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A68703 Philomythie, or, Philomythologie wherin outlandish birds, beasts, and fishes, are taught to speake true English plainely / by Tho: Scot ... Scot, Tho. (Thomas), fl. 1605. 1622 (1622) STC 21871; ESTC S1126 100,451 231

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double so That ●uery way at once he seemes to go Yet once he taken was and brought to triall Where with his doubtfull answer● stif●e deniall Low crowching smoth conueyance flattering guise He scap't th' Exchequer Prison and th' A●s si●e Then being askt why darker ignorance Before the light he did in speech aduance He answers first it was to try his wit Not that he held it to be true or fit Againe because ●inall vse of light he had He to make some fooles like himselfe was glad● With these slye answers and great friends beside And faithfull bribes he did from danger glide And such fe●'d friends he had in euery Court And euery office at the least report Of threatned danger rounded him in th' eare To shift ●is scat before the storme came neare ●en shewes he how the better to disguise ●is double face he had two rowes of eyes ●s though he lou'd all knowledge and all light ●ut quoth he only two of these haue ●ight ●he rest are hypocriticall and blind ●et their appearance calmes the Whales fierce mind ●hose easie nature open to abuse ●akes shew for substance colour for excuse ●hus adapt and frame my selfe to follow ●he Whales command although my hea●t be hollow ●iue at quiet offices obtaine ●ace in the warres and in the Coram gaine ●ll which shall turne vnto the Whales destruction ●euer great fish mooue but insurrection ●or I 'le discouer all when time shall fit Who trusts a halfe friend hath not halfe his wit ●hil'st thus he argu'd and the Mol● grew proud ●o heare affected ignorance allow'd ●nd that so many in that large dominion ●emain'd vpholders of his stiffe opinion ●he thinne Cham●le●n gan looke bigge and swell ●nd each complain'd himselfe he was not well ●ut then too late they found how they were stung ●nd poyson'd by the Salamanders toung ●here was no helpe but die they must In vaine ●hey weepe and each to other shew their paine ●ill Iustice did by death their paine conclude ●ith tragicke end closing their interlude Epimythium The Mole is the blinde obstinate refractary Romish Catholike who hath no other answere or reason for any article of faith or point of religion but this My predecessors were of this opinion and they were wiser then I am His Positions are 1. Ignorantia est mater de●otionis 2. Caeca obedientia meruit ex condigno 3. ●ides implicatiua sufficit He obeyes that which he calls the mother Church before God who is his heauenly Father For he had rather breake ten of his commandements then one of hers Gods Sabboth day is his play●day and euery Saints day his Sabboth What hee spends on Christmas day hee spares on Ashwednesday and Goodfriday And this is his generall rule two fasting dayes makes the third a glutton The Chameleon is in England a Familist at Amsterdam a Brownist further on an anabaptist He liues by the aire and there builds Castles and Churches● none on the earth will please him He would be of the triumphant and glorious Church but not of the terrene militant Church which is subject to stormes deformities and many violences and alterations of time he must findeout Sr. Thomas Mores Vtopia or rather Platoes Communitie be an Elder there In this point and in that of r●●isting ciuill gouernours he seems the same with the Romish Catholicke But they are tide onely by the tailes like Sampsons foxes their heads like Ianus looke diuers wayes They are Boutefewes carry betwixt them a fire-brand to inflame all Christendome They haue in the imagination an Idea of ●uch a Church and such keyes as the Romanists mad● boast they poss●sse but they will not haue them the ●me nor to resemble theirs Foolish Alchimisters●hey ●hey are both seeking a Ph●●osophers stone and neg●ecting the true Elixar the Corn●r-stone They boast ●o build golde on the foundation when what they ●aube on is adulterate stuffe laid b●side the founda●ion They beggar themselues in s●●king for wealth ●broad whil'st at home they neglect that Pearle of in●●tinable price for which the wise M●rchant giues al ●hat he is worth If euer I could heare Papist cleare ●he Pope from being Antichrist and proue he must bee ●ne singular person I would then beleeue that hee ●hould not spring from a ●ew of the tribe of Dan as ●hey fable but ●rom a promiscuous coniunction