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A13415	All the vvorkes of Iohn Taylor the water-poet Beeing sixty and three in number. Collected into one volume by the author: vvith sundry new additions corrected, reuised, and newly imprinted, 1630.; Works	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.; Cockson, Thomas, engraver.	1630 (1630)	STC 23725; ESTC S117734	859,976	638

meanes he saues his Mine which otherwise would be destroyed with the Sea besides he doth make euery weeke ninety or a hundred Tunnes of salt which doth serue most part of Scotland some he sends into England and very much into Germany all which shewes the painfull industry with Gods blessings to such worthy endeauours I must with many thankes remember his courtesie to me and lastly how he sent his man to guide mee tenne miles on the way to Sterling where by the way I saw the outside of a saire and stately house called Allaway belonging to the Earle of Marr which by reason that his Honor was not there I past by and went to Sterling where I was entertained and lodged at one Master Iohn Archibalds where all my want was that I wanted roome to containe halfe the good cheere that I might haue had there hee had me into the Castle which in few words I doe compare to Windsor for situation much more then Windsor in strength and somewhat lesse in greatnesse yet I dare affirme that his Maiesty hath not such another hall to any house that he hath neither in England or Scotland except Westminster Hall which is now no dwelling Hall for a Prince being long since metamorphosed into a house for the Law and the profits This goodly Hall was built by King Iames the fourth that marryed King Henry the eights sister and after was slaine at Flodden field but it surpasses all the Halls for dwelling houses that euer I saw for length breadth height and strength of building the Castle is built vpon a rocke very lofty and much beyond Edenborough Castle in state and magnificence and not much inferiour to it in strength the roomes of it are lofty with carued workes on the seelings the doores of each roome being so high that a man may ride vpright on horsebacke into any chamber or lodging There is also a goodly faire Chappell with Cellers Stables and all other necessary Offices all very stately befitting the Maiesty of a King From Sterling I rode to Saint Iohnston a fine Towne it is but it is much decayed by reason of the want of his Maiesties yeerely comming to lodge there There I lodged one night at an Inne the goodman of the house his name being Petricke Pettcarne where my entertainement was with good cheere good lodging all too good to a bad weary guest Mine Host told me that the Earle of Marr and Sir William Murray of Abercarny were gone to the great hunting to the Brca of Marr but if I made haste I might perhaps finde them at a Towne called Breekin or Breechin two and thirty miles from Saint Iohn stone whereupon I tooke a guide to Breekin the next day but before I came my Lord was gone from thence foure dayes Then I tooke another guide which brought me such strange wayes ouer mountaines and rockes that I thinke my horse neuer went the like and I am sure I neuer saw any wayes the might fellow them I did go through a Countrey called Glaneske where passing by the side of a hill so steepe as the ridge of a house where the way was rocky and not aboue a yard broad in some places so fearefull and horrid it was to looke down into the bottome for if either horse or man had slipt he had fallen without recouery a good mile downe-right but I thanke God at night I came to ● lodging in the Lard of Eggels Land where I lay at an Irish house the folkes not being able to speake scarce any English but I sup'd and went to bed where I had not laine long but I was enforced to rise I was so stung with Irish Musketaes a creature that hath sixe leg and liues like a monster altogether vpon man flesh they doe inhabite and breed most in fl●●tish houses and this house was none of the cleanest the beast is much like a louse in England both in shape and nature in a word they were to me the A. and the Z. the Prologue and the Epilogue the first and the last that had in all my trauels from Endenborough and had not this High-land Irish house helped ●● at a pinch I should haue sworne that all Sealand had not beene so kind as to haue bestowed a Louse vpon me but with a shift that I had I shifted off my Canibals and was neuer m●● troubled with them The next day I trauelled ouer an exceeding high mountaine called mount Skeene where I found the valley very warme before I went to it but when I came to the top of it my te●● beganne to dance in my head with cold like Virginals iacks and withall a most familiar mist embraced me round that I could not see thrice my length any way withall it yeeldest so friendly a deaw that it did moysten thorow all my clothes Where the old Proueri●● of a Scottish Miste was verified in wetting me to the skinne Vp and downe I thinke this hi●● is sixe miles the way so vneuen stony and full of bogges quagmires and long heath that a dogge with three legs will out-runnes horse with foure for doe what we could wee were foure houres before we could passe it Thus with extreme trauell ascending and descending mounting and alighting I came at night to the place where I would be in the ●●ea of Ma● which is a large County all composed of such mountaines that Shooters ●hill Gads hill Highgate hill Hampsted hill ●Birdlip hill or Maluernes hills are but Mole-hills in comparison or like a Liuer or a Gi●●●●●ard vnder a Capons wing in respect of the altitude of their tops or perpendicularitie of their bottomes There I saw Mount Benawne with a furrd'd mist vpon his snowie head in stead of a nightcap for you must vnderstand that the oldest man aliue neuer saw but the snow was on the top of diuers of those hills both in Summer as well as in Winter There did I finde the truely Noble and Right Honourable Lords Iohn Erskin Earle of Marr Iames Stuarl Earle of Murray George Gordon Earle of Engye sonne and heire to the Mar●uesse of Huntley Iames Erskin Earle of Bughan and Iohn Lord Erskin sonne and here to the Earle of Marr and their Countesses with my much honoured and my best assured and approued friend Sir William Murray Knight of Abercarny and hundred of others Knights Esquires and their followers all and euery man in generall in one habit as if 〈…〉 had beene there and made Lawes of Equality For once in the yeere which is the whole moneth of August and sometimes part of September many of the Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdome for their pleasure doe come into these high-land Countries to hunt where they doe conforme themselues to the habite of the High-land-men who for the most part speake nothing but Irish and in former time were those people which were called the Red-shankes Their habite is shooes with but one sole apiece stockings which they call short hose made of

yeres Maior 1330. Sir Iohn Pultney Draper 2. yeeres Maior 1332. Iohn Preston Draper Maior 1333. Sir Iohn Pultney Draper Maior 1336. Sir Iohn Pultney the tourth time Lord Maior he built a Chappell in Pauls where hee lyes buried he also built Saint Laurence Pultney Church and the Church of little Alhalowes and the Church called the Fryers in Couentrie hee gaue to the poore of Saint Giles in the Fields to the poore Prisoners in the Fleet and Newgate ten shillings to each yearely for euer besides many other deeds of Charity which he did Many of these men did good and charitable deeds but they did them secretly in their liues time Anno 1363. Stephen Candish Draper Maior 1367. Iames Andrew Draper Maior 1381. Ioh. Northampt. Draper 2. yeres Maior 1391. Iohn Hinde Draper Maior Anno 1402. Iohn Walcot Draper Maior 1404 Iohn Hinde the second time Maior he newly built the Church of Saint Swithin neere London stone 1413. Sir William Cromer Draper Maior 1415. Sir Nicholas Wotton Draper Maior 1423. William Cromer Draper Maior 1427. Iohn Gedney Draper Maior 1430. Nicholas Wotton Draper Maior 1433. Ihon Brockle Draper Maior 1441. Robert Clopton Draper Maior 1445. Sir Simon Eyre Draper Maior he built Lraden Hall for a Garnetie for the Citie and gaue fiue thousand markes to charitable vses 1447. Sir Iohn Gedney Draper Maior 1453. Sir Iohn Norman Draper Maior 1458. Sir Thomas Scot Draper Maior 1462. Sir Thomas cooke Draper Maior 1464. Sir Ralph Ioslin Draper Maior 1474. Sir Robert Drope Draper Maior hee lyeth buried in Saint Michaels Church in Cornehill London he gaue towards poore Maids marriages of that Parish twenty pound and to the poore of that Ward ten pound and three hundred shirts and smockes and hundred gownes of Broadcloth 1476. Sir Ralph Ioslin Draper the 2. time Maior 1479. Sir Bartholomew Iames Draper Maior 1481. Sir William Harriet Draper Maior 1484. Sir William Stocker Draper Maior 1489. Sir William White Draper Maior 1503. Sir William Capell Draper Maior 1507. Laurence Aylmer Draper Maior 1509. Sir William Capell the 2. time Maior 1511. Sir Roger Achley Draper Maior 1514. Sir George Monox Draper Maior hee repaired the ruinated Church at Walthamstow in Essex and erected a Free-schoole there and thirteene Almes-houses for aged people also hee built a long Timber Cawsway ouer the Marshes from Walthamstow to Locke-bridge 1512. Sir Iohn Bruges Draper Maior 1521. Sir Iohn Milbourne Draper Maior hee built fourteene Alines houses for fourteen aged poore people neere the Lord Lumleyes house in the crossed or crouched Friers allowing to each two shillings foure pence monthly for euer 1524. Sir William Bailie Draper Maior 1528. Sir Iohn Rudston Draper Maior 1533. Sir Christopher Askew Draper Maior he payed largely to the building of eight Almes houses in Beechlane London for eight poore widowes of his Company 1540. Sir William Roch Draper Maior 1560. Sir VVilliam Chester Draper Maior 1565. Sir Richard Champion Draper Maior a good Benefactor to the poore of Saint Dunstans in the East and to the poore in Saint Edmunds in Lumbard street hee gaue fiftie foure shillings yearely in bread for euer besides other guists 1578. Sir Richard Pipe Draper Maior 1580. Sir Iohn Branch Draper Maior 1584. Sir Thomas Pullison Draper Maior 1588. Sir Martin Calthrop Draper Maior 1614. Sir Thomas Hayes Draper Maior 1615. Sir Iohn Iolls Draper Maior 1621. Sir Edward Barkeham Draper Maior 1623. Martin Lumley Draper Maior These good deeds following were done by others of the said company who were not Lord Maiors IOhn Holmes Draper gaue his house to the poore in Saint Sepulchers Parish for euer the yeerely rent of it being thirty two pound Iohn Russell Draper gaue eighty pound to Schooler and to other pious vses Iohn Quarles Draper gaue sixe pound a yeare for euer to be giuen to the poore in bread William Dummer Draper gaue to the poore thirteene pound eighteene shillings foure pence yeerely for euer Owen Clun Draper gaue to the poore fiue and twentie pound yeerely for euer William Parker Draper towards the maintenance of Preachers at Saint Antlins sixe pounds yeerely for euer Iohn Skeet Draper gaue to the Hospitals at London three hundred pound and to foure poore Schollers at Oxford fiae pound a peece and the like to foure poore Schollers at Cambridge Henry Butler Draper gaue to Saint Thomas Hospitall ten pound to Christ-Church Saint Bartholomewes and Bridewell fiue pounds to each Peter Hall Draper gaue to Christs Hospitall ten pound to Saint Bartholomewes and Saint Thomas Hospitall three pound to each Thomas Church Draper gaue to Christs Hospitall and to Bridewell to each ten pound and to the Hospitals of Saint Thomas and Saint Bartholomew to either fiue pound Humphrey Fox Draper gaue to Christs Church Hospitall fiftie pound Edmund Hill Draper gaue to the poore of Saint Andrew Vnder shaft fiftie two pound Anno 1609. William Guilborne Draper gaue foure markes the yeare for euer to the poore of Saint Katherine Christ Church neere Aldegate and twenty pound he gaue to build a Gallerie in the same Church Iohn Quarles Draper gaue to the poore in Saint Peters in the poore in Brecstreet ward fiftie pound to bee bestowed yearely in bread for euer Sir Richard Goddard Draper and Alderman gaue to the Hospitall of Bridewell two hundred pound Master Benedict Barnham Draper gaue for the reliefe of the poore Prisoners in the seuerall prisons in London fiftie pound Sir Iames Deane Draper and Alderman gaue to the seuerall Hospitals in London a hundred and thirtie pound and to sundry prison 70.1 Lady Bainham sometimes an A dermans wife of the Drapers Company gaue to the poore of the said Company ten pound yearely for euer Lancelot Thompson Draper gaue to the parish of Saint Peters in Cornehill twenty pound for fiue Sermons and a hundred pounds to the poore of the Drapers Companie and fiue pound yeerely to hee bestowed by them in fire and bread on the poore of that Parish Richard shore Draper gaue fifteene pound to build a Church porch at Saint Mildreds in the Poultry Iohn Calthrop Draper built the bricke Wall betwixt the Hospitals of Christ Church and S. Bartholomew Iohn Chertsey Draper gaue to the Hospitals 20.1 and to other charitable vses a 100 pound Master Henry Woolaston Draper gaue to Saint Thomas Hospitall fortie pound with other charitable beneuolences These memorable and pious workes with many more then my weake capacitie can collect or reckon haue beene done by the Drapers or Clothsellers which doth approue the sheepe to be a thriuing happy and a most profitable beast Now to speake somewhat of the Right Worshipfull Company of Clothworkers Anno Domini 1559. Sir William Hewet Clothworker Lord Maior 1574. Sir Iames Hawes Clothworker L. Maior 1583. Sir Edward Osborne Clothworker L. M. 1594. Sir Iohn Spencer Clothworker L. Maior 1596. Sir Thomas Skinner Clothworker Lord Maior gaue to the Hospitals in London and the Suburbs 120. l. 1599. Sir Nicholas Mosley Clothworker L.M. 1606.

should beheaded be The Earle of Flanders Philip did ordaine Their losse of life and goods that swore in vaine Saint Lewis the King of France enacted there That for the first time any one did sweare Into imprisonment one month was cast And stand within the Pillory at last But if the second time againe they swore One with an iron hot their tongues did bore And who the third time in that fault did slip Were likewise boared through the vnder-lip For the fourth time most gricuous paines belongs He caus'd to be cut off their lips and tongues Henry the fift of England that good King His Court to such conformity did bring That euery Duke should forty shillings pay For euery Oath he swore without delay Each Baron twenty Knights or Squires offence Paid tenne and euery Yeoman twenty pence The Boyes and Pages all were whipt most fine That durst abuse the Maiestie diuine Thus Pagan Princes with sharp lawes withstood Profaning of their Gods of stone or wood And Christian Kings and Rulers formerly Haue most seuerely punisht blasphemy And shall a Heathen or an Infidell That knowes no ioyes of Heauen or paines of Hell More reuerence to his deuillish Idols show Then we doe to the true God whom we know If we remembred well but what we were And what we are we would not dare to sweare Poore trunks of earth fill'd with vncertaine breath By nature heires to euerlasting death Most miserable wretches most ingrate 'Gainst God that did elect vs and create Redeem'd conseru'd preseru'd and sanctifi'd And giues vs hope we shall be glorifi'd H' hath giuen vs being life sense reason wit Wealth and all things his Prouidence thinkes fit And for requitall we quite voyde of grace Curse sweare and doe blaspheme him to his face Oh the supernall patience of our God That beares with Man a sin polluted clod When halfe such treasons 'gainst an earthly King Would many a Traytor to confusion bring Suppose a man should take a Whelp and breed him And stroke him make much of him feed him How will that curre loue him beyond all other Neuer forsaking him to serue another But if he should most disobediently Into his Masters face or throat to fly Sure euery man that liues vpon the ground Would say a hanging's sit for such a hound And worser then so many dogges are they That 'gainst their God with oathes do barke bray And if repentance doe not mercy win They 'll hang in Hell like Hell-hounds for that sin Of all black crimes from Belzebubs damn'd treasure This swearing sin no profit yeelds or pleasure Nor gaines the swearer here but earths vexation With change of his saluation for damnation It is a sinne that yeelds vs no excuse For what excuse can be for Gods abuse And though our other faults by death doe end Yet Blasphemy doth after death extend For to the damn'd in Hell this curse is giuen They for their paines blaspheme the God of Heauen Examples on the earth haue many beene As late in sundry places haue beene seene At Mantua two braue Russians in their games Swore and blasphem'd our blessed Sauiours name Where Gods iust iudgement full of feare dread Caus'd both their eyes to drop from out their head In Rome a childe but fiue yeeres old that swore Was snatcht vp by the Deuill and seene no more And at Ragouse a Mariner did sweare As if he would Gods name in sunder teare When falling ouer-boord was drown'd and tost And nothing but his tongue was onely lost Remember this you sinfull sonnes of men Thinke how that Christ redeem'd you from Hells den His mercy he hath giu'n in magnitude Requite him not with vile ingratitude He made the Eares and Eye and heares and sees The swearers execrable oathes and lyes The Godhead of the Father they contemne Against the Sonnes Redemption they blaspheme The Holy Spirit grieuously they grieue And headlong into Hell themselues they driue It is in vaine for mortall men to thinke Gods Iustice is asleepe although it winke Or that his arme is shortned in these times That he cannot reach home to punish crimes Oh thinke not so 't is but the Deuils illusion To draw vs desperately to our confusion Some say that 't is their anger makes them sweare And oathes are out before they are aware But being crost with losses and perplex'd They thinke no harme but sweare as being vex'd And some there are that sweare for complement Make oathes their grace and speeches ornament Their sweete Rhetoricall fine eloquence Their reputations onely excellence Their valour whom the Deuill doth inflame T' abuse their Makers and Redeemers Name Thinke but on this you that doe God forget Your poore excuses cannot pay this debt Remember that our sinfull soules did cost A price too great to be by swearing lost And blessed was our last good Parliament Who made an Act for swearers punishment And blest shall be each Magistrates good name That carefully doe execute the same Those that are zealous for Gods glory here No doubt in Heauen shall haue true glory there Which that we may haue humbly I implore Of Him that rules and raignes for euermore Th' Eternall Lord of Lords and King of Kings Before whose Throne blest Saints and Angels sings All power praise glory Maiesty thankesgiuing Ascribed be to him that 's euer liuing FINIS TO THE TRVELY GENEROVS AND NOBLE KNIGHT SIR IOHN MILLISSENT SERIEANT PORTER TO the Kings most Excellent Maiestie RIght worthy Knight when first this Booke I writ To You I boldely Dedicated it And hauing now enlarg'd both Prose and Rime To you I offer it the second time To whom should I these sorrowes recommend But vnto You the Cities Noble Friend I know you are much grieued with their Griefe And would aduenture Life for their reliefe To You therefore these Lines I Dedicate Wherein their Sorrowes partly I relate I humbly craue acceptance at your hand And rest Your Seruant euer at command IOHN TAYLOR TO THE PRINTER MY Conceit is that these are very lamentable Verses and will grieue many the reading they so expresse Death to Life and make mortalitie immortall I wish that as many as can make vse of such Lines had Copies the rest may want them Here and there a Verse may occasion a Teare then the Authour is a true VVater-Poet indeed but else-where there wants not a hand-kercheffe to dry that Teare So is the whole worke a * A Sweete-bitter or Bitter-sweet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and deserues an Approbation at least from IOHN TAYLOR of Oriell Colledge in Oxford THE PRAEFACE IN this lamentable time of generall Calamity our hainous sinnes prouoking Gods iust Indignation this heauy visitation and mortality I being attendant vpon the Queenes Maiestie at Hampton Court and from thence within two miles of Oxford with her Barge with much griefe remorse did see and heare miserable and cold entertainement of many Londoners which for their preseruation fled and

