Steward be Which at the last the Lord shall faithfull finde Heart tongue or eyes cannot thinke speake or see The glory that to him shall be assignde He shall out-passe the Angells in degree He shall out-shine all Starres that euer shinde He shall for euer and for euer sing Eternall prayses to his God and King 85 Vnto which God the Father first and last Whose goodnes all conseru's preseru's and seeds To God the Sonne whose merits downe hath cast Sinne death and hell due vnto sinners meeds To thee O Holy Ghost that euer wast The blessing that from Sire and Sonne proceeds And to the vn-deuided Three in One All Power and Praise and Glory be alone FINIS TO THE TRVELY VVORTHY AND RIGHT HONOVRABLE IOHN MORAY L. VISCOVNT ANNAN EARLE OF Annandale one of the Gentlemen of his Maiesties Royall Bed-chamber Earths Honours and Heauens happinesse THis Booke Good Sir the issue of my braine Though farre vnworthy of your worthy view Yet I in duty offer it to you In hope you Gently it will entertaine And though the Method and the Phrase be plaine Not Artlike writ as to the stile is due Yet is it voyde of any thing vntrue And truth I know your fauour shall obtaine The many fauours I from you haue had Hath forc'd me thus to shew my thankefull minde And of all faults I know no vice so bad And hatefull as ingratefully inclinde A thankefull Heart is all a poore mans pelfe Which with this Booke I giue your Worthy Selfe Your Worships euer most obliged IOHN TAYLOR THE SEVERALL SIEGES ASSAVLTS SACKINGS AND FINALL DESTRVCTION OF the Famous Ancient and memorable Citty of IERVSALEM THe Iustice Mercy and the Might I sing Of heau'ns inst mercifull Almighty KING By whose fore-knowledge all things were elected Whose power hath all things made al protected Whose Mercies flood hath quencht his Iustice flame Who was is shall be One and still the same Who in the Prime when all things first began Made all for Man and for himselfe made Man Made not begotten or of humane birth No Sire but God no Mother but the Earth Who ne'r knew Childhood of the â—ucking teate But at the first was made a man compleat Whose inward Soule in God-like forme did shine As Image of the Maiestie Diuine Whose supernaturall wisedome beyond Nature Did name each sensible and sencelesse creature And from whose Star-like Sand-like Generation Sprung euery Kindred Kingdome Tribe and Nation All people then one language spake alone Interpreters the world then needed none There liued then no learned deepe Grammarians There were no Turkes no Scythians no Tartarians Then all was one and one was onely all The language of the vniuersall Ball. Then if a Traueller had gone as farre As from the Artick to th' Antartick starre If he from Boreas vnto Auster went Or from the Orient to th' Occident Which way soeuer he did â—â—â— or minde He had beene sure his Country-man to find One hundred thirty winters since the Flood The Earth one onely language vnderstood Vntill the sonne of Cush the sonne of Cham A proud cloud-scaling Towre began to frame Trusting that if the world againe were drown'd He in his lofty building might rest sound All future Floods he purposd to preuent Aspiring to Heau'ns glorious Battlement But high Iehouah with a puff was able To make ambitious Babel out a bable For what is man that he should dare resist The great Almighties pow'r who in his fist Doth gripe Eternity and when he please Can make and vnmake Heau'n and Earth Seas For in their expectation of conclusion He plag'd them all with sundry Tongues confusion Such Gibrish Gibble Gabble all did tangle Some laugh some fret all prate all diffring wrangle One calls in Hebrew to his working Mate And he in Welch Glough wheâ— Comrage doth prate Another gapes in English or in Scotch And they are answer'd in the French or Dutch Caldaicke Syriacke and Arabian Greeke Latine Tuscan and Armenian The Transiluaniae and Hungarian The Persian and the rude Barbarian All these and diuers more then I can number Misunderstanding tongues did there incumber Thus he that sits in Heau'n their plots derided And in their height of pride their tongues deuided For in this sudden vnexpected chang The wife and husband Sire and sonne were strange The Brother could not vnderstand the Brother The