eldest daughter to Henry the 7. from whom our graciâ—â—â— soueraigne is â—ineally descended Henry the eight An. Dom. 1509. FRom both the Lines and both the Ioynes did spring Of York Lancaster this mighty King Katherine that was his brothers wife of late He tooke to wife and crown'd her Queene in state Empson and Dudley lost their heads at Tower For racking the poore Commons by their power Warres dreadfull wars arose 'twixt vs and French Lord Edward Howard drowned by mis-chance At Brest he was high Admirall in fight Cast ouerboord dy'd like a valiant Knight In England Suffolks Duke did lose his head The King to Turwin did an army lead Turney he wonne with his victorious blade King Iames of Scotland England did inuade But Surries Earleâ— the Scotsh King ouercame Who lost life there but wonne immortall fame Now Cardinall Wolsey in the Kings high Grace Was rais'd to honours from great place to place Lordship on Lordship laid vpon his backe Vntill the burthen was the bearers wracke The Duke of Buckingham his head did lose And Laâ—ber stoutly did the Pope oppose â—â—finde ignorance that long had look'd awry Began to see Truth with a clearer eye And then the King inspir'd with seruent Zeale Reformed both the Church and Common weale â—â—â—â—â— with his power Omnipotent Did make this King his gracious Instrument â—â—T'vnmaske his Truth from Antichristian fables And purge this wofull Land from Babels bables This king at Boloigne was victorious â—â— peace and warre Magnifique Glorious â—â— his rage bounty he did oft expresse His Liberality to bee excesse â—â—â— Reuels Iusts and Turnies he spent more Then fiue of his Fore-fathers did before His Auarice was all for Noble fame Amongst the Worthies to inrole his Name A valiant Champion for the Faiths defence Was the great Title of this mightie Prince â—â—â—â— wiues he had 3 Kates 2. Aunes one Iane Two were diuorc'd two at the blocke were slaine One sonne and two faire daughters he did leaue Who each from other did the Crowne receiue The first was Edward Mary next whose death Left State and Realme to Queene Elizabeth He thirty eight yeeres kept this Royall Roome At windsor hee 's enter'd without a Tombe Lâ—â—th Edenbourgh and diuers other parts of Scotland were spoyled by Sir Iohn Dudley Lord Viscount â—sle Lord high Admirall of England with a Navy of 200 tall Ships Anno 1544. King Henry went to Boloigne hee â—â—â—â— France the 13. of Iuly and into Boloigne the 25. of September in which yeere were taken 300. French â—hips for prices Edward the sixt An. Dom. 1546. HAd this Kings reigne bin long as it was good Religion in a peaceable state had stood What might haue his age bin when his blest youth â—o valiantly aduanc'd Gods sacred truth At nine yeeres age the Crowne on him hee tooke And ere sixteene he Crowne and life for sooke Too good for earth th' Almighty tooke his spirit And Westminster his Carkas doth inherit In his 5. yeere a strange Earth-quake did much harmâ— in diuers places of Surry and a sweating sicknesse generally ouer England that dispatched those that were in good health in 12. houres or 24. at the most In one weeke there dyed of it in London 806. the most of them being men of best strength Queene Mary An. Dom. 1553. AFter a while this Queene had worne the Crown Idolatry was rais'd and Truth put downe The Masse the Images the Beades and Altars By tyrannie by fire and sword and Halters Th'vngodly bloudy Antichristian sway Men were force perforce forced to obey Now burning Bonner London Bishop he Was from the Maâ—sâ—al-sea againe â—â— free Iohn Dudley great Duke of Northumberland And Sir Iohn Gates dyed by the Headsmans hand With them Sir Thomas Palmer likewise dy'd Hoping for heau'n through â—â—â—â—â— Crucified In Latine Seruice must be sung and said Because men should not know for what they praâ—'d The Emp'rors sonne great Philip King of Spaine A marriage with Queene Mary did obtaine Against which match Sir Thomas Wyat rose With powers of Kent the Spaniards to oppose But Wyat was or'throwne his armie fled And on the Tower hill after lost his head Lord Gray the Duke of Suffolke also dy'd An Axe his Corps did from his head diuide A little after the Lord Thomas Gray The Dukes owne brother went that headlesse way A Millers sonne assum'd King Edwardâ— name And falsely in that name the Crowne did claime But he was tane and iustly whip'd and tortur'd And claiming it once more was hang'd quarterd King Philip won Saint Quintins with great cost But after to our shame was Callice lost Callice was lost which threescore yeeres and ten Had beene a Garrison for Englishmen Thus by Gods mercy Englands Queene did dye And England gain'd much ease and rest thereby Fiue yeeres and 4. months was her bloudy reigne And all her glory doth one graue containe Though of her selfe this Queene was well inclin'd Bad-minded counsell altred much her minde She married Philip King of Spaine on Saint Iames his day 1554. at Winchester Callice was won by Edward the 3. in the 21. of his reigne 1347. and it was lost the I. of Ianuary 1557. after the English-men had possest it 210. yeeres August 7. 1558. a tempest neere Nottingham beat downe 2. Townes and Churches and cast the Bels to the further side of the Church-yard threw whole sheetes of Lead 400. foot into the fields where they were crumpled together like burns parchment the streame and mud of the Riuer of Trent was blowne a-land a quarter of a mile a childe blowne out of a mans hand 100. foot and kild there fell hayle 15. Inches about Queene Elizabeth An. Dom. 1558. A Debora a Iudith a Susanna A Virgin a Virago a Diana Couragious Zealous Learned Wise and Chasle With heauenly earthly gifts adorn'd and grac'd Victorious glorious bountious gracious good And one whose vertues dignifi'd her bloud That Muses Graces Armes and liberall Arts Amongst all Queens proclaim'd her Queen of hearts She did repurifie this Land once more From the infection of the Romish whore Now Abbies Abbots Fri'rs Monks Nuns Stews Masses and Masse-priests that mens soules abuse Were all cast downe Lamps Tapers Relikes Beads And Superstitions that mans soule misse-leads All Popish pardons Buls Consessions With Crossings Cristening bels Saints Intercessions The Altars Idols Images downe cast All Pilgrimage and Superstitious Fast Th'acknowledging the Pope for supreme head The holy water and the god of bread The mumbling Mattins and the pickpurse Masse These bables this good Queene did turne to grasse She caus'd Gods seruice to be said and sung In our owne vnderstanding English tongue In Scotland and in France fierce warres she held The Irish she subdu'd when they rebeld The Netherlands her name doe still admire And Spaine her like againe doth not desire When forty foure yeers reigne was past and gone She chang'd her earthly for a heauenly Throne At Greenwich she was borne at Richmond dy'd At
pleasure And put repentance off to our last leasure To shew vs though we liu'd like Iewes and Turkes Yet Gods great mercy is aboue his workes To warne vs not presume or to despaire Here 's good example in this theeuing paire These seas of care with zealous fortitude This Virgin past among the multitude Oh gracious patterne of a sex so bad Oh the supernall patience that she had Her zeale her constancy her truth her loue The very best of women her doth proue Maids wiues and mothers all conforme your liues To hers the best of women maides or wiues But as her Sonnes death made her woes abound His resurrection all griefe did confound She saw him vanquish't and inglorious And after saw him Victor most victorious She saw him in contempt to lose his breath And after that she saw him conquer death She saw him blest a cursed death to dye And after saw him rise triumphantly Thus she that sorrowed most had comfort most Ioy doubly did returne for gladnesse lost And as before her torments tyranniz'd Her ioy could after not be equalliz'd Her Sonnes all-wondred resurrection Her Sauiours glorious ascension And last the Holy Ghost from heauen sent downe These mighty mercies all her ioyes did crowne Suppose a man that were exceeding poore Had got a thousand tunnes of golden ore How would his heart be lifted vp with mirth As this great masse of treasure most part earth But to be rob'd of all in 's height of glory Would not this lucklesse man be much more sory Then euer he was glad for in the minde Griefe more then ioy doth most abiding finde But then suppose that after all this lâ—sse The gold is well refined from the dresse And as the poore man doth his losse complaine His weath more pure should be relâ—â— againe Amidst his passions in this great reliefe I doubt not but his ioy would conquer griefe Euen so our bressed Lady hauing lost Her ioy her lewell she esteemed most Her all in all the heau'n and earths whole treasure Her gracious heart was grieued out of measure But when she found him in triumphant state No tongue or pen her ioy cou'd then relate She lost him poore and â—are and dead and cold She found him rich most glâ—â—â— to behold She lost him when vpon his backe was hurld The burthen of the sinnes of all the World She lost him mortall and immortall found him For crown of thorns a crown of glory crownd him Thus all her griefes her losse her cares and paine Return'd with ioyes inestimable