could reade it as many things had beene so taken before to the great hindrance and griefe of the poore Author To the KINGS most Sacred MAIESTIE VVHereas to the exeeeding great ioy of all my deare Friends there is certaine intelligence giuen that your Highnesse will visit me on Sunday next And the rather I beleeue it for that I haue had more sweeping brushing and cleansing then in 40. yeares before My workmen lookt like him they call Muld-Sacke after sweeping of a Chimney May it please your most Excellent Maiestie among your royall Intendments to be celebrated in me vpon that Holy day to manifest withall your pious Affection towards Repayre of my Decayes and I shall daily pray c. The Authors Conceipt written vnder my PETITION St. PAVLES O King since I her suite began This for 500. li. my Author can approue by oath that it came to me by my Complaint which he made that put Mr. Parker a Benefactor in mind to do me good as handsell to bring on more good Customers hath gain'd by fiue almost eight hundred pound Grace thou her Suite and I 'me assured than each hundred will a thousand pounds be found Each thousand ten and euery ten a score Till she breake forth in thankes and craue no more A Petition to the PRINCE ONe onely Aduocate with God we haue Christ Iesus our sweet Sauiour his deare Sonne By whom alone we get all things we craue in humblenesse and iust petition Great Prince you are my Soueraignes onely Sonne Resemble then the Course twixt God and man And grace my humble suite the best you can And as I 'me bound so will I euer pray That God will blesse your Highnesse night and day A Petition to the Right Honourable the Lords of his MAIESTIES most Honorable Priuy Councell FOR his sake which for your sakes once did cry Eli Eli lamasabacthani For their sakes which for Gods sake did not spare Or paines or cost or ought for my welfare For all your Honors sakes I humbly craue That now if euer I your helpes may haue My Suite is honest iust and reasonable The Worke is good the End most honorable Wherefore if you shall please to speake for mee I le pray that heauen your dwelling place may be Your Honors now as aforesaid and also when you haue ended your labours if you please as some of your forefathers haue done to rest with me S. PAVLES St. PAVLES concludeth in an Extasie alluded to the sense of hearing being as it were rauished with ioy of her hopefull successe VVHat Wight is he in England-Isra-el That knowes my wants loues me and can speake well Let him stand vp with Zeale and sound intent And speake for me now in this Parliament Is he a Leuite Priest Samaritan Hath he the voice of Angell or of man Who should he be sweete sense doe not thou erre Which doth in that high Court my Bill preferre O now I know hearke how the people sing Glory to God and honor to the King I' st He indeed is it that peerelesse Iemme BEST OF BEST SPEAKERS IN IERVSALEM I' st He that holds me still in Reuerence I' st He that gets me a Beneuolence I' st He that for my good lifts vp his Voice And doe the people thus for me reioyce Blessed be such a King and blessed all That thus doe honor me their Church of Paul Thus much for the most part of what was giuen to the King on Midlent-Sunday last Here follow other things of the Author done long before and not impertinent to that which is herein intended that is to stirre vp good mindes to set forwards a good worke viz. Certaine Additions Voyces and Visions Speeches and Parley Twixt Paules and Farley As they haue beene giuen to the King at sundry times but not till now published S. PAVLES FIRST recite to mee in briefe the Dreame or Vision thou hadst after thou didst publish my Complaint which thou didst present to his Maiesty by a picture and which picture thou intendedst to haue giuen to his Maiestie if thy Petition had not failed thee FARLEY It was a Dreame in three parts 1 The first shewing the King * This was in the life time of our gracious Q. Anne and came to passe in some part the said 26. day of March 1619. Queene and Prince with all the Nobles Reuerend Bishops and Clergy Lord Mayor Aldermen Citizens and people comming as from the Tower in great state and solemnitie to offer for your good at a Chest standing at your great North-dore In this Dreame me thought I saw presents of Vide queso c. 1. Kings Chap. 5. vers 8. 9. 