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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33438	Midsummer-moone, or, Lvnacy rampant being a character of Master Cheynell the arch visitor of Oxford and mungrell-president of Saint John Baptist's Colledge : with a survey of the three renegado-fellowes Web, Inkersell and Lownds.	Cleveland, John, 1613-1658.	1648 (1648)	Wing C4680; ESTC R226914	5,515	10

Midsummer-Moone OR LVNACY-RAMPANT BEING A Character of Master Cheynell the Arch Visitor of Oxford and Mungrell President of Saint Iohn Baptist's Colledge With a Survey of the three Renegado-fellowes Web Inkersell and Lownds Iam Seges est ubi Troja fuit Printed An. Dom. 1648. CHEYNEL is Bedlam seven stories high or Sir Thomas his gowty leg wire-drawn His head is shot up as if it would only converse with the Prince oth'aire and what we mistake for the man ith'moon is but a peece of him Hee 's an Index expurgatorius in the largest folio or was intended for hoopes for the tun at Heidelberg you may take him for the 119 Psalm lasting the execution of a whol Universitie or the Pinacle from which the Devill would break the neck of it 'T is a sufficient argument of Cromwells death to see this May-pole set up in Oxford Dido with his hide might have had ground enough for her Carthage without slicing it into leashes Hee 's a monopoly of Steeples and as often as he sounds the bell goes out for some deceas't Scholar Babels are erected for confusion His red Nose is pearch't like a Beacon flaming on a mountain Nature when she forged it forgot to quench it Web surrendred to it for a flag of defiance Inkersell for a red Lattice and only submitted to an Ale-house The Scarlet-whore of Babylon spawn'd it with her menstruous profluviums 'T was painted with the blood of a witch when shee morgag'd her selfe The single sight of it made Sedgewick dream of doomes-day and the second destruction of the world by fire Such vessels are broach't when Villanes ratifie their Conspiracies in Sacraments of Blood. If there bee such an AEtna such a Purgatory aloofe what 's the Demogorgon the Hell i th' Center The spirits which ascend from so hot a Limbeck have converted his braines to Sulphur and made him nothing but an unruly Squib Hee 's as prodigiously furious as if he had been bolted out o th' Monks pot when he invented gunpowder or his mother limed by the Devill shot from a Canon He was begot i th' Dog-dayes or at Michaelmas when his Dam went to Rut. The Hecuba when she conceiv'd this Paris dream't of wild-fire His Nurse was a bleare ey'd Hound Run-wood and his native soyle th' Antipodes to Anticyra His Syre engendred him in an Itch beyond the cure o th' brimstone which ruin'd Sodom You may take him for a Spanish-Jennet begot by a whirlewind or a tempest raised by a Conjurer or all AEolus bag'd up and sold by a Laplander for shipwracks he ruminates on nothing but his Salisbury Chaines and his breaking loose from 'em and therefore 't is his continuall businesse either to imprison or expell Yet Mahomets disease must be a divine rapture in his paralytick fit he converses with his Gabriell Shuffle him with the rest o th' visitors and hee comes forth like mad Orestes switchd on by furies to kill his mother the Vniversity Brutish Ajax because hee 's a beast himselfe wallowes i' th gore of his fellow Greekes and thinkes 'em swine The Caniball swears Mūmie's Bacon he differs from an ordinary Tom of Bedlam as a wild Wolfe from a tame one or Rome on fire from Neroes Fiddle Sure hee 's don quicksotted takes the Colledge for an inchanted Castle the fellowes for Giants Web Inkersell and Lownds for three distressed damsells Hee sweepes the house cleane that his Fairy tennants may dance to him with mony his phrensy flames higher because 't is sprinkled with a little reason as woemen paint themselves into wrincles and uglinesse His blood rides the round post or dances the Morrice through him and so makes him giddy His skull is a meer nest of hornets which sting into him their own waspishnesse This makes the mad bandog snap at all hee meets This new Judge without the Kings writ is the prime Bencher at condemnation but usually removed at the execution and kills with his weekely bill as secretly as the Plague Still like a mad dog which they say never barkes Hee wounds at farther distance than the starres influence can blesse this long boared murdering peece will carry destruction point blank from Petworth to Oxford Cheynell in a University out rifles Cromwell in an Abby The Divill is busiest i th' Church Pickhatch nere was visited Turne-Bull-Streete needs no reformation Cheynell among the visitors is a mountebanke extraordinary with 4 zanyes or blustring AEolus with his Cardinall winds This purger is the only scammony the rest somewhat milder simples Rhubarbe and Sena one indeed is all hony and manna dropt from heaven but kept till 't is mouldy and stinkes This Sugar-Cane this Posset and Cawdle visitor with his marmulade quagmire his blather'd puffe-past liquorish Kate Subs the second are the Universities tooth drawers and will leave no more Schollars then themselves have gummes These Figs and Almonds rot the Universitie while Cheynell like aqua fortis corrodes it And yet that Cormorant can bee dainty too Doctors and Seniors are too tough for continuall cramming he must have Batchellers of art and Rabets under-graduats and Chickens master commoners and Phesants Domitian gorg'd with men wantons with flies afterwards He runs himselfe off his legs the first daies journey and like a Brewer tuns once a weeke Though he rides post yet he must have his stages the dismallest Tragedy is cantell'd into Acts sure he hath got the mathematicall trick to make so many Turkes and then by his hocus pocus Arithmetick juggle them over board yet the visitors like their harbinger the last new disease murder the best Among Moores blacks are the only beauties Cheynell good Church-man like Alters protects the guilty only hee thinkes others breath corrupted when 't is but the reflected rancour of his own like Senecaes wifes foole struck with a soddaine blindnesse imputed it to the darkenesse of the roome You would scarce believe he should have any Proselites but that some have worshipt Cacodemons and Asses yet kneele to Mahomet Durt will submit to bee trampled on good ingenious soules confesse themselves sufficiently vicious are thought worthy heaven because they boast no merit But Cheynell admits them as Politicians do Jewes to use their villanies or Romulus his Asylum Courtiers to Lord over them else why should the Muscovite worship painted images and reject carv'd ones why should my Lady expose her child and nurse her dog bee divorc't from her Lord and wanton with her Catamite Monkey But alas a slip may breake a sober mans neck while drunkards tumble and have no hurt A privy-councellor is scarce secure in his dreame My Lord of Pembrooke and Archy can never speake Treason Ugly cubs are most lick't and the Changling's still the dilling In Martyrdomes the best must to the stake and who so fit to bee Pilgrims as the holy if their bee any left in the hive it will be the drones Cheynells thirst draines the liquour the lees would choake him Thus of Theophrastus characters the vices only