Daniel 5. And for seu'n yeeres it turn'd him to a beast And Baltazar that next him did succeede Lost life and left his Empire to the * Acts 10. Josepâ—us lib Iâ— cap. 7 Actâ— 8 Plutarch in the life of of A'â—ler He was poysoned at Babylon Mede For Pride to Tyre and Zidons wicked Kings * Acts 12. Josepâ—us lib â—â— cap. 7 Acts. 8 Plutarch in the life of of Alexander He was poysoned at Babylon The Prophet a most iust destruction brings Herod mid'st his vngodly glory vaine Through Pride was eaten vp with wormes and slaine Great b The Mèdes and Persians Alexander King of Macedon Disdaind to be his father Phillips son But he from Iupiter would be descended And as a god be honour'd and attended Yet Bain'de at Babylon he prou'd but man His godhead ended foolish as 't began There was in Sicilie a proud Physitian Menecrates and he through high ambition To be a god himselfe would needs preferre And would forsooth be named Iupiter King Dionysius making a great feast This foole-god daigned there to be a guest Who by himselfe was at a table plac'd Because his godhead should the more be grac'd The other Guests themselues did feed and fill He at an empty table still sate still At last with humble low Sir Reuerence A fellow came with fire and Frankincense And offer'd to his godship saying then Perfumes were fit for gods and meate for men The god in anger rose incontinent Well laugh'd at and an hunger'd home he went The Romane Emperour Domitian Would be a god was murther'd by a man Caligula would be a god of wonder And counterfeite the lightning and the thunder Yet euery Reall heau'nly Thundercracke This Caitife in such feare and terror strake That he would quake and shake hide his head In any hole or vnderneath his bed And when this godlesse god had many slaine A Tribune dasht out his vngodly braine And thus th' Almighty still 'gainst Pride doth frowne And casts Ambition headlong tumbling downe Great Pompey would be all the worlds superior And Caesar vnto none would be inferior But as they both did liue ambitiously So both of them vntimely deaths did dye The one in AEgypt had his finall fall The other murthered in the Capitall A number more Examples are beside Which shewes the miserable fall of Pride And doe men thinke to goe to Heauen from hence By Pride which cast the Angels headlong thence Or doe they through their Pride suppose to dwell With God when Pride did make the Deuils in hell It is a Vice which God abhors and hates And 'gainst it doth denounce most fearefull threats Oh what a hellish vanity is' t then That doth bewitch vaine women and vile men That rather then their Pride and they will seuer They will be seuer'd from their God for euer I will not say but Wisedome Beauty Health Strength Courage Magnanimity and Wealth Empires and Kingdomes rule of Sea and Land Are blessings giuen by Gods all-giuing hand But not because on whom they are bestow'd Should in the stead of Humblenesse waxe proud Or with vaine glory haue their hearts vpheau'd For why * 1. Cor. 4. what ere they haue they haue receiu'd And therefore Christian Kings their stile doe grace King By the Grace of God of such a place Because by his especiall prouidence They hold Maiesticall Preheminence And as there is distinction of Estates Some Emp'rours Kings and mighty Potentates Superiors and Inferiors each degree As Gods foreknowing Knowledge did foresee Yet he did not bestow his bounteous Grace To make the great men proud or meane men base Aboundant wealth he to the Rich doth lend That they the poore should succour and defend He hath giu'n strength and vigour to the strong That they shuld guard the weak froÌ„ taking wrong To some he knowledge doth and wisdome grant Because they should instruct the Ignorant But vnto no man God his gifts doth giue To make him proud or proudly here to liue For Pride of state birth wisedome beauty strength And Pride in any thing will fall at length But to be proud of Garments that we weare Is the most foolish pride a heart can beare For as they are the Robes of sinne and shame Yet more may be consider'd in the same Be they compact of silke or cloth of Gold Or cloth or stuffes of which ther 's manifold Let them be lac'd and fac'd or cut or plaine Or any way to please the wearers braine And then let him or her that is so clad Consider but from whence
it vse to procure The Papbian pastime and the Cyprian game The sports of Venus and the acts of shame To breed the heat of Enpids lustfull flame Oft beauty hath faire chastity displac'd But chastity hath beauty euer grac'd For 't is a maxime Those haue euer bin That are most faire without most foule within Too oft hath beauty by disloyalty Branded it selfe with lasting infamy That one fraile creature nobly well descended Proud of her fairenes fouly hath offended And on her house and kindred laid a blot That the dishonor ne'r will be forgot But a faire feature vertuously inclin'd A beauteous outside and a pious mind Such are Gods Images Epitomies And Cabinets of heauens blest treasuries And therefore be thy feature faire or foule Let inward vertues beautifie the soule b Against Pride of our strength Pride of our strength shewes weaknes in our wit Because the Collicke or an Ague sit The rooth-ach or the pricking of a pin Oft lets the strength out and the weaknesse in The Tribe of Dans great glory * Iudges 16. 19. Samsons strength By a weake woman was orethrowne at length And sure there 's many do themselues much wrong In being proud because they are made strong For a great number liuing now there are Can wrastle throw the sledge or pitch the barre That on their backs foure hudred waight can beare And horse-shooes with their fists in sunder teare Yet neuer vse their strength in any thing To serue their God their Country or their King But with outragious acts their liues pursue As if God gaue them strength but as their due As though they like the Gyants could remoue And hurle great mountaines at the head of Ioue Or like Gargantua or Polipheme Or Gogmagog their boystrous fancies dreame That they more wonders by their strength can doe Then Hercules could e're attaine vnto Let those Goliabs that in strength take pride Know that the Lord of Hostes doth them deride And what they are that proudly brag and swell Of strength let any man but note them well If hurt or sickenesse make their strength decay A man shall neuer see such Cowes as they Be'ng strong their minds on God they neuer set In weakenesse iustly he doth them forget Strength thus like headstrong Iades they doe abuse it For want of Reasons bridle how to vse it a Against Pride of our hauing children Pride of our children's vaine our proper stem Must either dye from vs or we from them If our examples of the life we liue Inrich them not more then the gifts we giue If disobedient they despise instruction And will peruersly runne into destruction Much better had it bin we had not bin Begetters of such Imps of shame and sinne Children no duty to such Parents owe Who suffer vice their youth to ouergrow Neglect to teach thy sonne in younger yeeres He shall reiect thee in thy hoary haires The way to make our children vs obay Is that our selues from God runne not astray Such measure to our Maker as we mete T is iust that such we from our children get Th' Apostle Paul exhorteth more and lesse To be all children in maliciousnesse That is to say as children harmeles be So we should from maliciousnes be free Thus Pride of birth apparell wealth strength state And Pride of humane wisedome God doth hate Of knowledge learning beauty children and The Pride of Princes fauour cannot stand And Pride in any thing shall euermore Be bar'd and shut from heau'ns Eternall doore For whosoeuer will beleeue and looke Shall find examples in the sacred hooke That God hath euer 'gainst the proud withstood And that a proud heart neuer came to good He faith Pride is * Toby 4. 13. destruction and agen That Pride is * Toby 4. 13. hatefull before God and men How Prides beginning is from God to fall And of all sinne is the * Toby 4. 13. originall Who taketh hold on Pride in great affliction Shall be o'rethrowne fild with Gods malediction b Eccles 10. Pride was not made for man man hath no part In pride for God * Prouerbes 16. Pro. 29. Eccles. 29 Matt. 23. Luk 1418. Luke 1. Iudith 9. abherreth a proud heart And 't is decreed by the Almighties doome That pride vnto a fearefull fall shall come A person that is prend ne'r pleas'd God yet For how can they please him whom they forget Yet as before I said againe I le say That pride to such a hight is growne this day That many a thousand thousand familie Wer 't not for pride would begge or starue and dye And the most part of them are men of might Who in prides quarrell will both speake and fight I therefore haue no hope to put her downe But Satyre-like to tell her of her owne There is another pride which I must touch It is so bad so base so too too much a Against libellers Most of these Libellers haue an Itching veine of Riming which with much seratching makes scuruy lines so from itch to scratch from scratch to scuruy from scuruy to scabbed they proceed in time with their bâ—â—thing to be termed by knaues and fooles scald Poets Which is if any good mans fortune be To rise to Honourable dignitie Or through infirmity or wilfulnesse Men fall vnhappily into distresse That Libellers doe spirt their wits like froth To raile at Honor and dishonor both These Mungrell whelpes are euer snarling still Hating mens goodnesse glorying in their ill Like blood-hound â—â—rs they daily hunt and sent And rime and Iigge on others detriment Supposing it a very vertuous thing To be an arrant Knaue in libelling Forsooth these Screech-owles would be cal'd the wits Whose flashes flye abroad by girds and fits Who doe their mangy Muses magnifie Making their sports of mens calamity But yet for all their hatefull hellith mirth They are the vilest cowards on the earth For there 's not one that doth a libell frame Dares for his eares subscribe to it his name T is a base brutish pride to take a pen And libell on the miseries of men For why all men are mortall weake and fraile And all from what they should be fall and saile And therefore men should in these slip'ry times Bewaile mens miseries and hate their crimes Let him that stands take heed he doth not fall And not reioyce in mens mis-haps at all It is too much for Libellers to meddle To make their Muse a Hangman or a Beadle At mens misfortunes to deride and iest To adde distresse to those that are distrest As I doe hold mens vices to be vile So at their miseries I le neuer smile And in a word left tediousnesse offend A Libelier's a Knaue and there 's an end Thus hauing of Prides various formes related And how of God and good men it is hated I thinke it fit some Lines in praise to write Of Vertues which to Pride are opposite For vice with shew of
Courrosie Socutity Bounty Power Frutality honourable A Begger is most courteous when he begges And hath an excellent skill in making legges But if he could make Armes but halfe so well For Herauldry his cunning would excell A Begger in great safety doth remaine He 's out of danger to be rob'd or slaine In feare and perill he is neuer put And for his wealth no theife his throat will cut He 's farre more bountifull then is a Lord. A world of hangers on at bed and boord Which he doth lodge and daily cloath and feed Them and their issue that encrease and breed For 't is disparagement and open wrong To say a Begger 's not a thousand strong Yet haue I seene a Begger with his Many Come at a Play-house all in for one penny And though of creatures Lice are almost least Yet is a Lowse a very valiant beast But did not strength vnto her courage want She would kill Lyon Beare or Elephant What is it that she can but she dares do She 'le combate with a King and stand to 't too She 's not a starter like the dust-bred-Flea She 's a great traueller by land and sea And dares take any Lady by the Rea. She neuer from a battell yet did flye For with a Souldier she will liue and dye And sure I thinke I said not much amis To say a Lowse her selfe a Souldier is An Hoast of Lice did to submission bring Hard-hearted ' â— haraob the Egyptian King But when these cruell creatures doe want meate Mans flesh and blood like Canibals they eate They are vnto the Begger Natures gifts * A Begger is no shifting fellow Who very seldome puts them to their shifts * True friendship These are his Guard which will not him forsake Till Death a coarse doth of his carkasse make A Begger liues here in this vale of sorrow And trauels here to day and there to morrow The next day being neither here nor there But almost no where and yet euery where He neuer labours yet he doth expresse * Beggers are trauellers Himselfe an enemie to Idlenesse In Court Campe City Countrey in the Ocean A Begger is a right perpetuall motion * Hee is seldome idle though hee neuer works Deuotion His great deuotion is in generall He either prayes for all or preyes on all * Vniuersality And it is vniuersally profest From South to North from East vnto the West On his owne merits he will not relie * He is a louer of good works By other mens good works he 'le liue and die That begg'ry is nat'rall all men know * Beggery is naturall generall to all the world Our naked comming to the world doth show Not worth a simple rotten ragge or clout Our silly carkasses to wrap about * Beggery is perpetuall That its will is and hath perpetuall bin All goes as naked out as they came in We leaue our cloathes which were our couers here For Beggers that come after vs to weare * The generality of beggery Thus all the world in generall Beggers are And all alike come in and goe out bare And whoso liues here in the best degree * It is must necessary for euery one to liue and dye a Begger Must euery day a daily Begger bee And when his life hath run vnto his date He dies a Begger or a Reprobate Good Reader pray misconster not this case I meane no profanation in this place Then since these vertues waite on beggery As milde Humility and Charity And Temp'rance Honour Health Frugality With Patience Fortitude and Courtesie Security Vniuersality Necessity and Parpetuâ—ie And since heau'n sends the Subiect and the Prince All Beggers hither and no better hence Since begg'ry is our portion and our lot Our Patrimony birth-right and what not Let vs pursue our function let vs do That which by nature we were borne vnto And whil'st my Muse a little doth repose I 'le Character a Begger out in prose NOw it followes that I shew some of their formes carriage manners and behauiour their seuerall Garbs tones and salutations that they accost their Clyents or Benefactors withall for they can wisely and discreetely suite their Phrase and language to be correspondent to their owne shape and sutable to whomsoeuer they begge of as for example suppose a Begger be in the shape or forme of a maundering or wandering Souldier with one arme legge or eye or some such maime then imagine that there passeth by him some Lord Knight or scarce a Gentleman it makes no matter which then his Honour or his Worship shall be affronted in this manner Braue man of Honour cast a fauorable looke vpon the wounded estate of a distressed Gentleman that hath borne Armes for his Countrey in the hottest broyles of the Netherlands with the losse of his members Cleueland hath felt my strength I haue bickered with the French at Brest and Deepe I haue past the Straights the dangerous Gulph the Groyne can speake my seruice Right Honourable with no lesse then two dangerous hurts hardly brought off from Bummill Leaguer which I would vnwillingly discouer to your manlines whose beliefe shall be therein as much auailable as eye-sight Fortune hath onely left me a tongue to bemone my losses and one eye to be a witnesse of your noble bounty I would be loth to weary your Lordship with the relations of my trauels to whom the storie of these warres are as familiar as to my selfe your worthy liberalitie is the spurre to valour and the safeguard of his Countrey and in your honourable memorie my tongue shall supply the defects of my limbes and proclaime your merits through the seuenteene Prouinces whither your bounty shall beare this withered body to interre it with the blood which I left there as a pledge of my returne This is the maritall or decayed military kind of begging which if he speede then he can fit himselfe with a prayer accordingly for the prosperitie of his liber all benefactor as thus Peace be to thy loynes Right Honourable and plenty at thy boord oppression in the Countrey and extortion in the Citie embroder thy carkasse and keepe thy Concubite constant that Taylers may sue to thee for worke more then for payment and Seriearâ— may stand and gaze at thy faire progresse by the Compters whil'st thy Coach-mares shal whurry thee farre from Attachments Then after ascrub or ashrug you must receiue he meetes with a Lawyer and fitting his phâ—â—â— to his language hee assaults him thus and ioyâ—e issue Humbly sheweth to your good Worship your poore suppliant hauing aduanced his bâ—â— in the late warres of Sweden Copenhag and Stocke-Holland after Replications in particular and Reioynders drawne with bloody pesâ—â—â— and dreadfull characters your petitionâ—â— ioynd issue in that fearefull day of hearing to the grand Castle of Smolesco where hee caâ— off with the losse of his inheritance hauing the euidence of his limbes violently