10. c. all the chapter stone and timber sent by forreigne Princes to congratulate with his Maiestie in that pious work intended for your reparation as * Hiram sent to King Salomon Also me thought I saw a Posie written in Capitall letters ouer your Gate next Cheapside to this effect viz. BEHOLD THE KING COMETH WITH GREAT IOY c. And me thought I saw a great glory in the Heauens and heard two voices sounding in my eares one towards the King thus For thy Temples sake c. I wish thee all prosperity The other voice sounding towards the midle of the city in these words Many good things are done in thee ô thou faire City 2. The second Dreame shewing the royall solemnities This part of my Dreame hath also proued true at the Offering and you in that ragged poore and smoaky case as now you are and the King c. sitting to heare a Sermon in the same very Window and place where his Maiestie did sit indeed when He came to visit you Me thought I saw among all your Grieuances that then were opened to his Maiesties sight and hearing one thing written in Capitall letters which was well obserued on all parts viz. VIEW O KING HOW MY WALL-CREEPERS HAVE MADE ME WORKE FOR CHIMNEY-SWEEPERS The Psalme that was sung before the Sermon was me thought the * Vide. 122. Psalme The Text was out of the 24. Chapter of the second Booke of Chron. the 10. verse viz. And all the Lords and all the people reioiced and brought in and cast into the Chest vntill there was sufficient The Preacher me thought was that Reuerend This approued true in part Bishop of this Diocesse whose lot was afterward to performe that taske in another Text appointed by his Sacred Maiestie Me thought he diuided the Text aforesaid thus The Lords and People reioiced and brought in and cast into the Chest They not onely brought in and cast into the Chest said he but they also reioyced for so indeed God is well pleased who accepteth and loueth a Cheerefull giuer and the cheerefulnesse of the Giuer doth much commend the Gift Then he obserued the readinesse of the People by the particle All. Not some of the Lords or some of the people offered but All the Lords and All the People euen the
St. PAVLES-CHVRCH HER BILL FOR THE PARLIAMENT As it was presented to the Kings Matie on Midlent-Sunday last and intended for the view of that most high and Honorable Court and generally for all such as beare good will to the reflourishing estate of the said CHVRCH Partly in Verse partly in Prose Penned and published for her good by HEN FARLEY Author of her Complaint For the Lord will comfort Zion and repayre all her decayes Hee will make her Desert like Paradice and her Wildernesse like the Garden of the Lord. Mirth and ioy shall bee found there Thankesgiuing and the praise of melody Isaiah 51. 3. Anno Dom. M. DC XXI TO THE HIGH Court of PARLIAMENT All blessings from the Highest be euer present in your high and Honorable Designes for CHVRCH and COMMON-WEALTH MAy your Wisedomes be pleased to accept these my Labours as an humble suite out of my zeale for the good of Gods House What honour shall accrue therby I will euer attribute to his glory and your goodnesse only intimating to your memories something fitting to bee considered of at this time not as an arrogant teacher but as an humble Remembrancer Neuer had any Church more need of Reparation and Reformation for euery day shee consumeth and euery base fellow pisseth against her doores and defileth her walles as if Shee only who should be the only She for Beauty and Example were the only contempt and scorne of all the rest Her West doore and Brazen Pillar where his Maiestie kneeled and prayed for good successe to his Pious intendment for her restauration is the most odiously and ignominiously abused and because there is no power by lawes and penalties to punish the offenders they are so bold that none of her Officers or others dare controule them I most humbly referre the consideration thereof to your Graue Wisedomes it being the only cause that hath moued me to publish this worke There are many of my Honorable Masters among you the Commissioners appointed by his Maiesty for the reparation of the said Church of whose furtherance in this and much more I haue no doubt and of whose noble fauours I haue had some taste So trusting in the Almighty they will continue the same and humbly beseeching your pardon protection and Patronage I remaine in my Prayers as I first beganne Prostrate at your feete in all loyall and humble obedience during life H. F. S. PAVLES to the BOOKE THose that reade thee with good will As my friends respect them still But if Carpers wince or strike Tell them they are gall'd belike Sure I am my Authors minde Was to please in euery kinde And his Worke well order'd is If it be not ta'ne amisse The BOOKE to PAVLES NOt S. Peter nor S. Paul Nor our Sauiour could please all Therefore let no man aliue In that vaine of pleasing striue I will gladly please each friend And the rest pray God amend S. Paules her Reply THen be gone incontinent To the Court of Parliament And in truth and reuerence Without filed Eloquence Speake the best thou canst for mee So farewell God prosper thee The Author breaking forth in ioy at this Conference saith in the behalfe of the Church and himselfe thus IF my Booke passe currant there Then be gone all griefe and feare For mine eyes