that our Land-lord did that shift preuent Who came in pudding time and tooke his Rent And as the Sunne was from the Ocean peeping We lanch'd to Sea againe and left house-keeping When presently we saw the drisling skies ' Can powt and lowre and Winds and Seas ' ganrise Who each on other plaid their parts so wilde As if they meant not to be reconcilde The whilst we leape vpon those liquid hills Where Porposes did shew their sins and Gills Whilst we like various Fortunes Tennis ball At euery stroake were in the Hazzard all And thus by Rye and * I walk'd to Winchel●ey where I thanke my Cousin M r. C●●● the Maior there hee ●●●●●● kindely welco●●● Winchelsey we past By Fairlegh and those Rockie cliffs at last Some two miles short of Hastings we percein'd The Lee shore dangerous and the Billowes hear'd Which made vs land to scape the Seas distresse Within a harbour almost harbourlesse We giue God thanks amongst the Rocks we hit Yet were we neither wash'd or sunke or split Within a Cottage nigh there dwels a Weauer Who entertaind vs as the like was neuer No meat no drinke no lodging but the floore No Stoole to sit no Locke vnto the doore No straw to make vs litter in the night Nor any Candlesticke to hold the light To which the Owner bid vs welcome still Good entertainement though our cheare was ill The morrow when the Sun with flushed face In his diurnall course began to trace The wind exceeding stiffe and strong and tough The Seas outragious and extremely rough Our Boate laid safe vpon the Boachy sand Whilst we to Hastings went or walk'd by land Much to that Towne my thankfulnesse is bound Such vndeserued kindnesse there I found Three nights we lay there and three daies we spent Most freely welcom'd with much merriment Kinde M r * The Maiors name was M r Richard Boyse a Gentleman wh●● laud●ble life and honest gouerment is much beloued and ●● proued Maior his loue aboue the rest Me and my crue he did both feed and feast He sent vs God and came himselfe to vs My thankes are these because his loue was thus Mine Host and Hostesse Clayton thus I thanke And all good fellowes there I found so franke That what they had or what could there be got They neither thought too heauy or too hot The windes and Seas continued still their course Inueterate seem'd their rage vntam'd their force Yet were we loth to linger and delay But once againe to venture and away Thus desperately resolu'd 'twixt hope and doubt Halfe sunke with lanching madly we went out At twelue a clocke at noone and by Sun-set To Miching or New Hauen we did get There almost sunke to saue our Boat at last Our selues into the shallow Seas we cast And pluck'd her into safety to remaine Till Friday that we put to Sea againe Then 'mongst our old acquaintance storms fla●● At euery stroake neere deaths deuouring iawes The weary day we past through many feares And land at last quite sunke o'r head and eares All dropping dry like fiue poore Rats half dro●●●● From succour farre we halde the Boat on ground Cast out our water whilst we brauely drop'd And vp and downe to drie our selues we hop'd Thus we our weary Pilgrimage did weare Expecting for the weather calme and cleare But stormes flawes windes seas tooke no minutes r●● Continuall fiercely blowing West Southwest A Town call'd Gorting stood neere two miles w●●● To which we went and had our wants supplide There we relieu'd our felues with good compassiō With meat and lodging of the homely fashion To bed we went in hope of rest and ease But all beleaguer'd with an Host of Fleas Who in their fury nip'd and skip'd so hotly That all our skins were almost turn'd to motly The bloudy sight endur'd at least sixe houres When we opprest with their encreasing pow'rs Were glad to yeeld the honour of the day Vnto our foes and rise and runne away The night before * The Maiors name was M r Richard Boyse a Gentleman wh●●● laud●ble life and honest gouerment is much beloued and ●● proued a Constable there came Who ask'd my Trade my dwelling and my name My businesse and a troope of questions more And wherefore we did land vpon that shore To whom I fram'd my answers true and fit According to his plenteous want of wit But were my words all true or if I li'd With neither I could get him satisfi'd ●●● ask'd if we were Pyrats We said no ●●● if we had we would haue told him so ●●● said that Lords sometimes would enterprise ●scape and leaue the Kingdome in disguise ●●● I assur'd him on my honest word ●at I was no disguised Knight or Lord. ●●● told me then that I must goe sixe miles ●●● lustice there Sir Iohn or else Sir Giles ●●●●old him I was loth to goe so farre ●●● he told me he would my iourny barre ●●s what with Fleas and with the seuerall prates ●●th ' Officer and his Ass-sociats ●●e a rose to goe but Fortune bade vs stay ●●e Constable had stolne our Oares away ●●d bome them thence a q●arter of a mile ●●● through a Lane beyond a gate and stile ●●● hid them there to hinder my depart ●●● which I wish'd him hang'd with all my heart ●●●lowman for vs found our Oares againe ●●ithin'a field well fill'd with Barly Graine ●●●en madly gladly out to Sea we thrust ●●inst windes stormes many a churlish Gust ●●● Kingston Chappell and by Rushington ●●● little Hampton and by Middleton ●●● B●g●●● fearefull Rockes which hidden lie ●●● miles into the Sea some wet some dry ●●ere we suppos'd our danger most of all ●●we ●●●●●●● remorcelesse Rockes should fall ●●t by th' Almighties mercy and his might ●●●●e Row'd to Selsey where we stay'd all night ●ere our necessity could haue no Law ●●● want of beds we made good vse of Straw ●●● S●● that old continuall Traueller ●om T●●●● lap 'gan mount his flaming Car. ●●● weather kept it's course and blow'd rag'd ●ithout appearance it would e'r be swag'd ●hilst we did passe those hills dales Downs ●●at had denour'd great ships and swallow'd Towns ●●us after six or fiue houres toyle at least ●●● past along by Wittering West and East ●●on the Lee shore still the winde full South ●●e came neere Chichesters faire Hauens mouth ●●d being then halfe sunk and all through wet ●●ore fear'd then hurt we did the Hauen get ●●us in that harbour we our course did frame ●●● Portsmouth where on Munday morne we came ●●en to the Royall Fleet we Row'd aboord Where much good welcome they did vs affoord ●othe Lord Generall first my thankes shall be ●●● is bounty did appeare in gold to me ●●nd euery one aboord the Prince I found ●●● stead of want to make their loues abound ●aptine Penrudduck there amongst the rest ●●● is loue and bounty was to vs

will make men rotten ●re they die Old Adam liu'd nine hundred thirty yeere Yet ne'r dranke none as I could read or heare And some men now liue ninety yeeres and past Who neuer dranke Tobacco first nor last Then since at first it came from faithlesse Moores And since t is now more common far then whores ● I see no reason any Christian Nation Should follow then in diuellish im●●ation So farewell pipe and pudding stuffe and smoake My Muse thinks fit to leaue before the choake Certaine verses written in the Barbarian tongue dropt out of a Negroes pocket which I thought good to insert because they tend to ●● honour of Tobacco VAprosh fogh stinkguash slauorumques fie fominoshte Spitterspaw●smon loather so hem halk●sh spewrsb●shte Mistrum fo● smoakrash choakerumques olifa ●rish trash Dam durt●cun belehum contagio●●te vem●●troshe Whifferum puffe gulpum allisnuff huff fleaminon odish Rewmito contaminosh disbo●●●● dungish odorish To the Right Honourable Lord William Earle of Pembroke WILLIAM HERBERT Anagramma My heart will beare RIght Noble Lord whose brest doth beare a heart Which is a Patron vnto Armes and Art Inspight of Enuy still thy fame shines cleere For none but honor'd thoughts thy heart wil beare WHen I but think the daies we wander in How most part of the world do liue by sin How finely Satan shewes his cunning s●ill That one man gets his goods from others ill Doe not the Lawyers liue like mighty Lords On brawles on iar●res contentions and discords When if men as they should would but agree A Tearme would scarcely yeeld a Lawyers fee Let vsurers bragge of conscience what they can They liue like deuils vpon the bane of man The racking Land-lord gets his ill got store By raysing rents which make his tenants poore Clap-shoulder Serieants get the deuill and all By begg'ring and by bringing men in thrall Like Gentlemen the Iaylors spend their liues By keeping men in fetters bonds and gyues The vintner and the vict'lar get most gaines From dayly drunkards and distemperd braines From whence do Iustice Clerks get most they haue But from the whore the thiefe the bawd the knaue In what consists the hangmans greatest hope But hope of great imployment for the rope The very blue-coate Beadles get their trash By whips and rods and the fine firking lash But leauing these note but how Corporations From others vices get their reputations The vpstart veluet silken satten gull His owne purse empts to fill the Mercers full When for his birth or wit more fit agrees A breech of leather and a coate of freese The Taylor is a Gentleman transform'd For his inuenting fashions new deform'd And those that make the Verdingales and bodies Get most they haue from idle witlesse nodies The Tires the Periwigs and the Rebatoes Are made t'adome ilshap'd Inamoratoes Yea all the world is falue to such a madnesse That each man gets his goods from others badnesse The Chirurgian and Phisicion get their stockes From Gowts from Feauers Botches Piles Pocks With others paine they most of all are pleas'd And best are eas'd when others are diseasd As Sextons liue by dead and not by quicke So they liue with the sound but by the sicke Thus each man liues by other mens amisse And one mans meat anothers poyson is To the Right honourable Iohn Lord Viscount Haddington Earle of Holdernes Iohn Ramsey Angaramma I ayme Honors THrice worthy Lord whose vertues do proclaime How Honors noble marke is still thy Ayme T' attaine the which thou holdst thy hand so steady That thy deserts haue wo●ne the prize already To the Honourable Knight Sir Thomas Bludder Anagramma Arm'd Thus bold GOd is my Captaine my defence and hold Through faith in him I am thus arm'd thus bold● Vpon the Powder Treason the fifth of Nouember 1605. THis day old D●mon and the damned Crue Our King and Kingdome in the ayre had tost But that our God their diuellish practice crost And on their treacherous heads the mischiefe threw No Pagan Tartar Turke or faithlesse Iew Or hels blacke Monarch with his hatefull host Since first amongst them Treason was ingrost No plot like that from their inuention flew But when they thought a powder blast a breath Should all this Iland into totters teare Th' Almighties mercy freed vs from that feare And paid the Traitors with infamous death For which let King and all true Subiects sing Continuall praise vnto Heau'ns gracious King To the Right Honourable Iob● Moray Lord Viscount Annan Earle of Annandale Gentleman of his Maiesties Honourable Bed-chamber Anagramma I ayme Honour INdustrious Loyalty doth dayly tell You Ayme at honour and you leuell well And with your trusty seruice shoot so right That in the end you sure will hit the white Twelue Sonnets vpon the Sonnes entring into the twelue Caelestiall Signes The 10. of March the Sunne enters into Aries or the signe of the Raw. March 10. Aries DIurnall Titans all reuiuing Carre Through all the heauens his progresse now he ●●●●● And now his glistering Raies he doth vnbarre And what his absence mard his presence makes Now he begins dame Tellus face to parch With blustring Boreas with Eurus breth Thicke clouds of dust in March through ayre doth march And Plants dead seeming Re-reuines from death Now at the heauy-headed horned Ram AEo●●● AErbon Phlogon and Pyrois ●● sweet Ambrosya sweetly feede and cram And drinking Nector's gods carowsing iuice Thus yeerely one and thirty daies at least In Aries Titan daines to be a guest To the Right Honourable Christopher Villers Earle of Anglesey Anagramma Christ is our helper TO me and mine our onely comfort 's this In all good Actions Christ our helper is The 11. of Aprill he comes into Taurus or the Signe of the Bull. Taurus HIpericon now 's remou'd vnto the Bull And seemes all hid in Mists and watry bowres Till wollsacke seeming cloudes are bursting full And then he glides the Aire with golden showres He shines he hides he smiles and then he lowres Now glorious glowing and straight darkned dim He 's now obscur'd and now his beames out powres Asskies are cleare or thicke twixt vs and him Thus all the Aprill at bo-peepe he plaies ●●circling daily the Rotundious spheare And at the Bull he hides his glistring raies Til● ayre is purgde of cloudes and skies are cleare Then he the head-strong Taurus soone forsakes And to his Summer progresse haste he makes To the Right Honorable the Earle of Manchester Lord priuy Seale to the Kings Matestie HENRY MONTAGVE Anagramma Gouerneth many AMongst a Million there is hardly Any That like your selfe so well doth gouerne Many The 12. of May the Sunne enters into Gemini or the Twinnes Gemini May. NOw bright fac'd Sminthus with faire Flora meet Adorning her with Natures best attire Trees plants hearbs flowres odoriferous sweet With Birds all chaunting in their feathered quire Now countrie Tom and Tyb haue their desire And rowle and tumble freely on the