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
not to stay â—nd gui's but what she meanes to take away â—or by discretion is truly knowne â—â—er liberall gifts she holds still as her owne And vnto me her bounty hath bin such â—hat if she cak't againe I care not much I haue loue which I to God doe owe With which I haue a feare doth in me grow â—loue him for his goodnesse and I feare â—â—o angee him that hath lou'd me so deare â—feare in lout as he 's a gracious God Not loue for feare of his reuenging Rod. And thus a louing feare in me I haue Like an adopted sonne not like a slaue â—â— haue a King whom I am bound vnto â—o doe him all the seruice I can doe To whom when I shall in Alegeance faile Let all the Diuels in hell my soule assaile If any in his gouernment abide In whom foule Treacherous malice doth recide â—Gainst him his Royall off-spring or his friends â— wish that Halters may be all their ends And those that cannot most vnfainedly â—â—y this and sweare as consident as I Of what degree soe'r I wish one houre They were in some kind skilfull Hangmans power I haue a life was lent me 'fore my birth By the great Landlord both of Heau'n and Earth But though but one way vnto life is common For All that euer yet was borne of woman Yet are there many thousand wayes for death To dispossesse vs of our liues and breath For why the Lord of life that life doth make Will as the pleaseth life both giue and take And let me blamelesse suffer punishment Or losse of goods or causelesse banishment Let me be hang'd or burn'd or stab'd or drownd Aâ—'s one to me so still my Faith keepe sound Then let my life be ended as God will This is my minde and hope shall be so still To get to Heau'n come thousand deaths together Th' are welcome pleasures if they bring me thither I know for certaine all Mortality When it begins to liue begins to dye And when our liues that backe againe we giue We euer endlesse then doe dye or liue When good men wish long life 't is vnderstood That they would longer liue to doe more good But when a bad man wisheth to liue long It is because he faine would doe more wrong And this one reason giues me much content Though I shall haue no Marble Monument Where my corrupted Carkasse may inherit With Epitaphs to blaze my want of merit To waste as much to pollish and be-guild As would a charitable Almes-house build All which a gouty Vsurer or worse May haue and haue poore peoples heauy curse That many times the sencelesse Marble weeps Because the execrated corps it keepes When the meane space perhaps the wretched soule In flames vnquenchable doth yell and howle I haue a hope that doth my heart refresh How-e'r my soule be sundred from my flesh Although I haue no friends to mourne in sacke With merry insides and with outsides blacke Though ne'r so poorely they my corps interre Without bell booke or painted Sepulcher Although I misse these trisles Transitory I haue a hope my soule shall mount to glory I haue a vaine in Poetry and can Set forth a knaue to be an honest man I can my Verses in such habit clad T' abuse the good and magnisie the bad I can write if I lift nor Rime or Reason And talke of fellony and whistle Treason And Libell against goodnesse if I would And against misery could raile and scould Foule Treachery I could mince out in parts Like Vintners pots halfe pints and pints quarts Euen so could I with Libels base abound From a graine waight or scruple to a pound With a low note I could both say or sing As much as would me vnto Newgate bring And straining of my voyce a little higher I could obtaine the Fleet at my desire A little more aduancing of my note I from the Fleet might to the Gatehouse flote Last aboue Ela raising but my power I might in state be mounted to the Tower Thus could my Muse if I would be so base Run carelesse by degrees into disgrace But that for loue of goodnesse I forbeare And not for any seruile flauish feare Time seruing vassalls shall not me applaud For making of my Verse a great mans Bawd To set a lustre and a flatt'ring glosse On a dishonourable lump of drosse To slabber o'r a Ladies homely feature And set her forth for a most beauteous creature Nor shall my free inuention stoope t' adore A fowle diseased pocky painted whore Rewards or bribes my Muse shall ne'r entice To wrong faire Vertue or to honor Vice But as my Conscience doth informe me still So will I praise the good condemne the ill That man is most to be abhord of men Who in his cursed hand dares take a pen Or be a meanes to publish at the presse Prophaned lines or obsceane beastlinesse Scurrility or knowne apparant lyes To animate or couer villanies A halter for such Poets stead of Bayes Who make the Muses whores much worse then Thais Such Rascals make the Heliconian well In estimation and respect like hell And of all good men iustly are rewarded Contemn'd and scorn'd like hell hounds vnregarded For Poetry if it be vs'd aright Sets forth our Makers mercy and his might For though through ignorance it hath some foes God may be prais'd in Verse as well as prose Poets in Comedies are fit for Kings To shew them Metaphoricall such things As is conuenient they should know and heare Which none but Poets dare to speake for feare A Poet 's borne a Poet and his trade Is still to make but Orators are made All Arts are taught and learn'd we daily see But taught a Poet neuer yet could be And as the Tree is by the fruit well knowne So by his writing is a Poet showne If he be well dispos'd hee 'l well indite If ill inclinde he vicsously will write And be he good or bad in his condition His Lines will shew his inward disposition And to conclude this point and make an end The best amongst them hath much need to mend I haue a tongue and could both sweare and lye If to such customes I would it apply But often swearing now and then for sweares And lying a mans credit quite out weares I 'l trust an arrant Thiefe to keepe my purse As soone as one that loues to sweare and curse For can it be that he that takes a vse And custome God in swearing to abuse Can it be thought he will make Conscience then To play the false dissembling Knaue with men Nor can my supposition euer dreame That he who dares his Makers name blasphome But that if Time would but occasions bring He would betray his Countrey and his King For 't is a Maxim no man can conuince The man that feares not God loues not his Prince And he that cares not for his soule I thinke Respects not if his Country swim or sinke
haue nam'd And thousands more in histories defam'd With partiall selfe-opinion did approue Their sensuality and Lust was Loue. When as the ods is more then day from night Or fire from water blacke from purest white The one with God one with the Deuill doth dwell Loue comes froÌ„ heauen lust doth spring from hell But the old Prouerbe ne'r will be forgot A Lechers loue is like Sir Reuerence hot And on the sudden cold as any stone For when the lust is past the loue is gone But Loue is such a blessing from on hie Whoâ—e zealous feruency can neuer die It out-liues life and the ascending flame Mounts to the God of Loue from whence it came Lust made * Genesis Seths sons with fornication vaine Ioyne with the daughters of accursed Cain And the world suffered for their fornication Depopulation by the inundation And twenty and foure thousand Israelites Dyde for this sinne amongst the a Numbers Madi wites For the not punishing this fact almost The Tribe of b Iudges 19. 20 and 21. â—5000 were slaine of the Israelites and there remained of the Heniamites onely 600. Beniamin were slaine and lost May this be call'd loue Then call vertue vice And euery bawdy house a Paradise If lust were loue it would not like a Wolfe Drowne Louers hearts in desperations Gulfe A Theban c For Aut gona the daughter of Oedipus and Iocasta Haâ—on himselfe madly kill'd On his too deere deers Tombe his heart bloud spild For Phaon a poore Watermans sweet sake Faire Sapho from a rocke her d The more foole-shee though shee were a Poetesse necke shee brake Pheaâ—ra for her Hippoliâ—us they say Did hang her selfe and make a Holli-day And e Shee was daughter to Liâ—urgus King of Thrace Phillis for f Sonne to Thesens Demophoon did as much I le neuer loue if Loues effects be such To quench the Carthaginian g Dido for Entas burned her selfe Queenes desire Shee burnt her selfe vpon a pile of fire If either Prâ—amus or Thisby had Not beene starke fooles or else exceeding mad The doting idle misconceiuing Elues So desperately had ne'r fore-done themselues Thus all the difference betwixt loue and lust Is one is iust the other is vniust Search but in Histories and men may find Examples beyond numbring of this kind How of both Sexes and each state and sort Of people from the cottage to the Court Haue madly run this course some hang'd some drownd Burnt staru'd stab'd theÌ„selues with many a wouÌ„d Or pin'd away like Coxcombs euer crauing To haue the thing that 's neuer worth the hauing In Antwerp many filthy Whores I saw That for their Trading were allowde by Law And I in Pragus did see a street of Whores An English mile in length who at their doores Did stand and ply rich clad and painted rare More hard then euer I plyde for a fare Th' Italian Stewes to make the Pope good cheere Payd twenty thousand Duckets in a h Almost euery yeere a ducket is more than 8 shillings which summe is 8000l yeere Besides they giue a Priest t' amend his fee The profit of a Whore or two or three Me thinkes it must be bad Diuinity That with the Stewes hath such affinity 'T is a mad Doctrine Lechery should pay A Church-mans stipend that should preach pray And in those stewes where women are so common In entertaining all refusing no man Whereas a father with a Whore may lye Which done his sonne his place may hap supply And then an Vnkle or a Brother may Succeed each other in that damned play For no propinquity or no degree Of kin that haut there that can sweare th' are free From this commixion and which is worst A Whore may haue a bastard borne and nurst And growne a woman and to this trade set her May be a Whore to him that did beget her Or to her brothers or to all her kin Shee may be prostituted in this sin And therefore to conclude this point I muse That Christian Common-wealths allow a Stewes I thinke that Thieues as well allow'd should be As Whores and Whoremasters should thus be free They from the Heathen doe examples bring That Whoring is a rare commodious thing There was an ancient vse in Babylon When as a womans stocke was spent and gone Her liuing it was lawfull then to get Her carkasse out to liuerie to let And Venus did allow the Cyprian Dames To get their liuings by their bodies shames Lieurgus did a Law in Sparta make That all men might their barren wiues forsake And by the same Law it ordained was Wiues might vnable husbands turne to grasse And the wise Solon the Athenian Allow'd whores to be free for any man And though these things the Pagan people did Yet Christian gouernments these things forbid But ther 's no Common-wealth maintains the same But where the a Not in any place but where Romes supremacie is allowed Pope is Landlord of the game The Stewes in England bore a beastly sway Till the eight b Anno Regni 37. Henry banish'd them away And since those common whores were quite put downe A damned crue of priuate whores are growne So that the diuell will be doing still Either with publique or with priuate ill Thus much for whoring I must say agen It hath produced many valiant men Braue Bastards haue beene famous Conquerours And some great Lords and Kings and Emperours As Hercules Ioues mighty Bastard-sonne And c So sayes Cornelius Agrippa but I â—â—â—de it otherwise in Quintus Curtius Alexander King of Macedon Clodouee King of France from Bastardie And William Conqueror from Normandie These and a number more I could recite Besides the vnknowne numbers infinite And sure that wretched man that married is Vnto a wife dispos'd to this amiss Is mad to wrong himselfe at all thereby With heart-griefe and tormenting iealousie If he hath cause for 't let him then forsake her And pray God mend her or the diuell take her If she hath no cause to be iealous then He 's worthy to be made the scorne of men Thus cause or no cause man himselfe should arme That iealousie should neuer doe him harme The Nicholaitans to auoid the paine Of iealousie amongst them did ordaine That all their married wiues of each degree To euery one a common Whore should be And so amongst them one could hardly finde A Cuckold that did beare a iealous minde When I but thinke what Sciences and Arts What men and women full of ex'lent parts Forget their functions lay their vertues by And wait and liue and thriue by Lecherie A Poets Art all other Arts excell If he hath skill and grace to vse it well Yet many times 't is vs'd most base and vile When it descends vnto a bawdy stile To turne good humane studies and diuine Into most beastly lines like Aretine To seeke to merit euer-liuing Bayes For sordid stuffe like Ouids lustfull Layes
Hanging and the Hang-mans art My line doe end and at the Gallowes part First I doe finde in Histories enrold Iâ—â—les for antiquity are very old For loseph was in prison false accus'd ' That he his Masters Wife would haue abus'd And all the world doth vnderstand a Prison Is not an vpstart Fable newly risen And lereâ—â— was vnder bolts and locks By Pasher once imprison'd in the a â—â—â—â—â—â— stocks And after that he twice was put in b Chap. 32. thrall For true foretelling c Chap. 37 Israel Iudab's fall The Sacred Histories doe well declare That Prisons for their time most ancient are Yet though my lines doe speake of layles I see That mine inuention and my Muse is free And I doe finde the name of Prisone frames Significant alluding Anagrams As Thus 1. PRISONE Anagramma NIP SORE There men are Nip'd with mischiefes manifold With losse of freedome hunger thirst cold With mourning shirts and sheets lice some store And thus a Prison truely doth Nip sore 2. PRISONE Anagramma IN ROPES AGaine the very word portends small hopes For he that 's in a Prisone is In Ropes 3. PRISONE Anagramma IN PROSE To all good verses Prisons are great foes And many Poets they keepe fast In Prose 4. PRISONE Anagramma NO PRISE IN deed it is no profit or No Prise But woefull purchase of calamities The name of Iayles by letters transposition Doch very well discouer their condition 5 IAYLES Anagramma I SLAYE ANd well it doth befit it euery way The nature of all Iayles is still to slay There are men slaine most strange tormeÌ„ting waies In name fame state and life with long delayes 6. BONDAGE Anagramma BANDOGE ANd Bondage like a Bandagge still doth gnaw Fangd with the tushes of the byting law 7. IAYLER Anagramma I RAYLE THis doth befit the Iayler wondrous trâ—â—â—â—me He at the prisoners railes and they at him 8. ARESTING Anagramma A STINGER A Resting very well with this agrees It is A Stinger worse then Wasps or Bâ—â— OR 9. ARESTING Anagramma IN GRATES THis very word includes poore prisoners fates Aresting briefly claps em vp In Grates 10. SERIEANT Anagramma IN ARESTE TO turne this word vnto the very best A Serieant In Areste doth breed vnrest OR 11. SERIEANT Anagramma IN TEARES IN cares and Toâ—ts he leaues men to lament When credit coyne and goods and all are spent 12. WARDES Anagramma DRAWES A Prisoners purse is like a nurse for why His Ward or lodging drawes or sucks it dry A Iury here of Anagrams yon see Of Serieants and of Iailes empanneld be And now my pen intends to walke a station And talke of Prisons in some other fashion That Iailes should be there is Law sense and reason To punish bawdry cheating theft and treason Though some against them haue inuectiue bin And call'd a Iaile a magazin of sin An Vniuersitie of villany An Academy of foâ—e blasphemy A sinke of drunkennesse a den of Thieues A treasury for Serieants and for Shrleues A mint for Baylifes Marshals men and Iailers Who liue by losses of captiu'd bewailers A nurse of Roguery and an earthly hell Where Deu'ls or Iaylers in mens shapes doe dwell But I am quite contrary to all this I thinke a Iaile a Schools of vertue is A house of study end of conâ—câ—â—plation A place