my lines lookes dunsicall a skew And draws his mouth in scorn so near his eare So much awry he seems to whisper there 69. Manna and Mammon Mammon corrruply gaind compare I may To Manna gatherd on the Sabboth day They are the Devils blessings but Gods curse Unto the soule the body and the purse 70. Blind zeale Zeale contrary to knowledge is not right There 's too much heat in 't and too little light He that in perfect Zeale would be compleat Let him have true light he shall want no heat 71. On the late Kings poore servants 〈◊〉 never did in armes the State offend Yet want of means makes misery our end Had we the Fortune but to be believ'd Our happynes would be to be reliev'd 72. A good faith He that wants Faith and apprehends the griefe Of what he wants he hath a true beliefe He that doth grieve because his griefe 's too small Hath a true griefe but the best Faith of all 73. Gluttony inward and outward Mans Maw consumes by Gluttony's command Fish Fowle Fruits Beasts from Sea or Ayre and Land And in his words his glut'nous mouth doth sin More oft by giving out then taking in 74. Sir reverence love TOM swore to KATE her sweet and comely making Had fill'd him full of fumbling belly aking Sweet heart quoth'he I shall be grieved thus Till I in thy sweet presence do untruss 75. Kates kind Answer For thy sake TOM my prayer and plaint and mone is I love thee Dear as VENUS lov'd ADONIS And therefore let not thy affections wander I 'le love thee as the Goose doth love the Gander 76. Brave resolution WILL is all heart and like a Hart can run He 's wise in Battle that can danger shun If strong hands cannot victory attain Yet light and nimble heeles may safety gain 77. Leggs worthy of love A Cut-purse cuts and swiftly ran away But yet for all his nimble fingers cunning Hands deserv'd hanging legs without delay Sav'd all the body from it by swift running 78. Paine with pleasure My Ladies shooe did pinch her and yet please her her painfull pride her pretty foot did grace It did at once both anger and appease her Whilst smiles and frownes danc'd Anticks in her face 79. Friends are better then Lovers Lovers and Friends are two things he that loves May waver and not alwayes be a Friend But he that is a friend experience proves His Love and Friendship 's constant to the end 80. Of lying and giving Why are not Maids afraid to Lye declare Most men with lying buy and sell their Ware But many Maids do neither sell or buy They Give their Maidenheads and then they Lye 81. Great Place small Grace When Great not Goodmen Offices possesse Who are Revengefull Greedy and oppresse Dismisse such Knaves that so their Place disgraces And let good Places still remaine the Places 82. A great Witch Pride is a Witch few from her charme escapes She turns us dayly into sundry shapes She hath her Spirits who do work like Thrashers Mercers soft Silke-men Taylors Habberdashers 83. Repast and Repose The Rich man hath Repast but small Repose The poor man hath repose with small Repast One alwayes strives to gaine and fears to lose The other with content doth please his tast 84. Sunday The Lords Day is the Lanthorne and the Light Of th' other six dayes to direct us Right Or like the Sun amidst the Planets seven To light us heer on Earth and hence to Heaven 85. Sabaoth The Jewes observ'd the Sabaoth constantly In memory of Rest and their Creation We should our Sundayes keep obediently To minde us of Redemption and Salvation 86. A sweet Saint PHILLIP doth think his Wife 's a Saint and shee In pure pride thinks her selfe a Saint to bee Shee 'le scold be proud and in a corner kiss And this is PHILLIPS Saint the Devill she is 87. Want and abundance A man may want Coyn Cloaths Drink and Meat He may want health sight hearing hands and toes But cares and griefes and sorrows may be great The late Kings servants have no want of those 88. A hard businesse Should Whores and Thieves be all hang'd 't were great pity 'T would halfe unpeople Country Towne and City But hang up Drunkards Swearers Whorers then And all the Knaves what should we do for men 89. Thoughts and words My Thoughts are free I wish my tongue were so Then would I freely speake what I do think But yet my tongue too boldly shall not go It is more safe at injuries to wink 90. Good mornings practise First worship God he that forgets to pray Bids not himselfe