at the age 36 yeeres 9 monethe and 5 daies hee was crowned Westminster with his wife Queene Anne by the ●●● of Iohn Whitguist Archbishop of Canterbury The●● was a conspiracy to surprise the King and insorce him to grant a tolleration of Religion but the plot was discoue●● and the offenders were some executed some otherwise by the King elemency banished and imprisoned with good competency of meanes allowed them This king was a King of Peace and with all victorious for he did ●●● then his predecesser King Henry the 7 th who ioyned ●● Roses of Lancaster and Yorke But King Iames ●●● happily ioyned kingdomes vniting England and Scotland into one glorious Monarchy by the name and ●●● Great Britaine Anno 1605 Nouember 5 the ●●● de-plot of perdition was but by the mercy of the Almighty ●● a mis-taken deliuerie of a Letter and the deepe wisedome of the King the horrid Treason was ●●● preuented and the Traitours confounded in their ●●●●●●ked deuices King Iames was so crowned and ●●● that Germany Polland Sweaueland Russia France Spaine Holland Zealand the Arch-Duke of Austria the estate and S●●gmory of Venice The great Duke of Florence all these Princes and Potentates did ●●● Ambassadors into England to hold Amity and ●●● with King Iames. Amongst Kings he was the ●●● mirrour of Learning the Patterne and Patron of piety ●● pittie such a sweet and well composed mixture of Iustice and mercy was inuated in his Royall brest that ●●●●●● truth did meet kisse and combine together all the ●●● his most auspicious reigne like a second Sallomon gouernment was blest with peace and plenty so that be ●●● iustly be stiled vnder God The Peace-maker of ●●● Christendome and the louing father and preseruer of ●●● own people Realmes and Dominions his life was generally beloued and his death as much lamented which was ●●● of March being Sunday there being but 2 daies differ●●● or ods betwixt the accompt of the beginning and ending of his reigne for he began the 24 of March 1602 ●●● the 27 of March 1625. Two Tuesdaies were ●●nate to him for on a Tuesday the 5 of August 1602 ●● escaped a dangerous conspiracy of the Earle Cowries and on Tuesday the 5 of Nouember 1605 he wis●h of that could be called his was preferred from that Great master piece of Satan the Powder Treason and as ●● Sat●rday ●●● the 8 of May 1603 he was receiued within ioy ●●● London so on Saterday the 8 of May 1625 ●●● with grise buried at Westminster CHARLES Of that Name THE FIRST And II. Monarch of the whole Iland of GREAT BRITAINE KING OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND FRANCE and IRELAND Gods immediate VICEGERENT Supreame HEAD c. ●●●●strious Off-spring of most glorious Stems Our happy hope our Royall CHARLES the great ●●● Heyre to foure Rich Diadems With gifts of Grace and Learning high ●epleat ●●● thee th' Almighties ayd I doe intreate ●●● guide and prosper thy proceedings still ●●●●● long thou maist suruiue a Prince compleat ●●● guard the good and to subuert the ill ●●● when thy ●●● determin'd boundlesse will Thy mortall part shall made immortall be ●●●● let thy liuing Fame the world full fill ●●● bles●ed famous memory of thee And all true Britaines pray to God aboue To match thy life and fortune with their loue STEWART● CHARLES MARIE Anagramma Christ Arme vs E●● AT AL Though fe●●ds and men to ●●●● should endeuer Against their force AT AL CHRIST ARME VS EVER Anno. Dom. 1625-March 27. Sunday The ●● sall ●●●●●●●●●●●●● kingdomes hauing ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● full Iames ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● eternall Our Royall Charles the ●●● heire of his blessed Fathers Crowne and vertues ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● Westminster by the hands of the Right Reue●●nd fahter in God ●●●●●●●●●●● Iohn Williams ●●● new present Lord Bishop of Lincolne and Deane of Westminister He is Charles the first of that name and second Monarch of great Britaine ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● Vicegerent and God is his ●●●● Seueraigne he is Defender of the True ●●●● Apotlolicasll and Christian I ●●●● and that faith is his shield against all his bedily and ghostly enemies in the first yeare of his reigne he married with the illustrious and vertuous Princesse Henneretta Maria daughter to that admired Mirrer and Mars of martiallilis of Henry the 4 th the French King last of that name vopn the 22 day of Iune 1625 shee safely arrived ●●●●●● in Kent where the King stay'd till ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● and to both their ioyes and the ●●●● of this kingdome he enioyed and enioyes her This Noble P●●●ce was borne the 19 th of Nouember A no 1602 he was second and youngest Sonne to king Iames the ●●● of Scotland and first of that name of England Our last ●●● Soueraigne In the yeere 1623 ●●● into Spaine priuately and by Gods gracious assistance came backe safely from thence the 26 or October in the some yeere whose safe returne all true hearted Britaines did and doe esteem ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● and happy blessing his elemency ●●●● is manifest his Royall end princely en●●● are ample ●●● his same and Magnificenceis ●●●● sall The graces and cardinall vertues haue ●●●●●●●●●●●● taken ●●● their habitatiens in his Heroick and Mag●●●●●● brest ●●● may hee with his gracious Queene reigne our these his Dominions to the glo●●●●● of God and the good of this famous Iland with the rest of his Territories and to the ioy and comfort of his ●●● Amen ALIVING SADNES INDVTY CONSECRATED TO THE IMMORtall memory of our late Deceased all-beloued Soueraigne LORD the Peerelesse Paragon of Princes IAMES King of great Britaine France and Ireland who departed this Life at his Manour of Theobalds on Sunday the 27. of March 1625. TO THE MOST HIGH AND PVISSENT Prince CHARLES by the Grace of GOD the first of that name and second Monarch of the whole Iland of Great BRITAINE HIS VNDOVBTED ROYALTIES BEING VNITED VNDER one and the same his most glorious Crowne the Kingdomes of England Scotland France and Ireland Gods Immediate Vice-Gerent Supreme head of all Persons and Defender of the true ancient Christian Faith in these his Empires and Dominions MOst Mighty Monarch of this mourning Land Vpon the knees of my submissiue mind I begge acceptance at your Royall hand That my lamenting Muse may fauour finde My Gracious Master was so good so kinde So iust so much beloued neere and sarre Which generally did Loue and Duiy binde From all and from me in particular But as your Maiesty vndoubted are The Heire vnto his Vertues and his Crowne I pray that whether Heauen send Peace or Warre You likewise may inherit his Renowne And as Death strucke his Earthly Glory downe Left you in Maiesty and mourning Chiefe Yet through the World apparantly 't is knowne Your Sorrow is an vniuersall Griefe Let this recomfort then your Princely heart That in this Duty all men beares a part Your Maiesties most humble and obedient Subiect and Seruant IOHN TAYLOR A Funerall Elegie vpon King IAMES YOu gushing Torrents

Sir Iohn Wats Clothworker Lord Maior gaue to Christ Church Hospitall ten pound ●● to the Hospitall of S. Thomas in Southwarke●tic pound King Ioses our most gracious Soueraigne was made a Irec ● of the Worshipfull Company of Clothworkers Sir Iohn ●●● being then Lord Maior who seasted his Marestie Sir Wis●● Knight being then Master of the Company at which ● the King gaue a Guist of two brace of Buckes to the said Company yearely for euer to bee spent at their feast in their ●●●● Richard Faringdon Clothworker and Aldermangaue to the seuerall Hospitals in London and the Suburbs 66. pound 13. shillings 4d Sir William Stone Clothworker gaue to the ●●rall Prisons in London 50 pound Lady Barbara Stone wife to the forenamed Sir William Stone gaue to the Hospitall of Christ church one hundred pounds Lady Spencer wife to Sir Iohn Spencer clothworker gaue to the seuerall Hospitals 20. pound William Lambe Esquire free of the Company Clothworkers and one of the Gentlemen of the Chappell to King Henry the 8. built a Free Grammer Schoole at Sutton Valence in Kens where he was borne allowing yearely for euer to the Master of the said Schoole twenty pound and to the Vsher ten pound Also he built sixe Alemet-houses there with Gardens and Orchards and ten pound yearely to each of them foreuer Besides he gaue to the Free Schoole at Maidstone in Kent ten pound yearely for euer which he appointed to bee bestowed onely vpon ●● children who were destitute of friends and ●courlesse Also hee bestowed three hundred pound for the vse of decayed Clothiers in the countie ●●●● of Suffolke and in the Townes of Bridg●●●le and Ludlow Moreouer hee built two conduits in London one at Holbourne Bridge and the other on the Hill towards New Gate ●oth of which cost 1500 pounds at which time ●●gaue 120. new Pailes to so many poore wo●● to beare Water withall Moreouer hee gaue thirty pound a yeare to his Company for euer and 4. pounds yearely to a Minister for 4. Sermons and 301. yearely for euer to be bestowed on twelue poore men and twelue poore women each of them to haue a Freeze Gowne one Lockerom shirt or smocke one paire of winter shooes which guist is yearely distributed on the first of October he also gaue to the poore of Saint Giles Parish without Cripplegate fifteene pound To the poore of the Company of Stationers hee gaue sixe pounds thirteene shillings 4d yearely for euer to be bestowed euery Friday in the Parish of S. Faiths on twelue poore people twelue pence in bread and twelue pence in money He gaue to Christs Hospitall Sixe pounds yearely for euer and 100. pound in readie money present Hee gaue to S. Thomas Hospitall 4. pounds yearely for euer and to poore Maides marriage hee gaue 20. pounds besides Newgate Ludgate the two Comptors in London the Marshalsea the Kings Bench and the White Lyon had all most louing tasts of his Charitable liberalitie and in conclusion he gaue 108. Gownes to poore aged people at his Funerall This was a Lambe whose like was neuer any Whose loue and pitty fed and cloth'd so many And'sis no doubt but these good deeds of his Did helpe to lift his soule to endlesse Blisse Master Iohn Berriman of Byshops Tannton in the Countie of Deuonshire Clothier and free Draper of London gaue to the Hospitall of Christ Church 100. pounds to S Bartholomews 5 pounds to S. Thomas Hospitall 6. pounds to Bridewell 40. shillings and to the Hospitall of Bethlehem 50. pounds Peter Blundell Clothier gaue to Christ-Church Hospitall 500. pounds to Saint Bartholomewes Hospitall 250. pounds to Saint Thomas Hospitall 250. pounds to Bridewell 8. pounds yearely for euer to the Reparation of the Church at Tiuerton where he was borne fiftie pounds towards the mending of High-wayes one hundred pounds to the twelue Companies in London to euery of them one hundred and fiftie pound to poore Maides marriages in Tiuerton foure hundred pound to the poore at Exeter hee gaue nine hundred pound to build a Grammar-schoole at Tiuerten 2400.l and after layd out by his Executors one thousand pound to the Schoole-master fiftie pounds yearely for euer to the Vsher 13. pound 6. shillings 8. pence yearely to the Clarke 40. shillings yearely to place foure poore boyes yearely Apprentises twenty pounds per annum to keepe 3. Schollers at Oxford and three at Cambridge 2000. pound Robert Chilcot seruant to the aforesaid M r. Blundell gaue to Christs Hospitall 100. pound towards a meauer Schoole to haue Children taught to be fit for his Masters Grāmer schoole he gaue 400. pound to maintaine it he gaue 90. pound allowing the Scholemaster yearely 20. l. the Clarke 3. pound and toward Reparations 40. shillings per annum to fifteene poore men he gaue sixteene pounds 10. shillings a yeare for euer to 15. poote labouring men 15. pound to 15. poore people weekely sixe pence each for euer to mend the Church at Tiuerton 19. pound ten shillings to mend High wayes ten pounds and to other charitable vles more then is mentioned Thus hath it pleased God that these men whose trades and liuings were deriued from the poore Sheepes backe haue not onely growne to great wealth and places of honour but haue bin also great Instruments of the Almightles mercy in relieuing the needie and impotent members of Christ should I reckon vp the particulars of profits that arise from this Beast to Graziers Butchers Skinners Glouers Felmongers Leather sellers Feltmongers Taylors and an infinite number of other Trades and Functions who could not liue or else liue very hardly without this Commoditie I say should I write of these things in particular my worke would neuer bee done in generall Wooll hath beene formerly in such esteeme in England that in Parliament holden the 36. of Edward the 3 the King had his Subiects payd him in Wooll and before that in the eleuenth yeare of his Raigne it was forbidden to be transported out of this Kingdome and then did strangers come ouer hither from diuers parts beyond the Seas who were Fullers Weauers and Clothworkers whom the King entertained and baro all their charges out of his Exchequer at which time the Staples or places of Merchandize for Wools were kept at diuers places of this Land at once as at Newcastle Yorke Lincolne canterbury Norwich Westminster Chichester Winchester Exeter Bristoll and carmarthen by which may bee perceiued what a great commodity Wooll was in those dayes But in the 6. yeare of King Edward the 4. the King sent certaine Sheep out of Cotswold in Glocester shire into Spaine the encrease of which so enriched the Spaniards with our Wooll that euer since it hath beene in the lesse request in England neuerthelesse as it is it is the means of life and maintainance for many hundred thousands Here fokoweth a touch of paultry Scabbed and infectious kinds of Sheepe which I thinke sit to place by themselues in the lagge end of my Booke as

ALL THE WORKES OF IOHN TAYLOR THE WATER-POET Being 63 in Number COLLECTED INTO ONE VOLUM By the Author With Sundry new Additions Corrected Reuised and newly IMPRINTED 1630. ALL THE WORKES OF IOHN TAYLOR THE WATER-POET Beeing Sixty and three in Number Collected into one Volume by the AVTHOR VVith sundry new Additions corrected reuised and newly Imprinted 1630. AT LONDON Printed by J.B. for IAMES BOLER at the signe of the Marigold in Pauls Churchyard 1630. To the Right HonouraBLE THE LORD MARQVESSE HAMILTON Master of the Horse to his MAIESTIE IAMES HAMILLTON ANAGRAMMA I AMM ALL HONESTY Of words 't is vaine to vse a Multitude Your very Name all Goodnesse doth include TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THE Lord Steward of his Maiesties Honourable HOVSEHOLD WILLIAM HERBERT EARLE OF PENBROKE ANAGRAMMA LIBERALY MEEK● FOR REPVTE HONOVRABLE What can be more then is explained here T' expresse a worthy well deseruing Peere TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THE LORD Chamberlaine of his Maiesties most Honourable HOVSEHOLD PHILIP HERBERT EARLE OFF MONTGOMERY ANAGRAMMA FIRME FAITH BEGOT ALL MY PROPER HONER Firme faith begot mi●e honor sayes my name And my firme faith shalleuer keepe the same To the Author Iohn Taylor WAst euer keowne to any time before That so much skill in Poesie could be Th'attendant to a Skull or painefull oare Thou liu'st in water but the fire in thee That mounting Element that made thee chuse To court Vrania the diuinest Muse. Row on to watermen did neuer blow Agale so good none so much goodnesse know THOMAS BREWER IOhannes Tailerus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ira an honesté lusi Lusi et stigmata pessimis inussi Paucis paru● furunt sed oh meorum Ira ipsa arbitra siste tu librorum Virus euome honesté an ipse lusi Respon Ars niuea hos lenit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 VErbis verbera corripi merentes Non est ira ●sed ampla mititudo Esse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 decet Poetam Sed non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 renendum est Frendens rabula carnifex vocetur Qui aurem vellit is artifex habetur Quo sque vrit leuis ira commerentes Hos lenit niuea ar● scitè monentis Ergo ludis honesté amor notabit Naeuos leniter hostis aggrauabit T. G. Ad amicum meritò dilectum Iohannem Tailor aliàs aquinatem vulgó Poëtam aquaticum hendecasyllabae QVod numen Thamesis vagae per vndas Plectro ludit eburno deorum Physis dicitur eius hic sacerdos Fundit millia mille ab ore cantus His mulcens lepidum artibus popellum Hunc quaerit Dea hunc docet sua illi Tam secreta libenter illa pandit Quam tam rara decenter ille pendit Hic verò rutilos Tagi lapillos Et grandes Orientis vniones Si his mysteria tanta conferantur Tricas quisquiliasque censet omnes De te sabula tota mi Iohannes Verso nomine scito praedicatur Parnassus cerebrum tuum est bifurcus Cor fons est Helicon sedentque linguâ Et Musae Charites venustiores Ipse es tu tibi suggerens Apollo Extrà nil opus inuocare Diues Naturae tibi sat fauor ministrans Intus pectore delitet feraci Quod multis labor improbus dat aegré Suffuratio et impudens librorum Instinctus genij tui ingenique Momento intimat euge perge lymphas Plus vltra Thamesis beate Cygnos Moeandri vada tortuosa curui Non tot quot Thamesis canora nutrit Te vicisse iuuabit hos canendo Nos iuuabit omnia imprimendo Hoc si feceris vnda dum manebit Atque aestus Thamesis manebis ipse Et campanus vt est propheta Aquinas Anglicanus eris poeta Aquinas T. G. To my worthy and well-deseruing friend our wel-known hydropoet IOHN TAYLOR Some till their throats ake cry alowd and hollo To aucupate great fauors from Apollo One Bacchus and some other Venus vrges To blesse their brain-brats Those caerulean surges Gyrdling the earth emball thy nerues and season Those animall parts quick Organs of mans reason This Nimph-adored sountaine farre excells Aganipe Aon all that Bubulkes wells These daunst about thy Quinbro-bo●te to kisse thee And often since roare out because they misse thee These wyned with loue sicke Thame the banks o'rswel water To visit their ingenious darlings Cell Blue Neptunes salt tempred with Thames sweet Make thee both tart and pleasing What theater Of late could Cinthius halfe staru'd mists perswade T' applaud nay not to hisse at what they made Then call on Neptune still let Delos sinke Or swimme for thee let Phoebus looke or winke VVhilst his poore Priests grow mad with ill successe That still the more they write they please the lesse Thine Amphitritean Muse growes more arrident And Phoebus tripos stoopes to Neptunes trident R. H. To his friend the Author IN sport I hitherto haue told thy same But now thy Muse doth merit greater Name Soares high to Heau'n from earth and water flies And lea●ing baser matters mounts the skies Where hidden knowledge she doth sweetly sing Carelesse of each inferiour common thing Oh that my Soule could follow her in this To shun fowle sin and seeke eternall blisse Her strength growes great and may God euer send Me to amend my ●aults as she doth mend ROBERT BRANTHWAITE To my honest friend Iohn Taylor WHat shall I say kind Friend to let thee know How worthily I doe this worke esteeme Whereof I thinke I cannot too much deeme From which I find a world of wit doth flow The poore vnpollisht praise I can bestow Vpon ' this well deseruing worke of thine Which heere I freely offer at thy Shrine Is like a Taper when the Sunne doth showe Or bellowes helpe for Eol's breath to blow For thou as much hast soard beyond the flraine Whereto our common Muses doe attaine As Cintyhaes light exceeds the wormes that glow● And were my Muse reple at with learned phrase The world should know thy work deserueth praise Thine in the best of friendship RICHARD LEIGH To the deseruing author Iohn Taylor IT is disputed much among the wise If that there be a water in the skyes If there be one no Water-man before Was euer knowne to row in 't with his Oare If none such is thy high surmounting pen It soares aboue the straine of Watermen Whether there be or no seeke farre and neere Th' art matchlesse sure in this eur hemispheere WILLIAM BRANTHWAITE Cant. To my friend Iohn Taylor ROw on good Water-man and looke back still Thus as thou dost vpon the Muses Hill To guide thee in thy course Thy Boate's a sphaere Where thine Vrania moues diuinely cleare Well hast thou pli'd and with thy learned Oare Cut through a Riner to a nobler shore Then euer any landed-at Thy saile Made all of clowdes swels with a prosp'rous gale Some say there is a Ferriman of Hell The Ferriman of Heau'n I now know well And that 's thy selfe transporting soules to Blisse