of discipline and reformation There men may try their patience and shall know If they haue any friends aline or no There they shall proue if they haue fortitude By which all crosses stoutly are subdu'd A Prison leades the creditor vnto His coozning debter that would him vndoe ' 'T is physicke that preserues the Common-wealth Foule treasons snassle and the canbe of stealth The whip of hellish pride the scourge of lust The good mans helpe in plaguing the vniust Were thieues and villaines not in prison put A world of throats past number would be cut For when diseases are growne desperate then They must haue desperate remedies and when Men mend not for repoofe or â—â—â—onition A Iaile then is the Surgeon or Physitian The roaring Knaue that like a horse or mule His parents master or no friends could rule But that he daily would be drunke and sweare And like a demy deuill doâ—â—ineere Though to good course he neuer meant to beed him A * Excellent reformation prison at the last will mend or end him The deeds of darknesse that doe hate the light Frays brawls bloudshed which start out by might The watch like cunning Fowlers lye in wait And catch these Woodcocks in their Sprindges â—â— These Birds are in the Iaile mew'd vp from not Where they may learn more manners and be qâ—â—â— A Iail's a glasse wherein old men may see The blemish of their youths deformity And yong men quickly may perceiue from thence The way to wisdome and experience And though the lights of prisons are but dim A prisoners candle yet may shew to him At midnight without light of Sonne or Moone More then he euer could perceiue at noone It shewes the fleeting state of earthly pelse It makes him wisely learne to know himselfe The world vnto his view it represents To be a map or masse of discontents It shewes his fained friends like butter-flyes That dogg'd his summer of prosperities And in a word it truly doth set forth The world and all that 's in it nothing worth These things vnto a wisemans iudgement brings A hate to earth and loue to heauenly things T' a wise man nothing in a Iaile dothbide But it to some good vse may be applide He heares a Ruffin sweare and so doth heare That he doth stand in feare and hate to sweare He spies another drunke and so doth spy That such vnmanly beastlinesse hee 'l fly He notes the curtall cannes halfe fild with froth Tobacco piping hot and from them both His iudgement doth discerne with wisdomes eye The world is vapour froth and vanity His homely * There are too few that make this good vse of imprisonment bed and vermines sundry formes Doe make him mind his grane crawling woâ—â—â— The Spiders cobweb lawne or tapestry Shew odds 'twixt idlenesse and industry The churlish keepers rattling chaines and fetters The hole or dangeon for condemned debters Blaspheming wretches of all grace bereauen Doe make him thinke on hell and wish for heauen And thus though wise mens corps in prison bee Their minds are still at liberty and free Besides experience daily teacheth this The soule a Prisoner in the body is Our Reason should the keeper be to guide The Heart doth lodge within the Masters side The Braines the Knights ward may be termed fit There lies the vnderstanding and the wit â—e D 〈…〉 where the Prisoners starue and dye â—â—â— the Bâ—â—â— where sad despaire doth lye â—â—e Sâ—â—â—â— the Manacles and Bolts and Giues Which fâ—â—â—â— vs in bondage all our liues â—â— melancholy sorrow griefe and care â—â—â—iâ—all waiters in those Prisons are â—â—â— partiall
selfe-loue all our crimes excusing â—â—â— Consciences true euidence accusing â—â—â— fights and teares the Messengers we send â—â— God that all our sorrowes may haue end â—d then through faith and hope we doe beleeue Againe a pardon better than repreeue â—â—â— lastly death doth free the soule from thrall â—â—â— makes a laile delinery vnto all â—â—â— is our flesh the wals our bones the grates â—â—â— eyes the windowes and our mouthes the gates â—â—â— Nose the Chimney Kitchen is the brest â—â—â— a â—r Sâ—â—cke tongue the taster of the worst and best â—â—â— hands the Caruers teeth the Cookes to mince â—â—â— diet of a Pea sane or a Prince â—â—â— hunger is best sawce as I doe thinke â—â— beliâ—es cellers where we lay our drinke â—â—â— in these corps of ours deciphered thus â—â—â— are prisoners vnto all of vs. â—â—â—race guides vs sowe by grace guide them â—â—â— way vnto the new Ierusalem â—â—â—ne rugged winter with frosts stormes and gusts â—â—â—â—â— prisoners yeerely in the b The earth a Prison earth it thrusts â—â—â— roots flowers fruits worms til sun raine â—â—â—h Summers heat doth baile them forth againe â—â—â—of all men aliue I find c A strait suit is aâ—â— Prison a Tailor â—â—â— appeared artificiall Iailor â—â—â— doe commit themselues vnto his charge â—â—â—may but will by no meanes goe at large â—â—â— stene many in the Taylors Iaies â—â—â— labour'd till they sweat with tooth and nailes â—â—â— whilst a man might ride fiue miles at least â—â—â—their clothes together on the brest â—â—â—being then in prison button'd vp â—â—ose that scarcely they could bite or sup I have heard their pride how loud it lide â—â—esting that their clothes were made too wide a â—â—â— men loue bondage more then liberty â—â—â— 't is a gailant kinde of foolery â—â—â— thus amongst themselues they haue a Law â—â—â—ke and dawbe the backe and pinch the Maw â—â—â— thankes their soules should be in mighty trouble â—â—â— they are imprison'd double â—â—orps and Clothes and which is true and plaine â—â—â— seeme to take great pleasure in their paine â—â—â— hoomaker's a kind of Iailor too â—â—â— very strange exploits he dares to doe â—â—â— many times he hath the power and might â—â—â— into his Stoâ—ks a Lord or Knight d A Shoomakers Prison The Madam and the Maid he cares not whether He laies them all fast by the heeles in lether Plaine f Truth and honesly prisoners Honesty and Truth both Prisoners are Although they seldome come vnto the barre Yet are they kept so closely day and night That in an age they scarsely come in sight And but for many of our Countries pillers True Tailers Weauers and cleane finger'd Millers Good Sericants and kind Brokers did releeue them g A hard case I know not who would any comfort giue them No doubt but many a Lasse that faine would wed Is her owne h A maindenhead often times is a Prisoner Iailor to her maindenhead With much vnwillingnesse she keepes it close And with her heart she 'l gladly let it lose But looke to 't wenches if you giue it scope 'T is gone past all recouery past all hope Much like old Time which ceaselesse doth run on But neuer doth returne once being gone The i The Gowt a prisoner of State Gowt's a sawcy Prisoner and will haue His keepers to maintaine him fine and braue His Iailors shall no needy beggers be But men of honour and of high degree And ouer them he beares such great command That many times they can nor gor nor stand And if he would breake Iaile and flie 't is thought He by his keepers neuer should be sought And k Money a close Prisoner money is close Prisoner I thinke sure Where no man can its liberty procure The Diuels Stewards and his Bailifes vow That monies freedome they will not allow Vnlesse vnto a Miser or a Whore But by all meane faâ—â— hold it from the poore I wish l Amen Coine were as painfull as the Gout To those that hoard it and I make no doubt But miserable Iailers would agree To ope their Prisons and let money flee And were it not a lamentable thing That some great Emperour or some mighty King Should be imprison'd by a vastall slaue And lodg'd aliue as t were within his Graue Such is the case of Siluer and of Gold The chiefest of all mettals fast in hold And darknesse lies held in the Misers stocks m Gold and Siluer kept in bondage by Iron In steele and ironbars and bolts and locks Though gold and siluer royall mettals be Yet are they flanes to yron at we see But leauing Gold and Gowt I le turne my pen To what I haue digrest from Iayles and men Let man examine well himselfe and he Shall find himselfe his n Most men are their owne enemies greatest enemie And that his losse of liberty and pelfe He can accuse non for it but himselfe How passions actions and affections cluster And how to ruinate his state they muster His frailty armes his members and his senses To vndertake most dangerous pretences The backe oft tempts him vnto borrowed brauery And all his body suffers for 't in slauery His Belly tempts him to superfluous fare For which his cops lyes in a Iaylors snare His Eyes from beauty to his heart drawes lust For which he 's often into prison thrust His Eares giue credit to a knaue or theese And 's body suffers for his eares beleefe His Tongue much like a Hackney goes all panes In City Country Court and Campe all places It gallops and false gallops trots and ambles One pace or other still it runnes and rambles Of Kings and Princes states it often prattles Of Church and Common-wealth it idly cattles Of passing of it's word and â—uetiships For which at last the Ioyle the carkassenips Mans Hands haue very oft against him warr'd And made him of his liberty debarr'd A stab a blow a dashing of a pen Hath clap'd him closely in the Iaylors deâ— The Feet which on the ground men daily tread The way to their captiuity doe lead Now for the inward faculties I find Some lye in Prison for their haughty mind Some for their folly sone because too wise Are mew'd vp in the Iaylors on bodies Some for much gaming or for recreation Doe make a Iayle their homely habitation And thus it plainly may be proued well Mans greatest foes with in himselfe doe dwell And now two contraries I will compare To shew how like and how vnlike they are A Iayle our birth and death and getting free These foure doe all agree and disagree For all degrees our birth and life we know Is naturall * Wee are all borne in one forme and come into the world of one fashion but wee dye and leaue the world infinite wayes one way for high and low But death hath many thousand wayes and scares To take our liues away all vo 〈…〉 es And therefore of our liues
yeeres after the cities of York Rochester and Bathe were burnt Hee reigned 18. yeeres 10 moneths and was buried at Feuersham Henry the second An Dom. 1154. THis King vnto the Empresse Maud was Heyre And lawfully obtain'd the Regall Chayre He was couragious and yet most vnchaste Which Vice his other Vertues all defac'd He lou'd faire Rosamond the worlds faire Rosâ— For which his wife and children turn'd his foes He made his sonne Copartner in his Crowne Who rais'd strong warres to put his Father downe Faire Rosamond at Woodstock by the Queene Was poyson'd in reuengefull iealous spleene In toyle and trouble with his Sonnes and Peereâ— The King raign'd almost fiue and thirty yeeres Hee neere his death did curse his day of birth Hee curst his Sonnes and sadly leâ—t the earth Hee at Founteuerard in his Tombe was laid And his Son Richard next the Scepter swaâ—d Henry the 2. In the 12. yeer of this King an earthquâ—â—â— in Norfolk Suffolk and Eiye that made â—â—â—â—â—â— shaking the sleeples and ouerthrew men that stood on this feete Nicholas Breakespeare an English man was â—â—ope of Rome and was named Adrian the fourth hee gaue â—â—â— Lord-shippe of Ireland to King Henry Richard Cordelion An. Dom. 1189. THis braue victorious Lyon-hearted Prince The foes of Christ in â—â—â—y did conuince Whilst at Ierusalem he wan Renowne His Brother Iohn at home vsurp'd his Crowne And as he home return'd his owne to gaine By Austria's Duke the King was Prisoner â—ane His ransome was an hundred thousand pound Which paid in England he againe was crown'd Yet after nine full yeeres and 9. months raigne Hee with a Shot was kild in Aquitâ—ne His buriall at Founteuerard was thought meet At his dead Fathers second Henries feet Richard the 1. he conquered the kingdome of Cypresse and he tooke from the Infidels the Cities of Acon Ioppa and deliuered them to Christians In his 2. yeere the â—â—s of the renowned King Arthur were found at Glastenbury King Richards bowels were buried at Chalne Castle in Aquitane his heart at Roane and his body at Founteuerard King Iohn An. Dom. 1199. IOhn Earle of Morton tooke the regall Seate His state his toyle his pompe his cares all great The French the Welsh the Scotsh all prou'd his foes The Pope King Iohn did from his Crowne depose His Lords rebel'd from France the Dolphin came And Wasted England much with sword and flame And after seuenteene yeeres were full expir'd King Iohn being poysoned to his graue retir'd King Iohn In the 8. yeere many men Women and cattell â— slainâ— with thunder and many houses burnt and the â—â—â—â— was beaten downe with haile as bigge as goose egges Some say the King was poyson'd by a monke and others â—rite that he died of a surfeit at Newark but his life was full of troubles and after his death he was by base villaines â—â—â—d and lâ—â—t naked without any thing to couer the corpes hee was buried at Worcester Henry the third An. Dom. 1216. Wars bloody wars the French in England made Strong holds Towns Towres Castles they inuade â—â—t afterwards it was K. Henries chance By force perforce to force them backe to France Great discord 'twixt the King and Barons were â—nd factions did the Realme in pieces teare A world of mischiefes did this Land abide And fifty sixe yeeres raign'd the King and dy'd Henry the 3. This King was born at Winchester crowned at Glocester buried at Westminster In the 17. of his reigne on the 8. of Aprill 1233. there were 5 Sonnes in the firmament and the naturall Sun was as red as blood Edward Long-â—hanks An. Dom. 1271. THis was a hardy wise Victorious King The Welshmen he did to subiection bring He Scotland wan and brought from thence by fate Their Crowne their Scepter Chaire and Cloth of state That Kingdome with oppression sore he brusde Much tyranny and bloodshed there he vsde When thirty fiue yeeres he the Crowne had kept At Westminster he with his Father slept Edward the 1. In the 13. yeere his sonne Edward was borne at Carnaruan who was the first sonne of any King of England that was Prince of Wales Edward of Carnaruan An. Dom. 1307. THe hard mis-haps that did this King attend The wretched life and lamentable end Which he endur'd the like hath ne'r bin seene Depos'd and poyson'd by his cruell Queene Which when the poyson had no force to kill Another way she wrought her wicked will Into his Fundament a red hot Spit Was thrust which made his Royall heart to split In his 8. yeere such a death that dogges and horses were good food many ate their owne children and old prisoners tore such as were newly committed in pieces and deuoured them halfe liuing The King reigned 19. yeeres 6. moneths Edward the third An. Dom. 1326. IN Peace and warre this King was right good He did reuenge his murdred Fathers blood Hee and the blacke Prince his most valiant Sonne The Field at Cressle and at Poytiers wonne At first and last in his victorious raigne Of French and Scots were six score thousand slaine And more his glory further to aduance He tooke the Kings of Scotland and of France The noble order of the Garter he At Windsor instituted caus'd to be When fifty yeeres this Land had him obaid At Westminster he in his tombe was laid In his 12. yeere he quartered the Armes of England and France as they are at this day Henry Pichard Vintuer in his Moralâ—y feasted at once Edward King of England Dauid King of Scotland Iohn King of France the King of Cypres the Prince of Wales the Dolphin of France with many other great Personages of Honour and Worship Richard the second An. Dom. 1377. YOng King rash coâ—sell lawes right neglected The good put downe the bad in State erected The Court with knaues flat'rers here did swarm The Kingdome like a Farme was let to Farme The Commons tost in Armies Routes and throngs And by soule treason would redresse soule wrongs In this Kings raigne began the Ciuill warre Vnnaturally 'twixt Yorke and Lancaster Oppression on oppression breedes Confusion Bad Prologue bad Proceeding bad Conclusion King Richard twenty two yeeres raign'd misse-led Deposed and at Poâ—â—râ—s knock'd ith'head This King was Grandchild to Edward the 3. and sonne to the black Prince he was borne at Burdeux in France and was but 11. yeeres old when he was crowned so that all his miserable Calamity may be imputed to him not hauing or not regarding good counsell Henry the fourth An. Dom. 1399. THe Crown wrong got froÌ„ the wrong'doing king More griefe then ioy did to King Henry bring France England Scotland Wales arose in Armes And menac'd Henry with most fierce Alarmes Hot Percy Dowglas Mortimer Glendowre At Shrewsbury the King orethrew their power He fourteene yeeres did raigne and then did dye At Canterbury buried he doth lye Henry the 4. Hee began his reigne the 29. of September 1399. and the 14.