good morrow or good day Let thy first worke be to confesse thy sins And then thy dayly businesse well begins A SATYRE Hypocrisie discovered A Holy crew of brethren conventickl'd With Scriptures strange Interpretations pickl'd And sanctified sisters whose nonsence Snoach'd through the Nose their Doctrines quintessence They held unlawfull and that no man may So much as dresse his meat on th' Sabboth day Another sayd like a most subtle plodder Folke must not milke their Cowes nor give Beast fodder The third replyd it was a grievous crime To let their Jacks turn spits in Sermon time But if ought must be done without delaying It 's to be done whilst Common Prayer's saying For when that 's ended straight the Psalme begins And they 'l go singing to repent their sins Then said a fourth it fils my-heart with wo To see a Preacher ride Christ bad them go And teach all Nations verily to me This riding is no godly sight to see A fift man sayd brethren it is my lot As you all know to sell Ale by the pot And my belov'd my Brewer brought me late Ale a french crown the barrell above rate But had not Orders from the State forbid it To buy such drinke sure I should ne're have did it The Saturday at night they brought it in The Sabboth day to worke it did begin Surely 't was most prophane unhallowed drink Brewd with some Jewes or Turkish Mault I thinke For I perswaded it from worke to leave And more and more it still did huffe and heave I with much griefe unto the teaching went Where GILES the Weaver gave me much content The next day I the Barrels head beat out And let the Ale run all the house about As good for nought but hogs to swill and swash And for the Swine 't was comfortable wash Brother sayd one although too dear you payd You did do well because you disobeyed And you did better as all wise men thinke When zealously you spilt that wicked drinke Another sayd when I did set mine eye on The Kings Armes in the Church the Rampant Lyon His priap mov'd concupiscentiall motions And did disturbe and hinder my devotions But when my husband came to be Church-warden I 'le have some form of Flowers from Field or Garden Or sedge or flags betwixt his legs were painted That hid his
year 33. Had I wist If thou wilt quiet be at Board and Bed Beware of had I wist before thou Wed Comfort comes slow but cares increase in heaps A wise man therefore looks before he leaps 34. Fast and loose Fast bind fast find my Bible was well bound A Thiefe came fast and loose my Bible found Was 't bound and loose at once how can that be 'T was loose for him although 't was bound for me 35. A lye and no lye T is not still out of sight and out of minde For one may mind his meat that is stark blind But he that 's blind and hath no mind to eat Then out of sight and mind is that mans meat 36. True Love He that can live by love lives wondrous well True love beyond all treasure doth excell Give me that Love to live well and to trust In God and goodnesse other love is lust 37. Treasure Love is no lack yet what I love I lack A constant friend whose friendship will not crack Give me a friend that 's true and he shall have My Love Sans Lack till I am in my Grave 38. To be rul'd or not rul'd The Proverb saith Be 't better or be 't worse Be alwayes rul'd by him that beares the Purse But JUD A S bore the Purse and such as he I hope shall never beare rule over me 39. Wit bought too deare They say Wit 's never good till it be bought And being bought too deare it proves stark naught Such wit had they whose ill got pounds and pence Bought bloudy war and hunted Peace from hence 40. All comes to one passe DICK and TOM borrowed Gold and like true debters Non-payment shakled them in iron fetters Were the debt iron fetters gold what then Poor DICK and TOM were ne're the richer men 41. A hopefull Boy The Boy sayd Father whither so hastily Quoth he to th' Butchers JACK some Biefe to buy Father he 'le cheat you if you go alone Take the Dog with you two heads better than one 42. A plain case 'T is no dissembling as I understand T' hold fire in one and water in tother hand One hand the pipe holds with fire smoak and smother When often good strong Water 's in the other 43. All is true Thou that with brags thy furious Fame supportest Remember that the curst Cows horns are shortest The bawling Cur will very seldome bite And bragging Knaves