Daughter stands amazed at her Mother By euery one a seuerall part is acted And each vnto the other seemesdistracted Thus by the iustice of the Lord of Hosts Each seuerall tongue was driu'n to seuerall coasts And GOD peculiar to himselfe did chuse His most beloued yet hard-hearted Iewes Iehouahs honor with them then did dwetl His name was onely knowne in Israel Salem his habitation was of yore In Sion men his Glory did adore Th' Eternall Trine and Trine Eternall One In Iury then was called on alone The sonnes of Heber were the adopted stocke Gods onely Chosen holy sacred Flocke Amongst all Nations them he onely lik'd And for his owne vse them he culd and pik'd Them his sin-killing sauing word he gaue T' instruct them what condemn'd and what would saue To them he gaue his word his Couenants band His Patriarks his Prophets and his hand Did blesse defend instruct correct and guide The Iewes and no one Nation else beside For them a world of wonders hath he done To them he sent his best begotten Sonne On them a Land he freely did bestow Where milke and hony plentiously did flow With them he was till they from him did turne And wilfully against his blessings spurne All heau'nly earthly Soules or Bodies good They lack'd no temp'rall or eternall food His Temple builded in Ierusalem Where he had daily sacrifice from them Where though their seruice was defect and lame Th' Almighties mercy did accept the same For though Mans sin is great God hath decreed To take his best endeuour for a deed And whilst they in his loue and feare abode They were his people he their gracious God But when impieties began to breed And ouergrow old Iacobs sacred seed When they from good to bad began to fall From ill to worse from worst to worst of all When Gods great mercies could not them allure And his sharp threatnings could not them procure When each ones body was vnto the soule A lothsome Dungeon to a prisoner foule When sin al shamelesse the whole Land o'rspreads Then God threw dreadful vengeance on their heads And for their heynous heaping sin on sin Ierusalem hath oft assaulted bin First Shishak Egypts King with might and maine Made hauock there in Rehoboams Raigne The Citty Temple Golden vessels Shielas All as a prey to the Egyptians yeelds Next loas came the King of Israel In Amaziahs dayes with fury fell He brought Iudea to Samariaes thrall King Kingdome Princes Peeres and people all Then thirdly Rezin King of Aram came In Abaz time with sword and furious flame Th' Assyrian great Zonach'rib was
calling by all meanes to make the reckoning great or to make vs men of great reckoning But in his payment he was tyred like a Iade leauing the Gentleman that was with me to discharge the terrible Short or else one of my horses must haue laine in pawne for his superfluous calling and vnmannerly intrusion But leauing him I left Huntington and rode on the Sunday to Puckeridge where Master Holland at the Faulkon mine old acquaintance and my louing and ancient Hoste gaue mee my friend my man and our horses excellent cheere and welcome and I paid him with Not a penny of money The next day I came to London and obscurely coming within More-gate I went to a house and borrowed money And so I stole backe againe to Iflington to the signe of the Mayden head staying till Wednesday that my friends came to meete me who knew no other but that Wednesday was my first comming where with all loue I was entertained with much good cheere and after Supper we had a play of the life and death of Guy of Warwicke played by the Right Honourable the Earle of Darbâ— his men And so on the Thursday morning being the fifteenth of October I came home to my house in London THE EPILOGVE TO ALL MY ADVENTVRERS AND OTHERS THus did I neither spend or begge or aske By any course direct or indirectly But in each tittle I perform'd my taske According to my bill most circumspectly I vow to God I haue done SCOTLAND wrong And iustly ' gainst me it may bring an Action I haue not giuen 't that right which doth belong For which I am halle guilty of detraction Yet had I wrote all things that there I saw Misiudging censures would suppose I flatter And so my name I should in question draw Where Asses bray and prattling Pies doe