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IS

DEDICATED

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BY
J.

M.

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CONTENTS.
PAGE

INTRODUCTION

ix

NOTES
SATIRE
1.

xxviii

(against ATHEISTS, SABBATH-BREAKERS, ETC.)

(against shams)
...

2_ 3.
4.

22
31
41

(against pride, etc.) (against aVxVRIce, bribery, apostasy)

5.
G.

(against gluttony, drunkenness, and tobacco)

(against lasciviousness)

55
75

7.

(against the passions of the mind)

92
110 112

preface to certaine poems

certaine poems
glossarial index

153
173

general index

INTRODUCTION.

The Prologue
"I
first

to Hall's Satires opens

with these lines

To

adventure, with fool-hardy might tread the steps of perilous despite. I first adventiu-e, follow me who list, And be the second English Satirist."
correct in his assertion that

But Hall was hardly

he was the

first

to adventure in this perilous path, for Hake's Neives out of Powles

Churchy arde had been given to the public eighteen years before, though without attracting the attention and obtaining the honour which
befell Hall's " tootldess satkes.''^

His chaUenge, "who'll be the

second English Sathist," was not, hoAvever, long unaccepted.

In the

following year (1598) appeared Marston's Scourge of ViUanie and

The Metamorphosis of Figmalion's Image. Samuel Eowlands also (as well as others) now began to write, and continued to add during
'

Thomas Timme's Discoveric of Ten Lepers appeared

:

in 1592.

The

" Ten Lepers " are

1.

The Schismatique. The Church-robber. 3. The Simoniac. 4. The Hypocrite. 5. The Proud Man. The full title is :
2.
:

6. 7.
8.

9.

10.

The The The The The

Glutton. Adulterer or Fornicator.

Couetous Man.
Murtherer.

Murmurer.

A plaine discouerie of ten English Lepers, verie noisome and hurtfull to the Church and common wealth Setting before our eies the iniquitie of these Published latter dayes, and indusing vs to a due consideration of our seines. by Thomas Timme Minister. London, Printed by Peter Short, dwelling vpon A to M in fours. Dedicated to Sir William Bredstreet hill, &c. 1592. 4to.
Brooke, Baron of

Cobham

{Uazlitt), Brit. Mus. 4103.

e.

X
miiiy years to the

INTRODUCTION.
satiric literature of

the time.

It

was in vain that

"

the authorities endeavoured to wrest the " the hands

of these poAverfid ^vriters
;

Ehamnusian whip
to enjoin

from
"that

it

was in vain

noe Satyres or Epigrams he printed hereafter."

croft

"VVhitgift

and Ban-

might burn them, but they could not stay

Satirist
also,

their re-appearance,

and the

found not only materials for books in abundance,

but buyers

and

Satires continued to appear long after the

death of the "Virgin Queen," whose ministers condemned Hall's

Satires to the flames, but spared Harington's Orlando Furioso.^

The date
ascertained.

which the Times' Whistle was written is easily The Eev. H. J. Todd, who compiled the Canterbury
at

Catalogue, though acqirainted with the MS., was incorrect in fixing

the date "near 1598."

tliis

The

internal evidence is satisfactory

upon
Other

point.
:

The

reference to

Faux and

Eavaillac'^ gives the first

clue

the former died in 1605 and the latter in 1610.

allusions

more

to the point are to Coryate's Crudities, p. 26,

which

appeared in 1611, and to

*

Dr

Carrier,^ p.

52.

Xow

Carrier died

See JVofcs

and

Queries, 3rd S. xii. 436,

and Dyce's Marloive,

p. xxsviii.

note.
^ EflTaillac, a lay-Jesuit, had, it is said, watched a whole twelvemonth for an oj^portunity to murder the king, Henry IV., and at last stabbed him as he was on his way to the Bastile. The assassin was at once apprehended and Many consultations were carefully guarded from the fury of the populace.

held

how

to punish him,

some

Italian physicians offering to prescribe a tor-

one might hear his bones crack, and after the dislocation, they were set again, and so he was carried in a cart standing half naked, with a torch in that hand which had committed the murder and in the place where the act was done, it was cut off, and a gauntlet of hot oil was clapped upon the stump, to stanch the blood, whereat he gave a doleful shriek. Then was he brought upon a stage, where a new pair of boots was provided for him, half filled with boiling oil. Then his body was pincered, and hot oil poured into the holes in all the extremity of this torture he scarce showed any sense of pain, but when the gauntlet was clapped upon his arms to stanch the flux, at which time he was reeking with blood, he gave a shriek only. He bore up against Howel's Familiar all these torments about three hours before he died."
horses, that
;

ment which should continue without intermission for three scaped only with this, his body was pulled between four

days.

" But he

Letters, ed. 1678, p. 25. John Taylor, in his Complaint of Christmas (1646) mentions, among others, the following Saints: Sa'mt liaviliae, Saint Faux, Saint Garnet. ^ Benjamin Carrier, or Carier, D.D.,was the son of Anthony Carrier, a learned

testant religion,

and devout preacher, who caused his son to be strictly educated in the Proand afterwards in academical literature at Cambridge, where he became a fellow of C. C. Coll., and a noted scholar and preacher. About

INTRODUCTION.

xi

"before

Midsummer
earlier date

1G14," probably in
it

May

or the early part of

June

in that year,

and hence

is

evident that the Satires cannot

have an

than the middle of 1G14; most probably they

Avere not finished before the

end of

this or the

beginning of the

following year.

The Poems
Jonson's
there
is

will help us to fix the later date.

In 1G16 Ben

Works, containing his Epigrams, appeared, and to these

a reference in the

Minor Poems.^

If " E. C." did not see

these Epigrams of Jonson's until they appeared in the

"Works,"
to

then 1616
fix

may be

safely taken as the later date,

and we are able

the Satu^es and

Poems
that

as

having been Avritten between Mid-

summer 1614 and

purpose.

the end of 1616, sufficiently near to answer every

it

But we know

was the fashion then

There
is

for authors to

hand about

their writings in manuscript.^

so,

abundant

evi-

dence that Jonson did

and presumj)tive evidence that " E. C."

to the world.

had seen those Epigrams before they were given

A reference
addressed " To

to

Jonson wiU show

this.

His Eighteenth Epigram,

answers objections which

my mere English Censiu'er,"

to his

had been made

those of

new

style of epigrams,

and

their being unlike

Weever and

Davis.

Ejngram

xlix. is addressed

"To Playwright.
and still my verses clamnes want the tongue of epigrammes I have no salt no bawdrie he doth meane. For wittie, in his language, is obscene.
Playwright

me

reades,

He

sayes, I

the time when James I. came to the throne of England, Carrier published one or more sermons, was made a Eoyal Chaplain, and one of the first Fellows of Chelsea College, founded by Dr Matthew Sutcliff. Becoming very unsettled
in his religious opinions, he abandoned the Church of England for the Church of Rome, and removed to Liege, where he wrote his Missive to the king, containing the motives which led him to renounce Protestantism. This appeared in October, 1614. He also published a Letter of the miserable Ends of such as impugn the Catholic Church, which appeared in 1615. He died, according
to Auth. a Wood, befoi-e Midsummer-day, 1614, when he "concluded his last day, putting thereby a period to the great imaginations that men of learning had of him and his worth, and to the expectation of other booiis to be pulilished." For further information the reader is referred to a valuable note iu IVofes and Queries, 4th S. vii. 130 Wood's Fasti Oxoii. ; and Bohn's Lnn-ndcs, but the fullest account of Carrier which I have seen is that in Masters's History of C. C. C. Cambridge (Camb. 1753).
; '

p. 132.

Dyce's Marlowe, p. 65, note.


XU
Playwright,

INTRODUCTION.
I loath to
:

In

my

chaste booko

professe

have thy manners knowne them in thine owne." Jonson's Works, folio, 161G.
to that of

This reads very

ter says
:

much

like

an answer

"E. C."

The

lat-

"

Peruse his booke, thou shalt not find a dram

Of witt
and the
retort
is,

befitting a true

Epigram";

"

He

sayes I want the tongue of epigrammes ; I have no salt ; no bawdrie he doth meane, For Avittie, in his language, is obscene."^

One

other point as to date.

I.

The poem In Neandrem

to

refers,

no

doubt, to the visit of James

Cambridge.

Now

this visit took

place in March, 1G15, and gave rise to

banter.

much good and

ill-humoured

Francis (afterwards Sir Francis) Xethersole was Public

all are
it

Orator at the time, and,

like a fool of himself.

agreed,

But

cannot be to him that the

"

made something very much poem refers.

Had

he been " struck mute with fear

"

he would have been spared

such taunts as

Xow come we to the Avonderment Of Christendom, and eke of Kent, The Trinity which to surpass. Doth deck her spokesman by a glass
;

"Who, clad in gay and silken weeds, Thus opes his mouth, hark how he speeds.
" I Avonder what your grace doth here, Who have expected been tAveh^e year,
I am indebted to Mr Furnivall for the following In the Sale Catalogue of Lilly's books is a copy (No. 1557) of the first edition of Ben Jonsou"s "Workes, 1616, and On the fly-leaf are the following verses in a cotemporary handwriting :
'
:

" Jonson that whilome brought the guilty age To suft'er for her misdeeds on ye stage, Euin'd by age now cannot hold out play, And nmst bee forc'd to throw his cards away For since he so ill keeps what hee earst wonne, Since that his reputation 's lost and gone, The age sweares she "11 no longer hold him play "With her attention but without delay "Will rise, if some fresh Gamester will not fitte, That 's furnished with a better stocke of witte." Catalogue,
;

p. 160.

'

INTRODUCTION.

XUl

And
That

this
is

your son,

fair Carolus,

so Jacohissimiis
all, your grace refuses, most welcome to our IMuscs "

Here's none, of

You
and more
In
to tlie

are

same purpose.^
is

A New

Quaint Ballad of Camhridge, the author of wliich

unknown, we read
" Oxford she a Christ-church had, To entertain the king ;

And Cambridge had And scarce one

' '

a Trinity,

wise therein. Most Jacob'd Charles,' did Cambridge cry,

An

Thou welcome art to ixs ; Oxford boy must have untruss'd. If he had cried thus."^
also the Trinity Oration is dwelt

In Neics out of Cambridge^

upon

but we learn in addition that Cambridge not only was guilty

of nonsense there, but of absolute failure at St Mary's, as

we

shall

show
1614

further on.

If,

then, the

poem In Neandrem

refers to this

event, Ave have another element in fixing the date,

to

and the years

1616 may be accepted

question, "

as conclusive.
'

To the
answer.

Who

was

R.

"

am

unable to give an

" There were," says

Mr

Corser,* " several poetical authors

about this period

laine,

who

rejoiced in these initials, Robert

Chamber-

Robert Chester, Roger Cocks, Robert Copland, Roger Cotton,

Croft,"

Ralph Crane, Richard Crashaw, Robert Crowley, and Robert and

to these

may be added Richard Carew, Robert

be dismissed at once

Carliell,

and

Richard Corbet, successively Bishop of Oxford and Norwich.

of these

Several

may

they were

dead, or wrote later

Carliell,

than when these Satires were written;

Carew,

Corbet,

Crane, and others, were alive, but to few of these can this volume be
attributed.

One well-known

scholar^ thinks Richard

Carew was the

author

another suggests Ralph Crane.

But

after

an examination

of some of their writings I

am

reluctantly compelled to say I do not

think either Carew or Crane wrote the Tones' Whistle.

'

If either

*
*

Corbet's Poems, ed. Gilchrist, 1807, pp. 17, 18. Inedited Miscellanies. Privately printed, 1870.

'

Ibid,

Collectanea Anglo-Poetica, p. 231. J. Payne Collier, Esq.

"

W. Carew

Hazlitt, Esq.


xiv
did, then it

INTRODUCTION.

must be confessed that

their

known

writings are far

inferior to these Satires.

few

lines in Crane's

New
tliis

Year's Gift

are all that can bear comparison with any portion of

volume

His great Prouidence (neuer forsaking)

Did

He

excite thee to this vnder-taking bids thee write rely on him, and send Thy prayers vp, and he wiU fairely end
first
:

This thy desire." i\^. Y. Gift,

"
]\Ioues

p. 2.

Euery one by his power, lines by his permission,

if

And

can do notliing

the prohibition
;

Of the Almighty doe oppugne it lies Only in him to end each enterprise."
" All

T. Wliistle, p. 3.

such labours in his nostrils stinke, And therfore shall prove fruitlesse men intend, But God it is that consummates the end." Ih., p. 17.
:

There
shortly,

is

-svriter,

who, but
all

for one difficulty, to

be mentioned
is

would meet

the requirements of the case, and that

at this

Eichard Corbet,

who was

time very active with his pen.

He

was born

at Ewell, in Surrey, in 1582, received the

rudiments of his
Broad-

education at

Westminster School, and in 1598

Avas entered at

gate Hall, and in the following year was admitted a student of

Christ-Church College, Oxford.

In

605 he graduated Master of Arts,

poet.^

A man who had the rewho Avas at one time found in a tavern with the jolly fellows of his day; who at another time, and after he was Doctor of Divinity, was seen putting off liis Doctor's gown and
and became celebrated
as a wit

and a

putation of being a wit and a poet, and

putting on a leathern jacket, and singing ballads at Abingdon Cross,

certainly
so

would not be found among the ranks of the Puritans

and

we

find

him undisguisedly opposed

Avas

to Abbott, at this time

Arch-

bishop of Canterbury, and siding with Laud, then rising into fame.

In 1616 he
be

recommended by Convocation
CoUege, of Avhich, as
a PelloAV.

as a proper person to seen,^ to a

elected to Chelsea

we have abeady

Benjamin Carrier had been

Even Avhen promoted

bishopric, Corbet could not forget, and did not choose to abandon,

some of
'

his jovial habits, for

it is

said that he

would sometimes take

The Pocnis of Bichnrcl Corbet, edited by Octavius Gilchrist, 1807.

p. X, note
'.


INTRODUCTION.
tlie

"

key of the

wine-collar,

and with his chaplain, Dr Lushington,

Fu'st of all the Bishop

would go and lock himself in and he merry.

would lay down his hood, with "There
lies

the Doctor;" then he

;

would put

off liis

gown, with " There

lies

the Bishop

"

and then

it
!

was

" Here's to thee, Corhet," and, " Here's to thee, Lushington

act thus

The man who could

"

would be the very man

to write the linus

Then

straight into the cellar

'Tis sAveetest

he '11 them bring drinking at the very spring," ^

and

to record such a journey as that to Islington to eat cream,^

described on page 83, and to be credited with writing the song in

praise of good ale,

which

is

sometimes attributed to him.^

Corbet was certainly no " precisian."

But

in spite of the

want

of an austerity befitting his sacred calling, and his hatred of the go-

to-meeting portion of EngHshmen,

it

is

gratifying to find that the

merry bishop died beloved and honoured.

is

" In no record of his

'

life

there the slightest trace of malevolence or t}Tanny.

'

He

was,'
to

says Fuller,

of a coiu'teous carriage,

and no destructive nature

jest

any Avho offended him, counting himself plentifully repaired with a upon him.' Benevolent, generous, and spirited in his public
chaxacter
eloquent,
;

sincere, amiable,

and

affectionate in private life

;

correct,

and ingenious
life

as a poet

he appears

to

have deserved and

enjoyed through

the patronage and friendship of the great, and

the applause and estimation of the good."^

Such was the man

mains

and his character seems perfectly consistent

It

with the theory that he vn:ote these Satires and Poems.

to present portions of Corbet's

now

re-

acknowledged writings, that

the reader
'

may compare them

in style

and sentiment with what we

p. 60.

Samuel Pepys visited Islington at various times. "My father," he says "used to carry us to Islington, to the old man's, at the King's Head, " Back to Islington, and at the King's Head, where to eat cakes and ale." Pitts lived, we 'light, and eat and drunk for remembrance of the old house "Thence to Islington, and there eate and drank at the sake." {lb. 121.) house my father and we were wont of old to go." {lb. 183.) " Thence to Hackney. There light, and played at shuffle-board, eat cream and good ' See p. xxxvii. cherries and so with good refreshment home." (ii. 133.) * J. Payne Collier, Esq., writes to me, " It is seldom one meets with such measure and such m'^aning" as are found in the limes' Whistle.
^ (ii.

Ill),

0. Gilchrist's Corbet, p.

Ii.


INTRODUCTION.

have in

this

voh:mc.

King James

visited

Cambridge, as before

stated, in 1615.

IMany Oxford

men were

present,

and among them

malice and

Corbet.

]S"ow,

although Corbet declared " he had

to

left his

judgment

at

home, and came there only

commend," the opporOxford he composed a

tunity to exercise his wit at the expense of Cambridge was too strong for

him

to resist,

and on his return

of

to

ballad ''To the

Tune
at the

Bonny

Nell."

This ballad, and others

to the failure of

which appeared
broke down.
"

same time, make reference

one or more who were appointed to dispute before the king, but
Corbet, in the ballad, says,

Xow
And
Sir

pass we to the civil law. eke the doctors of the spaw, Who all performed their parts so well,

Who
With
this

Edward Ratcliffe hore tlie hell, was, by the king's own appointment,
of spells, and magick ojTitment." Corbefs Poenis, p. 20.
:

To speak

compare the following

" In ]^eandrem.
jSTeander,

(Let

me

held a great ceviUian^ not say a ]\Iachiavillian)

to dispute before the king.

Appointed

Struck mute w/th fear, could not say anything Save twas ill luck ; for if he had done well As we expected, he would hear the hell From the whole Academie for the test, Tis certaine he had been a knight at lest. And made his Avife (what she hath lookt for long) Fortune, thou hast done her wrong jNIadame. To hinder his once dubbing of his wife W7ch hath dubde him soe often in his life."

T. Wliidle, p. 134.

These extracts are given that the reader

of comparing the

may have an

opportunity
It
lines

known is probable that the poem In Neandrem, and the following from News from Cambridge,^ refer to Dr Richardson.^
'

R. Corbet with the unkno^vn " E. C."

Cevillian, one versed in civil law. Privately printed, 1870. luedited Miscellanies. ^ The following extract is from Nichol's Progresses, <5r., of Jas. L, vol. "An extraordinary Act in Divinity was kept at iii. p. 57 (4to, Lend. 1828). Cambridge before King James, wherein Doctor John Davcnant was Answorer,
^

INTRODUCTION.
"

XVU

One morn they -went unto St Mary's, Wliere one amongst tlio rest miscarries, For, thinking well for to dispute. Propounds the (question and falls mute. Nor did he blush nor Avant excuse He foUow'd but the Cambridge use."
:

To quote
must

all

from Corbet's Poems Avhich might

;

fairly

bo quoted

Avould be to occupy more space than can be spared

suffice.

a few examples

See

how he

treats the Puritans

" I needs must say 'tis a spirituall thing To raile against a bishopp, or the king Nor are they meane adventures wee have bin in, About the wearing of the churches linnen.'' Corbefs Poems, ed. 1807, p. 106.

" Eoutes and wilde pleasures doe invite temptation, And this is dangerous for our damnation ; Wee must not move our selves, but if w' are mov'd and therefore those that lov'd ]\Ian is but man Still to seeme good, would evermore dispence With their own faults, so they give no offence. If the times sweete entising, and the blood That now begins to boyle, have thought it good To challenge Liberty and Eecreation, Let it be done in holy contemplation Brothers and Sisters in the fields may walke, Beginning of the Holy Word to talke, Of David, and ITriahs lovely wife. Of Thamar, and her lustfull brothers strife ; Then, underneath the hedge that woos them next, They may sitt doune, and there act out the text. Nor doe wee Avant, how ere Ave live austeere, In Avinter Sabbath-nights oiu? lusty cheere
;
:

and Dr. Kichardsou amongst others the Opposers. The question Avas mainDr. Richtained in the negative concerning the Excommunicating of Kings. ardson vigorously pressed the practice of St. Ambrose excommunicating the Emperor Theodosius insomuch that the King in some passion returned To whom Dr. RichardTrefecto f uit hoc Ambrosio insolentissime factum Hoc non Responsum vere Regium, et Alexandre diguum son rejoyned and so, sitting down, desisted from, est argumenta dissolvere, sed dissecare any further dispute." I am indebted to the kindness of Mr Dennis Hall, of the Cambridge Union Library, for this note, and also for pointing out the similarity of expression used by Corbet in reference to Sir E. Ratcliffe and by the writer of Mr Hall, without knowing that the same question had preIII iXcandrcm.
: ; '
! ' ' :

'

sented
of

itself to

me, asks,

"Can

the R. C. in question be Richard Corbet, Bp. 6

Norwich ? " TIM lis' w.


XVm
And
Ilalfe

INTRODUCTIOX,

Wee

though the pastors grace, Avhich oft doth liohl an howrc long, make the provision cold, can be merry ; thinking 't nere the worse

To mend the matter

at the second course. Chapters are read, and Innnnes are sweetly sung, Joyntly commanded by the nose and tongue

Then on the Worde wee

diversly dilate,
:

AVrangling indeed for heat of zeale, not hate When at the length an unaj^peased doubt Feircely comes in, and then the light goes out Darkness thus workes our peace, and wee containe

Our fyery
Till then,

spiritts till

we

see againe.

no voice is heard, no tongue doth goe, Except" &c., &c.Ib., pp. 108110.

Another quotation from Corbet may be given

"

here.

I renounc't my faith, or basely sold Salvation, and my loyalty, for gold 1 Have I some forreigne jDractice undertooke By poyson, shott, sharp-knife, or sharper booke To kill my king 1 have I betrayd the state

Have

To

fire

and

fury, or

some newer

fate,

AVhicli learned murderers, those grand destinies, The Jesuites, have niu'c'd 1 if of all these

I guilty am, proceed

am

content."

lb. p. 47.

These quotations, and other

writings, have the ring

j^assages to

be found in Corbet's
characterize the

and the swing which

whole

of the Times' Whistle.

Xo

other Satires which I have read,

by any

one "rejoicing in these

being made
;

initials,"

allow of scarcely any comparison

is

but Avith the Bishop the case

altogether different.

The same smooth measure, the same frequent

Corbet's poetry and in that of " E. C."

references to history,

the same intense scorn of Puritans and Pmitanism, are found in

I

am

aware of the

difficulty

there

is,

I think, but one

which
it

besets this theory.

"E. C,
Clerk."

Gent,"

is

not the same as the "Eev. E. C," or "E.

C,

But

it

must be remembered that Corbet published none of his

his lifetime,

Poems during
Tiines'

and that

Avas not till

some twelve

yeai-s

after his death that

any of them were given

to the public.

The

Whistle and the Poems were evidently written for pub;

lication

but

why

the intention was not carried out there

is

no hint

to show.

If Corbet \\Tote them, his elevation to high positions in

the Church

may have

led

him

to

abandon the publication

alto-

INTRODUCTION.
getlicr,
l^art

XIX
Avriter

judging that some of the scenes in which the

ill

took a

would hut

correspond with his ecclesiastical character.^

Our

Poet, whoever he was, was well read in

and made good use

of the literature of his time, as well as of ancient classic authors.

Shakespeare, Marston, INEaiiowe, Jonson, Hall, and others, appear to

have been consulted

to

some purpose, but not

to

an extent

to render

the author liable to any

grave charge of plagiarism.

;

Only

a few of

these allusions to his contemporaries can be given

readily supply omissions.
Glouce-ttei'.

the reader will

:

And

first as to

Shakespeare

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind ; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. K. Henry. The bird that hath been limed in a bush, With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush. 3 K. Hen. VI. v.

6.

' The MS. is not in the handwriting of Bp Corbet. I have compared it with an autograph letter of the Bishop's in the British Museum. Another " E. C." appears in W. Bosworth's The Cliast and Lost Lovers. Mr Furnirall referred to the book for me, and forwarded me the following, which seems worthy of attention " The Chast and Lost Lovers, Lively shadowed in the persons of Arcadius and SejJha, and illustrated with the severall stories of Ilccmon and Antlgotie, Eram'w and Amissa, Phaun and SnpjjJio, Delithason and Verlsta: Being a description of severall Lovers smiling with delight, and with hopes fresh as their youth, and fair as their beauties in the beginning of their Affections, and covered with Blood and Horror in the conclusion. To this is added the Contestation betwixt Bacchus and Diana, and certain Sonnets of the Author Digested into three Poems, by W.ill. Bosn-orth, Gent. to AVRORA.
:

Me
Impnne

qnoque
coelo.

volare, ^' sereno

Calliope dedit ire

London, Printed by F. L. for Laurence Blaikloch, and are to be sold at his shop at Tanple-Bar, 1651." 8vo. A in 8 unpaged B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, 127 pages, and last page blank (Brit. Mus. press-mark E. !f^). The prose Epistle Dedicatory 'To the true Lover of all good Learning, the Honourable Lohn Finch, Esq.' is signed K. C, and says that the Poems are the work of a young Gentleman of 19 years of Age, who, had he lived, might have been as well the Wonder as the Delight of the Arts, and been advanced by them amongst the highest in the Temple of Fame.' The prose address To the Reader is also signed R. C, and contains a hit at Ben Jonson, which may identify its writer with the author of Times' Speaking of Bosworth and his work, MTiistle, and the Satire against Jonson.
;

'

'

'

it in words, he taketh from Mr Marlow in his Hero and Leander, whose mighty lines l\Ir Benjamin Johnson (a man sensible enough of his own abilities) was often heard to say, that they were Examples fitter for admiration than for parallel, you shall find our Author every where in this imitation."

R. C. says " The strength of his fancy, and the shadowing of

:


XX
"With
tliis

INTRODUCTION.

compare

" He, tliougli lie had the murderous liand to s.pill Another's blood, himself yet durst not kill,

Aud "was afraid of others. Whatever He judgeth to be men and officers

Come
The same
to attach

stirs

Takes every bush

him, and, his sight unstable, to be a constable." T. Whistle,

:

p. 108.

idea occurs on p. 94

" Each bush doth fright him, and each flying bird. Yea, his own shadow, maketh him afeard,"
Marston's Scourge of Villanie Avas also familiar to our author
:

" Infectious blood, ye gouty humours, q\;ake, Whilst my sharp razor doth incision make." Mardon's Works, iii. 274, ed. J. 0. Ilalliwell " Let ulcer'd limbs and gouty

humours quake

Whdst
Marston has

with

my

pen

do incision make." T. W. 2/19, 20.

Are clean

" Camphire and lettuce chaste cashier'd, now sophi ringoes eat, Candi'd potatoes are Athenians meat. Hence, holy thistle, come sweet marrow pie. Inflame our backs to itchin luxury. crab's bak'd guts, a lobster's biitter'd thigh, Works, I hear them swear is blood of venery."

A
Compare

iii.

257.^

"with the above,

" Provocatives to stir up appetite To brutish lust and sensual delight ;Must not be wanting lobsters' butter'd thighs, Artichoke, marrow-bone, potato-pies. Anchovies, lambs' artificially drest stones, Fine jellies of decocted sparrows' bones. Or if these fail, th' apothecary's trade Must furnish them Avith rarest marmalade, Candi'd eringoes and rich marchpane stuff.
;

AVith allegant, the blood of venery

Which
'

strengthens

much

the back's infirmity." ^

2'.

W.

p. 87.

" Virginius vow"d to keep lii.s maiden-head, And eats chaste lettice, and drinks poppyseed, And smells on camphor fasting." Hall's Satires,

iv. 4.

" Letuce seede being often vsed to be eaten a long space, drietli vp the Lyte's Dodoeas, f. natural seede, and putteth away the desire to Lecherie." 573 (1578). * Ben Jonson, cery Man out of his Humour, ii. 1, has " Diving into the


INTRODUCTION.
jMarlowG was charged
M'itli

XXl

lioLling atlieistical oi)inions,

and

it

would almost seem

the
first Satire.

that " E. C."

lines

had him

in

view in the opening of

The

" "Which by religion dost not set a straw, Devis'd, thou think'st, but to keep fools in aAve" {T. W.

p. 5)

seem

to

be another form of one of the opinions " of one Christofer That the
first

Marlj-e," namely, "

beginning of religion was only to

keep

men

in awe."^

Marlowe's Doctor Faustus was published, in

quarto, in 1604,

and again in 1616.

The Times^ Whistle^ contains

it

a reference to the story of this Play, although

Avas

may be

said the story

common enough

for " R. C." to

have got

it

elsewhere.

The whole

scene in which Faust cuts his arm, and writes the agreement with
his blood, is too long for insertion here,

an extract must

suffice

" Faiist. Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood

Assure my soul to be gi-eat Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night View here the blood that trickles from mine arm, And let it be propitious for my wish. Mepli. But, Faustus, thou must Write it in a manner of a deed of gift. Favsf. Ay, so I Avill. [TFyi^es;.] But, Mephistophilis, My blood congeals, and I can write no more."
!

The mention
to INIarlowe's

of Tamburlaine^ will at once call the reader's

mind

Tamhurlaine the Great.

fat capons, drinking your rich wines, feeding on larks, sparrows, potato-pies,

and such good unctuous meats." Howel, writing from Alicant, says " I have bin here now these three months, and most of my food have bin grapes and bread, Avith other roots, which have made me so fat, that I think if you saw me you would hardly
:

know me, such

p. 35, ed. 1678.

nourriture these deep sanguin Alicant grapes give."

Fam,
:

Let.

And John Taylor, Works, folio, 1630 (Spenser Society's Eeprint) " The Taste plays the Bawd with both Art and Nature, and searcheth through the Earth, Seas, and Skies for variety of temptation poore and innocent Lambstones, Potatoes, Eringoes, Crabs, Scallops, Lobsters, Wilkes, Cockles, Oysters, Anchoues and Caucare [Qy. Caut'are], Cock-sparrowes, Coxcome-pyes, .... doe waite upon the Taste." f. 259.
;

" [He] eates more Lobsters, Artichokes, and Crabs, Blew roasted Egges, Potatoes, Maskadine, lb. Oysters, and pith that growes i' th' Oxes Chine."

f.

509.

See also Howel's FdmUlar Letters, p. 215. See Dyce's iLirloive, p. 389.
'

p. 53.

'

p. 25.


XXU
INTllODUCTION.

TliG Prologue to Hall's Satires lias

been partly quoted already,

:

another portion of
"

it

may

fitly

come in here

Envy Avaits on my hack, Truth on my side Envy will he my page, and Truth my guide. Envy the margent holds, and Truth the line Truth doth approve, hut Envy doth repine. For in this smoothing age who durst indite
;

Hath made his pen an hired parasite, To claw the back of him that beastly

lives.

pranck base men in proud superlatives. Wlience damned Vice is shrouded quite from shame. And crown'd with Virtue's meed, immortal name

And

Infamy

dispossess'd of native due,

life to

Ordain'd of old on looser

sue

The Avorld's eye-bleared with those shameless Mask'd in the show of meal-mouth'd poesies.
:

lies,

Go, daring Muse, on with thy thankless task^ And do the ugly face of Vice unmask And if thou canst not thine high Hight remit, So as it might a lowly satire fit. Let lowly satires rise aloft to thee Truth be thy speed, and Truth thy patron be."
:

That a similar

spirit to

this

animated "E. C."

may be

seen

by

reading his introductory lines on the second page of tins volume.

The

references to Jonson's "WTitings are numerous.

Compare the
C.'s Sordido,^

Sordido in

Every

Man

out of

liis

Humour, with R.

and especially jMisotochus,^ and the

author's second Satire,^
coincide.

effect of fine clothes in

the same

Play,^ with the character of Moros"* and the closing lines of our

and

it Avill

be seen at once

Carlo in this Play*' says, " Love no

of

speak
back.

ill

no man to his

face

nor

Avell

of

how closely they man trust no man any man behind his
;

Salute fairly on the front, and wish

them hanged upon

turn.

Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would
eat in private.

These be principles, think on them."

And

R.

C,

" Another's mind by hate distempered is, Malicing whom in show he seems to kiss. This bare affection causeth dismal strife, Despoileth honour and destroyeth Hfe.
'

pp. 26, 27.

*

'

p. 99.
^

p. 30.

' Act ii. 1 Every Man,

iii. 3.

p. 28.

&c.,

iii.

1.

INTRODUCTION.

Xxiii

Yet

To

in these days 'tis coiinted policy use dissimulation ; villany IMasked under friendship's title (worst of hate) a

Makes

man

live secure

and

fortunate.

These mankind haters, bloodj'-minded slaves, "Which all the world with horrid murders fill, Laughing on those whom they intend to kill."^
There
is

evidence too
it is

that

The Puritan had been seen by the

fact.

author, but
I

only necessary to mention the

do not think any apology will

be required

for

putting

these Satires before the few scholars

literature of the
be,

Shakesperean

age.

who are Some casual

to

interested in the

readers there

may

who

reach

"precisians," they are unwilling

will fail to see

any advantage in having such books within

have their senses polluted

Avith the

rough language and the pictures, drawn by contemporary

hands, of the vices of their covmtrymen.

For such these

side,

Satii'es are

not published

they can pass

It is too

by on the other

and leave

this

book

to its fate.

much

the fashion now-a-days to shut our

;

eyes to vice and crime

and oppression

to turn our faces

from the
;

dark and squalid portions of our

deavour to hide
groan, to drive
all

cities, toAvns,

and

villages

to en-

the wickedness and misery under which so

many
self-

them from the

garish light of day, and, compelling

eyes, to turn
'

them

to

He in

secret

and avoid offending our

with

righteous complacency to the world, and say,

hol)^ all things are
!

See hoAv bright and

A'ice
"\Ve

and misery

are not seen in our streets,

they do not

exist.

manage things

better now.

man may

walk on the

village green, in the beautiful country lanes, in the

great streets of our great cities,

and
ear.

see nothing to offend the eye,

hear nothing to grate upon the

Our

"writers tell

us of nothing

but what

is

pleasant,

of our advances in education, of the improveside.'

ments which are made on every

don't like to see vice and misery,

Yes,

it

is

quite true.

"NYe

we
is

prefer to Avalk blindfold,

and to

be ignorant of such things

vices of

but

not the difference between the

years ago and the vices of

men two hundred and

fifty
1

men

now, simply a difference of dress

'

Then

vices were clothed in

p. 94.

XXIV
fustian,

INTRODUCTION.

and

-were not

always hidden from

tlie

light

now, wo clothe
secretly.

them

in broadcloths and silks,

and indulge in them

I do not apprehend that any one reading these Satires will be

the worse for the reading.

do, then

They need no apology from me.

and Charles

If they

must

all

who have

spent their talent on the Playwrights

I.,
I.

and

Satirists of the

time of Elizabeth, James

have
is

erred

more deeply than I can have done.

no man despise
" It
is

The whole
and think

Literature

tainted with a certain coarseness, and to condemn one

Avriter is to

condemn
because

all.

But

let

it

it

poor or bad

it is

unlike our own.

refreshing to look out of our-

selves sometimes, not always to be holding the glass to our

own
inter-

peerless perfections

and

as there is a

dead wall which always

cepts the prospect of the future from our view (all that

beyond

it is

the heavens),

it is

as well to direct our eyes

we can see now and

at-

then without scorn to the page of history, and repulsed in our

tempts to penetrate the secrets of the next six thousand years, not
to turn our backs

on auld lang syne

"

I do not apologize for addI have done

ing to this literature.

The reader must judge whether

abide.

well or

ill,

and by his judgment willingly I volume there

is

In

this

much

that

is

interesting historically,
ale-

such as the drinking scenes, the tobacco-smoking customs, the

house haunting on Sundays, the manner in which the Puritan was

spoken of by the orthodox Churchman.

trative of the atheism, infidelity,

These, and the hints

illus-

and apostasy which were common

which
In our

then

(as

well as now), give a value to the book which each reader

will estimate for himself.

Of the moral and

it

religious tone

runs tlirough the whole of

I cannot speak too highly.

Dramatists and others this

ISTot

is

too often overlaid, or lost altogether.

?

so here.

Is there a sin, a vice, a crime described

the denun-

ciation of its certain

punishment

is

sure to follow, and that in terms

so plain that they

who run may

read.

The

preface to the minor

poems in

this

volume

is

curious.

What
alsoe

occurred to prevent the Satires " and this piece of poetry

soe sodainlie thrust into the prosse " from being given
is

to the world, at present

'

a mystcrj',
Ilnzlitt
;

and

A\'ill

probably remain one

W.

Lectures, &c.


INTRODUCTION.
for

XXV
"subsequent endeavours"

some time

to

come.

Wlietlier
is

tlie

spoken of ever came

to anything

also

unknown.

The "judicious

Catoes" and barking INIomists of the time had had their fling at
E.
C.,'

and had planted a thorn in his

lines
:

side.

His

retort calls to

mind

Ben Jonson's

" Perhaps, upon the rumour of their speeches, Some grieved friend will whisper to me Crites, Men speak ill of thee. So they be ill men. If they spake worse, 'twere better for of such To be dispraised, is the most perfect praise, What can his censure hurt me, whom the world Hath censured vile before me 1 " ;
:

These poems display the fancies and beliefs which were common at Few of them are without interest of the time they were -written.

some kind, the best probably being that commencing on page 137. Of the poetical merits of " E. C." nothing need be said. The

book
tract

is

in the reader's hands.

suffice

Let

it

speak for

its

author.

One

ex-

must

here

" Latro did act a

damned

villainy,
it,

Adding black murder to his robbery, Yet cause 'twas closely done he might conceal For save himself none living could reveal it. But see the just revenge for this offence
;

After the deed, his guilty conscience Torturing his soul, enforc'd him still to think

The

act disclosed,

and he in danger's brink.

He thought the birds still in their language said it He thought the whistling of the wind bewrayed it He called to mind that murder was forbidden, And though a while it could not long be hidden.
Distract in mind, and fearfull in his place,

Having no power to call to God for grace, The devil doth suborne him to despair, Tells him 'tis pity he should breath this air Which hath been such a villain thrusts him on To work his own death and confusion. He, though he had the murderous hand to spill
;

Another's blood, liimseK yet durst not

kill,

And was afraid of others. What e'er He judge th to be men^ and officers
'

stirs

See also the poem Ifi Momvm, ^ Cynthia's Revels, iii. 2.

p. 152.

XXVI

INTRODUCTION.

Come to attach him, and his sight unstable Takes every bush to be a constable. Thus plagued and tortured with despair and fear, Out must the fact, he can no more forbear For which, according to the course of law, Death's heavy sentence on him he doth draw. And being brought unto the place of death. There in despair yields up his latest breath.
Thus each affection like a tyrant reigns Over man's soul, which letteth loose the reins Unto selfe will, in which so slavish state, Man's sense captived, his reason subjugate. Makes the soul clogg'd, a massy lump of sin, Which following his creation should have been, Like his Creator, pure." T. W. p. 108,
I have taken no Hberties with
plained in the footnotes.

my MS.

other than those ex-

For the punctuation and the use of the

as
it

h}^hen in some of the compound words,

Capital
letters,

well

as the use of

am

answerable.
as

I hope

will be found that I

have avoided mistakes

the reader

much
is

as it is possible to do,

and I beUeve

may
to

rest assured that every reading,

and every word,

I should

which bears a pecuHar look

have preferred

as it stands in

my

original.

modernize the spelling throughout, but the laws of

it is

the E. E. T. S. allow of no such tampering with texts, and

right they should not.

Once begin, and the reader

is

never sure

that his author's ijpsisshna verba are before him.

I have added to this brief introduction a few notes illustrative of

tlie

text,

and

at the
is

end of the volume a glossary of words and

assist

phrases,
to save

which

intended not only to

the general reader, but

any future Lexicographer the trouble of wading through the

for

volume

an example of the use of any word,

plu-ase, or proverb.

Of

the use of proverbs and phrases these Satires contain

many

examples.

The most
the

pleasing of
!

my
for

duties remains to be done.

To thank

Dean^

(too late, alas

him

to hear)

and Chapter of Canterbury

hands to copy and use
obligations under
at

for so

generously placing the

MS.

in

my

my own

home.

And

to express the

many

which

I rest to the Eev.

Canon Robertson, Librarian of the Canterbury

'

Dr Alford.

IXTRODUCTIOX.
Cathedral Library, to
J.

XXVU

Payne

Collier, J. 0. Ilalliwell,

W. Eodliam
Esqrs.,

Donne, F.

J. Furnivall,

W. Carew

Hazlitt,

and Dennis Hall,

and
read

my my

brother, B. Harris Cowper,

proofs,

and

to afford

who have been kind enough to me many valuable hints and sughad under-

gestions, as well as to express their satisfaction that I

taken to sec these Satires through the press.

Joseph
Davington Hill, Faversliam,

jM.

Cowteu.

March

21, 1871.

NOTES.
Puritans and Puritanism. Page
sible to conceive the

men.
in
all

At this day it is scarcely pos4. amount of obloquy which was heaped upon these No vice was deemed too horrible for them to commit they were

things considered the very incarnation of hypocrisy.