Scottish pints of wine were consumed and brought to nothing for a farewell there at Master Iames Baylies house I tooke leaue and Master Iames Acmootye commi●●● for England said that if I would ride with ●●● that neither I nor my horse should want●●●● twixt that place and London Now I hauing ● money or meanes for trauell began at once ●● examine my manners and my want at last my want perswaded my manners to accept of this worthy Gentlemans vndeserued courtesie So that night he brought me to a place called C●per-spath where we lodged at an Inne the li●● of which I dare say is not in any of his M●●●sties Dominions And for to shewe my thankfulnesse to Master William Arnet and his wife the Owners thereof I must explaine their bountifull entertainement of guests which is this Suppose ten fifteene or twenty men and horses come to lodge at their house the men shall haue flesh tame and wild-fowle fish with all varietie of good cheere good lodging and welcome and the horses shall want neither hay or prouender and at the morning at their departure the reckoning is iust nothing This is this worthy Gentlemens vse his chiefe delight being onely to giue strangers entertainment gratu And I am sure that in Scotland beyond Edenborough I haue beene at houses like Castles for building the master of the house his heauen being his blue Bounet one that will weare no other shirts but of the Flaxe that growes on his owne ground and of his wiues daughters or seruants spinning that ●●●th his Stockings Hose and Ierkin of the Wooll of his owne Sheepes backes that neuer by his pride of apparell caused Mercer Draper Silke man Embroyderer or Haberda●●●● to breake and turne bankerupt and yet this plaine home-spunne fellow keepes and maintaines thirty forty fifty seruants or perhaps more euery day releeuing three or foure score poore people at his gate and besides all this can giue noble entertainment for foure or fiue dayes together to fiue or sixe Earles and Lords besides Knights Gentlemen and their ●●llowers if they hee three or foure hundred men and horse of them where they shall not onely feede but feast and not feast but banker this is a man that desires to know nothing so ●●●●●●● his duty to God and his King whose ●●●● cares are to practise the workes of ●●●●● Charity and Hospitality he neuer studies the consuming Art of fashionlesse fashions hee neuer tries his strength to beare foure or fiue hundred Acres on his backe at once his legges are alwayes at liberty not being settred with golden garters and mana●●ed with artificial Roses whose weight sometime is the Reliques of some decayed Lordship Many of these worthy house-keepers there are in Scotland amongst some of them I was entertained from whence I did truely gather these aforesaid obseruations So leauing Coberspath we rode to Barwicke where the worthy old Soldier and ancient Knight Sir William Bowyer made me welcome but contrary to his will we lodged at an Inne where Master Iames Acmooty paid all charges but at Barwhicke there was a grieuous chance hapned which I thinke not fit the relation to be omitted In the Riuer of Tweed which runnes by Barwicke are taken by Fishermen that dwell there infinite numbers of fresh Salmons so that many housholds and families are relieued by the profit of that fishing but how long since I know not there was an order that no man or boy whatsoeuer should fish vpon a Sunday This order continued long amongst them till some eight or nine weekes before Michaelmas last on a Sunday the Salmons plaid in such great aboundance in the Riuer that some of the Fishermen contrary to Gods law and their owne order tooke Boates and nettes and fished and caught three hundred Salmons but from that time vntill Michaelmas day that I was there which was nine weekes and heard the report of it and saw the poore peoples lamentations they had not seene one Salmon in the Riuer and some of them were in despaire that they should neuer see any more there affirming it to be Gods Iudgement vpon them for the prophanation of the Sabbath The thirtieth of September we rode from Barwicke to Belford from Belford to Anwicke the next day from Amrick to Newcastle where I found the noble Knight Sir ●●enry witherington who because I would haue no gold nor siluer gaue me a bay Mare in requitall of a loafe of bread that I had giuen him two and twenty yeeres before at the Iland of Flores of the which I haue spoken before I ouertooke at Newcastle a great many of my worthy friends which were all comming for London namely Master Robert Hay and Master Dauid Drummond where I was welcom'd at Master Nicholas Tempests house From Newcastle I rode with those Gentlemen to Durham to Darington to Northalerton and to Topel●sse in Yorkeshire where I tooke my leaue of them and would needs try my pennilesse fortunes by my selfe and see the City of Yorke where I was lodged at my right Worshipfull good friend Master Doctor Hudson one of his Maiesties Chaplaines who went with me and shewed me the goodly Minster Church there and the most admirable rare-wrought vnfellowed Chapter house From Yorke I rode to Doncaster where my horses were well fed at the Beare but my selfe found out the honourable Knight Sir Robert Anslruther at his father in lawes the truely noble Sir Robert Swifts house he being then high Sheriffe of Yorkeshire where with their good Ladies and the right Honourable the Lord Sanquhar I was stayed two nights and one day Sir Robert Anslruther I thanke him not only paying for my two horses meat but at my departure he gaue me a letter to Newarke vpon Trent twenty eight miles in my way where Master George Atkinson mine Host made me as welcome as if I had beene a French Lord and what was to be paid as I call'd for nothing I paid as much and left the reckoning with many thankes to Sir Robert Anstruther So leauing Newarke with another Gentleman that ouertooke me we came at night to Stamford to the signe of the Virginitie or the Maydenhead where I deliuered a Letter from the Lord Sanguhar which caused Master Bates and his wife being the Master and Mistresse of the house to make me and the Gentleman that was with me great cheere for nothing From Stamford the next day we rode to Huntington where we lodged at the Post-masters house at the signe of the Crowne his name is Riggs He was informed who I was and wherefore I vndertooke this my pennilesse Progresse wherefore he came vp to our chamber and sup'd with vs and very bountifully called for three quarts of Wine and Sugar and foure Iugges of Beere He did drinke and beginne healths like a Horse-leech and swallowed downe his cuppes without feeling as if he had had the dropsie or nine pound of Spunge in his maw In a word as he is a Poste he dranke poste striuing and

more willing and those who are slacke or backward will in some reasonable manner draw forward And there is the mouth of an vncharitable obiection which I must needs stop which is an old one and onely spoken by old men for say they we are aged and stricken in yeeres and if wee should lay out our moneies or be at charges for the Riuer by the course of Nature wee shall not liue to enioy any profit to requite our costs this excuse is worse then Heathenish and therefore it ill becomes a Christian for as I wrote before man was not created or had either the goods of minde body or Fortune bestowed on him by his Maker but that hee should haue the least part of them himselfe his God Prince and Countrey claiming as their due almost all which euery man hath The oldest man will purchase land which is subiect to barrennesse and many inconueniences he will buy and build houses which are in danger of fire and diuers other casualties he will aduenture vpon Wares or goods at high prices which to his losse may fall to low rates hee will bargaine for cattell and Sheepe who are incident to many diseases as the Rot the Murraine and diuers the like and all this will he doe in hope to raise his state and leaue his heires rich at his death perhaps when he can keepe his goods no longer when in spight of his heart he must leaue all hee will giue a few Gownes and a little money to Pious vses a Grosse or two of pe●ny loaues and there 's an end of him so that there remaines no more memory of him But this good worke of your Riuer is not subiect to barrennesse or sterility but contrarily it will be a continuall haruest of plenty it is not in danger of being consumed or wasted but it is assured of a perpetuall encrease The names and memories of contributors towards it shall be conserued in venerable and laudable remembrance to the eternizing of their fames the honour of their posterities and the good example of succeeding times to imitate Therefore you men of Salisbury I ●●● treat you in this case to bee good to your selues Or else you may say hereafter If ●●● had beene Industrious wee had beene happy If ●● had not beene couetous we had beene rich Now to returne to my trauels and entertainements As I passed vp the Riuer at the least 2000. Swans like so many Pilots swam in the deepest places before me and shewed me the way When I came to the Towne of Ringwood 14. miles short of Salisbury I there met with his Maiesties Trumpeters and there my fellowes Mr. Thomas Vnder hill and Mr. Richard Stocke Mr. Thomas Ramsey M r. R●●● Lloyd with others which I name not did walke on the banke and gaue mee two excellent flowrishes with their Trumpets for the which I thanke them in print and by word of mouth At last I came to a Towne called Forthing Bridge where not many dayes before a grieuous mischance happened For two men being swimming or washing in the Riuer a Butcher passing ouer the bridge with a Mastiffe Dogge with him did cast a stone into the water and say A Ducke at which the Dogge leapd into the Riuer and seazed vpon one of the men and kild him and the Butcher leaping in after thinking to saue the man was also slaine by his owne Dogge the third man also hardly escaping but was likewise bitten by him From thence I passed further to a place called Hale where we were welcomed by the Right Worshipfull Sir Thomas Penrudduck Knight whom we carried there in our Boat and who I am assured will bee a forward and a liberall Benefactor towards cleering of the Riuer So passing on our course by the Villages of B●rg●te Breamer Chartford Downton Stonely we came to Langfoord where we were well entertained by the Right Honourable the Lord Edward Gorge Lord Baron of Dundalk and Captain of his Ma ties strong and defencible Castle of Hurst in Hampshire to whom in loue duty we proffred the gift of our tattred windshaken and weatherbeaten Boate which after our being at Salisbury being but two miles from thence his Lordship accepted And though hee knew shee was almost vnseruiceable yet his Noble bounty was such that ●he rewarded vs with the price of a new Boat I had some conference with his Honour concerning the impediments and clensing of the Riuer and I know he is most forwardly and worthily affected towards it and no doubt if it be pursued that then he will doe that which shall become a Gentleman of his Honourable calling and Ranke So on the same Friday at night wee came to Salisbury where we brought our Boate thorow Fisherton Bridge on the West side of the City taking our lodging at the signe of the Kings head there with mine Host Richard Estman whose brother Thomas was one of the Watermen which came in the Boate thither from London on the morrow I with my company footed it two miles to Wilton where at the Right Honourable the Earle of Pembrokes my Lord Chamberlaines house I was most freely and beyond my worth and merit kindly welcomed by the Right Worshipfull Sir Thomas Morgan Knight with whom I dined and by whose command I was shewed all or the most part of the admirable contriued Roomes in that excellent and well built house which Roomes were all richly adorned with Costly and sumptuous hangings his Maiestie some few daies before hauing dined there with most magnificent Entertainement as did expresse the loue of so Noble a House-keeper for so Royall a Guest vpon the sight of which house with the Furniture I wrote these following verses If Wholsom Aire Earth woods pleasant Springs Are Elements whereby a house is grac'd If strong and stately built contentment brings Such is the house of Wilton and so plac'd There Nature Art Art Nature hath embrac'd Without within below aloft compleat Delight and state are there so enterlac'd With rich content which makes all good and great The Hangings there with Histories repleat Diuine profane and Morall pleasures giuing With worke so liuely exquisite and neat As if mans Art made mortall creatures liuing In briefe there all things are compos'd so well Beyond my pen to write or tongue to tell Then was I shewed a most faire and large Armory with all manner of prouision and Furniture for Pike Shot Bills Halberts Iauelins with other Weapons and munition which for goodnesse number and well-keeping is not second to any Noblemans in England Afterwards I went to the Stables and saw my Lords great Horses whom I saw such and so good that what my vntutour'd Pen cannot sufficiently commend I am forced with silence to ouerpasse But amongst the rest the pains and industry of an ancient Gentleman Mr. Adrian Gilbert must not bee forgotten for there hath hee much to my Lords cost and his owne paines vsed such a deale of intricate Setting Grafting Planting inoculating

To lying I beare such a hate that I Will neuer wittingly affirme a lye I will not say but I a lye may say But I will not affirme it any way T is the maintaining falshoods to be true To whom a lyers odious name is due That all vntruths are falshoods none denies But sure all falshoods cannot be cald lies For Esops fables Ouids art-like fictions Although they are 'gainst truth meere contradictions Of humane transformations from their kind Of disputations 'twixt the Sunne and winde Of fowles and beasts and riuers trees and stones To tell each other of their ioyes or mones Of men trāsform'd to dogs beares bulls swine ape● Which showes that treasons murders incests ●●● Turne men into worse forms then beastly crea●● When reason 's dispossest by brutish natures A fiction fable or a harmelesse iest I tolerate but lyes I doe detest Th'Egyptians had a Law that euery lyer Should strait-way be beheaded for their hyre But if that Law wère executed here Few Pettifoggers would be found I feare The very Court would forfeit now and than Many a complementing Gentleman But sure the City were the greatest share Where lying buyes and sells a world of ware The Countrey sometimes would a head allow In selling Corne a Horse a Sow a Cow And then a headsman would get store of pelse If he could but refraine to lye himselfe I haue a memory like as I doe find A wallet ●alfe before and halfe behind In the fore-part my neighbors faults I put Behind quite from my sight mine owne are sh●● Thus partiality runnes like a streame To spy a Mout and not to see a Beame But when as reason memory collects T' examine my owne impotent defects Then doth it vnto me such things record As make me almost of my selfe abhord It tells me I was in corruption borne And to corruption that I shall returne It tells me that betwixt my birth and this I haue done thousand thousand thing● amisse It bids me to remember what I am To what place I must goe and whence I came And with those thoughts when as my mind is hye I am deiected through humility And this all Great men well remember may They are but Honourable clods of clay Or Reuerend Right Worshipfull graue dust And whence they came againe they thither ●●● I say if foolish females with faire features Would but remember they were mortal Cre●●● And that as their good Grandams dy'd before Eu'n so must they and must be seene no more And all their gawdy glory be forgot Whilst they shall lye consume and s●inke and ●ot If these things they would to remembrance call Their honyed pleasures would be mix'd with Gall And all and euery one their course would bend Within themselues what is amisse to mend The memory vnto the soule is food That thinks saies doth the thing that 's good I haue a heart doth like a Monarch raigne Who in any Microcosine doth lawes ordaine ●ffections Sences Passions Subiects Slaues ●ome like good Courtiers some like flatt'ring knaues With show of Vertue hiding of their Vice They bring their Lord t' a foolish Paradise For when the heart thinkes swearing an abuse Then Anger saies it is a manly vse And when to quaffe the minde hath no intent ●ffection saies 't is honest merriment The minde calls Letchery abomination ●ence saies 't is Gentleman like recreation The minde holds Couetousnesse worse then theft ●ence calls it Husbandry and frugall thrift Reason delights in liberality ●ence counsels it to prodigality ●nd thus these vassalls doe their King mislead ● Whilst Reason seemes to be asleepe or dead ●nd thus this little Kingdome man doth fade With hearing Traytors when they doe perswade ● haue experience by the which I finde ●hat some though poore in purse are rich in minde ●nd they that haue of wealth the greatest store ●re in content most miserable poore There 's many a Mammonist doth houses keepe With lofty Turrets and with Sellers deepe With a most slately porch and spacious hall ●nd kitchin lesser then a Coblers stall ●here in two dayes a poore halse racke of Mutton ●roclaimes the Master of the house no Glutton Where soule-bewitching gold in bondage is ● As may the keepers be in hells abisse ●here waking thoughts keepe still the mind opprest And frightfull dreames make rest to be vnrest ●nd whereas feares by night and doubts by day ●riue happinesse and sweet content away Much better their is my estate then theirs ● haue content and they the golden cares ● can feed well at home and soundly sleepe And what I haue not care to lose or keepe ● haue consideration to perceiue ●hat's best for me to take and what to leaue ●hen I consider pleasures past and gone ●oth adde affliction to affliction ●hough he that 's low can very hardly rise ●et he that 's high oft falls to miseries He that is downe his feare 's already past ●hilst he that 's vp may haue a slippery cast ● doe consider that I oft did craue ●hings both from God and men vnfit to haue And many times through inconsiderate wit Gifts giuers and receiuers are vnfit He is a liberall man that doth deny ●hat which will doe the askers iniury ●here is a bounty which I will reueale That he ne'r giu's in vaine that giu's in zéale As prodigality brings want and woes ●o liberality makes friends of foes T is better for a man his purse to hold Then giue to make a begger proud or bold True bounty is on earth a speciall grace And hath in heauen prepar'd a glorious place For as the Sunne vnto the moone giu's light Which light she giues againe to vs by night So God doth giue his gifts to lib'rall men Which they to men that want doe giue agen But he that giues should strait forget it quite What they that take in memory should write And I accept alike great gifts and small Onely to me the giuers mind is all T is a base bounty when a man relieues These prostituted Whores or Knaues or Thecues For still the Diuell is bountifull to those That vnto Vertue are inueterate foes But many hold it for a generous part To giue a man that 's drunke theother quart And in a humor to haue Drawers trouble Throw pottle Pots down stairs to come vp double When strait vpon their knees they all accord To drinke a health to some vnworthy Lord Some fusty Madam or some carpet Knight 'Till they can neither speake or stand vpright Then being all abominable drunke A Gallant drinkes a health vnto his Punke The which withall Sir Reucrence strait they are Inioynd to doe vpon their knees all bare If any dare deny to pledge the Drab He 's in great danger of a mortall Stab For he accounts it worse then blasphe my That one should there his Mistris health deny Vntill at last o'r charg'd with too much wine They wallow in their vomits worse then swine Thus many a