shall shortly see What my soule long wisht should bee To my hearts high exaltation And the honor of our Nation That 's your speedy reparation Before S. Paules doth speake any more She approueth how shee may speake c. though but stone c. AS it is said that Ships doe fight When t is the men that in them bee So I poore Church pray speake and write When t is my Friend doth all for mee For neuer yet could wood or stone Doe any of these things alone A Posie of sundry Flowers and Herbes gathered out of the Garden of Gods Word knit vp together and set in the Frontispice of this Worke for the smell of euery good Reader as a sweet odour to the rest that followes It being full of diuine Caution and Example viz. HAGGAI 1 Chap. Ver. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. THis People say the * This is Blacke Time and a fearefull hearb If Hearb-grace or Gods mercy did not grow by it to quench his anger with mans repentant teares c. Time is not yet come that the Lords House should be builded The Branches of this Time are many viz. Then came the Word of the Lord by the Ministery of the Prophet Haggai saying Is it time for your selues O Yee to dwell in your seiled houses and this House lye waste Now thus saith the Lord of Hostes Consider your owne wayes in your hearts ye haue sowen much but ye bring in little ye eate but ye haue not enough ye drinke but ye are not filled ye cloath you but ye be not warme and he that earneth wages putteth it into a broken bagge Get you vp into the Mountaine and fetch In this branch being the middle branch doth Gods mercy appeare if man will be warned wood and build this House and I will be glorified and I will take pleasure in it saith the Lord Ezra 6. 10. That ye may haue to offer sweet Sauors to the God of Heauen and pray for the Kings life and for his Children Ye looked for much and loe it came to little and when ye brought it home I did blow vpon it And why saith the Lord of Hostes because of my house that is waste and yee runne euery man into his owne * If the Separatists and Browniti-call vermine of this time would but smell well to this Branch they might learne to loue me their mother Church much more then they doe I meane as I am an ancient house of God house Therefore vpon you the Heauen is staied from Dew and the Earth is staied from yeilding her increase And I haue called for a drought vpon the Land and vpon the Mountaines and vpon the Corne and vpon the Wine and vpon the Oyle and vpon all that the Earth bringeth forth vpon Men and vpon Cattell and vpon all the labour of the hands When Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel and Ioshuah the sonne of Iosedech the high Priest with all the remnant of the People heard the voice of the Lord their God and the words of the Prophet Haggai as the Lord their God had sent him Then the People did * This Herbe may well be called Sage or Sapience for the Feare of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdome feare before the Lord. And the Lord stirred vp the spirit of Zorobabel c. and the spirit of all the People and they came and did the worke in the house of the Lord of Hostes their God Ezra 7. 27. c. Blessed be the Lord God of our Fathers which This is Carduuâ— Benedictus or Blessed Thistle hath put such things as these into the heart of our good King to
beautifie the house of the Lord which is in Ierusalem c. 2. Chron. 24. 8. 9. 10. c. And at the Kings commandement they made a Penny Royall or the Kings Royall Penny or gift Chest and set it without at the gate of the house of the Lord and made a Proclamation through Iuda and Ierusalem c. And the Lords and all the People reioyced and This may be called Angelica when Angels are so offered brought in vntill there was sufficient c. 2. Kings 12. 9. 10. 11. 12. But Iehoiadah the high Priest tooke a Chest This is as I take it Bursa Pastoris or Shepheards purse or the Clergies Chest and bored a hole in the lid of it and set it beside the Altar on the right side as euery man cometh into the Temple of the Lord c. And when they saw there was much money in the Chest the Kings Scribe and the high priest came vp and told the money c. and gaue it sealed into the hands of them that executed the worke and such as had the ouersight of the house of the Lord. Thus they did day by day and gathered money in abundance And so the workmen wrought and the worke amended through their hands and they made the house of God as it ought to be and strengthned it So Iehoiadah Thus farre extends the pious branches of the good herbe called the Shepheards Purse waxed old and died full of dayes c. And they buried him in the City of Dauid among the Kings because he dealt well with Israel and with God and his House Here followeth Mother-Time gathered by the good King of our time and sent to the Reuerend Kingly Bishop Physitian or Father of this Mother-Church as an Herbe of most excellent vertue to cure all her diseases viz. Psalme 102. verses 13. 