eldest daughter to Henry the 7. from whom our graciâ—â—â— soueraigne is â—ineally descended Henry the eight An. Dom. 1509. FRom both the Lines and both the Ioynes did spring Of York Lancaster this mighty King Katherine that was his brothers wife of late He tooke to wife and crown'd her Queene in state Empson and Dudley lost their heads at Tower For racking the poore Commons by their power Warres dreadfull wars arose 'twixt vs and French Lord Edward Howard drowned by mis-chance At Brest he was high Admirall in fight Cast ouerboord dy'd like a valiant Knight In England Suffolks Duke did lose his head The King to Turwin did an army lead Turney he wonne with his victorious blade King Iames of Scotland England did inuade But Surries Earleâ— the Scotsh King ouercame Who lost life there but wonne immortall fame Now Cardinall Wolsey in the Kings high Grace Was rais'd to honours from great place to place Lordship on Lordship laid vpon his backe Vntill the burthen was the bearers wracke The Duke of Buckingham his head did lose And Laâ—ber stoutly did the Pope oppose â—â—finde ignorance that long had look'd awry Began to see Truth with a clearer eye And then the King inspir'd with seruent Zeale Reformed both the Church and Common weale â—â—â—â—â— with his power Omnipotent Did make this King his gracious Instrument â—â—T'vnmaske his Truth from Antichristian fables And purge this wofull Land from Babels bables This king at Boloigne was victorious â—â— peace and warre Magnifique Glorious â—â— his rage bounty he did oft expresse His Liberality to bee excesse â—â—â— Reuels Iusts and Turnies he spent more Then fiue of his Fore-fathers did before His Auarice was all for Noble fame Amongst the Worthies to inrole his Name A valiant Champion for the Faiths defence Was the great Title of this mightie Prince â—â—â—â— wiues he had 3 Kates 2. Aunes one Iane Two were diuorc'd two at the blocke were slaine One sonne and two faire daughters he did leaue Who each from other did the Crowne receiue The first was Edward Mary next whose death Left State and Realme to Queene Elizabeth He thirty eight yeeres kept this Royall Roome At windsor hee 's enter'd without a Tombe Lâ—â—th Edenbourgh and diuers other parts of Scotland were spoyled by Sir Iohn Dudley Lord Viscount â—sle Lord high Admirall of England with a Navy of 200 tall Ships Anno 1544. King Henry went to Boloigne hee â—â—â—â— France the 13. of Iuly and into Boloigne the 25. of September in which yeere were taken 300. French â—hips for prices Edward the sixt An. Dom. 1546. HAd this Kings reigne bin long as it was good Religion in a peaceable state had stood What might haue his age bin when his blest youth â—o valiantly aduanc'd Gods sacred truth At nine yeeres age the Crowne on him hee tooke And ere sixteene he Crowne and life for sooke Too good for earth th' Almighty tooke his spirit And Westminster his Carkas doth inherit In his 5. yeere a strange Earth-quake did much harmâ— in diuers places of Surry and a sweating sicknesse generally ouer England that dispatched those that were in good health in 12. houres or 24. at the most In one weeke there dyed of it in London 806. the most of them being men of best strength Queene Mary An. Dom. 1553. AFter a while this Queene had worne the Crown Idolatry was rais'd and Truth put downe The Masse the Images the Beades and Altars By tyrannie by fire and sword and Halters Th'vngodly bloudy Antichristian sway Men were force perforce forced to obey Now burning Bonner London Bishop he Was from the Maâ—sâ—al-sea againe â—â— free Iohn Dudley great Duke of Northumberland And Sir Iohn Gates dyed by the Headsmans hand With them Sir Thomas Palmer likewise dy'd Hoping for heau'n through â—â—â—â—â— Crucified In Latine Seruice must be sung and said Because men should not know for what they praâ—'d The Emp'rors sonne great Philip King of Spaine A marriage with Queene Mary did obtaine Against which match Sir Thomas Wyat rose With powers of Kent the Spaniards to oppose But Wyat was or'throwne his armie fled And on the Tower hill after lost his head Lord Gray the Duke of Suffolke also dy'd An Axe his Corps did from his head diuide A little after the Lord Thomas Gray The Dukes owne brother went that headlesse way A Millers sonne assum'd King Edwardâ— name And falsely in that name the Crowne did claime But he was tane and iustly whip'd and tortur'd And claiming it once more was hang'd quarterd King Philip won Saint Quintins with great cost But after to our shame was Callice lost Callice was lost which threescore yeeres and ten Had beene a Garrison for Englishmen Thus by Gods mercy Englands Queene did dye And England gain'd much ease and rest thereby Fiue yeeres and 4. months was her bloudy reigne And all her glory doth one graue containe Though of her selfe this Queene was well inclin'd Bad-minded counsell altred much her minde She married Philip King of Spaine on Saint Iames his day 1554. at Winchester Callice was won by Edward the 3. in the 21. of his reigne 1347. and it was lost the I. of Ianuary 1557. after the English-men had possest it 210. yeeres August 7. 1558. a tempest neere Nottingham beat downe 2. Townes and Churches and cast the Bels to the further side of the Church-yard threw whole sheetes of Lead 400. foot into the fields where they were crumpled together like burns parchment the streame and mud of the Riuer of Trent was blowne a-land a quarter of a mile a childe blowne out of a mans hand 100. foot and kild there fell hayle 15. Inches about Queene Elizabeth An. Dom. 1558. A Debora a Iudith a Susanna A Virgin a Virago a Diana Couragious Zealous Learned Wise and Chasle With heauenly earthly gifts adorn'd and grac'd Victorious glorious bountious gracious good And one whose vertues dignifi'd her bloud That Muses Graces Armes and liberall Arts Amongst all Queens proclaim'd her Queen of hearts She did repurifie this Land once more From the infection of the Romish whore Now Abbies Abbots Fri'rs Monks Nuns Stews Masses and Masse-priests that mens soules abuse Were all cast downe Lamps Tapers Relikes Beads And Superstitions that mans soule misse-leads All Popish pardons Buls Consessions With Crossings Cristening bels Saints Intercessions The Altars Idols Images downe cast All Pilgrimage and Superstitious Fast Th'acknowledging the Pope for supreme head The holy water and the god of bread The mumbling Mattins and the pickpurse Masse These bables this good Queene did turne to grasse She caus'd Gods seruice to be said and sung In our owne vnderstanding English tongue In Scotland and in France fierce warres she held The Irish she subdu'd when they rebeld The Netherlands her name doe still admire And Spaine her like againe doth not desire When forty foure yeers reigne was past and gone She chang'd her earthly for a heauenly Throne At Greenwich she was borne at Richmond dy'd At
were grau'd in Brasse His Fury like a wandring Starre soon gone His Clemency was like a fixed one So that as many lou'd him whilst he liu'd More then so many by his Death are grieu'd The hand of Heauen was onely his support And blest him in the Nobles of his Court To whom his Bounty was exprest so Royall That he these twenty yeeres found none disloyall But as bright Iewels of his Diadem They faithfully soru'd him he honour'd them And as in life they were on him relying So many of them vshered him in dying Richmonds and Linox Duke fiirst led the way Next Dorsets spirit forsooke her house of Clay Then Linox Duke againe Duke Lodwicks brother Was third and good Southampton fourth and her Lord wriothsly next Southamptons Noble sonne The race of his mortality did runne Next dy'd old Charles true honor'd Nottingham The Brooch and honor of his house and name Braue Belsast next his vitall threed was spun And last the Noble Marquesse Hambletoâ— These in the compasse of one yeere went hence And led the way to their beloued Prince And our deceased Soueraigne quickely went To change earths Pompe for glory permanent Like Phoebus in his Course h'arose and ran His reigne in March both ended and began And as if he had bin a Starre that 's fixt His Rise and Set were but two daies betwixt And once in two and twenty yeeres t is prou'd That the most fixed Stars are something mou'd But in his end his Constancy we finde He had no mutable or wauering minde For that Religion which his tongue and pen Did still defend with God maintaine with men That faith which in his Life he did expresse He in his Death did constantly prosesse His Treasure and his Iewels they were such As I thinke Englands Kings had ne'r so much And still to men of honour and desert His Coffers were as open as his heart Peace Patience Iustice Mercie Pittie These were his Iewels in variety His Treasure alwaies was his Subiects Loue Which they still gaue him as th' effects did proâ—â—â— Which like to Earths contributary streames Paid homage to their Soueraigne Ocean lâ—â—â—â— He knew that Princes Treasure to be best That 's layd vp in the loyall Subiects brest And onely 't was the riches of the minde To which he couerously was inclinde Thus was he blest in Person blest in State Blest in his first and his in latter date Blest in his education blest in 's learning Blest in his wisdome good and ill discerning Blest in his marriage and in his royall Race But blessed most of all in Gods high grace He did his God deuoutly serue and feare He lou'd him and he held his loue most deare He honour'd and obeyde him faithfully He is his fauour liu'd and so did dye His duty vnto God hee knew the way And meanes to make his Subiects him obey He knew that if he seru'd his God that then He should be seru'd and fear'd and lou'd of men And that if he Gods Statutes did respect That men would feare his Statutes to neglect That his Obedience vpward did bring downe Obedience to his Person and his Crowne He did aduance the good supprest the bad Relieu'd the poore and comforted the sad The Widdow and the orphant fatherlesse He often hath suppll'd in their distresse â—or why to rich and poore to great and small He was a common Father vnto all His affability and Princely parts Made him a mighty Conquerour of Hearts Offenders whom the law of life depriues His mercy pardon'd and preseru'd their liues To prisoners and poore captiues miserie Hee was a Magazine of charity For losses that by sea or fire did come He hath bestowed many a liberall summe Besides for Churches it most plaine appeares That more hath bin repair'd in twenty yeeres Is honour of our God and Sauiours name Then in an hundred yeeres before he came Our ancient famous Vniuersities Diuine and Humane learnings Nurseries Such dewes of orace as the Almighties will Was pleased through those Limbecks to distiil Which spight of Romish rage or Satans hate Hâ—â— caul'd the glorious Gospell propogate Our light of learning Iames did still protect them And as a nursirg Father did affect them Thus was Hee for our soutes and bodies health Defender of both Church and Common-wealth For Ireland he hath much reduc'd that nation Churches with land endow'd caus'd much plantation Whereby Ciuility is planted there The Kings obedience and th' Almighties feare These deeds this worthy godly Prince hath done For which he hath perpetuall praises wonne Ah! what a gracious Man of God was this Mercy and Iustice did each other kisse His Affabilitie whilst he did liue Did make all men themselues to him to giue Thus liu'd Great Iames and thus great Iames did dye And dying thus doth liâ—e Eternally With Honour he did liue and Life forsooke With Patience like a Lambe his death he tooke And leauing Kingly cares and Princely paine He now inherits an Immortall Reigne For royall grieu'd perplexed Maiesty He hath a Crowne of perpetuity For miserable Pompe that 's transitory Hee is aduanc'd to euerlasting glory And as he lou'd and liu'd and dy ' din Peace So he in Peace did quietly decease So let him rest in that most blest condition That 's subiect to no change or intermission Whilst we his seruants of him thus berest With grieued and perplexed hearts are lest But God in mercy looking on our grife Before he gaue the wound ordain'd reliefe Though duteous Sorrow bids vs not forget This cloud of death I wherein our Sunne did set His Sonnes resplendent Maiestie did rise Load stone and Load starre to our hearts and eyes He cleares our drooping spirits he frees our scares And like the Sunne dries vp our dewey teares All those his seruants that lamenting grieue King Charles his Grace and fauour doth releeue But as they seru'd his Father so he will Be their most louing Lord and Soueraigne still As they were first to their Master liuing being dead They are releeued and re-comforted Thus Charity doth in succession runne A Pious Father leaues a godly Sonne Which Sonne his Kingly Gouernment shall passe His Kingdomes Father as his Father was For though great Iames inter'd in earth doth lye Great Charles his brest intombes his memorie And heer 's our comforts midst our discontents Hee 's season'd with his Fathers Documents And as th' Almighty was his shield and speare Protecting him from danger euery where From most vnnaturall foule Conspiracie From Powder-plots and hellish Treachery Whilst he both liu'd and dy'd belou'd renound And Treason did it selfe it selfe confound So I inuoke th' Eternall Prouidence To be to Charles a buckler and defence Supported onely by the Power Diuine As long as Sunne or Moone or Starres shall shine To all that haue Read this Poeme I Boast not but his Maiesty that 's dead Was many times well pleas'd my lines to read And euery line word Syllable and letter