rayling spirit could not answer mee For thou art nothing without three months fludie I 'd beat my braines out if they were so muddie Fiue shillings I confesse I had of thee Which I protest my seruant had from mee For to repay thee but since he did fayle Thou might'st haue sent to me not write and ray● On him that holds his honestie more deere Then all the Thames reuenewes in a yeere But here thou driu'st me to a short demurre To know why thou shouldst call a Cristian Curre Oh I haue found it to my griefe I see That Curres and Christians are alike to thee But was thy credit by my treason slaine Faith I know none thou hadst to lo'e or staine I wonder much at thy simplicitie That thou shouldst challenge me for sharking thee When of my troth I had rather giue thee gifts Then see thee driuen to such paltrie shifts Thou and thy Squire oft haue ferried mee More oft then I and mine haue tim'd to thee If euer I haue sung to nastie Whores Thou or some Pander like thee kept the dores For I am sure that for as little meanes As two pence thou wilt carry knaues and queanes I know not what thou meanst by Doxie Dell If seemes with them thou art acquainted well For scrappes and broken beere it is so rate For me to rime that thou shalt haue my share For though much wealth I want to maintaine me I 'll neuer trouble Whores nor Rogues nor thee Allow I am squint-eyde yet with those eyes I can thy Baboones trickes anatomize But prethee which of all the Deuils cramb'd That word of iudgement in thee Thou art damb'd I 'd rather wish thee talke of thy saluation Left hate should hurtie thee into damnation Hadst thou begun with Brothell then transcended Vnto a Tauerne thou my state hadst mended But thou dost all thou canst to cut my throat And cheat me of the Tinker and his groat Thou hast so many voyages to hell That Nemesis will like thy visage well And for to make hels number one the fuller Charon will take thee for his vnder Sculler And frō those tossing torments which torment thee I 'll find a shelter though it discontent thee Why dost thou blame my tongue 'cause it proclaims ●●● selfe seruant to my Soueraigne Iames ●●● all hearts tongues with mine would sing ●●eir loyall duty to my Lord the King ●●● Royall fauour makes thy enuy swell Why thy words all may discerne it well ●●● base comparison I hate and curse ●●● heauen thy seruice to him proue no worse ●●● then my Rime shall tell thee this in Reason ●●● ne'r be hang'd for fellony nor treason ●●● for the rest thou poore Beare-garden sport ●●●●rne to tell thee how I liue in Court ●●● for to certifie thee thou shalt know it ●●● hath pleasd the King to call me his Ryming Poet. ●●● though too farre vnworthy I confesse ●●● merit it the Title I possesse ●●● without boasting let me boldly say ●●●ryme with any man that breaths this day Vpon subiect in extempore Or else be blotted from all memorie For any wager dare ingaged be Then thinke what cause I had to run from thee ●●cept it were because I would not heare How thou absurdly didst abuse each eare ●●● thou dost taske me with my sawcinesse That I my selfe a Poet dare professe Wouldst thou haue me rob Nature of her gifts Why that were baser then thy basest shifts Yet my esteeme of course extempory ●●● but as seruile to sweet Poesie Why wouldst thou trouble Homer from his rest To view the slanders belcht from thy base brest Were Ouid liuing hee would discommend thee ●●● in steed of wine would water send thee And famous Virgill in his lofty stile At this thy rayling humor would but smile Last all that haue deseru'd a Lawrell wreath Vnto thy Muse a paire of sculls bequeath Alas poore Spong thou suckst vp nought but spight And dost me open wrong thy faults to right What coxcomb-foole would proffer such abuses As thou hast done to Poets and the Muses But deare Talia in her ryming fit Song Thou wilt die a foole for want of wit Thou faist thy iudgement can compose a verse What my opinion's of thee I 'll rehearse Thou are no better then a Poets Whelpe That fauning vp and downe seekes after helpe I could be like thy selfe vnmannerly But that I scorne thy stile should tutor me No burne thy selfe out like a candle-snuffe 'T is vaine to make thee worse th' art bad enuffe Thou taxest me that I abroad doe vaunt What Lords Knights to me their fauors graunt It also seemes that thou from mee would'st know What Countesses and Ladies count'nance shew I 'll tell thee plainly such doe entertaine mee That for thy rayling basenesse will disdaine thee Had they thy hungry chapps once foddered Thou wouldst not title them embrodered But Syrra though you meddle with your mates Thou shouldst learn manners to forbeare the states And not to descant vpon Court and King 'T were fitter thou shouldst of a Sculler sing Presumptuous foole how dar'st thou be so bold To speake of Kings whom men with feare behold You say you know his royall Maiesty Will not allow his Court to harbour me Nay more your Scullership doth know right well That I no longer in his house shall dwell Is then his wisedome think'st thou such meane treasure That Water-men must know his royall pleasure Yet I confesse so farre his will they know When he directs them whither they shall goe It may bee thou wast put in office lately Which makes thee rogue me so and rayle so stately But when thy head peepes through the pillory I doubt these termes thy cares must iustifie For thy base words are of such hard digestion They 'l cause some stomack call thy name in questiō Thou hopst to see me whipt stand fast blind Hodge For feare thou stumble into th'Porters Lodge Raue rayle doe what thou canst I 'l neuer cease To serue my soueraigne master King of peace VVatch till thy eyes fall out V Vrite do thy worst I haue a Penne and Inkhorne is as curst To answere all thy Rayling Satyrizing In three daies what thou three months art deuising And when thy quarter-Cockatrice sees light In troth it is not worthy of mans sight But I am sorry that thy credit 's tainted To make thee and thy Chaundler vnacquainted VVill he not score no more for Egges and Cheose Because he saw thy Hope vpon her knees Rather then thou shouldst lay that fault on me Come where I dwell I 'l passe my word for thee For Reputation thou canst haue no more Then in a Bakers debt or Ale-wifes score And if thou be deni'd both Bread and Drinke Thy Writing and thy Rowing's like to shrinke Leaue these Inuectiues trust vnto thy Scull For that 's the way to fill thy belly full Of Meat and Drinke besides this Consolation Thou labor'st truly in thine owne Vocation Why

●●●●rashnesse did the Gallants tongue o'rship ●●● the Shepheard gaue a pleasing nip ●●● softest fire doth make the sweetest Mault ●●●●ild repr●●●fes makes rashnesse see his fauls 60 A Man was very angry with his maid because his eggs were boyled too hard truely said she I haue made them● boyle a long ●●● but the next you haue shall boyle two ●●● but they shall be tender enough The boyling of this wenches eggs I find Much like vnto a greedy mi●ers mind ●●● eggs the more they boyle are harder still The ●●● full too sull yet wants his fill 61 TWo learned good-fellowes drinking a pipe of Tobacco it being almost out that ●● that drunke last did partly feele the ashes to ●●● hot to his lippes giuing the pipe to his friend said Ashes to Ashes the other taking the pipe being of a quicke apprehension threw it out to the dunghill saying Earth to earth Thus wit with wit agrees like cake and cheese Both sides are gainers neither side doth leese Conceit begets conceit iest iest doth father And butter falne to ground doth something gather 62 ONe said a Cittizen was a man all in earnest and in no part like a iest because the Citizen was neuer bad or the iest neuer good till they were both broke What 's one mans yea may be anothers nay The Sun doth sosten wax and harden clay Some Citizens are like to iests for why They 'll breake in iest or bankrupt policy 63 A Gallant with a galloping wit was mounted vpon a running horse toward a town named Tame within ten miles of Oxford and riding at full speed he met an old man and asked him Sirrah is this the way to Tame yes sir hee replyde your Horse I 'l warrant you if hee were as wild as the diuell This is a ridle to a foole me thinks And seemes to want an Oedipus or Sphinx But Reader in my booke I hold it fit To find you lines you selfe must find you wit 64 A Complementall Courtier that in his French Italian and Spanish cringes conges and courtesies would bend his body and bow euery way like a tumbler a Mercers seruant espying his marmositicall Apishnesse said Oh if my master could haue bowed but halfe so much I am certainly perswaded that hee had neuer broke Too much of one thing oft proues good for nothing And dainties in satiety breed lothing Th'ones flattery mingled with the others pride Had seru'd them both both might liue long vnspide 65 I My selfe gaue a booke to King Iames once in the great Chamber at Whitehall as his Maiesty came from the Chappell the Duke of Richmond said merrily vnto mee Taylor where did you learne the manners to giue the King a booke and not kneele My Lord said I if it please your Grace I doe giue now but when I beg any thing then I will kneele Be it to all men by these presents knowne Men need not kneele to giue away their owne I le stand vpon my feet when as I giue And kneele when as I beg more meanes to liue But some by this may vnder stand That Courtiers ofiner kneele then stand 66 THe trayned Souldiers of a certaine Shire which I could name to the number of 6000 as they were mustring and drilling vnder their seuerall Captaines a yeomans sonne being there as a raw souldier in his corslet his father standing by said I vaith it does mee much good at heart to ●●● how trim a vellow my zonne is in his hardnesse The young fellow bearing his fathers commendations of him began very desperately to shake his pike and looking exceeding grim with a fearefull horrible terrible countenance said O vatber chad lather nor a groat that all wee bad but one Spaniard here One Spaniard mongst 6000 pirty t' were Better ten thousand Britains bold were there Led by braue Leaders that might make Spain quake Like Vere or Morgan Essex Blunt or Drake 67 ONe said that hee could neuer haue his health in Cambridge and that if hee had liued there till this time hee thought in his conscience that hee had dyed seuen yeeres agoe I will not say the man that spake so ly'd Seuen yeeres agoe no doubt hee might haue dy'd He by his trade perhaps might be a dyer And daily dy'd to liue and bin no lyer 68 A Country fellow was much grieued that he●●● had not gone seuen miles to a marked towne to haue seene the Baboones Why sai●●● his wife it is too farre to goe and come in●●● day to see such bables especially 't is too great●● a iourney on foot O quoth hee I could h●●● gone thither with my neighbour Hobson ●●● foot like a foole as I was and I might hau●●● rid backe vpon my neighbour Iobsons mare●●● like an asse as I am Thus in the preter tense a foole he was And in the present tense he is an Asse And in the future foole and asse shall bee That goes or rides so far such fights to see 69 THere was a lusty young Scholler preserre●●● to a Benefice in the Country and common●● ly on Sundayes and holy-dayes after euening prayer hee would haue a dozen bouts at cud●●● gels with the sturdiest youths in his parish●●● The Bishop of the Diocesse hearing of it ●●● for the parson telling him that this beseem●●● not his profession and grauity and if that ●●● did not desist from that vnmeet kind of exercise hee would vnbenefice him Good my Lord said the Parson I beseech you to conceiue rightly of mee and I doubt not but my●●● playing at cudgels will be counted tollerable for I doe it of purpose to edifie the ruder for●●● of my people How so said the Bishop Ma●●ry my Lord quoth the Parson whatsoeuer do reach them at morning euening prayer●● I doe bear foundly into their heads at cudg●●● afterward for their better remembrance I wish that all the Fencers in our Nation Were onely of this Parsons Congregation That he his life and doctrine should explaine By beating them whilst they beat him againe 70 A Iudge vpon the Bench did aske as old man●●● how old he was My Lord said he I am●●● eight and fourescore And why not fourescore and eight said the Iudge the other replid be●●● cause I was eight before I was fourscore Eight ●…all men may desery ●…eight first contrarily ●…if my Boots and Spures I you beseech ●…spures and Boots is rather proper speech 71 ●…Fellow made his boast that hee rode ●●miles with one horse and neuer ●bit that may bee quoth another per●●● you rid him with a halter Saies hee that will sweare will lie ●●● that will lie will S●eale by consequency ●…wearers are lyers lyers most are thieues ●…God helpe Taylors and true Vndershrieues 72 ONe saw a decayed Gentleman in a very ●…●●● bare cloake said to him Sir you ●…very watchfull cloake on Why said ●●● Gentleman the other answered I ●●●thinke it had a good nap this seuen ●…the Gentleman replyed and truly sir ●…thinkes you

in the house and art so busie a baggage that thou canst let nothing stand to which the other answered and you are so wayward and teasty that a little thing troubles you and puts you in a great anger 122 IN a time of peace a Captaine being in company where after dinner there was dancing with whom a Gentlewoman was desirous to dance the Captaine said hee was made to fight and not to dance to whom she answerd that it were good that he were oyl'd hang'd vp in an Armoury till there were occasion to vse him 123 ONe asked a huffing Gallant why hee had not a Looking-Glasse in his Chamber he answered he durst not because hee was often angry and then he look'd so terribly that he was fearefull to looke vpon himselfe 124 THere was a fellow that not for his goodnesse was whip'd at a Carts tayle and in his execution he draw backward to whom a Gentleman in pitty said Fellow doe not draw backe but presse forward and thy execution and paynes will be the sooner past and done to whom the Rogue answerd It is my turne now when thou art whip'd doe thou goe as thou wilt and now I will goe as I please 125 ONe said that hee had trauaild so farre that he had layd his hand vpon the hole where the winde came forth a second said that hee had beene at the farthest edge of the world and driuen a nayle quite thorow it the third replide that he had beene further for hee was then on the other side of the world and clencht that nayle 126 THere was a Pope who being dead it is said that hee came to heauen gate and knock'd Saint Peter being within the gate asked who was there The Pope answered brother it is I I am the last Pope deceased Saint Peter said if thou be the Pope why dost thou knocke thou hauing the keyes mayst vnlocke the gate and enter The Pope replied saying that his predecessors had the keyes but since their time the wards were altered 127 A Rich Miser being reuiled by a poore man whom he had oppressed the rich man said Thou dogge leaue thy barking the poore man answered that hee had one quality of a good dogge which was to barke when hee saw a thiefe 128 A Man being deeply in play at dice hauing lost much money his sonne a little lad being by him wept quoth the father Boy why dost thou weepe the boy answered that hee had read that Alexander the Great wept when he heard that his father King Philip had conquered many Cities Townes and Territories fearing that hee would leaue him ●●hing to winne and I weepe the contrary ●ay quoth the boy for I feare that my father will leaue me nothing to loose 129 AN Oppressor hauing feld all the trees in a Forest which for a long time had beene ●●e reliefe of many poore people sayd that it was as good as a Commedy to him to see the trees fall to whom a poore man said I ●●pe as thou makest a Commedy of our miseries that three of those trees may be reserued ●●●●●ish a Tragedy for thee and thy Children 130 ONe lamented his friends hard fortune that being raysed to a place of honour his growne sencelesse forgetting all his old ●●milar acquaintance and so farre from knowing any man that he knew not himselfe 131 THe Plough surpasseth the Pike the Harrow excelleth the Halbert the Culter ex●●deth the Cuttleaxe the Goad is better ●● the Gunne for the one sort are the instruments of life and profit and the other are the engines of death and all kindes of cala●●ries 132 A Poore man is in two extremes first if he ●●● he dyes with shame secondly if he ●●● not he dies with hunger 133 ONe being in office was reproued for negligence his excuse was that it was his best policy to be idle for if he should doe ●●● he should displease God and if he should ●●e well should offend men to whom one answered you ought to doe your duty for ●● well doing you shall please God and in ill ●●●ing you shall please men 134 VVOmen take great pleasure to be sued to though they neuer meane to grant 135 ONe said that Suiters in Law were mortall and their suite immortall and that there is more profit in a quicke deniall then in a long dispatch 136 A Trauailer was talking what a goodly City Rome was to whom one of the company said that all Rome was not in Italy for wee had too much Rome in England 137 A Countrey fellow came into Westminster Hall where one told him that the roofe of it was made of Irish wood and that the nature of it was such that no Spider would come neere it and he said further that in Ireland no Toad Snake or Caterpiller can liue but that the earth or the trees will destroy them Ah quoth the Countrey man I wish with all my heart that the Benches Barres and Flooring were all made of such earth and wood and that all Coaches Barges and Wherries were made of Irish Oake that all our English Caterpillers might be destroyed 138 MAster Thomas Coriat on a time complained against mee to King Iames desiring his Maiesty that hee would cause some heauy punishment to bee inflicted vpon mee for abusing him in writing as he said I had to whom the King replide that when the Lords of his honourable Priuy Councell had leisure and nothing else to doe then they should heare and determine the differences betwixt Master Coriat the Scholler and Iohn Taylor the Sculler which answere of the King was very acceptable to Master Coriat Whereupō I made this following petitiō to the King TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent Maiestie The humble petition of Iohn Tailor your ●… ●… I begge thou wilt be graciously inclined To reade these lines my rusticke pen compile Know Royall Sir Tom Coriate workes the wile Your high displeasure on my head to bring ●… Did heare the cause of two offending Harlots So I beseech thee Great great Britaines King To doe the like for two contending Varlots ●… A Ribble ●●bble of Gossips THe space of a ●orting he from the Bearbaiting ●… stulted by the right reuerend Matron madam Isabel that Katherin should go no more a maying ●… spoones now old Sibill all this while sate mumping like a gib Cat and on the sodaine she starts vp and thrusts Charity out of doores to take vp her lodging where she could get it well being much offended to see Marget in●●●… it and bade her tell Alice that vnlesse she tool●● heed the pot would run ouer and the fat lye in the fire at this ●●●●… Now in the heat of all this businesse Bar●●● tels Frances how there is good ale at the labo● in vain the matter being brought to this passe Winisrit saies that her god-daughter ●●●●● newly brought ●●● God blesse the child and ●●● Constance the Comfit maker wife at the ●●● of the Spiders leg must be ●… dresse to