14. THou shalt arise and haue mercy vpon Sion for the * This sweet Mother or Mountaine Time may also be called the precious ointment vpon the head that ran downe vnto our Aarons beard yea euen to the skirts of his Clothing or yet more properly like the Dew of Hermon which by a diuine Sermon fell vpon our sacred hill of Sion Time to fauour her yea the set time is come For thy seruants take pleasure in her stones and fauour the dust thereof A Parallel of present time with time past Or of a good King liuing with a faithfull good King long since deceased IN the 18. yeare of the reigne of our good King Iames a Ouer England France and Ireland it pleased his sacred Maiestie to visit me poore Church and soone after to send the Gouernor of his City with diuers of his Nobles Reuerend Fathers and Elders to suruey my wants and to returne vnto his Highnesse all my diseases and corruptions and their causes that so he might like a most excellent b Supreame head gouernor in Church and Common-wealth within his Maiesties Dominions Physitian next vnder God take course for my cure And so in the same yere he called a Parliament intending first to purge the land and the Temple and then I hope to send his Nobles c. againe that shall neuer cease till I bee totally cured and most beautifully repayred This may then be worthily paralleld with the noble acts of that famous and faithfull King Iosiah recorded and renowned in the second Booke of the Kings the 22. Chapter and in the second Verses 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. c. Verses 8 9 10. c. Booke of Chron. the 34. Chapter For in the 18. yeare of his Reigne when hee had purged the Land and the Temple of Heresie This is heauenly Hysope and Corruption c It should seem this was at the end of a Parliament which was a heauenly conclusion of one good worke and a most sacred beginning of another Nota quaeso c. he sent Saphan the sonne of Azaliah and Maasiah the Gouernor of the City and Ioah the sonne of Ioahaz the Recorder to repaire the House of the Lord his God c. And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest they deliuered the money that was brought into the house of God which the Leuites that kept the Entries had gathered of the hands of Manasseh Ephraim and of all that yet remained in Israel and of all Iudah and Beniamin and they returned to Ierusalem and they put it in the hands of them Men did not then come like Beares to a stake to such a businesse but like poore beggers to a xijd. dole Happy was hee that could doe any thing which might dignifie and set forward the worke that had the ouersight of the house of the Lord and they gaue it to the Laborers that wrought in the house of the Lord to repaire and mend the House euen to Masons and Carpenters gaue they it to get hewed stone and timber for Couples and for Beames c. And the men did worke c. And the Ouerseers of them to courage them forward were Iahath and Obadiah Leuits of the Children of Merari and Zechariah and Meshullam of the Children of the Kohathites which all could skill of Instruments of musicke And ouer the bearers of burthens and ouer all that wrought in whatsoeuer workmanship were there Scribes Officers and Porters of the Leuites c. Thus farre the Posie of heauenly Herbs and Flowers gathered out of the Garden where millions more might haue beene culled for my purpose but I hope this is enough to him that delighteth in sweet Odours of piety and good workes And to that end I will pray as followeth This Prayer or Petition is for the King Prince c. and directed to the King of Kings O King of Kings and Lord Omnipotent Direct protect King Iames in Parliament Make all those wholesome Lawes he treats vpon T' approue him still a second Salomon A blessed Peacemaker Churches Amender And in Great Britaine long true Faiths Defender That euery Pen may write a sacred Story Of all his Noble Acts done to thy Glory And Sinne corrupt and base may out of hand Be purged quite and cleane out of the Land His Sonne likewise thy Sonne O God so guide him That all good hopes and haps may still betide him And as he is a Prince of prudent carriage So blesse him Lord in Single life and Marriage Make him thy Iem of Iems thy Pearle of Pearles Next to his Maiesty our Princely Charles Thy conqu'ring Champion when he goes to Warres As he is Conqu'rer at the Tilting-barres And thy strong Sampson valiant in the Field That he may fight and kill and ne're be kild Blesse also all his noble Lords and Peeres His Bishops Burgesses and Knights of Shires And giue them Ioy Prosperity and Health That doe their best for Church and Common-Wealth O let not any man be so vnholy From henceforth for to beg a * I meane such as are helpfull to one Subiect and hurtfull to all