chatter Yet arm'd with truth I publish with my Pen That there th' Almighty doth his blessings heape In such aboundant food for Beasts and Men That I ne're saw more plenty or more cheape Thus what mine eyes did see I doe beleeue And what I doe beleeue I know is true And what is true vnto your hands I giue That what I giue may be beleeu'd of you But as for him that sayes I lye or dote I doe returne and turne the Lye in 's throate Thus Gentlemen amongst you take my ware You share my thankes and I your moneyes share Yours in all obseruance and gratefulnesse euer to be commanded IO TAYLOR FINIS THE GREAT EATER OR PART OF THE ADMIRABLE TEETH AND STOMACKS EXPLOITS OF NICHOLAS WOOD OF HARRISOM IN THE COVNTY OF KENT HIS EXCESSIVE MANNER OF EATING WITHOVT MANNERS IN STRANGE AND TRVE MANNER DESCRIBED BY IOHN TAILOR REcords and Histories doe make memorable mention of the diuersitie of qualities of sundry famous persons men and women in all the Countries and Regions of the world how some are remembred for their Piety and Pitty some for Iustice some for Seuerity for Learning Wisedome Temperance Constancie Patience with all the vertues Diuine and morall Some againe haue purchased a memory for Greatnesse and Talnesse of body some for Dwarfish smalnesse some for beautifull outsides faire feature and composition of Limbs and stature many haue gotten an earthly perpetuity for cruelty and murther as Nero Commodus and others for Leachery as Heliogabalus for Drunkennesse Tiberius alias Biberius for Effeminacy as Sardanapalus for Gluttony Aulus Vitellius who at one supper was serued with two thousand sorts of fishes and seuen thousand sowles as Suetonius writes in his ninth Booke and Iosephus in his fifth Booke of the Iewes warres Calâ—gula was famous for Ambition for hee would bee ador'd as a God though he liu'd like a Deuill poysoning â—â—â— Vnkle and deflowring all his Sisters And in â—â— ages and Countries time hath still producâ—â— particular persons men women either â—â—â— their vertnes or their vices to be remembred that by meditating on the good we may bâ— imitating their goodnesse and by viewing â—â—â—â— bad we might be eschewing thier vices To descend lower to more familiar examples I haue knowne a great man very expâ—â—â— on the Iewe-harpe a rich heire excellenâ—â— Noddy a Iustice of the Peace skilfull â—â— Quoytes a Marchants wife a quicke Gaâ—â—â—ster at Irish especially when she came to beâ—ring of men that she would seldome misse â—â—â—â—tring Monsieur La Ferr a French-man â—â—â— the first inuentor of the admirable Gameâ— Double-hand Hot-cockles Gregorie Daâ—â—â—â— an English man deuised the vnmatchable mystery of Blind-man-buffe Some haue â—â—â— a gility to ride Poast some the facility â—â—runne Poast some the dexterity to â—â—â—â— Post and some the ability to speake poâ—â— For I haue heard a fellow make a Hackney â—â— his tongue in a moment he hath gallop'dâ— â—ye from China to London without Bridle or â—addle Others doe speake poast in a thicke â—â—â—â—ing kind of Ambling-trot and that in â—â—ch speede that one of them shall talke more â—â— one quarter of an houre then shall be vnderstood in seuen yeeres And as euery one â—â—â—h particular qualities to themselues and diâ—â—onant from others so are the manners of â—iues or liuings of all men and women vaâ—ious one from another as some get their liâ—ing by their tounges as Interpreters Lawâ—ers Oratours and Flatterers some by â—â—yles as Maquerellaes Concubines Curâ—â—â—anes or in plaine English Whores Some by theiâ— feete as Dancers Lackeyes Footmen and Weauers and Knights of the publicke or common order of the Forke Some by their braines as Politicians Monopolists Proiectmongers Suit-ioggers and Stargaâ—ers Some like the Salamander liue by fire â—s the whole Race of Tubalcaine the Vulâ—anean Broode of Blacksmiths fire-men Colliers Gunners Gun-founders and all sorts of mettle-men Some like the Cameleon by the Ayre and such are Poets Trumpetters Cornets Recorders Pipers Bag-pipers and some by smoake as Tobaconists Knights of the Vapour Gentlemen of the Whiffe Esquires of the Pipe Gallants in Fumo Some liue by the Water as Herrings doe such are Brewers Vintners Dyers Mariners Fisher-men and Sâ—ullers And