can better eat than fight 44. Well grown is good In twelve years GRACE a fine tall womans grown Shot up in height the like is seldome known The times are bad if GRACE prove good then GRACE Is well grown but Ill weeds will grow apace 45. Few faults Most men have many faults but NED hath none Amongst the many he hath scarcely one He 's so much faultlesse in meat drink and cloathing And other sins that he is good for nothing 46. A chac'd unchaste woman WILL prais'd his Wife a vertuous Dame to be And that few females were so chaste as she If thou hadst sworn it WILL thou hadst not ly'd For she was chac'd by Whippers through Cheapside 47. To be quiet or unquiet To hear much to say little and do lesse Are great preservatives of quietnesse But to hear little say much and do more Such dispositions shall have trouble store 48. Avoyd Hypocrisie Faults with Hypocrisie that cover'd are Are worse than crimes that be stark naked bare He may mend whose bad deeds are still in sight But there 's no Devill to the Hypocrite 49. Freedome and Bondage When one gives to me freely I know well That for his freenesse I my freedome sell For unto him that gives I must conclude I am bound fast in Bonds of gratitude 50. Glorious Vanity He that his Reputation seeks to raise By praysing of himselfe himselfe disprayseth Though he for Arts and Arms do merit praise His glory 's vaine whom selfe vain-glory raiseth 51. Of just anger I may be angry and no mallice beare I must be angry with my sins I wot It is a vertue few can purchase here At once to be both angry and sin not 52. Wilfull Will 'T is apt for men to fall in Errours vaine From bad to worse from worse to worst of ill But he 's a foolish Reprobate in graine That willing falls and wilfully lies still 53. A brace of Beagles A Sland'rer and a Flatt'rer are Vile Beasts One 's devilish wild the other's damned tame Where ere they come they are accursed Guests They murther soule and body name and fame 54. A good Memento No cursed Lucre in my minde shall creep Sins sad remembrance robs me of my sleep One day of life doth shoave another on Untill one after one my dayes are done 55. Mutability In various times we dayly live and move To day a mighty man on Cockhorse mounted To morrow Fortune gives him a remove And as an abject Knave he is accounted 56. Good Greatnesse Most sweet most Worthy Honourable Great Is he that for his God and Countrey dyes The world shall with his praises be repleat And grace with glory him immortalize 57. Of Angels Invisible two sorts of Angels are And those celestiall and infernall be And Earthly Angels like black Swans are rare Meer strangers all invisible to me 58. The Crosse brings glory A Christians crosses glory doth begin That glory doth not end his misery But yet that misery shall glory win And Grace will crowne it with eternity 59. Words are winde Words are but wind that do from men proceed None but Camelions on bare Aire can feed Great men large hopefull promises may utter But words did never Fish or Parsnips butter 60. Feares and jealousies The sting of conscience Jealousies and Feares Makes mad men fall together by the eares If these three were all banish'd into Hell From whence they came all would be peace and well 61. B and C. How can the word call'd CHANGED HANGED B With ease if you but take away the C. 62. Adoration All knees shall bow at Jesus Name but not To Jesus Image will I bow one jot 63. Honest Besse May BESSE MAY may honest be who e're sayes nay But May once past there are eleven months more 'T is mighty odds and I will never lay Eleven to one BESSE MAY may be a Whore 64. Quick and free passage Who sayes the Gospel hath not passage free He lies most basely if he were my Brother It passeth so quick that it seems to flee Too swiftly in at one-eare out at t'other 65. Desperate Dick DICK is a desperate fellow but at what He hath no mercy on his meat or Wench He drank a Dutch man drunk as any Ratt He 's stouter at a Trencher then a Trench 67. A slovenly Schollar In TRISTRAM it is hard to be discern'd Whether he is most sloven or most learn'd He weares his cloaths most foule rides without Yet learnedly speakes sentences in sirrops 68. To a scornfull Reader Grave IGNORAMUS cries tush pish mew And on
