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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20101	Iests to make you merie with the coniuring vp of Cock VVatt, (the walking spirit of Newgate) to tell tales. Vnto which is added, the miserie of a prison, and a prisoner. And a paradox in praise of serieants. Written by T.D. and George Wilkins.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.; Wilkins, George, fl. 1607. aut	1607 (1607)	STC 6541; ESTC S105305	41,447	64

9. Iest. ONe called a Captaine coward and said he had no heart it s no matter quoth the Captaine I haue legs The 10. Iest. VVHat is the reason saies a Gentleman to his friend that chesse-play being so witty a game is not vsed so much now as it had wont to be diuerse reasons saies the others one is because Rookes stand too neere the Bishops another is because Knights had wont to be better then pawnes but now a good pawne is better th●● a Knight The 11. Iest. A Taylor in this Towne maintaind a whore besides his wise who afterwards came to the knowledge of it where vpon on● wondring how it should be discouered because the Taylor was a close fellow askt one of his neighbors how the diuell his wife could smell out his wench oh easily replyed the other for he kept her vnder his wifes nose The 12. Iest. An auncient Gentlewoman making her brag● that she was descend●d from Iohn of Gaunt One that stood by sayd he thought she was rather descended from William the Conqueror because her face was so old The 13. Iest. ONe demanded of his friend what was the reason that when a man 〈◊〉 a light Wench the ●●st word he speaks to her is Gentlewoman will you goe to the Tauerne O saies the other ● Leman is neuer good without wine The 14. Iest. A Couple of Seruingmen hauing drunke hard in Southwarke came to take water about ten or eleauen of the clock at night at S. Mary-oueries sta●res But the M●●ne ●●ning and a puddle of water lying before them which th●y could not perfectly discerne without better ●ies by reason that their shadowes bid it one of them ●●umbled and fel● in labouring with his hands feete as if he had bin a swimming his fellow● stood so well as a man in his case could stand looking vpō him sayd Art thou gon Art thou gon● Iesus recea●● thy soule yet if thou canst but get the Temple staires theirs some hope thou shalt doe well enough tush saies the other that was downe I looke not to g●t so I may saue my selfe I care for no more The 15. Iest. A Silly fellow being for some misdemeanor brought befor● the old Recorder after some short ●xamination was by him demāded whom he seru●d I serue quoth the fellow a poore kinsman of your good worship A poore kinsman of mine thou varlet who is that looke you saies he and drew from vnder his cloake a flute The 16. Iest. A Player riding with his fellowes in a yeare of Peregrination vp and downe the countries resolued to be merry th● they ●ot little money and being to passe through a Towne h●e gets a good way before the rest crying wi●h his drawne Rapier in his hand which is the Constables house where is the Constable the dogs of the parrith at the no●se fell to barking the Threshers came running out with their ●●●iles the Clounes with rakes pitch-forks asking without what the matter was cried still and you be men bring me to the Co●●●able At last the wise Gentleman appeared in his 〈◊〉 Are you the Constable saies the player yes that I am for fault of a better quoth he why then blurt Maister Constable saies the other and clapping spurres to his horse gallopd away amaine some of the companions laughing others rayling the Constable swearing and the rest of the players that came behind post through the thickest of them and laughing the whole Towne to scorne as if it had bin the foole in a Comedie which made y ● hob-nailewearers stampe tenne times worse then they did before The 17. Iest. A Company of merry Gallants comming in a winter night late from a Tauerne to increase that mirth in the streetes as they went along which the wine had begotten in them before fell to taking downe of Lāthornes that their hung out And one of them being nibling to vntie the cord at which a Sconc● hung a seruant of the house by chance suddenly opened the doore and tooke him at his worke roughly asking him what he meant to doe there nothing Sir saies the other but to s●uff your candle The 18. Iest. A Young man passing to his lodging somewhat late was by the dreadfull voyce of browne-bilmen cald to come before the Constable he