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The fearefull summer, or, Londons calamity, the countries courtesy, and both their misery by Iohn Taylor.
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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mechanically murther men Whose promises of cure like lying knaues Doth begger men or send them to their graues Now London for the sence of feeling next Thou in thy feeling cheifely art perplext Thy heart feeles sorrow and thy body anguish Thou in thy feeling feel'st thy force to languish Thou feel'st much woe and much calamitie And many millions feele thy misery Thou feel'st the fearefull Plague the Flix and Feuer Which many a soule doth from the body feuer And I beseech God for our Sauiours merit To let thee feele the Comfort of his Spirit Last for the solace of the smell or sent Some in contagious roomes are closely pen't Whereas corrupted Aire they take and giue Till time ends or lends liberty to liue One with a peice of tasseld well tarr'd Rope Doth with that no segay keep himselfe in hope Another doth a wispe of wormewood pull And with great Iudgement crams his nostrils full A third takes of his socks from 's sweating feete And makes them his perfume alongst the streete Whilst Billets Bonefire like and faggots dry Are burnt it'h streetes the Aire to purifie Thou great Almighty giue them time and space And purifie them with thy heauenly Grace Make their repentance Incence whose sweete sauour May mount vnto thy throne and gaine thy fauour Thus euery sence that should the heart delight Are ministers and organs to affright The Citizens doe from the City runne The countries feares the citizens doe shun Both feare the Plague but neither feares one iot Their euill wayes which hath the plague be got This is the way this sicknes to preuent Feare to offend more then the punishment All trades are dead or almost our of breath But such as liue by sicknes or by death The Mercers Grocers Silk-men Goldsmiths Drapers Are out of season like noone burning Tapers All functions faile almost through want of buyers And euery art and misterie turne Dyers The very Watermen giue ouer plying Their rowing trade doth faile they fall to dying Some men there are that rise by others falls Prophetick Augurists in vrinal is Those are right watermen and rowe so well They either land their fares in Heau'n or Hell But this much Reader you must vnderstand They commonly are paid before they land Next vnto him th' Apothecarie thriues By Physick bills and his preseruatiues Worme eaten Sextons mighty gaines doe winne And nasty Grauemakers great commings in And Coffin makers are well paid their rent For many a woefull wooden tenement The Searchers of each corps good gainers be The Bearers haue a profitable fee And last the Dog-killers great gaine aboundes For Brayning bawling currs and foysting hounds These are the graue trades that doe get and saue Whose grauity brings many to their graue Thus greiued London fill'd with mones and grones Is like a Golgotha of dead mens bones The field where death his bloudy fray doth fight And kills eight hundred in a day and night Faire houses that were late exceeding deere At fifty or an hundred pounds a yeare The Landlords are so pittifull of late They 'le let them at a quarter of the rate So he that is a mightie moneyed man Let him but thither make what hast he can Let him disburse his gold and siluer heape And purchase London 't is exceeding cheape But if he tary but one halfe yeare more I hope 't will be as deere as 't was before A Country cottage that but lately went At 4 markes or at three pounds yearely rent A Citizen whose meere necessity Doth force him now into the country fly Is glad to hire 2 Chambers of a Carter And pray and pay with thanks fiue pounds 2 quarter Then here 's the alteration of this yeare The Cities cheapnes makes the Country deere Besides another mischeife is I see A man dares not be sicke although he be Let him complaine but of the stone or gout The plague hath strooke him presently they doubt My selfe hath bin perplexed now and then With the wind Collick yeares aboue thrice ten Within the countrey I durst not repeate Although my pangs gripes and paines were great For to be sick of any kinde of greife Would make a man worse welcome then a theefe To be drunke sick which er'st did credit winne Was fear'd infectious and held worse then sinne This made me and many