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A13415	All the vvorkes of Iohn Taylor the water-poet Beeing sixty and three in number. Collected into one volume by the author: vvith sundry new additions corrected, reuised, and newly imprinted, 1630.; Works	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.; Cockson, Thomas, engraver.	1630 (1630)	STC 23725; ESTC S117734	859,976	638

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 l●sse The gold is well refined from the dresse And as the poore man doth his losse complaine His weath more pure should be rel●● 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 ●are and dead and cold She found him rich most gl●●● 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 meel●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 ha●● your Worship a religious heart As it hath an honest intention so haue you a brest euer full of ●●● thoughts which bring forth worthy actions as it is a whip or Scourge against all sorts of priat so h●●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

or fiue dayes recouered to his health but that he had a cricke in his necke ● the cramp in his iawes The old man was glad that he had done so good a deed as he thought began to giue the thiefe Fatherly counsell and told him that it was Gods great mercy towards him to make me quoth he the Instrument of thy deliuerance and therfore looke that thou make good vse of this his gracious fauour towards thee and labour to redeeme the time thou hast mispea get thy into some other Princes countrey where thy former crimes may not bring thee into the danger of the Law againe and there with honest industrious endeuours get the liuing The thiefe seemed willing to entertaine these good admonitions and thanked the Boore and his Sonne telling them that the next morning he would be gone ● and if euer his fortunes made him able he promised to be so grateful vnto them that they should haue cause to say their great curtesies were well bestowed vpon him but all his sugred sweete promises were in the proofe but Gall and wormwood in the performance for this gracelesse Caitiffe arose betimes in the morning and drew on a paire of Bootes and spurres which were the mans sonnes of the house and slipping out of the doores went to the stable and stole one of his kind hosts best horses and away rode hee The man and his Sonne when they were vp and missed the thiefe and the horse were amazed at the ingratitude of the wretch and with all speed his soone and he rode seuerall waies in pursuit of him and in briefe one of them tooke him and brought him backe to their house againe and when it was night they bound him and laid ●●●● in their waggon hauing deafe eares and hardned hearts to all his intreaties and away to the Gallowes where they found him hanging there they with the halter being a little shortened they left him The next day the Country people wondred to see him hanging there again for they had seen him hanged and missed him gone and now tobe thus strangely priuately come againe in boote and spurres whereas they remembred at his first hanging he had shoes stockings it made them muse what iourney he had beene riding what a mad G●est he was to take the Gallowes for his Inne or as I suppose for his end The rumor of this accident being bruited abroad the people came far and neere to see him all in general wondring how these things should come to passe At last to cleere all doubts proclamations were published with pardon and a reward to any that could discouer the truth whereupon the old Boore Soone came in and related the whole circumstance of the matter At another place the hangmans place beeing void there were two of the bloud for it is to be noted that the succession of that office doth liueally descend from the Father to the Soone or to the next of the bloud which were at strife for the possession of this high indignity Now it happened that 2. men were to be beheaded at the saine towne and at the same time and to auoid sute in law for this great prerogatiue it was concluded by the Arbitrators that each of these new hangman should execute one of the Prisoners and he that with greatest cunning and sleight could take the head from the body should haue the place to this they all agreed and the Prisoners were brought forth where one of the Executioners did bide a red silke thread double about his Prisoners necke the threads being distant one from another only the bredth of one thread and he promised to cut off the head with a backward blow with a Sword betweene the threads The other called his Prisoner aside and told him that if hee would be ruled by him he should haue his life saued and besides quoth he I shall be sure to haue the office The Prisoner was glad of the motion and said he would doe any thing vpon these conditions then said the Hangman when thou art on thy knees and hast said thy prayers and that Idoe lift vp my Axe for I will vse an Axe to strinke thee I will cry He● at which word doe thou rise and run away thou knowest none will slay thee if thou canst once elcape after thou art deliuered into my custody it is the fashion of our Country and let me alone to shift to answer the matter This being said or whispered the headsman with the sword did cut off the Prisoners head● betweene the threads as hee had said which made all the people wonder at the steddinesse of his hand and most of them iudged that hee was the man that was and would be fittest to make a mad hangman of But as one tale is good till another be told and as there be three degrees of good better and best so this last hangman did much exceed and eclipse the others cunning For his prisoner being on his knees and he lifting vp his axe to giue the fatall blow He●● said he according to promise whereupon the fellow arose and ran away but when he had run some seuen or eight paces the hangman threw the Axe after him and strooke his head smoothly from his shoulders now for all this who shall haue the place is vnknowne for they are yet in Law for it and I doubt not but before the matter bee ended that the Lawyers will make them exercise their own trades vpon themselues to end the controuersie This tale doth fauour somewhat Hyperbolicall but I wish the Reader to beleeue no more of the matter then I saw and there is an end At another Towne there stood an old ouerworne despised paire of Gallowes but yet not so old but they will last many a faire yere with good vsage but the Townes men a little distance from them built another paire in a more stately Geometricall port and fashion whereupon they were demanded why they would be at the charge to erect a new Gallowes hauing so sufficient an old one they answered that those old Gallowes should serue to hang fugitiues and strangers but those new ones were built for them and their heires for euer Thus much for hangmen the eues and Gallowses Yet one thing more for theeues In Hamburgh those that are not hanged for theft are chained 2. or 3. together and they must in that sort sixe or seuen yeares draw a dung-cart and clense the streets of the towne euery one of those theeues for as many yeares as hee is condemned to that slauery so many Bels he hath hanged at an iron aboue one of his shoulders and euery yeare a Bell is taken off till all are gone and then he is a Freeman againe and I did see ten or twelue of these Carts and some of the Theeues had 7. Bels some 5. some 6. some one but such a noyse they make as if all the Diuels in Hell were dancing the morrice Hamburgh is