the rest Monopoly For well I wote Much-ill proceeds thereby It wrongs the STATE and sokes the Subiects drie Hardens mens hearts all good b I doubt it hath a little choked mens good deuotions towards me designes doth choke And such as pinch doth to reuenge prouoke A thing inhumane that one Christian Brother Or fellow Subiect should deuoure another And for my Soueraignes loue to me last Lent Vpon a Holy day diuinely spent Loue him good Lord and let him plainely see It 's much the more for his great loue to mee That so his Highnesse may without Omission Most royally proceed in the Commission By Him appointed for my Restauration Vpon my humble Plaint and Supplication For neuer came more honor to a King Then my repayre will to his Highnesse bring Nor can a worke be of more note or name To raise Him and His seed Immortall Fame O let them be as Heauens bright shining starres That are my Friends his true * I haue 70. Commissioners and 40. almost are of the Parliament I hope one good Phinees among them will stand vp in my cause Commissioners And such as seeke to frustrate his Decree Darius a Ezra 6. 11. 12. c. Sentence light on them for me Or turne their hearts that they may rightly know I am thy House so builded long agoe With State with Honor and Endowments plenty Though Woluish times and Men haue made it scanty For buriall of the dead for pious vses And not for b Gods House was wont to be had in reuerence but I and my Courts are made a place of Sir-reuerence and as base as any Laystall c. Prophanation and abuses That so men may haue better conscience To vse me like Gods house with Reuerence And let those base prophane and idle Rout That daily passe with burthens in and out Those that c Such as I here meane loue neither Mother Churches nor reuerend Fathers They make a faire tall shew of Faith but as Maypoles they grow slenderer and slenderer till they come to bee Weather-Cockes and then their Faith turnes with euery winde and so be like the Tree that was hewen downe and cast into the fire hauing neither Roor Rinde Sap Bough Branch Leafe Blossome or Fruit of good Workes c. deride me with their scoffes and Songs That wish my downefall with their spitefull tongues Those hollow vpright Maypoles that doe hate To see their Mother Church be fortunate Those that haue suckt my Brests till all is drye And yet are backward me to dignifie All that pollute my sacred Courts and Walles Know there 's a scourge for them whense're it fals O whip them soundly that abuse thy Temple That others may be warn'd by their Example Heare me thy Sion from thy Sanctuary Helpe me O God make haste and doe not tary Sic Opto sic Oro. This is another Prayer or Petition for the King Prince c. and directed to the Prince of Princes O Christ the Sonne of God Alpha and Omega Ruler of heauen and earth Orderer of all things Light of lights Very God of very God Sauiour of the world Preserue the King and Prince I was cured of the Kings Euill by his gracious comming and I hope if he come once more I shall be cured of the Wolfe and Dropsie and preserued from feare of the falling Sicknesse Restore my Fame Iustifie my Friends Nullifie my Foes Cure all my euils and infirmities Endow me with plenty Prosper great Britaine Send peace to all Christendome And the God of peace c. make you perfect in all good workes c. So be it Amen This is a Petition to the Kings Maiestie onely I hope to see the 26. day of March to be celebrated as a holy day for euer at my Crosse for a Thanksgiuing to the Lord that he stirred vp the heart of my good King to visit me to take course for my good and then will there be 3. holy daies of great solemnity togither viz. March 24 Coronation day 25. Anunciation day 26. Visitation of St. Paules I Humbly beseech Whereas vpon the 26. day of March last past being then Mid-Lent Sunday it pleased your Maiesty after the royall solemnity held vpon your Coronation day and the Anunciation of our blessed Lady c. to visit me with your Sacred presence in an honorable Assembly and to declare your Kingly loue towards my Retriumphant estate by your own gracious speeches and by the diuine Oratory of my Reuerend Diocesan at that instant and soone after by a most Noble Commission c. For the which all people my good Friends that haue heard thereof doe heartily honour and applaud your Highnesse as a second Salomon That likewise it may please your Maiesty now in this holy time of Lent or some other time in the Interim of this high and most Honorable Court of Parliament at this present holden to renew If a competent summe were in cash and Scaffolds setting vp and a Register appointed for a record of mens Beneuolences as in Sr. Thomas Bodleis Library I should not feare the wanr of money during my Reparation or euer after your pious fauour towards