many like Moles liue by the Earth as griping Vsurers racking Landlords toyling Plowmen moyling Labourers painefull Gardners and others Amongst all these before mentioned and many more which I could recite this subiect of my Pen is not for his qualitie inferiour to any and as neere as I can I will stretch my wit vpon the Tenters to describe his name and Character his worthy Actes shall be related after in due time duely And Be it knowne vnto all men to whom these presents shall come that I Iohn Taylor Waterman of Saint Sauiours in Southwarke in the County of Surrey the Writer hereof c. will write plaine truth bare and threed-bare and almost starke-naked-starke-naked-truth of the descriptions and remarkable memorable Actions of Nicholâ—â— Wood of the Parish of Harrisóm in the County of Kent Yeoman for these considerations following First I were to blame to write more then truth because that which is knowne to be true is enough Sâ—condly
Priests Lemman and a Tinkers Pad Or Dell or Doxy though the names bee bad And amongst Souldiers this sweet piece of Vice Is counted for a Captaines Cockatrice But the mad Rascall when hee 's fiue parts drunke Cals her his Drah his Queane his Iill or Punke And in his fury'gins to rayle and rore â— Then with full mouth he truely call's her Whore And so I leaue her to her hot desires ' â—Mongst Pimps and Panders and base Applesquires To mend or end when age or Pox will make her Detested and Whore-masters all forsake her A comparison betwixt a Whore and a Booke ME thinks I heare some Cauiller obiect That 't is a name absurd and indirect To giue a Booke the Title of a Whore When sure I thinke no Name befits it more For like a Whore by day-light or by Candle 'T is euer free for euery knaue to handle And as a new whore is belon'd and sought So is a new Booke in request and bought When whores wax old and stale they 're out of date Old Pamphlets are most subiect to such fate As Whores haue Panders to emblaze their worth So these haue Stationers to set them forth And as an old whore may be painted new With borrowed beauty faire vnto the view Whereby shee for a fine fresh whore may passe Yet is shee but the rotten whore shee was So Stationers their old cast Bookes can grace And by new Titles paint a-fresh their face Whereby for currant they are past away As if they had come forth but yesterday A Booke is dedicated now and than To some great worthy or vnworthy man Yet for all that 't is common vnto mee Or thee or hee or all estates that bee And so a man may haue a Whore forsooth Supposing shee is onely for his tooth But if the truth hee would seeke out and looke She 's common vnto all men like a Booke A Booke with gawdy coate and silken strings Whose inside's full of obsceane beastly things Is like a whore Caparison'd and trap'd Full of infection to all mischiefe apt As one whore may bee common vnto any So one Booke may bee dedicate to many And sure I say and hope I speake no slander To such a Booke the Poet is the Pander He prostitutes his muse to euery one Which should be constant vnto one alone This is a kind of Bawd'ry vile and base Kils bounty and is Poetryes disgrace And left they should be lost it is ordain'd That Bookes within a Library are chain'd So he that to himselfe will keepe a Whore Must chaine her or shee 'le trade with forty more As Bookes are lease by lease oft turn'd and tost So are the Garments of a Whore almost For both of them with a wet finger may Be folded or vnfolded night or day Moreouer 't is not very hard to proue That Bookes and Whores may Riuals be in Loue To purchase mens displeasure I am loth But sure good Schollers still haue lou'd them both Some Bookes haue their Errates at the last That tell their errors and offences past So many great Whores did in state suruiue But when death did their hatefull liues depriuâ— Their faults escap'd and their Errates then Haue beene made manifest and knowne to men Some Bookes and Whores to wicked purpose her Doe for their faults receiue one punishment â—â— Bukes are often burnt and quite forgotten â—â—â—â— Whore are ouer-stew'd or rosted rotten â—â— experience shewes that Bookes much knowledge brings â—nd by experience Whores know many things â—â—â— as â—â—ed Iustice