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A95533	Crop-eare curried, or, Tom Nash his ghost, declaring the pruining of Prinnes two last parricidicall pamphlets, being 92 sheets in quarto, wherein the one of them he stretch'd the soveraigne power of Parliaments; in the other, his new-found way of opening the counterfeit Great Seale. Wherein by a short survey and ani-mad-versions of some of his falsities, fooleries, non-sense, blasphemies, forreigne and domesticke, uncivill, civill treasons, seditions, incitations, and precontrivements, in mustering, rallying, training and leading forth into publique so many ensignes of examples of old reviv'd rebells, or new devised chimeraes. With a strange prophecy, reported to be Merlins, or Nimshag's the Gymnosophist, and (by some authours) it is said to be the famous witch of Endor's. Runton, pollimunton plumpizminoi papperphandico. / By John Taylor.; Tom Nash his ghost.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1645 (1645)	Wing T446; ESTC R212364	32,386	51

CROP-EARE CURRIED OR TOM NASH His GHOST Declaring the pruining of Prinnes two last Parricidicall Pamphlets being 92 Sheets in Quarto wherein the one of them he stretch'd the Soveraigne Power of Parliaments in the other his new-found way of opening the counterfeit GREAT SEALE Wherein by a short Survey and Ani-mad-versions of some of his falsities fooleries non-sense blasphemies Forreigne and Domesticke uncivill civill Treasons Seditions Incitations and precontrivements in Mustering Rallying Training and Leading forth into Publique so many Ensignes of Examples of old reviv'd Rebells or new devised Chimeraes With a strange Prophecy reported to be Merlins or Nimshag's the Gymnosophist and by some Authours it is said to be the famous Witch of ENDOR'S Runton Pollimunton Plumpizminoi Fapperphandico By JOHN TAYLOR Printed in the year 1644. Errata In pag. 8. lin 20. for bold reade bowld lin 25. for Penury reade Penry in p. 13. line 29. for told reade took There are divers Latine words thrust into this mine Answer to his pestiferous Pamphlets which words I neither understand know the Authours or thanke them for it as in pag. 11. lin 5. and in pag. 18. lin 30 31. Celarent Fleta c. TOM NASH HIS GHOST OR THE CURRYING OF CROP-EARE c. IN this Mad Sad Cold Winter of discontent About the end of October last 1643 The Moone being near hir change and obscure in our Horison not one Starre appearing the skie like an Ebon Canopie muffled up the Hemisphear in an universall sable robe of Melancholly black so that darknesse was made a Maske which hid the Mournfull visage of our Mother Earth In and at such a time when nothing was waking or walking but Thieves Lovers Carefull mindes Owles Batts Ghosts Witches and Goblins c. About the Waste or Navel of the night Drowsie Somnus came stealing to me and with his Leaden Mace arrested me at the suite of my old Lady Nox which Arrest I obeyed by untying unbuttoning and quite undoing my selfe and to bed Where suddainly I winck'd at the faults of all the world shutting up the two shop windowes of my Microcosme like a nimble Clothworker I presently set a Nappe upon my Thredbare eyes I had not layne long in this silent pleasing Embrace of Mounsieur Morpheus but there appeared unto me a poore olde swarty fellow with starcing haire Neglected beard Ashy Gastly look with a black Clo●th Cloak upon his back which hee had worne as thin as if it had been Searge whereby I conceiv'd him to be a Poet I begun to be puzled with this strange Apparition ask'd him whom he was and what his businesse was with me Quoth he my name is Thomas or Tom Nashe who when this Ayerie shadow of mine had a corporeall substance I had a yerking firking jerking Satiricall and Poeticall veine Pegasus was my Palfrey the Muses were my Minions Tempe Aganipp● the Thespian Helliconian and Castalian Fountaines did yeeld me Diarnall and Nocturnall Tributary Nectar Fame and Defame were my Vassalls and I could make them both wait on whom I list I knew Honour and I Honoured it spurnd at Flattery I lov'd Truth I despised Riches yet I liv'd and dyed Rich enough to be a Poet. And so much shall suffice to tell the what I was Now in the next place Il'ecertifie thee whence I came and what mine errend is know this that about the 30th year of the Raigne of Renouned Queen Elizabeth She and the Protestant Religion which She defended and Maintaind were oposed and troubled with Heritiques Papists Schismatiques Separatists Brownists Annabaptists Familists and Atheists All of these disagreeing yet all against the Church and Government Ecclesiasticall and Civill here established Amongst those innumerable Locusts that then were spewd from the Bottomlesse Pit there crawl'd and swarm'd over the Kingdome a Crew of Rascalls called Martinists whose Laxative Purity did most shamefully in printed toyes Pamphlets and Lying