mee by gaining some little beneuolence to set on the worke as a free Offering or gift and for redresse of my intolerable wrongs by some penall Lawes and seuere punishment of the offenders And I shall continue my praiers for your sacred Maiestie your Princely Posterity your long peaceable and prosperous Reigne and for that Noble Reuerend and Worthy Assembly by the helpe of my Well-willers to the worlds end And this poore man who hath beene my voluntary seruant these 8. yeares by Bookes Petitions and other deuises euen to his owne dilapidations will according to his bounden duty approue himselfe your Maiesties loyall Subiect and my faithfull Proficient during life c. St. Paules her Conceipt after this Petition OF many Molehils Mountaines may be made By many Springs great Riuers we doe see By many hands a Burthen's light t is said That for some few too waighty seemes to bee So many hands might make quicke worke of mee Though hard it seeme at first most Royall King Yet once begunne t' will proue an easie thing And rather benefit then losse For so shall many worke and pay their debts And what rich Subiects giues poore Subiects gets No Money goes out of Thy Land thereby Or from the Chamber or Thy Treasury But all to offer freely at a Chest One little free Beneuolence to begin will be more prosperous then 1000. forced Collections or Taxations What gifts they please as at a Mariage Feast So Mites to Millions at the last may rise And I be made a Princely Edifice Here followeth a Petition written in my name and presented to the King two dayes before his Maiestie came to visit me viz on Friday the 24. of March 1619. But the Master of Requests then attending tooke it away from his Highnesse before he
which I gaue to his Maiestie on the Christmas day next after his Highnesse Returne from Scotland THe a This day we were saued from eternall death fiue and twentieth of December And the b This day from a sudden fearefull and a most inhumane death fift day of Nouember Let vs thankefully remember And with ioy for euer sing Praises to our heauenly King and be doing some good thing Glory be to God on High For our Christs Natiuitie Nothing can be more remarkeable then Pauls Repaire in thankfull memory of our wonderfull deliuery from the Gunpowder Treason And our great Deliuery God preserue your Maiestie Peace be still within Thy wals Plenty to all needy Soules Now good King remember Paules Here my Candle was cleane burnt out and this last Caroll was the last thing I presented to his Maiestie vntill two dayes before His comming to visit you which was the Petition before recited In this Interim I grew much dismayed for that I saw little hope of your helpe many rubs I rannne through many scoffes and scornes I did vndergoe forsaken by my Butterflie Friends laught and derided at by your Enemies Let them that scoffe at this beware of Suretiship pursued after by Wolues of Wood-street and the Foxes of the Poultrey sometimes strongly Incountred and sometimes at the point of Death and Despaire In stead of seruing my Prince which I humbly desired though but as a doore-keeper in you I was prest for the seruice of King Lud where all the comfort I had was that I could see you salute you and condole with your miseries my poore cloathes and ragges I could not compare to any thing better then to your West End and my seruice to nothing lesse then bondage So I was troubled in my sleepes and dreamed I heard fearefull voices sounding in and about you which were as follow viz. The first voice me thought was in the Chappell which now is beautified and repaired by Mr. Raphe Chamberlein and made a place of * It lay before like a Swinestie with dust rubbish and soote and the windowes as if Hags and Hobgoblins had torne them morning Sacrifice to the Lord. Where a gastly Ghost start vp out of an old Tombe or Graue and said thus HAd I and my Forefathers thus neglected To see Gods houses mended and erected Or for to giue of rich Endowments plenty That none which did his seruice might goe empty Qu. Where had his Word beene taught to me expresse An. In vncouth places Caues and Wildernesse O then repaire what to your hands we builded Lest all your workes proue painted shewes ore gilded Then another Ghost appeared neare that which is commonly called Duke Humphries Tombe and made a voice like the voice of Pitty viz. VVHen Winter with his blasts flouds frosts and snow Hath made all things looke old and dead to see In comes the Spring so once a yeare you know All Caedars shrubs and plants renued be O thanklesse man is God thus good to thee Why dost thou then neglect his good example In many Springs not to renew his Temple Another starts vp vnder the Arches of the Consistory where the Lawyers get Fees and sayes thus in answere of Pitty THe Causes why This was Truth I le soone discry For