whimwham which my minde had tainted A Satyre against swearing equivocation mentall reservation and detestable dissimulation TO pretend and the contrary to intend With th' World began and with the World shall end The Divell himselfe who first made man a sinner Of this dissembling Art was the beginner Since when his Sons and Schollars Hypocrites Accursed Antichristian Jesuites Christ kissing trayterous bast Iscariothites Soule foundred soules confounding Hereticks All cheverell conscienc'd cockbrain'd Schismaticks With many nicknam'd Romane Catholicks And every Heresie and Schisme or Sect All diffring and all boast to be th' Elect Pretending all true zeale to preach and pray Intending all the clean contrary way Amazed and amated much I am To see Great Brittain turn'd to Amsterdam Six years agone we had of Sex fourescore Which are encreast now to one hundred more A Book that 's call'd the Gangrean printed late Their Authors and Opinions doth repeat Ninescore Religions that book sheweth cleer Lord what a Harvest hath the Devill made heer Those all pretend Religion but indeed Most of them scarcely know their Christian Creed The Devill can turn himselfe t' an Angell bright Seem to pretend no wrong yet do no right He did pretend to make our Parents great As is their Maker but by that defeat He did intend like to himselfe to make 'em Fiends or fiends fellows that God might forsake 'em CAIN did pretend with ABELL like a friend And brother when he murther did intend When ABSOLON seem'd to pretend no ill To AMNON he intended him to kill He did pretend Religions good desire When he his Fathers Throne intends t' aspire ACHITOPHELL pretended Truth and Reason When he intended foolishnesse and treason SAUL did pretend great love to DAVID but He did intend how he his throat might cut JOAB pretended to be ABNERS friend When with a stab he brought him to his end The wicked Jewes with noyse HOSANNA cri'd To him they few dayes after crucifi'd And JUDAS sayd haile Master when he meant Foule treason to betray the Innocent Thus in all Ages since the Worlds Creation Both Devils and men have us'd Equivocation For as a cunning Fencer looking down Aymes at the foot but means to crack the crown So squint eyd true false friendship seems to see But ne're intends what it pretends to bee We 're too much leavend like the Pharisees And to all goodnesse meere Antipodes He 's counted the best man that best can prate Though 's deeds and words be illegitimate If our good words with good works could agree The world no better people had then we Yet too too many this bad time affords That cannot give to God or man good words Nor for themselves or of themselves can they Speak one good word in any thing they say Their speech to God or of God is most base To curse or sweare are th' only garbs of grace Their prayers unto God are God dam forsake 'em Renounce confound consume the Devill take 'em Sink rot their soules for evermore renounce 'em Consume them or in hell to powder pounce 'em These with some prayers like these they night and da With great devotion fervently do pray To God they speak thus but when they speak of him 'T is either to blaspheam deride or scoffe him With cursed tongues and teeth to rend and teare His dreadfull name when they forsweare and sweare Too oft these wretched Imps these oaths afford By God Christ Jesus by the living Lord By God Almighty by th' eternall God Thus under foot his glorious name is trod By godlesse Villains who will brag and boast That He 's the bravest man that sweareth most God is no God to them they do reject him Like skild Anatomists they will dissect him They rip him up with Oaths from foot to head His wounds blood heart nailes body soule and bread His blessed and soule saving life his death These cursed oaths are belch'd with th' odious breath Of Hels dear hel-hounds who to practise these They lie and study on their beds of ease To flourish their discourse their brains are framing New coyned oaths to grace pots pipes and gaming Sure these good fellows have some friends in hell And with them they desire to be and dwell Or ese they have a great desire to see Hels Kingdome and what things the Devils bee And as men that would travell would attaine Some knowledge in the tongues of France or Spaine Th' Italian or the High Low spacious Dutch The Russe Shavonian Latine Greeke or such As is the language where they mean to go Each Traveller these tongues would gladly know That