be●wixt two fugitiues to Amsterdam and Rome The Salamander is the Atheist hee is contrary to himselfe and hatefull to others he poysons all with whom he con●erseth and knowes some Philosophy ●no Diuinity Hee seekes all wisdome in himselfe where the Tutor is the Master foole and is so inquisitiue after the cause that he forge●s both the ●nd and the causer His reason is his god and that being false is not able to direct him to search see the true God Thus he is drown'd in the sea of his own foolish and boundlesse imaginations● and being 〈◊〉 a pretty childe is brought vp for his mo●hers Cocknie spends his youth like a witie foole his Manhood like a reasonable beast and his age if iudgement cut him not off like ● deuill incarnate The Lamprey is the subtill shotten Catholike or Church Papist He coosins the law and his owne sou● too He is worse to trust then the open and profest 〈◊〉 cusant He hath no good conscience for Conscientia 〈◊〉 scien●ia cum alia scientia N● good zeale for zeale 〈◊〉 Intentio virtutu● theologicarum An opposite to Hypocrisi● with which h● clokes himselfe from all pena● statutes H● is neither fish nor fle●h but halfe fish an● halfe Serpent as they s●y which write of the generation of the Lamprey A man m●y easily surfet of such meate and a S●ate so ●ne indanger it selfe by suffering such to increase There is no law can meete with thei● fraud The Churchwarden is the Coppiholder The Parson is his Chaplaine These dare not present him A fine will vndoe the first and a prohibition begge● the other yet these the law presumes must first speak or none If these do their office the I wery are perhaps his tenants he is a Iustice of peace a great man their neighbour If they finde him guiltie there are pillars in the Excheaquer or if these faile a friend or kinsman in Court makes all sure These scape thus themselues and shelter others in their houses and abroad Because the State through conniuence accepting a weake and imperfect shew of conformitie giues credite to their conuersions and intru●ts them in place where they may doe much hurt The goods leases and monies of the meaner and more resolute sort are past ouer to thes● and passe free vnder their priuiledges and protections The Character to know these is this They come to Church once a moneth and then when Prayers are done and the Psalmes sung p●rhaps at the beginning of the Sermon They are prag naticall and haue for the most part trauail'● and ●rought home ignorance They are stiffe
brain●s knowing m●ch wrong no right Gote-bearded sweete-fac'd like a Catamite Toung'de Lawyer-like all terme without vacation A Baboon●s loyn●s desiring occupation Crumpe-Cammell-shoulder'd neckt as straight as ●ynx One eye like to a Moll 's t'other like Lynx A Lyons stomack not to fight but feede A Hare in heart and yet a Snaile in speede This is the man whom we Pandorsus call Whose armes or Rebus thus we blasen shall Vpon a stat●ly wall Saint George doth ride Wanting a horse in pompe and armed pride Beneath there is a Den in that the Dragon This tells his name whose worthy parts we brag on It is his owne deuice let all men know So is the rest which we in order show His Mothers Husband who reputed was His Father being rich and well to passe A wealthy Merchant and an Alderman On forraigne shores did trau●ll now and than The whilst a Gallant Souldier new come forth From warre b●got this man of mickle worth This gallant Souldier then from ●Belgia brought A wondrous Mandrake with much perill bought Sprung though some thin●e it fabulous from seed The gallow●s drop for so this roote doth breed Which whilst his mother did in pl●asure eye Our Mo●nsurs shape she did conc●iue thereby Much like that Mandrake writ●en turning round As from the gallow●s he had dropt to ground And l●t no dou●tfull Reader much admire A Myrmidon should be Pandorsus Syre For as there 's none with vs get brauer men Then Lawyers or the tender Citizen So none more cowards g●t then those which are Our brauest Spirits most renownde in warre The cause I know not or I list not tell But so it often falles and heere so fell None bolder then Pandorsus Syre then he None fearefuller and yet he needs would be A Souldier where the Muster-booke he fild But fought with none nor ne're saw any kild Artemon was more hardy though afraid Of his owne shadow Wagers haue beene laid That let an enemie fart he would out-run An Irishman for feare t 'had been a gun Where learned Spencer maketh harna'st Feare Afraid the clashing of his armes to heare That apprehension he