gaine But now a true relation I will make How this blest Virgin did the world forsake 'T is probable that as our Sauiour bid Saint Iohn to take her home that so he did And it may be suppos'd she did abide With him and in his house vntill she dide Iohn did out-liue th'Apostles euery one For when Domitian held th' Imperiall Throne To th'Ile of Pathmos he was banisht then And there the Reuelation he did pen But whilst Iohn at Ierusalem did stay God tooke the blessed Virgins life away For after Christs Ascension it appeares She on the earth suruiued fifteene yeeres Full sixty three in all she did endure A sad glad pilgrimage a life most pure At sixty three yeeres age her life did fade Her soule most gracious was most glorious made Where with her Son her Sauiour her Lord God She euerlastingly hath her abode In such fruition of immortall glory Which cannot be describ'd in mortall story There mounted meelâ—e she sits in Maiesty Exalted there is her humility There she that was adorned full of Grace Beheld her Maker and Redeemers face And there she is amongst all blessed spirits By imputation of our Sauiours merits She there shall euer and for euer sing Eternall praise vnto th' Eternall King When she had paid the debt that all must pay When from her corps her soule was past away To Gethsemany with lamenting cheare Her sacred body on the Beere they beare There in the earth a Iewell was inter'd That was before all earthly wights prefer'd That Holy wife that Mother that pure Maid At Gethsemany in her graue was laid LENVOY This worke deserues the worke of better wit But I like Pilate say What 's writ is writ If it be lik'd poore artlesse I am glad And Charity I hope will mend what 's bad I know my selfe the meanest amongst men The most vnlearnedst that e'r handled pen But as it is into the world I send it And therefore pray commend it or come to end it FINIS TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE WORTHY and Learned Gentleman S r. THOMAS Richardson Knight Lord Chiefe Iustice of his Maiesties Court of Common Pleas and Speaker in the High Court of PARLIAMENT c. A double Anagramme THOMAS RICHARDSON AS MAN HONORDE CHRIT SO CHRIST HONERD A MAN YOur name includes that As Man honorde Christ So God againe through Christ honord a Man For if Man truely honor the most High'st Then Christ to honor Man both will and can Right Worthy Lord this in your name is true You honor Christ and Christ hath honord you RIGHT HONOVRABLE BVt that I am assured that your Noble disposition in all parts is sutable to the inside of this Booke I should neuer haue dared to Dedicate it to your Patronage for as it is a Diuine Poem so haâ—â— your Worship a religious heart As it hath an honest intention so haue you a brest euer full of â—â—â— thoughts which bring forth worthy actions as it is a whip or Scourge against all sorts of priat so hâ—â—e you euer beene an vfaigned louer of Courteous humanity and humility I humbly beseech your Honour although the method and stile be plaine to be pleased to giue it fauourable entertainment for the honesty that is in it and the dutifull affection of the Author Who is most obsequiously obliged to your Honour IOHN TAYLOR TO NO MATTER VVHO NO GREAT MATTER VVHERE YET TO BE READ THERE IS MATTER WHY ALTHOVGH NOT MVCH MATTER WHEN IT is no matter in whose hands or censure this my Superibae Flagellum or Whipping or Stripping of Pride fall into If it come into the view of true Nobility or Gentry I know it will be charitably accepted If into the hands of degenerate yongsters that esteeme Pride more then all the Liberall Sciences who account the foure Cardinall vertues inferiour to their owne carnall vices such a one will put me off with a scornefull tush a pish or a mew and commit my Booke to the protection of Ajax If a wise man reade it I know it will be discreetly censur'd if a Foole his Bolt is soone shot and I am arm'd against it if a Learned man peruse it he will beare with my bad Schollership if an vnlearned I care not for his opinion if a man of knowledge view it he will pardon my ignorance if an ignorant Asse see it he will bray out his owne if an honest rich man spy it he will be
Vertue blindes the eye And Vertue makes vice knowne apparantly When falsehood is examin'd and comparâ—d With Truth it makes truthhaue the more regard The Crow seemes blackest when the Swan stands neere And goodnes makes the ill most bad appeare So vertues that are contrary to vices Make them contemptible and base in prices a The praise of Humility Humility if it be well embrac'd It makes disdainfull Pride disdain'd disgrac'd Humility is a most heauenly gift The Stayre that doth to Glory men vp lift None but the meeke and lowly humbled spirit Shall true eternall happinesse inherit Those that are humble honour * Eecles 19. God alwayes And onely those will he to honour raise If thou be'st great in state giue thanks therefore And humble still thy selfe so much the more He that is humble loues his Christian brother And thinkes himselfe * Phil. 2. 3. inferiour to all other Those that are meeke the Lord shall euer guide And * Psal. 25. 9. Psal. 138. 6. teach them in his wayes still to abide For though the Lord be high he hath respect Vnto the * Prou. 22.4 lowly whom he will protect Humility and lowlinesse goes on Still before honour as saith Salomon He that is humble heere and free from strife Shall for * Mat. 23. 12. reward haue glory wealth and life He that himselfe doth humble certainly Our Sauiour saith shall be * Mat. 23. 12. exalted high He that with Christ will weare a glorious Crowne Must cast himselfe as Christ did humbly downe And like to the rebounding of a ball The way to rise must first be low to fall For God the Father will accept of none That put not on the meekenes of his Sonne If proudly thou doe lift thy selfe on high God and his blessings from thee still will fly But if thou humble meeke and lowly be God and his blessings will come downe to thee If thou wouldst trauell vnto heau'n then know Humility's the way that thou must goe If in presumptuous paths of Pride thou tread 'T is the right wrong way that to hell doth lead Know that thy birth attire strength beauty place Are giu'n vnto thee by Gods speciall grace Know that thy wisedome learning and thy wealth Thy life thy Princes fauour beauty health And whatsoeuer thou canst goodnes call Was by Gods bounty giu'n vnto thee all And know that of thine owne thou dost possesse Nothing but sinne and wofull wretchednes A Christians pride should onely be in this When he can say that God his Father is When grace and mercy vvell applide affoord To make him brother vnto Christ his Lord. When he vnto the holy Ghost can say Thou art my Schoolemaster whom I 'le obay When he can call the Saints his fellovves and Say to the Angels for my guard you stand This is a laudable and Christian pride To knovv Christ and to know him crucifi'd This is that meeke ambition lovv aspiring Which all men should be earnest in desiring Thus to be proudly humble is the thing Which vvill vs to the state of glory bring But yet bevvare pride hypocriticall Puts not humilities cloake on at all A lofty mind vvith lovvly cap and knee Is humble pride and meeke hypocrisie Ambitious mindes vvith adulating lookes Like courteous Crovvne-aspiring a King Henry the fourth Bullinbrookes As a great ship ill suited vvith small saile As Iudas meant all mischiefe cride All haile Like the humility of Absalon This shadovved pride much danger vvaites vpon These are the counterseite God saue yee Sirs That haue their flatteries in particulars That courteously can hide their proud intents Vnder varieties of complements These Vipers bend the knee and kisse the hand And sweare svveet Sir I am at your command And proudly make humility a screvv To vvring themselues into opinions vievv This pride is hatefull dangerous and vile And shall it selfe at last it selfe beguile Thus pride is deadly sin and sin brings shame Which here I leaue to hell from whence it came FINIS TO THE MOST HIGH AND ALMIGHTY God the Father Creator of the World and to the King of Kings Lord of Lords and onely Ruler of Princes Iesus Christ the Glorious Redeemer of the World And to the most holy Blessed Spirit the Comfort of all true Beleeuers and Sanctisier of the World Three Persons and one Eternall Omnipotent God MOst mighty gracious mercifull and glorious God that triest the heart and searchest the reines from whom no secret is hid in the assurance of thy neuer-failing clemency and hope of thy gracious acceptance I humbly offer to thy most dread Maiestie these my poore labours which out of thine owne Word and by and through thy blessed assistance I haue for the glory of thy great Name compiled I acknowledge my selfe the meanest of men and the most vnworthy of thy vnworthy seruants to present my polluted imperfect duty to thee that art the Fountaine of perfection purity and holinesse but thou that knowest mine intentions meeke and humble free from the expectation of worldly applause and onely ayming to reprehend and reforme the too much too frequent impieties of Cursing and Swearing so hatefull to thee and so abusiue to thy Law vpon the knees of my heart I prostrate my selfe before the feete of thy Mercy seate beseeching thee for thy Names sake too much