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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85877	Walk knaves, walk. A discourse intended to have been spoken at court and now publish'd for the satisfaction of all those that have participated of the svveetness of publike employments. By Hodg Tvrbervil, chaplain to the late Lord Hevvson.	Gayton, Edmund, 1608-1666.	1659 (1659)	Wing G421; Thomason E993_14; ESTC R9985	10,603	20

several Sorts of Wax and how in what manner you should wax your wintered Boots Give me leave out of the former part of the Text to raise this Doctrine That Bad times require good boots I say bad times require good boots because the times are bad and the Winter c. therefore c. I shall explain my self to you brethren briefly thus I say bad times require good boots for verily beloved the times are bad very bad and are like every day for ought I see to grow worse and worse so as I fear we must all of us e're long be forced to fly for our Religion Now beloved whither shall we fly Marry 't is a Question worth your answering but I doubt there are few or none here that know how to resolve me in it for verily I am as yet to seek my self where to run or hide my head should the malignant party prevail But perhaps some will cry out and say we will fly to New England another he is for Geneva another he is for a nearer place then both these he wil away to Amsterdam Truely beloved I must confesse I cannot but approve of this place for the best being it is not only the nearest but the safest and hath ever in former times been found to be the only Nurse and Sanctuary for all such as are like them Dispisers of Royal Government and Self-forms of Prayers But here will one object and say Is not this an Island wherein we now live I had almost said wherein we now dwell but alas if the times change here will be no habitation for us and is not this Island encompassed round with a great Sea will not all our shipping then be taken from us how then shall we get over to Amsterdam or what good then will our wax'd boots do us Beloved this weak Objection is easily answered thus 'T is true that England is an Island encompassed with the Sea 'T is true there will be no travelling out of it by Land and it will likely prove as true if the wicked prevail that our Navy will be taken from us But O thou inconsiderate fool whosoever thou art that raisest this idle objection hast thou not the more need of waxed boots to passe through this Sea hast thou not great and rough Waters to wade over before thou canst arrive at thy Journeys end Now if thy boots be long enough which as I told you before you must be sure to observe before you buy them for this purpose and the Seams strong and well-waxed so as they will hold out water which you ought first to make tryal of by wading in them over the Thames from the Parliament-stairs to Lambeth or from White Hall to Stangate for one of these wayes we must all fly if the Cavaliers prevail you need not be afraid afterward to go over with them to any part beyond the Seas So as methinks this also should be another strong motive to perswade us to buy strong and long waxed boots But here some incredulous and fearful brother will make a scruple and say should we grant you that it may be possible for us to passe over the Sea in waxed boots yet how shall we do now the Winter is come on the days short but the Night and our Journeys very dark and long I say how shall we doe in these dismal and obscure nights to find our way through so pathlesse and uncertain an Element as the Sea is O beloved be not dismayed be not cast down with fear take you no care for that Have we not a good and glorious General gon before us and with the beams of his bright shining Countenance will like the Sun disperse those dark shades that doth cover the Waters He is our Leader our Guide by day and our Lamp by night who hath carried a living fire in the Lanthorn of his beak which neither the highest Winds can put out nor the greatest Waves extinguish because it will ever continue the same so long as the Splendor of it endureth But we will leave generals and come to particulars for I fear I have been too tedious in illustrating this Doctrine wherefore I will only passe to an use or two and so conclude The first is an use of consolation or comfort Is it so That waxed boots will preserve us from the cold is it so that with waxed boots we may passe through thick and thin Nay through Seas of Troubles why what a great comfort and consolation is it for all those who have occasion to travail through bad and sad ways to be provided of waxed boots Beloved there are as I shewed you before your Summer and your Winter boots In the one you may travail reasonably well all the yeer long provided your ways and the journey be accordingly As for example If you have occasion to ride your Newmarket ways your Bansted Down wayes your Tiptry Heath wayes or your Salisbury plain wayes then these Summer boots will carry you through these will preserve you well enough provided no raine from above or durt mire and waters from beneath do not offend or molest you But should you have occasion in the Winter time to travel your Essex wayes your Dunmow wayes your High Suffolk Farningham Castle wayes or those most abominable dirty miry and watry Wishbeech or Ely Fenny wayes O in what a fine case would your Summer boots be when they have been well washed in those filthy ways How will they shrink together like parchment against the Fire Therefore buy you waxed boots And this puts me in mind of a merry but a real story that I have heard from a credible person who I am confident would not tell an untruth of a certain young Gentleman living not far from Newmarket who was a Suiter to a fair Lady dwelling at Cholchester in the County of Essex Now this young Gallant having never before travelled five miles from his Fathers House imagined the same the Citizens Wife did who having never in her life time been out of London would needs perswade her Husband that though she had but twenty miles to ride and it was a rainy day yet they two might ride safe and dry all the way under the Penthouses So this spruce Blade thinking all the World was heath ground though it was in the depth of Winter and his man perswaded him to put on his Winter boots he would not go thither in any but a pair of thin Calves leather Essex boots alledging this reason for it That he new his Mistresse would love him the better when she see he came to court her in a pair of her own Country boots Whereupon he sets forward on his Journey but mark Beloved what followed he had not gone above half his way before he took such an excessive cold on his Feet that he was forced to alight at a poor blind Alehouse at a place called Black Chappel within three miles of Dunmow where he had no sooner got a fire made