Iii

spite of

the oppressions under which they bowed they became, as our author says, so numerous that they encumbered the Church, and stuck as a disease within her bowels (p. 10).
period.
It is

unnecessary to reproduce the

taunts and abuses which are scattered up and

down

the literature of this

such matters will find enough in the works of Taylor the Water-Poet, Bp Corbet's Poems, The Puritan, and
in

The reader curious

elsewhere. there were a great

numbers we may quote Taylor: "Item, he told that many Puritans in England, and that they did now so disturb the quietness of the Commonwealth that it was now almost

As

to their

The Liar, 164:1, p. 5. Robert Brown, the founder of the Sect of Brownists, was born in 1549. He was educated at Cambridge, and, wliile a young man, obtained the mastership of the Free-School of St Olave's, Southwark, and became chaplain to the Duke of Norfolk. In 1571 he was cited to appear before Parker to answer for his opinions. The influence of Norfolk saved him for this time. Subsequently Brown abandoned the views of the Puritans for those of the Separatists. For preaching against bishops and church ceremonies he asserted that he was commitSoon after 1580 he found it prudent to go to ted to thirty-two prisons. Holland, but in 1584 lie was stirring up strife in Scotland. He returned to the Church of England, but not much to his or her credit, as the remainder of his life seems to have been spent at Achurch, near Oundle (the living of which he accepted as the price of his conformity), in idleness, occasionally varied by beating his wife, not " as his wife, but as a curst old woman." For an almost contemporary account of him see
turned topsy-turvy."
Broivnism. p.
4.

Taylor's Cluster of Coxcomhes, 1G42. Anahajitisls. p. 9. (See Glossary.)

The following

is

from Taylor's

NOTES.

XXIX
(pub. lG-42)
:

account of Anahaptlsts of
April in the 32ud

these latter times

On

the 29th

VIII. one Mandeville and one Collins (both Anabaptists) were examined in St Margaret's Church at the Ilili in

Henry

Southwark, and there they were condemned and judged to be burnt as heretics, which was executed on them accordingly in tlie highway between Southwark and Newington. In 1574 one man and ten women were judged to be burnt for being Anabaptists, but after much suit made, one woman recanted, and all In the same year four carried faggots and did the rest were banished. penance at Paul's Cross, and recanted, but two Dutchmen were burnt in " And in these our days the said Smithfield for being Anabaptists. Anabaptistical sect is exceeding rife, for they do swarm here and there
without fear of either God or man, Law or order." ^1 Cluster of Coxcombes (1642), p. 4. Howel " could be content to see an Anabaptist go to hell on a Farn. Letters, ed. 1678, p. 255a. Brownist's back." The Family of Love. p. 9. This sect, often called Familists, had Thirty years later the Familists its rise in Holland about the year 1550. appeared in England. They pretended to a more than ordinary sanctity. They asserted that none were of the number of the elect but such as were admitted into their family, and that all the rest were reprobate. They held that it was lawful for them to swear to an untruth before a
magistrate or before any other person who was not of their society, for The originator of this sect was Henry Nicholas their own convenience. of Leyden, who made certain blasphemous pretensions that he partook Their numerous books were ordered by Elizaof the Divinity of God.

beth to be burnt.i The Familists are often referred to in language far from complimentary.

Those who care to know in what estimation they were held by the orthodox may refer to Taylor's A Bawd, The Vcrtue of a Jayle, etc., and his Apology for Private Preaching. In 1574, five Englisnmen of the sweet sect called The Family of Love did penance at Paul's Cross, and there confessed and detested their wicked and damnable heresies. A Cluster of Coxcombes (1642), p. 4. Amsterdam, p. 11. No place seems to have been held in such vile Of course the gossiping Howel has something repute as Amsterdam. Writing from Amsterdam, in 1617, he says " The to say about it. ground here, which is all for the most part twixt marsh and moorish, lies not only level but to the apparent sight of the eye far lower than
:

the sea, which

made the Duke of Alva say that the inhabitants of this country were the nearest to hell (the great Abyss) of any people on One of the chiefest parts of his [the native's] Litany Earth is From the Sea, the Spaniard, and the Devil, the Lord deliver me."
Fam.
Letters, ed. 1678, p. 8.

Two

years later he writes, " I

'

am

lodged in a Frenchman's house

See Hook's Ch. Diet.


XXX
(at

NOTES.

is one of the deacons of our English Brownists not far from the Synagogue of the Jews, who have free and I believe in this street where I open exercise of their religion here. lodge there be well near as many religions as there be houses for one neighbour knows not, nor cares not much, what religion the other is of, so that the number of conventicles exceeds the number of churches here. The dog and rag Market is hard by, where every Sunday morning there is a kind of public mart for those commodities, notwith-

Amsterdam) who
;

here

'tis

standing their precise observance of the Sabbath."

"

lb. p. 10.

The pure reformed Amsterdammers,

faithful

Those

Taijlor,

Friday feasting capon crammers." Works, folio, lG30,f. 402 (Spenser Society's Rep.\

In his Brood of Cormorants, speaking of "

" If in lesser

Separatist," he writes

And

live

room they may be cramm'd, Worhs, and die at Amster and be dam'd."
forth her brats,
;

f.

485.

" Let

Amsterdam send

A
"

fugitives and runagates Let Bedlam, Newgate and the Clink Disgorge themselves into this sink." Poem on New England, Inecl. Misc., privately printed, 1870.

Her

Sleeping in Church, p. 15.

Men

sleep in church, sure their brains are addle,

:

Sly Satan lulls them, and doth rock the cradle "When men thus do no ill, 'tis understood.

The Fam.

devil hinders

them from doing good."

Taylor, \Vorl-s, f 351.

etc.,

See also News from Hell, Hull, and HalUfax,

Let., p. 255.
19.

p. 46,

and Ilowel's

Sabbath customs, pp. 16,

(1550).

See Crowley's Epigram of Alehouses

Edes must we haue places for vitayls to be solde, for such as be sycke, pore, feble, and olde. But, Lorde, to howe greate abuse they be growue In eche lyttle hamlet, vyllage, and towne, They are become places of waste and excesse,
!

And And

herbour

for

such
in

men

as lyue in idlenes.
so,

lyghtly in the contrey they be placed

That they stande

mens waye when they shoulde

to church go.

And then such as loue not to hear theyr fautes tolde, By the minister that readeth the newe Testament and
;

olde,

do turne into the alehouse, and let the church go Yea, and men accompted wyse and honeste do so. But London (God be praysed) all men maye commende, Whych doeth nowe this greate enormitie emende, For in seruice tyme no dore standeth vp, Where such men are woutc to fyll can and cuppe.


NOTES.

XXxi

Wolde God in the countroy tlicy wouldc do the same, Either for Gods feare, or for worldly shame IIow hallow they the Saboth, that do the tyme spcndo
In drynkinge and idlenes tyll tlie daye be at an eude ? Not so well as he doetli, that goeth to the plowc, Or pitcheth vp the sheues from the carte to the mowe. But he doeth make holye the Sabothe in dede, That heareth Goddes worde, and helpeth suche as node."

And Newcs

out of Powlcs Churchjardc (1577), Satyr 5

" Search Taucrnes through,

And you

eche Saboth day at shall thinke this geare to be ene too too much forborne.
:

and typling bowres morne

else but gaine and Money gote maintaines each Saboth day The bayting of the Beare and Bull ? What brings this brutish play ? Y/hat is the cause that it is born, and not controlled ought, Although the same of custome be on holy Saboth wrought ? "

What

Stubs {Anatomie of Abuses,

labour
dale,
:

p. 157, ed.

183G) thus writes of Sunday

he were stoned for gathering a fewe stickes vppon the Sabbaoth which in some cases might be lawful for necessities sake, and yet did it but once, what shal they be who all the Sabbaoth dayes of their life giue themselues to nothing els but to wallowe in all kinde of wickednesse and sinne, to the great contempt bothe of the Lord and his Sabbaoth ? And though thei haue played the lazie lurdens all the weeks before, yet that dale, of set purpose, they will toyle and labour, in contempt of the Lord and his Sabaoth." The Mausolean Monwaent. p. 22, See Taylor^ Worlcs, f. 553
:

" If

"The Tomb

of Mausoll,

King

of Carea,

Built by his Queen (kind Artemisia) So wondrous made by art and workmanship, That skill of man could never it outstrip 'Twas long in building, and it doth appear The charges of it full two millions were." (!)
:

Fertile Kent. p. 26.

"

When
What

as the pliant Muse, straight turning her about.

And coming

to the land as Medway goeth out. Saluting the dear soil, famous Kent, quoth she,

country hath this

isle

that can compare with thee

as thou canst wish,

Which hast within thy self as much Thy conies, venison, fruit, thy sorts

of fowl and

fish,

XXXll

NOTES.

And what

with strength comports,

tliy

hay, thy corn, thy

is

wood

Nor any thing doth want

"

that any wliere

good." Drayton's PoJyoIbion,

1G1.3.

Kent
Is

termed the civilest place of all this isle Sweet is the country, because full of riches
liberal, valiant, active,

The people

wealthy." 2 K. Hen. VI.

iv. 7.

M'lk, a cosmetic, p. 36.

"Some
Or

To wash and bathe themselves

else

have heard of that have been so fine in milk or wine, with whites of eggs their faces garnish,
look like visors or

Which makes them

Avar-ice.
p. 41,

new

varnisli."
f.

Taylor, Works,

44.

"

The Earth

is rip'd and bowel'd, rent and torn. For gold and silver which by man is worn And sea and land are rak'd and search't and sought. For jewels too far fetcht, and too dear bought." lb.
:

f.

43.

Simony, pp. 43, 45.

On

this subject see Hall's Satires,

ii.

" Saw'st thou ever si-QUis patch'd on Paul's church door.

To seek some vacant vicarage

before ?

wants a churchman, that can service say, Read fast and fair his monthly homily ? And wed and bury and make christen-souls ?

Who

Come to the left-side alley of Saint Pauls. Thou servile fool, why could'st thou not repair To buy a benefice at Steeple-fair ?
There moghtest thou, for but a slender Advowson thee with some fat benefice
price,
:

A thousand

patrons thither ready bring Their new-fall'n churches to the chaffering no man asketh more Stake three years' stipend Go take possession of the church-porch door, And ring thy bells."
;
;

Brihei-y

Laicyers.
"

pp. 42, 45

49.

One here bewayles his wofull case and wisheth him vnborne,
Another cryes with wringing handes,
alas, I

am

forlorne.
:

My

sute thus long depended hath

The Lawe

is

on

my

syde,

And

yet in harde delayes I lye true ludgement to abyde.


NOTES.

XXXUl

Another thus bo friended is, The ludge doth lone him well And me (as poore and needie) they doo dayly thus depell Two hundreth niyles and more I come My Wife at home (uhis) Lyes with my Children halfe forcpynde (0 lamentable case.) My goods are spent, which labor brought, through long and carefull toyle The Lawe hath lyckt vp all my wealth for which I dyd turmoyle." Newes out of Powlcs,
:

Sat. 2.

The whole
thus
:

Satire

might be quoted.
client,

Hall

(ii.

3) satirizes lawyers

"

The crouching

with low-bended knee,

And many
But
still

worships, and fair flattery.

Tells on his tale as smoothly as

If that

him
fee,

list.

the lawyers eye squints on his

suit,

fist

seem lined with a larger

the law
is

Doubt not the

plain for thee."

Neivsfrom
"

" It is a scurvy fashion of your devising Well-drest fools, p. 43. that wise men in russet must reverence and stand bare to silken fools."

Hell, Hull,

and Halllfax,

p. 51.

you, signior, rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means, esteemed for an excellent wit he that it enjoys it with means, puts the world in remembrance of his means helps the deformities of nature, and gives lustre to her beauties."
:

Why, assure

Evenj

Man

out of

Ms Ha.

ii.

1.

" Here, in the court,

be a man ne'er so vile, In wit, in judgment, manners, or what else If he can purchase but a silken cover. He shall not only pass, but pass regarded Whereas, let him be poor, and meanly clad.
:

Though

ne'er so richly parted,

fellow that

you shall have knows nothing but his beef,

Or how to rinse his clammy guts in beer Will take him by the shoulders, or the throat And kick him down the stairs. Such is the state

Of virtue in bad clothes That raiment should be

Fairies, p. 53.
" Gcrt.

ha, ha, ha,

in such

ha high request."
!

Ih.

iii. 3.

Syn.
Gert.

Good Lord, that Why, Madam ?

there are no fairies now-a-days, Syn.

ladies

To do miracles and bring

c

money."
1605.

Eastward Hoe,

v.

i.

times' w.

XXX.1V
"

NOTES.

Wash your

pails

and cleanse your

:

dairies,

Sluts are loathsome to the Fairies

Mab

Sweep your house, who doth not will pinch her by the toe."

so
Ilerrick's Ilcsperides.

" Grant that the sweet Fairies

and sweep your house clean."

Holiday's

may nightly

put

money

in

your shoes,

Ilarriages of the Arts.

" Farewell rewards and Faeries,

Good houswives now may

For now
foule slutts in daries
fare as well as they.

say,

Doe

And though
Yet who of
For more
Gluttony,

they sweepe theyr hearths no less

to doe,
"

Then maydes were wont

late for cleaneliness,

?

Finds sixe-pence in her shoe

Corbet's Poems, p. 213.

is

information on the subject of Fairies the reader

referred

to Brand's Poj). Antiq., edited

p. 55.

by W.

C. Hazlitt, 1870.

" This day,

my Lorde his speciall friende must dyne with him (no naye) His Partners, Friendes and Aldermen Wherfore he must puruaye Both Capon, Swan, and Hernshoe good, fat Bitture, Larcke and Quayle Eight Plouer, Snype, and Woodcock tine with Curlew, Wype and Rayle Stonetiuets, Teale, and Pecteales good, with Busterd fat and plum, Fat Pheasaunt Powt, and Plouer base for them that after come.
: :

Stent, Stockard, Stampine, Taterueale,

and Wigeon of the best Puyt, Partrich, Blackebirde and fat Shoueler with the rest. Two Warrants eke he must prouide

And meanes
(there

To haue some Venson fat. heele make for red Deere

is

too,

no nay to that.) And needefullj^ he must prouide

(although

we

speake not ont)

Both Peacock, Crane, and Turkicock, and (as such men are M'ont) He must foresee that he ne lacke colde bakemeatcs in the ende With Custards, Tarts, and Florentines, the bancquet to amende.
;

be short and knit it vp) he must not wanting see Straunge kindes of fysh at second course
(to

And

to

come

in their degree.

As

Porpcsse, Seale and

And
All

Sahnond good, with Sturgeon of the best Turbot, Lobster, with the lyke
to furnish out the feast.

theylo haue, and else much more, sydes Marchpane and greene cheese, Stewde wardens, Prunes, & sweete conserues with spiced Wine like Lees Greeneginger, Sucket, Suger Plate,
tliis
:

and Marmaladie fine Blauncht Almonds, Peares and Ginger bread.

:

But Peares should we assigne

And

place before (as meete

at great

it is)
:

mens boordes

for

why,

Raw

fruites are first in seruice styll,

Else Seruing

men

doojye."

Newes out of Poides,

Sat. 4.

To the above add the following: if the table be rot covered from the one end to the other, as thick as one dish can stand by another, with delicate meat of sundry sorts, one clean different from another, and to every dish a several sauce appropriate to his kind, it is thought there unworthy the name of a dinner And these many shall you have at the first course, as many at the second and, peradventure, more at the third besides other sweet condiments, and
; ;

"And nowadays

delicate confections of spiceries,

dainties, all kinds of

and I cannot tell what. And to these wines are not wanting, you may be sure." Anat.

of Abuses, p. 107. Drunkenness, p. 57.

much used

Drunkenness " is a horrible vice and too too Ailgna (Anglia) every county, city, town, village, and other places, hath abundance of ale-houses, taverns, and inns, which are so fraught with maltworms, night and day, that you would wonder to see them. You shall have them there sitting at the wine and good-ale all the day long, yea, all the night long too, peradventure a whole week together, so long as any money is left, swilling, gulling and carousing from one to another, till never a one can speak a ready word." A7iat.
in
;

of Abuses, pp. 113, 114. Kmff Harries Gold.

p. 61.

The gold

coins issued

by Henry YIIL

were sovereigns, half sovereigns, rose nobles, and George nobles, angels, crowns, and half-crowns. See Humphrey's Coin Collector s Manual, p.
451, ed. 1853.

Tobacco, road to ruin

pp.
:

70

72.

Tobacco seems

to

have been a common


XXXVl
" Tobacco robs

NOTES.

some men,

if

so

it list,

It steals their coin (as thieves do) iu a mist."

Taylor, Worhs,
"

f.

279.

Too many there

are that pass the

bounds of
:

liberality,

and spend

on (the devil of India) Tobacco." lb. f. 336. mischances seldom come alone and it is a doubtfull question, whether the devil brought Tobacco iuto England in a Coach, Fb. f. 378. or else brought a coach in a fog or mist of Tobacco." Every thing that can possibly be said against Tobacco may be seen It is too long for insertion in A Proclaimition {Taylor, ff. 251 253). here. The phrase to drink (inhale) tobacco was common. " He drank most prodigally
" Mischief or

colt's-foot

among

remember

my

Taylor, f 358. Is this a practice now ? his tobacco." father was in the habit of mixing colt's-foot with his
.

In Davies's Epigrams which appeared about tobacco thirty j-ears ago. 1598, one (xxxvi.) is in praise of tobacco.
Pict-hatch, the Spitle
" Old

and Turnloll

street,

p. 80.

Bembus

of Pickt-hatch,
Street,
f.

That plunging through the Sea of Turnebull

He
"

safely did arrive at Smithfield Bars."

is

Taylor, Worhs,

164.

Sometimes [she]
at Bridewell."

in the full at Pickt-hatch

f.

and sometimes in the

wane

Ih,

257.

" Turnbull street poor " Did ever any

bawds." ii.
ere heare or of

I 253.
"

man

But of Pick-hatch,

him talke some Shoreditch baulke

Scourge of Villanie, in. 305.

Sjnttle, St Bartholomew's. Dancing, p. 85. Stubs, in his Anatomie of Abuses, on 'Tlie Horrible Vice of Pestiferous Dauucing used in Ailgna,' says " Dauncing, as it is vsed (or rather abused) in these dales, is an introduction to whordome, a preparatiue to wantonnesse, a prouocatiue to vncleannesse, and an ihtroite to all kinde of lewdnesse, rather then a pleasant exercise to the
:

The

minde, or a wholesome practise for the bodie (as some list to calle it) .... say they, it induceth loue so say I also but what loue ? truely a lustfull loue, a venerous loue, a concupiscencious, bawdie, and beastiall loue, such as proceedeth from the stinking pump and lothsome sinck
:
:

of carnall affection and fleshly appetite" (pp. 179, 182, ed. 1585, reprint of 1836). Bread made of Peas. p. 99. " Do we not see the poor man that eatetli brown bread (whereof some is made of rye, barley, peason, beans, oats,

and such other gross grains) and drinketh small drink, yea, sometimes Anat. of Abuses, water, [and] fcedeth upon milk, butter, and cheese."
p. 112.

"

My

house and

can feed on peas and barley." Every M. out of

his

II u.

i.

1.

Wapinng.

p. 118.

Pirates were

commonly executed

at

Wai^ping.


NOTES.
" I liaue seenc

XXXVU
tlieir liiica like

many

of tlicso Prowling fisher-mcn end

manner singing) and sometimes making their wills at Wrapping, or looking through a liempen window at St. Thomas Waterings." Taylor, Worls, f. 87.
Swans
(in a

" "

By Wapping, where Thus much I mildly

If not, the

as hang'd drown'd Pirats dye."

lb.
;

f.

181.

write in hope 'twill

mend

thee

Thames
:

or

Wapping

shore will end thee."

lb.

f.

316.

In Henry the VIII, 's time a place called "the Willows" was used And this yere was hongyd at the Wyllow by the for this purpose Temse syde Woolfe and hys wj'ffe, for kyllynge of two Lumberttes in a Grey Friars Cliron. p. 37. bote on the Temse." I know not how this song came to be attriCorbet's Song. p. xv. It occurs in Gammer Gurtoii's Needle, Act ii., and buted to Corbet. may be found in Hawkins's Origin of the English Dratna, vol. i. 1773 and in Hazlitt's Lectures on the in Dodsley's Old Plays, vol. ii. 1825 The Comedy of Geanmer Gurton's English Drama, p. 197, ed. 1840. Needle has been attributed to John Still, who died Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1607 and to Nicholas Udal, who died in 1557. It is not likely that Corbet wrote the song, but I give it here notwithstanding.

'*

Back and syde go bare, go bare, booth foote and hande go colde But belley, God sonde thee Good ale ynoughc, whether it be newe or olde.
:

but lytle meat, is not good But sure I thinke, that I can drynk with him that weares a hood. Thoughe I go bare, take ye no care, I am nothinge a colde
eate,

Can not

my

stomacke

I stuffe

my

skyn so

full

within,

of joly good ale and olde. Back and syde go bare, go bare, booth foote and hand go colde But belly, God send the good ale inoughc,
:

whether
I love

it

be

new

or olde.
toste,

no rost, but a nut-brown and a crab layde in the fyre,

bread shall do

lytle

me

stead,

much breade I not desyre. No froste nor snow, no winde,

can hurte mee,
I
if I

I trow,

wolde,

am

so wrapt,

and throwly lapt

side

of joly good ale and olde.

Back and

go

bare, &c.

XXXVlll

NOTES.

And Tyb my

wyfe, that as her life

sliee, tyll

lovcth well good ale to secke,

Full ofte drinkes

the tcares run

ye

may

see
;

down her cheekes Then dooth she trowle to mee the bowle, even as a mault worme shuld
;

And

sayth, sweet hart, I tooke

my

part

of this joly

good ale and olde. Back and side go bare, &c.

let them drynke, tyll they nod and winke, even as good felowes shoulde do. They shall not mysse to have the blisse

Now

good

ale doth bringe

men

to

And
God

all

poor soules that have scowred boules,

or have

them

lustely trolde,

save the lyves of them and their wyves whether they be yonge or olde.

Back and

side

go bare, &c.

"-^-__

'->r

'sitf^vrii'v-'

'il^pigvammt Satiron.

Septem compacta
Fistula.2

cicutis

The Times ^Hiistle

of seven Satires
:

or a

newe Daunce^

whervnto are annexed clivers other Poems comprising Things naturall, morall, & theologicall. Compiled

by [U. C] Gent.
Parturit, assiduo

si

non renovetur

aratro,

Non

nisi

cum

ppinis,

gramina mundus ager.

Ad
Eeader,
if tliou

Lectore?72.

expect to find in this booke either

|
f

affectation of poeticall stile, or roughnesse of

vnhewen

invention, w/^jch amongst

many

is

of moste estimation,

being

[Remainder cut

offi]

'

leaf

1.

""

Virg. Eel.

2. 36.

The Letting of Hvmovrs Blood in the Head-Vaine. With a nc?v Morissco, daunced by seauen Satyi-es" etc.
^

Cf. "

London, 1600. time's W.

G ;

AM COME TO EXPOSE

VICE

AND

SIX.

rieaf

1, bacji,!

.'^

Epigrammsatiron.
Ehamuiisian goddcsse
inflict

I am scut from Nemesis to punish the sins

!Froui tlm

am

I sent,

On

sinne

t'

deserved punnisliment

All-seeing sunne, lend

me

thy searcking eye,

That I may finde and scourge impietie,

j

And

pull from vice, w/iich hath beguiled sence,

and expose the

vices of this age.

Disguisd' like vertuo, brasse facd' impudence.

For now

this age, this Avorse

then iron age,

of hell, this stage
is ease,

This sincke of synne, this

map

Of

all

vncleannesse, whose disease

Wallowing in worlds of

pleasure, swallowing seas

Of
which
is

sensuall delightes,

is wliollie

groAvne

very

A huge impostume
Whose
To the

of corruption,

12
assui-'de)
:

corrupt, and

needs severe remedies.

swelling tumor {well I

am

Must needs be
Though

launcd', or ne'er will be recurde

Av/ijch act^
it

my my

genius prompteth me,

1

passe -^sculapian surgerie.

heart,

Be

stout

my

hand be firm and

steady.
is

Strike,

and

strike

home, the vaine worlds veine

ready

Let vlcerd limbes and gowtie humors quake,

Whilst w/th

my

pen I doe incision make.^

20

[loaf 2]

Ad
March
forth,

Ritlimum.
my
tel troth rimes.

Fear not, iny

vei'se,

and boldly march,

the

punishments which are prepai-ed fur truth.

Disclose the lewdnesse of these looser times

Fear not the fro\vne of grim authority,

Or

stab of truth-abhorring villauie

24

Fear not the olde accustom6d reward,

A
or the spies

loathsome prison

still for

truth preparde

Though many hundred (Argus hundred)

View, and review, each
'

eyes,

line,

each word, as spies,

28

line is

drawn here

art crossed out, and act wTitten over. the lower half of the leaf
:

is

cut

off.

WILL BEG IX WITU THE ATHEISTS.

^

Your meaning

to entrap

by wrong
;

construction,

wliich will

mU-

conslrue your

"\''nJaunted s^jeake the truth

let

not detraction

mcauing.

A pall

jouv courage

spite of iniurics,

Tell to the world her base enormities.

32

A
AVlien
first

loue

priiicipiu;;e

Musse.^
At
first I

I did intend to write 'gainst siune,

knew

My

i\Iuse Avas in

suspence
i'

how

not on what

to

beginne

subject to

AYhat crime

to

put

th' forefront of

my

commence.

booke,

'Not through defect (let

me

not be mistooke)
?ice,

36

Of number,
But

for the w^orld

abounds in

'cause 'twas
;

somewhat hard
last

to breake the ice

fitt

To any The Our Of

but

.at

methought 'twas

First to inveigh 'gainst those that doe comy^itt

greatst oCences
;

40
but
I

whom

I tooke to be
to roote

Ath[e]ists,

v>'hich. striue
:

rp the
:

would

thought I beijin with

tree

atlieists

who

true religion

by

these reasons

movd

commit the worst

offences.

First, that this sinne

might be from vs remov'd;

it

ii

"W/thout the w/iich,

were in vaine to taxe

or sexe

Other
Soever

offences, of
;

what note

next, because this kinde of

men
48

Doth most dishonor God; and lastly, when All that we are is his, from whom alone
"\Ye

doe

all

good dcriue, when every one

Moues by

his power, lives

if

by

his pe?'mission,

And

can doe notliing

the prohibition
;

02

Of the Almighty doe oppugne it lies Only in him to end each enterprise.
These things concurrmg, I

God only can

bring

To vse the inchoation

First in his cause,

my selfe of my witte

did

my

enter-

fitt

prise to per-

56

fection.

by

Tv^hose direction

I hope to bring the rest vnto perfection.

'

rajy not clear iu

MS.

Virg-.

Eel. 3. CO.

ATHEISM

IS

THE ROOT OF ALL EHKOR.

[sat.

1.

neai2,bacl<]

^EtitE 1*
[against the atheists, sabbath-breakers, etc.]

Aegumentltm.
Eegnat in humanis diuina potentia rebus, Non ex naturas vi generatur homo. Quid deus, et cui fini animal ratione creatu?;i
Est pietas, est in relligione scelus.
The
atheist will

Atlieos

forbear to speake such blaspliemie

one day find a God who can punish sin.

" There

is

noe God," 0, dauind impiety

Yes, wicked viUaiue, thou shalt one day

finde.

With

horror of a selfe-tormenting minde,

it

God, though long

he ere he hegin,
sinne.

That can and wdll severely chastice

Thou
The
atheist

execrable monster, hatchd in hell,

crcAV of devills heer to

was

Brought by a

dwell

brought into the world by the

devil.

plague one earth,

why

hast thou thus bewitcht

W/th thy contagion mindes that are enricht With gifts of nature aboue com??! on ranke?

Who
With From
Schism, Puritan*
ism, Brownism, and Papistry,

With th& poyson that from thee they dranke

strange opinions, w/i/ch in heapes doe
their ill-iudging thoughts
;

12

Envenom'd, wound themselues, and others harme

swarme
16

for heresie,
pa[pi]strie.

Scisme, Puritanisme,

Brown isme,

And

such like hydra-headed

errors, all

take their rise trom atheism.

Proceed from thee, thou

art the principall

SAT.

1.]

THE GOOD SUFFER EVIL IN THIS WOULD.

never graunt a Diety,
pollicie,

Thou

\v///ch wilt
it

The

atheist
to

tliinks religion

Vnlesse

be in poynt of

20

was devised

frighten children,

Which, by religion dost not

set a strawe,

Devisde, tbou tbinkst, but to keep fooles in awe

Which, makest a moncking-stock of hell and

devill,

Not
But

in contempt of them, that they are evill,

'cause thou vainly dost thyselfe pe?-swade,
as these,

24

Such toyes

such bugbears, were

first

made
28
and that the soul dies with tlie
body.

On
The

purpose to fright children,

Instantlie

soule thou thinkst doth w/th the bodie dye.

Nature cannot im?ortalize a man,

'Tis true indeed,

but heavenly powers can.

(saist

"

That ther are no such things"

;

thou) " this age,

I

This vicious age, confirmes

what need

wage

32

Other contentious arguments, when I

By

this alone can jDroue

noe Dietie

Were

there a God, sinne

would not

flourish thus.
~

He

says

if

there

Neither would vertue

(as it is)

by vs
see

36

were a God sin would not

flourish as it
[leaf 3]

Be trodden vnder

foote.

For ought I

The lewdest persons

thriue best,
;

and

are free

does,

From punnishment
They

for sinne

besides all this.

often misse

that doe worship

God doe

40
while
suffer
tlie

The

blessings of the world

is

&

suffer griefe
relief.

good

many

Yet ther

none can giue

to

them

They

often fall in danger

&

things without help from Him.

mischance.

Yet never finde a

full deliverance.

44

"Were there a God, sure then he would defend

His children

still,

which, wholly doe depend

Vppon

his mercy,

&

vpon them spread

:

His blessings in abundance

on the head

48

Of the vngodly,
His

there alon should fall

curses, crosses,

punnishments
escape."

but

all
!

The righteous should

All thou hast saide
is

Peace, impious elfe

selfe.

clean against thy

52

But these things

tell

against the

High loue

pe?'mits the

sunne

to cast his

beames.

atheist.

And the moyst cloudes to dropdowne plenteous streames,

THE

r.IGIITEOUS A7ILL

HAVE ETERNAL

REST.

[sat.

1.

Alike vpon

tlie

just

&

reprobate,

Yet are not both subjected

while in eternity

by one

fate

5G

The sunnes

Icinde heat, heavens

fruitfull distillation.

they

will be a cause of honour to the good.

Shall be a cause of greater condemnation

To the vngodlie

but vnto

tJie

just,

(As gracious blessings which he doth entrust

CO

Ynto
The wicked may
flourish

his children) they well vsd' shall

be

A cause
"Well
now,
but they will go to hell in the end.

of honoz/r in eternity.

may

the Aricked flourish in this world,

But

there

wiU come

a time they shall be hurld

6i

From

top of all their pleasures eminence,

And
Then
The righteous
will shine as the

hell shalbe their place of residence.

shall the righteous shine like glorious starres

Within the sphear

Hatred, contempt,

of heaven

oppressions, warres,

GS

stars and enjoy jierpetual rest

Afflictions, pe?-secutions, iniuries.

in heaven.

&

all

calamities

Shall be a crowne of honoz^r to invest

Their then trivmphant browes

etcrnall rest,

72

Perpetuall joy, subject to no mischance,

Shalbe tliek portion

&

inheritance.

But

against

him

that

makes negation
70

Of

principles in art,
:

no disputation

Is to be held

deny God,

&
;

his "Word
it is

Can smale impression make

LleafS, back]

the sword
to confesse

Word must bring men

God's
to confess

Of iustice The powerfull Godhead

which must briug thee

;

yet I

'le

somewhat presse 80

Him.

Thy
For

irreligeous minde.

Of thy
;

creation

Take but a true consideration

'tis

not

I^Tature, as

thou dost surmise,

That begets

man

in soide

&

quahtics.
first

81
conjoyne

For thou must know, two parts must

Two parts conjoin to make a perfect man soul and body.

Before

we can

a perfect

man

define

The

soulc,

an essence

intellectuall.

The body, a substance corporeall The fijst we im???ediatly recciue From love ; the other God to man doth

88

leaue

S.VT. 1.]

THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH DECLAKE A GOD.

(As a suTjordinat instrument)

To generat To man,
The
soule

'tis

onlie incident
;

92

to cause the bodies procreation

's

infusde "by heavenly ope?-ation.

Look
at the earth which, each year renewing its beauty, shows a supreme Power.

Loolce on this -w/th an intellectiiall eye,

And

it -will

teach thee thcr

's

a Diety.

9G

View but

the earth, w7//ch doth each year renew

Her drouping beauty,

&

clean change her hiew

;

Ypon

the Springs approch

doth

it

not shew
1

supream Power, that governs things belowe

100

Looke on the heavens

Vnlesse
it

(v/hich thou shalt ne're ascend,

be w/th horroz/r to attend

;)

Thie sentence of damnation

looke, I say,

Look iU-i they

Doth not

their goodly opifice display

to the heavens, and declare a

A power 'bove
iS^e'er

Xature

Dull conceited

foole,

Being who is above nature.

trained

vp but
selfe,

in

dame Xatures

schoole,

Looke in thy

when thou commitst

what dost thou
enough

a sinne,
]

Look on yoursdf; if there is no God

Doth not thy

conscience prick thy soule within

fear
1

108 why
you

does con-

science

make

If that ther be no God,

fear ?

Why

doth remorse of conscience, or dispaire,

]

Afflict thee thus

This

is

to

prove

(Were there no more) an Elohim, a love.

112

This is enongh to prove there is a God.

How

canst thou then thus impiously

deny

The sacred
Eecant this

essence of the Diety

eTTOiix, least, to all

mens wonder,
117
Consider what

Revengefull love doe strike thee dead w/th thunder.

Being once granted

(this

or true position)
inquisition
relation

Ther

is

"What

this

God God
;

let
is
;

's

now make
ich.

w7;

must be by

God

is.

Ynto

his workes, or else

is
is.

by meer negation
collection
1

120

Of what he

not,

we may make

Of what he

It is the times infection

It is the fashion

now

[To b]^e to curious in the mistery

.;

Of searching

his essentialitie,

124

to be over curious in searching into

[leaf 4]

'Which, simplie, as too glorious for the eye

'

the Divine Bein?.

BIS. ^vorn off.

;:

TUB CREATION, FALL, AND REDEMPTION OF MAN.

[sAT.

1,

Of mortall vnderstanding

to descrie,
let
's

We
God
is

cannot comprehend

therfore

know him
128

In that
an
intel-

sort onlie that the Scriptures

shew him.

God

is

an Essence

intellectuall,

lectual Essence,

omnipotent,
omniscient, and

A
A

perfect Substance incorporeall

Spirit

always

true.

whose being

ne're begining

knew,
132

Omnipotent, omniscient, ever true;

Or
He made

rather, in the abstract

Majestic,
frame.

Truth, mercy, wisdome, power, iustice, glorie

the
earth, the sun,

the moon, and elements, and

sustains them.

Which out of nothing this great world did And into nothing will rechange the same
Which, made

136

that glorious eye of heaven, the sunne

To

rule the day,

and

for

darke night the moone

Which joynes

in friendly league each element,

And

keeps the sea within his continent

of the dust

140

Which
created man out of the dust

mans body did

vntill

create,

Into the wJtich a soule he did translate.

He

Like his owne image pure

Left to his

mans

fall,

and
his

left

him

to

owne

free-will, polluted all

;

144

own

free will.

That goodly microcosme

for the \vJiich deed,

Had
The
The

not the issue of the promisde seed,

valiant Lion of stout ludahs tribe,

gentle

Lambe
life,

vngentlie crucified,

148

Eedeemd

his

borne his iniquity.

And conquerd Satan & his tyrannie. He should haue been severely punnished And everlastingly haue penshed.
Christ redeemed man from everlasting punish-

152

But now by him,

all

that

make

oblation
;

Of

a true faith, assure their soules salvation

fii'st

ment, and
restored

what

AVhat the

Adam
this

did

by sinne

destroy,

Adam

lost.

The Second hath

But leaving
Let
's

restorde with duble ioye.

156

moste heavenly meditation,

effect

shew

for

what

was mans creation

Man was
and love Maker.

created
his

It was,

it is,

to serve this

God

alone,

to serve, honour,

With

honoiir, loue,

&

true devotion.
to write,

160

The manner how were somewhat long

SAT. 1.]

CHRISTIANITY MADE A CHAOS BY OUR SECTS.

all liis precei^ts

The Scripture
'Which, cause

doth

recite.
fulfill,

we canwot

in all parts

In Hew of power he doth except

oitv will.

1G4
Man
strives

But man, vngratefull man,

And,

this

God

w/thstandes,

against

God and

like Briareus with, his

it

hundred handcs.
his throne

tries to pull

Him

from His throne,

Strives, as

were, to pull

him from
through

[leaf i, back]

W7'ch gave him heing,

lie his well-being has.
"\Y7rich to

&

whom

alone

168

0, impious deed,

recount

my

very heart doth bleed

That wee

(like to those giants, w/ifch

made warre
^
1
i

Like the fabled

giants,

we

lift

up

Against the heavens) with such presumption dare

Lift

ourselves against

our Maker.

vp our

selues against our

'

Maker by
By
^
1
/

So many kinde

of

damnd

impietie,
our sins
affront

So many hellish

sinnes,

whose hideous cry

U

we Him and

Percing the clowdes, mounting aboue the skie,

Affront Gods power,

&

deserve a second deluge to destroy

doe deserve to finde

Another Deluge

to destroy

mankinde.

But God,

this gracious to

God, with mercie strives

Hves

To bring vs

him

&

to saue out

180

And

therfore hath chalkd out a ready way,

(That

we no more might goe

;

so farre astray)

His Gospell

^\hich path

(if

not trod amisse)

He
IS-i us

sent the Gospel to guide to bliss,

"WiU safeHe bring vs

to celestiaU blisse.

This profferd grace some see not, some despise,

but while some see it not

others despise
it.

Although herein alone their

safetie lies.

Omitting lewish superstition

With

soule-profaning Turkish Alcheron,

188

And

Infidels,

which noe

religion vse,
:

"Whose ignorance cannot their sinne excuse

"We that doe boast of Christianity,

We who boa-t

of our Cliristiauity

And knowledge
"With sects

in

Gods

holie misterie,

IJJ

&

scismes our religion

have made a chaos of our religion by our

sects.

Have made

a chaos of confusion.
will set aside,

0r Anabaptists I

"With Families of Love, whose aimes are wide

196

MS.

tiude

10

MANNERS OF THE PURITANS.

[sat.

1.

rrom
Of

the true faith.

There

is

a trinall kinde

seeming good religion, yet I finde

to

But one

be enibrac'd, w/i/ch must he drawno

From
I will spealc first

Papist, Protestant, or Puritane.

first

200
sect,

And

to speake of that pure

seeming

of the Puritans

who have become 'Which

very numerous,

now

of late heginneth to infect

:

The body
Become

of owe land

This kinde of men

not

Is strangelie (for

know

how
it

nor when)

204

so populous, that w/th the number,

w^'th

and cumber the

Church, sticking
as a disease

But more

new

devises,

doth cumber

Our Catholique Church,

W/thin her bowels
;

&

sticks as a disease
it

within her bowels.

whilst

seems to please

208

With
[leaf 5]

faiued habite of true holinesse

is

W/r/cli

indeed the worst of wickednesse.

of this hath set
e're I

The thought

my

IMuse one
ire.

fire,

And

must rage

can swage mine

212

Of their apparent
sanctity tht'y

You hypocriticall precisians. By vulgar phrase entitled Puritanes, Which make of superficial! sanctitie

make

a cloak to

A cloke,

to hide yoiiv inbred villanie

21G

hide their
villany.

You You seeming

soules-seducers vnto worst of

saints

evils,

&

yet mcarnat devils,

HoAV dare ye slander

o?<r religion,

And make

scofife

at our devotion?

220

How
They
revile the

dare you Av/th opprobrious wordes revile,

actions thus defile

Or With vnhallowed

sacred orders of the Church

The

sacred orders w7'ch or

Church doth hold.

224

And
Not
even the bishops cannot escape their slanderous tongues.

sanctimonious customes, w7"ch of olde

Ilaue by grave counsels, to a godlie end,

superstition, as

you doe pretend.

!

Been

instituted

Cease yo?/r open wrongs

Cannot or Bishops scape jouv slanderous tongues

ISTo
:

you maligne

their great authoritie,

229

Because they doe search out yo?/r villanie.

You must haue

private meetings

To what end 1
232

In bellie-cheer and

lust joitv time to spend.

"

SAT. 1.]

ERRORS OF THE TAriSTS.

rare devotioii

&

strange holinesse,
!

W/i/ch endes in soulc polluting beastlinesso

Well may you blinde the eyes

of com??ion sence,

They pass

And

passe for

men

of zeale

&
;

men

for of zeal

confidence

236
slicw

amongst the
simple, but

'Mongst simple -worldlings,

tv/'c1i

by outward

God

knows

all,

and

Doth iudge the inward man

All joux intents,

but God doth

know
240

He

will

punish

their hypocrisy.

&

w;'th severity

Will castigate

yo?a'

damnd

liypocrisie.