prophaned for thy Glories sake too much abused for thy Sonnes sake who with thy selfe art neglected contemned and reuiled that thou wilt be pleased to arise O Lord and scatter thine enemies that though this worke of mine bee but weake and I the workeman far weaker yet through my frailty be thou pleased to shew thy power let my lines be like Shamgars Goad Iudges 3 31. Like Iaels Nayle Iudges 4.21 Or che Iawe-bone which Samson fought withall Iudges 15. Or Dauids Sling 1. Sam. 17. That through thy might these accursed Philistines with vncircumcised hearts may be either amended or confounded That all the reuiling Rabshakehs may be made to know that thou art icalous of thy glory so blesse I beseech thee these my labours that children reading them may be seasoned with a feare and reuerence of thy Maiestic that those who already doe hate Cursing and Swearing may hereby be the more confirmed in that godly hatred That the wretched carelesse blasphemers and accursed takers of thy Name in vaine may be ashamed reformed that thereby thou maist be glorified thy Church coÌ„forted and edified and our sinfull liues amended and finally our soules euerlastingly saued through thy meere and infinite mercy and our blessed Sauiours boundlesse merits To whom with thee and the holy Ghost be all praise power and glory now and for euer Thy Eternall Maiesties lowest and least of thy vngracious seruants IOHN TAYLOR TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY MONARCH AND MY DREAD Soueraigne CHARLES by the Grace and Prouidence of God King of Great Britaine France and Ireland Defender c. My Gracious Soueraigne I Your Maiesties
poore vndeserued seruant hauing formerly oftent â—â—â—es presented to your Highnesse many small Pamphlets the best fruits of my leane and sterill inuention and alwaies your Princely affability and beunty did expresse and manifest your Royall and generous disposition and whereas your Gracious Father of euer blessed and famous memory did not onely like and encourage but also more then reward the barren gleanings of my Poeticall inuentions so now I am bold to present vnto your Maiestie this my best and superlatiue part of my last studies I know Royall Sir that mans Pilgrimage here must haue a period and as the Trâ—â— falls East or West so it rises and He that knowes the heart doth know that I doe not hypocritically take to heart that many numberlesse Blasphemies Curses and Oathes which are carelesly presumptuously and damnably breathed euery day houre and minute against the Almighty and infinite Maiestie of God Sure I am that God takes my part in resisting and writing against these crying crimes and I am perswaded that your Maiestie hath an innated Christian hured of them I likewise know that all good men doe abhorre and detest them and as on the one side I will or would not be a Stoicke or Precisian nor on the other side an Atheist so in the mid-way I haue written this small Treatise to expresse my selfe a Christian and what a Christian in these points should be and though the worke be small and rudely compil'd though I the Author am altogether meritlesse of any good yet is the matter great and so great that it merits the protection of all such as doe acknowledge there is a God Wherefore I humbly beseech your Maiestie to accept and Patronize this poore labour of mine that your powerfull approuement of it may make it passe thorow all your Kingdomes and Territories Cum Priuilegio that children by reading it in their youths may haue an ingrafted hatred of these sinnes that elder people may thereby here formed from them that all in generall may loath and abhorre them that God may be honoured and our soules eternally saued Your Maiesties humble Subiect and seruant IOHN TAYLOR AGAINST CVRSING AND SVVEARING GOD by whose incomprehensible power all things were made of nothing Genesis 1. By whose vnspeakable mercy all true Beleeuers are Redeemed Isay 52 3. By whose Almighty Prouidence all things great and small are conserued Mat. 10. 29. And nothing can passe without it Pro. 16. 33. Whose Name is holy Luke 1. 49. Whose name is a strong Towre to defend the Righteous Pro. 28. 10. And a consuming fire against obstinate impenitent sinners Deut. 4. 24. Who is a jealous and reuenging God Nahum 1. 2. Who filleth Heauen and Earth and seeth all things Ieremie 23. 24. Who is the Lord of Hosts 2 Sem. 6. 17 18. Who hath sworne by Himselfe that to him euery knee shall bow in feare and reuerence of his dreadfull Maiesty Isay 45. 23. Who hath beene so gracious that he hath made Man onely for his owne seruice and so bountifull that he hath made all other Creatures for the seruice of Man who blessed him and gaue him power to blesse in the glorious Name of the Lord of Hosts 2 Sam. 6. 17 18. Who in a fearefull voyce of Thunder did in mount Sinai proclaime his sacred Law and denounced this dreadfull and terrible Iudgement that he would not hold him guiltlesse that takes his name in vaine euen that God hath forbidden vs to curse Exod 20. 7. But to blesse them that Curse vs Rom. 12. 14. Luke 6. 28. Mat. 5.44 Yet neuerthelesse by the temptation of that old and irreconciliable enemy of God and Man by the malice and mischiefe of that old Dragon and subtill Serpent the Deuill Man hath mounted and spred to such a height and bredth these execrable vices of Cursing Swearing and Blaspheming that all estates and conditions high and low great and small oldor young male and female are vniuersally possessed with these impieties and by long custome it is in a manner almost as naturall as eating drinking or sleeping as though there were no God that had forbad these crying crimes or no hell reserued for a punishment of them In this small Treatise I doe not put pose to condemne all sorts of Cursing or Swearing for that were to declare and pronounce my selfe Accursed but my intent is as God pleaseth to enable me to declare how farre these two brethren Curses and Oathes are lawfull or vnlawfull and because I find Cursing to be the most elder and of most antiquity I purpose first to shew as farre as I haue assured warrant my opinion concerning Curses and Execrations Curses and Cursing are deuided into foure seuerall kindes As First From God to Man Secondly From Man to Man Thirdly From Man to himselfe Fourthly From Man to God The first is Iust for God did neuer Curse any Man Family Tribe Kingdome or Nation but there was a iust deseruing of that Curse for Man being altogether sinfull and God infinitely Iust Gods Curse is due and iust for the transgression of Man The Second is vncharitable as when one Man curseth another for all Men that are Christians who haue one and the same Redemption in the blood of Christâ—esus who doe in the Lords Prayer call God Our Father are forbidden to Curse and commanded to them that Curse vs. The third is when a man shall Curse himselfe which is more vncharitable for Charity should begin ar home and can that man be thought to wish well to any man that wisheth hurt to himselfe or may it be conceiued that he that is so gracelesse to Curse himselfe hath the grace to pray for another The fourth is when Man doth Curse God which is most damnable for can there be a most execrable sinne then such impious ingratitude that the Creature should Curse the Creatorâ—â— that the redeemed should Blaspheme hir Redeemer or that impiety should mount to such a height of impudency as to curse ' the blessed Spirit Of these foure in Order FOr the first God did most iustly Curse our first Parents in Paradise and in all People and Nations being of their of-spring are originally polluted with their transhressions and miserable subiects to the same Curse and doe all generally vndergoe the same punishment which is that the Man shall eate his Bread in sorrow labour and in the sweate of his face all the dayes of his life and that the Womaman shall bring forth her children in paine and sorrow and be subiect to the rule of her husband Genesis 3. Also the same time God Cursed the Earth for the sinne of Adam which Curse was that it should bring forth Thornes and Thistles and without mans great toyle and labour the Earth doth yeeld vs very small sustenance Likewise God did most iustly Curse Kain for murthering his innocent brother Abelâ— the Curse was that Kain should be a vagabond and a runnagate vpon the face of the Earth and that his labours should be accursed