all mens losse repaires â—â—â— whores doe giue to all men what is theirs â—â—â— shee learnes yet will shee much rebuke vs â—â— I wee doe play the part of true Eunuchus â—â—â— Bookes prophane or else Hereticall â—â—â— soâ—â—ilous non-sense Schismaticall â—â—â—erts man Iudgement and his soule pollutes â—â—ch are all Whores and such will be their fruits â—â— one Slouens soyle a Booke in little space â—â—nd slauer it and so the Leaues deface â—â—â—nd some againe will take a cleanly course â—â—o read it dayly yet t is ne'r the worse â—â—â— some man vse a Whore when once they haue her â—They'le touze and teare and beastly all beslauer When forty neat Whoremasters might haue play'd â—â—nd vsde her and shee still be thought a maide â—â— that doth read a Booke he likes would be â—â—loue from any Interruption free â—â—nd hee that with a Whore would toy or lye â—â— thinke desires other Company â—â— When Bookes are wet their beauties gone or soyl'd â—â— wash a whore and all her paintings sooyl'd â—â—nd as an old Whore spight of Paint and cloathing â—â—als at the last the obiect of mens loathing â—scorn'd and vnpittied and to finish all â—â—yes in Ditch or in an Hospitall â—â— Pamphlets and some workes of writers Graue â—â—re vsde much worse then Whores by many a Knaue Who ne'r regard the matter or the price â—ot teare like Tyrants to wrap Drugs or Spice â—â— which is worse in Priuie matters vse them â—â— worst of all like Roarers they abuse them When as they rend good Bookes to light and dry â—â—â— â—â—â— Englands ds bainefull Diety And 't is a thing I ne'r thought on before A * Now a dayes Booke 's examin'd stricter then a Whore There 's not a Sheet a Lease a Page a Verse A word or sillable or letter scarce But that Authority with Iudgements eye Doth diligently looke and search and pry And gage the sense and first will vnderst nd all Lest in a Phrase or word there lurke a scandall And my poore Whore in this hath not beene spar'd Her skirts were curtaild hee nayles were * She would haue scratched else par'd All 's one for that though shee such vsage had Shee 's not left naked though not richly clad I knew shee must be question'd and I say I am right glad shee scap'd so well away And should ail Whores of high and low degree As Bookes are to account thus called bee The whorish number would waxe very small Or else men neuer could examine all This Booke my Whore or else this Whore my Booke Shee beares both names so neither is mistooke Respects not all her enemies a straw If shee offended shee hath had the Law She was examin'd and shee did confesse And had endur'd the torture of the Presse Her faults are printed vnto all mens sight Vnpartially declar'd in blacke and white And last in Pauls Church-yard and in the streets Shee suffers Penance vp and downe in Sheets And if all Whores to doe the like were made A Linnen Draper were the richest Trade If any Whore be honcster then mine is I le write no more but stop my mouth with FINIS An arrant Thiefe whom euery Man may trust In Word and Deed exceeding true and iust With a Comparison betweene a Thiefe and a Booke THis Water m The Anigram of Rat is Art Rat or Art I would commend But that I know not to begin or end He read his Verses to me and
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
a long Garden within the Wals some of the Townes-men were shooting for wagers at a marke with their muskets some bowling some at slide thrift or shouel-boord some dancing before a blind Fidler and his cow-bellied dropsie dutty Drab some at one game some at another most of them drinking and all of them drinke that though it was a Sabboth which should wholly be dedicated to God yet by the those of these bursten-gutted bibbers they made it an after-noone consecrated or more truely execrated to the seruice of hell and to the great amplification of the Deuils kingdome When Christians dare Gods Sabboth to abuse They make themselues a scorne to Turkes Iewes T is stealing Barabasses beastly race Rib God of Glory and your selues of Grace Thinke on the supreame Iudge who all things tryes When Iewes against you shall in Iudgement rise Their feigned truth with feruent zeale they show The truth vnfeign'd you know yet will not know Then at