grasse The Milke-maide gets a greene gowne for her hir And all in sport the time away doe passe The bird the beast the lusty lad the lafle Doe sing doe friske doe clip doe coll doe kisse Not thinking how the time must be or was But making pleasant vso of time as t is Till Sminthus leaues his lodging at the twinnes And to a hotter race his course beginnes To my approued good friend M r Robert Branthwayte Anagramma You beare a heart true bent LEt fortune smile or frowne you are content At all Assares you beare a heart true bent The 12. of Iune the Sunne enters into Cancer or the Crabbe Cancer Iune OF all the Innes where Sol doth vse to lie With crabbed Cancer none may make cōpare It is the highest in the loftie sk●e All other signes to it inferiour are When Sol is once ascended and come there He scalds and scorches with his heauenly heate Makes fields of grasse and flowrie medowes bare And though the idle worke not yet they sweate Thus like an all-commanding lord he swaies High mounted in his chiese So●stician pride For when the Cancer hee immures his raies Vnto the height his glorie 's amplifide And when he goes from thence he doth beginne By shorter Iourneyes to attaine his Inne The thirteenth of Iuly the Sunne enters into Leo or the Lion Leo. Iuly THe worlds eye daz'ler in his fiery race Doth at the Lyon lodge his vntam'd Steeds And now the ripening yeere begins apace To shew Dame T●llu● procreatiue seeds For as from man mans generation breeds So by manuring of our Grandam Earth Are brought forth fruits flowres and hearbs and weeds To shield ingratefull man from pining dearth The dogged dog daies now with heat doe swelt And now 's the season of th'vnseasn'd aire When burning seauers make the patient melt Whose heat the Doctors hardly can repaire For why these cur●ish daies are fatall still And where they chance to bite they vse to kill The foureteenth of August the Sunne enters into Virgo Or the Virgin Virgo August VNhappy phaetons Splendidious Sire Left amorous bussing beauteous Climens lips And all inspir'd with Loues coelestiall fire His Globe surrounding Steed amaine he whips And to the Virgur Virgo downe doth glide Where for she entertain'd him to his pleasure He his exchequer coffers opens wide And fils the world with haruests wisht for treasure Now country Hindes vnto their tooles betake The forke the rake the sithe the hooke the cart And all a generall expedition make Till Nature be left naked by their art At last the Virgin when these things are don Till that time twelue-month leaues her Loue the sun The thirteenth of September the Sunne enters into Libra Or the Ballance Libra September THe Great all-seeing burning eye of day In Libra●s Ballance restlesse comes to rest Where equally his way he seemes to wey And day and night with equall houres are drest By these iust scales true iustice is exprest Which doth to times and places render right Where wealth insults not nor the poore opprest But all 's eu'n poyzed like the day and night And now this lampe of light doth here alight Making this Signe his Equinoctiall Inne Whilst fruitfull trees are ouer-laden quite Too great a gracious guerdon for mans sinne And as in March he 'gan to doe vs grace So to th' Antipodes he now 'gins shew his face The foureteenth of October the Sunne enters into Scorpio Scorpio October ILlustrious Phoebus now declines amaine His golden head within the Scorpion dwells Now boystrous blasts of wind and showres of rain Of raging winters nigh approach foretells From trees sharpe Autu●●ne all the leaues expells For Phoebus now hath left his pleasant Innes Now Marchants Bacchus blood both buy and sell And Michaels Terme lawes haruest now begins Where many losers are and few that wins For law may well be cal'd contentions whip When for a scratch a cuffe for pointes or pins Will witlesse gets his neighbour on the hip Then tone the tother vnto law will vrge And vp they come to giue their purse a purge The eleuenth of Nouember the Sunne enters into Sagitarius Or the Archer Sagitarius Nouember THus Luna's brother lower doth descend And at the Archer rests his radient Waine Now winters bitter blasting stormes contend T' assault our hemespheare with might and maine The fields and trees disrobed all againe Starke naked strip'd of hearbs of howres of fruits And now the Lord the Lowne the Sir the Swai●e Against the freeze of Freeze make winter suites Now ch●rping birds are all turn'd tounglesse mutes And Shepheards swaines to sheephouse d●●ue their sheep Not controuersies now are in disputes At Westminster where such a coyle they keepe Where man doth man within the Law betosse Till some go croslesse home by Woodcocks Crosse● The eleuenth of December the Sunne enters into Capricorne Or the Goat Capricornus December A Pollo hath attain'd his lowest seat And now the shortnesse of his race is such That though his Glory for a time be great He giues his Sister Cynthia twice as much Now is the welcom'st time of all the yeere Now dye the oxen and the fatted hogs Now merry Chirstmas fils the world with cheere And chimnies smoake with burning logge on logs He that 's a mizer all the yeere beside Will reuell now and for no cost will spare A poxe hang sorrow let the world go slide Let 's eate and drinke and cast away all care Thus when Apollo's at the horned Goate He makes all Christendome with mirth to ●or●●● The tenth of Ianuary the Sunne enters into Aquarius Or the signe of the Waterbearer Aquarius Ianuary THe Glorious Great Extinguisher of Night Immures his bright translucent golden head And from his radiant teeme he doth alight To rest his Steeds in cold Aquarius bed Now hory frost hath Tellus face o'rspred And chilling numnesse whets the shauing ayre All vegitable creatures now seeme dead Like curelesse cures past and repast repaire ●●igidious Ianus two-fold frozen face T●mes moyst Aquar●us into congeal'd yee Though by the fires warme side the pot haue place Of winters wrath it needs must know the price At last daies burning toarch againe takes horse And into wetter weather makes his course The ninth of February the Sunne enters into Pisces Or the signe of the two fishes Pisces February Now snow and rain and haile slauering sleet The Delphean god hath suckt from sea and land With exhalations now the earth they greet Powr'd downe by Iris liberall hand If soulefac'd February keepe true touch He makes the toyling Plowmans prouerbe right By night by day by little and by much It fills the ditch with either blacke or white And as the hard cornuted butting Ram At setting forth was Tytans daintiest dish So to conclude his race right glad I am To leaue him feasting with a messe of fish And long in Pisces he doth not remaine But leaues the fish and falls to flesh againe To the

vshers of the Mortimers intollarable aspiring conetousnesse and destruction and which was most insupportable there were for all most 20 yeers space the plagues and desolation of the King and kingdomes After great coutentions were betwixt the 2 Realmes of England and Scotland a peace was concluded and Dauid-le Bruce the young Prince of Scotland was married to Iane King Edward the 3 sister K. Edward maried with the Lady Philip daughter to the Earle of Henault at Yorke with whom she liu'd 42 yeers She sounded Queens Colledge in Oxford She was mother to that mirrour of manhood and st●●●● of Chiu●● it Edward surnamed the black Prince There was a dreadfull batell sought at Hallidon hill in which were slaine 8 Earles 80 Knights and Baroness and 35000 Common soldiers on the Scots side the losses on the English side through the parciality of Writers were not set downe About the 12 yeers of this Kings reigne a quarter of Wheate was sold for 28 an Oxe 6 d a Geose 2d a fat Sheepe 6 d fixe Pidgeons and a fat Pigge for 2 d. The King claimed the Crowne of France and with 200 ships sought with 300 French ships and flew 33000 of the French This King first instituted the Honorable Order of the Garter at Windsor there being alwaies 26 in number The King sought the battell of Cressie in France wherein was slain the King of Bohemia with 10 Princes 80 Knights Baroness and 1200 Knights with 330000 Common Soldiers The King made 4 inroades into Scotland with great armies and was still victorious Anno 1338 the arms of France were quartered wth the armes of England the King prepared a great armie against France and on the Sea neere Sluce in Flanders he vanquished 400 French ships with the losse of 30000 of their men Then was France taken or halfe a yeere the wars againe renewing King Edward besieged Callice and ●ocke it An. 1347 Dauid King of Scotland was taken prisoner by one Iohn Copland an Esquire of the North. At the battell of Potiers Edward the black Prince of Wales had a glorious victory for there hee ●ocke King Iohn of France with his Sonne Phillip the Dolphin prisoners There were slaine of the French 52 Neblemen 1700 Knights and Esquires and 600 Common men 100 Ensignes and many men of note taken prisoners Dauid King of Scots was set at liberty hauing bin a prisoner 11 yeers paying 100000 marks st●●●ing Iohn K. of France after 4 yeeres imprisonment set free paying 1000000 ● for his ransome Finally neuer was English King more triumphant and fortunate in war in the fruition of a vertuous Queen 7 sons and daughters a glorious and lang reign of 50 yeeres buried at Sheene Anno Domini 1378. RICHARD THE IJ KING OF ENGLAND And FRANCE LORD OF IRELAND c. A Sunshine Morne precedes a showry day A Calme at Sea ofttimes foreruns a storme All is not gold that seemes so glistring gay Foule Vice is fairest features Canker-worme So I that was of blood descent and forme The perfect image of a Royall Stock Vnseason'd young aduice did me deforme Split all my hopes against despaires blacke rock My Regall name and power was made a mock My Subiects madly in rebellion rose Mischiefe on mischiefe all in troopes did flock Oppos'd depos'd expos'd inclos'd in woes With wauering fortunes troublously I raing'd Slaine by soule mur ther peace and rest I gain'd Anno Dom. 1377 June 21 Sunday Richard the second borne as Burdeux the ●●●●● nate Grandebilde and son of the two 〈…〉 and Paragons of Armes and all Noble vertues Edward the third and his euer-famous sonne Edward the ●●●●● Prince was crowned at Westminster by the 〈…〉 mond Sudbury Archbishop of Canterbury the K●●● being but 11 yeeres old The glory of the English N●●● was in a continual Eclips the most part of this K●●g●●● his youth with all the frailties incident vn●●●● with ●●●● gouernours both of his Kingdome and person 〈…〉 main Ruines of the King almost the Realm The 〈…〉 of his fortunes after his Coronation was that 50 French ships landed at Rye in Suffex who burnt and spoyled the Towne and diuers other parts of the kingdome and ●●● Alexander Ramsey a valiant Scottish Gentlemen with but 40 men withhim tooke the Castle of Barwicke which the Earle of Northūberland man from him ●●●● with a great number The French did so far preuaile ●●●●● they came to Granesend and burnt and rifled it T●●● Comment arose in rebellion in diuers places as Kent ●●●● sex Surrie Suffolk Norfolk Cambridge the K●●●● men being 50000 came to London where the ●●●● cammitted many outrages vnder the cemman●● of ●●●●● solent rebels Wat Tyler and Iack Sraw who ●●●●● mated to that mischief by one Iohn Ball an●●●●●● priest but Tyler was killed by the famous Sir William Walworth Lord Maior of London the rebele dispe●●●● Iack Staw and Ball the Priest extented the Com●●●● pardoned and all at peace for a short time These Bascalls had beheaded Sinon Tibald Archbishop of Canterbury●● and Sir Robert Hales Lord Treasurer of England ●●● burnt and spoylea the Sahoy the like they had ●●● Lanibeth destroying all the Rowles and Record of ●●●●● Chancerie Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster the King vnckle was accused for Treason by a Carmilite Fryer ●●●● the Fryer was cruelly murdered and the Duke suspici●●●● cleared Barwick was wonne againe by the Scots ●●●● againe recouered by the Earle of Northumberland The French prepare a great Nauy and Army purpa ●●●● inuade England King Richard raiseth a ●●●●● intending to conquer Scotland all which desig●●●●● neither good or profitable euents 1386 mischiefe and ●● serie hauing sate long abroad began to batch the ●●●●● insulting on the one side and the people rebellious ●●● other did Bandy the regall power in to hazard The Scott enter England vnder the command of the valiant Sir William Dowglasse and are met and ●●●● tred by the Right Noble Lord Henry Hotspurre Dowglasle was staine and Hotspur taking Ireland rebel'd the King went thither in person and lest England the whilest he bring forced to surrender himselfe but Crow●●● and kingdome to his kinsman Henry Bullingbrooke Son to Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster 1400. HENRY THE IV KING OF ENGLAND And FRANCE LORD OF IRELAND c. FRom right wrong-doing Richard I did wrest His Crowne mis-guided but on me mis-plac'd Vnciuill Ciuill warres my Realme molest And English men did England spoyle and wast The Sire the Son the Son the Father chas'd Vndutifull vnkind vnnaturall Both Yorke and Lancaster were rais'd and rac'd As Conquest did to either Faction fall But still I grip'd the Scepter and the Ball And what by wrong I won by might I wore For Prince of Wales I did my Son install But as my Martiall Fame grew more and more By fatall Fate my vitall threed was cut And all my Greatnesse in a graue was put Anno Dom. 1399 September 19 Munday Crownes misplaced on vnrightfull heads are commonly lined with