also tremble in feare of his mighty power but the Swearer though hee doth know and beleeue there is a God yet hee beleeues not his Word or feares or trembles at his Iudgements Besides these endlesse torments ordained in hell for odious Swearers God hath promised to afflict them in this life for he saith The plague shall neuer goe from the house of the Swearer Ecclesiasticus 23. So that the gaine of a Swearer is nothing but the eternall wrath of God the hatred of all good men the ill example to others and the vexation and discredit of himselfe his kindred and friends with a fearefull reward hereafter except true repentance obtaine mercy What a foolish absurditie is it for a man being crost in some wordly affaires or gaming or other businesse either materiall or triuiall to reuenge himselfe vpon God and blasphemously fly in the face of his Maker with Oathes and Excerations If wee did consider what God hath done for vs we would not so vnthankefully requite him if we called to mind his gracious promise of glory euerlasting to those that loue and feare him we should then hold his Name in such reuerence as becomes Christians if his fearefull threatnings against the takers of his Name in vaine could terrifie vs no doubt but we would be more carefull and circumspect in our liues and conuersations as that we would be allured by his mercies or restrained by his Iudgements GOd hath naturally placed and inclosed the tongue of man within the stone-walls of his teeth and without those walls there are also the two earthen Bulwarkes or Rampieres of his lippes he hath appointed Reason to be the tongues guide and guardian and he freely offers his Grace to be Reasons counsellour and gouernour wherefore let vs flee to the Throne of Grace and beseech the God of Grace that he will cause his sauing Grace to guide our Reason that our Reason may rule our tongues that Cursing may be cashiered Swearing suppressed that by Gods Spirit our lippes may bee opened that with our mouthes his Name may be praysed that Gods Name may be glorified and our sinfull soules eternally saued through the merits of our great and blessed Redeemer Iesus Christ To whom with the Father and the Blessed Spirit be all Honour Power Maiestie Glory Dominion and Thankesgiuing ascribed and rendred as is due of men and Angels both now and for euermore Amen Amen Against Swearing THou that these lines dost either heare or read Consider with thy selfe and take good heed Reade them and let them neuer be forgot They doe concerne thy soule then slight them not The a Iames. Fiends of Hell beleeue there is a God And feare and tremble at his angry Rod They doe confesse his glorious Excellence And his Almighty powers Omnipotence But Man his choisest and his chiefest Creature Is so rebellious against God and Nature That hee 'gainst Heau'n dare both blaspheme and sweare And worse then Fiends they not beleeue or feare So that the Earth doth breed feed and retaine Worse Monsters then there doth in Hell remaine If men beleeu'd the Word that God hath spoke They would belieue that Word shuld ne'er be broke In His enacted Law b Exodus 20. is one Decree That all who take his Name in vaine shall be Accounted guilty and his fearefull wrath Will hold them guilty of eternall death Againe 't is said Let the c Leuiticus 24. Blasphemer dye Let him be stoned for his blasphemy And euill tongues who dare to curse aduenter Shall into Heauens d 1 Cot. 6.10 blessednesse not enter And Christ when on the Earth he liued heere Forbade vs that at e Mat. 6 all we should not sweare And in th'leuenth of Deutoronomy againe We are commanded not to sweare in vaine The f God himselfe complaineth that men blaspheme him Esay 52. 5. The names of blasphemy are writ vpon the 10. heads of Antichrist Apoc 13. 1. Cursing iâ— so biddâ—n by the Apostle when hee saith Blesse I say and cursenâ— Rom. 12. 14. Our Sauiour commandeth vs to blesse them that curse vs Mat. 5. 44. Blesse them that curse you and pray for them which hurt you Luke 6. 28. Accustome not thy mouth to swearing for in it are many falls neither take vp for a custome the naming of the holy One for thou shalt not be vnpunished for such things Eocle 23. 9. The Plague shall neuer goe forth from the house of the swearer Id.m. Who so sweares falsely calls the God of truth to witnesse a lie Who so sweares as he thinks may be deceiued Who so sweares vnreuerendy dishonoureth God Whoso sweares deceitfully abuseth Christian sideâ—lity Whoso sweares idlely abuseth the credit of a faithfull oath Whoso sweares accustomably God will plague him E'fred an English Earle conspiring to put our K. Adelstancs eyes at Winebestes forsware the treason in St. Peters Church at Reeâ— and fell downe dead presently Godwin murthered Prince Aâ—â—â— brother to King Edward Confessor and being at dinner the King charged him with the murther then Godwin swore by bread prayed it might choak him if he were guilty and immediatly it choaked him in the place his lands also sunke into the sea and are called Godwin sands King Stephen forsware himselfe to King Henry 1. and liued in continuall trouble and dyed in perplexity of minde Edward the 4. brake his oath made at Yorke that he came not with intent to seaze the Kingdom and breaking that oath was punisht with a troublesome raigne his brethren and children all except one murthered and not any of his islue raigned after him Roger Mâ—â—tuner a great Peere of this land for breaking his oath to King Edward the II. was most ignominiâ—usly hanged boweld and quartred M. Fox in his booke of Martyrs declares of one Richard Long of Calice that forsware himselfe to accuse one Smith for eating flesh in Lentt after which oath Long went presently and drowned himselfe One Grâ—â—wood at Hitâ—hant in Sussolke forsware himselfe and his bowels buâ—st out One Widdow Barues for the like sinne cast herselfe out of her window in Cornhill and brake her necke Anne Auertis forsware herselfe in Woodstreet for six pounds of Towe desiting God â—â—â— might sinke downe which fearefully hapned One Lâ—a â—n Sunne-alley without Bishops-gate forsware himselfe and after ript out his guts Heathen to blaspheme their gods abhorr'd Yet Christians wilfully blaspheme the Lord. Who-euer to reuile the gods were knowne In Rome were from the Rock Tarpeius throwne Th'Egyptians Law was he should lose his head 'Mongst Scythians life and goods were forfeited These grieuous punishments did Pagant vse Against all them that did their gods abuse King Donald's Law in Scotland's not forgot Who burnt them through the lips with irons hot And when King Edmund here had Regall State All Swearers he did excommunicate And Philip King of France a Prince renown'd Ordain'd that Blasphemers should be drown'd The Emperour Maximilian did decree That all vaine Swearers
end this vaine dispute â—â—ur barren states may spring bring forth fruite â—ur wills are good and whilst I keepe your bills â—â—stead of Payment I accept good wills â— hope and expectation I will feede â—â—d take your good endeauours for the deede â—aying that Crosses in your mindes may cease â—â—â— Crosses in your purses may increase 3. Those that are hard for me to finde and being found were better lost ANother sort of debtors are behinde Some I know not and some I cannot finde â—â—d some of them lie here and there by spirts â—â—sting their lodgings oftner then their shirts â—â—chance I heare where one of these men lies â—â—d in the morning vp betimes I rise â—â—d finde in Shorditch where he lodg'd a night â— he to Westminster hath tane his flight â—me two dayes after thither doe I trot â—â—d finde his lodging but yet finde him not â—â— he the night before as people tell â—th tane a Chamber about Clarken-well â—â—ither goe I and make a priuy search â—â—st he 's in Southwark neer S. George his Church A pox vpon him all this while thinke I Shall I ne'r finde out where my Youth doth lyâ— And hauing sought him many a weary boat At last perhaps I finde his chamber out But then the Gentleman is fast in bed And rest hath seas'd vpon his running head He hath tooke cold with going laâ—e by water Or sate vp late at Ace Deuse Trey and Cater That with a Sinke of fifty pieces price He sleepes till noone before his Worship rise At last he wakes his man informes him strain That I at dore doe on his pleasure wait Perhaps I am requested to come neere And drinke a cup of either ale or beere Whilst-sucking English fire and Indian vapor At last I greet him with my bill of Paper Well Iohn quoth he this hand I know is mine But I this day doe purpose to goe dine At the halfe Moone in Mâ—lk-street prethee come And there we 'l drinke and pay this petry Summe I take my leaue he in his sleeue doth laugh Whilst I beleeue him like Iohn hold my staffe I in the Tauerne stay and wait his pleasure And he to keepe his word can finde no leasure Thus many a street by me recrost and crost I in and out and to and fro am tost And spend my time and coyne to finde one out Which hauing found rewards me with a flout In this base fashion or such like as this To me their scuruy daily dealing is As one 's in 's study t'other's deepe in talke Another's in his Garden gone to walke One's in the Barbers suddes and cannot see Till chin and chaps are made a Roman T And for his making thus a Gull of me I wish his cut may be the Graecian P. These men can kisse their claws with Iack how is' t And take and shake me kindely by the fist And put me off with dilatory cogges And sweare and lye worse then a sort of dogs Protesting they are glad I am return'd When they 'd be gladder I were hang'd or burn'd Some of their pockets are oft stor'd with chinke Which they had rather waste on drabs dice drinke Then a small petty summe to me to pay Although I meet them euery other day For which to ease my mind to their disgrace I must perforce in Print proclaime them base And if they pay me not vnto their shames I 'l print their trades their dwellings their names That boyes shall hisse them as they walke along Whilst they shal stink do their breeches wrong Pay then delay not but with speed disburse Or if you will try but who 'l haue the worse 4. Those that will and doe daily pay me in drinke and smoake