did so but perceiuing him that sat there in the examiners office to be no Constable but knew him to be a bare Deputie and had for wages serued for other men some sixe or seauen yeares together y ● fellow gaue him scuruy words for which the Uice-regent of the Ward grew so into choller y ● he swore the great Turke should not ransome him from lying by the héeles nay more he would execute Iustice in his owne proper naturall person and leade him himselfe he did so and the other 〈◊〉 before but in the middle of Cheapeside bee kneeled downe crying out aloud O thou euerlasting Constable what meanest thou to doe with me The 19 Iest. A Seruingman bringing a Capon and white-broth to the t●ble stumbled let all fal to the ground for which his Maister reuilde him and sayd I could haue done so much my selfe I thinke so quoth the fellow any foole may doe it now t is done before him The 20. Iest. VPon a time when there was a great muster made by the Citty of souldiers a countrie fellow séeing them march thr●ugh the stréetes inquired of one that stood likewise by as a beholder to what end these souldiers kept this marching mary to Mile-end saies the other yea but to what end are those Lighters and Boates and Ships prouiding on the Riuer quoth the country mā why to Theames-end answered the other nay but then saies he againe to what end should they make such adoe both by Land and water faith replyed the other to no End The 21. Iest. I Thinke saie some to his friend I am the 〈◊〉 coxcom● liuing truth so thinke I saies the other why should you thinke so replyed the first and grew halfe angry mary sayd the second because you say so I hope none should know that ●●tthen your selfe The 22. Iest. A Paire of Players growing into an emulous contention of one anothers worth re●ulde to put themselues to a day of hearing as any Players would haue done but stood onely vpon their good parts Why saies the one since thou wouldst same be taken for so rare a peece report before all these for they had a small audience about them you must note what excellent parts thou hast discharged Mary saies the other I haue so naturally playd th● Puritane that many tooke me to be one True saies the first agen thou playdst the Puritane so naturally that thou couldst neuer play the honest man afterwards but I quoth he haue playd the Sophy the Sophy replyed the second what a murren was he What was he saies the other why he was a Turke right quoth his aduersarie get to play as many Turkes parts as thou canst for ●●e

r●●lenish his pleasures and p●mper vp his rancknesse in this minut by me his ●essenger hee is remembred all is vanity And begins to reckon with him selfe how miserable man is whose body is preserued from the plenty and cheefest of the land and by the delicatest store of the sea yet thus nourisht and nusled vp not as all other creatures or for man y ● nobler person but for wormes the very dregs and ●●●all of the earth and as he hath liued licentiously like a g●ate so his skin bathed rubd sterket nay perhaps painted for that purpose shall then like a goate be tand not to make spruce spanish leather fit for wanton Ladies shooes but to make gloues for friends like Salamanders skins able to resist the heate of the low country for though they are farre from the Sunne they alwaies liue in the fire and the best ●ffice their hides can be put to ● is to make pumps for Proserpin gra●●d Pluto King of Lecyfrs Concubine And as of these● so insues to all the rest such as by drunkennesse haue made their bodies like dry fats and their fac●● like a shriefes post of seuerall colours or swearers whose oaths fly out at their mouths like smoake out of a chimney that de●●les all the way it passes or lyers and such commōly are theeues for lying and stealing or as inseperable companions in sinfull society as a théef● and a receiuer and indeede all sinners of what condition so euer are at the sight of me struck with a suddaine and violent remorce reckon vp their liues and make themselues Iudges of themselues in these offences wherein their conscince giues ●estimonie against them that they are guilty and in 〈◊〉 present horror they s●eme in minde to ta●e the vpright Iustice and punishment which they know long before this they haue deserued Well hauing brought these that behold me into this ague you walking spirit will 〈◊〉 them in their 〈◊〉 and returne to the rest whom wée left 〈◊〉 ●●ely by the way I could wish that I had that su●●erance in the Citie that I progresse once a