bent Seuere in throats and milde in punishment His iustice would condemne and in a breath His mercy sau'd whom iustice doom'd to death His aduersaries he did ofe relieue And his reuenge was onely to forgiue He knew that well got honour nere shall die But make men liue vnto eternitie It as his greatest riches he esteem'd And Infamy he basest begg'ry deem'd He knew through worthy spirits may be croft Yet if they lose no honour nothing's lost And those that haue afraid of enuy bin True honour or good fame did neuer win If he an auaritioâ—s mind had bore Of wealth no subiect then had had such store So many yeeres Englands high Admirall Fees offices and prizes that did fall With gifts and fauors from the queene and State And other things amounting to a rate That had he beene a mixer close of hand No subiect had beene richer in this Land In deeds of pitty and ture charity Good house-keeping and hospitality Bounty and courteous affability He was the Brooch of true Nobility And for these vertues men shall scarcely find That he a fellow here hath left behind He knew that Auarice and Honour be Two contraries that neuer will agree And that the Spender shall haue true renowne When infamy the Mizers fame shall drowne He euery way most nobly was inclin'd And lou'd no wealth but riches of the mind His Pleasure was that those that did retaine To him and serue should by him thriue and gainâ— And he thought t' was enough for him to haue When as his seruants did both get and saue So amongst Nobles I think few are such That keepes so little giues away so much His latest VVill did make it plaine appeare The loue which to his seruants he did beare To great and small amongst them more or lesse His bounty did expresse his worthynesse To all degrees that seru'd him euery one His liberality excepted none And though base Enuy often at him strooke His fortitude was like a Rocke vnshooke He knew that Fortunes changing was not strange Times variation could not make him change The frothy pompe of Earths Prosperity Nor enuious clouds of sad aduersity Within his minde could no mutation strike His courage and his carriage were alike For when base Peasants shrinke at fortunes blowes Then magnimity most richly showes His grauity was in his life exprest His good example made it manifest His age did no way make his vertue liue But vertue to his age did honour giue So that the loue he wan t is vnderstood T was not for being old but being good Thus like a pollish'd Iewell ' mongst his Peers His vertue shin'd more brighter then his yeers For Wisdome euer this account doth make To loue age onely but for vertues sake Neere ninety yeeres an honoured life he led And honour 's his reward aliue and dead For who so nobly heer his life doth frame Shall for his wages haue perpetuall fame His meditations hee did oft apply How he might learne to liue to learne to dye And dy to liue and reigne in glorious state Which changing time can ne'r exterminate And therefore long his wisdome did forecast How he might best reforme offences past Order things present things to come foresee Thus would his latter yeeres still busied be He saw his Sand was neer runne out his Glasse And wisely pondred in what state he was His waning yeeres his body full of anguish Sense failing spirits drooping force to languish The ruin'd cottage of weake flesh and blood Could not long stand his wisdome vnderstood He saw his tyde of life gan ebbe so low Past all expectance it againe should flow He knew his pilgrimage would soone expire And that from whence he came he must retire Old age and weake infirmities contend Mans dissolution warnes him of his end He knew all these to be deaths messengers His Calends Pursiuants and Harbingers And with a Christian conscience still he mark'd He in his finall voyage was imbark'd Which made him skilfully his course to steere The whilst his iudgment was both sound cleare To that blest Hauen of eternall rest Where he for euer liues among the blest He did esteeme the world a barren field The nought but snares tares and cares did yeeld And therefore he did sow his hopes in heauen Where plentious encrease to him is giuen Thus was the period of his lifes expence The Noble Nottingham departed hence Who many yeeres did in his Countries right In peace and warre successefull speake and fight Our oldest Garter Knight and Counsellor And sometimes Britaines great Ambassador Now vnto you suruiuers you that be The Branches of this honourable Tree Though Verses to the dead no life can giue They may be comforters of those that liue We know that God to man hath life but lent And plac'd it in his bodies tenement And when for it againe the Landlord cals The Tenant must depart the Cottage fals God is most iust and he will haue it knowne That he in taking life takes but his owne Life is a debt which must to God be rendred And Natures retribution must be tendred Some pay in youth and some in age doe pay But t is a charge that all men must defray For t is the lot of all mortality When they being to liue begin to dye And as from sin to sin we wander in So death at last is wages for our sinne He neither hath respect to sex or yeares Or hath compassion of our sighes nor teares He 'll enter spight of bars or bolts or locks And like a bold intruder neuer knockes To Kings and Caitiâ—â—es rich poore great and small Death playes the tyrant and destroyes them all He calls all creatures to account most strict And no mans power his force can contradict We must perforce be pleas'd with what he leaues vs And not repine at ought which he berâ—anes vs. Hee 's lawlesse and â—s folly to demand Amends or restitution at his hand He doth deride the griefe of those that mourne And all our fraile afflictions laugh to scorne For hee condemnes and neuer heares the cause He takes away despight the power of Iawes Yet hee our vassall euer doth remaine From our first birth vnto our graue againe And God doth in his seruice him employ To be the bad mans terrour good mans toy Death is the narrow doore to life eternall Or else the broad gate vnto death internall But our Redeemer in his spotlesse offering Did lead the way for vs to heauen by suffering He was the death of death when he did die Then Death was swallow'd vp so victory And by his rising blessed soules shall rue And dwell in the celestial Paradise For these respects you whose affinity Propinquity or consanguinity Whose blood or whose alliance challenge can A part in this deceased Noble man The law of Nature and affection moues That griefe and sorrow should expresse your loues He was your secondary maker and Your authors earthly being and
and be Tombd with him together Sonnets 3. FRom two strong Iailes thy corps â—onâ—â— acquitted The one compact of flesh and bloud and bone The other vnrelenting sencelesse stone By God to one by man to one committed I euer did expect a happy time When thou shouldst shake by bondage from thy backer I euer hop'd that thy vnwilling crime Would be forgot and thou secur'd from wracke For this I wish'd and prat'd both day and night I onely aym'd to haue thy body freed But heau'n beyond my reason had decreed Soule body both at once to free thee quite Thou in thy life hast past a world of trouble But death from double Iailes hath freed thee double Sonnet 4. COrruption Incorruption hath put on Immortall weake mortality is made Earths wo hath gain'd a happy heauenly throne By death life dyes by life deaths force doth fade Though death kill life yet life doth conquer death Death but puts off our Rags of shame and â—ine When for a moment's an eternall breath Life passing through the dore of death doth win This thou well knowst my much beloued friend And therefore thou didst dare death to his worst But he much busied could not thee attend Or durst not till thy cares thy heart had burst And then the slaue came stealing like a thiefe And 'gainst his will did giue thy woes reliefe Sonnet 5. THou fortunes foot-ball whom she vs'd to tosse From wrong to wrong from wo to wo againe From griefe rebounding backe to pinching paine As 't please the blind-fold Dame to blesse or crosse But thou vnmou'd with either gaine or losse Nor ioy nor care could vexe they constant braine Thou smil'dst at all her buffets with disdaine And all her fauours thou esteem'dst as drosse Her and her Fauorites thou still didst deeme Iust as they are not as they seeme to be Her Minions all as fooles thou didst esteeme And that 's the cause she would not fauour thee Then since such reck'ning she of fooles doth make Would thou hadst beene one for her fauours fake Sonnet 6. T Is written in the euer liuing Word The Rule and Square that men should liue thereby Afflictions are the tuch-stones of the Lord. By which he onely doth his seruants try Then Noble Moray thou hadst many a tuch And still the patience good and currant prou'd Thy manly carriage in thy griefs were such Which made thee more then much admir'd and lou'd What yeer what month week day or fading houre Wherein some mischiefe did thee not befall Yet had Affliction ouer thee no power To conquer thee but thou didst conquer all Vnnumbred times thou wast both toucht and tri'd And in thy Makers feare and fauour dy'd Sonnet 7. VVEep heart weepe eyes weep my vnable pen In teares of blood of water and lake With bread of sorrow and afflictions drinke I liue for I haue lost a man of men Yet heart eyes pen dry vp your teares agen He is not lost he 's rather newly found Enfranchis'd from a dolefull theeuish den And with a rich Immortall Crowne is crownd Then hart eies pen no more with teares be drownd Weepe not for him that doth reioyce for euer Yet this againe my comfort doth confound Hee 's lost to mee and I shall find him neuer Then weep Muse heart eies pen lament and weepâ— My ioyes are buried in eternall sleepe Sonnet 8. SLeepe gentle spirit in Eternall rest Free from all heart-tormenting sorrow sleepe Whilst I doe vent from my care-crazed brest Hart-wondring sighs that there their mansion keepâ—â— And let my grones from out that Cauerne deepe With lamentations and cloud-cracking thunder And let mine eyes an Inundation weepe Let sighs grones teares make all the world to wonder I meane my little Microcosmo world Sigh stormes grone thunder weep a floud of tearesâ— Through eu'ry part of me let griefe be hurld That whosoeuer my lamenting heares May mone with me the cause of this my Ditty Or if not mone with me vonchsafe to pitty Sonnet 9. SInce cursed fates haue fatally decreed To tosse and tumble harmelesse Innocence And all the crue of hels abortiue breed Haue glutted Enuies maw by lawes defence Yet God whose knowledge knows the least offence Who all things sees with his all-searching eye Doth with his glorious great omnipotence Right wronged wrongs heares his seruants cry His mercie 's not immur'd within the sky But freely he doth powre it downe on earth He with afflictions scourge his sonnes doth try And when he pleases turnes their mone to mirth And though man liues in care and dies in sorrow A heauy euening brings a ioyfull morrow Sonnet 10. WEll hast thou runne in this â—y weary race Well hast thou fought with Satan hand to haÌ„d Th' ast won the Goale and gain'd the blessed Land That 's neither limitted with time or place There thou attendest on the thâ—â—â—â—â—â—e of Grace There Angels and Archangels sweetly sing Eternall praises to th' eternall King And see the glorious brightnesse of his face All this I doubt not but thou wâ—ll hast done Not of thy selfe with shamefull sinne pollated But thy Redeemer hath the coâ—â—iest wonne And vnto thee the victorie's imputed He paid the score and cancell'd all thy bands And gaue thee to his blessed Fathers hands Sonnet 11. NOw may you theeuing Poets filch and steale Without controlement breaking Priscians pate For he that whilom could your theft reueale Your Criticke and your Hypercriticke late Now may you cog and lye and sweare and prate And make your idle verses lame and halt For by the pow'r of euiternall Fate Hee 's gone that could and would correct each fault But you haue greatest cause to moane his want You sacred heau'nly Sisters three times thrice He from your Gardens could all weeds supplant And replant fruites and flowres of pecrelesse price He kept vnbroke your Numbers Tipes Tropes But now hee 's dead dead are your onely hopes Sonnet 12. AS Solon to rich haplesse Croesus said No man is happy till his life doth end The proofe in thee so piainly is displaid As if he thy Natiuity had kend What mortall miseries could mischiefe send But thou therein hast had a treble share As if Calamities their powers should bend To make thy Corps a treasure-house of care Yet fell Aduersity thou didst out-dare And valiantly 'gainst stormes of woe resisted Loue of the world they minde could not insnare Thou knewst wherein the best of best consisted And as old Solon said so I agree Death makes men happy as it hath done thee Sonnet 13. NO 〈…〉 Trophee Vertue needes And good report a marble Tombe out-weares â—â—â—â—â— plaies the Herald proclaimes mens deeds Her Trumps Thrill sound the spacious world heares And such an vniuersall Tombe hast thou Borne on the tops of thousand thousand tongs Thy liuing merit doth thy name allow A Monument for euer which belongs To none but such as whilom was thy selfe Who vs'd the world as if they vs'd it not And did
yeares till you are gone And being gone you 'l wealth and honour win Whilst ryot here at home addes sin to sin You God assisting may doe mighty things Make Kings of Captiues and of Captiues Kings Riches and loue those that suruiue shall gaine And Fame and Heauen the Portion of the slaine The wounds and scars more beautifull will make Those that doe weare them for true honours sake Since God then in his loue did preordaine That you should be his Champions to maintaine His quarrell and his causeâ— a fig for foes God being with you how can man oppose Some may obiect Your enemies are store If so your fame and victori'es the more Men doe win honour when they cope with men The Eagle will not tryumph o're a Wren The Lyon with the Mouse will not contend Nor men 'Gainst boyes and women wars will bend But clouds of dust and smoake and bloud and sweat Are the maine meanes that will true honour get Thus to Fames altitude must men aspire By noble actions won through sword and fire By trumpets Clangor drums guns flute of fife For as there is an end to euery life And man well knowes that one day he must end it Let him keep 't well defend and brauely spend it O griefe to see how many stout men lye Halfe rotten in their beds before they dye Some by soule surfets some by odious whoring In misery lye stinking and deploring And e're a lingring death their sad life ends They are most tedious loathsome to their friends Wasting in Physicke which addes woe to griefe That which should yeeld their families reliefe At last when wished death their cares doe cure Their names like to their bodies lye obscure Whereas the Souldier with a Christian brest Wars for his Soueraigues peace and Countries rest He to his Makers will his will inclines And ne're gainst Heauen impatiently repines He to his Sauiour sayes that thou art mine And being thou redeem'st me I am thine That if I liue or dye or dye or liue Blest be thy name whether thou take or giue This resolution pierces heauens high roofe And armes a Souldier more then Cannon proofe Suppose his life ends by some noble wounds His Soule to Heauen from whence it came rebâ—unds Suppose blowne vp with powder vp he flyes Fire his impurity repurifies Suppose a shot pierce through his breast or head He nobly liu'd and nobly he is dead He lyes not bedred stinking nor doth raue Blaspheming against him that should him saue Nor he in Physicke doth consume and spend That which himselfe and others should defend He doth not languish drawing loathsome breath But dyes before his friends doe wish his death And though his earthly part to earth doth passe His fame outweares a Monument of brasse Most worthy Country-men couragious hearts Now is the time now act braue manly parts Remember you are Sonnes vnto such Sires Whose sacred memories the world admires Make your names fearefull to your foes againe