Libells besquitter all England over with such poynts of Doctrine as was never known by Christ and his Apostles And these Martins Intituled their Pasquills by the Impudent and sawcie names of Martin Mar Prelate These scandalous Railings of theirs were then answered by as Grave Wise Learned and Reverend men as England yeilded and they were by Scriptures Fathers Counsells Divinity Humanity Learning Wit Wisdome Truth Sense and Reason Confuted but none of these were available for like Anvills the more knocks they had the more obdurate they were insomuch that those Martins like Caterpillers encreased most pestiferously I perceiving that wisemen could do no good with those Vermin Began to take them in hand my selfe whetting my Wits I put some Aquafortis and Gall into my Inckhorn with which I wrote a delicate discourse of Martin Mar tone and Mar to ther and with a messe of Papp● with a Hatch●● I made the Nest of Mischievous Malevolent Malignant Martins take their flight from hence into the Low Countries But the venom of these Vipers was so disperst and scatterred in sundry places of this Land that though my Satires whip had lash'd their leaders from hence yet the Impostumated Matter of theirs was never thorough Ripe till now of late for now thou see'st they have Perfited their hellish plots their Pennes and Pulpits have under the pretence and shew of Religion and Law almost overthrown both Wherefore my well-wishing and beloved friend Iohn Taylor my Ghost hath made a short scape from Elisium to stirre thee up to Nip and Whip strip and Snip these Matchlesse Headlesse Heedlesse Rebells who are devided into three parts Burtonians Prinnians and Bastwickians for ti 's certaine that from Burtons Divillity Prinnes Illegall Law and Bastwicks poysoned Pills and Pamphlets the most part of all the Horrid and Barbarous Impieties and Cruelties have proceeded wherewith this Afflicted Kingdom is most miserably opprest and over run Concerning William Prinne he hath lately writ two damnable and detestable Books stuft with as much Hipocrysie Villany Rebellion and Treason as the Malice of the Divell and his own mischievous braine could invent The one is partly Titled THE SOVERAIGNE POWER OF PARLIAMENTS The other is called THE OPENING OF THE GREAT SEALE Jack kind Jack I Conjure thee to take this Railing fellow in hand look upon his wicked workes veiw his villanies squeese the Quintessence of his eighty and odde sheets of printed Confusion into 12 leaves in Quarto that the abhominable charge of his worthlesse high priz'd Volumes at ten or twelve shillings may by thee be Epitomized Abreviated and Curtall'd in Bulk and price to six-pence a peece Feare not go on Boldly I will leave my Genius with thee which shall Inspire thee and infuse into thee such Terrible Torturing Tormenting Termagant flames and flashes as shall Firk Ferret and force Prinne and his partners run quite out of that little wit that is left them and desperatly save the Hangman a Labour farewell This being said the Ghost vanished whereat I started up put on my cloathes fell to reading the aforesaid bookes

Master Prinne with Papall Authority would dispence withall yet his Majesty hath good and faithfull Subjects enough who scorne and deride your foolish traiterous dispensations and doubt not by God's assistance to mould you and your seduced Rabble of Rebells into better fashion Page 13. If the King himselfe shall introduce Forreigne Forces and Enemies into his Realme to levy Warre against it or shall himselfe become an Enemy to it This doubtfull supposition is so idle and triviall that the best Answer to it is to laugh at it page 14. he talkes how King Henry the second of France was casually slain at a Tournament by the Lord Montgomery and then he tells us of Sir Walter Tirrell's Arrow glancing against a Tree slew King William the second of England presently he makes a step into France again and brings us word that King Charles the first being mad there was deprived and kept clsoe and that the deaths and deprivations of these Kings was then proved to be no Treasons because they were done out of no malitious intents This is Bombast to stuffe out his big-wombe Book and as neare the matter as Braseol and Banbury Page 17. He playes the Huntsman and compares the Keeper of a Parke and the Deere in it to a King and his People Suppose this Comparison were granted then you must also grant that you have rebelliously broken down the Parke pale or wall so that the Deere are scattered and divided the best of them I am sure the truest Harts do keep within their bounds and live under the protection of their Keeper whilest you have got all the whole Heard of Rascals amongst you and much good may do it you with them In Page 22. he makes a leape from hence into Asia and relates strange Newes how Tamberlane conquered Bajazet and put him in an ironcage then you are sure