In the mean time may you be forcd to dwell

At Amsterdam,
For noAv
" Ignorance

then may they go to

Till

or else sent quicke to hell.

Amsterdam,
or hell.
;

my Muse
is

doth hear another motion

!

the mother of devotion

litle

244

Ignorance

is

not

Erroneous papist, hast soe

grace

Thou knowst

the mother of devotion, as the papists say,

'tis false,

then how, or w/th what face

Canst thou maintaine against thy conscience

So manyfest an

erro?;r

w/thout sence

248

For how Whie he

can he be good that knowes no cause

is

good, but like a mUhorse drawes,

1

Elindfolded, in a circle

Yet you teach

who

teach

religion in

an

(For to the learned I addresse

Religion in an

my
;

speech)

252

unknown

tongue, not daring to

reveal their mysteries.

vnknowne tongue
com?r6on people
averre,

to those

Whom we
Nay
trulie

call

I suppose,

may

you doe conceale

Yo?/r misteries, not daring

Lesfc that the people,

them

reveale,
for lies.
:

256
[leaf 5,

knowing them

back]

Should contemne you

&

hate joiiv heresies

You

that are worse then cannibals

by

oddes.
!

They are worse than cannibals,

For they devoure but men, you

eat the gods

260

who

only eat

From whom doe you assume To pardon capitall iniqirity 1

men, while the

authoritie

papists eat the gods.

Why,

not from God, the Pope

's

sufficient

To pardon sinne

&

divert punnishment.
]

2G4

"\Yho taught you soe, you Avilfully blinde fooles

Sure Satan read this lecture in his schooles.

Wher

did you learne

(was

't

in the Devils

booke

AVliere did

they
it is

learn that

For from Gods word I 'me sure you never tooke

203

lawful to
princes
?

murder

12

RAVAILLAC AND GUY FAWKKS.

[sat.

1.

Such damnaLle

positions) tliat to

murder

A prince,

w7'cli dotli

not yowr religion furdcr,

Is a moste lawful! act, yea com?endaLle,

For wJiich you will

The mail who
attempts the of a

at

any time enable

272

That man w/th jout best benediction.

murder
prin<M>

And And ("A

All

all his

sinnes free absolution,

warrantizc

him heaven

&

happie day

warrant seald w/th

butter !" as

we

say).

27G

this.
't

&

more then
meanest

this,

you

Avill

performe,

Be

to the

abject, basest

wormc,

That dares attempt soe horrible a deed.

And
(As

though his

enterj)rise
it

doe not succeed,

280

God

forbid

should) but he doe die

For his lewd

canonized, as was Ravaillac for the murder of Henry IV. of France, Jlay 14,
is

treason,

he shall instantlie

Be canonizd a Saint. Eavilliacke Doth neither Saints nor j\Iartires title lacke. But you had reason his vnhappy hand
:

284

1610,

Destroyde a Idnge,^

&

almost brought a land

To

vtter ruin

for being thus defilde

"With her owne princes blood, a tender childe

288

"Was to succeed,

&

we know

Scriptures say,

" "Woe to those landes whose scepters children sway."

and Fawkes
liis

for

But Faux

&

his confcderats- are enrolde

attempt on our King and Parliament in

For blessed Qairds among you.

Yo2(r piety authenticall, w// /ch

"Who
makes

will holde

292

1605.

Such hell-houndes Saintsi Wliat godly heart not quakes

The
devil only

To hear such miscliiefe, to record such evill. As they would haue co?nmitted ] The grand

Devill

could have put such a plot into a man's head.

Was

their instructer sure, else could they not

297

Haue once devisde

soe damnable a plott,

As by one

blast out Idng to ruinat.

And
'

our whole kingdome to depopidate,

300

are set down as "martyrs" in an Colojrne in 1010, -written by A. E. loannes Cydonius, wVio justifies the killing of heretic kings.
'

MS. kinde. Garnet aud Oldcorn "Apologia" publishod at

Others at that time did the same.

r.i.]

MORE ERRORS OF THE

But

PAPISTS.

13

And

spoile of licr best treasure.

liigli

love,

Against whose power in vaine

Crost their designes,

tlieir forces strove,

[leafC]

&

w/th a mighty arme

Delivered vs from the pernicious harme

30-t But God

delivered

Of that moste eminent danger

All praise

to

whose

Name

us from the danger,

for

&

all
;

thanksgiving for the same

beseching him to blesse

which we give
thanks.

Uim

"We doe ascribe

0?/r realme

from you
:

&

yo?<r accomplices.
kill his

308
No man may
his king, as
kill

But

to proceed

no man may
;

prince

Although a tyrant

might

yvh ich. I could evince

fro??i

By

arguments drawne

the word of God,

be proved from the Bible.

But I too long one

Besides yowr

this

haue made abode.

312

erroz/r I soe plaine repute,

As needs noe
Which,

disputation to confute,
especiall note,
;

There are more errors of

if I list recite, I

heer could cote

316

Besides this" error, the Church

of Rome has many others :

But I doe leave them

for the learned

pen

Of

great divines

and more iudicions men.

ooA oJU
Holy water. Purgatory, and
buUs,

Yo2/r holy water, purgatorie, bulles,

AYherAVi'th

you make the com??ion people

guiles,

Are grnsse abuses of phantastique braines

Subtillie devisd'e only for private gaines,
which are
devised for private gain.

'Which, you pull from the simple as

you

list.

Keeping them blinded

in black erroiirs mist

324

And from
You
'Tis

the truth doe lead

them clean

astray,

"Whilst of their substance

you doe make jouv

vengeance

prey.

false impostors of blinde ignorance.

Think you

to 'scape eternall

328
The Pope's
dis-

not yo?^r Popes fond dispensation,

of supererrogation,

Youv workes Youv Next

pensation, works of supererogation,

idle crossings, or

jouv wearing haire

wearing of

hair,

to yowr skin, or all yo?a' whipping-cheer,

Oo^

whippings,
pilgrimages,
pixes,
relics,

Yo?;r praiers

&

pilgrimage to Saints, jouv pixes,

Yo?ir holy rehques, beads,

&

crucifixes,

beads,

Yowr masses, Ave Maries, images,

Dirges,

masses, images,

&

such like idle fantasies

oob

and such
fancies,

idle

[sat.
1.

14

VICES OF CHURCHMEN.

Of
cannot save men's
souls.

superstitiously polluted

Eome,
day of doome.

Can saue

yoicv soules iu that great

Between the sehisraatic and

the Ivoraanist is the Church of

BetAveen these sects, as in a golden meane,

Stands the religion vvhervnto

Kngland.

Vndoubted truth
Yet
is

it is

that

we leane we doe holde,

so colde,

340

But

its zeal is

our zeale so frozen

&

cold,

tliorns,

ohoUed with and

So chockt

w/tli tliornes of covetous desire.

23olluted

polluted.

So hoggishlie

w/th the mire

.3-U

Of

carnall lusts, that oiiv best sanctity

"f^o

^^^

Is l3nt a kinde of bastard piety.

And
[leaf G, back]

yet the times as

now

did ne're afford

Such plenty
Yet the gospel
displays
its light

of dispencers of

Gods word

348

For now the Gospell,

like the

midday sunne,

Displaies his beames over all Albion.

over
land.

all

oar

But we,
For

as if

by too much

light strucke blinde,

is

Xeglect this meanes of grace, w7i^ch

o?a'

assignd

352
it,

soules health.

Some

out of pride coutemne

Others, bent vnto greedy gaine,

condemne

it,

Because
The proud, the
greedy, and the sensual hate the gospel.

it

speakes against the slavish vice

Of

soule-bewitching, sordid avarice.

356

Others, that follow E2:>icureus fashion,

Cannot abide

to hear of reformation.

And

therfore hate the Gospell, AvA/ch doth cry

Against their brutish sensuality.

3G0

Many
I'an

say they pray at home

Many there are w7r<ch live like libertines, And the holy C[h]urch & good devines Doe hold ridiculous ; their homely homes
Will
serA'e

when they want

to pray.

them well enough

;

to pray,

when

't

comes

Into their fancies

they cannot abide

365

Ynto Church
But
Some hold our
Church
to be too

orders strictlie to be tide.

Others, forsooth, will haue a congregation,

that

must be

after another fashion doth. alloAV,

is

3(18

Then ouv Church

For that they say

no church

at

all,

papistical.

too papisticall
A\-iil

Like^ their profession, they themselves

'

sever

MS. Likes.

SAT. 1.]

"WHAT PEOPLE GO TO CHUnCII FOR.

15

From

stone walles;

tut, tlieir cliurcli shall last for

still,

ever;

Tlieire soules shalbe tlieir tabernacles

373

Tliat kinde of churcU dotli only please tlieir will.

love separat

me from
life, if

these Separists,
fists,

Jove, deliver

me

from such men

WA/ch

think they hold heavens kingdome in their

Ave into it prie,

And
Is

yet their

377

fuU of sinne

& damnd

impiety.

Some, more

for fear of the lawes

punnishment
380

Some go (o church because

they fear the law.

Then

zeale vnto devotion, doe frequent

Gods holy temple, where they doe imploy

Themselves
as
ill

as if

they staide away

Some
some
sleep,

On[e] part in sleeping, in discourse another

talk

third doth seeme

to

marke, but doth discover

his eye
frie
,

384

Slilie

some object that wt'thdrawes

;

From what he should attend Come only to be seen & see

That
is

the yoonger
of all
is

others
see

come to aud be been.

"W/i/ch doe repaire to church, the fruit

collected

smale

388

by them.
this

I surmise

That wickednesse by

doth rather

rise
;

To

greater height, then anyAvise decaie

For pride

&

lust

it is

the ready

way
ostentation,

392
Every new
fashion
is dis-

I 'me sure.

Of every

neAv framd fashion,

This

is

the place to

make moste

played at church.

To

sheAV the bravery of oicr gay attire

to

Hether

come on purpose
all,

ouv desire

39G
[LnifT]

Is to be seen of

whilst Ave observe

The

like in others.

Though out
Ave

soules doe sterve

care
;

For Avant of knoAvledge,

doe

litle

From

gazing vp and doAvne Ave cannot spare

of time to hearken to
all
's

400

Not

moment

A iot
When

Gods

Avord,

can be spared from gazing

about.

to litle that Ave doe afforde

fancies
;

To OUT OAvne
"\\7i('ch

thus

tlie

time Ave spend,

;

devine service soone brings to an end

Ave homcAA^ard

404

And

then againe

doe advaiuice.

Fuller of pride, as full of ignorance.

Is there a Avench Avhose beauty
is

of note

If there's a

prelly wench,

16
the gallants

SABBATH-BREAKING COJIMON.
come

[sat.

1.

Hether youv gallants come, only

to cote

408

to observe her perfections.

Her

rare pe^-fections

yea, this sacred place

Serves

them

to

make
is

(they have soe

litle

grace)

Compacts

for lust.

Thus by these

hellish evils

The howse
do not wish to hinder people from going to church
I

of

God

made

a den of devils.

412

I speake not this to hinder the concourse

Of well

affected

mindes vnto that source,

w7i /ch

That fountaine, blessed fountaine,

doth flow

With
I only

living waters,
at another

Gods word;
;

no,

my bow

416

want to

Aimes

marke

I onlie strive

rectify abuses.

To

rectifie

abuses w7^^ch deprive

of his propagation,

The Gospell

And
Vnto
Some
are so

plentiful! encrease.
to

Out nation
quicken his slow pace

420

Eather needs spurres

religion

&

the house of grace.

after gaine,

For some there are w/^ich gape soe

greedy of gain
that even the

That on the Lords day they will not reframe,

So
't

424

Sabbath cannot hinder them from following

their occupations.

to their benefit tend, to exercise

Themselves in some laborious enterprise.

In towne

&

cuntrie this vngodlie sinne

To grow vnto a custome doth beginne

The country

428

Youil country swaines will moste familiarlie

man

does so,

and so does the

tradesman.

"Worke one this day

&

labo^^r impiouslie.

But 'mongst
"W/i/ch I
Is

o^ir

tradesmen specially, this vse,

may

iustlie

caU a damnd abuse,

432

most

familiar.
sufficient,

Six dayes in the weeke

Are not

but the seventh must reeke

laboz/r,

"W^th sweat of theu" vngodly

when
436

They should
They labour when
they ought to be at church.

repaire to church

w/th other men,

To give vnto the Lord, the only Giver Of Of

blessings,

&

the gracious Forgiver

hell deserving sinnes, all praiers

&

praise.

What though
" This
is

the word of

God
at

expresly sayes,

440

the day w7; ich. thou must dedicate

service, this

Vnto

my

day

no

rate

Shalt thou pe?'forme thy worke, least thou doe draw

SAT. 1.]
]i[y

EURORS COXCERXIN'G HOLY COMMUXIOX.

?

17
They despise the hiws of God and
Lleaf 7, back]

heavy wrath vpon thee

"

Though

tlie

Liw

444

Of man

forbid the same, and doe inflict

it

A
Of

man which
forbid this sin.

punnishment on those
this offence
;

doth convict

yet feark^sse of all danger,

i'

From
Of

the

man borne

th'

land vnto the stranger,

448

If they can cast a mist before the eye

siune-correcting, strict authority,
oiiv

Moste of
It stands

tradesmen will enact this crime

vfith. their profit to loose

Most of our tradesmen are

not

time

452

guilty of

it,

They'l take their best advantage while they

It is sufficient once a

may

thinking once a montli often

month

enough

to pr-iy.

to pray.

Vngracious

villaines,

how

can you expect

A blessing to
Can bring

yowr

laboi<r,

which neglect

456

The only meanes, Gods

yoiiv

service, w7i/ch alone

workes vnto perfection 1

in the Avildernesse
The manna
collected on the

The manna gathered

By the lewes vnbeeHeving wickednesse Vpon their Sabboth, by the Lord forbidden.
Both
putrifide

4G0

Jewish sabbath
putrified.

&

stuucke.

Nothing
;

is

hidden

'Which, shall not

be reveald
is

though you may blinde

finde

The

eyes of man, there

God wiU
I' th'

464
Sunday
is

And
That

punnish this lewd sinne.

all

meantime think
All

such labowrs in his nostrils stinke,

:

labour

in vain.

And

therfore shall prove fruitlesse

it is

men

intend

But God

that consum?Hates the end.

468

\f%li.

m tA?

I cauMot 'scape the blest Comninion,

'Which doth With God

It
is

effect o?/r vnion.

The Holy Communion is much

abused.

soe

much abusd by

sinfuU man,

To

passe the papist

&

the Lutheran,

472

Their trans

&

consubstantiation.

Of both

these errors to

make no

relation,

We

that doe holde the verity indeed.

this

That

same bred, wheron out soules doe

feed,

476

This wine

we

drink,

is reall

bred and wine.

Passing by the
I'ajiist

Although the mistery be moste devine

and the

Even we,

I say,

though we doe represent

Lutheran,

we

[sat.
1.

18
ourselves err in our opinion of
t.iid

WHY MEN DO NOT ATTEND THE LORD S

The
true opinion of the Sacrament,
erre,

TABLE.

480
sinne,

Sacrament,

Yet in the vse doe

nay rather

Which, applide rightly

Eternall
Some ?o
to the

is

the nieanes to winne

\/hich. are

life.

Some men,
come

vnablo

To

iiidge the worth,

to this
;

Holy Table

484

Holy Table to
please their

Only
"

to please their sence

for so
is

others there are

;

sense

Which

smale a pittaunce doe not care

What

a bitte of bread, a sip of

straightly

wine]"
488

But that the law doth

them enioyne,

To be partakers
some
tliink it is

of this holy

meat

And
At

sacred drink.

By

farre they'd rather eat

not worth the trouble, but go because the law

their owne howses, wher their carnall sence

compels them.
[leaf 8]

May May And And

be

suffic'd

their soules intelligence

this spirituall food,

492

sterve for

want of
it

they regard

not.

That

's

only good

In their grosse brain es, whose

appetituall sensibility

visibility

496
Others ther be,
reverendlie

Others esteem themselves unworthy, and refuse to eo on

that account.

Lies open to their sence.

Which doe indeed esteem more

Of the Lords Supper
The danger
;

&

because they knowe

great, that to their soules

may grow

500

By

their

vnworthy
of

eating, quite refuse

it
;

To be partakers

still

they vse

Some
or because they are iidt in charity

let or

other to detaine

them back
504

Either they doe due preparation lacke.

Or

else

they are not in true charity

with

all

men.

With

other men.
:

Ther must noe malice be

'tis true.

In a com?)iunicant

What then
'?

Doe you
That

surmise,

shallow-pated men,

508

this excuse is all sufficient

To
But remember,
the king

satisfie for

such a foule intent

;

No, sunple worldlings

the king

made

his feast.
;

made
and

his feast,

And

you were bidden

to it

'mongst the rest

512
tast

that you were

bidden.

But 'cause you Avould not come, you shall not

His sacred supper, but you shalbe cast
Into that
pitt,

w/th the ungodlie

rout,

SAT.

1.]

FROM THE HOLY TABLE TO THE ALE-HOUSE.

19

^'\^lere tlie

worme

dies not, the fire ne're goes out.

516
You anil he wlio c;ime without his
wedding garment
will alike be cast

And

soe shall likewise he that boldlie

;

came

AV/thout his "wedding roabe

mean the same

520

"Wh ich. comes vnto the Table of the Lord

into hell.

As

to

some com?on, ordinarie bord,

And

never seekes to make true preparation,

eats

But even

& &

drinkes his OTVTie damnation.

It is lamentable

It is a lamentable thing to see

The ignorance

strange stupidity

to see the ignor-

OZ'i anoe and

stupidity of

Of men now
Of darkest
They
Of

living in the clearest light

men

Of the resplendant
btvout

Gospell, as if night
their eyes
;

still ecclips'd

are so rude in the true misteries

528
ten

in that

which

their salvation, scarce one

man 'mong
faith
;

concerns their

own

salvation.

Can

giue a true account of

to

's

nor,

when
532

He comes

due examination.
liis

How

he hath made

preparation

For the Lords Table,

iustlie tell

the

number

Some cannot
even
tell

Of Sacraments

the

this only thing

doth cumber

number

The wits

of

many

&

of the Sacraments,

confounds their sence.

As
Of

I haue seen
far

by

plaine experience.

536

How

then are they from the perfect knowing

!

their true vse

yet these

men

will be
;

shewing

or their true use.

Themselues moste forward to receive

but what
for that

They know
But

not, nor they care not

much

540
[leaf 8, hack]

for the world, to purchase earthly gaine,

They follow

that w/th dayly sweat and paine.

It is a custome,

lewd enough I 'me

sure,

tlie

(And I doe wonder

Such profane

After receiving Holy Sacra-

that ouv lawes endure

544

ment,

vses) after the receate

Of

that coelestiall sacramentall meat,

For olde

&

young

i'

th'

country frequently

it is

common

for

Ypon
Each

that day to vse most luxurie.

on[e]

54o
run,

old and young to goto the alehouse.

must then vnto an alehouse

act

Drink drunk, "Why?

this

any sinne vnder the sunne.

's

same day

a day of iubile

;;

20
I; lius

THE DE^^L AT TWO BITS DEVOURS MAN.

been
;

[sat.

1.

tlie

It hath

been an accustomd liberty

tliis

552
choose

tlicy

custom and would

lose their

To spend

day in mirth, and

tli[e]y will

I'Jitlier

sutils

than their

Eather their soules then priviledges

loose.

privileges.

And

soe (I fear) not

w/i'/ch

few among them will

this

For they,
Such men are
like hira

on

day doe drink

&

swill

556

In such lewd fashion,

may

be likened well

who

after

swept his house, which seven

To him that

sw^ept the
clean,

howse Avher he did dwell,

garnisht
it full faire

evil spirits

came

And made
Seven

it

&

to dwell with

him.

After wJiich act ther did to

evill fiends

him

repaire

560

worse then the former were

More ougly

sinnes did enter

&

dwell there,

And by his falling to more He made his end far worse

Satan stands ready to enter into them as he did into Judas.

wicked sinning,
then his begining.

564

So

is 't

With them that in

this sort doe sinne,

in,

Satan stands close ready to enter

Even

as he did in ludas, w7//ch

had

eat

Vnworthily the sacramentall meat.

568

And
Till

yet fond

man

regardeth not one whit,

bit,

he have made liimselfe the devils

at

Who
So man, whose
life is

two

bits, for so his

Devours both soule

Tlius
is

&

name imports, body, mans two parts.

572

man

blowne, by every pnffe of vanity,

but a

bubble,
anity.

is blown from Christi-

From

the true scope of Christianity,

His soules salvation.

Eetiu'ne, repent
!

"Wretched, Avicked man,

life is

Thy
;

but a spanne,

576

A breath,
To

a buble

think that thou must die

live in joyes or endlesse miserie.

if

And
If the joys of

the comfort of celestiall blisse,

is,

AYhose joy beyond imagination

580

heaven have not

softened his heart.

Haue

not sufficient power to mollifie

Thy
let

heart, heart
let

hardned in iniquity.

the fear of

Yet

the horro?/r of damnation.

liell

do

so.

Of whose

strange paines no tongue ca

make

relation,
bf'o

Enforce repentance w/th a true contrition,

xVnd that produce a forward disposition

SAT.

1.]

REPENT IN TIME.
course of
offered
life
; ;

21

To

new

refuse not grace

's

AVhile

it is

wliile tlier

time

&

space

588

wiiiiehehastirae
let

him not

dally

Dally not with, repentance,

least iust
^

love

[leaf 9]

with repentance!

Convert to furie lus contemned love

And

in that

ire,

iustly conceived

ire,
fire.

Confine thy soule to hells tormenting

592

22

APPEARANCES ARE OFTEN DECEITFUL.

[sat,

2.

Sattra 2.
[against shams.]

Aegumentxjm.
Fronti nulla
fides,

ludunt spectacula

mentem

Non

facies veriim

symptoma

cordis liabet.

Decipimur specie
Falsa latent
;

recti,

sub imagine veii

virtus dissimulata placet.

No poet

lias

been

The brave

erect Maiisolian

monument,
workemanship
506

able to describe the Mausoleum,

That famous vrne, the worlds seventh wonderment,

Whose sumptuous
His pen, by verse

cost

&

curious

'Noe poet, though in Helicon he dip

is

able to dilate,
;

Being made
wliieli, for all its

for

wonder, not to imitate

For

all his glorious outside,

w/thout

staine,

outward beauty,
is full

of

Tilth.'

&

corruption doth within containe.

spacious orbe in magnitude

GOO

corruption.

The sunne, whose

Doth
The sun
looVs no

far

exceed the earth, seemes to the rude,

art,

Ignorant of the astronomicke

Xoe

bigger then the wheel of Hobnols cart.

if

604

bigger than a
cart-wheel.

Counterfet gold,

we

doe trust our eye,

Will passe
The
crocodile

for purest mettall currantlie.

The

dredfull beast, ycleped crocodile,

eheds tears before he devours his

prey.

Whose

dwelling

is

about ^Egiptian

ISTile,

608

Before he doth devoure his wished prey,

Pitty in outward semblance doth display
'

MS.

Fill.

; ;

SAT. 2.]

MAXr THIXGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY

from his
false eyes distill,

isKlCM.

23

For

brinisli teares

When

he

is

ready to destroy

&

kill.

612
Tlie Syrens by

Full dear seafxring passengers abie

their

The Syrens sweet enchaunting melodie,

W/^/ch by their singing evermore presage

melody

entice sailors to their destruction.

Death thretning danger by the

furious rage

GIG
Circe's cup,

Of an ensuing

storme.

Of

Circes cup

AVho hath not heard, that who therof did sup

"Was changd (strange metamorphosis in nature)

though beautiful, chanRcd him who drank from it into

a brute.

From humane forme

into a brutish creature

G20

And

yet the cup [Av]as goodly to beholde,

"vv/th j^earle,

Eichly enchasde

composde of golde

Glorious in view appeard Medusaes head,

N'athlesse
it

did strike the beholders dead.

G24
Serpents and toads lurk under sweet flowers.
[leaf 9, back]

Serpents

&

poysnous toads, as in their bowers,

vnder the sweetest flowers.

Doe
But

closely lurke

sencelesse tilings

&

sensuall beastes alone

Mislead not mans to rash opinion

628
clieat,

Even

rationall creatures doe o?a"

is

iudgements
;

Man And

to

man

a subject of deceite
is

Man

that olde saying

vntrue, " the face

is fo man a subject of deeeitj

Is index of the heart."

False looking glasse

632

To view

the thoughts of man,

when

there doe raine

;

Stormes of displeasure in mans vex^d braine

When When

mists of sorrow reasons eyes doe blinde,

revenge thunders in his ragefuU minde,

delight,

636
his face is not the index to his heart

His face can carry sunneshine of

Allthough his soule be blacke

as ougly night.

You

erre,

fond jihysiognomers, that hold

followes the outward molde.
is

The inward minde

640
^bWUA.Eft

Philosophers, youv axiome

vnsure.

The The
Els

soule

is

as the bodies temperature

and his complexion does not

Complexion noe certaine ground doth shew

disposition of a

man

to

know
4. i;5'J7.

644

always show his

disposiLion.

why

should Xisus, that same^ pretty youth,

'

MS. some.

Cf. Sat. 3. 1101

24

rUBTTY FACES ARE OFTEN PAINTED.

[sat.

2.

Be

of soe lewd beliaYio2ir

when,

iii

truth,

His bodies

crasis is angelicall.

And
If

his soules actions diabolicall.

;

648
were they
soe,

men were
would

Things are not as they seeme

for

as they seem,
(letraetion

Detraction woiihl professe himseKe

not profess liimself

my

friend.

Shewing

his rancors hate before

And

not behinde
in

my

backe

my foe. my face, worke my disgrace,

me.

G52

When
The tradesman
seems
civil

my

presence he doth seem to be

As Damon
and
honest, but he'll cheat you.

to his Pithias, friend to

Mechanico, reputed by moste

men
656
buy,

An honest tradesman & grave citisen, When thou dost come into his shop to
Although
it

be the least com??iodity,

With kind salutes & good wordes will receave thee But trust him not, in 's deeds he 'will deceave thee. 660
Madam's
face is

painted and her hair only a periwig.

Madam Fucata seemeth wondrous faire, And yet her face is painted, & her haire.
That seemes soe goodly, a
false pe?-iwig.
fig,

Thus

all

her beauty

is

not worth a

664

That doth appeare

so glorious to the eye.

And

strikes

my

gallant in loves lethurgie,

That soe doth boast of famous ancestry

Her

gallant

And And
For

from great love derives his pedigree,

speakes indeed, like love himselfe, in thunder

668
;

shoots out oaths

like artillery.

othes, as if they

would rend heaven in sunder,

Shot out in
riie from

vollies, like artillerie,

his

mouth, that piece of blasphemie.

y])

672

Like some great horse he paceth

puts on a disdainful frown,
[leaf 10]

and downe,

He

Gracing his lookes w/th a disdainefull frowne,

And
As
if

takes

vpon him

in each company.

he held some petty monarchy.

676

If any

man by

chance discoiu'se of warre,

He By
and swears he
has killed more

being present this discourse will marre

intermixing his high martiall deeds,
all

Swearing his manhood

mens

else exceeds

680

Yowing

that his Herculean arme hath slaine

SAl

2-]

X VAIX, BRAGGING FOOL DESCRIBED.

tlien

!RIore

men

populous London dotli containe,

men
He
68i:

tlian

London
the

contain^.

Except the subvrbs.

He

hatli

made

to liie

lias |iut

The potent Turke,

&

Tm-k

to tlight.

got the victory

By his owne valoi^r. Was nothing to him,

Charles the Fift of Spaine

nor great Tamburlaine

;

Stout Scanderbeg a childe

he paralels
or,
?

Strong sinnewed Sampson,

"NAHiat

indeed, excels.

688

Samson and
Cliarles t!,e Fifth

dares he not performe

Hee

'1

vndertake

were notliing to
liiin.

To make the Spanniards

vtterly forsake
their
;

The "Westerne Indies

'With,

&

mines of gold,

some few chosen men

sufficient to

nay hee

'1

vpholde

092

His force

reconquer Fraunce,

And
The

with that kingdome once againe enhaunce

faire

revennewes of the English crowne,

Or lay

their citties levell

w/th the ground.

G9G
He
can drive the

Hee

'1

chase the Turks out of Hungaria,

And

force

him
'1

leave his seat in Grecia

Turk out of Hungary and

Greece,

Europe hee

free

from his vexation,

And

bring againe that scattered nation,

to their Palestine,

700
and restore the Jews to Palestine.

The lewes, together

To
his ob.eisaunce.

'Which he by force will conquer,

&

confine

These he dares be bolde.

And more
The

then these, even acts that would make colde

heartes of

men

only to hear recounted,

705

His martiall force,

Shall vndertake.

which Mars his

force surmounted.
He's a vain, bragging fool.

Thou

vainly bragging foole,

'Ne're trained vp in brave Bellonaes schoole,

708

Doe not I know, for all thou lookest Thou never yet durst see a sillie pig
Stucke to the heart
]

soe big,

frog
!

would make thee run

sonne,

Thou kill a man ? No, no thy mothers Her only sonne, was a true coward bred.
I
'le

712

His mother's only son was a

coward.

vndertake a sword shall strike thee dead,

never touch thee
descr'ipt
:
!

And
'

As

for
:

thy discent,
in

of coragloushrag

margin of MS.

bj'

a later

band.

26
lie w;is born in
fertile

MRS SIMULA, THE PUKITAN

S WIFE.

[sat.

2.

Though thou maist boast the

That gave thee
Lirth, j^et

phice was

firtill

Kent 716

Kent,

and

liis fatlier

was thy

syre a clowne.

wiis a clown.

And

kept his wife in a course homespun gowne

scraping vp a
litle

Who,
But because he
lias travelled

wealth, began

To fashion thee an

ill

shapd gentleman.
hast, like Coriate,'

720

And

now, because thou

litle

little

Traveld a

ground,

&
;

canst relate

[leaf 10, back]

How many

baudy houses thou hast seen

In the French country

an'! seen a little

how

the whores have been 724

Kinder there

to thee then our English

punckes f

of Fi-ench

life.

How many

nunnes thou hast heard

;

sing,

&

monckes
728

Say mattens

thou thyselfe dost noAV repute

race of Brute
afford,
;

^The wort[h]iest wort[h]y of the

he thinks he
excels
all

The
in

rarest linguist

England doth

men

bravery and
learninff.

The bravest

soldier that e're

!

wore a sworde.
heartlesse

Yain vpstart braggadochio

cow

Leave Mars his dTum??;e, goe holde thy fathers ploAV

The
Puritan's

Fine M/^/ris Simula, the Puritane,

733

wife lives in sin,

W7i/ch as the plague shunnes

lieady to faint
if

all

that are profane,

she an oth but hear.

For
and
is

all

her outward holinesse doth blear

dim??ze eyes, plaies but the hypocrite,

736

tr^-'s

her counshame.

The worldes
For,

Living in sinne

&

sensuall deliglit.
it 1

woidd you think

she was tane in bed

"W/th a young, tender, smoothfacd Ganimed,

740
!

Her husbands

prentice.

Out, lascivious whore

Thy
Do their meetings lead to this, while the world thinks them so
good?

countries shame, thy husbands festered sore

fruits

Are these the

thy frequentation
yeilds
?

Of learned sermons
Sui'ely vnto

Is this the flishion

744

Of yor pure seeming

sect]

Yor meetings tend

some such

like holy ende.

And Men

yet the world, blimle Avorld, thinkes you to be

of most zeale

&

best integrity.
chuffe, Sordido,
first
*

748
i.'yj'v

Methinkes I see the rich

' Corj'ate's "Crudities" See " Crudities," p. 2G.

appeared in 1611.

//

iu

margin of MS.

SAT. 2.]

THE MISER AXD THE UPSTART DESCRIBED.

lie

27
The miser goes

How
Ypon l

basely in apparrell
liis

doth goe

in a

greasy hat,

head a thrice turnd greasy felt, o ^ His hose & dublet a tuffe ramskin pelt
/

a'"i "'arse

cIothiiiK, his

752

His stockings of the coarsest Avoole yspimne,

Full of broad patches,
yvith. tliicke

lineu collar stitched to his hempen shirt:

hobnaild shoone
shirt

His

lockra???

bande sewde

to his

hempen

A lethern thong doth serve his wast to gu-t,

At w/nch
Hangs
a

756

pouch

full

20 Avinters olde

for his codpiece to

keep out the

!

colde.

Ss'i^"'
His cheeks are
thin, his beard

How hunger-starvd ^
I dare be sworne,

he lookes

W/th
fit

thin lank cheekes,

AV/th beard vnkemd, w/th

face

soile for leekes,

700

who

e'er

should see the goat,

groat.

mcomhea-, you would not judge him to be

worth a groat.

"Would iudge him to be scarcely worth a

And

yet this boore, this miserable swine.

Hath landes

&

lordships,

w/th good

store of coine.

764

Slave to thy wealth, thus from thy selfe to rend

"What thy next heir

'

Avill

soone as vainly spend

Scotus, thou hast deceiud the world enough,

The world

takes

Scotus tor a lord

at least, but the

AYhich takes

thee, clothd in thy

embrodered
silly

stufi"e,

other day he was

To be some

lord at least.

Poore

groome,

769

[leafn]
half starved;

W7n'ch tother day wouldst faine have had the roome

Of some base

trencher-scraper, so to put

Scraps twice runne over, in thy half starvd gutt.

77

And

now, w/th often

filling of

the pot.
hast got,
1/

An

oflice

vnder

my ^

lords
J.

man

greasy cooke, Being some bread-chipiier or o

and now, having a post under somebody, he

For much observance

&

looks for respect.

respect dost looke.

770

Goe where thou

I

wilt,

thou gettest none of me,

know

too well thy genealogie.

The ignorant may
fees

Let ignorant asses bend their supple knees,

And
(Jf

cry, "

God

blesse yowr worship," for

;

some

salute him,

780
but
i

thy cast ofBce

I as

much doe

scorne,

scom him.

As they

desire the plenty of thy home. Proud meacocke,^ make the world no more believe
'

The

has been crossed out and

jJ

written over by another

hand.

28

XnE MAN WHO AFFECTED A KNOWLEDGE OF BOOKS.

Gentility
is

[SAT.

2.

pind vpon thy sleeve

784

For

if tliou doe, Av/th

my

satirick verse,

and
t!ie

will

make
lau<,'h

Thy parentage & manners I 'le reherse, And make the world, for thy monstrous
To laugh

othes,

world

at

him and

hiss

&

hisse thee out of thy fine clothes.

J8S

liim.

He that sees ]\Ioros in his hrave attire Would deem him to be some discreet esquire. He speakes soe seldome, soe demure doth looke. But see how much a man may be mistooke
;

792

Moros, who is a very fool, speaks so seldom

A verier foole

dame

liTature

never bred.

That scarce knowes chalke from cheese, or blew fro??i red

and looks

so

demure, that

Yet amongst many ^Yhich haue purblinde eyes

This foolish sot hath been thought wondi'ous wise. 79G
I

many
Wise.

think

him

know

a fellow (I

'le

conceale his name)

Hath purchasd,
Of Of
know a man who gained a
I

&

yet doth possess, the fame

a rare scholler, that hath noe one part

learning, not the smallest di'am??je of art.
will

800

And
I

you know how he got his repute ?

'1

repute for learning

'le tell

you, soe you

promise to be mute
't.

And make no
As soone
as

wordes on
's

'Tis his asses guise,

rise,

he from

morning bed doth

804:

by attending booksellers' shops and asking to see

the writings of famous authors

After some turne or tAvo in Paides, to drop

In the precinct of some knowne stationers shop,

And there, like a He doth demand

Of famous
The
foole

learnd S/r, wrth a grave voice

to see

some

special choice

808

authors,

whose true names by heart

hath gotten, of what tongue or art

Montaigne, whose Essays in French, books 1 and 2,were first published in 15S0 books 1, 2,
;

It skills not

much

French, Latine, Hebrew, Greeke,

:

All

's

one, he vnderstandeth all alike

812

]\Iontaignes Essaies in French,^ the history

and

3 in 158S.

Of Philip Ccmineus,Of
Virgil, Horace,

poesie

[leaf 11, back]

&

such Latin writers,

Virgil, Horace,

Augustine,

St. Austine,

Bernard, or some

new

enditers

816

Bernard,
'

English translation published in 1603, 2nd ed. in 161.3. Philip de Comines died in 1509. He wrote memoirs of
time.

his

own

SAT.

now

MEN'

ARE GULLED BY APPEAKANCES.

20

Of com?Hcntaries

theologicall
for pliilosopliicall,

And And
Then

sometimes

lie 's

the best writers of astronomie,

"With phisick, logicke,

&

geometric.

820
Aristotie, Dius-

Aristotle, Di[o]scorides,

Avicen, Galen,

&

corides, Ualeii,

Hypocrates

The Hebrew Rabbins, Ptolomeus, Plato

(Although the foole did never learne his Cato),

Ptolemy, and
Plato,

824

Are

in his

mouth

familiar.

Some

of these,

'Which, to

demaund

his fancy best doth please,

and poring over them for an hour or two.

He

for

some hower or two will pore vpon,

is

'Which, time

worth

yo?/r observation

828

For sometime smiling

wz'th a simpring grace,

In turning over those same leaves apace,

To shew

his skill

i'

th' tongues,

hee

'1

nod

his head,

Nodding

his

head, smiling,

As
As

if

the place w7^/ch he doth seeme to read

to laughter
;

832
'1

Mov'd him
if

then w/th thumb hee

cote.

that sentence were of speciall note.

straight cry " pish
!

And

" as if

he dislikd that
cat.

and cryins " Pish " some!

"VY7?/ch

he as

much
(as

laiowes as his grandams

sufficiently

836

times,

Well, having

he thinkes)

Guld the opinion of the standers by

To his desire, the booke he downe doth lay, Demaunds the price, dislikes it, goes his way.
Somtime
perhaps, to blinde
diill

840

iudgements eye.

he demands the price, and sometimes will buy a

Some

petty English pamphlet he will buie.

this gall,

Pamphlet

petty English to gull

Thus hath

among the

the by-standers.

com??2on sort,
report
foole

"VVAich iudge

by outward shewes, got the

844

Of

a great scholler,

when, God knowes, the

Was
And

never farther then the gram??ier schools.

oft deceave,

Thus mans opinion doth him

of true iudgement doth his minde bereave.

848
If

Judging by outward shewes we iudge amisse.

we judge by

For vice

in vei'tues habite clothed

is.

outwiird appearances we judge

amiss

Hypocrisie seemes holinesse in looke.

Fixing his eyes on heaven or in his booke.

8')2

30

EVIL
0,

IS

ESTEEMED GOOD, AND GOOD

EVIL.

[sat. 2.

'tis
's

a most dissemi iling, liarmfull devill,

That
hatred iB often beneath siilutation

good in shew

&

yet in heart

is evill.

Backbiting slander, deep dissimulation,

Are
valour is only cowardice in disguise
flattery takes the

inside hate, yet outside salutation.

valo?<r oft

85

Yanting in Tvordes true

doth seeme,
;

Yet by

his actions Ave

him coward deem

Sootliing

vp

ill,

pernicious flattery,
to be.

form of good
counsel;
[leaf 12]

In outward shew good counsel seemes

8G0

Deformity, daubde w/th a face of paint,

W/th
avarice
is

beauties title doth herselfe a[c]quaint

ac-

Base avarice

&

sordid parsimony

counted thrift:

Is tlirift' accounted,
prodigality,
liberality.

&

good husbandry

864

Excessive spending, sensuall prodigality,

Is thought

aU one with liberaHty

Impudeut boldnesse, rash

temerity,

Is held for vertuous audacity

Ignorance passes
for learning,

868

Ignorance in his scarlet robe yclad,

while learning is held in no

repute.

Accounted learning, in respect

"\Yhen vertuous ^
art,

is

had,

clothed in poor aray.

till

Is held in no repute,

time be^ATay

872

The seeming good

that ignorance hath not.

And
Put no tnist in
seeming.

the not seeming good that art hath got.

's

Thus ther

no trust
's

to

be reposde in seeming,
act,

Since virtue
'

knowne by

not by esteeming.

876

MS.

thirift.

Originally \^Titten rcrievits, but altered apparently by another hand into vertuous.
^

8.VT. 3.]

CREATION AND FALL OF THE ANGELS.

31

Sat[ira] 3.
[against pride, etc.]

AKGUiVrENTUJ/.
tendit superos ambire supe?'bia coelos, Decidit ad Stigium fulmine quassa lacum. Jiteruo verum sic iudignata perisse, Ccecos mortales ad sua regna trahit.

Dum

After

tlie

fabricke of lieaven, earth,

it

&

seas

After the creation of tl>e lieavons

Were
To

gloriously composde,
(e're

then did please

opej-ation)

and

tlie

earth,

High love

he began mans

angels were called into being.

give vnto the Angels their creation.

880

Ko

earthy substance was in them

at all,

Their formes were heavenly

&
(if

spirituall.