Like Talbot to the French or Drake to Spaine Thinke on braue valiant Essex and Mountiâ—y And Sidney that did Englands foes destroy With noble Norris Williams and the Veeres The Grayes the Willing â—biâ—s all peerelesse Peeres And when you thinke what glory they haue won Some worthy actions by you will be done 34. Battels fought in France by Englishmen since the Conquest Henry the sixth Remember Poiâ—tiers Cressy Agincourt With Bullein Turwin Turnyes warlike sport And more our honours higher to aduance Our King of England was crown'd King of France In Paris thus all France we did prouoake T' obey and serue vnder the English yoake In Ireland 18. bloudy fields we fought And that fierce Nation to subiection brought Besides Tyroues rebellion which foule strife Cost England many a pound lost many a life And before we were Scotlands or it ours How often haue we with opposed powers In most vnneighboutly vnfriendly manners With hostile armes displaying bloudy banners With various victories on eyther side Now vp now downe our fortunes haue beene tride What one fight wins the other loosing yeelds In more then sixescore bloudie foughten fields But since that we and they and they and we More neere then brethren now conioyned be Those scattering powers we each gainst other lead Being one knit body to one royall head Then let this Iland East West South and North Ioyntly in these braue warres emblaze out worth And as there was a strife that once befell Twixt men of Iuda and of Israel Contending which should loue King Dauid best And who in him had greatest interest Long may contention onely then be thus Twixt vsand Scotland and twixt them and vs Stil friendly striuing which of vs can be Most true and loyall to his Maiesty This is a strife will please the God of peace And this contending will our loues encrease You hardy Scots remember royall Bruce And what stout Wallace valour did produce The glorious name of Stewards Hamiltons The Erâ—â—kine Mâ—rayes ndâ— he Leuingstons The noble Ramseyes and th' illustrious Hayes The valiant Dowglasses the Grimes and Grayes Great Sir Iames Dowglas a most valiant Knight Lead seauenty battels with victorious fight Not by Lieutenants or by deputation But he in person wan his reputation The Turkes and Sarazens he ouercame Where ending life he purchast end lesse fame And his true noble worth is well deriu'd To worthies of that name that since suruiu'd The praise of Sir Iames Dowglas in the Raigne of King Robert Bruce 1330. In 13. maine battel she ouercame Gods enemies and as last was slaine Then since both Nations did and doe abound With men approu'd and through all lands renown'd Through Europs and through Asia further farre Then is our blest Redeemers Sepulchre Through all the Coasts of tawny Affrica And through the bounds of rich America And as the world our worths acknowledge must Let not our valour sleeping lye and rust â—â— to immortalize our Britaines name Let it from imbers burst into a flame We haue that Land and shape our Elders had Their courages were good can ours be bad Their deeds did manifest their worthy mindes Then how can we degenerate from kindes â—â— former times we were so giuen to warre Witnesse the broyles 'twixt Yorke and Lancaster Hauing no place to sorreigne Foes to goe Amongst our selues we made our selues a Foe Fall threescore yeares with fierce vnkind alarmes Were practis'd fierce vnciuill ciuill armes Whilst fourescore Peeres of the bloud royall dyde With hundred thousands Comâ—oners beside Thus Englishmen to wars did beare good will They would be doing although doing ill And Scotlands Hystorie auoucheth cleare Of many ciuill warres and turmoyles there Rebellion discord rapine and foule spoyle Hath pierc'd the bowels of their Natiue soyle Themselues against themselues Peeres against Peers And kin with kin together by the cares The friend gainst friend each other hath withstood Vnfriendly friends weltering in their bloud Thus we with them and they with vs contending And we our selues
of good men and the reprobate In many places they doe seeme to vary And beare a sence from Scripture quite contrary In Tobis and Dame Indith disagrees From Text and Raâ—es in the Machabâ—es For which the Church hath euer held it fit To place them by themselues from holy writ FINIS SALVATOR MVNDI DEDICATED TO THE HIGH MAIESTIE OF QVEENE MARY GReat Queene I haue with paines and labour tooke From out the greatest Booke this little Booke And with great Reuerence I haue cull'd from thence All things that are of greatest consequence And though the Volumne and the Worke bee small Yet it containes the summe of all in ALL. To you I giue it with a heart most feruent And rest your humble Subiect and your Seruant IOHN TAYLOR To the Reader HEere Reader then maist read for little cost How thou wast ransoâ—â—'d when thou quite wast lost Mans gracelesuesse and Gods exceeding grace Thou here maist reade and see in little space IOHN TAYLOR Mathew LOe here the blessed Sonne of God and Man New borne who was before all worlds began Of heau'nly seed th' eternall liuing Rocke Of humane race of Kingly Dauids stocke Our blest Redeemer whom the Prophets old In their true preachings had so oft foretold In figures ceremonies types and tropes He here sulfils their words confirmes their hopes The worlds saluations sole and totall summe Poore Mankinds Sauiour IESVS CHRIST is come From married Mary wife and Virgin springs This heauenly earthly supreame King of Kings He 's naked borne and in a manger layd Where he and 's Mother blessed wife and maid Are by the wite men sought and seeking found And hauing found their ioyes doe all abound Where they their loue their zeale their faith vnfold And offer incense myrthe and purest gold False-hearted Herod seeketh to destroy This new borne Infant our eternall ioy But Ioseph by a dreame is warn'd by night T'ward AEgypt with the Babe to take his flight Amongst th' AEgyptians be not longsoiournes But backe to Naz'reth he againe returnes To end the Law the Babe was circumcis'd And then by Iohn in Iordane was baptiz'd When loe the Father from his glorious Throne Sends downe the Holy Ghost vpon his Sonne In likenesse of a pure vnspotted Doue Which did his Birth and Baptis me both approue Now subtill Sathan he attempts and tempts him And fasting to the wildernesse exempts him But Iesus power the soule siends power destroyd Commanding Sathan hence Auoyd Auoyd The fearefull Diuell doth slee Christ goes and preaches And in the Mountaine multitudes he reaches He said Repentance wipes away transgressings And to the godly he pronounced blessings Hee makes the lame to goe the blind to see Deafe heare dumbe speake the leapers cleansed be The diuels from the possessed out he draue The dead are rais'd the poore the Gospell haue Such things he doth as none but God can doe And all 's to bring his flock his fold vnto All that are laden come to me quoth he And I will ease you therefore come to me You of your heauy sinnes I doe acquite My yoake is easie and my burden's light Vpon Mount Taber there our blest Messias Doth shew himselfe with Moses and Elias Yet all these mightie wonders that he wrought Nor all the heauenly teachings that he taught The stiffe neckd stubborne Iewes could not conuert But they ramaine obdurate hard of heart The man quoth some by whom these things are done It is the Carpenters poore Iosephs Sonne Some said how be these things to a passe did bring By power of Belzebub thâ—insernall King Thus with the poyson of their enuious tongues They guerdon good with ill and right with wrongs His owne not knowes him Iudas doth betray him To Annas and to Caiphas they conuey him From Caiphas backe to Annas and from thence Is sent this euerlasting happy Prince Thus is this death this sirâ—â— this Sathan-killer Mongst sinnefull wretches tost from post to Piller He 's slouted spitted on derided stript â— He 's most vnmercifully scourg'd and whipt By Impious people he 's blasphem'd and rail'd And of the Iewes in scorne as King is hail'd He like a Lambe vnto his death it led Nail'd on the Crosse for man his heart bloud shed He after three dayes glorious doth arise He leaues the sinnefull earth and mounts the skyes But first to his Disciples he appeures Where he their drooping halfe dead Spirits cheares Marke Saint Marke declares how blest baptizing Iohn Fore-runner was of Gods eternall Son Which Iohn in Wildernesse baptizes teaches And of contrition and remishon preaches Our Sauiour calls no Pharisees or Scribes Or princely people out of Iudahs Tribes But Simon Andrew Iames and Iohn are those Poore toy ling Fishermen which Iesus chose To shew that with the humblest smallest things God greatest matters to perfection brings By sundry wondrous workes our Sauiour Iesus From sinne and Sathan lab'reth to release vs. And in requitall the Ingratefull Iewes Deuise their blest Redeemer to abuse Some inwardly doe hate him some belye him His Seruants all for sake him or deny him But Peter thou wast bless in â—hy dyniall Orthy presuming thou hast â—â—â— the tryall Repentance wasâ— away thy â—â—nities crimes And thou a parterpâ— to after times The Sonne and Heire of neuer sading Heau'n Into the hands of sinfull meâ—s giuen He dyes he 's buried and in glory rises Triumphing ouer all his foes deuises S. Luke Heere Mary and old Zacharias sings In ioyfull manner to the King of Kings And aged Simeon in his armed did take The Lord of life and doth reioycings make Christ teaches preaches mercy vnto all That by amendment will for mercy call He 's tane and by false witnesses accus'd He 's beaten scoffed scorned and abus'd He 's hang'd vpon the Crosse betwixt two theeues The one doth rails on him and one beleeues He dies he 's buried tising he doth quell And conquer all his soes sin death and hell B. Iohn In the beginning was th' eternall Word The Word with God was and that Word the Lord In the beginning the same Word with God Was and for euer hath with him abead With it were all things made and made was nought Without this Word the which was made or wrought Here Christs Diuinity is told by Iohn The blessed Trinitie one three three one How God had now perform'd the oath he swore To Abram and to Israel long before How Christ should come to ransome Aaaâ—es losse And satisfie Gods Iustice on the crosse Though times and places farre a sunderb Yet Prophets and Euangelists agree In Iesus birth his Doctrine life and death Whereby our dying Soules gaâ— ne liuing breath If all things should be writ which â—rst was done By Iesus Christ Gods euerlasting Sonne From Cratch to Crosse from Cradle to his tombe To hold the Bookes the world would not be roome Acts. Th' Apostles praising God and singing Songs The holy Ghost in fierie clouen tongues Descends vpon them who are all inspir'd With
learned langâ—ages adorn'd admir'd Saint Peter preaching tels the people plaine How they the liuing Lord of life had slaine Some slout and mocke remaining stubborne hearted And many Soules peruerted are conuerted The Church increases daily numbers comes And to the Gospels furth'ring giue great Summes Acts. False Ananias and his faithlesse wife In dreadfull manner lost their wretched life The enuious people stone the Martye Steuen He praying for his foes leaues earth for Heauen The Churches Arch foe persecuting Saul Is made a conuert and a preaching Paul He 's clapt in Prison manacled nad fetter'd And through his troubles still his zeale is better'd Th Apostle Iames by Herod's put to death And Herod eat with Lice loft hatefull breath Th' increasing Church amongst the Gentiles spreds By Nâ—re Paul and Peter lost their heads Romanes Th' Apostle Paul from Corinth writes to Rome To strength their faith and tell them Christ is come He shewes how high and low both Iew and Greeke Are one with God who faithfully him seeke He tels how sinne in mortall bodies luâ—kes How we are sau'd by faith and not by workes In louing tearmes the people he doth moue To Faith to Hope to Charity and Loue. 1. Corinthâ— Paul to Corinthus from Philippy sends Their Zeale and Faith he louingly commends He tels them if Gods Seruice they regard Th' eternall Crowne of life is their reward 2. Corinths In this Saint Paul sends the Corinthians word Afflictions are the blessings of the Lord. He doth desire their Faith may still increase He wishes their prosperity and peace Galathians He tels them that their whole Saluations cause Is all in Christ and not in Moses Lawes The Law 's a glasse where men their sinnes doe sec And that by Christ we onely saued be Ephesians Paul bids cast off the old man with his vice And put on Christ our blest redempcions price Philippians He bids them of false teachers to beware He tels them that Humilitie is rare And though they liue here in a vaile of strife Yet for them layd vp is the Crowne of life Colossians Th' Apostle doth reioyce and praiseth God That these Colossians in true Faith abode He praiseth them he bids them watch and pray That sin an Sathan worke not their decay 1. Thessalonians He thanketh God his labour 's not in vaine So stedfast in the faith these men remaine That they to others are ablelled light By their example how to liue vpright 2. Thessalonians Againe to them he louingly doth write He bids them pray the Gospell prosper might He wishes them prosperitie and wealth And in the end Soules euerlasting health 1. and 2. to Timothy Paul shewes to Timothy a By shop must In life and doctrine be sincâ—re and iust And how the Scriptures power haue to perswade Whereby the man of God is perfect made Titus To Titus 'mongst the Creetans Paul doth send And warnes him what â—allow or reprehend Philemon Paul earnestly the Master doth request To pardon his poore man that had transgrest Hebrewes Although this booke doth beare no Authors name It shewes the Iews how they thier liues should frame And that the Ceremoniall Law is ended In Christ in whom all grace is comprenended S. Iames. Heare speake and doe well the Apostle faith For by thy workes a man may see thy faith I. and 2. to Peter He counsels vs be sober watch and pray And still be ready for the Iudgement day 1 2 and 3. of Iohn He shewes Christ di'de and from the graue arose To saue his friends and to confound his foes S. Iude. Iude bids them in all Godlinesse proceed And of deceiuing teachers on take heed Reuelation Diuine S. Iohn to Pathmos I le exilde This heauenly worâ— t' instruct vs he compild He tels the godly God shall be their gaines He threats she godlesse with eternall paines He shewes how Antichrist should reigne and rage And how our Sauiour should his pride asswage How Christ in glory shall to Iudgement come And how all people must abide his doome A Prayer GOod God Almighty in compassion tender Preserue and keepe King Charles thy Faiths defender Thy Glory make his Honor still increase In Peace in Warres and in Eternall peace Amen THE BOOKE OF MARTYRS DEDICATED TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE WILLIAM EARLE OF PEMBROOKE c. MY Lord my weake Collection out hath tooke The summe and pith of the great Martyrs Booke For pardon and protection I intreat The Volume's little my presumption great IOHN TAYLOR I Sing their deaths who dying made death yeeld By Scriptures sword and faiths vnbattered shield Whom Sathan men or monsters could not tame Nor sorde them to deny their Sauiours name Euangelists that did the Gospell write Apostles and braue Martyrs that did fight Gainst death and hell and all the power of sin And boldly dâ—de eternall life to win Iohn Baptist by King Herod lost his head Who to the world repentance published Our blest Redeemer in his loue did follow And conquered death mans sinfull soule to hallow He was the death of death and he did quell The sting and power of Sathan sin and hell And vnder his great standard valiantly A number numberlesse haue darde to die Through bondage famine slauery sword and fire Through all deuised torments they aspire Victoriously to gaine th' immortall Crowne Of neuer-ending honour and renowne Saint Steuen was the third that lost his breath And for his Masters sake was ston'd to death And after him in Scripture may we reade The Apostle Iames was brain'd and butchered Saint Marke th Euangelist in fire did burne And Bartholmen was flead yet would not turne Saint Andrew like a valliant champion dide And willing on a croste was crucifide Matthias Philip Peter and Saint Paul Ston'd crucified beheaded Martyrs all Th' Apostles of their liues no reckoning make And thinke them well spent for their Sauiours sale The tyrant Emperours in number ten Most cruell barb'rous and inhumaine men More Christians by their bloudy meanes did sâ—â—y Then for a yeere fiue thousand to each day And many Romane Bishops in those dayes Were Martyrd to their high Creators praise And though each day so many thousands bleed Yet doubtly more and more they daily breed As Camomile growes better bâ—ing trod So death and tortures draw more vnto God Or as the vine that 's cut and prun'd beares more In one yeere then it did in three before This bloudy persecution did out-weare After Christs death the first three hundred yeere Thus did the primitiue first Church endure Being Catholike Apostolike and pure Then ouer all the world t was truely knowne That Romish Bishops claimed but their owne In their owne Diocesse to be chiefe Pastor And not to be the worlds great Lord and master And now our Britaine glory will I sing From Lucius reign the worlds first Christian King Vnto these dayes of happy peacefull state A Catalogue of Martyrs I le relate First Vrsula and eleuen thousand with her All Virgins for
Carists faith did dye together Then Hengist with the Saxons hither came Who many kild with sword and furious flame Besides eleuen hundred Monkes were kild At Bangor Abby all their blouds were spild And when the Saxons race to end was run The Dines came in and all the Kingdome won Before whose Swords did many thousands fall Which on the name of IESVS CHRIST did call Then William Conquerour with a multitude Vnto the Normanâ— voâ—ke this Land subdude The Pope then caus'd all Priests to leaue their wiues To leade soule Sodomiticke single liues Then afterward in second Hearies raigâ—e Was sawcy Sir Saint Thomas Becket slaine A Popish Saint and Martyr made because He dy'd a Traytor to his Soueraignes Lawes King Henry and King Richard dead and gone Their brother Iohn by right ascends the Tâ—â—rone Whom all his life the Pope of Rome did vexe And with oppressions all the Realme perplexe With Candle Booke and Bell he curst and blest And Bals and Legates did the King molest Vntill such time he on his knees fell downe And to the Pope surrendred vp his Crowne At last because he durst the Pope withstand He dyed imposned by a â—â—yers hand When thus by treason they had kild King Iohn Then the third Henrie Englands Crowne put on Then England bought the Râ—mesh doctrine deare It cost her threescore thousand markes a yeare For Agnus Deses Pardons Peter pance For which the Pope had all this coine from hence King Henry dyed then Edward tooke the sway His Sonne and Grandchild England did obay The first of them call'd Long-shanks conquests won Lost by Carnaruan his vnhappy Son Who by his Queene was in a Dungâ—on cast Till being murthered sadly breath'd his last Edward the third a braue victorious King Did Frenchmens pride into subiection bring Kickard the second next to raigne began Who lost more than his Royall Grandsire wan Then gan Iohn Wicklisse boldly to begin To preach gainst Antichrist that man of sin Who many troubles stoutly did abide Yet spight the Pope he naturally dy'de And being dead from out is graue was turn'd And had his Martyr'd bones to ashes burn'd Which ashes they did cast into a Brooke Because he had the Romish Faith for sooke Yet whilst the second Richard here suruiu'd No Martyrs were by fire of lite depriu'd Henry the fourth was in the Throne inuested In whose Reigne many were too much molested And Wiâ—â—â—â— Sautre first his life â—â—â—â—â—â— Through flames of fire who now in heauen doth liue The next Iohn Baâ—â—by in the fuâ—â—â—â— flame And William Tharpe both was immortail fame Then the fifth Henrie a victoriâ—â—â— Prince The Realme of France did â—â— quar and â—â—â— The good Lord Cebâ—â— then O â—â—â—â—â—â— By Popish Priests an Hereticke procâ—aim'd Washang'd and burn'd by the vnit â—tull doome Of Sathans Seruants sleues to Hell and Râ—â—e And leauing some vnnam'd Iohn ' Bâ—owneâ— quâ—re Iohn Beuâ—â—ly a Preacher dyed in â—â—â— B sid s a number from the Leâ—â—rds Towre Rackes tortures halters and the flame deuoure Ioba Huâ— a glorious Martyr of the Lord. Was in Eoheâ—â—â— burned or Gods word And renâ—rend Icrome did to Constance come From Pragae and stoutly suffered Martyrdome In Smith-sield one Iohn Claydon suffered death And with him Richard Turming lost his breath At this time sixeteâ—ne godly folkes in Kent The Antichristian vassals dâ—d torment Then death cut off the fifth King Henries Raigne The Crowne the sixth King Henrie did obrame And William Taylor a true zealous Priest Did passe through fire vnto his Sauiour Christ. Good Richard Houedon with him William White Each vnto God through fire did yeeld his sprite Dâ—ke Humphrey though no Martyr kil'd in 's bed And Richard Wych a Priest was burned dead Then Saint like good King Henry was depos'd By the fourth Edward in the tower inclos'd Then Edward flâ—d and Henry once againe By Warwickes power the Kingdome did obtaine Thds did the various slate of humane things Make Kings of Capriues and of Captiues Kings Vntill at last King Edward turning backe Brought Henries royalty to finall wracke In whose Raigne Iohn Goâ—se as the story saith Was the first Martyr burned for Christs faith King Henry in the Tower was ab'd to death And Edward yeelded vp his hie and breath His Sonne young Edward of that name the sift Whom the third Richard from his life did lift VVho by foule murthers â—loud and tyranny Vsurpt the Throne of Englands Monarchy Till valiant Henry of that name the seuen Kild him and made vncuâ—n England euen Then first Ioane Beughâ—on and a man call'd Babramâ— By faith through fire went to old Father Abram An Old man was in Smithfield burnt because He did resist against the Roman Lawes One Ierom hang'd and burned on the Gallowes In Florence with two otâ—er of his fâ—llowes And William Tiliesworth Thomas Bernard and Iames Morton cause they did the Pope withstand Burn'd all and Father Rogers and old Reine Did dye by fire a better life to gaine One Thomas Nouice and one Thomas Chase Dy'd constant Martyrs by the Heauenly Grace A woman and a man call'd Laurence Guest By Deah gain'd euerlasting life and rest Besides a number past mans reckoning vp For IESVS sake dranke of afflictions cup. Some carried faggots through a world of mocks Some rack'd some pinde some fettered in the stocks Some naked stript and scourged with a lash For their reiecting of their Romish trash Some branded in the cheeke did alwayes beare The marke and badge of their Redeemer deare Thus the insulting tyrannizing Pope With cursings tortures fire and sword and rope Did force the Soules and Consciences of men To run dispairing to damnations Den And those who valiantly his power withstood Did seale their resolution with their bloud Before his triple treble trouble Crowne In adoration Emperours must fall downe Were they as high as any Caesar borne To kisse his feet they must not hold it scorne Henry the sixth the Emperour did fall downe Whom with his Feet Pope Celestine did Crowne Henry the fourth his Empresse and his young Son All three to Rome did barefoot goe and run And three dayes so these three did all attend His holinesse a godlesse eare to lend Which afterward was granted on condition That he should giue his Crowne vp in submission Pandulphus the Popes Legate with a frowne Did make King Iohn of England yeeld his Crowne King Henry of that as me the second he Kneel'd downe and kist the Romish Legats knee The Emperour when Pope Adrian was to ride Did hold his stirrop on the neere wrong side For which his Holinesse in angry sort Disdainfully did checke the Emperour for 't When as the Pope doth ride in Cope of gold Kings like to foot-men must his bridle hold In pompe he must bee borne vpon mens shoulders With glorious shew amazing the beholders Whilst Kings and Princes must before him goe To vsher him in this vaine-glorious show This being true as no man can deny Those that will
not be blinde may plainely spy That their insulting proud commanding Priest Is â—bsolute and onely Antichrist H'exalts himselfe ' boue all that 's called God Vpon the Emperours necke he proudly trod Hee is th'abomination void of grace That mounts himselfe into the holy place He makes the Princes of the Earth drinke vp And quaffe the poyson of his cursed Cup. Who being drunken with the drâ—gs of sinne They haue his sworne and forsworne vassals beene Bewitched with his foule Inchanting charmes Gainst one another they haue rose in armes By forreine and domesticke bloudie broyles Whilst he hath fild his his coffers with their spoyles His double dealing too plaine appeares In setting Christian Princes by the eares Whilst he into his anatitious hands Hath feiz'd their persons moueables and lands And as the Christian Kings themselues made weake The Turke into their Kingdomes gan to breake And thus the Turke and Pope joynd with the deuill Haue beene the authors of all Christian euill FINIS THE BOOKE OF MARTYRS The Second Part. DEDICATED TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE PHILLIP EARLE OF MONTGOMERIE c. MY Lord the liues and deaths of Saints and Kings This little Booke vnto your Greatnesse sings Protection and acceptance if you giue It shall as shall Your selfe for ever liue IOHN TAYLOR VVHen the 7 Henry in his graue was laid And the eight Henry Englands Scepter sway'd Romes bloudy persecution raged more In England than in ten Kings raignes before And therefore Reader in this little Booke For euery Martyrs name thou must not looke But men of chiefest note respect and same That dyed in England onely these I name And first the Papists tyranny beganne In murthering Richard Hun a zealous man For being kept in prison by their power They closly hang'd him in the Lollards Tower And then they all in generall decreed Reporting Hun himselfe had done the deed Ann sixteene dayes iust after this was don They burn'd the foresaid corps of Richard Hun. Then to the number of full thirty fiue The surious flames did all of life depriue In seuerall places of this wofull land Because they did the Pope of Rome withstand At which time Thomas Bilney did begin To preach and teach against Antichristian sinne Where in Saint Georges Church in Ipswich Towne The Papists from the Pulpit pluckt him downe And as in dolefull prison he did lie He put his finger in the flames to try He prou'd aud God did giue him strenght to beare His death to liue with his Redeemer deare The next of note was one Iohn Frith a man Of learning great a Martyrs same he wan Then learned Luther and graue Zwinglius With Caluin Beza Occolampadius All glorious gracious reuerend lamps of light Were instruments to cleare blear'd Englands sight In Flanders William Tindall for Gods Word Was Sacrific'd to glorifie the Lord. Iohn Lambert valiantly his death did take And burn'd in Smithfield for his Sauiour sake About this time that Honourable man Lord Cromwels life and timelesse death began Hee like an Earthquake made the Abbies fall The Fryeries the Nunneries and all This famous Noble worthy Essex Earle This Iemme this Iewell this most orient pearle Was for his truth from all he had discarded And with his heads losse all his faith rewarded The next of worthy note by fire that dide Was good Anne Askew who did strong abide Rackes tortures and the cruell raging flame To magnifie her high Creators name Then gan the Kings eyes to be opended quite Inlightened by the euerlasting light He banisht Superstitious idle sables And packt the Papists hence with all their bables Then Bonner Gardner Brethren both in euill Factors and Actors bloudhounds for the Deuill Their burning fame to infamy soone saded They Godlesse gracelesse were disgracst degraded The King thus hauing this good worke begun He dyed and left the Kingdome to his Sonne Then raign'd young Edward that sweet Princely childe By whom all Popery was cleane exilde But he too good to liue mongst wicked men Th' Almighty tooke him hence to Heauen agen No sooner Edward was laid in his Tombe But England was the slaughter-house of Rome Gardner and Bonner were from prison turn'd And whom they pleas'd were eyther sau'd or burn'd Queene Mary imitating Iezabell Aduanc'd againe the Ministers of Hell Then tyranny began to tyrannize Tortures and torments then they did deuise Then Master Rogers with a saith most feruent Was burn'd and dy'd in Smith field Gods true Seruant Next vnto him did Laurence Sanders dye By fire for Iesus sake at Couentry He did embrace and kindly kisse the stake To gaine Heau'ns glory did the world for sake Good Byshop Hooper was at Gloster burn'd Cause he against the Romish Doctrine spurn'd And Doctor Taylor a true zealous man At Hadly burn'd eternall glory wan Then Byshop Ferrar next his life did spend In fire to gaine the life shall neuer end Next William Fowler first did loose his hand Then burn'd because the Pope he did withstand In Essex Thomas Hawkes with faith victorious Did dye by fire to gaine a life most glorious Master Ioha Bradford for his Sauiours sake In Smithsield burn'd a godly end did make Two reuerend Byshops Father Latimer And Ridley each of them a heauenly starre Liu'd in Gods foare and in his fauour dy'd At Oxford burn'd and now are glorisi'd Iohâ— Philpâ—t gladly did the fire embrace And died and liues in his Redeemers grace Then that graue Father and religious man Arch-Bishop of Cranmars troubles hot began His Pompe his state his glory and his pride Was to know Iesus and him crucifide He liu'd a godly Preacher of Gods Word And dy'd a glorious Martyr of the Lord. Iohn Carcles in close Prison carefully Did change his cares for ioyes eternally But this small volum cannot well containe One quarter of the Saints in England flaine In Henries Raigne and Maries cruell Queene Eight thousand people there hath slaughtered beene Some by the Sword some Hang'd some burnt in fire Some staru'd to death in Prison all expire Twelue thousand and seuen hundred more beside Much perseâ—uting trouble did abide Some wrackt som whipt som tortur'd som in stocks Some doing penance with a world of mockes Some with an yron in the faces burn'd Some out of all their goods to beggry rurn'd Some barefoot bearing faggots on their shoulders Weâ—e made a wondring stocke to the beholders All this and more much more they did endure Because they would not yeeld to liue impure But now to speake the law lesse â—ause wherefore And why these people troubled were so sore Because they would not make their plaints mones To senseles I mages dead stockes and slones Because they said the Sacramentall bread Is not the Lord which shall iudge quick and dead Because they not beleeu'd a Purgatory And held the Popes decrees an idle story Because they would not creepe vnto the crosse And change Gods sacred Word for humane drosse Because they held the Masse an Idoll soule At once which