A Fourth cure I must drop from out my quill Are some that haue not paid yet say they will And their remembrance giues my muddy mood More ioy then of those that will ne'r be good These fellowes my sharpe Muse shall lash but soft Because I meet them to their charges oft Where at the Tauerne with free frollicke hearts They welcome me with pottles pints and quarts And they at times will spend like honest men Twelue shillings rather then pay fiue or ten These are Right Gentlemen who beare a minde To spend and be as liberall as the winde But yet their bounty when they come to pay Is bountifull in nothing but delay These I doe seeke from place to place These make me not to run the wildgoose chase These doe from day to day not put me off And in the end reward me with a scoffe And for their kindnesse let them take their leasure To pay or not pay let them vse their pleasure Let them no worser then they are still proue Their pow'rs may chance out-do me not their loue I meet them to my pâ—rill and their cost And so in time there 's little will be lost Yet the old prouerbe I would haue them know The horse may starue the whilst the grasse doth grow 5. Those that are dead A Fift sort God be with them they are dead And euery one my quittance vnder 's head To aske them coyne I know they haue it not And where nought is there 's nothing to be got I 'l neuer wrong them with inâ—â—ctiue lines Nor trouble their good heires or their as-signes And some of them their line losse to me were In a large measure of true sorrow deere As one braue Lawyer whose true honest spirit Doth with the blest celestiall soules inherit He whose graue wisedome gain'd preeminence To grace and fauour with his gracious Prince Adorn'd with learning lou'd approu'd admir'd He my true friend too soone to dust retir'd Besides a number of my worthy friends To my great losse death brought vnto their ends Rest gentle spirits rest with Eternizing And may your corpes haue all a ioyfull rising There 's many liuing euery day I see Who are more dead then you in pay to me 6. Those that are fled A Sixt with tongues glib like the tailes of Eâ—â—â— Hath shew'd this land and me foule paires a heâ—â— To Ireland Belgia Germany and France They are retyr'd to seeke some better chance 'T was their vnhappy inauspicious Fate The Counters or King Luds vnlucky Gate Bonds being broke the stones in euery street They durst not tread on lest they burnt their feet Smoke by the Pipe and Ginger by the race They lou'd with Ale but neuer lou'd the Mace And these mens honesties are like their states At pittious wofull and at low-priz'd rates For partly they did know when they did take My bookes they could no satisfaction make And honesty this document doth teach That man shall neuer striue aboue his reach Yet haue they reacht and ouer-reacht me still To do themselues no good and me much ill But farewell friends if you againe doe come And pay me either all or none or some I looke for none and therefore still delay me You onely doe deceiue me
of my Tearedrown'd eies Sad Partners of my hearts Calamities Tempestuous sighs like winds in prison pent Which wanting vent my grieued soule hath rent Deepe wounding grones companions of vnrest Throngs from the bottome of my care-craz'd brest You three continuall fellowes of my mones My brinish teares sad sighs and pondrous grones â—â— doe intreate you neuer to depart But be the true assistants of my heart In this great at sorrow that my trembling Quill Describes which doth our LaÌ„d with moarning fill Ah Death I could nought thy hunger satisfie But thou must glut thy selfe with Maiesty Could nothing thy insatiate thirst restraine But Royall blood of our Dread Soueraigne In this thy spight exceeds beyond all bounds And at one blow 3. kingdomes fildst with wounds When thou that fatall deadly stroake did'st strike Thaâ— Death thou playd'st the tyrant Catholike Our griefes are Vniuersall sall and the Summe Cast vp the blow doth wound all Christendome But wherefore Death doe I on thee exclaime Thou cam'st in the Eternall Kings great name For as no mortall pow'r can thee preuent So thou doest neuer come but thou art sent And now thou cam'st vpon vnwelcome wings To our best King from the blest King of Kings To summon him to change his earthly throne For an Immortall and a Heanenly one When men vnthankfull for a good receiu'd â—Tiâ— least that of that good they be bereau'd His gouernement both God and men did please Except such spirits as might complaine of Ease Repining Passions wearied with much Rest The want to be molesled might molest Such men thinke peace a torment and no trouble â—â— worse then trouble though it should come double â—â—â— speake of such as with our peace were cloyd Though wâ—â— I think might well haue bin imploy'd True Britaines wish iust warres to entertaine I meane no aide for Spinola or Spaine But time and troubles would not suffer it Nor Gods appointment would the same permit He is inserutable in all his waies And at his pleasure humbleth and will raise For patience is a vertue he regardeth And in the end with victory rewardeth â—â—t whither hath my mournefull Muse digrest From my beloued Soueraigne Lord decast Who was to vs and we to him eu'n thus Too bad for him and hee too good tor vs. For good men in their deaths 't is vnderstood They leaue the bad and goe vnto the good This was the cause why God did take from hence This most Religious Learned Gracious Prince This Paragon of Kings this matchlesse Mirror This Faith 's desending Antichristian terror This Royall all-beloued King of Hearts This Patterne and this Patron of good Arts This cabinet of mercy Temperance Prudence and Iustice that doth man aduance This Magazine of Pious Clemency This fountaine of true Liberaâ—tâ— This minde where vertue daily did increase This Peacefull Seruant to theâ— odo Peace This second great Apollo from whoâ—e Raies Poore Poetry did winne Immortall Baâ—es From whence the sacred Sâ—â—â— Trebâ— Trine Had life and motion Influence diuine These vertues did adorne his Diaâ—â—m And God in taking him hath taken them Of all which Blessings we must needs confesse We are depriu'd for our vnworthinesse A good man 's neuer mist till he be gone And then most vaine and fruitlesse is our mone But as Heau'ns fauours downe to vs descended So if our thankefulnesse had but ascended Had we made Conscience of our waies to sinne So soone of him we not depriu'd had bin Then let vs not lament his losse so much But for our owne vnworthinesse was such So from th'vnthankefull Iewes God in his wrath Tookâ— good Iosias by vnlook'd for death And for our sinnes our ignorance must know We haue procur'd and felt this curelesse blow And Christendome I feare in losing him Is much dismembred and hath lost â— limme As by the fruit the tree may be exprest His workes declar'd his learning manifest Whereby his wisdome wan this great renowne That second Salomon wore Britaines crowne His pen restrain'd the strong relieu'd the weake And graciously he could write doe and speake He had more force and vigor in his words TheÌ„ neigh'â—ring Princes could haue in their swords France Denmarke Poland Sweden Germany Spaine Saâ—oy Italy and Muscoâ—â—â— Bohemia and the fruitfull Palatine The Swisses Grisons and the â—eltoline As farre as euer Sol or Luna shin'd Beyond the Westerns or the Easterne Inde His counsell and his fauours were requir'd Approu'd belou'd applauded and admir'd When round about the Nations farre and neere With cruell bloody warres infested were When Mars with sword and fire in furious rage Spoyl'd consum'd not sparing lex or age Whilst mothers with great griese were childlesse made And Sonne 'gainst Sire oppos'd with trenchant blade When brother against brother kinne ' gainst kinne Through death and danger did destruction winne When murthers mercilesse and beastly Rapes These famine miseries in sundry Shapes While mischiefs thus great kingdomes ouerwhelm Our prudent Steeresman held great Britaines helme Conducting so this mighty Ship of state That Strangers enui'd and admir'd thereat When blessed Peace with terrour and affright Was in a mazed and distracted flight By bloody Warre and in continuall Chase Cours'd like a fearefull Hare from place to place Not daring any where to shew her head She happily into this kingdome fled Whom Royall Iames did freely entertaine And graciously did keepe her all his reigne Whilst other Lands that for her absence mourne With sighs and teares doe with her backe returne They finde in losing Her they lost a blesse A hundred Townes in France can witnesse this Where Warres compulsion or else composition Did force Obedience Bondage or Submission Fields lay vntild and fruitfull Land lay waste And this was scarcely yet full three yeeres past Where these vnciuill ciuill warres destroy'd Princes Lords Captaines men of Note imploy'd One hundred sixty seuen in number all And Common people did past number fall These wretches wearied with these home-bred Iars Loue Peace forbeing beaten sore with wars Nor doe I heere inueigh against just Armes But ' gainst vniust vunaturall Alarmes Iust warres are made to make vniust warres cease And in this sort warres are the meanes of Peace In all which turmoyles Britaine was at rest No thundring Cannons did our Peace molest No churlish Drum no Rapes no flattring wounds No Trumpets clangor to the Battell sounds But euery Subiect here enioy'd his owne And did securely reape what they had sowne Each man beneath his Fig-tree and his Vine In Peace with plenty did both suppe and dine O God how much thy goodnesse doth o'rflow Thou hast not dealt with other Nations so And all these blessings which from heauen did Spring Were by our Soueraignes wisdomes managing Gods Steward both in Office and in name And his account was euermore his aime The thought from out his minde did seldome slip That once he must giue vp his Steward-ship His anger written on weake water was His Patience and his Loue