more beside Their greifes to smother and their paines to hide To tell a merry tale with visage glad When as the Collick almost made me mad Thus meere dissembling many practis'd then And mid'st of paine seem'd pleasant amongst men For why the smallest sigh or grone or shreike Would make a man his meat and lodging seeke This was the wretched Londoners hard case Most hardly welcome into any place Whil'st Countrey people where soe're they went Would stop their noses to avoid their sent When as the case did oft most plaine appeare 'T was onely they themselues that stunke with feare Nature was dead or from the countrey runne A Father durst not entertaine his sonne The Mother sees her daughter and doth feare her Commaunds her on her blessing not come neere her Affinity nor any kind of kinne Or ancient freindship could true welcome winne The Children scarcely would their Parents know Or if they did but slender duty shew Thus feare made nature most vnnaturall Duty vndutifull or very small No freindship or else cold and miserable And generally all vncharitable Nor London letters litle better sped They would not be receiued much lesse be read But cast into the fire and burnt with speed As if they had bin Hereticks indeed And late I saw vpon a Sabaoth day Some Citizens at Church prepar'd to pray But as they had bin excommunicate The good Church wardens thrust them out the gate Another countrey vertue I 'le repeat The peoples charity was growne so great That whatsoeuer Londoner did die In Church or Churchyard should not buried lie Thus were they scorn'd despised banished Excluded from the Church aliue and dead Aliue their bodies could no harbour haue And dead not be allow'd a Christian Graue Thus was the countryes kindnesse cold and small No house no Church no Christian buriall Oh thou that on the winged windes dost fit And seest our miserie remedy it Although we haue deseru'd thy vengeance hott Yet in thy fury Lord consume vs not But in thy mercies sheath thy slaying sword Deliuer vs according to thy word Shut vp thy Quiuer stay tay angry tod That all the world may know thou art our God Oh open wide the gate of thy compassion Assure our soules that thou art our Saluation Then all our thoughts and words and workes wee 'le frame To magnifie thy great and glorious name The waies of God are intricate no doubt Vnsearchable and passe mans finding out He at his pleasure worketh wonderous things And in his hand doth hold the hearts of kings And for the loue which to our King he beares By sicknes he our sinfull country cleares That
Belzebubs damn'd treasure This swearing sin no profit yeelds or pleasure Nor gaines the swearer here but earths vexation With change of his saluation for damnation It is a sinne that yeelds vs no excuse For what excuse can be for Gods abuse And though our other faults by death doe end Yet Blasphemy doth after death extend For to the damn'd in Hell this curse is giuen They for their paines blasphem'd the God of Heauen Examples on the earth haue many beene As late in sundry places hath beene seene At Mautna two braue Russians in their game Swore and blasphem'd our blessed Sauiours name Where God iust iudgment full of feare dread Causd both their eyes to drop from out their head In Rome a child but 5 yeares old that swore Was snatch vp by the Deuill and seene no more And at Ragouse a Mariner did sweare As if he would Gods name in sunder teare When falling ouer-boord was drown'd and tost And nothing but his tongue was onely lost Remember this you sinfull sonnes of men Think how that Christ redeem'd you from Hells den His mercy he hath giu'n in magnitude Requite him not with vile ingratitude He made the Eare and Eye and heares and sees The swearers execrable oathes and lyes The God head of the Father they contemne Against the Sonnes Redemption the blaspheme The Holy Spirit grieuously they grieue And head-long into Hell themselues they driue Iâ— is in vaine for mortall men to think Gods Iustice is a sleepe although it winke Or that his arme is shortned in these times That he cannot reach home to punish crimes Oh thinke not so 't is but the Deuills illusion To draw vs desperately to our confusion Some say that 't is their anger makes them sweare And oathes are out before they are aware But being crost with losses and perplex'd They thinke no harme but sweare as being vex'd And some there are that sweare for complement Make aothes their grace and speeches