Yet some of

these,

vpon the very day

created
I say
for
it),

On

the verj' day of their creation

They were by God

884

they at templed to dethrone the

Vntruth, I can alleadge

mine author

Almighty,

Swelling with pride (oh, I to Aviite abhor

it)

Because they were such glorious creatures, strove

To take
But

possession of the throne of love.

888

he, displeasde

w/th such ambition,

Struck them with lightning downe to Achieron^

And them
In

confined perpetually to dwell

who drove
into hell.

th.em

the darke horroiix of infernall hell.

faire angels

892

Thus were

ougly devils made,

tra(''e.

And

one dayes sinne an everlasting

32
Aaer
these,

THE TElirXATION AND FALL OF ADAM AND

the
fall

EVE.

[sat.

3.

of

After the

fall

of these

was man compacted,

extracted

man was
to

created and

woman made

be his associate

And from him sleeping woman was And made to be a kinde associat
Vnto him.

89

Now

the deviU shewes

liis

hate

[leaf 12, back]

And

swelling envie 'gainst

;

Formd to his image, man Of his estate in blisse, he doth intend

God in his creature to make defeature

900

And
To work
fall

fittest

opportunity attend.

their Lucifer seeks an opportunity,

To worke

this feat

proud Lucifer's enioynd,

swifter then the A^inde.
904:

And

goe[s] about

it

" Shall I," quoth he, " fall fi-om celestiall blisse

Into the horror of hells blacke abysse.

thinking to ease his own pain by

making man
grief.

co-

partner in his

And man escape 1 Shall I in torment live, 908 And man in pleasure ] Shall I only grieve, And man goe scotfree 1 iSTo, 'twill ease my paine If in my griefe I him copartner gaine And I will doe it if my plots hit right,
;
:

I'le bring his soule vnto perpetuall night."

912

This saide, the serpents shape he takes

&

hies

Vnto the

tree in

midst of Paradise.
after

There findes the woman,

named Eve,
916
inspirde

Eve's mind he inspires with

pride,

The weakest vesseU, easiest to deceave Whose minde w/th hellish pride he straight
That she
[the] trees forbidden fruit desirde

The The
catisin? iier to eat

tree of w7r/ch alone she

might not

eat,

tree forbidden tree of

by the Lord

for meat.
evill,

920

The

knowledge, knowledge of much

straight,

of

tlie

tree of

knowledge.

She gathers

seduced by the

devill,

"\V7//ch greedilie,

w/thout advice, she tasted.

it

And

then to give her husband of

hasted.
will.
ill

924

"\^^lom when she had allurde vnto her

And
Oriwn
wise,

both had tasted, then they knew their

all

But
'

too late

(first

Plmgians^) they grew wise,

Adiun and Eve

refer to the Phrygian oracle which promised empire to him who untied tlie Gordian knot, cut by Alexander Or it may be an allusion to the low estimate in the Great.

This

may

which Phrygian character was h>dd by the ancients.

SAT. 3.]

GORGEOUS BUILDINGS AND GAY ATTIRE.

;

33
lost Paradise,

Eeiiig both thrust forth Edeiis Paradise

928

^V/^/eh hapj)}' phice

man

ever had possessed,

which man would ever have

If they had never in this sorte transgressed..

Vnhappy three, first causers of out evili, Fond man, proude woman, & accursed devill
Since this hath pride increasd wd'th

932
Since this, pride

Adams
;

seed.

has gone on

And
'Man

Lucifer companions shall not need

^\iih.

increasing in

Adam's

seed.

soe

many

kindes of pride doth swell

As if he strove headlong to run to hell. 936 Some shew their pride in raj'sing stately bowers,
'W/^/ch

Some show

their

seem

to threatne

heaven

like Eabell towers

pride in stately buildings.

;

Building so strong, erecting them so high.

As

if

they ment to live

eternall}'-,

940
and some in
houses built for
pleasure.
[leaf 13]

In spite of love.

Others bestow more cost

In houses built

for pleasure, w/?/ch

they boast

Are but

for shew,

then would maintaine

&

cherish
:

Thousands of poore soules -which are

Confusion sure
Avill

like to perish

944

light

on their pretence

AVhich wast their treasure in soe vaine expence,

/L)thers there be wJiich, clad in gay
attire,

In

stately gate

&

Others, in fine clothing and

loftie lookes, aspire

;

948

lofty looks,

aspire abo^e

Above Of

their ranke

holding inferiors base,

theii"

rank.

Scarsely pe/'mitting equalles

come

in place

fellowship, vnlesse their peacock sutes

repi;tes.

Gaine them admittance in their proud

0, these are

952

men

of admiration,
These follow each
vain fashion, but their gay apparel covers
little wit.

'Which follow each fantastique fashion,

To be observde w/th reverence

&

respect

When, if Ave could the inward man detect, God knowes that I am not deceavd a Avhit,
Their gay apparrell covers
litle Avitt.

956

Most

of or

Avomen are extreamly proud

Most of our
wonieii are

Of

their faire lookes,

&

therfore doe enshroud

;

960

proud they
paint their faces.

Their beauties in a maske

with greater care

faire.

Their faces then their soules, to keepen

Some

of this kinde Avhen beauty gins decay.

34

TAINTED FACES AND SCENTED LOCKS,

[sat. 3.

By

art restore Avhat nature takes

away,

964

Painting their visage.

Cursed lesabell
bring them
all to hell.

That taught them

This vice in
The men
curl

tliis, "will

woeman only doth not

wzth

hide,

Men
Some

alsoe are infected

this pride.

9G8

and wear love-looks

their pates

curie their pates to

make

their lookes

more

fair,^

others paint their

faces.

Others delight to wear a locke of haire,

lovelocke, w/a'ch being of the longest size

Doth

the lewd wearer quite effeminize.

fucus will besmear their face,

972

Nay some w/th

It ads to their
I
is

complexion better grace.

know one who

ever looking
ir

knowe

a snowt-faire, selfe-conceited asse,

his glass, setting his perfumed

W/r/ch

is still

prying in a looking glasse

976
chamber.

heard or combing
his hair.

To

see his fooles face,

washt Av/th ly o

'th'

And

set his beard, pe?'fumde

with greece of amber.

Or kembe

his civet lockes, soe far in love

With

his

owne beauty,
;

that I fear hee'l proove

980

Sicke With conceat

I can prescribe

for the which, maladie

no better remedy

Then wish
The
fate of

the glasse, wherin he views his face,

to take Narcissus place,
's

river,

him

984

Narcissus might cure him.

So the next time he came on

face to looke

He

should be drenched in the liquid brooke.

glasse

But leaving him a courting in the

His owne vaine shadowe, I this coxcome passe.

[leaf 13, back]

988

Others there be w/iich, selfe-conceited wise,

Take a great pride

Some
delight in

in their

owne vaine
;

surmise.

That

all

men think them

Avortli

soe
;

these take delight

hearing themselves speak,

tire all

and

To hear themselves speak

if

they can recite

902

men

with

their chatter.

thing scarce

the hearing, they will prate

Av/th their idle cliatt.

Till
Some,
like
.aspire

they

tire all

men

Others, ambitious like fond Phaeton,

Phaeton,

at honours far

Aspire to guide the chariot of the sunne,

996

above what they

deserve.

Aiming
Till

at hono//rs far

above their place.

by

their pride they Avorke their OAvne disgrace.

'

Margin worn awa}':

may

liaA'e

heen /aire.


SAT. 3.]

THE PRIDE AND AMBITION OF POPES.

35
and are punished
for tlieir pre-

Presumptuous pride in others doth remaine,

And And
Till,

these high loA^es almiglity

power disdaine,

1000

sumption.

(like those giants) fight against the gods,

Pharoah

like,

they scourged are w/th rods

their

Of

dire affliction,

&

hardned hearts

Ynto
Put

their guilty soule dispaire impartes.

1004
I

I too

much

insist in generall

have dealt long

enough with

Pride in particular must be dealt

AVithall.

generalities, I

He

come now

to

that desires to breake a

bunch of wandes,
1008

pai-ticulars.

Must not take all at once into his handes, But singlie, one by one ; and if he trie,

He may
For I

then break them w/th

facility.

Peader, doe thou the application make.

to other matters

me

betake.

1012
The Pope makes
princes kiss his
feet,

Proud Pomish
"\V7//ch

prelat, triple

crowned Pope,

vauntst of Peters heavenly keis, that ope

that leads vnto celestiall bhsse
;

andemperors

The dore
"\V///cli

makst great princes stoope thy foote

to kisse,

hold his stirrup, as Frederick Barbarossa did that of Alexander

III.

Emperoi^rs vpon thy stirrop to attend,

1017

[Coryate'8

Crudities, p. 201,
ed. 1611.]

"When

as

thou wilt thy stately horse ascend

first

Damd
Thou

Antichrist, proud Lucifers

beast, great

sonne,
!

Ambitious
false

whore of Babilon

1020
He is a false usurper of God's honour.

vsurper of Gods regal throne.

How

darst assume his hono?/r, -which, alone

]\ronarch of heaven

&

earth, disdaine[s] to see

Corrivals in his sacred Emperiel

1024

How
To

darst thou take

vpon thee such authority

Gods high majesty,
award heaven
1

AY/u'ch doth belong to

forgive sinnes, to

&

hell

At

thine

owne

pleasure
1

Wher

didst learne to swell

Peter's chair can not shield him from God's anger.

With, such ambition

Thinkst thou Peeters chaire

Can

sheild thee from

Gods wrath 1 Can once impaiie

punnishment
1

And
Can

lessen thy deserved

free thee

from eternall detriment?

1032

Thinkst thou that he presumption can abide,

WA/ch

did not spare his angels for their pride?

36

A FASHIONABLE WOMAN AND A SPENDTHRIFT.

N"o.

[sat.

3.

Tliou sbalt fiude that

lie Avill

vengeance take,

Sending thee headlong

[leaf 14]

to the Stygian lake.

1036

Maddam

Poppasa

is

soe stately

growne
;

Madam
is

Poppaea

so stately that

That she can neither

Store of attendants

sit

nor walke alone

she can neither sit nor walk

alone.

still

must wait vpon

her,

And
Her Her

doe obsequious homage to her honowr.

is

1010

The ground she thinkes vnworthy

precious
selfe

to bear

body

when

she cloth vprear

vpon her

feet,

there

must be spread
to tread.

Cloth of Arras must be her carpet, her horse must be shod

Eich clothes of Arras wher she goes

If she doe ride, the horse that

1044

must vpholde
w^'th golde.

with gold.

So

rare a

burden must be shod

She bathes in
goats' milk.

When
Of

she intends to wash her selfe she hath

goats pure milck a sweet prepared bath.

1048

Musick beyond the musick of the spheares

Must
How

still attend vpon her itching^ eares. Her food must be Ambrosian delicates,

can the Fates permit her to go on unptinished

P

Dissolved pearle her drink.

Impartiall fates

1052

How
And

can ye suffer this lascivious Cjuean

in pride, thus

Thus swell

swim
1

in pleasures streame.

holde yowr thunder fast

Proud, stately dame,

"Which,
The Almighty,

more

respectst

thy body then thy fame,

1056

Or thy

soules health,

know

that

all

working Power

who

slew Herod

for his pride, will

W/i/ch did confound (by wormes that did devour

punish her.

His cursed body) Herods

Will,

lofty pride.

when thou

thinkst thou art most diefied,

1060

Sevearly punnish w/th confusion.

To thy
Lucius spends his all to maintain
his harlot in luxory.

soules horroe/r, this presumption.

Lucius spends his substance

&

his store,

To keep in
Yet
al
's

gallant fashion his proud whore,

;

n>-

1064

to litle to maintaine her pride

She must be

coatcht, forsooth,

&

bravely ride.

Lackies before her charriot must run.

And

she in spangled gold, clothd like the sunno,

IOCS

Dazels the eyes of men, or she complaines

'

MS.

'itchinff.

SAT. 3.]

THE PRIDE or FASrilOX AXD GOOD LOOKS.

37

lie lov'es her not,

&

such a
!

man

niaintaines
his hvnd
His lands go to minister to her

His h)ve in better fashion

Then

Must To
Thus

flie,

for soe his niistris

doth coni/ynmd,
foolish sot,

1072

pride.

bolster

vp her

pride.

to procure
states

thy reputations blot,

Thy

vndooing,

&

thy

sotiles

pevditiun
!

For 0D[e] soe base

&

of soe vile condition

ape;'---.
;

107G
Drusus imitates
the fasliions like

Dnisus, that fashion-imitating

Delights to follow each fantastique shape

an ape, and will

dress like
cavalier.

Every new habit of hell-hac[t]hed

sinne,

Though

it

vndooe him,

hee'l be

clothM in;

1080

And
To

jirodigally

vpon every toy

;

Lash out

his substance

'tis

his only ioy

see himselfe not differing in a hair

From

the true stamp of a brave Cavaleer.

gull,
),

1084
[leaf 14, back] Anotlier writes volumes of his

Vain Epainnntus, selfe-admiring

Doth speake orations, Of his OAvne praises.

write whole i^olumes full

Silly,

own

praises.

simple sotte,

1088 Hast thou that auncient, true saide sawe forgot, That " a mans praise in his owne mouth doth stinke " 1

Or dost

(foole if

thou dost) absurdly think

This age such shallow pated

men

affords.

That will give credit

to

thy boasting wordes?

1092
and because he
well-dressed
is is

Because in gay apparell thou art drest

Some

puppet-like thou dost advaunce thy crest,

bursting with
pride.

And

swell in big lookes like

to burst

some turkie cocke,

even
to

Eeady

w/th pride,

&

choake

1096

With

selfe-conceit of thy perfection,

is

"Which

iust

no we, though the infection

Of thy high

leveld thoughts lets thee not see

The ougly

face of

thy deformity.

1100
He thinks Adonis a Ne^'ro conipai'ed to himself.

Thou

w/i'/ch thinkst

Adon, that same lovely boy,

Dame

Xatiires dareling, Cithereas joy,

tannic Negro, or Barbarian IMoore,

to

ComparM

thy

selfe,

&

dost adore
like

1104

Even thine owne beauty

some demigod,

38
'Which
and fancies his gooj looks ravish
tlie

THE PRIDE OF RANK.

(for

[sat.

3.

on purpose
selfe),

tliou dost

goe abroad

To shew thy

thou vainely dost surmise

beholders eyes.

eyes of
see

all

Doth even
l^oe

ravish

tlie

1108

who

him.

wench
tast of

that sees thee, but straight fals in love

With thy
and that one kiss from him would be endless

rare feature,

&
_

doth Avish
lip
;

to

prove

The

thy Anibrosian
_

one kisse
;

Froni thy mirre-breathing mouth were endless bnsse

But gavst thou other joyes

(w/r/ch in thee lies)

1113

They would be thought 'bove

But he
only like a bladder puft up with
is

ioyes of paradise.

Thou bladder
Out into open

full

puft vp with, vanity,

Whom with my pen I prick, that ther migh[t] flie

aire all
;

1116

vanity.

windy

pride.

All self-conceit

then being repurifide,

all

Before the purchase of

earthly pelfe
selfe."

Learn Solons saying, "Mortall, know thy

iN'eotimus,

1120

why
1

art

thou growne so proud.

Instead of luno to embrace a cloud

Another
is

proud

nothing worth

These hono2a's heapd vpon thee

of empty honours,

Are but
Ther
is

as shadowes,

&

will soone

flie

from

thee.

1124

an

everlasting dignity

Of

greater

worth and more

out,

insignity.

To be sought
[leans]

which thou

shalt ne're attaine,

If pride in thy aspiring thoughts doe reigne.

1128

Contemne not them because thy

selfe art high.

and forgets that he might have been as low as those whom he

despises.
|t

Who,
All

if

the heavens had pleasd, might equally

thee, yet

Have rankd With

now

are

low in
fate.

state

men

are not predestind to on[e]

1132

I'

Become more humble,

&

cast doAvne thy looke,

li

Least prides bait snare thee on the devils hooke,

And
For
In
a flower, a vapour, and is soon
is

having caught thee, hale thee doAvne to

fiends in everlasting paines to dwell.

hell,

With

1136

why

shouldst thou be proud 'cause thou art high

of

titles

renownM

dignity

Honour

Honour
Hono^fr

's 's

a flower that will soon decay a vapowr, quickly blowne

away;

1140

blown away.

And

'tis

a saying held for true of all,

SAT. 3.]

COVETOUSNESS BEGETS MURDER,

hatli a

39
-'--''
'^

"A

sudden rising

sudden

full."
.

Philarclius (w7i/cli in his amijitious niinde

Phiiarchus
his

is

Devoures

Tiin ms
But

kingdomes) doth smale comfort finde " 11 11 P Tf 1 1 11 -io olde vncldes new-iramde married' liie,
Avliole
1

uncie niarried and

ow

is

lias

a son,

lesse in the

male issue of his

Avife.

The

bastard brat (for soe he calles his cozen)

Defrauds his expectation of a dozen

1148
faire)

Of goodly
But now
TT\dxt

lordships,

"\v7/

ich.

(Ms hopes were

next lawfull

Should come

to him, as the

lieire.

this boy, ^yhich stands as a crosse-barre

him

&

home, doth
.

all his

fortunes marre.

1152
who,
if

But long he

shall not soe, if figs of Spaine,

.

he Uvea,

will defraud liirn

;

Or

pils of Italy

their force

retame

of the property

If tlier be meanes that his pretence will furder. If ther be hands that dare enact a murder,

1156

Hee'l send his soule (wher himselfe ne're shall come)

To Abrahams bosome (mans long lookd

for home).

Xor

shall his aged rnckle 'scape this net,

if

Least

he live he doe more sonnes beget

11 GO
The
child and his

Least he more issue by this marriage have.

He

shalbe

wedded

shortly to his grave.

. .

But then

his vnckles wile surviues, purchance

;

must be got rid of, and so must the wife.

father

Left quick w/th childe

& then he may goe

that,
's

dance

11G4

For a new

living

no,

he likes not

She shaU be soone pact

after too, that

flat

Besides, her ioynture, in his heart engravde

"With duble greatnesse, by her death

is

savde.

11G8

Ambitious slave

wilt

make

a crimsen flood

Of thy

neare dearest kinsmens vitall blood,

1

11 To wash thy murdrous handes

Vpon
a deed so

iinrm-i not ihmk

?

at all

ill

He win bathe his hands in his kinsmen's uiood

much

vnnaturall
titles

1172

Shall hope of some vain

move thy minde.

To doe an

act perpetually

combinde
[leaf is, backi

'With horrour of a guilty conscience

'

This word seems to have been ^ Referring to the practice of secret poisoning.

originally written marr'uirj.

40

HELL

IS

PEOPLED BY THE DEVIL's DEVICES.

[.SAT. 3.

(A most deserved
to gain a land.
little

&

due recompence)

1176

"Wilt tliou for purcliase of a litle land,

Wtth
Desist
Tiieir blood will

innocent blood distaine

;

thj'

guilty

hand 1
1180

for

murder

's

an iniquity
vnto heaven doth
crie.

That

for iust vengcaiice

cry to heaven for vengeance.

And
1^0
!

darst tliou then insist in thy invention?

Is there

noe hope

to alter thine intention

Thou

art flesht in sinne,

;

&

dost despise

My Christian counsell
Goe forward then

Satan blindo[s] thine eyes. 1184

in this

lewd preparation,

But know thou headlong runst vnto damnation.

Thus Lucifer
the inhabitants of

Tlius Lucifcr, w// /cli througli ambition

Strives dayly to bring

fell,

company

to hell

88

Of each degree

&

sex,

from every nation.

;

Mortals, become more wise

make

preparation

Of armes

defensiue to resist this devill

evill.

W7'ch would procure joky everlasting

1192

But yon, whose vnrelenting heartes

In
When
late
it Is

persist

fearfull pride, will

then

cry, "

had

I Avist,"
;

too

men

will see

their error.

all too late, when each his sinne shall rue Tcini-i You having yo?/r lust meed, & hell his due. Thoug[h] God awhile his punnishment delay,

Yet

nin/^

1196

thing deferd

's

not taken quite away.

of Luciferian pride,
1

But now enough

Ther
's

other vices in the world beside.

200

SAT.

4.

THE BEGINNING OF AYAHICE,

41

5at[ira] 4,
[against avarice, bribery, apostasy.]

AKGiniENTUJ/,
Effodiuntur opes ex imo vi.scere terra?, Qu;e fiunt miseri causa, cibusqwe mali. Omnia sunt auro nostrfe va;nalia Eonife, lus, pudor, & probitas, favor & ipse deus.

Insatiate Avarice then

first

"began

Avarice soon took possession

To

raigne in
fall

tlie
;

depraved minde of then his

man
1204

of man's

min

1,

After his

&

mother Earth,

That gave

first

heing to his hodies hirth,

Yngracious childe, he did begin to wound,

And
Her

rend the bowels of the harmelesse ground

For precious metals

&

rare minerals^ ics

and induced

'i

veines, her sinnewes,

&

her arteries.

1208

to search the

earth for
treasures,

Among these, Was with his

Digd from the
Sol

Golde,

Dame

Tellus glittering sunne,

sister Sylver, earth [s] bright

moone,

center of rich Aurimont,

&

his sister

Phebe

to confront.

1212
for gold
silver

But

for that silver golde in price

Cj'iithia

doth follow,

and and rare

Because from him, as

from Apollo,
all

minerals.
[leaf 16]

She takes her Are but

'

light,

&

other mettals

his vassaile starres; they well

final s is
'

may

faU

1216

ies

smudged,' and the Author's comma is after The sense is not very clear, Init it minerals ics, seems to mean. Avarice, for precious metals and minerals, eyes (i. e. searches) her veins, &c.

thus:

The

42

JUSTICE

IS

OVERCOME BY BRIBERY.
I
'le

[sat.

i.

Ynder
He who
tlie

his

title, tlierfore

expresse
lesse.

Others in him, the great includes the

first

He

that

first

searched the teeming earth for golde.

sought gold was

cause of
right.'

Now

as a

demigod perhaps enrolde

1220

'wronging

In Fames eternal hooke, was the chief cause

Of wronging

right

&

abrogating lawes.

For since these mines hewi[t]chd the mindes of men,

"What mischiefs haue ensude

my

worthlesse pen

1224

Cannot delineat, but we

all

can

tell

The number
The

infinitly

doth excell

Omitting former ages

mischiefs

&

strange climes,

The
So

vices of out nation in these times,

1228

which have ensued are

numberless.

far excede in quality

to recite

&

number.

That

them would whole volumes cumber.

by golden
bribery,

Justice, opprest

Hath

left

the earth-stage of mortality

for succoz<r

1232

Justice, oppressed

And fled to heaven Wher she doth keep eternall residence And now oiiv lawes for Mam?ons cursed
;

&

defence,

golde

by
left

Briberj-, has

the earth.

Like

as at

open mart are bought

&

solde.

1236

Out

lawyers, like Demosthenes, are mute,

will not speak,

And

though in a

rightfidl sute,
;

Vnlesse a golden kei vnlocke their tongue

Then how

thei

T sweat, be

it

for right or -RTong,

1240

And
Lawyers plead no man's cause
unpaid.

get their cause too, or it shall

goe hard.

When

the poore client, of his right debard.

first for

Cursing the law,

mans good ojdainde,

1244
grace bereft

Grieves at his losse, w7;/ch ne're can be regainde.

Let some damnd villaine of

Murder, sacrilege,
theft, lust, are all

all

Commit

a murder, sacriledge, or theft,

purged by money.

And
Our

if

he can procure but store of jience then will with, the law dispence,
life,

iustice

1248

And
Let

grant the hell-hound

when,

for lesse cause,

Poore

men

abide the rigor of the lawes.

lustfull love, that virgins

would

defloure,

In Danaes lap rain but

a golden shower,

1252

SAT.

1.]

HON'OURS AND OFFICES ARE bOLD.

will soone bo waslit away,

43

Her chastety

And
Of

slie

be ready for his amarous play.

cuffe, Thersites-like in

Let some rich

far

shape,

worse qualeties then an olde ape,

1256 An

W/iich hath nought in him that may speakc him man,

old wretch can't speak without slavering

who

But

a good purse

although he scarcely can

Speake w/thout

slavering, goe Av/thout a crutch.

Be

rivall to a

man

that
far

is

not such

1260

In wealth, though

above him in desertes,

As good
Yet

discent, rare features, vertuous partes

for all this, I ten to

one will

lay,

[leaf 16, back]

will

gain a wife

The

richer

man

carries the

wench away.
bought
for golde.

1264

Honours

&

where a poor man of good parts

will
fail.

offices,

w/a'ch in times of olde

Were given
Sir

for deserts, are

lohn Lacklattin, one that

place,

ne're did passe

asse,
fist,

In any

but for an ignorant

1268

If he can grease his patron in the

Shall for his gold be richly beneficde

When

he that better doth deserve the

place.

Honours and
offices are

If poore, shall be repulsed with disgrace.

1272

bestowed upon
the ignorant because they can pay-

Lode but a

silly asse

w/th store of golde

And
He By

he will enter in the strongest holde.

coate.

Let a foole passe by in a golden

shalbe reckond for a
those that

man
not,

of note

1276
's

know him

when
for

on[e] that

wise,

Poore in

arraie,

seemes abiect in their eyes.

Tradesmen make no account

golden gaine
;

Tradesmen

cheat,

To

sell their soules

vnto eternall paine

1280

and cozen and

forswear themselves.

Daily each one, in vttering of his wares,

Cosens his chapmen

&
it.

himselfe forsweares.

The

vserer hords golde

idole of

vp in

his chest,
blest

Making an

To be

1284
doth thinke

The usurer hoauls up gold

Is to get store of golde, the \vre[t]ch

When
For

the fruition scarcely lets

him winke.
1288
and shipwrecks
his soul.

sleep

he cannot,

till

i'

th'

end his pelfe

Ship^vracks his soule

vpon

hels rocky shelfe.

u
Some, Judas
sell

THE WORLD

IS

LED IN A GOLDEN STIUNG.

[sat. 4.

Many
like,

for golde liave turnd (like luliaii)

Apostates to true religion,

And

have,

^xiih.

wicked ludas, lesus solde

a litle golde.

Jesus for

gold.

For the vaine purchase of

1292

Thus doth the

devill, full of slie deceits,

Fish for the soules of

men

-sv/th

golden haites

And to increase his kingdome, doth assay By this temptation to pervert our way.
The LacedBmonians banished gold from their

1296

"Well did the Lacedtemons banish golde

Out of
For hy

their

com?on wealth
all

well did they holde

;

commonwealth.

Com?Hunity of
this

things necessary

meanes they were not accessary

of wickednes,

1300

Ynto the many kindes

'Which the vnsatiable greedinesse

Of golde
He who
most
is

in this out iron age begets

gains
best
off,

"\V7u'ch to entrap, so

many kinde

of nets,
laide

130-t

for the

world

So many damned plots are dayly

may

be led in a

goldeu string.

rieaf 17]

He that gets moste thinks liimselfe best apaide, And well he may, for in a golden string A man may lead the world to any thing. "What in these days may not a man com???and.
That seekes
to purchase

1308

w/th a golden hand

Fortunate Fatuo was late dubd a knight,

Not

for his wit, or for his martiall fight

;

1312

For wit ne're blest him, valowr never knewe him

"What may the cause be then that only drew him
One
is

dubbed a

To

this preferment

Faith, his store of wealth.

kniglit because

by stealth he can buy the honour.

For hono?/rs now

ar[e]

purchased hj stealth

131G

Of vndermining

bribes.

Canst thou disburse

1

Good
Thou

store of coine

from a well lined purse

shalt not Avant authority to grace thee,

And
Be
Men now esteem
great
ness,

in an office of repute to place thee,

evill times,

1320

thy life ne're so vilde.

ill

means
great-

And

conditioned men, that act such crimes,

gi-eat

more than more than

goodness.

and goods

W/n'ch

meanes then good meaning better deeme.

!

And more

of goods then goodnesse doe estceme

1324


i-]

LUST, BRIBERY,

AND SIMONY.
age,
Though
the

45

r>ut bootelesse I excluiine

'I'

on

tliis

same

his vnrelenting ago, wliose furious rage

^\'ilI
I

not be mollitied as

it

hath been,

world may be none the ijetter,

I'll

lilt

is

now hardned
vp
all

in vngodly sinne.

1328

expose

all its

villanies.

\'ft,
1

though the Avorkl nothing the better grow,

rip

'le

the villanies I know.

Flavia, because her

meanes

are sonicAvhat scant,

Flavia, scorning
to be called a

Poth

sell

her body to relieve her want,

to

1332

quean,

sells

her

Yet scornes

body

be reputed as a quean.

to all

comers,

Though. With moste nations she have been vnclean.

English, Scots, Dutch, French, Spannish, yea, black
Moor[es],'
If they bring store of gold, her open dores

1336

no matter of what
nation they

may

Conveigh

to private lust

bee

't

day or night,

be.

Golde vshers them

to sensuall delight.

Thus

often fighting vnder Cupids banner

's

Perhaps she

sometimes taken in the manner,

1340

And

being brought before authority,

correct her hell-bread villany,
If she's brought

Which should
The
This
officer

If golde speake for her in the present tense.

deputed for

th' offence

1344

before the

"Will Avinck at smale faultes

foolisli,

&
's

remit correction.

magistrate the prosecutor can be

l)ribed.

knavish

pittie

an infection

Spread tlirough or land,

& hurtes out com?non wealth

!

lustice restore her to her former health

1348
!)

For true

's

the saying (magistrates, heware

"He
And

harmes the good that doth the

is

evill spare."

Midas

patron to a goodly living,

Stolido, that dunce,

it.

hath

now been
1

driving

1352

Benefices are

bought and sold

price for

What,

benefices solde

This was not wont to be in times of olde,

But Simonie
That
'tis

is

now

soe

com?non growne,
if

[leaf 17, back]

account noe sinne,

kept vnknowne.

Simony

1356 common
men
to hide

Or 2

so that don't care

is
it.

otherwise, lawes danger to prevent.

will indent
^

The patron w/th the parson

'

MS. worn away.

MS.

0'.

46

THE RICH FOOL

That he

IS

MADE JUSTICE OF PEACE AND

have the living in

M.P.

[sat. 4.

shall

this wise,

Suffering

him yearly

to reserve his tithes

13G0

When
Of
very wrong to deceive tlie Cliurch and dissemble with
It is

the whole parish knowes the better part

the living, those his tithes iniparte.
to

all

Thou wicked imp, thus

abuse the C[h]urch,

And w^th
To

such sacrilegious handes to lurch

duties,

1364

God.

Gods sacred

which he doth

afford
!

the dispensers of his holy word

How dar'st thou w/th all-seeing love dissemble Me thinkes thou shouldst w/th great amazment tremble
1

At
Men who
tlie fate

that most fearfull yet just punishment

1369

do so should remember
of

Ananias

Powrd downe one Ananias, whose intent, Like thine, was in most damnd hypocrisie To mocke God wzth a shew of charity. But for this sinne he & his cursed wife Suddenly fell downe dead & lost his life.
Take heed the
like plague fall not

1372

on thy head,
1376

If thou persist, high love can strike thee dead;

Though he awhile
The man who
ignorant of the made a Justice of the Peace,
is

forbear to

shew

his

ire,

His mercy keeps back what thy sinnes

Signior Necessity, that hath no law. Scarce ever read his Litleton,i a

require.

1.1W is

daw

1380

To

a soUiciter,

is

now become
;

Justice of peace

'Mongst grave

& coram & learned

takes his roome

;

ludges

is still

cald

Eight worshipfull, his wit

&

jiate

both bald.

1384

And
I,

yet the foole expects th' ensuing year

elect

To be

high sherif of

all

the sheire.

&

he hath great hopes,

for the Avhole tribe

'1

and expects to he sheriff and M. P.

He'll bribe the
lot to gain his

Of

voices that elect the sherif hee

bribe

388

end.

And after that he hopes to get consent By this meanes to be knight o' th' parliament.
Base minded peasants, which, for some few pence

Give

to [a] foole

such place of eminence

litle

1392

Ignoble Crassus did in

'

time

Littleton died in 1481.

SAT.

1.]

UNIVERSITY HONOURS ARE BOUGUT.

of lionors niountaine clime
rose, let this suffice,
;

47

Vnto the top

If

you askc liow he

His wealth was

Euffino, that

great,

&
is

therfore needs

must

rise.

1396 Men whose wealth

is

great uiust

same roring hoy of fame,

diseasde

rise.

By hraules & wenches

Yet hath some

&

lame

store of crowaies left in his purse,

'WJiich he With all his heart

would

fain disburse,

1400
Even
aJniission
to the hospital is

And
To

those that healpt

him

benefacto2(?-s call,

get a place in the

new
it is

hospitall.

to be gained by

money.

Fear not Euffino, for

decreed

[leaf IS]

Those that have meanes

to give shall only speed.

1404

Loth am

I to rip

vp

my

nurces shame,

Or The Academies

to accuse for tlus those schooles of fame.

:

yet for reformation

The

Universities are not free from

Of

this abuse, I

must reprove the fashion

some dunce, attaine

1408

blame.

Of

divers seniors, Av/i/ch for private gaine

asse,

Permit some ignorant

dunce may buy a fellowship.

schollers or a fellowes place

among 'em.
wrong
true,

Some think perhaps

'Wit ich

of malice I doe

'em,

1412

But the poore students

know

it

to

be

wanting meanes, as often want their due.

Art was not thus rejected heertofore.

But plenty now hath made a schoUer

Learning was wont to be the higliest

poore.
staire,
;

1416
Learning used to be the ladder to
preleraient.

Ypon whose top was

The worthiest man But now the world

fixd preferments chaire

In Av/t/ch the best deserver was instald.

to highest hono2?r cald.
's

1420

altred,

changed

is

the mukle.
hut now the ladder is made of
gold.

And
To

learnings step

is

turnd to massie golde.

intend,

get preferment

who doth now

He by

a golden ladder must ascend.

soe great a
;

1424

Thus cursed golde doth bear

sway

That nurseries of learning doe decay

For not the meanes of taking

o?;r
;

degrees

Are quite exempt from bribes

for

duble fees

1428

dunce may turne a Docto?n-,

&

in state

For double fees a dunce may be a doctor and walk

in scarlet.


48

[sat.
4.

THE MURDERER BRIEES THE JUDGE.

Walke

in

liis

scarlet

0, vnliappy fate

When
If a cook

paltry pelfe dotli worthlesse ignorance

of learnings

Ynto the top

wants dress meat in
Lent,
to

mount advaunce.
meat in Lent
hast store of golde
1

1432

Coons, that faine Avould thrive, hath a[n] intent,

To curry

favour, to dresse
to be obtainde
?

How
And
and can bribe the
overseer,

is 't

canst thou

spare a litle]

then be bolde,

1436

Persue thy project,

&

'le

vndertake

The

overseers will a licence make.

is

By

w7'ch

granted leav to dresse for

th' sicke,

Vnder the

coloiiv of w7r/ch pretty tricke

1440
list.

Thou mayst make

"
lie is

sale of it to

whom
i'

thou

Sayth master niony-taker, greasd

tli' fist,

And
'le

if

tho[u] comst in danger, for a noble

sure to escape all trouble.

stand thy friend,

& healp thee out of trouble."

wA/ch now
I cote.

1444

But these

are petty crimes

This vicious age acts sinnes of greater note,

And them by
A
ruffian

greater persons, in w7//ch sence

th' offence.
fit

Th' offenders greatnesse aggravates

mitted a

1448

commurder

Taurus, that ruffen, in his drunken

and was apprehended for it.

[leaf 18, back]

An

execrable murder did com??ntte,

w7(?'ch fact

For the

he straight was apprehended,

right tooke place, have

And

should,

had

been con-

demned.

1452
event
;

But marke

th'

his

mony

stood

liis

friend,

And
bribed,

sav'd the caitife from a shamefull end.

The Judge was and

condemning.

For having the chief iudge sollicited

instead of

W/th

bribes,

from

iustice

him he

quite misled

1456

"Who when he should pronounce' his condemnation,

Instead therof gave

him

his approbation.

acquitted him because 40 anu'cls' attested his innocence.

'

Vowing
"\V7//c]i

there was good reason

him

to clear,

'Cause 40 angels did to

him

appear,
0,- rare vision.

14G0

spake him guiltlesse.

And
'

admirable grdden apparition,

a partially-formed a
^

MS. of pronounrr, with li, and crossed out, between the two wordrf.

318. 6.

SAT.

l.]

THE POOR DEPRIVED BY TUE RICH.

49

That

liad tlio

power

to

make good

sucli evill,

Aiid turno a demigod into a devill

Turuiis his

14G4
If a man wants to supplant his

enemy -would
it iustly,

faine suppLant,

Yet how

to doc

cause doth want.

enemy

His Machiavillian^ pate doth then devise

To overthrow him by meer forgeries Then saith. he is a traiter to his^ prince,

;

14G8

And
For

that he can of treason

him

convince.
he accuses him
of treason and
;

Divers seditious wordes are then invented,

vfJiich

he

is

before the iudge convented

to confirme this
;

1472

bribes bis

But there wants witnesse

Tut, they are easily found

lie,

his neighboza-s

by
1476

Are knights

o'

th' post,^

and

for a litle coine

Will swear what ever he doth them

enjo[i]ne.

Thus armde, he brings

to passe his

damned

will,

neighbours to give witness against him.

And

like a villian guiltlesse

blood doth

spill.

But he

&

's

knights

o' th'

post will post to hell.

sell.

That thus their soules vnto damnation

Codrus
to his poore cottage

1480
The poor man
with six children and a sickly wife owns a cottage and a bit of land

had some

land,

With, w/i/ch,

&

w/tli the labozir of his hand,

Six

litle

children

&

his sickly wife

life

He
As

did maintaine in such estate of

his best

1484

meanes could

yeild, sufficient
live content.
but his rich neighbour

Because they therw/thall did

But now

Antilegon, his neighboz^r by,

Because the ground did lye com??zodiously

1488

wants

it

for

garden.

For his owne vse

to

make

a garden plot.

Hath encroacht
"VV7i/ch

all

&

sure possession got,

force.

he maintaines by

Poor Codrus

is

Constraind to sue suh forma pauperis,

1492

(As Avanting friends

& mony)

to regaine

"What

is

his owne.

T' other doth entertains

The

best of counsell,

&

his golde 'gainst lawes

O're throwes the poor

'

man

in his rightfull cause

^

149G

With the best of counsel and gold he gains his end,

Machiavelli died 1527.

^

io his

repeated in MS.

Professional perjurers, &c.

time's w.

50
and the poor
is

THERE ARE SOME HONEST LAWYERS.

man

[SAT. 4.

Wlio

undone.

w/tli lus family are quite vnclone, ^, n ^ i damnd oppression, Tlirougli this vnjust

,-,.

&

[leaf 19]

Thus

lustice eyes closde

AYOolfe eats

vp in golden

sleep,

The ravenous

vp the harmlesse sheep. 1500

Thou wicked Ahab,

vfhich. hast got possession

By
If

such iniurious transgression,

if

God punishes

Think that

God

inflict

damnation

nocompass'ior

On them
q^

that doe not take compassion brethercn,

1504

upon the poor,

^j^^^. ^^^^^^

&

their wants reHeve,

"What will he doe

to thee, w/a'ch seekst to grieve

"With an oppresso?<rs

hand the innocent

1508

Being not only not

to give content,

But even

to take a^vay

hy cursed -wrong

All that in right doth to the poore belong 1

Ete

wiu most

Vnlcsse thou doe due restitution make,

tiTosrwho oppress ^^^'

And
And

to a better life

thy

selfe

betake

1512

Vnlesse repentance purchase grace from love

his iust iiiclgements

from thee quite remooue,

especiauy unjust

Surely the Lord {which doth such sinne detest)

^" ^^^'

With

horrid tormentes will thy soule invest.

1516

And

you, w/itch should true equity dispense,

Yet bear a gold-corrupted conscience, Looke for some plague vpon yowr heades
That
All lawyers are

to light.

suffer rich

wrong
.1

to oppresse poore right.

1520

All lawyers I caniiot heerof accuse,

not guilty of this

Bin,

r or some there are that doe

j.

conscience vse

In

their profession.

This our land containes

Some in whose heart devine Astra;a raignes. To these, whose vertne keeps our land in peace,
and
I

1524

wish

all

I wish

all

good,

all

happines encrease.
t

prosperity to the impartial.

,, _, Go forward then, and w<th

^,^

impartial! handes

j-ni

Hold

lustice ballance in faire Albians landes.

1528

Olde greedy minded Pandarus hath a pairs

Of daughters whom the world reputeth

faire.

And

faire

indeed they are to outward eyes,

"Which, not disccrnc inward deformities;

1532

SAT. i.]

APOSTATES LEAVE US FOR THE CnURCH OF U03JE.

tlie

51
sciis

These, for

purchase of a

litle

goldo,

Pandarus
for gold,

By

the olde miser vnto lust are solde.

This slave wiU even vsher his disgrace,

Bringing his daughters vnto any place

'Which,
is

1536

appointed to commerce with sinne,

and keeps the
door wliile their gallants are

And

himselfe keep the dore, whilst that within

are

The shamlesse strumpetes

Having the
Impious
villaine

wzth

lust defilde,

gallants of their golde beguilde.

