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water_n	drink_v	good_a	night_n	9,044	5	8.0786	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01740	A posie of gilloflowers eche differing from other in colour and odour, yet all sweete. By Humfrey Gifford gent.	Gifford, Humphrey.; Tolomei, Claudio, 1492-1555. aut	1580 (1580)	STC 11872; ESTC S108637	86,923	163

lye buryed in mucke and in sand My beard it is gray though not very old The strong I make wéepe nor for heate nor for cold Yet such is my state that the poore loue me well And stil I am forst with great men to dwell 7 From south and west commeth a straunge warlike nation Atti●de and apparel● in wonderfull fashion In garments milke white these people are clad Which strike and oppresse both good men and bad But fauour they shew in dealing their blowes And saue him from danger ech on his way goes And on his backe caryes dead bodyes great store Which with their thicke buffets had beate them before Great furies are kindled at end of the fray VVhich makes this straunge nation all vanish away 8 Long is it since first to the world I came Small am I of body poore féeble and lame Yet none in this world nor one neyther other In richesse and substaunce surpasseth my mother 8 Not long am I graunted this life to enioy So many there are that worke mée annoy O Lord how they rent mée it cannot bée told What torments I suffer in heat and in cold One while am I drowned such hap doth befal Then next doe they rost me yet this is not al. When thus they haue vsde me they cannot forbeare me Ere first being beaten by péecemeale they teare me Then serue I the turne of euery estate But one kinde of people mée deadly doth hate 9 Doe tell me my friends what creature is hée That two times is borne as all men may sée And liueth a space though not very long And often is killed not hauing done wrong VVhen y ● his breath fayleth it liueth no more It then is baptised and neuer before Though many a one doe euill entreate it They loue it right well and often doe eate it 10 A certain dead creature in mine armes I take With her back to my bosome great glée doth she make As thus I doe hold her she greatly doth chéere mée And wel are they pleased that sée me and heare mée Whilst erst it remayned in forest and field It silent remayning no speech forth did yéeld But since she of life by death was depriued With language shée speaketh mens sprites are reuiued 11 A father begat me yet I haue no mother Nor Uncle nor aunt nor sister nor brother Straight when I was born I began to florish For euery estate tooke care me to norish Thus many score yéeres they haue loued me full well And eke entertaind me amongst them to dwell All partes of the world I viewd in short space And still was bad welcome in euery place Though many by me reape losse care and woe They neuer will licence me from them to goe 12 Hard fortun doth haunt me by nature estranged From male into female I often am chaunged And where as before I liud well contented With prickings and punchings I now am tormented Now more to accomplish their gréedy desire They cruelly heate mee and scortch me with fire Though badly they vse mée so milde am I still That I yéelde them life that thus doe mée kill 13 Amongst the firiendships rare Of which old writers tell This may bée plaste in highest roome And doth deserue it well Whiles death with gasping throte Did gape for bloody pray Life conquered death and saude that life Which death did séeke to slay That life which did this déede As death would straight haue flaine That life which late by him was saude Preserude from death againe 14 Begot wi hout father in earth I remaine And oft I am turnd to my mother againe By night and by day I labour alwaies And with my sharp sauor both please displease Thus héere in this earth my race out I runne And neuer haue issue nor daughter nor sonne 15 A female I by name Am sister to a brother In all the world may not bée found Our like nor one nor other For hée no sooner dies But I straightwayes doe liue And I oft yéelding vnto death Still life to him doe giue Oft after him I hie And gladly would him stay But hée than arow from the bow More swiftly flyes away Straight wayes hée folowes me My presence to attaine And as hée fled from me before I flye from him againe Though straunge our state doth séeme By proofe yée may it try That both of vs are still aliue Yet both doe dayly die That yée may better know What straungers great wée bée Wee day and night doe dine and sup With men of ech degrée 16 Two are we in name though in substaunce but one First framed by arte then finisht with mone Before we are ready for those that will buy Through greatnesse of torment wée howle and wée Cry Yet féele we no griefe for all this anoy Great numbers by vs haue comfort and ioy Who when for their profits we haue done what wée may They then do reiect vs and cast vs away 17 Fayre art thou and ●●d deseruing great praise And all men thée reuerence and honour alwayes Whiles that thy white banner abrode still is spread For then thou doest comfort both liuing and dead But if thy blacke banner bée spread foorth in vew All honour farewell all gladnesse adew Such woe then thou bringest to more and to lesse As pen cannot write it nor tongue may expresse 18. Of thée O my friend a thing I doe craue Which thou neuer hadst nor neuer shalt haue If that for thy selfe thou purpose to gayne it Thy labour is lost thou mayst not obtayne it Although thou shouldst liue a whole thousand yéere And séeke it yet shouldst thou be nothing the néere Now if thou doe loue me euen so as thou sayest Doe geue it For truely I know that thou mayst The solutions of the riddles 1 THe father the yéere the xii sōnes y ● xii months the ix children the xxx dayes and xxx nights 2 A Ship 3 Amans minde 4 A footeball made of a bladder 5 An old man being in prison his daughter comming to visite him woulde geue him sucke of her breasts so nourish him 6 An Onion 7 Men trauellng in the snow are beaten with it and carry the dead bodies on their garments vntill they come to a fire which makes them vanish away 8 Hempe 9 A chicken being first an Egge then a chicken 10 A Lute 11 Play at all kinde of games 12 Wheat being the Newter Gēder in Latin is turned into farinam meale which is the feminine which is then cōnerted into bread so nourisheth them that bake it 13 A man cōming to a foūtaine to drinke saw a serpent climbing vp on a trée to deuour a neast of young Egles which serpent hee slewe with his sworde and so saued their liues beeing about then to drink of the water the young birdes scraping out the filth of their nests fowled it in such sort that it letted him from drinking a spaniel that he had there with him tasting of it was presently poysoned 14 Salt 15 The night and day 16 A paire of sheares 17 A good tongue and a bad 18 A mayde béeing in loue with a young man desires him to geue her a husbande which in marriyng with her hée might doe