the Barre in new Ierusalem It shall be harder much for you then them But leauing them to their drunken designes I return'd toward my Lodging where by the way I saw at the common Iayle oâ— the Towne a great number of people were clustred together I asked the cause of their concourse and I was certified that there was a Pâ—iâ—oner to be broken vpon the wheele the next day and that these idle Gazers did prease to gape vpon him or want of better imployments I being as inquisiâ—iue after nouelties as a Trauailer of my â—â—all experience might be enquired earnâ—stâ—y the true cause of the next dayes execution my friend told me that the Prisoner was a poore Carpenter dwelling â—â— the Towne who lately hauing stolne a Goose and plucking it within his doores a little Girle his daughter in Law went out of his house and left the doore open by which meanes the owner of the Goose passing by espyed the wretched Theese very diligently picking what hee before had beene stealing to whom the owner said Neighbour I now perceiue which way my Geese vse to goe but I will haue you in question for them and so away hee went the Caitiffe beeing thus reprooued grew desperate and his child comming into his house ye yong whore quoth he must ye leaue my doore open for folkes to looke in vpon me and with that word he tooke a Hatchet and with a cursed stroake he cloue the childes head for the which murther he was condemned and iudged to be broken aliue vpon the wheele Close by the Iayle I espyed a house of free stone round and flat roofed and leaded vpon the which was erected the true picture of a most vnmatchable Hang-man and now I am entered into a discourse of this braue abiect or subiect you must vnderstand that this fellow is a merry a mad and a subsidie Hangman to whoÌ„ our Tyburnâ— Tatterdemalian or our Wapping winde-pipe stretcher is but a Raggamuffin not worth the hanging for this teare-throat Termagant is a fellow in Folio a Commander of such great command and of such greatnesse to command that I neuer saw any that in that respect could countermand him for his making is almost past description no Saracens head seemes greater and sure I thinke his brainepan if it were emptied as I thinke he hath not much braine in it would well containe halfe a bushell of mault his shaggie haire and beard would stuffe a Cushion for Charons boate his Imbost nose and embroydered face would furnish a Ieweller his eyes well dryed would make good Tennis-balls or shot for a small peece of Ordinance his yawning mouth would serue for a Conniborrow and his two ragged rowes of teeth for a stone wall or a Pale then hath he a necke like one of Hercules his pillars with a winde-pipe or rather a beere pipe as bigge as the boare of a Demiculuering or a wooden pumpe through which conduit halfe a brewing of Hamburgh beere doth runne downe into his vnmeasurable paunch wherein is more midrisfe guts and garbage then three tripe-wiues could be able to vtter before it stunke His postâ—like legges were answerable to the rest of the great frame which they supported and to conclude sir Beuis Ascapart Gogmagag or ou English sir Iohn Falstaff were but shumps to this bezzeling Bombards longitude Iatitude altitude and crassiâ—ude for he passes and surpasses the whole Germane multitude And as hee is great in corpulencie so is hee powerfull in potencie for figuratiuely hee hath spirituall resemblance of Romish authority and in some sort he is a kind of demy-Pope for once a yeere in the dogge-dayes he sends out his men with bates in stead of Buls with full power from his greatnesse to knocke downe all the cus without contradiction whose masters or owners will not be at the charge to buy a pardon for them of his mightinesse which pardon is more dureable then the Popes of waxe or parchment for his is made of a piece of the hide of an Oxe a Horse or such lasting stuffe which with his stigmaticall stamp or seale is hanged about euery dogs necke who is freed from his furie by the purchase of his pardon And sure I am perswaded that these dogges are more sure of their liues with the hangmans pardon then the poore besotted blinded Papists are of their seduced soules from any pardon of the Popes The priuiledges of this graund