!

1540

to

defame the

fruit

Of thine owne loynes, & basely prostitute Thy childrens body to such luxurie,
"Wlaom With paternall care

&

Industrie

1544

Thou
"WiU

shouldst traine vp in vertuous education,

For want whereof theire horrid imprecation

light

vpon thy

soule,

&, w7i/ch

is

worse,

[leaf 19, back]

Gods

fearfull plaugues^

second thy childrens curse. 1548 cMidrerwiu"

Me
For

thinkes the heUish

that doe

& mad

lunacy 2

'"'' ''^
Those who

Of them
gold,

commit apostacie
affright

might well a Christian heart

but
recite

gold aie many.

Only

to hear another

1552
fall

So damnd

a sinne

yet every day their

In these relapses diabolicall

Many, too many, Christians shall I name them 1 Ah, noe their actions otherwise defame them. 1556
!

shaii i caii
^''"''''''*"'

them

Some have
Base

tur[n]d Turkes for gaine, yet live despisde

After they once have been but circumcisde.

slaves, w7i/ch

Dagon

'bove the Arcke doe

set,

And And

for true Christ adore false

Mahomet.

1560

But Mahomet,
all

as

Dagon

did, shall fall,

those wicked priests that worship Baal.

Others, that

would
flie

to high preferment come,

some join the

Leave

vs,

&

vnto the Sea of Rome.

1564

^^""'^ "^^'""''

But how dost prosper w^th them being there ?

'

Tliis

word twice written

This
is

plages; the letter over the a

A

is

uncertain.

here the

first

is

crossed through and j'laitgnes written, but blurred. MS. lunary. See Glossarj-.
^

52

CARRIER AN APOSTATE OR A HYPOCRITE.

[sat. 4,

Contemptibly
an
to

tlicy live,

&

full of feare.

employed Is tlier murder

1

are

some damned enterprise

in

hand,

princes.

To murder

princes, ruinate a landl

1568
it,

These be the

men
'tis

that must be actoz^rs in

it.

Who

ever were the author to beginne

If they refuse,

death

if

they proceed

Death

&

damnation waites vpon their deed.

servitude, doth live
;

1572

Thus chaind in wre[t]ched

A
Like fools they submit their necks to the

runagate,

&

English fugitive

And

yet like fooles, they doe submit their necke

slavish

Vnto the

yoke

&

proudest checke

157G

yoke of the
Pope.

Of Eomes

insulting tyrant,

vpon hope
;

That their demerits will

Avin larger scope

Many
.To

-vv/i/ch

theither dayly flocke apace

worke

their

owne confusion
fearfull

&

disgrace
:

1580

Witnesse their
"Needs must

endes

&

wre[t]ched lives
deyill drives."

"

But goe they must because the

Carrier of late

when

the devil

drives."
If Carrier,

would have made

his career

who

(Thinking perhaps to be esteemed dear

1584

died

(?

at Liege)

before

midsum-

Of

th' antichristian prelate) to

the citty
'twas pitty

mer, 1614,

Of seven

hilld

Eome, " 0, &," say some, "

e're

That his (how

they grant

it

lewd) intent

Met not
For
had succeeded in reaching Rome, he might have become a
Cardinal.

a look't for prosperous event.

1588
small,

he, because his learning'

in short time

was not

Might

have been a Cardinall."

say.

"What the successe had prov'd I dare not

For he was cut of from

his

wished prey

1592

High love incensd

Stroke him,

that thus he should backslide

&

in a neighbour land he died.

Apostolicall,

Some think he was not

But alwaies
[leaf 20]

in his heart papisticall;

1596

Certaine

it is,

how

e're

they can excuse him,

The
He was
cither an

devill in this act did

but abuse him.

flight.

And
In

were he not apostate in his

stay heer he

apostate or a hypocrite.

liis

was an hypocrite.
'

1600

MS. Icarming.

SAT. 4.]

SOME SELL THEIR SOULS FOR MONEY.

Pistor,
?

53
who was

Pistor was falln into great poverty,

How
'

poor, matches his

come

lie

to

grow

rich thiis sodenly

daughter with a
rich

For he of

late hatli

matclid Lis daughter well

man.

Vnto a gentleman,

as I hear tell,

1G04

Of

faire

demeanes,

&

great extent of ground,

And made her portion worth five thousand pound. Why, once w/thin these five year (as was thought)
Ten poundes would
all the

wealth he had have bought,

!

And now

he

's

in his thousandes
is

This quick change,

This sodaine metamorphosis

strange.
Perhaps the
Fairies bring

Belike he hath found out some mine of golde,

Or

else the Fairies bring

liis

Imn heapes vntolde

sets a light,

1612

him
a

gold, perliaps

spirit.

Because he sweeps

house cleane,

Faire water in a basen, every night,

And
Or

other pretty toyes, to doe

them pleasure
treasure.

else

some

spirit

shewes him hidden

1G16

now you hitt it, 'twas indeed a spirit, To whom, for certaine tearme of yeares t'

inherit

His ease and pleasure with aboundant wealth.

He hath made And in a deed

Sould soule

sale of

lois

soules dearest health.

1620
He has signed a contract with tlie
deviL

engrost, signd
all

with his blood, hope of good

& body w/th

!

In heavenly ioyes
horrid act

to come, vnto the devill.

execrable evill

1624

Another Faustus, haplesse, hopelesse man,

"What wilt thou doe, when as that
litle
is

sand
1

Of thy soone emptied

Wliat will he do in the end?

houreglasse,

spent

When
Thou

horro?<r of

thy conscience keeps repent

1

1628

From thy

black spotted soule

(but in vaine)
it ease,

wilt then

wish (& think

not paine)

" That I had that estate of grace I solde

[For the] fruition of a

litle

golde.

1632

Thougpi] I

liv'de ne're soe miserablie poore,

And

like

an abject begd at every doore

of yeares, I could be well content
'

Mnnons

He will be willing to be a
beggar
it'

he can

Originally Mlii/

For written

over.

54
thereby escape heU.

ALL GOOD THINGS ARE BOUGHT AND SOLD.

[sat. 4.

To

'scape the everlasting

hells infernall lake,
vfhich. for

punnishment
purchase heaven,
bereaven."

1036

Of

&

Of

ever I

am now

Then wilt thou curse thy selfe, thy -nTetched fate, 1640 The wombe that bare thee, him that thee begat
;

Wish
He
will cnrse all In vain.

thou hadst been a beast, a sencelesse stone,

To 'scape that horro2/r of confusion. But wishes, vowes, & horrid execration
164:4 Cannot preserve thee from damnation. solde Thus each thing of esteem is bought and

men, but

is

Bold

So every honour bought and let buyers

:

and

sellers

beware.

For mindes-corrupting, soules-confounding golde. Sellers take heed, & byers have a care.
This
is

no com??ion ordinary ware

to
't

1648

,'leaf 20,

back]

Looks

betimes, lest you to late repent

curse, earths plague, hells

The poore mans

punnishment

SAT. 5.]

EXCESSIVE EATING AND DRINKING.

65

[against gluttony, drunkenness, and tobacco.]

ArGUjWENTUM.
Noliiscum in terris Epicuri vivitur instar ventri mille placere modi. Delitijs Turpior ebrietas animam cum corpore fcetlat, Et demum ad Stygias ducit vtrumq?/e domos.
:

From thirst of wealth & golden villany now am come to brutish gluttonie,
w/iich
is

now come
is

to

Of
It

my

brutish gluttony,

]\Iuse

doth almost loath to

treat,

which

very

soe base a crime, yet

action, that

growne soe great

'tis

1654

common.

In customary

deemd
extend

If sinne, a smale one, not to be esteemd.

This vice doth not alone

it selfe

T' excesse in meat, but eke doth comprehend

1658
and drnnVennesf, which defiles body and soul.

That base vnmanly sinne of drunkennesse,

"Whose worse then worst of brutish beastlinesse
Defiles both soule

&

body,

&

doth bring

Both

of

them

to eternall ruining. to thai excesse is

1662

This age of

men

growne

The present age

is

worse than
ever was.

That was I think in Sodome never knowne,

Sodom

Although

it

were that

capitall offence,

"Which iustly did

all-seeing

love incense

1666

Them & their citty vtterly to quell With fire w7'ch from heavens architecture

fell.

56

DELICACIES FROM FOREIGN CLIMES.

[sAT.

5.

Hq-w can we wretclies in

Expect
lesse

this sinfull time

vengeance for as

damnd

a crime

1G70

For

to speake first of out excesse in meat,

Though man should

Many
care only

eat to live, not live to eate,

]\Iany there are which, only vse their care

shall eat.

In dainty banquctes and

delitious faro.

1674

What
Every
beast, bird,

beast doth breed in owr Britannicke soile

tast,

That doth delight the

but we doe

toile

To takc

&

kill

What
1

bird doth cut the aire

captured for
their tables.

With

her swift wing, but that

we doe

repaire

1678

Therwith OUT tables

We
&
yet

doe

fish all seas

To catch

the rarest dish, therby to please

palates
:

Our dainty
Are not
'Froxn.

fish, bests, birdes,

Which, in aboundance
and yet they
de'ikacTerfrom other nations.

this out land affordes,

1682

Sufficient

we must have more

table,

cates

other nations at excessive rates

^^ fu^ish out OUT

That
eat the fruit,

which

(like

swine

but ne're cast vp their eyen

dayly doe de\ouT
to that

1686

To the faire tree) we W/thout thankesgiving

heavenly power.

Whose

gracious goodnesse doth such blessinges give,

And

suffers vs so peaceably to live

1690

With
[leaf 21]

In such a land of plenty that doth flow milck & hony, w///ch we doe bestow

To pampe?- owr
Like Epicurcs
;

selves

<fe

please out sence

OTrseWeHnd
live Ukeepicures.

as if alone

from thence
^^^^
^^^^^

1694

^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^ ^^^^

The cause
Thus
are the guiftcs,^

of out creation, did intend.

wherw/th God man doth

riotus excesse.

blcsse,

Abusd'e by vaine

&

1698

Like the rich gluttons in the Gospell are The feasted we make, from yvhich. we doe debarre
without regarding
cra%^''charity at

The poorer
Bcforc
^^^^
^^.^.^

sort of

men.

Well may they

J

lie

otiT doTCS,

&

cravc OUT charity

1702

our doors.

^^^^^ Lazarus they shall obtaine

'

MS.

guist^s.

BAT. 5.]

THE DUTCH THE GREATEST DRUNKARDS.

57

Cold comfort,

&

small reliefe to sustaine

Their liungcr-starved bodies, while w/thin

The
In

richer sort doe stand

vp

to the chin

1706

The

rich overfeed themselves.

delicates,

&

euen with excesse,

;

Are

like to surfet

while the wantonnesse

Of

their insatiat appetite, that feeds

On

such plurality of viands, breeds

This I thinke the cause
to such diseases drawes,

1710

Offensive humors.

'Which

oiiv

rich

men

and draw on
themselves

many

Wherwith we dayly

see they are tormented.

fare

of the diseases

from which they

When
And
To

if

with moderate

they were contented

1714

suffer.

They might both keep

their bodies in
all their

good health,

save the residue of

wealth

feed the hungry soule, the naked cherrish,

still

'Which, wanting succo2fr

one heaps doe pejish. 1718

Drunkenness
is

But now
"W/^/ch
is

let

me

discourse of drunkennes,

common.

a part of gluttony, whose excesse

Is likewise of the belly,

&

is

made
1722
We
are worse than the

Even

a com??ion ordinary trade.

We
The
Or

count the nation of the

German Dutch
much,
1726

greatest drunkard, but our land as

is

Germans.

rather more,

with

this vice infected,

W/ri'ch doth deserue sharply to be corrected.

And
This

yet

'tis

slackly punnishd

but 'twere good

That Dracoes [laws]

vice, I say,

for owrs in vertue stood.

is

with vs as frequent
if I

As w/th

the Dutchmen, who,

not misse

1730

The Dutch
began this

first

vice.

]\rine aime,

were the

first

founders of this siune

AVithin OUT country; but

we now beginne
1734

T' appropriate to our selves their noted vice,

So apt we are

to follow each devise

That tendes to wickednesse

After forbidden things

&

villany;
flie,

we

swiftly

A\nien after that from which

much good may

goe.

growe,

Although by force compeld, we slowly

But man must follow
tlie

1738

but we quickly
imitated and

now

times fashion,

often excel them.

58

A MAN MUST DRINK OR BE A

JEST.

[sat.

5.

And shew
Of
Or
[leaf 21, back]

himselfe an ape in imitation

liell-hatched sinne

every
else

new found &

is

he

not counted worth a pinne.

sit

1742

He

that cannot

quafling
till

aU the day,
wealth decay

A man who
cannot sit and drink all day is made a jest.

Carousing healths

wit

&

W/; ich will not vpon every lewd request Brink drunk in kindenesse, why, he 's made a jest 1746

To those companions, whose

The dmnkard
sits

licentious veine

And drunken
The

hximoz<rs

still

doe entertaine

and makes

base speeches.

basest speeches,
at

&

in their

mad

fit

Doe speake

randome w/thout
Lacedemonians,

fear or wit.

1750

How

far vnlike

Though they were hethen

Are men
in this o?/r age
1

& we

Christians,
this crime
fiiide

To them

Soe loathsome was, that they would

The Lacedsmonians used to

a time

1754

To make

the Ileloties drunk, w7;/ch

wer

their slaves,
;

make
slaves

their

sort of loutish, ahject-minded

knaves

drunk as a warning to

And

being in the basest sort disguisde,

children,

their children.

Shew them their

mock them as

despisde

1758

And
Eut

debaush creatures, by their beastlynesse,

their

To teach
if

young

to loath
it

aU drunkennesse.
1762

others will not doe

for vs

Will^ even fox

o?;rselves tiH all

abhorre

vs.

Well may
To shew
I pass over the

it fit

this o?/r vntemp(^?'ate age.

a drunkard in his equipage.

'le

passe Apitius, w/;/ch spent all the year,

man who had

at

thousand dishes
one
feast,

In brave carrousing,

&

fine belly-cheer

1766

He

that to please his sence

had

at one feast

His thousand severall dishes

at the least.

Although he had

noe other

company
;

But
and by his
extravagance

his sole single selfe to satisfie

all the flesh

1770

For

that

Noahs Arke contained,

he had entertained

The whole
His

seas fish, if

friends, could not sufiicient store afi'orde,

To

furnish out th' insatiate gluttons horde.

'

1774

We'll.

SAT. 5.]

EXAMPLES OF DRUNKENNESS.
one,
till

59
broiiK'it

Thus he run

on[e] yeares gluttony-

himself

to iioverty.

Brought him from

millions vnto jDOverty

I will omit the brave iEgiptian

Dame,
1778
Cleopatra, to gain

Which, by her death bath got eternall fame,

Proud Cleopatra, Antbonies

loose minion,

her lover's good

"Who, to obtaine ber lovers good opinion,

opinion, drank

disBolved pearls.

Did Her

in a cup of wine, drunk to bis bealtb.

;

Carouse dissolved pearles of infinite Avealtb

great excesse

1782

&

sensuall gluttony

Procurde ber owne

,1 'le

&

bis sad tragedie.

Sardanapalus lost his life not through such

leave tb' Assirian Sardanapalus,

;

With, tbat lewd Eoman, Heliogabolus

17o0

means

Only

tbeir riot

was the

fatall knife

Tbat cut tbem of from empire & from life. Examples from soe farre I need not fetcb.

We
In

bave more moderne ones within owr reacb

1790

tbis OUT native Isle, each day, each

bower
as millions in onr

Tklillions of

such like subiects doe ever sboAver

own country now

[leaf 221

Before our eyes, w/i/cb live in vaine excesse

Of

soule-polluting, beastly drunkennesse.

179^

practise.

On[e] pot companion

I will describe,

&

bis fasbion
relation
it

&

make

Of wbat my
Cervisius

seLfe

bave scene, tbat tbey tbat bear

IMay bate the

is

like,

&

bating

may

forbear

it.

1798
Cervisius
is

most accomplisbt man,

true drunkard

YvTiether he deale at balfe pot or Avbole can,

JSTo flincber,

but as true a drunkard bred

cup vnto bis bead.
ioviall boy.
is

As ever

lifted

1802
and a right good
fellow,
;

A rigbt
And

good fellow, a true

on[e] tbat of bis purse

nothing coy

Hee T spend bis dozen of beer witb any friend, And fox him if be can, before hee T end
;

loOG

I,

or hee T fox himselfe, but that

's

no wonder
but if a man declines to drink

The fox
But
if

&

be are seldome time a sunder.

the man, to sobernesse inclinde,

Eefuse to follow bis inordinate minde,

1810

with him he

is

60
reidy him.
to

SKETCH OF A DRINKING BOUT.

compel

[sat. 5.

Because his nature cannot brooke to doe

it,

His stab

is

ready to compell liim to

it.

This alehouse-haunter thinkes liimselfe a safe

He
his

drinks with

If he "w/th his companions, George

&

Eafe,

1814

companions

and makes thera

drink with liim,

Doe meet
Till they

together to drink vpsefreese

have made themselves as wise

as geese.

ther this

man

(like lord "w/thin a

hutch)

Will pay

for all

&

ne're his
till

mony

grutch;

1818

Th[e]y must not part

or else he will quarrel with

they have drunk a baiTell,

Or

straight this royster will begin to quarrell.

them.

Wher e're they meet, to th' alehouse they must goe, He sweares they shall, & they must not say noe. 1822
As soone
The
His other
as e're the alehouse

them

receives.

tapster,

duble diligent, straight leaves

guested, in course to take his cup.

;

As

it is

sweetest

And make the full messe of these drunkards vp He knowes what best belongs vnto his gaine,
These are the

1826

drinking at the spring, thej' go

into the cellar

men he

seekes to entertains.
'1

Then

straight into the seller hee

them

bring,

'Tis sweetest

drinking at the verry spring,

1830

Wher
Must

as a barrell, for the

nonce

set out.

straight be pearc'd, then each

di-ink

must haue

his bout

And
and drink till their hands shake and
tlieir

vp

all

to leave a litle snuffe

Is petty treason;

&

such pretious

stuffe

1834

Must not be throwne away.

Vntill their adle heads doe

Thus they drink round,

heads

make
their

the ground

are addled.

Seeme blew vnto them

But they proceed
Wlier he doth
lie

till

hands doe shake.

ake.

Their tongues speak duble,

till

& their braines do

1838

one drop[s] downe dead drunke,

long time, a sencelesse trunk

And
[leaf 22, back]
falls dead drunk, a second goes to sleep,

all

the rest in a sweet pickle brought

(Such operation hath the barrell wrought),

Lie downe beside him.

1842

One

straight ialles a sleej)

One

Ready

to

drowne himselfe, in that doth keep

spoiling
is
;

the third

is

sick.

The broken beer from

Falles into spuincj,

then another

&

like to

smother

1846

SAT. o.]

SKETCH OF A DRINKING BOUT.

liis

Gl
while tiie tapster vomits and goes on the

Hiiuselfe in

ownc vomit.

He
1
.

that least
1
f.

Seemes

to

be drunk, yet sliewes himsclfe a beast,

's

to sleep

And
To

that

the tapster, -wJiidi hath got a trickc,

sick,

Because he would prevent his being

force himselfe to cast, then

1850

on the

barrell

To

take a nap.

Thus ends

this drinking quarrell.

Three hours later

After some 3 howers sleeper strong operation

Hath brought

their braines into a better fiishion,

ill

1854

go to

it

again

uu

They gin to wake, & finding themselves Of their late surfet, which, hath force to
The
strongest body, to
't

empty"*

kill

afresh they goo.

;

To drink away

their paine

such heartsick woe

1858

By

an im??ioderate drunkennesse procnrde,

because

Must by " a haire of the same dog " be curde. Then once againe the pot must keep his round,
Vntill the barrell, with, his hollow sound,
Fortell his emptinesse.

"a

hair

must cure them,

1862

Trivmphantly

They doe then eccho

forth this victory,

As

'twere a conquest, that deserv'd w/th golde

eternall

In Fames

booke

to

be enrolde.
all,

1866
Cer\-isius

But

still

Cervicius paies for

all

his purse

pays

Defraies

recknings

there

must none disburse

penny but

himselfe.

" Tut, I have landes

"\V/iich

now

of late are
last,

come

into

my

handes,
drink,

1870
so long as he has

And
!N"or

whilst they

I will not

want good

boon companions.
1

Wherfore was

my

chinck

not"vanrgooa
''"^
'

^lade but to spend

And
!

can

't

be better spent

Then 'mongst good

Faith, no.

laddes in ioviall meriment?

1874

Flie, brasse

More

precious I do holde

Malte*^ pure quintessence

then king Harries golde.

Ai.T,, And
And
I'le

Good

liquor breeds good blood, good blood best health, which breeds good blood, and -1,1 n ^ 11 that s a lewell to be prisde bove wealth. 1878 good blood best

Drink round, sweet George,

charge honest Rafe

to
;

me,
let
's

my

turne

is

next,

ply ouv text

"Without digression.

Tapster, take your bout,

best,

Leave not a drop, you'r

but drink

all out.

1882


62

BACCHANAL THE WINE DRINKER.

[sat.

Why
thinks the four would beat any four in

soe,

brave boyes, tbis gear dotb cotten well,

foure might

He

I think

we

win

the.

silver bell

Of any 4
Let
's

in Europe, for oux drink.

a challenge, Eafe
;

Europe.

make

I doe not think

1886

But we

shall put

downe

all

that dare contest

best.

"With vs in

this, if Ave

but doe ouv

And
This conceit

yet ther were 4 roring boyes^ they say.

drj'-

That drunk a hogshead

Tapster,
makes him
dry,

in one poor day.

!

1890

some beer ; the conceit makes me dry

partes

and he drinks hoping to meet again next day.

Heer honest rogue, night

good cumpany
to

But

my

good

lades, let

's

meet againe
will drinke
til 's

morrow,

And
[leaf 23]

at this fountaine

we

downe sorrowe."

Thus he runs on his

For
his

course,

drunken vaine

Buines his substance, makes him entertaine

companion penurious want.

All other friends doe then

In the end comes
poverty, and it alone sticks to

wax wondrous
fall

scant

1898

But

this alone,

when men
till

in decay,

Will never leave them

their dying day.

him

His substance poore,

Getes

his soule

more poore in

grace,

him contempt on

earth, in hell a place

1902

Of

everlasting paine, vnlesse the smart

his -odcked heart.

Of misery reforme

For sometimes want

&

hard calamity

Another scorns to get drunk on

beer or bottledale.

Even Athiestes turnes to Christianity. But Bacchanall is of a higher straine.

190G

He
As

scornes soe base a thought to entertaine,

to drink

drunk w?th beer or

botle-ale
's

Koe, he contemnes the

Marry, jouv true

vse, that fashion

stale.

1910

elixar, all rare

wine,
divine
!

That doth

enspire,

&
to

make the thoughtes

Whie, he esteemes the nectar of the goddes,

Nepenthe to him
falls far

Homers Nepenthe,
Of

come short by oddes

Bich Malago,
;

1914

short of

delicious wine,

[this] delicious iuice.

Canarie, Sherry, w/th brave Charnico

Phalerno, wth joux richest Orleance wine.

Pure Ehenish, Hippocras, white Muskadine,

1918

SAT. 5.]
"\Y/th tho true

THE MAN WHO

IS

"MERRY DRUNK."
and
"so-so."

63
ciaret is but

Lloud of Bacchus, Allegant,

vigoitr

That addes new

which the backe doth Avant

1922

Are precious wines.

Is but so so
;

Marrie, jouv wliite or Charret

it

he cares not greatly for

., 1

But

for the

rest,

whose vertuous operation

,

wines cheer tiie heart and elevate

the senses.

Doth cheer the heart opprest with passion, Doth rapsodize the soides intelligence Above the levell of inierioza' sence,

1926
1

Why, had he
To Of
tast

to his

With more delight, he would not Avrecke

ioyes
;

1T11
this

wish the cranes long necke

11

if Bacchanal had ^"^ '^''^ neck of a

crane, to taste

delight!"

all celestiall

were a treasure

To be

preferd above that heavenly pleasure,

thine oAvne mouth, thou beastly Epicure,
selfe,

1930

From
ISTever

Dost thou condemne thy

thou shalt be sure

!

indeed to tast celestiall bliss

But know withall (though thou those joyes doe misse)

That thou (when
as

thy soule will be agast)

1935

Shalt of the cup of Godes iust vengeance tast

Power kindes
It shall not

of druukardes this out age hath quoted,

'Which, since by observation I have noted,

1938

There are four kinds of drunkards:

be amisse heer to

insert.

That we may know how much each doth

pe?'vert
i.

The

soule of man.
this,

The

first is

merry drunk,

The merry
:

drunk

his sport

And
I' th'

although his braines be somewhat slirunk

litle

is

called

wetting, hath, they say, but

hart

1943

In

his

demeanour

to make harmles sport

Is all his practise.

In what fashion

Is baudie talke,

&
&

damnkl prophanation
a harmlesse thing?
toies, w/iich '

19 40
[leaf 23, back]

Of Gode5 most holy name,

Are apish
-L

tricks

vse to bring
"-"

Men

in dirision, sporte^- to breed delight

but bawdy talk and apish tncUs are "ot harmless.

Is that wZw'ch

makes the soule

as black as night,

1950

'Which takes away

the perfect vse of sence,

Which

is

the high

way
1

to incontinence,
if this

A thing

of nothing

Whie,

be

soe,

I graunt you then a drunken sot

may

goo

1954

; ;

G4

THE "maudlin drunkard" and his tenant.

For one that
is

[sat. 5.

innocuous

otherwise

He is a beast & And if this be the hurtlesse sport you meant, love keepe me from such harmlesse merriment.
worse, let that suffice.
2.

1958

The mandlin

The second kinde we maudline drunkardes

I thinke the

call.

drunk, whose drink seems to

fall

humid

stufFe

they drink doth

fall

from his eyes.

Out of
Women
can cry

their eyes againe, for they distill

Teares in great plenty.

Woemen when
;

they will 19G2

when they wUI,

Can weep, we
Except they

say,

but these doe never cry

first

be drunk

but then they dry

The fountaine
but he only when he's drunk.

of their teares quite

vp before
o're

They

cease

from weeping, or doe once give

I suppose
"

19GG

Their dolefull lamentation.

The name

of " jMaudhne

drunk

from hence

arose.

This kinde of drunkard

is

the kindest creature

That ever did converse w/th mortall nature

1970

When

he

is

in his

fit,

you may com??2aund

hee T ever
kill

All that he has, his purse, his heart, his hand,

To do you
If you'll sit and swill with him
he's happy.

service

why

Yor heart wrth kindenesse, soe you '1 sit & In his loathd presence ; keep him company

swill

1974

And he is pleasde, ther 's his felicity. And now I call to minde an accident
That did
befall to one of his

lewd bent.

1978

One
Over
Once a wealthy young gentleman

of these maudline drunkards (I will passe

it briefly).

In this sort

it

was

certain

wealthy-left young gentleman,

One that had more skill how to c^uafie a can Then manage his revenewes, for his ease
Put out the best part
of his land to lease,

1982

let

out his land

to a crafty old
fox,

And had

to tennant

an olde crafty fox,

who knew on
which
side his

bread was
buttered.

Who, though his landlord made him a right oxe, 1986 Knewe for all that on w/u'ch side of his bread
The sweetnesse
of the butter
all to his

was yspread
best of gaiue,

Knew how And therfore

to turn

did wrth patience entertaine

199C


SAT. 5.]
I lis

TUE "JIAUDLIX DRUNKARD" AND HIS TENANTS.

65

supposde wrong.

What

caunot

tliir.st

of goldo
1

Pcrforino

when

ineii to

wickednesse are solde

to

This old sinckanter,

when he came
to finde

pay

When
to

he came
Iii3

His

pay

hxndlordei" rent at the appointed day,

for the

rent

lie

1994

Was

most part snre

;

him

fast
always found his
laniilorj at the

W/thin

a taverne

whilst his coine did last

Ther was his randevous.

The niony

tolde,

tavern,

W7'ch was as welcome vnto him as golde,

1998
[leaf 24]

They needs must drink together ere they part. Then is wine cal'd for, & quart after quart
Comes marcliing
Afresh for wine,
in, till
fit,

my

young gallant

fals

Into his maudline

&

then he calles

2002

&

w/th right weejjing eyes

Hugging

his ten??.ant, "

" In faith you are, be

You are welcome " cryes, God you are Beleeve it,
!

where he was welcomed and

treated,

What
Sha
't

is it

thou willt have

&
!

I will give

it.

200G

have a new lease for a hundred yeares,

the land thou holdst
affection,

Of
Of

all

I speake in teares
and
offered his

my

&

slialt

yearly pay

peppercorne, a nutt, a bunch of may,

trifle.

2010

land at a peppercorn rent

Or some such

Tut,

man

I desii-e

To have thee To purchase

thrive,
;

I only doe aspire

reaji
;

credit

thou the gaine shalt

Hang him

that will not let his landes good cheap

JSText qiiarter

"
!

bv his maudlin drunk landlord.

Well, for this time they part.

comes,

And And

after that a third

he payes the

sum??ies.
still.

findes his landlord in this humoifr

Then doth the

To

crafty fox begin to

;

fill

2018
doe hit

His braines w/th cun?ang

if his plotes

his desire, his landlordes

want of

Avit

Shall

make him

rich for ever.

Vpon

this

He makes
To

a feast to w/a'ch he doth not misse

;

2022

invite his landlord

but before, compacted

This time they part, but before they meet again he preijares
indentures.

With an

atturney by whose healp directed,

paire of large indentures, fairely drawne.

Are formally composde.

These

as a

pawne

2026

66

LIOX-DRUNKARDS.

[SAT. 5.

Of

his (leer hopes

he keeps,

& when

the

fit

Hath

quite deprivde

my
Men

gallant of his wit,

Hee
Men act for their own advantage.

'1

make

his landlord set

lease.

both hand

&

seale

To To Of

this
.

new

of experience deale

2030

their best

promt

/v

&

it

were as good
as the

That he should be a gainer

cut-throat vintners.

brood

"Well, to

make

short worke.
203-4

My
The landlord
his ofTer
is
.

gentleman, his braines as

liglit as

corke

"With brave carrousing,

fals to his
;

odd vaine

Of Weeping kiudeuesse
That his kiiide

nay, seemes to complains

nut

offer findes

noe acceptation

actep

Okie Gray-beard knowes his cue,

Still

&

by gradation 2038

drawes him one, tiU

tlie

kinde foole protester

reste*"

AVere the indentures drawne, so firme he

In his

oj^inion, ther

should be a match,
all

And
Then
the inis

his

hand soone should

vpou
^ ^

the rest despatch. 2042

Straight
-itt-

this are the indentures

denture

pro-

duced and signed,

Wituesse there uecds not, lor the house ^

[of] guestes
;

pti
:

brought
^

is

fraught

"With store
Scales

then the kinde harted gull

his wits are dull

and subscribes

to all

2046

And
Of

sencelesse of this ^vlong.

Thus

is

he^ shorne

eight score poundci^ a year for one poore corne

Of pepper,
But iiow

&

the lease, that hath noe flawe,

is

For a whole hundred yeares

[ieaf24, bacii]
s.

good in lawe.

2050

to passc this

&

to

make

reporte

"Lion-drunk-

Of

lyou-druiikardc^', w7;/ch
is

is tJic

third sorte.

arda " come next.

YoiiT lyon-drunkard

a kinde of

man

That in his
Break

fitt

will rage, sAveare, curse,

&

banne, 2054
wall,

glasses,
w^'tli

&

throw pottes against

tlie

Quarrell
Tiiey are fer

any man,

&

fight

w/th

all

That yield not

to his rage.
.

]\Iad Hercules,
,

worse

tlian

Hercules.

Ju the cxtrcamcst rage

of his disease,

2058

Clad in the shirt w///ch Deianira

sent,

Dipt in the blood of Nessus,

'

to

prevent
tlie

letter like

is
^

written before

word house.

MS.

this is the

SAT. 5.]

TUE BEASTLY DRUNK BURIED ALIVE.

to lijle,

67

His love
111

when

the poyson boykle

every veine,
.

&

with the torment spoilde

2062

is

This drunkard worse tlian

a

And

quite bereait hini oi true reasons vse,

teare

madman.

Making him

With man

&

yp trees, & break all truce beast, was not yet halfe soe madde
bad
2066

As

this outragious drunkard, nor soe

T' encounter

w/th
a

for this

man
;

is

indeed

Worse then

mad man.
w/thm

Let that

man

take heed

W/ii'ch comes

his reach

vnlesse he have

!More lives then one, this wretch will dig his grave.

These are

^7ie

men

^/iat

make

soe

many

fraies,

2071

These are they

That stab

&

who commit
kill soe

so

many now

adayes,

many

murders.

On whom just vengeance

The fowerth
Lying in

oftentimes attendee,

Bringing their lives vnto most shamefull ende^.

2074

&

last

kinde of this drunken crewe

to spue,
*.

Is beastly drunk,
gutters,

& these men vse & in rdthy mire,

.

The

beastly
lie

drunk, wlio
gutters like

in

swine.

More

like to SAvine

then men.

Promethean

fire

2078

Is quite extinct in

them ;

yea^ vse of sence

Hath Within them noe Some

Of

place of residence.

of this kinde, as if a deadly potion

th' effect,
;

Had wrought

doe seeme to have no motion

vitall faculties

man would deeme

for soe

2083
Thev
arc dead

That they were dead indeed,

they seeme,

When

only supe/'fluity of drink

Deceives the eye,

&

makes
(I

the heart misthink.

tell

2086

On[e] of these

men

am

about to

'Noe fable, reader, therfore

marke

it

well)

Vpon mine owne moste

Being dead drunk
i'

true intelligence,

th'

time of pestQence,
o'

2090
dead,

one

of these

was

Was Was
-r,
,

thought
,
.

t'

have dide

1
.

th' plague,

& seeming
.
,

amongst others
,

alive buried.

But being by some

oi

ms companions
of him,

mist,

the pestilence" wliich rjiffcd in leos. isee De/oe'a Histori/ of the ^lague of 1665, p.
"

And
Vnto

diligent enquirie

made, they wist

2094 went

'*

At length what was become

&

his place of buriall, w/th intent

68

DRUNKENNESS DEFENDED BY A PHYSICIAN.

If
it

[sat.

.5.

were possible to save

vp, they
to

liis life.

He had

beer,

The grave digd

saw with how great

strife

2098

buried alive.

The drunken man,

wonted sence
all

restorde,

Had
[leaf 25]

vsde himselfe, being

with blood begorde

"W/th violence to help himselfe was wrought,

But

all in

vaine

for not the aide

late,

they brought,

2102

W/a'ch came too

This -RTetched
This serves as an example of God's
hatred of this
sin.

nor his o^vne j)ower, could shend

a moste fearfull end.

man from

Surely this iust example doth expresse,

How much God

Yet
sinfull

hates this beastly wickednesse.

210G

man, whose very heart should bleed

"With recordation of soe straunge a deed,

Is not reformd a iot

from

this

lewd sinne,
in.

Eut every day more deeply plunged

2110

Xay, drunkennesse hath got an arch-defender.

Yea, more then that, a principall com/ander,
But
a certain

great phisitian,
'tis

VfJiich.

prescribes

some dayes
211

physician says it is necessary to drink.

^Tierin

necessary, as he sales,
for the bodies better health,

To drink drunk

And
It
is

being done in private

a thing of nothing
!

&

by

stealth.

"VYliat phisitian,

AYhose vertuous minde, religious condition,

2118

Speak him a Christian, would once entertaine

Soe vilde a thought, or such a
He must
Epicure.

Ij^e

maintaine
hfe.

be an

It is

some

at[h]eist sure,

vpon

my

atheist or an

Some

Epicure, for 'mongst such

;

men

ar[ej rife

2122

These damnd opinions

on[e] that

knowes noe God,

"Was neuer scourged w/th

afflictions rod,

And

therfore luld a sleep in pleasures lap.

Securely sinnes,

& feares

no

after-clap.

212G

This man, -which only setteth vp his rest In that -which

He
denies the

man

com?unicates w/th beast,

The

soule of sence, denies th' eternity

immortality of
the soul.

Of

th' intellectual part,

&

doth apply

2130

All his endevoi<rs to delight the sence

Noe marie though he w/th

drunlvennesse dispence,

;;

S.VT. 5.]

OLD GREY-BEARD THE rHTSICIAN.

it

69

Which, though

may

the bodies health secure,

it

The

soules continuall death

doth procure.

2134:
oi.i

01(1 INIonsier

Gray-beard w?'th yo?<r poynts vntrust,

for yo?/r lust
;

Gray-board

Dublet vnbuttond, ready

ciiamber''wiih
aut

You, w7;/ch the chamber whcr you lay your head

"W/th baudie pictures round about doe spread;
'Which,

pictures,

2138

make jonv maide daunce naked

to

youv eyes,

Only

to see her veines

&

arteries

"VVAich hast given out this foolish prophesie,

That, vnlesse throngd to death, thou ne're shalt die

And

thertore neither vnto church nor faire,

repaire,

2143

thinks he wiu only die by being thronged.

Nor any publicke meeting darst But idlie livest at home in ease,

secure,

A
To

very atheist,
is yo?a'

This

meer Epicure, axiome, " drunkennesse

&

2146
is

good

He

too thinks

clear the stomach,

&

to

purge the blood."

Bometimes!

Well maist thou be

But
I

a good phisitian

am^
tJie

certaine a

bad

Cliristian,

2150
[leaf 25, back]

After

killing of

some hundred men,

And
To

yet I scarcely recken one for ten, the working of thy minerals,

trie

Thy
To

hearbes, thy drugges

litle

&

such materials,

2154

inhisexperidrugs
'

Perhaps some

knowledge thou hast gaind

;

lie

has

ease the head or stomach, being paiude

'"'"'^''

To help an ague-shaken

bodie, cure

A fever,
All
this,

dropsie, gout, or cicature

2158
nature

&

more then

this, as farre as

Permite5 thy skill to heaip a mortall creature,

Suppose thou canst performe

graunt thou couldst give

li\'e,

To

a dead

body

force againe to

2162
Though he has learned some-

As poetes faine that ^sculapious T^ T Did to vnjustly slame TT Hypontus

1
1

thing, yet,
soui,

Yet

all

thy

skill "wherof

thou makst thy vaunt

iiis

learning

Is nothing Avorth, because thou standst in

want

2166

is useless.

Of the

true

knowledge of thy soules

^

salvation,

Not unlike

a?'

in

MS.

70

EVILS OF DRUNKENNESS.

TOBACCO.

[sat.

The sweetnesse

of

whose only contemplation,

2170

The vertue

of thy art doe passe, as farre

As
We may
evil that

bright Apollo doth the meanest starre.

if

not do

TV7zich

thou knewst,

it

would thee quickly teach

good

may come.

Another

lesson, far

above thy reach

:

Of

principles in phisick
it's first

'

that noe

evill
tliQ

(W^ich had

begin[in]g from

devill)

2174

Though good ensue

tlierby,

must be committed,

Yea though the ill wrth more good be requitted. How much more then soe horrible a crime
Drunlienness darkens tlie splendour of our country.

As drunkennesse, whose

putrefactions slime

2178

Darkens the splendo?<r of our common wealth,

Must not be acted to secure the health Of tliQ base body (I doe call it base
In reference
to the soule), so to deface

2182
action,

The
and makes man worse than a
beast.

purer part of

man
of

yea,

by such

The loathsomnesse

whose infection
beast

Makes man, indued With reason, worse then Both soule & body doe become vnblest,
Vnsanctified members,

2186

&

vnlesse

Godes grace in time

Th'
all
2

this wickednesse represse,

both together perish,

&

remaine

In hels eternally tormenting paine.

Besides ale and wine, we now have Tobacco,

2190

Besides

ale, beer,

&

sundry sortes of wine

From

forren nationes,

whose more

fruitfull vine

Yeilds plenty of god Bacchus,

we have
oiix
;

got

Another kinde of drinke, w/iech well I wot

Is of smale goodnesse, though

2194

vaine delight

Follow
a rare Indian weed of great
virtues,

it

wtth excessive appetite

's

And

that

Tobacco, a rare Indian weed,

AY/Kch, because far fetcht only, doth exceed

2198

In vertue

all

out native hearbes,

for

what

For many pretious

'

vscs, vertues that

phisick," or,
*

The sense seems to require "the reach of principles in "thy reach in principles of phisicke." MS. Th'all for they'll.

SAT.

.').]

THE USE OF TOBACCO UNIVERSAL.

applide to phisicke
1

71
peaf'c]
which, even
if

May

Ije

Graunt

it see,
;

Altliougli I see great reason to say noc

2202

roo,i in itseif,

How

cannot justify

can that lustine out

excesse, out

common
Doe we

taking

the excessive' use

In such

even for that forsaking

1

All other nutrinie[n]tes

Phisick in this sorte
I should helie
1

applie
I,

If I should say
;

2206

Physic is use'i seldom and with

moderation,

my

knowledge

phisicks vse

Serv's only to reforme the

knowne ahuse

Of

the distempered body,

&

must be 2210
fall

But seldome,

&

w/th mediocrity,

Applide on speciall causes when they

To take Tobacco thus were

phisicall,

And And
But

might perhaps doe good ; but

this excesse

and if tobacco were so used it might do good.

ordinarie practise, questionlesse,

th' internall partes

221-4
foule,

Annoyes
I

&

makes them
a very gull

am

sure commaculates the soule.

