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A13503
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[Taylors goose] [describing the wilde goose]
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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1621
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STC 23799; ESTC S1018
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To the most mighty 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 sky-scaling mountaine of Mulletto Illustrious Pheander victorious and valarous 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 foure-fold commander of the Inchanted Islands by nomination by Banner by warlike atchieuements by natiuity by descent and processe matchlesse and vnparelleld Sir Thomas Parsons Knight of the Sunne great cousin Vermin to the seldome seene Queene of Fayries and hopefull heire apparant to her inuisible Kingdome VNmatchable Cheualiere I am bolde to commit a poore Goose to your impregnable protection and patronage I know there will be as much to doe in the keeping of her and with as much danger as was the conquest of the Golden Fleece the Apples of the Hesperides or the sauing of Andromeda by Perseus but that your valiant atchieuements are knowne and approued I would neuer haue put my Goose to your inuincible Guard the enemies that will assault you or attempt to take her from you are many whom in duteous courtesie I will describe vnto you First the Powlters will assaile you with a terrible battry of rotten Eg-shot to surrender the innocent Goose that they may murder embowell pull plucke and prostitute her to the sale of who giues most Secondly the Vpholsters will come vpon you with a fresh Alarum for her feathers to stuffe the empty paunches of their Bolsters Pillowes and hungry Bed-tikes Thirdly the Crokes in squadrons arm'd with Dripping-pannes and Spits in stead of Speares before they will loose their Fees and the luking of their fingers to boote will fight hotly for the Goose till all smoke againe Fourthly the Apothecaries rather then they will want the sweetnesse of the pinguidity or fecundious fat of the Gooses auxungia vulgarly called greace they will so pelt you with pills in stead of pellets that they will make all stinke againe Fiftly the Kitchin-mayde will throw scalding water at you but shee will haue one of her wings to sweepe downe Cobwebs and dispossesse Spiders of the habitations they haue built out of their owne bowels Sixtly the Fletchers and Archers sweare they will pinke your skinne sull of Ilot-holes but they will haue her pynions to make them flye swifter dead then the Goose could liuing Seauenthly the Poets for her Quils will call another penny-lesse threed-bare Parliament and ordaine Satiricall Statutes and Tragicall Acts against you and with their scattered imaginations they will scale the skyes as high as sullen Saturnes Altitude and rake into the lowest profundity of Barrathrum forraging through the earth ayre and seas but they will stigmatize cauterize Epigramatize and Annagramatize you till you make a surrender Eightly the Lawyers will firke and firret you tossing you betwixt hard fortune and ill lucke that you will be almost mad or be in great danger to haue very little wit left Ninthly the Scriueners publike Notaries or notorious Publicans will not onely ioyne with the Lawyers and the Poets against you but they will neuer procure you any money when you neede without excessiue brokage great eredit or good security Tenthly Shop-keepers if you hold the Gooses Quils from them haue sworne that they will euer keepe you cut of their bookes And lastly Schoole-boyes will throw whole voleyes of stones at you where euer they see you if you alow them not Pennes though it be but to scrible or make Iewes letters Thus hauing laide open to your Herculean view the labours and dangers that you are like to suffer in protecting the Goose Now I thinke it fit vnder correction to closevp my Dedication with some dutifull counsell that though your enemies are mighty and many and that they doe preuaile against you and with their multitude take from you both the flesh and feathers of the Goose which indeede belongs not to you nor doe I dedicate them to you yet here is your true honour and that which makes all men admire you that her better part her genious her intellectuall vnderstanding her capacity and reuerend grauity her wisedome and her very spirit neither man deuill or Dragon is able to bereaue you of as long as you haue a sword to defend it I haue dedicated a Booke of a Begger at this time to Archy but most noble Sir onely to you my Goose so leauing you Not doubting of your acceptance and protection I wish you such encrease of honor as is suteable to your Heroick endeuours and vnimitable wisedome He that truly neither wonders or admires at your worthinesse Iohn Taylor TAYLORS GOOSE VVHen restlesse Phoebus seem'd himselfe to rest His flaming Carre descending to the West And Hesperus obscur'd her twinkling light Then in a sable mantle Madame Night Tooke of the world the sole cōmand keepe Charming the eyes of Mortalls sound a sleepe She sent dull Morpheus forth and Somnus both The Leaden Potentates of Sleepe and Sloth Who vnto euery one good Rest imparts Saue Louers guilty mindes and carefull harts The stealing howers creep'd on with sleeping pace When masqued Midnight shew'd her Ebon face When Hagges and Furies Witches Fairies Elues Ghosts Sprites and Goblins doe disport themselues When fond imaginarie dreames doe raigne In formeleste formes in mans molested braine On such a time I sleeping in my bed An vnaccustom'd dreame came in my head Me thought as neere vnto a Riuers side Within a pleasant Groue I did abide That all the feathered birds that swims or flies Or liues betwixt the breeding earth and skies One at the least of euery seuerall sort Did for their recreation there resort There was such strange variety of notes Such warbling and such whistling from their throates The Base the Tenour Trebble and the Meane All acting various Actions in one Sceane The sober Goose not thinking ought amisse Amongst the rest did harshly keake and hisse At which the Peacocke and the pyde-coate Iay Said take the foolish gaggling Goose away The Goose though angry with a modest looke Seem'd as she gently this affront would brooke When all the Fowles in generall out did breake Commanding her she should not dare to speake Away the melancholly Goose return'd And in a banke of Reede she sate and mourn'd Complaining 'gainst the hatefull multitude And iustly taxing with Ingratitude The Race of all mortality and then Is none quoth she suruiuing amongst men That will my true worth search and vnderstand And in my quarrell take a Pen in hand And in a stately high Heroick stile My Predecessours noble Acts compile From age to age descending vnto me That my succeeding Issue all may see The admirable deedes that I haue done And runne