according to the vse of men nowadayes seing himself to fal out of fauor w t his maister had not rather haue ten burning feuers then lose this his fauor wheras if he had soūd iudgemēt would not suffer himselfe to be corrupted w t false imagination he ought rather to choose the disfauour of foure maisters then to suffer one onely feuer for that the first is an euil springing onely of opiniō this is grounded founded in nature it self So likewise semeth it vnto me of pouerty y t if it be an euill w c I beleue not it taketh his original onely of y e fantasies thoughts of men of weak vnderstāding hauing no foundatiō at all in nature And therfore Iesus Christ our sauiour most prudētly diuinely cōforted not only his disciples but al the poore also w t this goodly most beautiful exāple of two sparowes Is not man saith Christ of greater price then twoo sparowes hath not God greater regard of him then of these litle byrds yet they want nothing that is néedful for theyr sustenance Shal any thing be wanting thē vnto men w t are had in greater estimatiō both w t God nature And verily it is not to be doubted but that pouerty riches sprang first of the diuisiō of dominions being brought in rather by the gréedines ambition of men then by any order of nature O blessed be yée litle beasts you féele not at al those pearcings priuy bytings of pouerty but liue freely and ioyfully in the pure law of nature without encombring your selues with eyther riches or pouerty Let pouerty bée what shée will I knowe not wherefore wée shoulde accounte of her when as she is not of the things that are within vs but reckoned in the number of those that are without vs. For man is made and framed of soule and body onely and it is not necessary to the composition of him that there shoulde appertayne a soule a body and riches Now if pouerty be not of the thinges within vs but without vs what euil I pray you can shée doe vs Surely it must be muche lesse then that which offendeth the parts of which we are truely composed sicknesse and diseases make death seeme vnto vs more bitter then gall likewise ignorance dulnesse enuie sinne and wickednesse corrupt the beauty of our soules of these in parte we are framed But what hath pouerty to doe with vs shée hath respect as hath béene sayde to the thinges without vs and shoulde not anoy vs if we enemies to our owne selues tooke not her dartes in our handes and with them most bitterly pearced our owne soules But I say vnto you farther that the restlesse griefe the lothsome irkesomnesse and cruell prickinges that pouerty procureth spring all from one roote which is the desire of superfluous things Take away the desire of those thinges that are néedelesse and all this troublesome Sea will presently become quiet and calme Of a troth that sentence manifested by the Philosophers celebrated of y e sages allowed by long experience that nature is contented with very fewe thinges is most true Whervp●̄ Cleanthus gaue vnto men this worthy lessō Wilt y u said Cleanthus be quickly rich be thou then poore of desires I pray thée tell me how néedful is it from defending one from the cold to be clothed in veluet purple or gold to be alwaies in sundry fashions These garments bring no helpe vnto nature but increase the smoke of our ambition neither yet can we euer be satisfied wherby we gayne no other thing but to make our vanities the blind cloude of our desires more apparāt What necessity is there for the féeding of our body sustentation of our life to haue our tables loded with a hundred diuers meates al placed in vessels of siluer gold First this is certaine that if nature desire a measurable quantity of meate for her sustenance y ● which is takē more is to the destroying corrupting both of nature life wherby it was wel truely spokē that many more are slain by gluttony then by the sword And it is dayly séene that many of them at whome the foolish commonaltie so greatly woonder in the end are paide home with a deserued punishment for their ambitious gluttonie Some replenishing themselues with rhewmes others gaining to themselues the gout other some wasting and consuming their liuer causing their sinewes to shrink others dying miserably long before their time It is manifest also that with their sundry kindes of sauces they haue brought it so to passe that nothing sauoureth of it selfe and that they very seldome eate with appetite or delight O how true is that notable sentence and how well proued at all times That hunger is the best sawce of all others which makes all meates sauerie and delightfull The example of Darius is no lesse true then common who in his flight after a battaile being wearied and drinking a quantitie of muddy water did sweare that in all his life time hée neuer dranke more pleasauntly Beholde therfore the poore men are most rich of those things of which the rich through their blinde vnsatiablenes are most poore Finally it is manifest that this superfluous féeding is an example of crueltie First against thēselues that vse it for because as it is said many are diseased many killed and many brought to miserie Next against a number of the poore who if it were well séene vnto might bée relieued temperately with that which these cōsume immoderately How much better should they doe what more praise might they deserue both of God the world if restraining their diet to an honest temperat moderatiō al that which is vainly spent were by them conuerted into some better vse either in marrying some maides or in giuing exhibition to yong men addicted to studie or in vsing any other bountifull curtesie Truely I am not of opinion that for being rich they had néede to eat more neither that their welth doubling they should redouble their eating drinking y ● they encreasing these should encrease more also To procéed farther in the matter I say what néede is there for the kéeping vs from the raine the wind and the sunne to dwel in sumptuous pallaces replenished with most costly ornaments as though a little cottage might not bée sufficient to fence and defend vs from such impressions in which also for the most part more rest and safetie is found then in the other What a fondnesse yea what a monstrous appetite was it of Nero when that of all the mount Celio and more hée made but one onely house through which it was doubted least that therein hée would haue swallowed vp all Rome and hée was not ashamed to say that now hée began to lyue as was conuenient for men It pleaseth mée well that sumptuous and stately buildinges bée séene in the world not for any néede and tranquilitie of man