moneth about the Goale I then durst vndertake you should soone heare of more charity and fewer cuckolds find-lesse houses more hospitality not so many promises but more payment not so many Foles rich and so many wise Beggers nothing should be amisse all should b●● amended or your Cock Wach would walke the sinfull round like a Sentin●ll and the sinners should swet ●ort But to them whom I left sléeping not like the rest of good men wherein they find comfortable recreation after their carefull labours but like the sléeps of ●illayns For somnia bonoru● meliora quam malorum So I finde these not in sound sléepes but distressed flūbers troubled dreams visited with stairings grones and passions and afflicted in minde as they are persecuted in bodie one that went drunke to bed ouer night hee réeles in his sléepe and sweares to begin at the last halfe pot where he left in the morning others that haue béene ●* soysts all or the most part of their time and thriued well in the profession and now lately drawne into some other action as they call it as to breake a house or to lift a cup from a Uinteuers red barre to be 〈◊〉 for it at the black barre in the old bayly he curses his education complaines of the destynies malignes his starres and concludes thus what a villon was I to leaue my old trade meaning picking of pockets to vsurpe and ●eale into an othermans mysterie namely house-breaking or what other waies I heretofore haue liued well by mine owne and that which I was brought vp in drawne forty or fifty pound for mee and my punck in one tearme out of a rum coues ●ung so called in their canting vse of spéech and as much as to say in ours a rich chuffes purse and now after in my many escapes common bale the helpe to many a venterous thée●e a plague of all Ill lucks I must ride Crowee as much as to say beha●ged for a trifle in the bitternesse of his passion breakes out thus may all they take another mans trade vpon them neuer spéede better Here you must vnderstand euery man kéepes his own trade among théeues as orderly as they of the twelue companies as he that is a vintner is a vintener and no more so he that is a pick-pocket is a pickpocket and no more and so of the rest yet in the end closes vp his elegie beeing sung 〈◊〉 his dreame with this resolution well I haue seene the worst t is but halfe a● howres hanging t will saue mee halfe a yé●res drinking twoo turnes the knot vnder the eare and a wry mouth will doe it let me sweete hart speaking by his mort haue a white sh●●te tyed about mee and my black wrought Cap on my head my nosegay in my hand t is but the way which many a good fellow has gone before and welcome death when she perhaps then present with him as if their soules did ●●mpathise in one answeres dialogue wise to him making vp her protestations with ●thes enowe no doubt of it his will see will s●● performed nay for his sake she will neuer loue none of his 〈◊〉 more neuer come vp newgate staires nay for euer will be a stranger to the I le of man in remembrance of him Well suppose the Sessions past our dreamer awake and caried in a cart to haue a corner of Docter Stories cap whē she once s●ing him gone makes no doubt but he has borne a noose w t him will hold him fast enough from comming back straight she forgets her promises neuer to haue more friends nay ten to one neuer takes care to see him buried y ● hath brought himselfe to the gallows for her but rather studies where and how she may get money to bee drunke with a new loue and in fresh fild cups make vp a new combination between thē thus like water men that shift their fares from one landing place to waite for another so doe these morts euery sessions shift their sutors they dispatch o●e at Newgate stares a Noble to a groate they take vp another betwixt that and Tiburne Yet shall it not be Impertinent that I Cock Watt your new discouerer make euident what vse these kinde of people draw from these she creatures both abroad and in prison first know that your thée●es trauelling mort is partly a setter of rob beries partly a théefe her 〈◊〉 but alwaies a receiuer of whats● euer is ●●lne and brought vnto her for which fellonies if him whom she cals her hus●and chance to be apprehended she tross in his businesse labours his aduersarie to be good to him suffer him to be bayld ●ut you shall want no teares no knéelings no intercessions no perswasions that it is the first fact that euer the poore man her bedfellow fell into and will you s●ke his bloud that he was