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A16803 Grandsire graybeard. Or Machiauell displayed; Uncasing of Machivils instructions to his sonne. Abridgments Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?; M. P. (Martin Parker), d. 1656?, attributed name. 1635 (1635) STC 3704.9; ESTC S110244 8,939 28

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and not to loose What though the poore lie staruing in the ditch It is the dearth of corne makes farmers rich Aime still at profit howsoere it growes Make the wind serue thee wheresoere it blowes For t is this wealth this profit and this gaine That dies the coulour euer more in graine Learne the Physitian and the Lawyers fee And for thy profit speake as faire as hee Promise the one good speed the other health In any course t is good to gather wealth Learne all diseases and their seuerall cures And care not what the patient heart endures But giue him one day griefe another case Not as his patience but his purse doth please Learne Cards and Dice and any cheating play That may bring in thy profit any way Learne how to stop a Card and cogge a Die But shift it cleanely from the Gamesters eye At Ruffe and Trumpe note how the dealer rubs There is no packe without the Knaue of clubs Learne all Religions be of eu'ry Sect And chiefely to thy profit haue respect For this same conscience is so bare a thing As it will make a begger of a King Learne to get riches by the beggers purse The Fox fares best when geese begin to curse Learne eu'ry trade and traffique traine and tricke And liue not by the dead but by the quicke In summe of what estate soere thou be Learne to be rich for that will hold with thee Be rich I say my Boy be rich and wise Gold is a precious mettall for the eyes Why rich men they haue money and gay geere And goodly houses and most dainty cheefe Faire wiues fine pictures plaies courtly dances And many cheats that come by many chances Braue Siuer boxes sweet perfumes and waters And twenty other moe such kinde of matters Whiles the poor man that pines for want offriends May sit and sigh and picke his fingers ends And eu'ry morning wash his face with teares And wipe his blubbred eyes with sheu'led heares And walke abroad for forrowes recreation Or starue himselfe or feed on contemplation Make curtsie to the shadow of a Lord. And glad to get a looke and halfe a word Blush and fal● back when gay folke come in place And start to looke a Lady in the face Talke to the aire where no man lists to heare him And plod alone where no man will come neer him And thus recording of a heauy care He feeds perhaps vpon a hungry fare Till some good Knight or learned Gentleman That is a prudent Polititian And can make vses of afflicted braines And gather profit from their toiling paines May hap to grace him with a countenance Giue him a blew coat with a cognizance An old cast doublet or a paire of boots Feed him with brown bread smal beere hearbs roots And now and then perhaps a peece of meat That scarce a man would giue a dogg to eat Or after haply some good seruice done Make him a Tutor to his youngest Sonne Laugh at those beggers speake in scorne at pelse Care thou for nothing but t' enrich thy selfe For Truth reports that doth of thrift intreat If thou be rich thou quickly writ be great Plot for a pudding or a peece of souse The Cat would neuer watch but for a Mouse The Fox would neuer hunt but for his prey And workmen but for gaine would play all day It is this Wealth this Profit and this Gaine That makes the Labourer sing away his paine Set snares for Wod cocks pit-falls for small birds And catch a foole with nothing but faire words Dandle the Child grow inward with the Nurse And thinke no beggry base that fills the purse Laugh with the Lecher at Maides bash fulnes And with the Chaste at fleshly filthinesse And with the spend-thrift at the misers buggs And with the Miser at the beggers raggs Diss wade no Princes from their choice of pleasure Nor a rich Miser from his loue of treasure If he be rich what euer so he be Seeme in thy humour to be iust as he If he be poore then let him beg alone It is a trade that few grow rich vpon Perswade a slaue he is a gentleman Although he drop out of a dripping pan It is no matter if his purse can beare it His rascall pride wih neuer blush to heare it Perswade a Clowne that he is halfe a Knight And that his wealth deserues that place aright And his Maid-Marian with her winscot face Might be a Lady but for licke of grace And make her thinke that she is halfe a Queene And scarce on earth is such another seene For vertue beauty wit for shape and feature Though God he knowes that she is no such creature But if she doe applaud it t is no matter He is a foole for profit cannot flatter Commend a Souldier when he is in crownes And sweare a Knight must gouerne ouer Clownes In many a campe how be his caske did beare Although poore Coward he came neuer there But yet be sure thy flattery so to frame That thine may be the gaine though his the fame Commend the Lawyer and his studious reading Admi●e his iudgement and extoll his pleading● But flatter so that if thou get a fee Thou mai'st haue out a share as well as he Follow a Bishop with a world of praise And make him as the Loadstarre of thy dayes Admi●e him and extoll him to the skies But so that thou maist get a Benefice A Vicridge Cure a Clarkeship or some such As will returne thee profit small or much Commend the A●c●ant honour his aduenture Who gets his wealth by danger not Indenture Commend his ●ade his craffique and his truth The honor of his age and toyle of youth But yet with all be sure to flatter so That to thy purse some peece of money grow Or on his boord thy trencher may be laid Or borrowed money neuer to be paid And tell What-lacke yee that he lackes no wit And for his head that he deserues to sit On higher seates then the Church-wardens stooles For he hath more wit then a world of fooles But yet in feeding of his idle vaine Be sure to pick-out some odd priuate gaine A rapier dagger stockings boots or shoes Some-what doth well though beggers may not chose Tell Mistr●s-minks coy she that keepes the shop She is a Ship that beares a gallant top She is a Lady for her louely face And for her countenance halfe a Princesse grace Then bite the lippe and winke and hang the head And giue a figh as if thy heart were dead And shew strange passions of affections sence That she may pittie loue Sr. reuerence But let the issue of this comming be That from her purse some profit come to thee A peece of sattin fustian or some stuffe A falling band or a three double-ruffe A hat a shirt a cloak-cloth or a ring Kniues purses gloues or some such pretty thing For somewhat hath some sauour t' is this gaine That to