's

Yet in these dayes hee

deemd

That cannot take Tobacco; every skull

2218
But now every skip-jack must
nave his pipe

And And You

skip-iacke

now

will have his pipe of smoke,

till

whiff
shall

it

bravely

hee

like to choke.

have a poore snake, whose best of meanes

Is but to live on that he dayly gleaues

2222

By

drudgery from others, w/a'ch will spend

ale

His pot of nappy

vpon

his friend,

anc".

pot of

aie.

And
As
if

his Tobacco w/th as ioviall grace.

he were a lord of some

great revenewes
!

faii-e

place

222G
not
?

And

I hope a

"Without
T
^

why should he man may spend what he hath got, What he spendes offence to any.
" Tut,

Is his

owne monie,

&

among
I,

his friendes
still,

mort 2230

And wiiy should a man not Spend what is his own?

He

will bestowe it."

&

doe soe

Follow the swinge of thy vngoverned

See what
'twill

will,

bring thee too

for I fore see

Thy end

wilbe both shame

&

beggerie.
at
's

2234
head
?

Whom
He

have we yonder with a pipe

if

lookes as

he were true Indian bred.

[sAT.
5.

72
Fumoso
is

SHOPS FOR SMOKIN'G AND DKIXKIXG.

the

0,

'tis

Fumoso

w/ili tlic tallow faCG,

He that of late hath got a speciall grace, And that 's to be the best Tobacconist
That ever held a pipe -w/thin
but lie lias ruined himself by tlie
practice;

2238

his
the,

fist,

It cost

him dear enough

for
.

fame goes
nose
'1

H as

smolvd out

all his living at his

2242

c\n

-^

To purchase

this rare skill.

But hee

repaire

This losse "w/th greater wealth vnto a haire,

he means to regain his wealth by

Belling tobacco

He has the rediest meanes " What 's that " "Why he
?

this

gap to stop.

intends to keep a sliop

224G

For smoke

&

botle-ale, w7'ch

soone will draAve

Good
Ynto

store of gallanted (even as iet

doth strawe)

his custome, &, for greater gaine,

A bonny lasse
[leaf 26, back]

or

two hee

'1

entertaine.

2250

As

take

me

e're a

shop subvrbian

That selks such ware, w/thout a curtezane.

And we will have the deed cronologizde, JSTay it may well be now im?nortalizde.
Doth
A woman
is

2254

a tobacco pipe

hang

before the dore,

is
!

'Tis a sure signe

w/thin ther
;

a whore.
to broad
;

these shops.

"A whore," sayes he " 0, fie you speake A punck, or else one of the dealing trade And such a one I mean to keep, & she
Will help, I hope, to keep
0,
'tis

2258

&

maintaine me.
all
fall."

the only thriving meanes of

He

will

purchase

To

raj'sc

maus
^

fortunes vp

by womans
^

22G2

riches in

abundance.

An

excellent project, follow thy designe,

i>

And And
It

thou shalt piu'chase a rich golden mine,

hell w/th all to boote
;

soe thou hast golde

makes noe matter.

But

pe?-haps being olde,

2266

One
To
but must lo-e his
soul in the end.

foote already within

Charons bote,

Thou
a

thinkst

it

time enough to change thy cote

habit, if th' intend,
life

more Christian
vile so e're

How

thy

have been, thine end

2270

Slialbo repentant,
.

though thou doe deferre

To the

lust

minute, yet thou darst aver

SAT. o.]

god's mercies ARE INFINITE.

73

'Twill be sufficient.

Tliou dost exami^le take

From the tlieefe o' th' crosso God seekes the losse 2274
;

Of no mans

soiile

his

Sonne he

thcrfore gave
all,

The

soules of sinners, soe

silly sott,

we

are

to save.
Faith only can

Thou

how

Avell

thou canst invent

Against thy

selfo to
!

make an argument

2278

admission to

Foole, Foole ISTot every dying man shall enter, That saith " Lord, Lord," into the heavenly center

Of

everlasting blisse

true faith

must be
2282

The only meanes

to this eternity.

And how

doth that but by good workes appear,

are true faiths handmaides,
eyes,

Good woorkes

&

are dear

In the Almighties
!N"ot

though

(I confesse)

of sufficient

power

to release

2286

and

faith

shows

The

soule from everlasting

punnishment

works.

(As papistes doe persuade by argument)

And

purchase heaven.

Godes mercy, not deserte

ioyes impart.

Of mortall man, can heavenly

But
In the true

2290

to returne to thee w/w'ch thinkst to die

faith, yet livst in villanie

That makst account

to

purchase heavenly grace

;

They who hope

At thy

last

hower, yet dayly sinst apace

slave,

2294

heaven

at the

Presumpteous

thy error doth deceive thee,

!

deceiUd.

And
For

of those heavenly iocs will quite bereave thee

if

the truth thou doe exactly scanne,

As is the life, so is the end of man. Wheras the theefs example thou dost
"Who being

2298
bring,

ready, his last requiem sing

The example
of

Ypou From
That

the crosse, was in that instant hower

shamcfull death to the celestiall bower

;

2302

cross was only t&

[leaf 27]

Of Paradise transported
this

learne to knoAV
to

example was indeed

infinite, his

shew
230G

Gods mercy

power

to save,

Though man
The vse

belike to drop into his grave.

of this

we

rightly

may

applie
comfort such as

To comfort them whose huge

iniquity

7-4

GLUTTONS AND DRUNKARDS MUST GIVE AX ACCOUNT,

Their conscience dotli oppresse,
S:

[sAT. 5.

are oppressed
witl> sin,

make them

faint,

and to keep them from

despair.

Lest black dispaire their guilty soules attaint.

2310

But

as this one, so

but this only one,

To keep man from such damnd presumption As thou dost fall into, Godes word containes,
Man's
intelleot is

alienated and hia

body dedicated
to sin.

How How How

darst thou then presume

is is

Wher

are

thy braines
1

thy iudgement from truth alienated

2315

thy soule, w/n'ch should be consecrated

service, dedicat to sinne,

Vnto Godes

To such presumpteous sinne 1 To purge thy conscience To wash thy sinne

Nothing that

If thou shouldst winne

All thy Hves precious time to clear this blot,

of soe foule a spot.

2319

in true repentant teares.

all

Yet

all

thy sorrowes,
sufficient to

thy Christian cares

2322

man

can do will appease God's wrath.

Are not

appease Godes wrath.^

Vnlesse his mercy helpe to expiate^

The

foulnesse of thie crime

w/thout his grace,

Hell shalbe thy pe?-petuall dwelling place.

Glnttons, drunkards,

2326

and

Epicures,

And you "Whom carnall sence & appetite immures From God & goodnesse, think not (though you
Like beast^s) that you noe
strict

rich gluttons, drunkardes, Epicures,

live

account shall give 2330

How you have spent yowr time, consumd'e joui treasure, Livd' brutishlie in ease, delight, & pleasure. Yes, for each act, for every word & thought,
will appear he !br<

Before Godes high tribunal being brought,

2334

the

Judgment

Seat of God.

You

must all answeare, yet you wilbe mute,

yotiv cause confute.

For jouv owne conscience will

Then

to

yor

terroz/r shall that

sentence be,

"Depart ye cursed
Thcr
something

to helles miserie !"

2338
2340

But I too long vpon

's

this vice

have

staide,

else of others to
'

be saide.

So in MS.

SAT. 6.]

THE WICKEDNESS OF

LOT.

Sat[tm] 6.
[aGxVIXST lasciviousness.]

Argumentum.
Vndiq?/(' squalenti scelerata libidine terra
Affluit,

&

templls spargitur vsqne Venus

meretrice, cinfedo
alit.

Luxurians

.-Etas Icena,

PoUuitur, moechos angulus omuis

Having discoursd of
It followes

sensuall gluttonie,

now

I speake of venerie
as inseperable
;

Excess of is the heart of lust.

delicates

For these companions

Are linckt together with sinnes ongly cable

2344

The heart

of lust

's

excesse in delicates,

And
He
But

in this vice the soule precipitates.

first

Lot was

drunk,

&

in this drunken

fit

Lot was drank when he sinned.

that incestuous sinne did straight coni??dtt.

I leave recordes of antiquity

2348
[leaf 27, back]

And

take

me

to this times iniquity.

Lust, as a poyson that infects the blood,

Boyles in the veines of

man

the raging floud

th'
it

2352

Of Neptunes kingdome, when Of the

fierce

impetuous might

winder doth make

seem

to fight

Now lust as a poison infects the

blood,

W/th monstrous
Ynto the
For

billowes 'gainst the loftie cloud,

Is calmer then the sea of lust,

though loud
safe
;

2356

eare of sence,

&

is

more

this can only

drownc the worser hafe

76

ALL CLASSES ARE GIVEN TO LUST.

[sat.

6.

Of man,

tlie

bodie

but lustes ocean

O'rewbelms both soule

&

body; yet fond man

all stay,

23G0

Riinnes in this gulfe of sinne without

And
and
if

wilfully dotli cast himselfe away.

ever a
it is

If ever age or nation ^viih this crime

nation were
defiled

Were

beastiallie defilde,

now

is

the time,

2364

our own.

And ours that nation, whose libidinous heat, Whose fire of brutish lust, is growne soe great
That
it

doth threaten with proud Phaeton

To
Both sexes and
all

give the world a

new

combustion.

2368

Both

sexes, each degree,

both young

&

olde,

ages are given

to this sin.

Themselves vnto this

filthy sinne

have solde
should be

Yea, even the tribe of Levie

(wJiich.

The
Are
Popish priests
are guilty not-

mirroz/rs of vnspotted chastety)

2372

slaves to lust

I speake not this alone

Of Popish Of an
Yet
live in

priestec<?,

AvA/ch

make

profession

withstanding their vows.

im?7?aculate virginity,

whoredome

&

adultery

2376

But alsoe to oux clergie, which to blame,

Preach continence, but follow not the same.

And

their

example

's

able to seduce
this knoAvne abuse
;

Well given mindes vnto

2380

For euery man doth vse in imitation

To
One country p irson keeps
his whore,

follow his instructozirs fashion.

as in a string.

The country parson may,

Lead the whole parish vnto any

thing.

2384

Eulalius hath had good education,

Pens sermons
Stifiie

well,

hath good pronuntiation,

inveighs 'gainst sinne, as gluttonie,

-vvrath, sloth,

Pride, en vie,

brutish lecherie,

2388

Covetousnes,

&

such

like,

no man more,

Yet every man can

while another
defiles
liis

tell

he keeps a whore.

Philogonous doth love his lust as well,

neighbour's wife,

But he would

clear

from

all

suspition dwell;

2392

'Tis safest gutting at a loafe

bcgunne.

And

therfore

he his noighbo?/r[s] wife hath wonne

SAT.

C]

ADULTERY OF PARSONS AND WIVES.

;

77

To be

his paramoia*
's

they

But hce

soe wary, no

may susjiect, man can detect

239G
but
is

His close encounters.

On[e] wench cannot

0, but heers the spite,

suffice his appetite
!

not

or two.

His

first

must then be baude vnto another,

daughter to the mother,

Slie to a third, the

2400
[leaf 28]

Til like the parish bull he serves

them

still,

And

dabbed their husband es clean against their

will.
if a

But he that knew him not, & heard him Would think it were impossible to teach
Vertue with, such a fervent seeming

preach,

man

heard

2404

would tHnVhe "

thus'

zeale,

And You

yet thus looslie in his actions deale.

lustfull

swine

that

know

the will of God,

Yet follow yor owne

waies, think tliai his rod

2408

(For soe he saith himselfe) shall scourge yo?;r sinne

"\V/th

many

stripes

w/th you he
is

will beginne.

The

greater

man, the higher

the evill

He

doth com??dtt,
convertites,

Turne

& he the viler devill. & make true recantation,

.

2412
Let iiim repent, or God will judge

And And

leave at last to act yo^tr

owne damnation,
2416

and condemn

Lest yoza' reward be Godes just vengeance,

hell yo^a* portion
's

& inheritance.
litle

Sempronia

married to a gentleman
can
;

That in the joyes of Venus

'Tis very likely,

&

you may believe

her,

And
T'

you, her honest neighbours, should relieve her.

Saith. lustfull Spurio, "

i de

pawne

my

1 head

Would she me accept, 1 1 T 1 to please her e re 1 slept,

i.

2421 women,

for

various reasons,

i.

And

save the paines of suing a divorce."

Yet Messalina doth, without remorse

2424
bed
are guilty of

Of conscience

for the act, take to her

first

second husband ere the

be dead,

W/th whom

she lives but an adulteresse

In brutish sinne

&

sensuall beastlinesse.
well, or,

2428
't

Pray love he please her

though
'1

be strange,

This second for a third I fear sheo

change.

POrE ALEXANDER
The
incest of

VI.

AND

IIIS

SON.

[sat.

G.

Borgia

's

in quiet,

Csesar Borgia,

Althougli his sister

& is let alone, & liis whore be

one

2432

The

father likewise doth (a hellish fact

his

!)

With

owns daughter cursed

incest act.

Who
and Alexander VI.

dares to let
triple

Eomes

him 1 Hee 's a great commander, 2436 crownM Pope, Sixt Alexander
!
!

Incestuous slaves

think you to scape the rod

Of the Almighty sinne-revenging God 1 No, though the world doe wink at jouv

offence

God never
The young wife
deceives her husband.

will

with wickednesse dispence.

2440

Sulpitia, leave at last to

wrong thy spouse,

;

Lest thou the furious sleeping lion rouse

Desist to act thy aged husbanded scorne,

He hath olde And I 'le not

plenty, give
tell

him not

the home,

2444

the world thy hatefull sinne,

life

How How
and robs him
tlie

full of

luxury thy

hath been,

HoAV many

severall lovers thou hast had,

often thou hast faind to see thy dad,

2448

That by such meanes thou mightst have

to

free accesse

To meet thy

paramoz<r.

ISTor

will I presse
ill
fill,

put money into hands of her

lover,
[leaf 28, back]

Thy

conscience w/th recitall of that

When
The

thou, thy letchers purse with golde to

;

2452

Emtiedst thy husbandes bagges

sutes of sattin,

the diamond ringer,

tliinge^.

&

such pretty

Which, thou, as pledges of thy lewd desire,

Gavst to thy sweetheart for his
I
'le

lustfidl hire,

245G

not once

name

no, I will hold

my

peace,

Soe thou wilt from thy

Let the man who has escaped the
penalty for rape be careful.

filthy lust surcease.

Drugo, although thou lately didst escape

The daunger
Awardeth

of the lawe, w/u'ch for a rape

24G0

death, be wise

&

sinne noe more,

the score
it
it,

Least that thou run soe

much vpon

Of wickednesse,

that thou canst never pay

And soe for want of meanes how to defraie By death arrested, in helle.<? prison cast.
Thou pine
in torment w7/i'ch shall ever last.

24G4

sAT. 6.]

THE WHOLE COUNTRY

scorneth.

IS

DEFILED.

79
Sodomy is not uukiiuwii in the

Sodomeo
"With

women

all liis

joy
2-iG8
liis

Is in a rarely featurde lively boy,

land.

whom

(I

shame

to speake it) in

bed

lie plaies like love

with Phrigian Ganimede.

1

Monster of men, worse then the sensuall beast

Which, by instinct doth foUow the behest

2472

Of nature

in his kinde, but thou dost fall

's

Into a sinne that

moste vnnaturall.
!

Degenerate bastard

by some deviU

got,

Such men must

For man could never,

sure, beget a spot

;

2476

be the children of the devil.

Of such vncleannesse
Dost thou not

how

dost dare enact

fact
]

Soe damiid a crime, soe lewde a loathsome

fear that iust love, in his ire.

Will raine downe brimstone

&

consuming
ages since.

fire

2480

As

in his wrath, though

many

He
Or
In

did one Sodome, whose concupiscence.

1

Like thine, deservde black belles damnation

that some fearfull invndation
his swift streame, should
fiende^^

2484
hell.
1

hurry thee to

With damned
soule.

&

He who punished Sodom will

punish them.

torturde ghoastes to dwell

as

Methinks such thoughts

these

should purge thy

And

keep thy bodie from an act so

'tis

foule.

2488

But

noe marvell though thou be not free

From

the contagion of this villanie,

the whole land
's

When
Whose

thus plagued^ w/th this sore.

beastlinesse then

now was

never more

2492
The
Universities, the City,

In Academie, country,
Infinite are defiled

citty, Courte,'^

with

this spurt.

0, grant,

my

dearest nourse, from

(if

whose
's

full brest

I have suckt all

Sufi"er

ought I have) that

best,

2496
and the
are
Covirt,
alilie guilty.

me

to condole the misery this villanie

!

W/iich thou gronst vndcr by

'

Spelling uncertain
i is

it

appears to hn.ve been plaguicd,

e is blurred.

but the
=

undotted and the

MS.

Corrte.

80
I grieve at the

VICE AT THE UNIVERSITIES.

[sat.

6.

How many
To write
For
art
it)

towardly yoimg^ gentlemen

fill

vices which

prevail at the Uuiversities.

[leaf 29]

(Instead of ink, w/tli teares I

sent vnto thee

my

pen

2500

by

tlieyr friendes

&

education, the true endes

at, are

Their parentes aime

wzth

this infection

Poysned by them whose best protection

Should keep them from
Each pedant
Tutor spoils his
pupils.

2504
!

all

sinne

Alacke the while

Each pedant Tutowr should

0,

his pupill spoile.

fate,

how

I grieve at this
is

vnhappy

Because this vice

soe inveterate,

2508
(I fear)

Growne
But

to so strong a

custome that

The world
I

shall

end

ere tliey this sinne forbear

pray for a speedy reforma-

I leave thee

w/th

tion.

For thy moste speedy

I>rothus which,

my best exoration & true reformation.

into
tJie

2512

Nothus, without
crossing the sea,

came

world by chaunce

has been into France.

At

bye window, hath been

late in France,

Yet never
'Tis

crost the seas, it cannot bee

!

newes that passes or capacity

2516

'Tis soe,

&

by

th' event I Avilbe tride.

's

For I

am
it

sure liee
is

hugely Frcnchifide,

Gallicus

morbus
paide

his OAvne, I swear.

He
Let those pity him who choose he gets none

has

him home vnto

list,

a haire.

2520

Pitty liim they that

soe will not I,

Hee

's

iustly

plagud for his

damnd

luxurie,

from me.

He might have He

keapt his whore-house-haunting feet

Spitle,

Out of Picthatch, the

Turnboll street

2524

might, forewarnd, have

left his

pockie drabbes.

They must have

A'eriuice that will squeese

such crabber.

But he had cause

to love a

puncke the more.

Because his mother was an arrant whore,

I can??ot chuse but grieve at the mishap
Chiudia has caught a clap.

2528

Of Cloudia,

wJiich. of late
!

hath caught a

clap.

Alack, poore Avench

'

the trust of promisde marriage

It may have been originally gorine, as the seems to have been altered. Cf. Taylor, "Gownmen," Works, fo. p. 178. ^ All notorious haunts of prostitutes.

MS. goung.

final letter

SAT. 6.]

BRIBERY HIDES SHAME AND INCREASES

tliee

SIN.

81
promise of marriage has been her ruin.

Hath loded

w/th an vnvsuall carriadge.

2532 A

Take comfort

lasse,

&

I a time will spie

To shew thy

lover his discourtesie,

And though he have thee in this sort heguilde, He shall give someAvhat to bring vjd the childe A litle mony from the law will quite thee,
Fee but the Sumner,

2536

&

he shall not

cite

thee

Or

if

he doe, only

for fashion sake,

law

tlie summoner and the will hold you

Fee

innocent.

The lawe

of thee shall no advantage take.

2540
to doe

And though

due pennance thou deservst

For tredding thus awry thy slippery shoe,

Be not dismaide
In thy frank

at all

if

thou dost flow

guifte^^

&

thy golde freely stow,

2544

The principall will make thy pennance ebbe.

The Comissaries

court
all

's

a sj)iders w^ebbe.
flies,

The Commissary's court is

like a

That doth entangle

the lesser

cobweb
onlj'
flies.

But the great ones break through;

it

never

ties

2548

which
small

holds

Them
Ther

in his circling net.

AYher golde makes way

is

no interruption, noe delay

his proceeding
;

Can hinder

therfore,

wench.

[leaf 29, back]

Thou

maist w/th a bolde face confront the bench. 2552

If thy forerun/^ers bribes have

made thy

peace,

Bribery will cover your

Thy shame shall vanish, but thy sinne encrease. And when thou once hast scaped this annoy,
Goe
to
it

shame,

roundly for another boy;

2556
but increase your
sin.

Lose not an inch of pleasure, though thou gaine,

For momentarie

ioyes, eternall paine.

But yet be

sure, if

thou

still

goe about
out,

To play the

drab,

my

pen shall paint thee

2560

And
That

thy lewde actes vpon thy forehead

all

score.

the world

may

note thee for a Avhore.

!

Linceus,^ that I had thy searching eye

Then would
To
finde the
'

I in each secret corner

prie,

2564

If I had the eyes of Lyiiceus I

could expose the

vices of this a^e.

hidden knaveries of

this age.

earth,

Lynceus, one of the Argonauts, conld see through the and distinguish objects at a great distance.

time's W.

82

ALL PLAYERS PRONE TO LICEXTIOUSNESS.

[sat,

6.

And
Then Glabria
should be
exposed,

lay tliem

oj^eii to tliis i:)apcr stage.

Then Glabria should

not,

with her wanton eye,

Allure faire Quintus to her villanie,

2568

But I would straight detect her

for the crime,

And

hinder their appoynted meeting time.

'cause his wife
to
ill
's

Then Lusco,
But
I

in years decaide,

Should not entise

Lnsco's sin should be noted,

her waiting maide,

out,

2572

would

spie

them

&

note^

them downe,

To her

discredit

&

his smale renowne.

Then

Scilla, 'cause

she might without suspect

Play the lewd

liarlot,

&

none might detect

should not hide

2576

Her
Her
Scilla's disgiiise

lustfull conversation,

loosnesse in a masculine outside,

But w/th
].iy

my

pen I soone would her vncase,

ripped

off;

And
Then
Of

her open to noe

mean

disgrace.

2580

Galla, that insatiate citty

dame,

(W/h'cIi loves a player, 'cause he

hath the fame

a rare Actowr,

&

doth in his part

Conquer huge
Galla should not tempt tlie actor with presents.

giantes,

&

captive the hart

258 !

Of amarous
Prone

ladies) should not

him

intice,

(as all players are)

vnto this vice,

I their

With
Or

goodlie present^'.

match would

lett.

catch them sleeping in a Vnlcanes nett,

2588

And

having caught them to the world display

lusty

How
None should
escape rae I would expose
all.

Mars w/th

lustfull

Yenus

lay.

Then

lustfull love,

what shape

soe e're he tooke

Should not deceive mine

eye, nor scape

my booke.

2592

Thy

lust

Pasiphae I

'de sett to th' full,

"Whose

bestiall ajipetite desirde a l)ull.

Mirrha, thou shouldst not scape, that didst desire.

To make thy father

to

thy childe a

sire.

2596

But
Let
It

since I can?eot, as I would, be fitted,

me

detect

what

have knowne com?;utted.

was once

It

was

my
'

fortune, w/th

some others moe,

2 GOO
margin.

lay fortune

On[e] sum?crs day a progresse for to goe

Final c by a later hand.
*

//f

in

SAT.

6.]

A TRIP TO I&LIXGTON TO KAT CRHAM.

count lie, as the time of year
[leaf so]

83

Into

tlie

Eequii'ed, to

make merrie

w/tli

good cheer.
to go to Islington to eat cream.

Imagine Islington to be the

place,

The jorncy

to eat cream.

Vnder the
on
set

face
fitted,

2G04:

Of

these lewd meetings,

pm-pose

Much
But

villanie is howeiij'' com??iitted.

;

to proceed

some thought there would not be

faire

Good mirth w/thout

wenches companie,

2608

To make good

And
Of

therfore

had provided, a forehand,

Aviues

&

maides a iust proportiond band

to
tliQ

In number

men

of vs

each on[e]
alone.

Might have

his

wench vnto himselfe

2G12

wench was

I that, tiU afterwarde^, not comprehended

"Whereto this meeting chieflie Avas intended,

But thought indeed the only

true intent

To

spend the time in honest merriment,

2616

"Went 'mongst the thickest,

&

had intercourse

In many

mad & sensuall discourse. Among the women Idnde a wife ther
a
;

was.

Among them

Her name
It over

I could not learne, I therfore passe

2620

was a married woman.

but a fained one to frame.

's

Call her Yeneria, that

Tliis wife, w7'ch

the

fittest

name.

wrth

tM

maides did holde her walke,

I chanc'd to overhear in her lewde talke,

2624 whom

wiuoau

How

Veneria,

she did them by argumente-5 pe?-swade

tliB

To vse

pleasm-e of the com??ion trade,

I will repeat, that you

may

iudge w/th me,

"Women moste prone

"

to filthy luxurie.
she, "
first, all

2628
you must knowe.

My friende^;,"
'tis

quoth

of

Good things more conuHon doe

For
an axiome in morality,
"W/i/ch
If,

the better

grow
who persuaded

you must

all

beheve

for verity.

2632

lust.

then,

community doe goodnesse adde

To To

actions that are good,

lose the vertue of
tliis

who 'd be so mad common good

losse of blood
?

"When 't may be purchasde without

2636

84

A MARRIED WOMAN
For that
'tis

DISCOURSE.
'1

[sat.

6.

good, I think you

not deny,
:

Or
To do
a friend a pleasure is a good deed.

if

you doe, then

thus I doe replie

's

To doe OUT
If
it

friend a pleasur

a good deed,

be done for love,

&

not for meed

2G40

To doe an
Is
or, as

act that addes to ouv delight

1

it

not good

what

foole will once

it

deny

't 1

we

call it,

Besides, the

name importes
call
it.

to be good.

"a good

turn."

For we a good turne

Ther
none of

'With

my

blood,

2644

If aU tWs be to weake, I wiU maintaine

's

all

ouv sexe that would refraine

tliis

To vse
Secret lechery
less sinful

the pleasure of

knowne

delight,

If fear did not restraine their appetite.

is

2648

And

this I holde, that secret letcherie

than

liypocrisy.

Is a lesse sinne then close hypocrisie.

A preacher tolde me
[leaf 30, back]

that the action wrouglit

(Because more seldome then the wandring thought)

Is not soe great a fault, soe

we chuse time
lusty boyes

2053

And And
Able
Her lewd discourse made my
ears glow.

place convenient to conceile out crime

that

we ydU not want, nor

wench her
fill

to give a to
it,

of loyes.
desire,
lire

2056
"
!

Then
'Tis

lasses,

when you have

dangerous to suppresse a flaming

this lewdnesse

To hear
but "
I bit

both mine eares did glow.

should grow
speach,

in

my

But

I bit in

my

tongTie, lest there

2600

tongue"

for the

sake of peace,

Some discontentment 'mongst them by my

W/i/ch happily might have procur'de a breach

Among
and because I wanted to see
the end.

vs

&

indeed soe

much

the rather.

Because by circumstances I did gather

"WTierfore this meeting was,

2064

&

did intend

to observe

aU vnto the very end.

By
We had
music and good cheer.

this time

we

th'

appointed place attainde,

Where

straight

with welcomes we were entertaind. 2668

Musicke

Avas sent for,

&

good chear preparde,

W/th
Then

w/i^'ch

more
;

like to Epicures

we

farde

Christianes

plenty of wine

&

creame

Did even vpon

oi(v

table seeme to streame,

2072

SAT.

6.]

THE END OF THE ISLINGTON

TRIP.

85

W/tli other dainties.

Not a

fullers

boy

Eut

-w/tli tlic

relicks of oiiv feast did. cloy

Hi?! luuigry

stomach.
"\v/th

After this
a

rej^ast

After the feast

some

fell

to

(W//ch feast

many

bandy song was gracd) 2670

is

danoinfr, wliich

Some
In

lasted

till

dark.

fell to

dauncing (& dauncing

a cause

That many vnto fornication drawes),

yvh Ich lasci'sdons

kinde of merriment,

Till the

darke evening did approch,

day.

we

spent

2080

The lightsome

But now the time drew nigh

to act their villany
;

That was comprisd'e

And
The

therfore after candles were brought in

When

the candles

(For then the night grew on) we did beginne

fidlers to discharge,

2084

were brnuslit in tlie fiddlers were

discharged.

who being
his

gone,

There straight was held a consultation.

In w/;/ch, when each

man had

wench

assignde.

The

fdthinesse of this lewde act to blinde

all

2688

AY/th darkenesse,
"\Y/i/ch

the candles were put out,

intent, I left the rout.

favozmng

my

And

closely stole away, ha\dng defraide

;

great part of the reckning

all full

which I paide

2092

As soon
lights

as the
jnit

were

Whilst they were

busie in the darke,

out

escaped.

Because they should not think I came to sharke

Only

for vittailes.

How

the rest agreed,

ludge you w7;/ch doe this true narration read.

2096

But leaving

this

mad

crew, I have to say

Somewhat

of baweles, clieife acto^rs in this play.

Gabrina married
a rich fool.

Gabrina, in her youth a pretty ducke,

Hath
It

been, they say, as good as ever strucke.

2700

was her fortune (long she could not tarry

faire)

'Cause she was

I call

with a rich foole to marrie.

[leaf 31]

him foole, because he let her have Her minde soe much, that he became her
his vndooing.

slave

2704
She kept her

To

She must keep her coach.

;

Consort w/th ladies

each ncAv set abroach

affect,

and consorted with

coacli

Fantastiqc fashion w7^/ch she did

ladies.

His gold must

flie

for; yet she did resj^ect

2708

86

THE PRACTICES OP BAWDS.

Others above him, vpon

[sat.

6.

whom

she spent

His wealth
Her pride and
sensuality
brouglit

her lust his care could not prevent.

Thus soone her pride

&

sensuality

him

to

Brought him vnto disgrace

Till griefe for

&

beggery,

2712

beggary, ami broke his heart.

her lewd
heart,

life, liis

ruind state
yeild to fate.

Broke his weak

& made him

Then was she glad her wdiores flag to advaunce, And get her living by a Scottish daunce.
Thus With her
sister,

2716

such another piece.

Many
In their age she and her sister hire out a crew of whores.

a gallant of his golde they fleece.

Xow

ceazd w?th age,

&

both of tliem
liire

tumd

bawdes,

Okie hackny women, they

out their jades,

2720

crew of whores far worse then crocodiles.

Killing wt'th fained teares

&

forged smiles.

Confusion with, their fortunes ever dwell,

That keep the dores that ope to sinne

These bawds uphold their state

&

hell

2724

These bawdes

w7i/cli

doe inhabite Troynovant,'

i'

And
As

iet it

vp

&

downe

th' streete-5, aflaunt

In the best fashion, thus vpholde their

I haue heard a friend of

state,

mine

relate.

2728

Who
Went
by keeping wives
as well as common whores.

once in privat manner wrth another

purposly tbeir fashions to discover.

retaine besides these

They doe

common

queanes,

Even mens wives

-which are of greatest meanes,

for their lust,

2732

That yearly pay them tribute

Vpon whose

secrecie they doe entrust

w/^^cli pleasure

Their blotted reputation, for

They lewdly doe consume their hu.sbandes treasure. 2736

The custome
of these

bawdes

is

thus

if

any

Eepaire vnto them

(as

God knowes
if

too

many
view

Piun to this sinck of sinne), at the

AVhen a

first

man

To shew

their cheapest Avare

they wall glue

whores,

2740

comes in, thoy show the cheapest

wares
first.

Their slimy bodies to those

common

The bawdes proceed no The

farther,

keep the dores,

price paide, w7^/ch repentaunce ^ndes to dear,

'

London.

See Taylor, Works,

fol.

491.

BAT.

C]
tlie

PROVOCATIVES TO ArPETITE.
act done, doc straight
gallant,
tlie

87
274-1: But
if

And
But

men

casliier.

if

some

whose out

side doth holdc

he looks
is

rich he

shown

Great expectation that good store of golde

into a private

room

Will from his honnty shower into

their lappes.

Come
To

to

demaund

(for soe it often happen-)

2748

see their choj'sest beauties,

him

tliey

bring

(After reqiiest [not]^ to say

any thing)

Into a privat roome, w7//ch round about

Is

hung With
I

pictures

all

w7i/ch goodly rout

all,

2752

Is fram'de of

Yenus

hungr round with liortraits of City

fashion, femals
I

dames.

Whom

if

name whores,
are,

noe whit miscall,

[leaf 31, back]

For soe they

whom

these doe represent.

All citty dames, vrhich. vsually frequent

2756
full brave.

This cursed place, who, though they goe

Are in

their lust insatiat as the grave.

affect

That picture which, doth best

the eye

The picture which takes his

Of
Is

this luxurious gallant, instantly

2760

fancy

is

soon

by some
livelj^

traine brought thether in true shape

replaced by its " lively sub-

Of

substance.
;

Then good Bacchus grape

Ceres must be by,
is

Flowes in abundance

For w/thout them ther

Provocatives to
stir

noe venerie.

2764
Wines and
nutritious food are provided iu

vp appetite

To brutish
J\lust

lust

&

sensuall delight,
;

abundance.

not be wanting

lobsters buttered thighs,

Hartichoke, marrowbone,- potato pies,

2768

Anchoves, lambes

artificiallie

drest stones,

Fine

gellies of decocted

sparrowes bones.
Lobsters, pic,
jellies,

Or

if

these

faile, th'

apothecaries trade
rarest

mar-

I\iust furnish

them w/th

marmalade,

2772

malade.

Candid

eringoes,

&

rich marchpaine stufie

is

A^pon which, cates ther

consumde enough

To

give sufficient to a hundred men.

fare.

Spent but on ordiuarie

But then
Avell

2776
w/th wine,

These dainties must be washd downo

'
;

Blank in i\IS. something erased. Very much like Moorrowbone in MS,


88
Bacl<,

MAGISTRATES TO REMOVE THESE ABOMIXATIOXS.

eggs,

[sat.

0.

W/tli sacke

&

sugar, egges

&

muskadine,

Muscadine,
Alicaiit,

"Witli Allegant, the blood of Yenerie,

That strengthens mucli the hackes infirmity.

and dainties enough to crack a man's pursestrings.

2780

Abundance of these
Although
it

dainties they

'1

not lacke,

make my

gallanted purstrings cracke.

And
As

yet sometimes these cittie dames will spend

if their

husbandes wealth could ne're have end. 2784

Then after this libidinous collation They doe proceed to act their owne damnation.
Thus
city
is

made

our a

great-

Thus

is

the worthiest citty of or land

brothel.

Made

a base brothel-house,

by

a lewde

band

2788

Of shamelesse strumpets, whose vncurb^d swing

INIany poore soules vnto confusion bring.
The Magistrates
sliould rid
it

You
To
Of

magistrates, w7;/ch holde Astrseas sword,

all

of

this cursed crew.

For countries cause joyne

w/th one accord

2792

clear the citty of this cursed crcAV,

Least the Avhole land the noysomenesse doe rewe

their contagion.

For the better health

of the com??2onwealth,

Of the whole body

First at the
Eemove
the

2796

Cut of these rotten members,

head of

&

beginne

this notorious sinne.

For

this is written
effect

one the Lidian stone,

cause, and the

effect will perish.

"The

doth perish

when

the cause

is

gone." 2800

These bawdes

&

panders w7^/ch doe give receat

(Being indeed the meanes wherby they eat)

[leafS2]

To whores

&

ruffians,

whose damnd
sell

villanie

Doth purchase gold

&

iniquity

2804:

Were they
]\[ore

expeld the

cittie,

ther would grow

continence, for^

them

these headfs doe floAV

The The
Lop
off these

springs of lust, these fountaines, being drawne diy

lesser streames

would

stint im?cdiatly.

2808

Lop
Of

of these vlcerd

members
;

of our land,

ulcered

members

with the hand

of justice.

These putrified members

iustice chase

with the hand

rout,

hence this vngodly

Subtract the fcAvell

&

the fire goes out,

'

2812

?froin.

SAT.

6.]

THE COURT NOT FREE FROM

OHV land this damneil
lier

VICE.

89

Ami
As

let

devillisli croAV,

excremente^, out of

bosonie spewe

And
The
"

then yon manifestly shall pcrceave

greater part their brutish lust will leave.
this olde saide

2816

For every man

saw belceves,
theeves.'
is

Were no

receivers there

would be no

"

No

receivers,

Thus City scapes

no thieves."

not, nor the Court

free

From

obsceane actes of hatefuU luxurie.

do.e

2820

Those men or women that

make

resorte,
The Court
free
is

In hope of gaine or honour,

to the Court,

not

Doe
That

live soe idely,

it

&

from

tliese

in such excesse,
this wicketbiesse.

sins.

must needs produce

2824

Yitellius hath gotten a

good

place,

And
"

might

live well

i'

th'

Court, had he the grace

To keep But

it to

good ende^,

&

vse

it soe,

lightly come,"

we

say, "

doth lightly goe."

2828

"Lightly come,
lightly go."

It cost
'

him

notliing but a supple knee,

And

oyly

mouth

& much

observancie,
it.
it.
1

But he doth vpon worse then nothing spend

Yet

'tis

well spent, he
i'

sales,

&

hee

'1

defend

2832
City antl Court are alike.

He

keeps a whore
's

th' city, Avhat

i'

needs that

Ther

whores enough
to supprise a

th' Court, w7//ch (as a cat

Waites

mouse) watch to espie

their \allanie.

2"V\Tiom they can

draw vnto

2836

Some

for
;

meer
as,

lust, others for

all yo?/r

greedinesse
court landresses
woman
Scarce one honest to be found.

Of gaine
I

'mongst

If but one honest

'le

woman
;

can be found,

give her leave to give

these are stale
's

me twenty

pound.

2840

But

YiteUius must have one

That

a rare piece of the best fashion,

fare the worse,

Although she make these three thinges

His
soule, his

body,

&

his strouting purse.

2844

They

His purse, her gay apparel

&

ruin soul, body, and purse.

fine fare

Have made
'

allready very thin

'

&

bare

flon in margin of MS.

'

/Jin margin of MS.

MS.

20'.


90
Bodilf disease.

TUB XOBIIJTT ARE AS BAD.

His bodie, her Tnwholsome luxurie

[sat.

6.

Hath brought

to the disease of

venerv

28 48

And

much

fear this their le^vde fashion

"Will bring his soule

vnto damnation.
the citty

Silvius doth
I

shew

dames brave

sights.

n^ii ThX
^^Iviai

til"s

c:'

and

And
Citty

they for thai doe pleasure him a night^^\

<fc

2852

country are beholding to him.

And

glad with purse

&

body both

to

woe him.
2856

But what

talke I of these,

when

brighter starres

Darken

their splendant beauty wj'th

insatiate sinne
neede-s
?

Me

scarres

Of this

If honoi/r fall
thrall.

Gentry must

submit himselfe a

But whether
m^

climst thou,

my

aspiring

Muse

It wilbe thouLght presumption

yorbear,
Botiility:

&

abuse
!

2860

To taxe

nobility

Forbear, forbear

Hose, to tax

Thou

art

an orbe above thy native spheare,

;

Something thou canst not in oblivion drowne

"WTiy come one then,
One lioasts tiat hebas node
fiftT'-ooe

&

briefly set

it

downe.

2864

I heard Brusano by his honoinr sweare

eoekid^

He

on[e]
it

&

fifty

cuckolded

made

last yeare.

in the year;

Pitty

was he did noe farther

goe,
to struck a doe,

Each weeke would have done well

2868

And
but hi Tfao made

given the keeper his due fee to seeke

as

When
"Whom
"WTiy,

he came

to th'

two

&

fiftith

weeke.

shall

we

finde to
it

make vp

the iust

number ]
2872

To bring 't about

what a

my
am

conceit doth cumber.

foole

I to seek thus farre

You
is

did soe
i'

many
faith

cuckolded

make

or marre

himself

tTi

TVell then,

you may,

for all yo?nr peKe,

!

fifty-second.

Make vp the two & fiftieth jour selfe Madame Emilia hath a proper squire To vsher her vnto the filthy mire Of soule-polluting lust, who knowes his
"Wher he must leave
her,

2876

cues
;

knows

all

her

arrani^eiaeats.

where attendance vse

the horrid crime,
t?te

2880

And

can while

's

lady

act-^^

W/th

picking rushes

trifle

out

time;

SAT. 6.]

THE END OF WHOREMON'GERS

A>'D ADULTEREP^.
and can

91
it times

And
Her

for a need, Tvhen she want-i^ fresh snpplie,

sensuall desires satisfie.

!