haulter-master are many as hee hath the emptying of all the vaults or draughts in the city which no doubt hee gaines some fauour by Besides all Oxen Kine Horses Hogs Dogs or any such beasts it they die themselues or if they bee not like to liue the hang-man must knocke them on the heades and haue their skins and whatsoeuer inhabitant in his iurisdiction doth any of these things aforesaid himselfe is abhorred and accounted as a villaine without redemption So that with hangings headings breakings pardoning and killing of dogges flaying of beasts emptying vaults and such priuie commodities his whole reuenue sometimes amounts to 4. or 5. hundred pounds a yeere And hee is held in that regard and estimation that any man will conuerse and drinke with him nay sometimes the Lords of the Towne will feast with him and it is accounted no impeachment to their honours for he is held in the ranke of a Gentleman or a ranke Gentleman and hee scornes to be clad in the cast weedes of executed offenders No he goes to the Meroers and hath his Sattin his Veluet or what stuffe he pleases measured out by the yard or the ell with his gould and siluer lace his silke stockings laced spangled garters and roses hat and feather with foure or fiue braue villaines attending him in Liuery cloakes who haue stipendary meanes from his ignominious bounty Munday the 19. of August about the houre of 12. at noone the people of the towne in great multitudes flocked to the place of execution which is halfe a mile English without the gates built more like a sconce then a Gallowes
not be blinde may plainely spy That their insulting proud commanding Priest Is â—bsolute and onely Antichrist H'exalts himselfe ' boue all that 's called God Vpon the Emperours necke he proudly trod Hee is th'abomination void of grace That mounts himselfe into the holy place He makes the Princes of the Earth drinke vp And quaffe the poyson of his cursed Cup. Who being drunken with the drâ—gs of sinne They haue his sworne and forsworne vassals beene Bewitched with his foule Inchanting charmes Gainst one another they haue rose in armes By forreine and domesticke bloudie broyles Whilst he hath fild his his coffers with their spoyles His double dealing too plaine appeares In setting Christian Princes by the eares Whilst he into his anatitious hands Hath feiz'd their persons moueables and lands And as the Christian Kings themselues made weake The Turke into their Kingdomes gan to breake And thus the Turke and Pope joynd with the deuill Haue beene the authors of all Christian euill FINIS THE BOOKE OF MARTYRS The Second Part. DEDICATED TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE PHILLIP EARLE OF MONTGOMERIE c. MY Lord the liues and deaths of Saints and Kings This little Booke vnto your Greatnesse sings Protection and acceptance if you giue It shall as shall Your selfe for ever liue IOHN TAYLOR VVHen the 7 Henry in his graue was laid And the eight Henry Englands Scepter sway'd Romes bloudy persecution raged more In England than in ten Kings raignes before And therefore Reader in this little Booke For euery Martyrs name thou must not looke But men of chiefest note respect and same That dyed in England onely these I name And first the Papists tyranny beganne In murthering Richard Hun a zealous man For being kept in prison by their power They closly hang'd him in the Lollards Tower And then they all in generall decreed Reporting Hun himselfe had done the deed Ann sixteene dayes iust after this was don They burn'd the foresaid corps of Richard Hun. Then to the number of full thirty fiue The surious flames did all of life depriue In seuerall places of this wofull land Because they did the Pope of Rome withstand At which time Thomas Bilney did begin To preach and teach against Antichristian sinne Where in Saint Georges Church in Ipswich Towne The Papists from the Pulpit pluckt him downe And as in dolefull prison he did lie He put his finger in the flames to try He prou'd aud God did giue him strenght to beare His death to liue with his Redeemer deare The next of note was one Iohn Frith a man Of learning great a Martyrs same he wan Then learned Luther and graue Zwinglius With Caluin Beza Occolampadius All glorious