when they came to any forraine Land They might the peoples speeches understand So swearers will to hell a voyage make And therefore they most studious pains do take To learn hels language to blaspheam and sweare That all their friends may understand them there These men in their mad furies do suppose That Hel's a Kingdome where all pleasure grows And that Elyzium is a pleasant place Where soules immortall dance the wild-goose chase Their stupid brains the Devill hath so possest That Hel's a place of wealth joy peace and rest That Heaven 's a fiction and no place of pleasure That to be damn'd is everlasting treasure This is the cause they scorne to aske salvation And pray God dam'em and beg for damnation 'T is wonder to see mad men beat their brains To gain perdition and eternall pains Of God they like the foole do think there 's none Or that he is a weake and simple one One that regards not what men do below Or sees not knows not how the world doth go This is the swearers faith his mirth his game Else he durst ne're blaspeam th' Almighties name PLUTO's an asse and BELZEBUB's a foole And LUCIFER himselfe may go to schoole For all the Conclave of the Devils in Hell Cannot a cursed swearer parallell Sometimes of Christianity they 'l prate Yet live a life abhord and reprobate 'T is sayd that charity at home begins And that love hids a multitude of sins Subjection to high Powers we are enjoynd Obedience unto all of every kind Of these rare vertues swearers have no share To no body they charitable are I truely think he loves himselfe not well That prayes God dam him and doth wish for Hell Want of selfe love and charity do prove He beares to no man charity or love If to himselfe his love no better be His charity and love is not for me Can they do service to an earthly King That oaths and curses against God dare fling No those as dare the heavenly power blaspheam Are no good servants for power lesse supream The wrath of God is hot his anger burns And for vain swearing the whole Land now mourns This Nation and the people at division No peace but by the sanguine swords decision The Land 's o'respread with leprosie of swearing And Gods great patience weary of forbearing For which his plagues of slaughtering sword we find And 't is much fear'd famine 's not far behind Yet swearers to be Christians do pretend Though worse then Atheists they their lives do spend That Pagans Heathens Infidels Jewes Turkes Sweare lesse and use better words and workes Time was that Justice did the sword unsheath That the blaspheamer strait was ston'd to death And in this wicked wretched Generation Swearing is counted manly reputation Or recreation or the Gentile grace Of speeches fine Embrodery like gold lace Upon a saddle which a sow must weare So it becomes a Gentleman to sweare The Devill is bad but sure the swearer 's worse For I ne're heard the Devill did sweare or curse What execrable creatures are they then But Hell-hounds and the Devils Journy-men Himselfe doth scorn to do a worke so base His basest Rascals do supply that place How can these men plead Christianity When as they want common humanity Mad fooles who every day do beg and crave Damnation which they would be loth to have The sacred Text the Pulpit and the Presse Have prest these faults hard to mens consciences Yet all that ever hath been spoke or pend Hath made the swearer not a whit amend These bitter lines of mine may worke perhaps To Muzzle or bung up some swearers chaps God and good men I 'm sure are on my side And I in all that 's written have not lyde Some do pretend a peace and much do prattle Yet do intend to bloodshed and to battle But let them never claime a Christian name Whose trade and pleasure is in blood and flame Of their dear Country and rip rend and tear Their mothers womb which did such bastards bear These sons of Hittites and of Amorites God do to them as to the Midianites Make them as JABIN and as SISERA dy'd At ENDORS field where KISHONS Brook doth slyd As they became as dung so let them bee That to a lawfull peace will not agree The Peace of God grant us thou God of Peace Let us cease sin thou wilt our sorrows cease Let 's frame our lives according to thy word And let no sword be drawn but Justice sword To which end thou good God of consolation Send blessed Peace to this afflicted Nation FINIS Psal. 83.