acknowledge misbegorten pelfe Must like the getters of it rust and rot And such a liuing Tombe thy Corps inherit A good report according to thy merit Sonnet 14. HAd I the skill of Homer Maro Naso Or had I that Admir'd ornated stile Of Petrark or the braue Italian Tasso I could not ouermuch thy praise compile But as I am alas and woe the while A poore vnlearned silly simple swaine At whose attempt the world with scorn will smile And flout th'vnshapen issne of my braine But duty bids me lanch into this Maine Though my performance be but weake of store Yet worthy mindes this goodnesse doe retaine Not to despise the seruice of the poore I lou'd him liuing and my loue to show My least and last poore loue I heere bestow FINIS A FVNERALL ELEGY DEPLORING THE DEATH OF THE TRVE Patterne Patrone and mirrour of Honour the Right Honorable Lord IOHN RAMSEY Lord Discount HADINGTON Earle of HOLDERNESSE Who departed this life on Tuesday the 24 of Ianuary last and was buried in the Abby-Church of Westminster on Tuesday the last of February following Haee dextra vindex Principis Patriae An A R M E and hand well ARM'D With HEAV'NLY might That gripes a iust drawne SWORD thrust through a HEART Adorned with a ROYALL DIADEM This and this Motto was his owne by right Giuen by his SOVERAIGNE for his iust desert And in his Coate of ARMES inserted them His right Hand did reuenge and ouer came His Prince and Countries foes and purchas'd fame TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE and vertuous Lady the LADY MARTHA Countesse of Holdernesse RIght Honoured Madame to your noble view These lines of greife with griefe I dedicate Not that I would your cares a fresh renew Or any way your sorrowes aggrauate Of you put please to reade what I relate My hope is that your grieued heart shall finde Some things that may your woe extenuate And adde some comfort to your care-craz'd minde And as you still haue nobly beene inclin'd To beare with Christian patience euery crosse So be that Vertue still to you combinde Supporting you to vndergoe this losse Thus crauing pardon I the heau'ns implore To make your sorrowers lesse your comfort more IOHN TAYLOR A Sonnet of true and notable obseruations vpon feuen seuerall Teuesdayes VPon a Tuesday hee his Birth beganne Vpon a Tuesday he his baptismâ— had Vpon a Tuesday hee his Honour â— anne Vpon the Gowries whose intents were bad Vpon a Tuesday hee at first did wed The Noble Sussex daughter who deceast Vpon a Tuesday then hee married Sir William Cockains Câ—alde by heau'ns behest Vpon a Tuesday hee dâ—ataste Deaths Cup And to his blest Redeemer gaue his spirit Vpon a Tuesday hee was closed vp Within his Tombe which doth his Corpâ— inherit Thus vpon Tuesdaies 't was his lot to haue Birth Baptisme Honor two Wiues Death Graue A FVNERALL ELEGY YOu Poets all where is your Art become Are you all tong-ti'd ar your Muses duin Or are your sorrows in your brests so shut That you your pens to paper cannot put Can neither duty or your loue expresse The lamentable losse of Holdernesse Alas I know that you doe know his Worth Was farre beyond your skils to blazon forth And that when you had done what could be done It had beene as a Taper to the Sunne He was an Ocean for whose sake I know A dry inuention may with plenty flowe He was a well manured fertile field Which to a barren wit would haruest yeeld He was a Subiect of transcendent size Beyond each vulgar pen to Poetize And though I know my selfe vnworthy farre With my poore Glow-worme Muse t' attend this Starre Yea though I cannot as I would endite Attribute here I offer vp my mite Which in his Noble Treasury I throw My latest Duty that I can bestow And well I hope these lines of mâ—ne shall last When as his Tombe by Time shall be deâ—ac'd Yea though I had no hope to hue so long To write his Epicediaâ— or Deaths song Yet since God so decrees this Elegie My duty loue and thankes shall testifie How can the World but be in Honour poore Since it in losing him hath lost such store Or how can Vertue hope to liue and thriue Hee 's dead whose life preserued her aliue Religion was his Tutresse and his Matron And vnto her he was a zealous Patron Truâ— Charity belou'd with him did liue And to the poore his Glory was to giue Yet was his bounty from the world so hid His right hand know not what his left hand did So that his carriage and his Noble parts Iustly deseru'd and firmely kept mens hearts That his true praise great Britaines Bounds did fill And no man e're had cause to wish him ill His merits through Heau'ns fauour did afford That Heldernesse had euery mans good word For though the world doth vndergoe this curse That euery day it waxeth worse and worse He had a Noble and a Christian way Whereby his life was better'd euery day For to his end eu'n from his dayes of youth His time did sade but goodnesse still had growth So as his life did weare his Vertue grew And Grace did daily still more Grace renew Hee was no diuing Politician Or proiect-seeking Monopolitan Hee ne'r prouok'd the silly orphants cryes Nor fill'd with teares the woefull widdowes eyes But as his Princes fauour he did merit Hee vs'd it with such modesty of Spirit That though he might almost haue what he would Yet in such bounds he his demaunds did hold Which Honour and his Conscience did restraine That Prince or people neuer could complaine So as his life was all good mens content His death doth generally make all lament Much like a fruitfull piece of land well till'd Or as a Box with precious oyntment fill'd Eu'n so his Actions and his Conuersation Pleasd pleasur'd and much honour'd all our Nation And though that Honours doe change mannees much Yet sure in him th' effects were neuer such Though merit and the kings benignity Did raise him vnto Noble dignity Though he in Titles was promoted high Yet still his minde retain'd Humility That though desert had made his honours more His minde was rais'd no higher then before Promotion with humility combind A losty Title and a lowly minde These Vertues are exceeding great and rare And not by many men possessed are And yet in him these gifts were so apparent As if they had beene naturall inherent For had he beene with loue of Pride endowd He had the means that might haue made him proud Hee ne'r esteem'd Court complementing bubbles Nor car'd hee for the flattring Knee that doubles Hee knew it was Ambitions onely end To mount vp higher when it seemes to bend And therefore he these frothy toyes did shunne Not fit for men but Monkeyes to be done And in his actions shew'd himselfe to be Full of plaine honest true integrity He euery way himselfe did so demeane That from his
with Daâ—iâ—â— doth dally And Simei with Saphira will dispute That nine moneths after the doth beare the fruite When Zimri kissing Iezabel doth greet And Cozbi with her brother Câ—am oh sweet 'T is fit to trye their humors to refresh A Combate twixt the spirit and the flesh Prouided that they doe it secretly So that the wicked not the same â—py These youths deride the Sutplesie Crosse and Ring The knee at Sacrament or any thing The Church holds Reuerend and to testifie Their bastardy the Fathers they deny And of themselues they frame Religions new Which Christ and his Apostles neuer knew And with vntemper'd morter of their owne They build a Church to all good men vnknowne Railes at the Harmonious Organs and the Coape Yet in each Church of theirs they raile a Pope Cals it the badge of Antichristian drosse When they see butter printed with the Crosse And yet for coine they â—eny man beguile For when they tell it they turne vp the pile Vpon the Sabbath they ' l no Physicke take Lest it should worke and so the Sabbath breake They hate to see a Church-man ride why so Because that Christ bad his Apostles goe Against our Churches all they haue exclaimed Because by Saints names most of them are nam'd If these new Saints no old Saints will abide From Christendome they must or run or ride Saint George from England chases them away Saint Andrem doth in Scotland beare like sway From Ireland good Saint Patriske them will banisn Saint Dennis out of France will make them vanish Saint Iames will force them out of spaine to fly So will Saint Anthony from Italy And last of all whom I had halfe forgot Saint Dany out of Wales will make them trot And what vngodly place can harbour then These sugitiue vnnaturall Englishmen Except that with the Turke or Insideâ—â— Or on or in the Sea they meane to dwell That if in lesser roome they may be cram'd And liue and dye at Amfier and be dam'd And sure I hold some Romane Catholikes Much better then these