gracious reuerend lamps of light Were instruments to cleare blear'd Englands sight In Flanders William Tindall for Gods Word Was Sacrific'd to glorifie the Lord. Iohn Lambert valiantly his death did take And burn'd in Smithfield for his Sauiour sake About this time that Honourable man Lord Cromwels life and timelesse death began Hee like an Earthquake made the Abbies fall The Fryeries the Nunneries and all This famous Noble worthy Essex Earle This Iemme this Iewell this most orient pearle Was for his truth from all he had discarded And with his heads losse all his faith rewarded The next of worthy note by fire that dide Was good Anne Askew who did strong abide Rackes tortures and the cruell raging flame To magnifie her high Creators name Then gan the Kings eyes to be opended quite Inlightened by the euerlasting light He banisht Superstitious idle sables And packt the Papists hence with all their bables Then Bonner Gardner Brethren both in euill Factors and Actors bloudhounds for the Deuill Their burning fame to infamy soone saded They Godlesse gracelesse were disgracst degraded The King thus hauing this good worke begun He dyed and left the Kingdome to his Sonne Then raign'd young Edward that sweet Princely childe By whom all Popery was cleane exilde But he too good to liue mongst wicked men Th' Almighty tooke him hence to Heauen agen No sooner Edward was laid in his Tombe But England was the slaughter-house of Rome Gardner and Bonner were from prison turn'd And whom they pleas'd were eyther sau'd or burn'd Queene Mary imitating Iezabell Aduanc'd againe the Ministers of Hell Then tyranny began to tyrannize Tortures and torments then they did deuise Then Master Rogers with a saith most feruent Was burn'd and dy'd in Smith field Gods true Seruant Next vnto him did Laurence Sanders dye By fire for Iesus sake at Couentry He did embrace and kindly kisse the stake To gaine Heau'ns glory did the world for sake Good Byshop Hooper was at Gloster burn'd Cause he against the Romish Doctrine spurn'd And Doctor Taylor a true zealous man At Hadly burn'd eternall glory wan Then Byshop Ferrar next his life did spend In fire to gaine the life shall neuer end Next William Fowler first did loose his hand Then burn'd because the Pope he did withstand In Essex Thomas Hawkes with faith victorious Did dye by fire to gaine a life most glorious Master Ioha Bradford for his Sauiours sake In Smithsield burn'd a godly end did make Two reuerend Byshops Father Latimer And Ridley each of them a heauenly starre Liu'd in Gods foare and in his fauour dy'd At Oxford burn'd and now are glorisi'd Iohâ— Philpâ—t gladly did the fire embrace And died and liues in his Redeemers grace Then that graue Father and religious man Arch-Bishop of Cranmars troubles hot began His Pompe his state his glory and his pride Was to know Iesus and him crucifide He liu'd a godly Preacher of Gods Word And dy'd a glorious Martyr of the Lord. Iohn Carcles in close Prison carefully Did change his cares for ioyes eternally But this small volum cannot well containe One quarter of the Saints in England flaine In Henries Raigne and Maries cruell Queene Eight thousand people there hath slaughtered beene Some by the Sword some Hang'd some burnt in fire Some staru'd to death in Prison all expire Twelue thousand and seuen hundred more beside Much perseâ—uting trouble did abide Some wrackt som whipt som tortur'd som in stocks Some doing penance with a world of mockes Some with an yron in the faces burn'd Some out of all their goods to beggry rurn'd Some barefoot bearing faggots on their shoulders Weâ—e made a wondring stocke to the beholders All this and more much more they did endure Because they would not yeeld to liue impure But now to speake the law lesse â—ause wherefore And why these people troubled were so sore Because they would not make their plaints mones To senseles I mages dead stockes and slones Because they said the Sacramentall bread Is not the Lord which shall iudge quick and dead Because they not beleeu'd a Purgatory And held the Popes decrees an idle story Because they would not creepe vnto the crosse And change Gods sacred Word for humane drosse Because they held the Masse an Idoll soule At once which