ornament Their sweet Rhetoricall fine eloquence Their reputations onely excellence Their valour whom the Deuill doth inflame T' abuse their Makers and Redeemers name Thinke but on this you that doe God forget Your poore excuses cannot pay this debt Remember that our sinfull soules dâ—d cost A price too great to be by swearing lost And blessed was our last good Parliament Who made an act for swearers punishment And blest shall be each Magistrates good name That carefully doe execute the same Those that are zealous for Gods glory heere No doubt in heauen shall haue true glory there Which that we may haue humbly I implore Of Him that rules and raignes for ouermore The Eternall Lord of Lords and King of Kings Before whose Throne blest Saints Angels sings All power praise glory maiesty thanksgiuing Ascribed be to him that 's euer liuing FINIS My farewell to the famous Vniuersity of Oxford I Thanke God that Ingratitude being the worst of euils it doth not raigne in me although it may knock at the doore of my estate yet I trust I neuer shall harbour it This renowned Seminary and City allowed me free and generous entertainment for some certaine weekes in these dangerous and contagious times and although the hand of the Almighty did in some sprinkling and mercifull measure awaken the security of some in that Citty yet was and is his Grace so abundantly extended towards it that there did not dye in the City and Suburbs being 13 Parishes aboue 7 of the Pestilence in one weeke all this dangerous yeare in which is much to be commended the care and diligence of the Graue and right Worship M r Vicechancellour with M r Maior and the rest of his worthy brethren who neglected or omitted no meanes that prouidence and Charity could vse for the preseruation of the healthy and the comfort of the sick this I being a witnesse of in the way of thankfulnesse thought fit to expresse assuring them in generall that they shall neuer want the prayers and best wishes of him that wil be euer at their seruice IOHN TAYLOR Tasteing Smelling Feeling a Iames. b Exod. 20. c Leviticus 24. d 1 Cor. 6. 10. e Matth. 5. f God himselfe complaineth that men blaspheme him Esay 52. 5. The names of blasphemy is writ vpon the 10 heads of Antichrist Apre 13.1 Cursing is forbidden by the Apostle when he saith Blesse Isoy and curse net Rom. 12. 14. Our Sauiour commandeth vs to blesse them that curle vs Matth. 5. 44. Blesse them that curse you and pray for them which hurt you Luke 6. 28. Accustome not thy mouth to woaring 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 Esclesiasticus 23. 9. The Plague shall neuer go forth from the house of the swearer Idem Whose sweares falsly calls the God of Truth to witnes a lie Who so sweares as he thinks may be deceiued Who so sweares vnreuerently dishonoureth God Who so sweares deceitfully abuseth Christian fidelity Who so sweares idlely abuseth the credit of a faithfull oath Who so sweares accustomably God will plague him â—Elfred an english Earle conspiring to put our K. Adolstanes eyes at Winchester forsware the treason in Saint Peters Church at Rome and fell downe dead presently Earle Godwin murthered Prince Alfred brother to king Edward Confessor and being at dinner the King charged him with the murther then Godwin swore by bread and prayed it might choake him if he were guilty and immediately it choaked him in the place his lands also sunk into the sea and are called Godwin-sands K. Stephen forsware himselfe to King Henry I and liued in continuall trouble dyed in perplexity of minde Edward brake his oath made at York that he came not with intent to cease the Kingdome and bâ—eaking that oath was punisht with a troublesome raigne his brethren and children all except one murthered and not any of his issue reigned after him Roger Mortimer a great Peere of thâ—s land for breaking his oath to King Edward the 2. was most ignominioâ—sly hanged bowelld quartered 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 Lent after which oath Long went presently drowned himselfe One Grimwood at Hiteham in Suffolks forsware himselfe and his bowels burst out One widdow Barnes for the like sin cost herselfe out of her window in Cornhill and brake her necke Anns Anetis forsware herselfe in Woodstrees for sixe pound of Towe desiring God she might links down which fearfully hapned One Lea in Sunne-alloy without Bishopsgate forswere himselfe and after ript out his guts