selfe-wild Scilmatickes For Papills haue good affability And some haue learning most haue Charity Except a Iesuit whom I thinke a man May tearme a right Papistick Puritan And for the Sep'ratist l justly call A Scismatick Impuritanicass Bâ—t yet the Iesuit's constant in his mind The Scismatick is wauertingly inclin'd Besides he thinkes whilst he on earth doth liue 'T is charitie to take and not to giue There are a sort of men which conscience make Of what they say or doe or vndertaker Who neither will dissamble sweare or lye Who to good ends their actions all apply Who keepe the Sabbath and relieue the poore According to their portions and their store And these good people some men doe backbite And call them Puritanes in scotne and spight But let all know that doe abuse them so That for them is reseru'd a fearefull wo I loue and reuerence onely beare to such And those that here inuectiuely I touch Are Birds whose Consciences are more vncleane Then any Cormorant was e're knowne or seene He stand toth censure of all honest men If they disproue me I le ne're write agen A Trust-breaker THE ARGVMENT A Foe to Iustice a corrupted Friend Anouâ—ward Angell and an inward Fiend A hidden Serpent a most subtile Fox A Sugred poyson in a painted Box A Syrens song assuring to mishap A Snzre to Honesty and Vertuestrap THe Rich Trust breaker vpon whom hell waites Doth thrust into the Riuer of Estates His soule deuouring Beake and at one prey Will swallow fourteene Tradesmen in a day As many of the Country Lordships slips Flapdragon like by his insatiate lips The Father sometimes hath beene oft vndone By too much trusting his vnnaturall Sonne And a Trust-breaker hath a tricke in 's pate To bring a rich Ward to a Beggers state For some corrupted men haue got tuition Of rich mens Heires and changed their condition With false inducements to Recusancy Or suffring them through prodigality To run so farre in debt that all their Lands Are lost before they come into their hands Faire schooles of learning haue bin built frÌ„o ground For Boyes whose fathers were not worth fiue pound But false Trust-breakers hold it for no sinne To keep our poore mens Sonnes take rich mens in This Breach of Trust is multiplide in time T' a Catholike and vniuersall crime That man to man is growne so much vniust That hee 's a wise man that knowes who to trust But if therebe such they doe want much care Who trust not in the world nor trusted are Collectorships the Common wealth may lurch For Burnings Highwayes Bridges or the Church For losse at Sea for Hospitals and Schooles One hundred knaues may make ten thousand fooles Yet these things are so needfull as I wot Hee 's a base villaine that contributes not But hee 's a Hell-bound that their Trust deceiues And the right due from those that want bereauesâ— Why this Trust-breaking hath the excâ—lent skill To make a Wise to burne her Husbands Will Because his first Wiues Children should not haue The Portions that within that Will he gaue And oftentimes a gasping man for breath Distracted with the griping pangs of death Hath to a forged will suscrib'd his hand And dispossest his owne Sonne of his land Trust breakers may a sencelesse hand to â—â—e Though being sixe houres dead â—o write a Name A rich man's wealth that 's deadâ— like vnto â—â— old And that 's because it's neuer truely toldâ— For like to pitch it hath polluting tricks And some vnto the fing'rers fingers sticks But of all Rascals since the world began The Banckrupt Pollitick's the onely man In courteous fashion many hee'lvndo And be much pittyed and rewarded too For hauing got much wealth into his clawes He holds it faster then a Cormorants jawes Can hold a silly fish and at the last Himselfe himselfe will into prison cast And hauing broke for thousands there the hound Compounds perhaps for ten groates in the pound Sets richly vp againe till him he sees To breake to prison againe againe agrees And thus a cunning knaue can with a trice Breake and be whole againe once twice or thrice These Cormorants are worse then theeues therefore And being worse deserue a hanging more A Thiefe speaks what he means and takes your purse A Banckrupt flattering robâ— you ten times worse The one doth seldome rob ye of all your pelse The other leaues you nought to helpe your selfe And yet the one for a little the euins may At Tiburne make a hanging holyday Whilest the great Thiefe may with a golden prop To faire Reuenues turne a Pedlers shop In this voracity Father stands not free From his owne Sonne nor from his vnckle he Being made Executor to 'th Scates of men My Corm'rant is a piddler to him then He will by cuning and vexation draw Heire wealth and All into his rauenous maw And when his gorge is full vp to
prophane and great abuse To turne the brethrene linnen to such vse As to make Paper on 't to beare a song Or Print the Superstitious Latine tongue Apocrypha or Ember-weekes or Leus No holy brother surely will consent To such ldolatry his spirit and zeale Will rather trouble Church and common-weale He hates the Fathers workes and had much rather To be a bastard then to haue a Father His owne interpretation he 'll affoord According to the letter of the word Tropes Allegories Types similitudes Or Figures that some my sticke sense includes His humour can the meaning so vnfold In other fashions then the Fathers could For he dogmatically doth know more Then all the learned Docters knew before All reueread Ceremonies he 'l oppose He can make an Organ of his nose And spin his speech with such sincerity As if his bridge were falne in verity The Cope and Surplesse he cannot abide Against the corner-Cap he outhach cride And calls them weeds of Superstition And liueries of the whore of Babylon The Crosses blessing he esteemes a curse The Ring in marriage out vpon 't 't is worse And for his kneeling at the Sacrament In sooth he 'le rather suffer banishment And goe to Aâ—â—â—erdamd and liue and dye E're he 'l commit so much ldolatry He takes it for an outward Seale or Signe A little consecrated bread and wine And though it from his blessed Saulour come His manners takes it fitting on his bum The spirit still directs him how to pray Nor will he dresse his meat the Sabbath day Which doth a mighty mysterie vnfold His zeale is hot although his meat be cold Suppose his Cat on Sunday kill a Rat She on the Munday must behang'd for that His faith keepes a continuall Holy day Himselfe doth labour to keepe it at play For he is read and deeply vnderstood That if his faith should worke 't would doe no good A fine cleane fingerd faith must saue alone Good workes are needlesse therefore ho'l do none Yet patience doth his spirit so much inspire He 'l not correct a Seruant in his ire But when the spirit his hot furie layes Hee congregates his folkes and thus he sayes Attend good Nichodemus and Tobiâ— List to your reuerend Master Ananias And good Aminadab I pray attend Here 's my man I smael highly did offend He told a lye I heard his tongue to trip For which most surely he shall tast the whip Then after some sententious learned speech The seruant humbly doth let fall his breech Mounts on his fellowes backe as on a Mule Whilst his pure Maister mounts his rod of rule The boy in lying with his tongue did faile And thus he answers for it with his taile O Vpright Sincere Holy execution Most patient vnpolluted absolution Shall Paper made of linnen of these men Be stain'd with an vnsanctified pen In sooth who ere doth so beâ—'t he or she They little better then the wicked be Children of Sathan and abhomination The brood of Belials cursed congregation The bastard off spring of the purple where Who doe the Babylonish Beast adore From the Creation to the generall Fleed The name of Paper no man vnderstood But by tradition still from Sire to Son Men liuing knew the deeds by dead men dont Yet many things were in the Deluge san'd In stony Pillars charactered and grau'd For the most part antlquity agrees Long since the floud men writ in barkes of trees Which was obseru'd late in America When Spanish Cortois conquered Mexica Then after in Fig-leaues and Sicamour Men did Characters their minds explore â—â—â— when it is worne to Rags it is made into Paper Long after as ingenuous spirits taught Rags and old Ropes were to perfection wrought Into quare formes yet how to giue a name Vnto their workemanship they could not frame The Originall of Paper Some Authors doe the name of Paper gather To be deâ—iu'd from Papa or a Father Because a learned man of Arrius sect Did Christendome with heresie infect And being grear errors much mistooke Writ and divulged in a Paper booke And therefore Nimphsâ—ag thus much doth inferre The name of Paper sprung from Papaerr Some bold the name doth from a Rush proceed Which on Egiptian Nilus bankes doth breed Which rush is call'd Paptr us for on it Th' Egiptian people ofteneimes had writ And some againe of lesse authoritie Because it 's made of rags and pouerty In stead of Paper name it Paâ—peris Be sure thinkes they take their markes amisse For foure and twenty sheets doe make a Quire And twenty Quire doth to a Reame aspire And euery Reame were kingdomes for their strength â—â— that they want a single 1 in length A Reame of Paper therefore keepes great port And were a Realme