2884

hzma^it

Base slave

-which, standest centinell to Inst,

-w^'th

Suffering thy sonle, polluted

the rust

Of canckered
TVldch ahove

sinne,
all

by thy

neglect to perish,

thinge? thou shonldst love

of sinne

&

cherish

Thou instrument
Incarnate devill
I

&

Sathans^ rage
!

2889

pandariztng page

Be

sure (vnlesse repentance pardon gaine)

Bnt he may

rest

There doth a place in hell for thee remaine.

2892

there's a place

And
To

for those lechers

wh ich.

will never linne

foTSii^

'^^

(Accounting lust but as a veniall sinne)

comTTzitt incest,

-whoredome, sodomie,

s
jiH

Defile the land with,

damnd

wen as for who srs

meet.

adulterie,

2896

guilty of

W/^a'ch strive not to suppresse their lewde desires,

sod^^!^
an aa
ry.

But fewell ad

to their lust-buinu?g fires,

By
To
Till

seeking wicked opportunities

act their

Oeaf 'C]

damnable

iniquities,

2900

they have ruind

all their

hope of blisse,

Deville^" will hale

them
'

to heller darke abisse.

MS. Sathanse.

02

REASON THE GIFT OF GOD.

[sAT. 7

Sat[ivn] 7.
[against the passions of the mind.]

ARGtTMENTUM.
Reginam mentis rationem, serva
rebellis

Dum
God save
tiiat

Passio devincit, calce tyranwa premit, gerit imwodlcos (victa ratione) trivmphos,

Incautos homines, ad mala

to

damna

rapit.

man

Gocl gave to

man

a reasonable soule,

a reasonable soul

he might

That he might govern vncler his controls

All other creatures in the Avorkl beside,

Yet man wantes reason how himselfe

Reason is the queen of the soul,

to guide.

2906

Eeason, the soules queen, whose impenous sway

Should rule the microcosme of man,

&

stay

By
but she
subject,
is

her wise governing authority

insolent affections tyranny,

Each
become Is
the slave of her

2910

through much, too much, suiferaunce become

Slave to her subiect,

who

vsurps her roome.

Ambitiously aspiring passion,

Ever delighting in
wiio boldly rebels against her.

rebellion,
i'

2914
th' field,

Collects her forces, meets her prince

Subdues her poAvcr in

conflict,

makers] her veild.

And now

the tyrannesse beares all the stroke,

Clogging her suffering neck w/th servile yoke,

2918

And

proud insulting in her

o're

victorie,

Trivmphs

mans base

imbecillity.

SAT. 7.]

A LOVE-SICK SWAIN.

93
Every base
airectioii

Thus

liis

ovme

servant, every base aflection,

Keeps

liiiu

in slavish t[h]vaIdome

&

keips

subjection.

2922 man

in tliraiduin.

By

love or hatred,

by

icy, griefe, or feare,

Desire, boLlenesse, anger, hope, dispaire,

Man

is

euthrald,

Their tyrannies

& doth submitt his -wLll & j)leasures to fulfill.

pearc'd w/th
Cui^ideis" stroke,

2926
If

The Amoretto,

man

falls in

love he

Must
Or

must

straight subniitt his

love.

neck vnto the yoke

Of peevish
else

Either his mistrisse haire,

is

submit to tlie yoke of peevish

fancy,

her forehead

beyond compare

2930

Her
Her

eyes are starres,

lips

&

her cheekes roses be,

pure rubies, her teeth ivorie,

pe7'fume, her voice sweet harnionie

Her breath

Passing Threician Orpheus melody;

2934

The path between her

breste^ a whiter
;

way
's

and eompaie his

mistress to

Then

that celestiall via lactea

azure,
o""

Her veines pure Her skin

what

colo?/r

best,

[leaf 33, back]

sleek sattin or the cygnette^ brest

2938

A Venus in whom all good partes

More then
In
stately pace
;

doe

hitt,
Venus, Pallas, Juno, and Diana.

a second Pallas in her witt

and dazeling

maiestie,

Another luno

in pure chastety

2942

Spotlesse Diana.

Thus
"
!

is all

her feature
creature.

Beyond
"What

the fashion of a

humane

Then what " ay mees

sighs,

what crossing

of his armes,

what

teares,

what love-compelling charm es

!

Tlien to hear his " Ah me's .'" till

he gets

dis!

He
Yet
His

vseth,
all

would enforce a sicke man smile

is

2947

enchanted

the paines he takes

soule
;

to beguile

sillie

for

having once enioyed

The The

thing, for w7'ch

he

erst

was see anoyde,

seem a
devill,

2950
Then
his "saint*
devil.

tide is turnd, the saint cloth

And
'

he repentes that soide-bewitching

seems a

evill
;

W// /ch once his fancy as a good adorde

love, I

His mistresse

mean,

is

now

abhorde.
is,

2954
The mind of
another is overcome by hate.

Anothers minde by hate distempe;-ed

'

//

in

margin of MS.

94

HATRED, JOY, GRIEF, AXD FEAR.

Malicing -whom in sliew he seemes to kisse. This base affection causeth disniall
Despoileth hono?a-,
strife,

[SAT.

7.

&
'tis
;

destroyeth

life.

2958

wliioh he hides

Yet

in these dayes

counted pollicie
villanie
title

by dissimulation.

To vse

dissimulation
^

Masqu'd vnder friendships

(worst of hate)

Makes a man
That tluive
Such as he are worse tlian

line secure

&

fortunate.

2962

These Machiavillians are

i'

tliB

men

alone

th'

world,

&

gett promotion.

Athenian Timon, in

his hatefuU

moode,

Timon

of Athens.

Was

ne're soe

bad

as

some of

this

damnde

broode, 29G6

This brood of Caine^, these dissembling knaA'es,

These mankinde-haters, bloody minded

slaves,
fill.

W7^^ch

all the,

world w/th horrid murders

Laughing one those Avhom they intend

A third sort have
their

to kill.

2970

A
Is

third ther

is,

w/ji'ch

gaining some vaiue toy.

icy.

minds overwhelmed

overwhelmed through excessive

if

with joy.

The husbandman,

that his crops proove well,

Hath
Is

his heart fild Av/th joy 'cause his barnes swell

if his

The marchant,

gaincs doe safe

come
skinne

in,

2975

With ioy ready

to leape out

on
's

's

The

vehemencj'- of this passion

liave^ died

such,

Many
Some
are overgrief,

by joying overmuch.

2978

Another, shuning comfort

come with

&

reliefe,

Suffers himselfe to be surchargde w/th griefe,

And
That

soe this passion doth his reason blinde

it

begettes a frenzie in his minde.

if that fear

2982

Another,

doe him

assaile,

Doth
[leaf .-54]

suffer that affection to prevaile,

And

doth bring him [in]to such franticke

to

fittes,

As you would judge him

airl
fear.

be out on

's witte**.

298G

some with

Each bush doth

fright him,

&

each flying bird,

afeard.

Yea
'

his

owne shadowe maketh him

;

Mfixqve originally written altered into Masqu'd. Tills have seems to have been o'ave, but a line is drawn
the
o.

tlirouiili

SAT. 7.]

UOXOUR, ANGER, RASHNESS, AND HOPE.

liis

95

Desire in otliers shewetli forth

mighte,

Making them

follow brutish appetite.

fires th'

2990
;

Desire of hono?a-

ambitious minde
;

Honour
tlie

fives

ambitious.

Desire of wealth the covetous doth blinde

The

lecher can?;ot lustfull thoughtt^^ w/thstand

's

Eeason

controlde by passions that comiaund.

2994
Basliness by
valour.

Another, rash

&

indiscreetly bolde,

some

is niistukeii for

Hazardt'A" himselfe in

dangers manifolde,
his temerity)

Tet thinks himselfe (mislead by

To

vse true \alouv

&

dexterity

2998

folly his companion is assignde, For " who soe bolde as bayard that is blynde

"When

"\V/th rashnesse is

conioyned impudence,
in noe case can dispence.

Impudence

is

W/th

w/^/ch
is

my Muse

3002

often conjoined with rashness.

His talke

bawdry, he doth rather choose

loose.
Anger rules some, and deprives

His soule then a prophane conceite to

Mischiefe-procurer anger rules another,

That knowes not friend from

All
's

foe

stranger or brother.
fitt,

one to him

for in his

becUem

3007

tliem of their wits.

AV/i/ch quite deprives

him

of his

litle witt.

He

cares not

whom

he

strikes, or

what

vile

wordes

Tliey care not

whom
like razors, or sharp

they

That cutt

edged swordes,
This passion swaies
adayes,
to furie,

3010

wound.

Flie from his hasty tongue.

And

rules over too

many now
stirreth

For each vaine toy

vp man

"When he

in patience greatest

wrongs should

burie.

3014
Hope and
harm.
alTeo-

Hope & affection is that doth least harme Vnto the soule of man for it doth arme
;

tion do the least

'With, constancy in trouble to

endure

The It makes

worst of evill thai sad fates procure.

the prisoner,

3018

bound

in gives of steele,

In expectation of

release, to feele
;

Xoe torment
Of
Yet
is

in his bondage
;

cures the sicke

his diseases
this

makes

the halfe dead quicke.

evill
;

3022

They console
the prisoner and

good conioyned w/th some

is

euro

ll'.e

sick.

To hope on God

good, but from the devill

96
Don't expect aid

A MAN VOID OF PASSION

To expect
liealp, as

IS

VOID OF GOOD.
wltich.

[sat.

they doe

attend

from

tlie devil.

W/th

expectation of a
ill act, is

happy end

3026

To some

diabolicall,
all.

And

not by Christians to be vsde at

I

But when

come

to think

vpon

dispaire
is

(Which, to Av?!thstand the rediest meanes

Despair drives

praier)

3030

muse

to think it should soe

much bewitch
damnd
ill,

men

to suicide.

The minde

of man,

making

the soule (like pitch)

Com??;it such deeds of darkenesse, such

As w/th
[leaf 34,

oiiv

owne handes our owne

from
soide,

lives to spill.

3034

back]

Farre be

it

me

all

passion to exclude
's

Out
void of passion is void
of good.

of
'tis

mans

my

meaning

not so rude

A man

For
"

an axiome not to be w/thstood,

is

He

that

void of passion

's

voide of good."

3038

Love
Love

of that love deserving Diety,

effecte*'

Which, doth produce

to

of charity,

God

And
Once

kindles in

mans

heart

devotion,

kindles devotion.

to extenuate

were a
;

sinfull

motion

3042

Of
Godly hate is commendable.

a pestiferous braine

noe, I desire
fire.

To ad more

fewell to that holy

Xor can
The

but comwzend of godlie hate.

Detesting sinne, that doth commaculate

soule of

304G

man

this passion

's

worth com;endiiig,

That hates the

offence, yet loves the

man

offending.

Neither will I restraine the heart from joy

Joy
in

modera-

Soe that with moderation we imploy

This passion to good vses
;

3050

tion is good.

hartes rejoyce.

But

let the

cause be singuler

&

choice.

Grief likewise must abounde in every

man
30 j 4

That will indeed be a true Christian,

so are godly
S'lrrow

Sorrow the badge of true repentance weares,

Sinne must be purgde by a whole flood of
^

and

filial fear.

teares.

To
'

filial

feare I likewise doe assent,

blood

was

first

written, then a line

'

drawn through
in

it,

niid

ffood written after.

^

MS. heard.

jl and Mritten

margin of

M.S.

SAT. 7.]

VARIOUS KINDS OP LOVE.

97

That

's

awd from

sinne by love, not punishment. 3058

Salvations hope, celestiall ioyes desire,

Yertuous boldenesse, with, religious

ire,

virtuous bouinesa

and religious

ire.

Are heavenly passions not to be denide,

But

as occasion serves, to

be applide

3063

To

tlieir

true endes.

Affectiones of such kinde

:

Mie Muse The

The
soule,

disclaimes not

but

all such, as

blinde

y Muse disclaims not tut aii supu

affections as lead

eyes of reason,

&

doe quite pervert

mans

better intellectuall part,

tliQ

30G6 man to

sin.

That keep him from

path of bis salvation.

And

lead

tliQ

way

wA/cli brings vnto damnation.

These, these they be, on w7n'cli I doe engage

My vexed
A

Muse
faii'e

to

wreck her spleenfull

rage.

3070
piiii,autus loves

Philautus w/th his very soule doth love

Avench as
as

Venus milck white dove

3074

He He He He

loves his huntmg-horse, his hauke, his hound,

His meat

&

drink, his morning sleeps profound

loves to follow each new-fangled fashion, loves to hear

men

speake his com?/2endation,

loves his landes, thai bring

all

him

store of pelfe,

But above

thinges he doth love himselfe.

3078

but himself most of all.

In all this love noe love of

ISToe

God

I finde,

love of goodnesse, but a love confinde

To

sensuall dehghts, to sinne

&

ease,

A love to

others soe himselfe to please.

3082
[icaf^s]

Thou impious

worldling, leave this vaine affection,

;

W7i2ch only on thy selfe hath a reflection

This sinne relinquish,
lest

incensed love
c,r\on dObb

This

is

love

Doe
I

iustly plague thy

ivii misapplyed loA^e.

made me much
affraide)

misapplied.

saw

(a sight tliai

Amorphus

kisse his mothers kitchin-maide.

Amoi-piious
is

Me

thought as both their heades together came,

tliQ

in

I saw

devill kissing of his

's

dam

*
:

3090

And

yet this foole

in love wzth her 'bove measure,

mother's kitci.enmaid.

Calls her the mistresse of his^ ioy

'

&

pleasure
^

Final e crossed out.

MS.

her.

tijie's

w.

I
08
LOVE TURNED INTO HATE.
Sweares that
faire roses
[sat.
7.

grow vpon

licr

cheekes,
;

When
'\^^len
It is

'le

be sworne

'tis fitter

place for leelies

3094

Saies her sweet breath his amarous fires increase,

she smelles filthy strong of durt

lilce

&

grease,

a case of

"

But

to like, tho, collier

;

&

ilia

devill,"
;

like to like;

the collier and the devil.

He & his wench she stam???ers, he doth drivell He squints, & she doth gogle wondrous faire
;

3098

His botle-nose

is

red, soe is her haire

She hath a crooked backe, he a polte

His
face is blacke,

foote

&

hers begrimd'e w/th soote

3102

A loving lovely
Pitty
Pamphila
is

couple most divine,

it

were

tliat

they should not combine.

in

Pamphila

is

in loA^e

w/th every
sight,

man
she can

love with every

man

she sees.

That comes w/thin her

&

if

3106

Will prostitute her body

to his will,
fullfill.

And

never leave

till

she her lust

Stepmother Phoedra woos her husbandes sonne,

Hypolitus, but he with care doth shunne
Phcedra's love to her stepson is

3110

Her odious

lust, loatliing a

sinne soe vile

to defile
;

turned to hate.

As

his sires
still

bed with incest

But
Till

she sues,
farre,

&

still

he doth denie.
flie.

vrgde to

he doth her presence

3114

Lust thus by verteous chastetie w/thstood

Is turnd to hate,

&

hate thirsts after blood

it is

And
Only

his barter blood

this thirst

must ease ; 3118

his death can her

fell

hate appease.

True Machiavillian
Honorins
is

Csecilius

per-

With

hate doth prosecute Honorius,

secuted because of his virtues.

Because his vertues did deserve more love,

And
His

he

i'

th'

Court respected was above

3122

high aspiring selfe.

Yet
to

till

the

end

In outward shew he seemd

be his friend.

But when

thai Fortune

had once turnd her wheele

3126

Ho was

tliQ first

thai did his furie feele

forth,

For then his rage burst

&

it is

thought

This one mans hate his sad destmction Avrought.

S.VT. 7.]

THE rUNISHMEXT OF AVARICE.

a man who

99

Misotochus (yvhidi kis hand wUl sooner lend ^

To bring
Eeady

his neighbour to vntiniely his life)

end
-

3130

help to

would rather km than

Then save
Of

hath horded vp his corne,

to burst his garners

with ihe home

save lift. [leaf 35, back] keeps his corn tin there's a
''""*''

his aboundance,

&

doth hope his seed

;

Kept from

the market will a famine breed

3134

And
Xor
But

therfore

mil not

sell

a graine this year,

to sustaine his householde tliresh

lives

an eare

one rootes like a Diogenes,

'With, poor thin drink,

&

course bread mad[e] of pease.

^Yhat though the poore doe want, begge,

They

get from

him noe healp

in miserie.
to see

...

starve,

&

dye,

get

Thotigh the poor die of want they no help from

hini.

Their hunger feeds

him

fat,

he loyes

Their death-procuring sad calamity.

3142

Thou

hateful cynick-dog, belov'd of none,

selfe alone
fatall
!

Because none loving, not thy

Inhuman

devill

think some

hower
31 4G But
troops of
his

Will bring huge troupes of vermine, to devoure

Thy

graine

&

vermin devour

thee

or that

from heaven will

lall

him and
com.

Consuming
Looks
for

fyer

&

destroy

it all.

some

fearfull

vengeance to be sent,
;

Some plague vnheard of, some straunge punnishment 3151 For such damnd hatred, iust revenging God
Will scourge thy sinne wth some vnusuall rodde.
Xsenius hath w/th

much

ofl&cious laboz/r

Eecovered his mistrisses

lost favour,
.

3154
,

fool was so overjoyed at his mistress's

One

favours,

For the w7i/ch

act the foole s soe overioyde

is

That through excesse therof he

annoide.

When
The

she vouch safte that he might kiss her hand.

asse

had much adoe on

's

feet to stand,

3158

He

was soe inly ravisht with delight

rare pleasure
:

Of that

such another fight

that anotiier et

Twixt reason

&

his passion

would have sent

3162

have killed him.

foolish soule to Plutoes regiment.

When
And

Carthaginian Hanniball, that stout

poHticke captaiue, w7;zch soe often fought

100

FATAL EFFECTS OF SUDDEN JOY.

With.

[sat.

7.

Eoman

Consuls in their native

soile,
foile,

And
And
A Roman
matron
)ieard that her

their best forces

many

times did

3166

It is recorded

by

cronologers

excellent histriographers,

In that vnluckie Cannas overthrowe,

two sons were

killed in the battle ot Canna,-.

"When few

or

none escapte deaths

fatall

blowe,

3170

certaine

woman

dwelling then at

Home
doome

Heard her two sonnes had

their eternall

For -which (as nature would) she did lament,

Her eyes
But they escaped, .and she was so overcome when she saw them,
that she died.

(bare witnesse) all with teares besprent. 31 Tl

flight their foe
;

But

the

young men scaping by

Eecover

Eome &

to their

mother goe

She hearing both

alive returned Avere

And
[leafSC]

bid her former sorrow to forbeare,

not beleeve reporte,

3178

WiU When

but trust her eyes,

sodainly opprest with ioy she dies.

say, o'recome

One

dies in the

Mopsa, they

with joy

lies

dead,
!

act of sin.

But how

i'

th' act

of her lost

mayden head

3182

A fearfidl
And

end, to die in act of sinne,

in this death a second death beginne,

A
Another mounis lier puppy's
death.

dayly living death, yet dying paine

Which, shall in perpetuity remaine.

Luctantia, cease thy lamentation
!

3186

Thou mone'st thy puppies death with

Then
'Gainst thy CieatouT

greater passion

the offences that thou dost committe

;

w/i/ch iust ne're a whit

;

3190

Grieve thy seard conscience

noe remorse

for sinne

On[e] tear enforceth, but for every pinne,

For every

trifle else,

that doth distast

Thy foolish liking, thou dost even wast Thy seKe in sorrow. Wash thy blubbered
She should weep
for iniquity.

3194
eyes,

And

cry no

more

for

shame

If thou be wise

See that hence forth thou keep thy fludgates dry,

And weep
Mutius,

for

nothing but iniquity.

art

3198
%

why

thou thus opprest with griefe

Take comfort man,

&

thou shalt finde

reliefe

SAT.

r.]

THREE KINDS OF FEAR,

dejcctei,],

101

Be not
AVliat

bear a constant niinde

though the tempest of an [ajdverse

-vvindo

3202
"?

Hath blowne thy

"Wilt

fortunes downe, ruind thy state

tliQ

If atlversity como do not be cast down.

thou for this accuse

yeild to sorrow
1

god of
soe
;

fate,

And

Doe not

beware,

'Twas mercy in him then thy

life

to spare.
't

3206

"When he destroide thy goods, had

been his pleasure

He

might have ruinde thee

&

them

together.
is lost.

But now thy substaunce

&
:

thy wealth

Thou
Ther
Is

art
is

vndone,

&

all

thy hopes are crost

3210
fall

noe meanes to
kept downe,

rise

who

once doth
all.

still

&

can?zot climbe at

Fear not, Antaeus more conragious grew.

And

Aniceus became more courageous

^:)J

his fall did still

like

liis

strength renew,

3214

bj'

his

fall.

Be thou

him
all,

may be
thy
's

this misery

"W^as pre-ordainde for

felicity.
still

Grieve not at

ther

blessing

in store,

And he that tooke thy goodes can give thee more. 3218
Ther
's

three

ill

feares (to one

good

fiKall)

There are
ill

tliree

A worldly, servile, & a naturall A worldly feare is when some worldly gaine
jNIakes vs

fears

doe

evill,

or from good abstaine

3222

"Wlien for oux

proffit, pleasure,

&

oia ease,

"We doe not good, but men

There
is

fear to displease.

a worldly fear, a fear to lacke

tliQ

worldly

fear,

Things necessary for

maw

or backe,

3226

or fear for of things necessaiy.

want

W/u'ch hath in nature greater confidence.

Then

in

Gods

all-foreseeing providence,

[leaf 30, back]

Katurall fear

is

a distraction

Of mind
Is great

&

senses,

by

th' iniection
;

3230
this passion

Of some moste eminent danger

where
faith

&

doth want his operation,

servile fear

's

a fear of

punnishment
3234
draAve,

servile fear, or
for

Tnto

a fear of punish-

the reprobate coincident,

ment

ill

"Wliom oftentimes vnto good actes doth

!Not fear of God, but fear of

deeds.

humane

lawe.

'

2
\
7.

102

PEAR OF CONSEQUENCES KEEPS MANY FROM

SIN.

[sAT.

Letia dotli fear to play the whore 'with any,

And
That

yet she loves the sport as

act the sinne
's
;

"svell

as

many
intent
1

3238

what hinders her

she

afraide of

shame

& pnnnishment.
iJia

A man
Bteal,

would

Irns

is

poore, yet feares to play

theefe,

but he

fears .nuniskment

And

yet his fingers itch to get reliefe,

t?ie fire

3242
;"

" But the burnt childe (we say) doth dread

Tlie Cliurch

Hee 's burnt i' th' hand, the next is halters Eomanus keeps his monthly residence At church, although against his conscience

hire.

32 4G

dignitary would neglect his duty,

He
But

Avould refraine (because he doth abhor

tJiai

it)

only he fears the consequences.

he feares to be presented for

it.

Bellina, tost in a tempestuous sea.

Fears drowning much,

& fear doth make her pray.

doe seeme profounde.
;

3250

And
For

yet her prayers,

lip-laboz/r

-wJiich.

Are but

&

a hollow sound

set a shore, vnlesse

apparent evill

Affright her much, she fears nor

Phorhus has
been frightened, but it was only a cat.

God nor

de-^dll.

3254
?

Phorbus, what makes thee looke soe like a ghoast

Thy Thy
As

face is pale, thy sences are quite lost.

haire

vpon thy head doth stand vpright

3258

if

thou hadst been haunted with a spright.

soe thou hast, thou thinkst
;

WTiy
which lie thought was the devil.

Avhat, hast
let

thou soe 1
?

How scapdst
Wer
That

thou from him

would he

thee goe

Sure 'twas a very honest devUl, friend,

he hobgoblin,
fearful! idiot

fairie, elve, or fiend.

!

32 G

Thou

looke,

it

was a

catt,

frights thee thus, I

sawe her wher she

guilty of

satt

But thou w/th conscience

Dost deeme
CaliiiHla creeps

much

evill

the cat to be a very devill.

32GG

Caligula, creepst vnderneath thy

bed ]

under the bed,

but
it is

a poor

That

's

a poore shelter to defend thy head

;

shelter.

'Gainst loves feard thunderbolts

huge Atlas
to kill.

hill

Cannot preserve
One wishes
an estate
for

thee,

when he meanes
MS.
intentent.

3270

Votarius wisheth for a great estate,

'

SAT. 7.]

M1DAS' WISH

AND

IIlS

DANGER.

103

Anil

saitli ;7/e

poore sliould then participate

;

Of

all his

blessings

yet cloth nothing give

to live,

Although he be exceeding well

3274
grew;
that
[leaf 37]
lie

And might
J>ut
tliQ

healp others,
.

till

his substaunce

miRlit

okle proverbe

is

exceeding true,

assist others.

" That these great wishers,

&

these com??ion woulders,

Are never
1

(for tha

moste part) good householders." 3278

sell
.1 much doth
T. 1

mibe a ladie, Jlo

W/th

Timophila her part of heaven would

she so
1

swell

Another would sell heaven to be

aiadyandbe
'"''^ '^"'^'"'

this ambitious longing, to

be cald

Madam

at every

word

to

be enstalde

3282
it selfe.

In such a chaire of

state, Avere

heaven
elfe
i

Ambitious woman, high aspiring

All thy desires are wicked, thou vnblest,

Vnlesse Godes Spirit, working in thy brest,

3286

Change thy

desire

from vaine

&

earthly toies

To Of

covet truely after heavenly ioyes.

is

Chromes

troubled w?th the greedy minde

chremes

is

golde-desiring

Midas

he doth linde

3290

only comfort
'" ^'''"*

ia

Noe comfort but

in gaping after gaiiie.

tliQ

Would

to his

wish awarded were

;

paine

That Midas
11 mould

felt

who, thirsting
e're

after golde,
the,
i

AVishd thai Avhat

he touchd might change

Midas wished
things turned
into gold.

all

3294
Phoebus graunt

o.irv

Into thai purer mettall.

Confirmd the misers wish, but soone did daunt

The wretches minde To comfort

for all the foode

he tooke

nature, cleane his forme forsooke

3298
had st.irved had not Apollo
an<i

And turnd to golde. The asse had surely TT1J.A11 power his T n preservde Had not Apolloes liie By taking of his wish. May the intent
^

starvde

taken off
''''"''

Ms

Of Chremes meet with

Or, since that

the like

punnishment
beares,

3302

Midas greedy minde he

May he w/th IMidas wear tlie asses eares. Dame Polupragma, gossip Title-tatle,
Suffers her tongue, let loose at randome, pratle

Dame

Tittie-

330G

104
goes to public
feasts,

SOME MEN BOAST OF THEIR

;

SIX.

[sat.

7.

Of all occurrentes comes to publike feastes Without invitement, 'mongst tliQ worthiest guestes Takes vp her roome at table, where, more bolde Then Of
truely welcome, she discourse will holde

and

talks

3310
\

politics

and

divinity.

state affaires, talke of divinity

tliQ

As moves
But

hearers to deride her folly,

to
tliQ

> '

grieves

me

heart, that thinge^ soe holy,

Things w7i2ch in greatest estimation stand,

3314

Should by her foolish

lips

be soe prophande.

But

Betterice let

me
i'

thee this lesson teach,

To
Temerus, wishing
to adv.ince

leave those thingcs thai are above thy reach,

vv7z2ch

Temerus,

th'

warre had borne a launce, 3318

himself,

Vpon some great exploite would needed advaunce

His high attempting minde,

&

doe some

act.

To make
[leaf 37, back]

the world applaud his

worthy

fact.

Then

(ne're regarding Avhat

might him
generall

befall)

3322

nndertook to
tlie tlie foes'

kill

He

takes in

hand

to kill
;

tliQ

general of

army.

Of the

foes armie
ill

but his vaine intent

;

Met

w?'th as

successe

care did prevent

ere

His desperate boldenesse,

His wished end
Brought to the
raclv lie confesses
all
;

he could come nigh 3326

spie,

for,

taken for a

And

brought to

th' racke, torture

did

him compeli
lies.

The truth
Being

of his straunge stratagem to tell

For which, the wi^etch in horrid torment

3330

iustly plagu'de for his rash enterprise.

Anaidus, art soe clean devoide of grace 1

Hast thou soe impudent a brasen

Some men
sin

face,

JSTot

only to act sinne w/th greedinesse.

to
't

3334
?

and boast of it.

But
"Was

make boast

of thy

damnde wickednesse

not enough with wordes to have beguild

gotten her wz'th childe,

Thy mothers maide &

To make
Thpy think money can buy them off,

But that thou must most shamefully begiime

a iest of this thy hellish sinne

3338

'Mongst thy companions?

Thou perhaps

dost think.

Because thy law-pe?-verting cursed chink

Hath

freed thee from the standing in a sheet

3342

SAT. 7.]

THE MAN " SUDDEN AND QUICK IN QUARREL."

tliy oftencc
1

105

(A punnisliment for

moste meet)
Yes,

That

tliere
is

rcmaines noe more

ymp

of

licll,
i>"t

There

a ludge -w/iich in the heavens doth dwell,

^7at

an uncor-

An
Of

vncorrupted Indge,
for

wiU award
art,

33-4G

dwells in heaven.

Damnation
that

thy sinne, vnlesse regard

state

vnhappy
(I fear)

wheriu thou

Softning

thy vnrelenting heart,

Shew

thee thy soules deformity,

&

in

3350

Eepentaunce fountaine make thee purge thy sinne.

Looke vpon Adrus ^

in his furious ire

Theiimbsof
Adrus shake
fire
!

He

seemes to burne like some red cole of

his eyes flame
!

with anger.

How How

how

his limhs shake w^th rage

his voice thunders, as

!

he ment to wage
is

3355
great

"Warre against heaven

Surely the cause

That makes him in

this sort himselfe forget

It cannot but be matter of

much

consequence,
1

3358

what moves him

so?

That moves the

man

to this impatience
;

Faith no, you are deceivde

the cause

was smale,
none
one.
He'ii dra^v
i.is

A better
Were
But that

man then he would put vp

his cholericke humoz<r

all.

the disgrace

more hainous, w/r/ch

is
it

33 G

makes

This asse (which, for the wagging of a straw ^

His dagger vpon any man will drawe) Walking i' th' street, was iustled from the wall "

dagger upon any man ;

33G6 why?

somebo.iy pushed him into

the gutter

Downe

almost to the channell

this is all

That puttes liim in this

fume

Would you

surmise,

[leafss]

man

that hath the vse of reasons eyes

himselfe, should for a cause soe light,

To guide
Eeady To
_^

3370

Soe smale a matter, be in such a plight 1

to frett himselfe to death, to sweare,

curse,

&

banne, as

if

[he]

meant

to teare
oo 3374
'7 4

And

The
The
Vse

earth in sunder, only for this end,

Because he knowes not vpon

furie of his rage
!

11

whom

Till
to
!

aii this fury hecause he knows not on

bend

whom

to
i

bend

his fury

Thou

irefull foole

henceforth to frequent the learned schoole

Of

sacred vertue, which will thee inspire

3378

DEAD MEn's SHOES.

moderat thine
ire.
!

lOG

"WAITING FOR
Wi'tli patience to

[sAT. 7,

Good
You who Iny
stick about

Mistriss Orgia, liolde yowr liasty handes

Because yoz^r maides have not pind in jout bandes

the

According to jour minde, must the stick

flie

3382
replie

your

servants'

About

their shoulders straight

to you,

Should they

shoulders.

In yowr owne language

you were servde

According as jonv rage had well deservde.

But
and break your husband's head,

this is
's

nothing w^th this fuiious dame,

3386

Ther

other matters that deserve more blame.

She

^vill
^

not stick to breake her husbanded head,

to his face

Eevile

him

&

wish him dead

In most reproachfuU manner; he, good man,

Dares not replie a worde, but gettes him gone
Till

3390

her

fit 's

past,

&

doth w^th patience

Endure
learn to rule

his Avives outragious insolence.

Thou

furious vixen, learne to rule thy passion,

3394

your passions.

And
Or
Manlius lives in hope of inlieriting his uncle's
lands.

vse thy husband in a better fashion,

I will

have thy name to be enrolde

'For a nioste shamelesse

&

notorious scolde
estate,

Manlius hath a very mean

3398
fate
:

Yet

lives in longing

hope of better

He hath an vnkle above measure rich, And cares not much if he lay dead th'
i'

ditch
olde
;

Hopes he

can?zot last long because hee

's

3402

And

then he hopes to seaze vpon his goldc.

Foole,

how

dost

know

that thou shalt

him

outlive

'Twere better for thee, did he something give

A bird

in the

Xow while thy wanttes desire reliefe

I' til'

hand is worUi two in the bush and lie wlio

waits for dead men's slioes may go barefoot.

"one thrush 3406

i'

hand

is

worth more then are two

th'

bush

"
;

And

*'he that hopes to put one dead

mens

shoos,

It often

comes

to passe

he barefoote goes."
seas

Elpinas,

which w/th

doth traffique holdo,

golde.
:

3410

Hath made

a ship out for

West Indian

And
'

all his hojies

doe in this venture

lie

Ih'vcale originally.
till it

The stroke over the second

like j'

is

con-

tinued

looks

more

Eerjle.

'

SAT. 7.]

THE ANXIOUS MERCHANT.

"BLUE

DEVILS."

107

Blioukl she miscarry sure the

man

Avoiild die

But

lio^je, -which,

holds

him

like a violent fever,

3414

Flatters

him

still
;

he shalbo made for ever

[leaf ss, back]

At her returne & since she first began To cut illQ billovreS of tlie, ocean W/th her swift keel, his minde, more swift then
Eollowes her in tha voyage,

Tlie
all

merchant

is

anxiety about

slie,

&

doth see

34-19

W/th

eyes of selfe-delighting fantasie

(W/'ch sometime Avrap him in an extasie)

Her prosperous traffique. If tliQ day be faire He hopes tliai homeward she doth then repaire
If stormes obscure
tliQ

3422
;

brightnesse of

tliQ

skie.

He

hopes she doth in

safest harbo2/r lie.

The time

w/ii'ch slowlie

seemes to passe away

.

3426 He daily teiis

over the time for iier return in minutes,

Vnto his longing hopes, he day by day

Telles o're in minutes
;

not a puife of winde

Blowes, but that straight his advantageous minde

Carries
it

to

liis

ship.

Sometime
_

his thought
-^

3430

sometimes he
decides what to do with th& sold

Eunnes on

ihe "old wherwi'th his ship

still

is fi'aught, ^

she wiU bring

Imagining in his

working braine,

home.

How

to

imploy

it

to his best of gaine.

Thou greedy minded

Only on wealth,

slave

whose hopes

are fixd

3434

wz'th pleasure inte[r]mixt.

And ne're
But thai

hop'st after heaven,

how

canst thou thinke

iust love should in thQ ocean sinke

All thv fond hopes, ^ -^

&

drive thee to dispaire,

.

3438

Kut

his hopes
all

'

may

be

Which, ne're implorst his

Pteturne at
last,

ayde by hearty

praier?

confounded!

and

fix

thy hopes one him,

"Whose only power can make thee sink or swimme.

Alston, whose
life

hath been accounted

evill,

3442

Alston, in a

fit

oi

And

therfore cal'de

by many the blew

devill,
-.r,

"blue devils," would have committed suicide,

>

S[t]ruck With remorse ot his

,.... ill gotten

thai

pelle,

AVould in dispaire have made away himselfe.

One while by drowning, when

would not

be,

3446

He drew his

knife to

worke his
fatall

tragedie.

Intending Av/th thai

instrument


1
108

THE REMORSE OF COXSCIENCE.

[sat.

7.

To Of
but God's mercy
restrained
liiin,

cut his

owne

tbrote.
!

Fearfull punnisliment

a dispairing

mindc

0,

who

can

tell
1

3450

The pangs

thai in a guilty conscience dwell gracious mercy of

tliQ

Had

not

tliQ

Lord
abhord,

Eestraind

him from

a sinne soe

much

3453

W/th

his

owne handes he would

have stopt his breath

to death.

And

With his bodie sent his soule

Thrice happie mortall, w/a'ch this grace didst finde,

Soe thai henceforth thou bear a better minde,

And
and saved him from sucli an
end.

let

thy actions to his glorie tende

life

3458

That savde thy

from such a

fearfull end.

Eeturne thankesgiving,

&

desire in praier
dispaire.

His grace to sheild thee ivom forlorne

[leaf 39]

Latro did act a

damned

villanie,

34G2

Latro added

murder

to

Adding blacke murder

Yet
'cause 'twas closely

to his robbery,

robbery,

done he might conceale

it.

it,

For, save himselfe, none living could reveale

But
but conscience

see

the,

iust revenge for this offence

3466

After

tho,

deed, his guilty conscience

Torturing his soule, enforc'd

him

still

to think

The

act disclosde,

&

he in dangers brinke.

3469

He thought the, birds still in their language said it; He thought tho, whistling of the winde bewraide it; He cald to minde thai murder was forbidden, And though a while, it could not long be hidden.
Destract in minde,

&

fearfull in his place,

call to

3474

Having noe power to

God

for grace,

The

devill

doth suborne him to dispaire,

'tis

Tells

him

pitty he should breath this aire

;

Which, hath been such a villaine

thrusts

him on

3478

To worke
made
a coward of liim.

his

ovma death

&

confusion.
spill

He, though he had tha murderous hand to

Anothers blood, himselfe yet
diirst

not

kill.

And was afraide of others. What He iudgcth to be men & officers

Come
to attache him,

e're stirres

3482

&

liis

sight vnstable

SAT. 7.]

THE AFFECTIONS ENSLAVE THE SOUL.

to

109
and he fears every bush is a constable;

Takes every bush

be a constable.^

Thus plagud
Out must

&

tortm-de w/th dispaire

&

feare,

-HQC OioO

tha fact,

he can
to

iioe

more forbeare
till

For w7i/ch according

tlia

course of lawe

he yields himself to

Deaths heavy sentence one him he doth drawe

justice.

And

being brought vnto Hlq place of death,

disj^aire yeilde^

3490

There in

vp

his latest breath.

So every passion reigns over

Thus each
Over mans

affection like a tyrant raignes

soule, w/a'ch letteth loose tTiQ reines

iix

man's

soul.

Vnto

selfe will,

w7i2ch soe slavish state,

3494

Mans sence captivd'e, his reason subiugate, Makes tliQ soule clogd, a massie lump of sinne,
W7'ch following his creation should have been
Like his Creator pure
;

soules were made

captivitie
all

free,

3498

Not

to

be held in base

By

every passion, but Av/th reasons bitte

affections

To checke

from

things vnfitt.
He
o
that

He

therfore that intends to live vpright

would

Let him in time curbe hedstrong appetite.

>

ooyjo must

rn o

^'^^

upright curb his

appetites.

See 3 Hen. VI.,

v. 6.

[end of the SATIRES.]

110

[Ctrtatnt l^mms.']

[PAET
LIoaf39,baclil

II.]

Certaine Poems, comprising Things

Naturall, Morrall,

&

Tlieologicall,

written by H.

C, Gent.

dulci virus contractat aranea flore,

Quando ex

vrtica mella legiuitur ape.

Ad
I (lid not intend

Lectorem.
have pre-

had not

thoitglit (courteous reader) to

to place these

Poems
you,

before

tended thus conspicuously in thy sight this rude

&

indigested chaos of conceites (the abortive iss[u]e of

my

vnfertile

braine)

&

to

have

set before thee this

iin?nature

&
;

vnpleasing

fruit,

collected

only for

my

private recreation,

&

not for thy publique

satisfactio?^

&
had not
suaded

delight

but

tJie

vehement importunity

&

instiga-

my
to do

tion of certaine friends, "w/th

whom

I did communicate

friends per-

me

my

moste private studies, prevailing above mine owne

determination, enforced

me

(otherwise vnwilling) to
alsoe
It to

commit
They were
so

this

piece

of poetry

thy curteous

acccptaunce

&

kinde censure.

was soe sodainlie

suddenly put to
press, that I

thrust into the presse, that I had noc competencie of

CENSORIOUS CRITICS NOT REGARDED,

time,

w/th tha bear,

,.,.

to lick over this wliealp,

&

-vv/th

pray you excuse

errors.

,, more duigent pervsall

to correct

any

easily overslipped

errowr.

Whcrfore I desire
it is

thee, if

thou finde any, to

^

think
mentis.

rather
for
tlie.

lapsus

pennte then an error

As

crabbed

&

criticall interpretation

of many,

/7u<t

would seeme moste iudicious Catoes,

&
it

As

for judicious

Catos, I care

yet are indeed most censorious coxcombes, I waigh

litle,

iiut iittie.

and
;

lesse

tliQ

detracting speeclies
thai
is

of barking
it is

Momists

&

yet let

them both know

easier to

reprove then reforme,

as a bad.

&

a good

word

as soone spoken
favoz^rs, or

But

least I

seeme to begge their

distrust

mine owne

fancies,

I will leaue them as I

found them,

&

returne to thee, gentle reader (because

tho,

thou shalt be both

epistle).

protasis
tliQ

&
tliQ

catastrophe of

my
if you, gentle

If thou canst with

bee sucke honie out

reader, ran suck

of this hemlock, I hope,

when
In

garden of

my

wit

honey from
hemlock,
i

this

shalbe throughly watered w/th tlm spring of Helicon, to

present thee With flowers.
tlio,

may

at a

meantime, thy pre-

present you

sent kinde acceptation of this wilbe a great animation

to

my

subsequent endeavo?irs.
FarAvell.
'

erroi/r in

MS.