from hence did gaine Our Monsieur did what Spencer did but faine But stay I haue forgot to let you know His education and to shew you how Being nusled vp in Letters he in sport His time wore out at Schoole and Innes of Court Yet so as once a Gipsie who did looke Vpon his Palme said he should liue by 's booke Which fortune some conceiue hath doubtfull scope As if his booke should saue him from the rope But since he proues it meant another thing That teaching Tongues he should liue like a King And so he now doth liuing as he lust And by his owne will measuring what is iust For being set to Schoole when he was young He of all knowledge learn'd both taile and tongue Th' Italian Latin Spanish and the French He grew as cunning in as at a Wench A Dictionary of all words of Art And Lullies old-ends he hath got by heart Th' apparrell of all knowledge he doth weare And 'bout him Bias-like his wealth doth beare And now growne ripe he doth religion choose That 's most in fashion as our great ones vse But otherwise for truth hee 'le neuer burne Th' aduantage of his wry-necke helps him turne He knowes the way and wills the world ne're doubt That comming raw in hee 'le go rosted out In youth he tooke to Wife a louely Dame Not hight the chast Penelope by name But worthy such an attribute for shee Her wandring loose Vlisses did not see In twenty yeeres and yet t' is thought her bed Shee kept vnstain'd and vn-ad-horn'd his head But what a blessing was he thought a curse His wife had better beene had shee been worse Her goodnesse made him hate her she had dide But that a dozen must be kil'd beside He knew not then as I haue heard him say Th' Italian tricke but the plaine English way Of simple Country poysoning now he knowes To do t by inches Court perfection growes Lopus and Squire are not so skil'd as hee And scarce Romes Conclaue in that mysterie He can a Nullitie worke diuorce the life Twixt soule and body sooner then some wife And if his ricke be knowne men ne're will seeke A doubtfull way by law but do the like His wife thus scap'd a scouring so did he When being merry once in company And passing Smith-field then vnpau'd too late With rich Canary hauing linde his pate The owle-eyde Sharkers spi'd him how he felt To finde a post his meaning soone they smelt And then the sturdiest knaue with sodain'd rush Our wauering Monsieur on his knees did push The whil'st another kindly to him spoke Help't him out of the durt and chang'd his cloke This cloke he wore next day and passing by A Brokers shop the prentice lowde gan cry Sirs stop the theefe the cloake this fellow weares Is mine with that they swarm'd about his eares Conuayde him to a Iustice where one swore He had been branded stagmaticke before Another said he was the man that hung Three dayes beyond Seas as the ballad sang The cause why he his necke awry did hold Was for he hang'd long and was ta'ne downe cold But to the Iustice being throughly knowne For carrying letters where 't must not be showne And for his skill each moderne language speaking And wondrous Art to silence doores from squeaking With losse of his good cloke he slipt the hooke And thus he once was saued by his booke Thus farre I stretch my lines thus farre he liues And more I 'le write when he direction giues But if I die these lines shall be the glasse His worth to shew and how I thankfull was To the ouer-wise ouer-wilfull ouer-curious or ouer-captious Readers I Faine would tell some Tales but I 'de be loth To haue men be so wise to thinke them troth This is● wondrous witty age that sees Beyond the truth of things forty degrees Each Riddle now hath Poyson in 't each Rime On the blancke Almanak points at guilty time Aesope must mak no Lyons roare nor Eagles Shrike loude nor wolues r●●in nor swift Beagles Yelpe with their slauering lips after the Foxe Nor must he meddle with the Asse or Oxe For feare some querke ●e found to proue he men● Vnder those shapes a priuate spleene to vent Against wise vigilant Statists who like Ianus Looke both waies squint and both waies guard and sa●e v● Or that he closely would great Lawyers yerke Who build their neasts with ruines of the kirke Or that he toucht some Church-man who to rise One Steeples height would tell Canonicall lies The Ghost of Virgils Gnat would no● sting so● That great men durst not in the City go For feare of petty-Chapmen with a Serieant And a sly Yeoman noted in the Marg●ant If Spencer now were liuing to report His Mother Hubberts tale there would be sport To see him in a blanket tost and