Angels to the Shepheards told As Luke th'Euangelist doth well vnfold And should my verse a little but decline Lok â— â— To humane stories and leaue diuine There are some mightie Princes I can name Whose breeding at the first from Shepheards came Romes founder Romulus was bred and ted Mongst Shepheards where his youthfull dayes he led The Persian Monarch Cyrâ—â—â— hee did passe His youth with * Valeriux Maximus and Aureliaxus were raised from been Heardsmen to the imperiall dignitie Shepheards and a Shepheard was The Terrour of the world that famous man Who conquer'd Kings and kingdomes ouer-ran His stile was as some stories doe repeat The Scythsan Shepheard Tamberlaine the Great T is sueh a Tytle of preheminence Of reuerence and such high magnificence That Dauid who so well his words did frame â—â—â—â— Did call our great Creator by the name Our blest Redeamer Goas eternall Sonne Whose onely merits our Saluation wonne He did the harmlesse name of Shepheard take â—â—â— For our protection and his Mercres sake Those that will reade the sacred Text and looke With diligence throughout that heauenly Booke Shall finde the Ministers haue Epithires And named Angels Stewards Watchmen Lights Salt Builders Husbandmen and Starres that shine Inflamed with the Light which is Diuine And with these names within that books compil'd They with the Stile of Shepheards are instil'd Thus God the Sire and sonne the Scriptures call Both Shepheards my stieall and literall And by similitudes comparing to All kings and Churchmen beare that tytle do A.E.I.O.V. two Anagrams of the fiue Vowels the one serues for the glorious name GOD and the other in the Spanish tongue is a Sheepe which name the Prophet Esay doth figuratiuely or mystically call our Creator IEOVA or IEHOVAH OVEIA is a sheepe Wherein may bee perceiued that there is no Word Name or Action in or vnder Heauen but hath one or more of the fiue Vowels and that no Word or Name hath them all Without other Letters but IEOVA and OVEIA Which doth admonish vs in the feare and reuerence of the Almightie because in all our thoughts Words and actions some part of his Wonderfull Name is infinitely included And withall that OVEIA or a sheepe is a most significant Emblem or signe of our God and Sauiours innocencie and patient sufferings WIse and Insorutable Omniscient Eternall Gracious and Omnipotent In Loue in Iustice Mercy in Might In Honour Power and Glory infinite In workes in words in euery Attribute Almightie All. commanding Absolute For who so notes the Letters of the name IE MOVAH shall perceiue within the same The Vowels of all Tongues included be â—â—â—â—th no name that e're was nam'd but HE â—â—â— I haue heard some Schollers make Relation â—â— is but a breathing Aspiration A letter that may be left out and spar'd Whereby is cleerely to our sight declar'd That Great IEHOVA may be written true With onely Vowels A E I O V And that there is no word or name but this That hath them all alone but onely His So that the Heauens with all the mighty Host Of Creatures there Earth sea or any Coast Or Climate any Fish or Fowle or Beast Or any of His workes the most and least Or thoughts or words or writing with the Pen Or deedes that are accomplished by men But haue some of these Letters in them all And God alone hath all in Generall By which we see according to his will He is in all things and doth all things fill And all things said or done he hath ordain'd Some part of his great Name 's there in contain'd All future present and all past things seeing In whom we liue and moue and haue our being A Almightie All in All and euery where E Eternall in whom change cannot appeare I Immortall who made all things mortall else O Omnipotent whose Power all Power all Power excels V Vnited Three in one and one in Three IEOVA Vnto whom all Glory bee Besides the learned poets of all times Haue chanted out the praise in pleasant times The harmelesse liues of rurall shepheards Swaines And beautious shepheardesses on the plaines In * All the famous Poetes and Poetesses of all tongues and nations haue written vpon this worthy subiect Odes in Rouudelaies and Madrigals In Sonnets and in well pen'd Pastorals They haue recorded most delightfully Their loues their fortunes and felicitie And sure if in this low terrestriall Round Plaine honest happinesse is to be found It with the Shepheards is remaining still Because they haue least power to doe ill And whilst they on their feeding flockes attend They haue the least occasions to offend Ambition Pompe and Hell begotten Pride And damned Adulation they deride The complementall flatt'rie of kings Courts Is neuer intermix'd amidst their sports They seldome enuie at each others state Their loue and feare is Gods the deuil 's their hate In weightie businesse they nor marre or make And cursed bribes they neither giue or take They are not guiltie as some great men are Tvndoe their Mercer and Embroiderer Their Taylor Butcher Bewer Baker Powlter For which there 's some haue well deseru'd a halter Their Shoomaker and Silkman I forgot Though breaking or else begg'rie be their lot Nor is' t a Shepheards trade by night or day To sweare themselues in debt and neuer pay Hee 's no state-plotting Macbiushan Or Proiect-monger Monopolitan Hee hath no trickes or wiles to circumuent Nor feares he when there comes a Parliament He neuer weares his cap nor bends his knee To feed Contention with a Lawyers fee He wants the art to Cog Cheat Sweare and Lie Nor feares the Gallowes or the Pillorie Nor cares he if great men be fooles or wise If honour fall and base dishonour rise Let fortunes mounted minions sinke or swim Hee neuer breakes his braines all 's one to him He 's free from fearefull curses of the poore And liues and dies content with lesse or more Great temporance in Shepheards He doth not waste the time as many vse His good Creators creatures to abuse In drinking sicks vngodly healths to some They veryest Cankerwormes of Christendome My Lord Ambition and my Lady Pride Shall with his quasting not be magnifide Nor for their sakes will he carowse and feast Vntill from man he be turn'd worse then beast Whereby he scapes vaine oathes and blasphemy And surfets fruits of drunken gluttony He scapes occasion vnto lusts pretence And so escapes the Poxe by consequence Thus doth he scape the Parator and Proctor Th' Apothecary Surgeon and Doctor Whereby he this prerogatiue may haue To hold the laying in into his graue Whilst many that his betters farre haue bin Will very hardly hold the laying in These are great priuiledges though few men seeke or care for them Thus Shepheards liuÌ„e and thus they end their liues Adorn'd and grac'd with these prerogatiues And when he dyes he leaues no wrangling heyres To law till all be speÌ„nt and nothing theirs Hooke Tar-box
Bottle Bag Pipe Dog and all Shall breed no iarres in Westminsters great Hall Peace and tranquility was all his life And dead his goods shall breed no cause of strife Thus Shepheards haue no places meanes or times To fall into these hell-deseruing crimes Which Courtiers Lawyers Tradesmen men of arms Commit vnto their soules and Bodies harmes And from the Shepheards now I le turne my stile To sundry sorts of sheepe another while The Lambs that in the Iewes passeouer dy'd Were figures of the Lambeâ— that 's crucifi'd Esa. 53.7 And Esay doth compare our heauenly food 1. Ioh. 1.29 T'â— Sheepe which dumb before the shearer stood Whose death and merits did this title win The Lambe of God which freed the world from sin LAMBE Anagram's BLAME LAMBE Anagram's BALME The Anagram's of Lambe is Blame and Balme And Christ the Lambe Vpon him tooke our Blame His precious Blood Gods heauy wrath did calme ' I'was th' onely Blame for Sinne to cure the same All power and praise and glory be therefore Ascribed to the Lambe for euermore And in the threescore nineteenth Psalme we read That like a Sheepe our God doth Ieseph lead Againe of vs he such account doth keepe That of his Paffure we are called Sheepe And euery day we doe confesse almost That we haue err'd and stray'd like Sheepe that 's lest Our Saueour that hath bought our Soules so deare Hath said his Sheepe his voice will onely heare And Thrice did Christ vnto Saint Peter call In which he spake to his Disciples all Iab 21.15.16 If you doe loue me feed my Sheepe quoth he And feed my Lambs well if you doe loue me Moreouer in the final Iudgement day There is the right hand and the left hand way Whereas the sheepe he to himselfe doth gather With saying Come Ye blessed of my Father c And to the Goats in his consuming ire He bids Depars into eternall fire Thus our Redeemer and his whole elect The name of Sheepe held euer in respect And the comparison holds reference To profit and to harmelesse innocence For of all beasts that euer were or are None can for goodnesse with a Sheepe compare Indeed for bone and burthen I must grant He 's much inferiour to the Elephant The Dromedarie Camell Horse and Asse For loade and carriage doth a Sheepe surpasse Strong Taurus Eunuch sonne the labouring Oxe The stately Stagge the bobtaild craftie Foxe These and all rauenous beasts of prey must yeeld Vnto the Sheepe the honour of the field An Oxe is the Eunuch sonne of a Bull. I could recount the names of many more The Lyon Vnicorne the Beare and Bore The Wolfe the Tyger the Rhinoscerot The Leopard and a number more I woe But all these greedie Beasts great Ouids pen Doth say are metamorphos'd into men For Beast to Beast afford more conscience can And much lesse cruelty than man to man I le therefore let such Beasts be as they be For feare they Kicke and snap and snarle at me â—â— Vnto the Sheepe againe my Muse doth flye For honest safetie and commoditie He with his flesh and fleece doth feed and clad All Languages and Nations good and bad What can it more but dye that we may liue And euery yeare to vs a liuery giue 'T is such a bountie and the charge so deepe That nothing can afford the like but Sheepe For should the world want Sheepe but 5. whole yere Ten thousand millions would want cloathes to And wer 't not for the flesh of this kind beast weare The world might fast when it doth often feast There 's nothing doth vnto a Sheepe pertaine But'tis for mans commoditie and gaine For men to men so much vntrusty are Tolye to couzen to forsweare and sweare That oathes and passing words and ioyning heads Is like assurance written in the sands To make men keepe their words and mend all this The silly Sheepe skin turn'd to parchment is There 's many a wealthy man whose whole tstate Lyes more in Parchment then in coyne or Plate Indentures Leafes Euidenoes Wills Bonds Contracts Records Obligations Bils With these although the sherpeskin is bat weake It binds men strongly that they dare not breake Bâ—â— if man eates Spiders no. v and then The oyle of Parchment cures him oftagen And what rare stuffes which in the world are fram'd Can be value like to Parchment nam'd The richest cloth of gold that can befound A yard of it was nere worth fiftie pound And I haue seene two foot of Sheepeskin drest Which hath bin worth ten thousand pounds at least A peece of parchment well with Inke Iac'd ouer Helps many a gallant to a Sattin couer Into the Mercer it some Faith doth strike It giues the Silkeman Hope of no dislike The Taylor it with Charitie assailes It thrusts him last betwixt his Bill and Vailes And by these meanes a piece of parchment can Patch vp and make a Gull a Gentleman The Nature of it very strange I finde 'T is much like Physicke it can loose and binde 'T is one mans freedome and anothers noose And like the Pope it doth both binde and loose If the Taylors Bill be out of measure to the Gentleman then be can make a fit measure for him with his owne bond And as the Ram and Ewe doe fructifie And euery yeare a Lambe doth multiply So doth a sheepe-skin Bond make money breed And procreate as seed doth spring from seed â—â— hundred pounds the Ewe which euery yeare Doth breed a ten pound Lambe all charges cleare A Bond is the Ewe the borrower and lender are both Rams and the Interest is the Lambe Thus is a sheepe-skin prou'd the onely Tie And stay whereon a world of men relye Which holds a crew of Earth wormes kin more awe Then both the Tables of the sacred Law Past number I could many functions name Who as 't is parchment liue vpon the fame But 't is sufficient this small homely touch Should all be writ my Booke would swell too much Now for the Ram the Ewe the Lambe and Weather I le touch their skins as they are turn'd to Leather And made in Purses Pouches Laces Strings Gloues Points Book Couers ten thousand things And many Tradesmen line and thriue thereby Which if I would I more could amplifie Their Guts serue Instruments which sweetly found Their Dung is best to make most fruitfull ground Their Hoofes burnt will most venom'd Serpents kill Their grated Hornes are good 'gainst poyson still Their Milke makes Cheese mans hunger to preuent As I haue seen in suffex and in Keut Their Trotters for the healthy or the sicke Drest as they should be are good meat to picke The Cookes and Butchers with the Ioints doe gaine And poore folkes eate the Gather Head and braine And though all wise mens iudgement will allow A Sheepe to be much lesser then a Cow Yet in a Leg of Mutton I can see More meat then in a leg of Beefe can be A liue Sheepe