it was not a Pillory but if a time of Peace were were it not for depriving the Hangman of his due I would begge thee and shew thee in Fates and Marts for a Motion whereby thee and I could not chuse in short time but be without abundance of money From page 23. to page 60. he tautologically talkes Naturall Non-sense and Artificall Impertinencies which in page 60. he saith he gathered from one Albericus Gentilis page 61. he stumbles upon Truth again and sayes That it is out of controversie that no man ought to resist against the King Page 63 64. he cites 32 Arguments of Scripture to maintain the Cause the chiefe of them is Daniel in the Lions Den he might as well have brought in Jacob's Well and the Woman of Samaria In pag. 66. be brings in the story of Ioram 2 Kings 6. how he sent a messenger to the Prophet Elishaes house to take away his head and that the Prophet did cause the doore to be shut to keep out the King's messenger from whence the learned logicall Prinne inferres that because the Prophet did not obey the King but shut his doore against the Messenger therefore King Charles his Subiects may oppose resist and rebell a very trim Argument From thence to page 73. he repeates old fusty businesse over and over and there he runnes for more luggage headlong into the Red-Sea and dragges the memory of crowned Pharaoh 〈◊〉 example of God's iudgements on that obdurate and impenitent King this was somewhat to the purpose but I cannot perceive where or how Page 81. The King with the Lords and Commons in Parliament have the whole Realme entrusted with them of which great trust the King is onely Chiefe and Soveraigne now I agree with you Sir if your writings had been all such as this and your Members and Committees Votes and Orders correspondent then we had had no Rebellion and your high prized Bookes would have been iustly valued to be worth nothing A little after he sayes The King is the supreme Member of the Parliament thou ill bred Fellow thou mightest have said HEAD and that contrary to the trust and duty reposed in Him through the advice of evill Counsellours wilfully betrayes this trust and spoiles and makes havocke of his People and Kingdomes these are but the old lyes feares jealousies doubts ifs and ands newly revived and furbushed as in page 86. he hath another which is If the King should command us to say Masse in his Chappell to which I answer If the Skie fall c. and the one of those ifs is as possible as the other Page 108. He musters up 51 of the ancient Fathers to lend him their hands to defend his falsities wherein he hath wrested and abused their integrity sufficiently but I observe that he meddles with neither of the Gregories either the Great or Nazianzen his policy is not to mention them because then young Gregory herhaps may be put in minde of him for Prinne is crafty and observes the Proverbe He must have a long Devill that eates with a spoone Page 92. He hath wrested the sword out of the hands and cut off the heads of all his opposite Goliahs 'T is well bragg'd but if it be true that you have cut off all the heads of your opposites you have been bloudily revenged for the losse of your eares I prithee when thou diest bequeath one of thy law-bones to be kept amongst the dreadfull Weapons and Ammunition of the Members Magazine it may do strange things amongst a Crew of Philist●ms Pag. 134. He contradicts himselfe with Statutes of King Henry 8. Ed. 6. and Qu. Eliz. That words against the King even in preaching are high Treason as well as raising Armes very right and those Statutes being yet in force what would become of all your reverend railing Pulpit-men I will not slander them to call 'em Preachers upon my conscience thy destiny and theirs would be all one if the said Statutes were duely executed and you would all leave your old Trades and deale in the two rich commodities of Hempe and Timber till your last gaspes Pag. 142. he railes at the King again as if he were hired to it or that he had nothing else to do also he be labours the Cavaliers ex tempore by the Titles of Cut-throates bloudy inhumane and barbarous with other such pretty names as the Gentleman pleases to bestow upon them for which I hope they will not all die till some of them be out of his debt Page 143. Christians did not resist persecution under Pagans ergo Christians must not resist Christians and because Subjects are Christians as well as Kings therefore Christian Kings must not resist Rebells In his last Leafe he hath waded through this weighty Controversie and proved that both by Law and Conscience this Rebellion is justifiable and thus the Reader may perceive how Prinnes Judgement and Conscience is biassed Vpon Prinnes fourth Quarter or part of his Soveraigne Power of Parliaments IN page 13. he brings in a messe of musty Presidents like the mouldy Bread ragged Cloathes and clouted Shooes of the