perdurable cares and vexation as appeared in the lines and raignes of Rusus Henry the first Stehpen Iohn and now this King Henry the fourth who though hee were minion of Fortune the Darling of the peolpe euery way a compleate Noble Prince yet was his vsurpation still attended with dangerous molestations he was crowned at Westminster by Thomas Arundell Arbhishop of Canterbury hee was scarce warme in his seat before the Dukes of Exeter Aumerie Surry with the Earles of Glocester and Salisbury conspired to kill him and to raise King Richard againe but their plot was discouered and satisfied with the losse of there heads shortly after king Richard the 2 was starued to death some say murdred at Pomfret castle in short time after the Princes of English poets Ieffry Chaucer and Iohn Cower dyed all those Noble men who either fouored king Richard or were raised by him were degraded disinherited or out of King or courrtly favour The French in Aquitaine intend rebellion against K. Henry but are pacified by Tho Percy Earle of Worcester The Welsh rebell vnder the cōmand of their captine Owne Glendowre and the king went thither in person and with losse and danger quieted them An. 1403 the terrible battel of Shrewsbury was fought betwixt the King and the Earle of Worcester the Earle Dowglasse the Lord Henry Percy alias Hotspur and others where after a bloody triall Percy was slain buried taken vp againe and quartered the Earle of Worcester was beheaded the Dowglasse taken and the King victorious Owen Glendowere again raiseth wars in Wales and inuades the Marches of England although king Richard the 2 be dead and buried yet is he still sained to be aliue and by counterfeit impostures King Henry was much molested 140 ships came out of France arriued at Milford hauen to the aid of Owen Glendowre the Earle of Northumberland rebelled with the Lord Bardolph and were both taken beheaded Thus was king Henries reigne a Maiesticall missery a soueraignty of sorrow and a regall power alwaies attended with perplexity so that hauing raign'd 13 yeers 6 months wanting 5 daies he dyed the 20 of March 1413 and leauing 4 sonnes 2 daughters he was with all funerall and Royall solemnity interred at Canterbury HENRY THE FIFTH KING OF ENGLAND And FRANCE LORD OF IRELAND FRom my Iancastrian Sire successiuely I Englands glorious golden Garland gots I temper'd Iustice with mild clemency Much blood I shed yet blood-shed loued not Time my Sepulchre and my bones may not But Time can neuer end my endlesse fame Oblinion cannot my braue acts out blot Or make Forgetfulnesse forget my name I plaid all France at Tennise such a game With roaring Rackets bandied Balls and Foyles And what I plaid for still I won te same Triumphantly transporting home the spoyles But in the end grim death my life assail'd And as I lin'd I dy'd belon'd bewail'd Anno Dom. 1413. March 20 Sunday Henry the 5 borne at Monmouth in Wales about 28 yeeres old when he began to reigne he was crowned at Westminster by the hands of Thomas Arundell Archbishop of Canterbury and howsoeuer some Writers haue imputed wildnesse and irregular courses so youth vnto him yet when hee attained the Scepter he proued the mirror of Princes and Paragon of the world in that age He banished from his Court and presence all prophane and lewd companions and exiled from his eares all flattring Parasites and Sicophants In the 1 yeer of his reigne he prepared a great Armie against France an●●● Southampton very happily escaped murthering by the Treason of Richard Earle of Cambridge Henry Lord Scroope and Sir Thomas Gray Knight Soone after the King past with 1500 sail into France where hee wanne the strong Tow●●●● Hatflew and intending to march back with his ●● my toward Callice he was neere a place called Agincourt encountrea by the whole power of France where King Henry had a triumphant victories in which battel were slaine many of the French Nobility with 10000 cōmon soldiers as many of them taken prisoners The whole English Army at that time being not 10000 being wasted with the fluxe famine and other sicknesses yet did they ●●●●●● more prisoners then they were themselues in number in all the battel lost not aboue 28 mē After which the King returned into England and ●●●● was met with 400 Citizens and magnificantly ●●● tertained into London King Henry attributing all his conquests and victories to God The E●●●●● Sigismond came into England and entred leag●●● with King Henry the Emperors intent was to ●●● made a peace betwixt England France but he could not accōplish it The king passed into I ra●●● againe and wonne many Cities Townes C●●●●●● strong holds in the end he married the Lady Katherin daughter to K. Charles of France with when he came into England and hauing crowned ●●●● Queene be returned into I rance the third ●●● was in Paris proclaimed heire apparent to the Crowne Finally he sickened and dyed at Boyses● Vincennois in France from whence his corps ●● brought and buried at Westminster I September 1422. HENRY THE VI KING OF ENGLAND And FRANCE LORD OF JRELAND GReat England Mars my Father being dead I not of yeares or yeare but eight months old The Diadem was plac't vpon my head In Royall Robes the Scepter I did hold But as th' Almighties workes are manifold Too high for mans conceit to comprehend In his eternall Register eurold My Birth my troublous Life and tragicke End ● Gainst me the house of Yorke their force did bend And Peeres and People weltred in their gore My Crown and Kingdome they from me did rend Which I my Sire and Grandire kept and wore Twice was I crown'd vncrown'd oft blest oft crost And lastly murdred life and Kingdome lost Anno Dom. 1422 August 31 Munday Henry the 6 born at Windsor the son of Henry the 5 was but 8 moneths old at the death of his father so that by reason of his infancy himselfe and kingdome were gouerned by his vnckles the Dukes of Bedford and Glocester An. 1419 Nouember 6 the King was crowned first at Westminster by the hands of Henry Chichley Archbishop of Canterbury hee was againe the second time crowned at Paris the 7 of December 1431 by the Cardinalls of York and Winchesters and returns into England the 11 day of February following In these times France was in miserable perplexity diuided betwixt French and English in continuall bloody wars for the Dolphin Charles made wars in sundry places claiming the Crowne the English won and lost towns and territories as fortune found or fround till at last by reason of the King childhood in the beginning of his reigne his soft milde gentle inclination in his ripe yeeres and his indisposition to marshall affaires hee beeing more sit for the Church thē for chinalry for praier thē for prowesse a man in al his actions more like a Saint then to one that should weild a warlike

golden promises which were neuer performed but with the taking of Buckinghams head at sha●●●●● after specified Now mischiefe beganne to 〈…〉 the Queene was accused of sorcery by the Potector Hastings Lord Chamberlaine was beheaded suddenly without either crime or ●●● in the Towre Poore Iane Shore was also taken and carried to the Towre her goods to the vallue of 3000 ma● kes were seazedon and confiscate to the vse of the Protector She was a woman hauing many good parts and howsoeuer by the command of King Edward the fourth and her owne fra●●● shee fell into ●●● with the King ●●● she was euer inclined and did much good and cannot be taxed in Histories for doing any man hurt The King and his brother were both standred with bastard Duke of Gloucester was proclaimed King which ●●● much modelly he refused though hee meant with all his ●●●●● to take it Anno 1483. RICHARD THE IIJ KING OF ENGLAND And FRANCE LORD OF IRELAND c. AMbition's like vnto quenchlesse thirst Ambition Angels threw from Heauen to Hell Ambition that infernall Hag accurst Ambitiously made me aspire rebell Ambition that damned Necromanticke Spell Made me clime proud with shame to tumble down By bloody murther I did all expell Whose right or might debard me from the Crown My smiles my gifts my fauours or my frowne Were fain'd corrupt vile flattry death and spite By cruell Tyranny I gat renowne Till Heau'n iust Iudge me iustly did require By blood I won by blood I lost the throne Detested liu'd dy'd lou'd bewail'd of none Anno 1483 June 22. Richard Duke of Glocester the 3 some of Richard Duke of Yorke the 3 Duke of Glocester and third of that name King of England Is tyranny and vsurpation griped the Scepter of the kingdome after hee he had proclaimed his Nephewes Bastardy his brother the deceased King Edward the fourths scandall and accused his own mother of adultry making his way to the Regality by the murther of his two innocent Nephewes which murther was committed by the bands of Sir Iames Tirrell Knight and one Myles Forrest and Iohn Dighton which villains murthered then in their bed and buried them beneath a paire of staires vnder an heape of stones in the Towne and in that ledging which in memory of that blanke deed is first named the bloody Towre their bodies were taken ● and againe buried obscurely no man knoweswhere By these means hauing gotten the Goale God ●●●●red his reigne to be his perpetuall sormens ●●●●● without and continuall horrory within the murtherers had part of their payment in this world for Myles Fo●rest ●otted aboue ground peece meale in S t Martins Str Iames Tirrell was executed for treason on the Towre-hill Dighton liu'd a hatted miscreant both of God and man the Duke of Buckingham though innocent of dthe murther yet hee suppresse the young Princes and raised the Tyrant and his end was the losse of his head at Salisbury Shortly after the Diuine iustice began to fall heauy vpon King Richard many of the Nobility and Gentrie for sooke him and fled into Britaine in France to Henry Earle of Richmond who was the onely heyre to the English crowne of the Line of the house of Lancaster king Richard in the dangers would haue procured a most wicked safety by marr●ing the Lady Elizabeth eldest daughter is his deceased brother King Edward the fourth the only inheritix of the house of York lawfull heyre to the Crowne but Gods prouidence and the Ladies vertue with stood that incestuous match shortly after Henry of Richmond arriued at Milford hauen in Wales where his Army encreasing met Richard at Redmere field neere Posworth seuen miles from Leicester where Richard vahautly fighting was slaine 1485 August 23 and was buried at Leycester HENRY THE VIJ KING OF ENGLAND And FRANCE LORD OF IRELAND ●Was the man by Gods high grace assign'd ●That for this restlesse Kingdome purchas'd rest ●ork and Lancaster in one combin'd ●● sundred had each other long opprest ●● strength and policy th' Almighty blest ●● good successe from first vnto the last ●● high ●houab turned to the best ● orld of perills which my youth o're past ●● white and red Rose I conioyned fast ●sacred Marriages coniugall band ●●ytors tam'd and treason stood agast ●● strong guarded by my Makers hand ●nglory and magnificence I raign'd And fame loue and a tombe was all I gain'd Anno Dom. 1485 August 22 Monday Henry of that name the seuenth King of England was Earle of Richmond borne in Pembroke-Castle in Wales sonne of Edmund of Hadham Earle of Richmond Sonne of Owen Theodore and Queene Katherin the French King daughter late wife to King Henry the sist was crowned at Westminster the 30 day of October by the bands of Thomas Bourghchier Archbishop of Conterbury this Prince was wise valsant and fortunate Through many perals hazards he had past his life and attained the Royalty of Englands throne and with much prudence and mu●●●ble fortitude be gouerned this Land Maugre many dangerous attempts and treacherom consp●acses plott●● against hun and his designes had such ausptcsous euents thus still hee was victori●●● ouer surre●gne cuall and 〈…〉 troubles One Lambest Simnei a Bakers sonne claimed the crowns countersetting in●●●else to be Edward Earle of Warwicke sonne of George Duke of Clarence Some write that ●●e assumed to bee one of king Edward the fourthes sonne which was murthered in the Toure howsoeuer Hambert gat into Ireland and in Christ Church in Dublin was crowned King of England and Ireland hee with an Armie landed at Fowdrey in Lancashire but King Henry met him and at the battell of Stoke he took him prisoner pardon'd him his life and gaue him a turn-spits place in his kitchen and after maue him one of his saulkners Lambert was net long supprest but another of his stamp supphes his roome of a rebellious imposture Peter or Perkin Warbecke the sonne of a Iew borne in Torney claimed the Crowne by the counterfest stile of Richard Second sonne to King Edward the fourth Perkin gat into England and after into Scotland where ●●● preuailed that he was married to the Lady Katherin Gordon the Earle of Huntleys daughters K. Iames the fourths kinsnman the rebels in Kent were ouen thwone and their Captante the Lord Audley taken and beheaded Perkin came out of Scotland and moues the ●●● men to ayae him King Henry net ouercame and ●●● and pardon ' him another counterfest a shoemakers son named Ralph Milford ●●● the Crowne and purchast'd a balter Perkin Warback Sica from the King and againe was taken and executed as Tyburnc King Henry gaue his daughter the Lady Margaret in ●●● to Iames ●●e fourth King of Scotland Arthur Prince of Wales the eldest Sonne of Henry Married with the Lady Katherin daughter to the King of Spaine but the Prince dyed ●●● after The King gathered a ●●● masse of money to the general grieuance of the subiects he had three font Arthur Henry

and ●●● to King Edward the sixt Shee was crowned at Westminster the first of October 1553 by the hands of Stephen Gardner Bishop of Winchester King Edward being dead his death was concealed two daies by reason of the feare of Queene Maries alteration of the religion which King Edward had established for which cause the Lady Iane was by many of the Lords and the Londoners proclaimed Queene This Lady Iane was eldest daughter to Henry Duke of Suffolke shee was then married to the Lord Guiford Dudlty fourth sonne to Iohn Duke of Northumberland her mother was the Lady Francis the daughter of Mary the French Queene and the younger sister of King Henry the 8. Queene Mary bearing that Iane was proclaim'd Queen begain to rowse raised an Army and was first proclaimed in the City of Norwich her powers still increasing she made towards London where all supplies forsocke the Lady Iane so that she with her husband and father and the Lord Thomas Gray with others were beheaded The Queene ceases all the protestant Bishops and Clergie to bee degraded suspended or imprisoned She raised againe the Mase and with it masse of misery to this kingdome King Philip of Spaine was contracted to Queene Mary but Sir Thomas Wiat with an Armie opposed it and after much bickering was taken and executed on the Towre●●● The Lady Elizabeth the Queenes sister was wrong●●ly imprisoned and in danger to be put to death Philip King of Spaine was married to Queene Mary with●● Royall solemnity at Winchester the 25 of Iuly Anno 1454. This wofull Land was in those daies a very Achetdima or field of blood the Popes M●reban●s ●●● Church and Commonwealth with holy Water Pax Censors Oyle Spittle Creame Altars Pictures Images ● Crosses Crucifixes Beades Lights Tapers Cand●●● the Breaden god these Romish warres did cost the li●es neere 6000 people that refused them some hanged ●●● burne and diuers others suffering other deaths and ●●ties K. Philip Queen Mary send defiance into France Philip went thither in person besieged the strong ●●● of S t. Quintins and man it but shortly after the English men lost Callice which had beene the King of English Towne 21 yeeres Wherefore Queene Mary tooke ●●● griefe that she● neuer enioyed her life-long after ●●● Callice was lost the 17 of Ianuary and the Queene ●●● at Saint Iames house the 7 of Nouember following ●●● 1558 when she had reigned 5 yeeres 4 moneth●●●● daies she lieth buried as Westminster ELIZABETH QVEENE OF ENGLAND FRANCE and IRELAND Defender of the Faith c. THe griefes the feares the terrors and the toiles The sleights tricks snares that for my life were laid ●pes prisons poysons pistois bloody broyles ●● these incompast me poore harmelesse Mayd ●● I still trusting in my Makers ayde Was still defended by his power diuine ●y glory and my greatnesse was displai'd ●● farre as Sunne and Moone did euer shine Gods mingled Seruice I did re-refine From Romish rubbish and from humane drosse ● yearely made the pride of Spaine decline ●●● and all Belgia I sau'd from losse I was Arts patterne t' Armes I was a Patron I liu'd and dyed a Queene a Maid a Matron Anno Dom. 1558 Nouember 17 Thursday Lady Elizabeth borne at Greenwich second daughter to King Henry the eight sister and heire to the late Queene Mary after shee had by Gods gracious prouience past through many afflictions as scandals calumnations sundry imprisonns ●●● and hazard of her life shee was at the age of 25 yeeres and od dayes crowned Queen of England France and Ireland at Westminster by the hand of Owen Oglethorpe Bishop of Carlielc the 13 of Ianuary The first good worke of hers after her coronation was to reforme and restore and Seruice of God to the Primitiue sincerity and prayer and preaching to be vsed in the English tongue she caused all the bables of Babek and all the Romish rubbish to bee cast out of the Church shee dismissed those Bishops and others of the Clergie as would not be reformed She caused all base momes and coyneste to be supprest and to be no vallue and in their stead she ordained that no coyne but Gold and Siluer shou● passe for current in her Dominions The French King Henry at a ●l●ng was vnfortunately slaine by a Lord named Mountgomery ●●inter of the l●●●nce running into his eye An. 1559. Sorne after the French molest Scotland but by Queene Elizabeths ●yde they were expulsed The Noble Earle of Arraw in Scotland and Ericus King of Sweaden were suuer●● to marry ●●● the Queene which her Maiesty with all princely modesty refused She was after sued to by Henry Duke of Aniou brother to the French King Charles the 9. Anno 1514. The bloody massaker was in France where in the City of Paris only 10000 Protestarts were m●n thered by the Pepists The Irish fell to rebellian vnder the Earle of Tirone which rebellion put England to much cost and trouble Henry Lord Darneley King of Scots most inhumanely murdred Anno 1568 and his Queen Mary assaulted by the oppression of her rebellicus Subiects came into England and was royally welcomed One Thomas Appletree discharging his ●●ce the Queene was in her Barge vpon the Thames the bullet ranne thorow both the Armes of one of her Watermen but the Queene vnderstanding that the shot was by casualtie pardoned the offender Her mercie iustice temperance fortitude magnanimity prudence learning and incomparable wisedome would each of them fill a volume So that neither ●●● vnablenesse of me the writer nor the briefnesse which I am ●●● to in thus abstract can no waies touch the ●em of her vertues wherefore I refer the reader to the great volumes of Hollinsheds story the Reuerend learned Cambden Master speed and others who haue writen more largely of her though all of them are much short of her vnimmitable merits shee ayed the 24 of March 1602 aged 69 y●eeres 6 moneths and 7 dayes she reigned 44 yeeres ●4 months and 7 daies On the 28 of Aprill after shee was buried at Westminster IAMES Of that Name THE FIRST And I. Monarch of the whole Iland of GREAT BRITAINE c. WEre all the flatt'ry of the world in me Great King of hearts Arts great Britaines King Yet all that flattery could not flatter thee Or adde to thy renowne the smallest thing My Muse with truth and freedome dares to sing Thou wert a Monarch lou'd of God and Men. Two famous Kingdomes thou to one didst bring And gau'st lost Britaines name her name agen Thou cansedst Doctors with their learned pen The sacred Bible newly to translate Thy wisdome found the damned powder'd Den That hell had hatcht to ouerthrow thy state And all the world thv Motto must allow The peace makers are blast and so art thou Anno Dom. 1602 March 24 Thursday Iames the first of that name King of England Scotland France Ireland the first King that was ●●● in England since the Norman conquest