when men striue themselues to magnifie To flaunt in worldly pompe and rich aray They doe forget Gods house to dignifie That 's left to runne to ruine and decay Alas alas alas and welladay The time hath beene when such a famous Church Could not for want of Friends bin left i' th lurch Then spake Zeale out of the two Towers at the West End viz. Lollords Tower and the Tower where yeur treasure Ardent Zeale two voices was kept in a hole of your wall viz. Voice 1 TO see a strange out-landish Fowle A quaint Baboon an Ape an Owle A dancing Beare a Gyants bone A foolish Ingin moue alone A Morris-dance a Puppit play Mad Tom to sing a Roundelay A Woman dancing on a Rope Bull-baiting also at the Hope A Rimers Iests a Iuglers cheats A Tumbler shewing cunning feats Or Players acting on the Stage There goes the bounty of our Age But vnto any pious motion There 's little coine and lesse deuotion Voice 2 FOr euery fashion base and vaine For purchasing or greedy gaine For * Let Mr. Criticke thinke I reach no higher then the Vulgar Vp-start in these two lines or the Prodigall spend-thrift I censure not the Pleasures and pastimes of the truely Noble and of all others that exercise any laudable sports for Recreation of wit and agility of body Dicing Drinking foolish sporting Hunting Wenching Coaching Courting There is enough in euery Function But to this Church is small Compunction This voice being ended I awaked and in an Impatient manner made this mine owne voice as followeth viz. IF it be so farewell Britania For I will goe vnto Virginia To see what Saluages will doe When Christians are so hard to wooe Take heed all Writers in this kind For Church Complaints are wasted wind So going to the Treasurer for Virginia with Resolution to depart the Land with speed hee being not then at leisure appointed me to come Vpon a Saturday in Lent the Wednesday following and at my returne from Aldersgate to your presence againe there came newes by a sweet Westerne gale of winde that his Maiestie would certainly come to visit you on Mid-Lent Sunday in great solemnity At which most ioyfull Tidings I forgot Virginia againe and attended with hope of some happie succcesse to my hearty desires towards your Reparation which I thanke the Lord was performed to the full of my expectation for that time DOMINE SALVVM FAC REGEM IACOBVM Thus for your good I 'ue written to the full Weari'd my Muse and made my spirits dull Spent time and Coyne good God what shall I more Onely a good Successe I doe implore S. Pa. Be of good cheere and let God worke his will Speake to the King for he is Gracious still If so thou canst not either speed or thriue Let me alone and doe no further striue Thy Charges hath beene great I must confesse Thy paines likewise I doe accept no lesse Therefore when any good to me doth fall Be sure my Loue shall proue Reciprocall And at the last when Death shall strike thee dead Within my Wombe thou shalt be buried Where for thy kindnesse vnto me expressed Thou shalt remaine till Christ say Come ye Blessed So to conclude and make our Friends to laugh I le tell thee what shall be thy Epitaph viz. VNder this Stone my HARRY lies interred Neuer till now by Friends or Fates preferred For though by Death his Bodie 's here in Dust By Christ his Soule 's prefer'd among the Iust He for my Good did labour late and early His Christi'n Name you know his Sirname's FARLEY Fa. I humbly thanke your Greatnesse and doe pray You may proue happy till the latter Day Expect each * Or the 26. of March Mid-Lent Sunday while I liue Something for you I le to my Soueragine giue Veritate Reuerentia Yea because of the house of the Lord our God I will seeke to do Thee good Ps 122. 9. Blessed may that Preacher bee That will pray and speake for mee A POSTSCRIPT To the Courteous and Charitable Reader ACcept my meaning Worthy Friend Although my wit be weake And from the Crittickes me defend If any ' gainst me speake A Scholler I confesse I'm none By Reading or by Art But truly I loue euery one That is so with my heart When I the fayre Parnassus Mount To climbe was almost able I fell too short of my accompt And went but to Dunce-table So like a Dunce I 'ue writ this Booke With griefe I it reueale Where 's naught As touching Art or Scholership praise-worthy if you looke But onely my true Zeale In which I vow to all good men My loue to Paules is such That if I had an Angels pen I 'de write tenne times as much Or if of other Angels I Had as some haue great store Shee should not neede to begge or cry To King or People more But of those Angels last my Purse Is too too thinne and bare And euery day growes worse and worse As Paules her selfe doth fare Therefore in me what here is scant Of Money Art or Wit Doe thou supply vnto our Want So God blesse thee and it Thy faithfull and thankfull Friend H. F. FINIS