wer'â— not an 1 too short Besides we haue an old Proguâ—â—icater An erring Father quast arta Pater â—â—â— euerlasting Almanack tels plaine How many miles from hence to Charles his waine From â—â—â—â— vnto Mercury how farre To venus Sol and Mars that warlike stâ—rre From Mars to merry thunder-thumping Ieaâ— And thence to fullen Saturns highest aboue This if I lye not with advice and leasure Old Erra Pater to an inch did measure But hollow Muse what mounted to the sky I 'le clip your soaring plumes for you and I Must talke of Paper Hemp and such as this And what a rich commodity it is It was time to remember my selfe for I was a degree too high The best is I haue elbow roome to trace I am not tide to times to bounds or place But Europe Asia Sun-burnt Affrica America Terraâ—â—â—â—â— The Christians Heathens Pagans Turkes Iewes And all the world yeelds matter to my Muse No Empire Kingdome Region Prouince Nation No principality Shire nor Corporation No Country County City Hamlet Towne But must vse Paper eyther white or browne No Metropolitane or gracious Primate No Village Pallace Cottage function Climate No age sex or degree the earth doth beare But they must vse this seed to write or weare How it Propagates the Gospell This Paper being printed doth reueale Th' Eternall Testament of all our Weale In Paper is recorded the Records Of the Great all-Creating Lord of Lords Vpon this weake ground strongly is ingrau'd The meanes how man was made and lost and sau'd Bookes Patriarchall and Propheticall Historicall or Heauenly Mysticall Euangelicall and Apostolicall Writ in the sacred Text in generall The sacred memory of Patriarchs Prophets Euangeiists Apostles and Fathers Much hath the Church our Mother propagated By venerable Fathers workes translated Saint Ierome Gregoris Ambrose Augustius Saint Basil Bernard Cyprian Constantive Eusebius Epipleanssu Origen Ignatius and La ctantius reuerend men Good Luther Caluine learned Zwinglius Melancton Beza Oecolampadius These and a world more then I can recite Their labours would haue slept in endlesse night But that in Paper they preseru'd haue bin T' instruct vs how to shun death hell and sin The memoriall of Monarchies and Wonders with their
so himselfe himselfe doth ouerthrow The Philistines his childrens bloud did spill And with his Sword King Saul King Saul did kill 2. Samuel King Deuids royall heart is fild with woe For Ionathan and Saul his friend and foe In Regall state he liues and flourisheth And loues Sauls Grandchild lame Mephibosheth Affection blinds him on Vriahs wife T' accomplish which her husband lost his life The King 's reprou'd by Nathan and repents And by repenting heau'ns high wrach preuents Incestuous Amnon Absâ—lon doth kill For forcing Tamar gainst her Virgin will He 's reconcil'd vnto his louing Sire And proudly to the Kingdome doth aspire The old King flees and ouer Iordane hies The Sonne pursuing and the Father flyes Achitophel himselfe hangs in dispaire And Absolon dyes hanged by the haire The King for his rebellious Sonne doth mourne His people numbred are at his returne The Lord is wrath the pestilence increast That seuenty thousand dye and then it ceast 1. Kings The Kingly Prophet valiant Dauid dyes His Throne is left to Salomon the wise False Adoniah Ioab Shimei kild By his command as erst his Father wild With speed he sends for workmen from farte Coasts To build a Temple to the Lord of Hosts Before or after him was neuer such That had of wisedome or of wealth so much A thousand women some wed some vnwed This wise King to Idolatry misled He dyes and 's buried by his fathers toome And Rehoboam doth succeed his roome Now Israel from Iudah is diuided Both Kingdomes by bad Kings are badly guided Yet God to Iacobs seed doth promise keepe And raises faithfull Pastors for his sheepe 2. Kings Eliah worketh wonders with his word By inspiration of the liuing Lord He 's taken vp aliue and his blest Spirit Doth doubly in Elishaâ—s breast inherit Some Kings doe gouerne well most gouerne ill And what the good reformes the bad doth spill Till Isr'el Iudah King and Kingdome 's lost To great Nebuâ—hadnâ—zzar and his host 1. Chronicles Here euery Tribe is numbred to their names To their memorials and immortall fames And Dauids acts t' instruct misguided men Are briefly here recorded all agen 2. Chronicles The state of Israel Iâ—dah and their Kings This Booke againe againe Recordance brings Their plagues of plague of â—â—mineâ—â—lâ—uery sword For their contemâ—ing heau'ns All sauing word Mâ—â—â—ssâ—â—â— Praâ—er Mâ—â—â—ssâ—â— almost drown'd in black despaire Gaines mercy by repentance and by prayer Ezrs. The Persian Monarch Câ—â—â—â— granteth haue The Iewes once more their freedomâ— should receiue When at Ierusâ—lâ—m they make abâ—d They all with zeale â—â—â—â—â— the house of God Malicious men with poysnous â—â—â—â—â— fild Makes Artaâ—â—â— â—irdeâ— tho'e that build Yet God so workes that Israels is loâ—e and zâ—ale Resâ—mes againe their ancient Church and weale Nehemiah The booke of Ezra doth concord with this Commanding good forbidding what 's amisse And godly Nehemiah â—â—â—â—â— reform'd What sinne and Sathan had long time deform'd Esther Here he that dwels in heauen doth deride Queene Vshy's and ambitious Hamans pride The Iewes are sau'd by Esters suite from death And Haman and his Sons hang'd loose their breath Poore Mordecay is held in high account And to great greatnesse humbly he doth mount Thus God doth raise all those his Lawes doe seeke He layes the lofty low exâ—lâ—s the meeke Iob. No lusse of Sonnes and Daughters goods and all Make not this man into impatience fall Assailing Sathan tempring wife false friends With perfect patience he â—ll woeâ—â— defends I â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— quoth he into this world And â—â—â—â—d herâ—â—â—â—â—â— I shall be hurâ—d God giues and takes according to his word And blessed euer bee the liuing Lord. Psâ—lmes The blessed Kingly Prophet sweetly sings â—â—â—nall praises to the King of Kings Gods Power Iustice Mercy Fauour looke For they are comprehended in this Booke Prouerbs The wisest man that euer man begot In heauenly Prouerbs shewes what 's good what 's not Ecclessiastes Health strength wit valour wordly wisdome pelfe All 's nought and worse then vanity it selfe Salomons song This Song may well be call'd the Song of Songs It to the heauenly Bride and Groome belongs It truely shewes Christs loue vnto his loue His Church his Wife his Virgin Spouse his Doue Isaâ—ah This worthy Prophet truely doth foretell How Christ shall come to conquer death and hell Rewards vnto the godly he repeats And to the godlesse he denounceth threats Ieremy This Man of God long time before foreshoes Ierusalems Captiuity and woes Lamentations He wishes here his head a fountaine deepe That he might weepe weepe nothing else but weep That he might gush forth flowing streames fo teares For Iuaah's thraldome misery and feares Ezeâ—hiel In Babylon this Prophet Captiue is And there he prophesies of bale and blisse How all must come to passe the Lord hath said How Iudgement surely comes although dalayed Daniel The Kings darke dreame the Prophet doth expound For which he 's highly honour'd and renown'd Nabuchadnezzar doth an Image frame Commands all paine of death t' adore the same Three godly Iewes by no meanes will fall downe And for contempt are in the fornace throwne Where midst the flames vnhurt they sweetly sing Which wonder doth conuert the tyrant King Here Daniel Prophesies of Christ to come Of Babel Persia Graâ—ia and Rome Hosea He tels misgouern'd Israel their sinnes And how the losse of grace destruction winnes Ioel. This Prophet tels the stubborne hearted Iewes How heau'ns consuming wrath apace ensues He therefore doth perswade them to contrition And by contrition they shall haue remission Amos. Mans thanklesse heart and Gods vnmeasur'd loue This Prophet doth to Isr'els faces proue Obadiah He comforts Pudah ouer-prest with woes And prophesies destruction of their foes Ionah Here Ionah tels the Niniâ—itrs except Repentance wrath of Heauen doe intercept In forty dayes high low rich poore great small The Lords hot fury shall consume them all With hearts vnâ—aign'd the sinfull Citie mournes The Lord grants mercy Ionah backe returnes Micah He speakes of Isr'els and of Iuda's crimes And tels them their confusion comes betimes Nahâ—m The Niniâ—ites againe forsake the Lord And are subdu'd by the Assirian sword This Prophet comforts those that are opprest And tels the godly they shall be releast Habakkuk He doth be waile th' oppression of the poore For mercy humbly he doth God implore To keepe the Captiu'd Iewes from fell despaire He teâ—ches them a heauenly forme of Prayer Zephaniaâ— He fils the good with hope the bad with â—eare And tels the Iewes their thraldome draweth neere Haggay He exhorteth them to patience in their paine And bids them build the Temple once againe Zachariah He tels the Iewes why they haue plagued beene He bids them shunne Idolatry and sinne Malachi For sinne he doth reproâ—e both Peince and Priest And shewes the comming both of Iohn and Christ. Which Christ shall be a Sauiour vnto all That with true faith obey his heauoâ—ly call Apâ—â—ryphâ— These bookes doe all in generall intimate The State