you stand In duty for your liues and honours bound To him for by him haue you beene renown'd Yet Death that 's common vnto euery one Should be intolerable vnto none And therefore let his noble spirit rest Amidst those ioyes which cannot be exprest Let those that liue his goodnesse imitate And yeeld vnto the course of mortall fate FINIS A FVNERALL ELEGIE IN THE SACRED MEMORY OF THE Right Reuerend Right Honourable and Learned Father in GOD LANCELOT Lord Bishop of VVinchester Deane of his Maiesties Chappell Prelate of the Right Honourable Order of the Garter and one of the Lords of his Maiestices most Honourable Priuie COVNCELL Who departed this life at his house in Southwarke on Munday the 25 th of September last 1626 and was Honourably Interred in Saint Sauiours Church in Southwarke the XI of Nouember TO THE WORSHIPFVLL AND RELIGIOVS GENTLE man M r. Iohn Parker Citizen of London and of the worshipfull Societie of Marchant-Taylors Right Worthy Sir IN these ingratefull daies of ours wherein mens merits are forgotten with the expiration of the life and that too many doe glory to leaue happy or vnhappy posterities behinde them to ●●● their memories liue when they are gone or else put a vaine hope of a long lasting same by e●●●cting painted vaine-glorious Sepulchers and marble Monuments whilst small are the●●● ber of those that by Piety Charity Noble and vertuous Actions and good life and conuersation ●● seeke to attaine the neuer-fading memory of Eternity and true lmmortality so that it is a doubt wh●ther the death of the good or the life of the bad are most to be lamented Yet although the true worth●● this deceased Right Reuerend Right Honourable and right Learned Father whom God in merry ●● taken from the euill to come is of that inuincible and impregenable strength that the flattery or battle of future time cannot beat it downe into the gulfe of obliuion and forget fulnesse yet though we●● lesse I in dutious loue and reuerence to the Dead and true in affection to the liuing amongst whom ●●●● of my departed Lords Friends and Seruants I am much endeared and oblieged vnto I haue set ●● rudely to paper and as I could though not as I should I haue as it were onley look'd into the Sui●●●● of a goodly City tasted Manna afarre off and touched the skirts or hem of his meritorious vertues wh●● I have made bold to dedicate to your Worships graue and iudicious view and censure humbly desir● your VVorship to accept my intention more then my Labour in hope whereof I cease to enlarge my E●●● further wishing you such happinesse in this life as is correspondent to your worth and such felicity in ●● life to come as is layd vp for good men in Heauen Your Worships to command IOHN TAYLOR A Silly Taper or a Candles light Are vaine additious to make Sol more bright ●●● can one little water-drop augment The mighty bounds of Neptunes continent The raging Winds that threaten sea and shore ●●● one mans breath is not increas'd the more ●●● or can a handfull of vnstable sand ●●yse mounts of earth or amplifie the land ●●● that am the meanest man of men ●●rane wanting learning meaner for the pen ●th glimering raper or a drop of raine ●●not increase the light inlarge the maine ●●● any way in sitting tearmes set foth ●ght Reuerend Winchester Admired worth ●●●all the learned Poets of these dayes ●●ght write and speake in his deserued prayse ●●● spend their inke and paper and their spirits ●●●●add no fame or honour ot his merits ●●●as pute snow shewes whiter to the eye ●●●●hen cole-black Crowes or swarty Rauens are by ●●●as the darknesse makes light seeme more cleare ●●●will his Vertues in my lines appeare ●●●speake his passage in this vale of strife London he had being first and life ●hose Parents as became their reputation ●●●bring him vp in worthy education ●●● Prem brooke Hall in Cambridge witnesse will ●hereas his noble memory liues still ●passing on in this his morall race ●●ne'd by grace from higher place to place ●●●to the Deanery of Westminster ●●●to this Bishopricke of Chichester ●● Iames did next to Elye him preferre ●ich learned Prince made him his Almoner ●●● by Gods prouidence nor his desire ●●●to Winchester translated higher ●●●of the Royall Chappell and beside Garters Prelate he was dignifide ●●●gracious Iames did in his wisedome see ●●● worthy Lords vpright integrity ●hom all loyall vertues were innate ●●●●him a priuy Councellour of State ●●●his honours still did higher grow ● minde in meeke humillity was low ●●●like a blessed Samuel was he ●yned from his infancy to be ●iant souldier of Christs faithfull Campe ●in God Church a learn'd illustrious Lamp ●●●●at the lord to Abraham did say From thy Country and thy Kin away ●●●from thy Fathers house I charge thee goe ●●●Lord that I to thee will showe ●is right reuerend Lord was from his youth ●●●from the world to Gods eternall truth ●being one in Heau ' ns high businesse sent ●igh in this world yet from the world he went For though the world is as 't is vnderstood Mans natiue Country as he 's flesh and blood Yet is his worldly part a prison foule Wherein in bondage lyes his purer soule Which soule is heauenly makes heauen her aime And here she 's in the World not of the same So this deceased Subiect of my muse He liu'd and grieu'd to see the worldsabuse And like a ●eremy ●● had ●●●ments He sigh'd and greu'd bewaynng the euents Which haue and doe and dad ●● are like Vpon this woefull age of ours to strike He saw and grieu'd a what all men should grieue How goodnesse small reipect could here achieue And how the chiefest good that men doe craue Is pompe and wealth and rich appreil braue How man will for his body haue good food Good fire good cloathes good house and lodging good And all the care's how these goods may be had And few men cared though their soules be bad Thus the sraile World in pous ●●● Strooke in his Christian heart griefes deepe impression That all that worldly was he quite ●orgor And vs'd the World as if hee vs'd it● o● Hee by the Spirit of God perceiued plaine That all earthes pompe and glory is but vayne And therefore with a lowly minde and meeke He did Christs righteousnesse kingdome seeke For which euen as our Sauiours word is past His earthly treasures were vppon him cast For still the word of God confirm'd shall be I 'le honour them saith he that honour me His heart was free from an ambitious thought No popular applause of men he sought His pride was godly a true Christian pride To know Christ and to know him crucifide And though fraile men are with vaine toyes intis'd Hee with'd to be disolu'd to be with Christ. His charity was not in out-ward show No Pharisey-like Trumpet ere did blow To make the World applause with

Rowland Yorke and Sir William Stanley turned Tray●●rs September 13. 11. An English Gentleman * This Stafford was a Gentleman well descended his Mother was of the Bed chamber to the Queene and his Brother Leiger Ambassador in France at the same time William Stafford nam'd Was by the French Ambassador perswaded That if hee 'd kill the Queene he should be fam'd For by her death might England be inuaded Besides for it the Pope would thankfull be And all the house of Guise should be his friends But Stafford to their plots feemet ' agree Yet told the councell on his knees their ends These things vnto th' Ambassador were told And Stafford did auouch them to his face Which he deny'd audaciously and bold Much ill besee●●ing his estate and place Thus what fo●euer gain●t our Church was wrought God still did bring their purposes to nought year 1587 12. This yeare Spaine with a mighty preparation With tweluescore Vessels loadeth Neptunes backe With thirty thousand men attempts inuafion Of England● Kingdome and Eliz●●s wracke Then many a bragging desperate doughty Don Proud of the strength of that great huge * The Spanish flee● were in all of Ships Gall●ons Gallies and Pinaces 242. of Souldiers Mariners and Galley ●●●●● 31030. of great Ordnance 2630. Our Fleet were in all but 112. the Campe as Ti●bury were 22000 foot and 12000. horse Armad● Went barely off though they came brauely on The power of Heauen opposing their branado Our numbers vnto theirs inferiour ●arre Yet were they tane sunke slaine bang'd thump'd batter'd Because the Lord of Hosts the God of Warre He was our trust and ayde our ●oes he scater'd His name is oner all the world most glorious And through his power his Church is still victorious year 1588 13. Lopez a Doctor by descent a ●ew A Port●●ga● by birth the Queenes physiti●n Forgetting duty to his Soueraigne due Would poyson her to further Spaines ambition The Spaniards and the Doctor are compacting How this sweet piece of seruice might be done They promise gold and he doth vow the acting A bargaine wisely made is partly wonne But this base Iew is taken in the trap The Queene pre●er●'d the Spaniards cake is dough The Doctor wrong'd his breeches by mishap And hanging his reward was good enough Still treasons working though its lucke be ill Gods gracious power his Church defending still year 1589 The Queene had beene gracious and beautifull to this same Lopez many wayes and hee was accounted a man of good integrity till hee was corrupted by the Pope and Spaniard At his Araignment feare made him wrong his ●●●ches he was hanged at Ty●●rns 14. Tyrone supported by the Pope and Spaine Had put our English Kingdome to much cost Perceiuing all his treasons were in vaine His dangers desperate fruitlesse labour lost Although his Holinesse from Rome had sent A plume of Phoenix feathers for a blessing Which bable from Tyrone could not preuent Rewards of Iustcie for his long transgressing To the Lord Deputy be doth su●mit Craues the kings mercy and obtained the same Yet afterward he did his faith forget And new rebeilions did in Ireland frame At last with guilty minde away he flyes Thus God confounds his Churches enemies year 1587 Tyrone an Irish Earle a man of great power and Policie a most peruitions and dangerous trayter 1604. bee came into England and was most graciously pardoned by the King yet afterward would haue le● all Ireland rebellion but fa●ling of his purpose fled to Rome 15. Mongst all these dangers Queene Elizabeth Preserued still and reigned ●oyally Defended all her life from violent death And seauenty yeares of age dy'd naturally To her succeeded as his prop●r right King Iames Great Britaines blessed Salomon When straight began new tricks of Romish spight For Church and King and La●ds subuersion Watson * They would haue altered Religion brought in Forraigne power imprisoned the King and raised Arbella Watson Clarke Master George Brooke executed Clarke two Priests two Popish brothers Seduc'd Lords Cobham Gray two Noblemen Sir Walter Rawleigh Markham Brooke and others To take the King and him in p●fon pen. The plot 's found Iustice would th'●●● ndors kill But the Kings mercy sau'd what L. w might ●pill year 1603 The Kings mercy saued the Lord Cobham Lord Gray Sir Walter Rawleigh Sir Griffith Markeham at the Blocke as the stroake was readis to bee giuen 16. Now treason plotted in th' infernall Den H●ls mischiefe master peece began to worke Assisted by vnnaturall English●●● And les●ites that within this Land did lurke These would Saint Peter-to Salt pe●●er turne And make our Kingdome caper in the ayre At one blast Prince and Peeres and commons burn And fill the Land with murder and dispaire No treasonere might be compar'd to this Such an escape the Church had nere before The glory's Gods the victory is his Not vnto vs to him be praise therefore Our Church is his her foes may vnderstand That he defends her with his mighty hand year 1605 Percy and Catesby would needs be heads of this treason and their heads are aduanced for it on the Parliament house they were killed with powder being both shot and burnt and powder was the main● Instrument of their hopes All the Trayt●rs falling into the ' Pit which they had prepared for vs. Not any of all these treasons but eyther the Pop● the Spanish King Priests or Iesuites had a hand in it 17. The dangers of a long and tedious way The perils of the raging Sea and Land The change of ayre and dyet many a day And Romes temptations which thou did withstand And after all thy safe returne againe Amongst those blessings make vp much more blest In mind and body ●●●● from Rome and Spaine For which our ●●●● to heauen is ●●●●●●● prest Long mayst 〈…〉 Gracious instrument To propaga●e his Gospell and his glory All Antichistian foes to 〈…〉 And with thy a●●s to fill a royall story That 〈…〉 truly may ●●●●● These Deeds were done by Britaines CHALES the Great year 1623 Great ●●●● the interprize and hazard of our gracieus Pride ● but great●●● was Gods i●guiding and guarding him backe againe to all Ioy and Comforts 18 And last of all with Heart and ●●nds erected Thy Church doth magnifie thy name O●L●●●● Thy prouid●●ce p 〈…〉 thy power protected Thy planted ●●● according to thy Word My God what shall I rende ●●●●●●● For all thy guise ●●●● do●●●●●●●● Loue and vnfained Thanke●●●●●● shall be Ascribed for thy Mercies ●●●●●yes To thee my Priest my Prophet and my King My Loue my Counsellor and Comforter To thee alone I onely praised sing For onely thou art my● Deliuerer All Honour Glory Power and Praise therefore Ascribed be to thee for euermore The Churches Thankesgiuing to God for all his Mercies and her Deliuerances The Church of Christ doth acknowledge no other Intercessor Desenrer Maintinrer and Deliuerer but onely Christ himselfe FINIS

rent from him to make an open passage to the bene●●lent charitie of such pious persons as is your Worship for you are the true Souldiers ●● the Countrey whose warres concerne the domestique peace of our Nation as such as myselfe doth the forreine My breeding was Ge●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 ●●● 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 ●●●● sug●er whom he assaults with a valley of his ●●● bra●●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 sl●us sustian the poore man ●●●● drawes and giues him some small m●te more for feare cr●●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 friēds 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 ●●●● 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 connue●●● 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 Consta● 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 th●●● trap And made dispute with Doctor Stories * A Constable is a hugbeare to a Begger cap. A common th●efe for euery great he gaines His life doth ●●●ture besides all his paines For euery thing he cares or drinkes I weares To lose his cares or gaine a rope he feares * ●●●●●● 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

the Inchanted Ilands by nomination by Banner by warlike atchieuements by natiuity by descent and processe matchlesse and vnparalleld 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 bold to commit a poore Goose to your impregnable protection and patronage I knon there will be as much to doe in the keeping of her and with a much danger as was the conquest of the Golden Fleece the Apples of the Hesperides or the sauing of Andromeda by Perseus and but that your valiant atchieuements are knowne ●● approued I would neuer haue put my Goose to your inuincible Guard the enemies that ●● assault you or attempt to take her from you are many whom in dutious courtesie I will describe vnto y●● First the Powlters will assaile you with a terrible battry of rotten Eg-shot to surrender the innocent Goose that they may murder imbowell plu●ke and prostitute her to sale of who giues most See●●● the Vthal●●● will come vpon you with a fresh alarum for her feathers to stuffe the empty paunches of then B Isters Pillowes and hungry Bed-tikes Thirdly the Cookes in squaarans a●●i'd with Dripping pannes and s●●s instead of Speares before they will lose their F●●s and the● king of their fingers to b●ote will fight heoly for the Goose till all smoke againe Fourthly the Apothecaries ra●her then they will want the sweetnesse of the pinguidity or fe●und●ous fat of the Gooses axung●a vulg ●● called g●●● they will so pelt ●●●● with pil●s instead of pellets that they will make all stinke againe Fiftly the kit ●●a-ma●de will throw s●alding ●ater at you but she will haue one of her wings to sweepe downe C●bwebs and dcspossesse Spiders of the habitations they haue built out of their owne bowels Sixtly the ●let●hers and Archers s●●eare they will ●●inke your skinne full of ●●t-holes but they will haue ●er ●●● s to make them ●●●●●●●● dead then the Goose could liuing Seuenthly the Poets for her Quils will call another penny ●l●sse thread ●●● Parliament and ordaine Satiricall Statutes and Tr●g●all Acts against you and ●●● their scatt●red imaginations they will s●ale the skies as high as sullen Saturnes altitude and rake into the ●● west p●●sund●●y of Barrathrum forraging thorow the earth ayre and seas but they will stigmatize canterize and Epigramatize Anagramatize you till you make a surrender Eig●tly the Lawyers well sirke and fir●t you tossing you betwixt hard fortune and ill lucke that you will be almost mad or bee in great danger to have very little●● lest Ninthly the scriu●ners publike N●tari●s or notorieus publi●●ans 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 credit or good security Tenthly Shop-keepers if you hold the Gooses Quils from them haue sworne that they will euer keepe you out 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 Pens though it be but to scrible or make ewes letters Thus hauing layd 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 cloze vp my Dedication with some dutifull counsell that though your enemies are mightie 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 indeed belongs not to you nor doe I dedicate them to you yet here is your true honour and that which makes all me 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 increase of honour as is sutable to your Heroicke enicau●urs and vnimitable wisedome He that truely neither wonders or admires at your worthinesse IOHN TAYLOR TAYLORS GOOSE DESCRIBING THE VVILDE GOOSE THE Tame Goose the Taylors Goose the VVinchester Goose the Clack Goose the Soleand Goose the Huniburne Goose Goose vpon Goose the true nature and profit of all Geese the honourable victories of the Gray-Goose-wing the worthinesse of the Pen the Description of Goosetoft and Goose Fayre with the valour of the Gander By IOHN TAYLOR VVHen restlesse Phoebus seem'd himselfe to rest His flaming Carr descending to the West And Hesperus obscur'd her twinkling light Then in a sable mantle Madame night Tooke of the world the sole command and keepe Charming the eyes of mortals found 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 hearts The stealing houres creep'd on with sleeping pace When masqued Midnight shew'd her Ebon face When Hagges and Furies Witches Fairies Elues Ghosts Sprites Coblins doe disport themselues When send imaginarie dreames doe raigne In forme lesse formes in mans molested braine On such a time I sleeping in my bed An vnaccustom'd dreame came in any 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 a variety of notes Such warbling such whistling frō their throates The Base the Tenor Trebble and the Meane All acting various Actions in one Sceane The sober Goose not thinking ought amisse Amongst the rest did harthly keake and hisse At which the Peacocke and the pyde-coate lay Said rake the feolish 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 meianc holly 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 turniuing amongst men That will my true worth search and vnderstand And in my quarrell take a Pen in hand And in a stately high Heroicke 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 that worthie course that I haue runne O impious age when there is no defence For Vertue and for hated Innocence When Flatt'rers Fooles and Fiddlers are rewarded When I must liue inpittied vnregarded Me thought these last words ended with a keake Of