;:

;; :

112

[Certaine i^ocms.]

Yera quid liominis forma.

[leaf 40]

"Wliat

makes a

perfect
1

man?

My

IMuse declare.

External qualities do not make a

perfect

Extemall

qualities
;

Their force

is

much
is

man.

I doe confesse

but beastes excell vs farre

such,

In them

oiiv

stepdame Natures will

The

lions strength

mans

force doth overquell

6

The hare
The brutes

in sAviftnesse doth vs all excell.

him

excel iu senses.

In sences

likeAvise brutes

doe vs exceed

Hartes iu quicke hearing, eagles in sharp sight

Spiders in touching
;

apes

when

as they feed,

Have

daintier palates to procure delight

Tender-nosd hounded,

&

vultm-es, senting prey,

In smelling doe surpasse vs every waie,

In his form,

12

K'either doth

mans

essentiall

forme consist
;

man

excels all

beasts.

In lineaments of body well contr[i]vde

Although heerin of force I must
insist

15
;

He

doth excell aR beastes that ever livde

is

Since beastes aspect

downeward

as they passe,

And man
Wealth cannot

tJie

heavens hath for his looking-glasse. 18

perfect forme

What

then

Doth wealth mans

compose
;

make him
perfect.

Noe, though thy Avealth doe Croesus wealth exceed

Though many miles thy land

can?;ot enclose,

21

Though
Yet

all

things to thine

owne

desire succeed

this (if

thou fhe matter rightly scanne)

Is of noc force to

make

the perfect

man.

24

: :

;;

rOEMS.]

TUE FOUR SEASONS.

a soule, not generate, but infusde,
But
his

113
immortal

There

is

soul does.

Iiu;?iortall tlierfore, wJiich.

conjoyntly knit

'With [the] corriptible bodie,

liy vertue througli each

&

diffusJo
as is
tJie
fit,

27

member,

Informes each part,

&

animates

same,

And

this

mans

true essential! forme doth frame.

30

De quatuor

anni partibus.
Apollo dips his
he-id into

Apollo to his flaming carre adrest

Taking his dayly, never ceasing course,

His
fiery

Thetis' watery breast 365 times.

head in Thetis watry

brest.

Three hundred sixty

&

five times

doth source

As many times Aurora doth appear Ere there be made a full & pe?-fect year.
This year equally doth
Into 4 partes, which
it selfe

distribute
call.

The year

is

we doe

quarters

divided into four parts

Each having

his peculiar attribute

severall qualitie

Of name,

&

w/th

all

Spring ever plesaunt, Sum??ier hot

&

dusty.

Fruit-ripening Autumne, Winter colde

&

frosty.

12
[leaf 40, back] Spring, clothed

Sweet smelKng Spring, that ever chearfull season,

Clad With ^Ae verdure of fresh hearbes

&
:

flowers,

with herbs and

flowers

Eenewes

the year

&

makes

it

alwaies geason

15

By distillation

of his fruitfull showers

it is

This quarter doth (for soe

Eefresh the sence

assignde)

&

recreate the minde.

18

'No sooner doth the blazing bright

beamd

starre,

Sol, enter Cancer that signe tropicall,

But Sum?uer

in his progresse doth declare

21

Summer, when
Ceres begins harvest

^ hot ensuing season

Now

that

must

fall

Ceres, goddesse of all

come

&

tillage.

Begins her harvest in each country time's w. 8

village.

24

114

THE IXFLUEXCE OF THE PLANETS,

[POE^rS.

"When day
Autumn, when
Bacchus treads
the vine.

&

night are in equalitie,

his course to take,

Autumne doth then beginne

Whom
]!^ow

aires

temperate serenity
quarter evermore doth

27

A pleasaunt
And

make

Eacchus treadeth^ downe the

doth compose the
spirit

fruitfull vine,
Avine.

quickning
tJte

When
Winter when
nippintj cold

longest night doth

make

shortest day,

Frostie-foede

Winter Autumne doth succeede,

his force

In hoysterous stormes

he doth display.
:

33

breeds disease.

Whose

nipping colde doth ofte diseases breed

to please this quarter

Yet man

doth present
36

Domesticke sportes

&

homebred merriment.

Vlanetariim energia.
Astronomers liave found
seven planets.

Astronomers, Av/lh their heaven searching

ej^es,

Seven planets

in their scvcrall orbs

have found,
3

Whose

influence, they say, descends the skies,

And

in o?/r mortall bodies doe

force is great, or else

abound

Whose

they greatlie Ije

G

That calculate mans

Saturn
is

fatall- destinie.

mounted in the highest

if

sphear,

Vnder which planet

The mnro'ie and melancholy are born under
Saturn.

man

life receive,

He

shalbe subject to dispairefuU feare,

to his

9
:

Dull melancholy

minde

shall cleave

His stupid braine, his frowning looke, shall bear

A
The honoured and
liberal

crabbed nature

&

a life austere.

K"ext vnto lumpish Saturn, sprightlie love

Moves

in his orbc.

Wlio vnder

his aspect

under

Jupiter.

Shall breathe this aire (w7//ch doth

him mortall prove)

:

He

alwaies shalbe held in good respect

Pleasing his looke shalbe, comely bis feature,

Bounteous his minde, and ever kinde his nature. 18

'

MS. treading.

POEMS.]

THE INFLUENCE OF THE PLANETS.

INlars

115
rioafll]

After love,

assumes

liis

projier seat,

"Wliom poets

fixine to

be the god of waiTe

21
:

That

man

in battell shall his foes defeate

is

"\V7i/ch

vnder Mars

borne, thai warlike starre

.SoUliers

u ider

Mars.

He
Be

"will (for

of his natiu'c hath been tridc)

quicklie angrie

&

soone pacifide.

24

In midle of the pianettes regiment,

Bright Sol, that heauenlie ever burning lamp,

Himselfe doth in his glorious orbs present.

27

The

skilful

Who

religious

vnder him receives his native stampe,

Avell skild

and under

the Sun.

Shalbe

in artes, in conference wise,

life precise.

Religious in heart, in

30

After bright Sol, the beauteous queen of love

Faire Citherean

Venus

takes her place

is

Wlio vnder her aspect

Skilfull in love
;

borne, shall prove

33

The

skilful in

&

w/th a blushlesse face

love under Venus.

He shall vnto his lawlesse lust allure Many that are of thoughts & life im])ure.
Kext Venus,
in his sphear
is

36

Maiaes sonne,
:

loves messenger, wing-footed Mercurie

Who
He

vnder his aspect his

life

begunne
;

39

The

deceitful

Shalbe endude w/th craft

&

under Mercury.

subtilty

wilbe (soe his state thereby

to deceive

may mend)
42

Apt

even his most trusty friend.

planets placed
:

Lowest of

all the

is

Selfe-chaunging
If

Luna

vnder whose aspect

4y Women
under
the Moon.

man be

borne, he never shall have misse

heart, w/'ch

Of an inconstant

doth detect
:

A pe^-verse
Vnder

nature,

&

a peevish minde

this starre are

borne most

women

kinde.

48
man

Every man hath

his constellation

Every

has

Vnder one

his star.

of these planets influence

;;

116
stars rule man.

THE FOUR ELEMENTS.

Predominating,

[poems.

&

the,

calculation

51

0[f] his ensuing fortunes comes from hence,

Be he
Thus

to labo?a" borne, to art, or warres

starrcs rule

man,

& God

doth rule the starres

De
Earthly bodies are composed of the four elements.

quatuor elementis.
is

Each sublunarie bodie Of

composde

thQ fower elements^', ^\hlc^x are proposde

ISTature to thai end,

By

a worke

t'

admire
fire,

That aire should meet with, earth, water w/th

And

in one bodie friendlie sympathize,

Being soe manifestlie contraries. These elements apparent

to the eye
;

Are mixt,
[leaf 41, back]

&

not of simple puritie

are,

Pure simple ones ther

Passes the skill of
02r

but Avher they be

There are simple

elements,

philosophie.

"Wheither earths purer elementall part

Eeside within Thessalian Tempes heart

"Wheither Arabia Foelix
it

containes.

Or Edens garden,
but where can they be found ?

or th' Elizian plain es

Olympus

hill,

or

mountaine Appenine,
16

Our Albion

heer, or fertill Palestine,

I rashly in opinion dare not enter.

Who
Where
water ?
purest

shall finde out eartli[s] yet

is,

vnheard of center

"Where purest water

declare Avho can,

"Whether in midst of the vast ocean,

In Tagus or in
Ganpres
?

20

Or where

rich Tagus workes

vp golden sand
on laud,

"Whether in some

clear rivolet

As
In

in the spring A^pon Parnassus hill,

"Where the nine Muses dip their learned quill

silver

24

Ganges, or that fountaine rather

"Where
Where
air?

faire

Diana wzth her nymphs doth bath her?

aire.

purest

Art thou perhaps thai purest breathing

Sweet Zephirus, w/iich wontst

to

make

repaire

28

POEMS.]

THE QUALITIES OF THE ELEJIENTS.

Psyclie, "when for

117

To amarous
She

Cupids

love,

fearlesse lept

downe from

th^ rocke above.

If thou be that pure aire Av/thout all doubte,

Shew me thy

dwelling,

&

I'le seelce

thee out,
fire

And
Be
it

having found thee, then

my
;

next desire

Having found air, must next be

Shalbe for purest elementall

tire

sought.

Within the moones concavity

all

Or above

the heavens convexity,

36

Doe

it

w/thin that fornace closely lurke,

"WTiere

Vulcan

&

his Cyclopes doe worke,

fire

Or be
But

it

that celestiall

above

TV/i/ch wise Prometheus stole

away from

love.

40
Each body takes its existence from
the elements.

I leave these pure elements alone,

To speake of these amongst vs better knowne.

This quadruplicity, these elements,

From whom each body takes his Have qxialities calde elementarie,
KnoAvne by
Earth
is
^7ie.

existence,

44

names of
in.

first
first

&

secundarie.

the driest
is

his

degree,

Then Then

coldnesse
is

his second quality.

first

48 And

each has

its

Coldest

water in
is

particular

quality,

quality.

moj'sture

his second propertie,

]Moistenesse in aire houhh'6' i^rincipality,

And
And

heat

is

secundarie quality.

52

Fire doth predominate in calidity.

then the next degree

is siccitj^

Fire hot

&

dry, aire

moyst

&

hot

we

call,
all.

Seas colde

&

moist, earth dry

&

[leaf 42] as hot and dry,

colde wz'th

Ob

di-y

and

cold.

These elements, although they doe agree

In the composure of

mortalitie,
it selfe

Yet

in each

body one

doth vaunt,

And is above the rest predominant. In man complexions plainly doe dilate
"What element
is

60

moste predominate.
fire

In cholerick bodies,

doth govern moste

In choleric bodies
is

most

fire

In sanguine,

aire

doth chiefly rule the rost

G4

; ;

118
in phlesmatic most water.

ixflui;kce of the elemexts ox life.

Ill

[poems.

flegmatick, liath water greatest sway,

to

Dull melancholy seemes

It is recorded

be of

clay.

by some
it

antiquaries,
varies,

I^or doe I see that

from truth much

68

That each before recited element

Gives to a bruit his onlie nutriment.
I speake not this of those

we

purest
at

call,
all.

For they, I know, cannot sustaine

The mole
lives in

72

The earth vnto the mole her essence gives.

The herring only
in
tJiG

the earth, the herring in tlie sea.

water lives
suffice,

The chameleon
lives in air,

Aire only the camelion doth

the salamander in
fire.

And
To

salamander from

t?iQ fire dies.

76

these 4 brutes, living in this estate,

assimilate.

Fowre kindes of men we may

Workes
Man

Like to the mole the worldly minded

in the earth, as if
;

man
80

he headlong ran

Into her bowels

searches the

for

some paltry gaine,

toiels
is

He

digs,

&

delves,

&

himselfe Av/th paine.

earth for gold.

His avaritious minde

wholy bent
84

Ypon

the purchase of this element

t?ie

Blind like

mole in

's

intellectuall eye

That should

direct

him

to felicity.

The second kinde from water doth

Produce his
Pirates live by sea-robbery

alone

lifes

best sustentation,

88
piracie.

And And
Till

such are they w7"ch vse

live

damnd

vpon

the sea

by

robberie.

These with the herring make the sea their friend

some of them

at

Wopping

take their end.

92

Ambitious men

doe one the ay ex feed;

Like the camelion they are pleasde indeed

ambitious

men

With meer
Some
In

aeriaU praise

good wordes

(I

think)

on

praise.

Fattens them better then their meat

&

drinke.

96

of this kinde build castles in the aire.

Thinking themselues instald in honours chaire

their selfe pleasing mindes,

when such promotion

100

Is as farre

from them as thoy from devotion.

roc.MS.]

CAUDIXAL VIRTUES NOT USED BY CARDINALS.

tliink soe
;

119
[leaf42.b.ick]

But they

&

lie

slunild Joe tlicm ^yl'ong

That puts them by

Lust
is tliQ fire

this their conceit soc strong.

Lust consumes
the

that doth maintains the life

Of the venereous man

The
soule

(but sets at strife

I say maintaiue
'tis
?

104

life of the vencrious.

&

body).

Did

I should haue saide consume, for soe

plaine.

Yet can he

live

noe more Av/thout

desire,
fire.

Then can

the salamandra Av/thout

108

Do

quatiior yirtutibus cardinalibus.

call
Are these virtues
called cardinal

AYhat may the reason be that we doe

Our fower
Is
it

excellent vertues cardinall

because

Eomes

Cardinals moste vse them,

%

because Cardinals use them ?

And other men doe more then they refuse them ^0 truely, for each severaU vertue trie. And you shall finde that they one few relie.
For wisedome
first,

what wisdome can thcr be

superstitiouslie,

In them, who, given

For the true God doe images adore.

And

in necessity their healjDe imj)lore

their

Yet Avhy should I

"\'\niose

wisdome thus

defie,
1

crafty witt

and damned

pollicie

Their policy is to enrich themselves.

Is to enrich themselves,

though their soules have

to save
1

Perdition,

whom

true

wisdome seekes

For

iustice next,

doth iustice w/th them live

16
kill

Who

absolution to each sinne doe give

?

For a corrupting bribe

His aged parentes
;

The sonne may

the blood
;

They do not
excel Injustice,

man

may

spill

Of

his deepe foe

&

'scape

for a large fee

Wrong shaU
Iustice
is
it

take place,

& right

pe?-verted be.

20

If these thinges

we may

iustice iustly call,

vsde by every Cardinall.

But

may

be in temperance they excell.

And

therin doe all only bear the bell.

perhaps they do in temperance.

24

I
120
if to is to

PROVE THE FRIENDSHIP OF FRIEXDS.

If to be Epicures,

[poems.

be Epicures be temper-

and

live at ease,

ate;

Swallowing

xj)

pleasures

when

&

liow tliey please,

life,

We
and
chastity, if

doe account a tempe?'at sober

these are they
is

Then
the Iteeping of concubines is
chastity.

we graunt w/thouten
live in virgin state,

strife.

28

Their chastety

soe im?naculate

That they doe alwaies

Marriage they
nill

admitt by any meanes,

Yet doe allowe of concixbins

&

queanes.

32

Lastly to speake of manlie fortitude,

Therin their calling sheAYS them to be rude

Deaf 43]

Full

ill

(we know,

&

every

man may
'tis

see)
;

A steely helme, &

As
Tliey are proud in power.

Cardnals cap agree

36

for their fortitude of

minde,

small,
fall.

Proud in
I,

their height, dejected in their

's

but their power

great great

in oppression,

They tread down

virtue.

Treding downe vertue, raising vp transgression.

40

These are their cardinall vertues of cheife fame,

Tliese virtues are

called cardinal

because they

Which we may trulie cardnall vices name. But now at last a reason shew I shall, "Why we these vertues doe name cardinall Cardinall iustly may derived be From cardo, w7;/ch a hinge doth signifie
;

44:

embrace
rest.

all

the

Soe these 4 vertues,

all

the rest enfolde,

Even

as the hinges doe the dore vpholde.

48

Scilicet

yt fulvum spectatur in ignibus

auriim,

Tempore
A rich young man to prove his
friends

sic

duro est iuspicienda

fides.

A certaine man
Had
To think

w7;/ch great possessions had.

;

likewise store of friendi?s

as

who

's

so

mad
4

that friendship doth not wealth pursue.

Though
This

for the

moste part fained

& vntrue
it

man

of Avcalth (though seld

soe be found

In a young man) in iudgomcnt did abound,

POEMS.]

FRIENDS IN rROSPERITT, FOES IN ADVERSITY.

betliouglit a

121

And him

way
liiui

liis frieude*"

to trie,

How

tliey

would serve
calfo
1

in extremity.
in a sacke,

8
tilled a caif,

He kills a -TTTi \V hom vp

And

&
1

ties
p

him

ana
sack.

he i takes

iv

carries

one his backe

friend'.'s lie

P"'' i' in'o

;

""

x\nd then straightwaies vnto his

in tliis

goes,

manner doth
.

his

minde

disclose.

12
trie,

"My
T-.

friendfs,"
.

quoth he, "yoz<r loves I now must

,
)

i'

or iriendes are truly prov de

m misery
life

He told his friends lie had

kiued a man,

Ynlesse yo?tr succours doe

I

my

defend,
1

am

in danger of a shamefall end.

Ivnowe, in

my

rage I have slaine a

man

this day.

And knowe And hide it

j\Iy

not where his body to conveigh

from the searchers inquisition,

and wished them

to hide the body.

house being subject to no mean suspition.

Sa's, in

20

Healp me, good

my

distressed state,

Since thus to you

my

griefs I

doe

dilate."
!

" Depart," quoth they, " from vs, you are a stranger

"We mean

not for yowr love to bring in danger

24

Our goodes

&

lives

should

we

murder hide
clescride.

'Twould even by sencelesse creatures be

They would have Yoiiv friendship thus distainde w/th innocent blood nothing to do Tir 1 -vT-ri M T 1 1 r>r> \v e doe disclaime. \\ Jiile jouv estate was good, 28 with him in his

And
The Our

JOUV

selfe free

from danger of the

laAve,

fatnesse of yo?n- purse

wealth-p?<rsiiing loves

had power
;

to

drawe
peaf43, back]

but you must knowe,

or flowe."

Our friendships With your fortunes ebbe

Thus
severally

32

he

all his friendes

did

trie,

And had

from them

this or the like replie

At last he cals to minde a man of fashion, W/th whom his father held much conversation
A^Hiilome he livde,

36
Then he
tried his

&

oft

had heard him praise

assaies.

His friendship, prov'de in divers hard

To

this as to the rest the

young man

hies.

And in like manner his He for his fathers sake,

fainde griefe discries

w/a'ch was his friend,
life

40

Sweares he will doe his best his

to shend.

122

THE CHOICE OF A WIFE

A DREAM.
meanes
to hide
;

[poems.

The body then he

takes,

&

Vowes
once promised to help him.
at

secrecie,
if,"

what euer doe

you
'le

betide.

44
faith relie,

who

"
I

And
'le

quoth he, "

on

my

keep you safe from the world searching eye,

Vntill this gust of danger be o're blowne,

Which, threatens death,

if

that the fact be knowne."

The man
"
Having found a
friend, he told
liiin

reioycing in his friends firme love,

it

49

Sayes hoAV he did

but his faith to prove,

false lire,

And

now," quoth he, " by giving of

I have found out the thing I doe desire,

52

the trick.

faithfull friend,
life,

vpon whose

trust I

may

My
A compact of
never-dying
friendship was

my

landes,

& aU my
all

substance lay."

Then vp

& tels

him

the project plaine,

How
the

the dead body was a calfe yslaine.

56

made between
two.

The

other,

wondring

at his pollicie,
tie

EesolvM

straight a

knot with, him to

Of never-dying
Thus each

friendship to their end,

to other

was a perfect

friend.

60

IMean wdiile the other from him he removde,

Whose

fained love sufficientlie was prov'de.

Somniuwz.
About
had a dream

the dead time of the silent night,

Disquiet thought debarring sounder sleepe,

I

di-eame I

had that did me much

delight,

about the choice of a wife.

Wherof my minde doth

Because
it

yet impression keepe,

chiefly

touched single Ufe,

wife.

In good or bad election of a

Three virgins
introduced themselves to

j\Iethought 3 virgins did appear vnto me,

In their attyer

all full

seemly clad,
9

my

notice.

'Which saide they came on purpose for to wooe me,

To know
"

to w7;/ch I
first (said

moste affection had

But

they) before this thing thou shew

Thou each

of vs shalt severally knowe."

12

; ;

POEMS.]

BRIEF ALLEGORIES.

123
[leaf 11]

Then
**

first

gan say
;

tlta

foirest of the three,

Beawty am

if

me

thou

list to

take,

Beauty was poor and faitliful

Thy

fancy shall receiue content in me.

I will never thy true love forsake
I
:

15

And

But

am

poore,

&

have no meanes

at all
befall."

Eeliefe to give, if

want should thee

18
Wealth promised
plenty,

The second then begann, " I "Wealth am hight

If

me
fill

thou chuse thou never shalt have lacke

to give is in

Aboundance thee

my

might.
:

21

To

thy belly, or to clothe thy backe

(as

Only I am

thou maist

Avell

beholde)
olde.'

but she was ugly and deformed.

Deformde, hard-favo?a-d, crabbed, wringkled,

Then quoth the

If

third

&

last,

"

My

name

is

Witt

me thou

chuse to give thy minde content,

I can discourse, w/th wordes moste apt

&

fitt,

27

Wit was

pleasing,

but wanton.

Of

nature, heaven,
this

&

every element

But

be

sure, a

wanton I

will prove.

And
"

not be tyed vnto on[e] only love."

30
w^e request.

And

now," quoth they, "

tliine

answeare

For we of purpose come the same

to knoAve

TeU whether

of vs thou canst fancy best."

;

33
loe
!

And
I

me thought they left to speake when framed me an answear them to make.

heer
forc'd

awoke before

made up my
mind.

But

my

selfe,

&

thus I did a^vake.

36

Brevis AUegoriii.
Out from the depth ^ of Griefes Sad Melancholie
rose

infemail cave

Melancholy and
Discontent proceed from
Grief.

w/th weeping eyes

Company had
But

she none, ne would she have.

ne're pleasd Discontent,

as
s-vvift

with

whom
had

she hies
lent,

With
Vnto

feet as Griefe to her

the surging billowes of

o're into
tlio,

Lament,
MS. waste.

To be washt^
'

desert Languishment.
^

MS. depht.

7 ;

124
Despair
is

WELANCnOLY, DESPAIR, AND HOPE.

their

[poems.

The

ferriman, or boatswaine of

the,

lake,

Ferryman over Lament,

Incredulous, all douljting,

liiglit

Dispaire,

"Would noue conduct thai did not aye forsake

To draw

tlie.

breath of that halfe Idlling ajre

still jirofessed foe.

11

Issuing from Hope, his

Which, makes
Expecting
The boat was
fearful hulk,

men

constant in abiding woe,

still at

length their trouble to forgoe.

The boat

-wherin this Ferriman of hell

office,

Disohargde his

was a

fearfull

hulke
1

Framd' of a guilty conscience

(Avorst of ill)

The

sailes

composde of sinue, whose monstrous bulke

Swelling wtth sighs, wZiich were the gales of winde

Made

the barke seeme to

flie

a fearfull

minde

20

Was
[leaf 4 1, back]

the maine-mast,
rigd

&

doubt

for

anchor was assignde.

Thus

&

trimd,

it

iloteth

vp

&

downe.

in

which

To Of
JSTe

ferry passengers Tnto the shore

passengers are
carried

thai inhospitable desert,

where no towne,
;

humane

Avight inhabited of yore

it

25

Yet gins

now with
it

people to abound,

Which day lie

found.

passe o're to thai hatefull ground.

will at length

Although they know

them

quite con-

28
lyes a cave,
sire,

For whie, w/thin that desert

to the shores of death.

Where

horrid Murder, Death[s] sterne

doth dwell

Him
Doth

that Dispaire doth hither bring, this slave

straight encounter, leads

him

to his cell,

32

Presenting him with

cordes to stop his breath,

else

Poyson

to kill

him, or

doth vnsheath
all

Swordes, ponyards, knives,

death.
Hope met
her way and cheered her up

instruments of cursed

35

As
tt

Melancliolie posted to the shore,

to
tliis

To be couductcd
i

balcfull placc,

^ -ii Hope met wth her

&
p

never gave her o

it

re.

Till slie

had

staide her rash vnsteady pace.

39

rOEMS.]

FREAKS OP FORTUNE.

3IAX LIKE A TREE.

121
with wise words.

And

with wise wordes, diverting her intent

From seeking out f/ie desert Languisliuient, At last she brought her to the house of Merriment.

42

De
Well have the

Portuna.
the queen of chance,
The
poets represent

poete^^ fainde

Dame
The

Fortune, hiinde,

&
;

fixd vj)on a wheele,

Fortune
as blind

swiftnesse of -whose motion

at

may

entrance

fixed

and on a wheel.

dull spectato?a-s eye

whose

feet kneele

Great potentates,

&

kinge.5 that sue for grace,

Whom
An

as she list she spurns or

doth embrace.

G
Sometimes she
raises a beggar to

Sometimes she rayseth

abject peasant

to emperiall throne

&

base cuntry swaine.

9
:

the throne.

Who

from the ycie to the torrid zone

the frontiers of monarchall raigne

Eoundeth

Then downe she

Princes

thrustes from their supernall seat

&

kings,

&

makes them begg

their meat.

could she see, she Avould not be soe

is)

mad
1-5
:

Could she see she

(As now she

in

honour

to

advaunce

would not promote the

vicious.

& art but meanlie clad) Vnmatched vice, & worthlesse ignoraunce But blinde she is, & seeth no mans fall Deafe, & can barken vnto no mans call.
(A^ertue despisde,

18

Homo
Like
as a tree

Arbor.
As
a tree springs

from forth the earth doth spring,

from earth, so

So from

the earth doth

man

his essence take ;^

faire

man

The

tree shootes forth

till

&

takes his essence from it.

doth

blossoms bring,
:

So man,

youth his mansion doth forsake

if

The

tree

growing crooked,
it is

you

'1

have

it

mended.
6
the MS.

Whilst that
*

a twi""

it

must be bended.
this line in

Secundum, corjjus written at the end of

; ;

5 2

126
[leaf 45]

THE WORLD A THEATRE.

Eight soe
Is apt of
it

[rOEMS.

fares

-vv/tli

man, -whose infant age

"Just as the
twig
tree
is 'a

any forme

to take impression,

bent the
inclined."

Following advice

&

reason or else rage,

:

According as his youths frame takes succession

If green he be not hended, hut let groAV,

When
In spring trees put fortli
leaves BO

he

is

olde hee

'1

breake before hee

'1

bowe.

When
Fresh
Soe

lusty

Yer approcheth, he doth bring

vigo?<r to the tree

&

liveries

gay
i'

man, and

man doth
tree

reassume

new

health

th' spring

both (lie tor want of nourishment.

The

when moysture

failes will

fade

away

And man

will quickly perish like a plant,

If he that humidum radicale want.

18
fall.

The
last
;

free falls at

Looke how

at length the tree to

it

ground doth
;

and as

it

falls so it lies.

Though long

stand fast fixM in the earth

live,

Soe man, thoug[h] long he

1^0 helpe there
is

yet die he shall

21

in hono?/r, wealth, or birth

it foils,

The

tree

what way

that

way doth

lye

Even

so shall

man

be iudgde as he doth

die.

24

Miind;6'
The world is by some compared to
a theatre, the Rods being
spectators,

Theatrum.
that not
is,

The world by some,

&[,

much

amisse,

Vnto

a Theater comparkl

men

the jjlayers.

Vpon \iMq\\ stage the And mortals act their

One

goddes spectato?/rs
partes as best doth
;

sitt,
fitt.

acts a king, another a poore swaine

One

idely lives, another taketh paine

One, like Orestes, becomes

mad w/th

rage.

Another seeks

his furie to asswage.

And
In the end ho
I' th'

as

i'

th'

play that

man

w/; k\\ acts the king,

(Though many he
end
is

to his obeisaunce bring)

of no more account then he,

who
anil

phiys king he who acts

W/(/ch represents the beggers misery,

12

POEMS.]

NO ROSE WITHOUT A THORN.

tli'

127
tho beggar aro
alike

So

is't

i'

world, wlicn every

yvJiich.

man Ly
reajie

death

Has

his last exit,

doth stop his breath. noe grace,

16

The king
But
In

for all his

crowne shall

"Not beggers meanesse shall his cause embase.

to

my

tliinking, in this saide compare,

Though many lump, yet some things

o?;r stage-plaies

differing are.
In plays there 'a only one fool, in the world many.

ther

's

but one foole at most

;

And

sometimes none at

all

we cannot

boast

JU

So much,

farre otherwise Avith vs it is

We
We

act fhe

same part

all,

not one doth misse.

They shew awhile

still

in iest their foppery,

in serionsnesse out foolery.

24

Armat
Hard
is it

spina rosas.
ill.

for the patient w/</ch is

Fulsome or

bitter potions to disgest,

bitter
jjill,

Physic is bitter, but man mnsl keep himself in

liealth.

Yet must he swallow many a

E're he regaine his former health

&

rest
[leaf 45, back]

To keep the body

Thoucrh
it

safe is

mans

desire,

be done through water, sword,

&

lire.

The hardy

soldier,

wrth death-threatning sword.

The

soldier

To

kill his hostile

enemy

procures,
Q
:

endures wounds, hoping for

conquest.

In hope the conquest

will rich spoiles afford.

He

mortall strokes

&

bloody woundes endures

Yictorious tryumph ther doth never grow,

But by the adverse

parties

overthrown

12

The

silly

bee his hony doth defend.

Tlie bee protects

its

And
Yea

honey with

from his hive doth chase the drone away

oftentimes w/th
'gainst
is it

its sting.

man

it

doth contend

15

And

him doth

his threatning sting display

Loth

his mellifluous

meat

forgoe,

\y/<;'ch

With such paine

it

gathers too

&

froe.

;:

128

DEATH COMPARED TO THE HYENA.

[rOEMS.

The
The

odoriferous
tlie

&

fragrant rose,
liis

'Which, in
rose
la

spring tide shewes

blushing hiewe,
21

For fence

it selfe

with prickes doth round enclose,

to rue,

about with thorns.

feneetl

'Which make the gatherer oftentimes

And

wish,

-with,

his prickt fingers malcing

mone,

That ho had

let t]ie

verdant rose alone.

24

T[h]e amorous lover, ere he can enioy

The
lover under-

His wished end,

dotli

many

paines endure;
is

hardships.

Sometime

his love disdainfull

&

coy,
;

27

And

will not stoop vnto his gentle lure

Sometime he

feares she will vnconstant prove,

And And
Things valuable
are ditfieult of

not reward
is

him

faithfull love for love.

30

Straight

the passage vertue to attaine,

;

steep the hill that vnto hono?a' leads

is

Art
!N"or

not had Av/thout industrious paine,

:

33

attainment.

wealth possest hy praying vpon beads

Things of great prise are not atehiev'de w/th

ease.

But once

attaind, they doe for ever please.

36

Comparatio mortis & Hyense.

The hyena has
the shape of
several beasts.

monstrous beast

tlier is

Hyena namde,
is
;

"Whose shape of sundry formes composM Like

to a wolfe her visage is iframde,
;

vipers swelling neck she hath, I Avis

An elepha[n]ts
And
Death
in
is

huge backe, voice

like a

man.
6

Proteous-like, transforme her selfe she can.

like this

like it

Death

monster

is

in each respect
is

many

respects.

First like a wolfe that ravenous

of prey,
detect,

"Whose very looke his rapine doth

Ne

spareth he ought
is cruoll,

commeth
suffering

in his

way
;

So death

none escape
all

Olde, young, rich, poore, of

he makes his rape.

POEJIS.]

TUE END CROWNS TUE WORK.

on the ground,
[ieaf4G]

129

Next

as a viper swelletli
glidetli to

And

&
&

fro to

many

a place,
1

Yet wher he was no print there can he fonnd,

So nimhle
is

he
is

so quick of pace

Soe death

heer
sleas,

&

yonder in one stound.

Death

is

subtle as

a viper

And

kills

&

yet no

man

sees liim -wound.

yeild,

18
strong like the elephant

The elephant

in strength to

him doth

Though he mongst

beastes the strongest be accounted,

And

castles carries

on his back in
as

field,

21

Where

fighting

men,

on a tower mounted,

Safegard themselves

&

doe their foes annoy

But death whole townes

& countries doth destroy.

prey

24

man he

is

in craft

&

pollicy.

Lurking So death

full closely to devo2<r his

is full

of craft

&

subtilty,

27

crafty as

mm,

And

vnawares doth many take away

sleep

As w/th sweet
Yet
sliutte^^

he closeth

oft the sight.

the eyes in an eternall night.

30
and can transform himself
like Prota;us.

Lastly as Proteus into sundry shapes

(When

as

him

list

himselfe transforme) could change,

Or male or female he Kor male nor female

That
both male

could be pt^rhaps
;

33

soe doth death estrange

Himselfe into each sexe

is,

when

as

him

will.

&

female he can

kill.

3G

Vesper exornat diem.

What profl&ts it the well built ship to ride Ypon the surging billowes of the mame,
.

what

goo.i

is it

for a ship to

have a prosperous

Drivne with a pleasant gale

If, ere it iornies

&

a calme tide,

end

it

doth attaine,

wrecked in the end?

By

boysterous stormes, wAich cannot be w/thstood,

it

Sea wrackt
time's w.

pe?ish in the raging fioud

130

THE TRAISE OF VIRTUE.

[poems.
skill

The learned
The
old wife's

artistes

mucli admired

In life-preserving

pliisicke is
is

then

tride,
;

medicine cannot cure grief.

I
pill

When
Can

some strange cure

wrought

not every

Or olde wifes medceine

griefe recure
;

to the sick applide

arts all

'tis

knowing

lore

Must man
He who has fought and
conquered may claim the crown.

vnto his wonted health restore.

12

He

that w^'th trenchaunt blade in bloody fight,

Singlie opposde,

&

clad in equal armes,

Hath
Vsing

slaine his foe, or forcd

him vnto

flight,

15

noe witch-craft, sorcery, nor charmes,

worthely crowne his victorious brow
leaves of loves

May

With oken
Peaf46, back]

tryumphant bow.

18

Wlio

truely cau affirme the day will prove

Pleasant
The
result

&

faire, e're

even doth appeare,

21

When

sodeinlyi o'recast, the heauens remove

praises or dispraises every

Oft times their beawty w7</cli our sight doth chear

man's

worlc.

*Successe by the event

is

knowne^ the end

24:

Doth every

action praise, or discom???end.-

Virtus p^7*sequenda.
He who pursues
virtue in youth shall be famous iu age.

He

that in youth doth vertues path

way
t

tread,

When

age vpon his %vTinlded front shall

ti

j.

sitt,

crowne of hono?;r shall enguirt his head,

And

though he dye, his praise shall never

flitt

With

her shrill trumpet never dying Fame,

shall still resound his
in
liis

Ynto the world

He that despises virtue shall be
forgotten.

name.

Lut he that vcrtue

youth disdaincs.
race,

And
'

like a lozell
I

rimeth out his

cannot
*

tell

whether

this -was intended to

like sodocinly.

be sodelnly or

sodainly.
*

The JIS looks more

Carcat .';iiccessib,s opto Quisquis ab eventii facta notanda putat. Written in the margin of the M8, with the asterisk as above. Ovid, Epp. 2. 86.

POEMS.]

THE FATE OF PHAETON.

131

Shame

&

not hono!/r

iii

his age attaincs,

:

And

after

death on earth shall have noe place

ill

Lethe shall drowne his

deserving name,

and drowned by
Lethe.

But vertuous

acts are still enrolde

by Fame.

12

Cur Venus orta mari.

The
poetes faine (for soe I

know

I read)

Venus, they say, was born of the

sea-foam.

That Venus of the seas white foame Avas bred,

And

therfore Aphrodite doe her call,

signifie as
;

W7; ich name doth

much

to all

That know the word

but wherfore she should be

Derived from the froath of ISTeptunes sea

I

know noe

reason, since, as I doe gather,

l^eptune her vnckle was

&

not her father

Vnlesse that

Ave,

against true logicks lawes,

;

From

the effect produce th' efficient cause

that too
:

And

by comparison must be
knoAV that the foaming sea
12

Perhaps so; we
all

As thus
Is salt

know how

Ave all

bitter her

followers find

&

bitter to o^fr tasting sence

her.

So

lustfidl

Yenus, w/^/ch

is

saide

from thence
still.

To issue To them

forth, proves

salt

&

bitter

that follow her disordered AvilL

16

Medio tutissimus
Climenes
brat, aspiring
fierie

ibis.
AVlien

Phaeton,

Phaeton

drove the chariot

Dryving the

horses of the sunne

to the seat

of the

Sun

Out of the midle way, vp

Of

lupiter,

&

scorching Av/th the heat

Jupiter sent
sea.

him

headlong into the

Of

his bright flaming charriot all the godde^.

Was by

incensM love Avhipt doAvne with roddes

to the raging Avave
[leaf 47]

Of thundering lightning

0' the vast ocean, his vntimely grave.

132

THE FATE OP ICARUS.

EPIGRAM ON BEX JOXSON.

liis

[POEMS-

Icanis, soaring

Fond

Icarus,

proud of
is

"waxen wings

too high, the sea.

fell

into

Soaring to high,

drenched in the maine,

AVhen Dsedahis
That

his

plumed bodie brings

Ambition
is

Safe to the shore.

life

a traine

12

entraps
;

a golden
for

mean

the

"svay

To

live securely

we

often see

Men
If'you would not fall, don't climb.

of most honor soonest doe decay,

live in tranquillity.
1

AVhen meaner men

"Wilt

16

thow be

safe

strive not to cliinbe at all

Low

shrubs stand

fast,

Avhen statelier okes doe

fall.

Scribimus indocti doctiq?;^ epigra;;?mata

passim.^
Jonson, they say, has turned Epigrammatist.
I don't believe
it.

lohnson they say

Soe think not
I,

's

turnd Epigra?matist,
it

believe

they that

list.

Peruse his booke, thou shalt not fuid a dram

Of

"nitt befitting a

true Epigram.
see,

Perhaps some scraps of play-bookes thou maist

Collected heer

&

there confusedlie,

"VV/iJch piece his

broken

stuffe

if

thou but note,

8

lust like soe

He
has put Cato at the beginning
ofiiisbook!

many

patches on a cote.

And
Even
But
Or
]\Iy

yet his intret Cato staFnlds before,

at the portall of his

pamphlets dore
is fit

As who should
else, let

say, this

booke

for

none
:

Catoes, learned men, to looke

vpon

12

Cato censure

if

he

Avill,

booke deserves the best of iudgoment

every gull
as

stUl.^

When
The epigrams
as bad as any written.
are

may
bad

see his
as e're

booke
were

's

vntwitten,

And Epigrams
lohnson,

Avritten.
^
.

IG

tliis

worke thy other doth distame,

And makes
'

the world iuiagine that thy vein

Scribimus indocti doctiqiie poomata passim. Hor. Ep. ii. ^ skill in MS. ? iudgement[s] skill.

1,

117,

; ;

rOExMS,]

THE COUNTRY LASS RUINED BY PRIDE.

some bastard
race.

133

Is not true bred but of

Then

write no more, or write w/tli better gi-ace

to plaies,

20

Turne thee

&

He had better confine himself

to plays

therin Avrite thy

fill

leave

Leave Epigrams

to artists of

more

skill.

^^

to

ami Kpigrama better men.

In Madama^?? quandam.

country lasse of

silly

parents bred,

In London was

for service entertainde,

country lass induced her rich master to marry

her.

And

being of a wealthy master sped

so farre

She wzth her Im'ing lookes

That he embr'^o'd her in

him

trainde,

a marriage bed.

But

first

she

pawnd

to

him her maj'denhead.

[leaf 47, back]

What
I
list

plotte*'

she had, what tricks she then did vse.

effect,

Her contrivances

To bring her matter to soe good

not

to bring this

about need not be

now

repeat

lest for

the stewes

named.

New

stratagems I plainlie doe detect

that from a scullians
life

But such they were,

Made

her a wealthy marcheantes second wife.

trip it

12
Then she tripped
it

Then gan she

proudHe one the

toe,

And

mince

it

finely

vpon London
attire

finely

till

he

street^s.

died.

She lady-like in her

did goe,

15

Bought w/th the purchase of vnlawfuU sheets

At

last,

her of her husband death bereft,

Who

dying, her a wealthy

widow

left.

18

Ambition now began

to swell her minde,

;

All her desire was to be ladifide

And

With a knight

at len[g]th she

was combinde,
:

W/a'ch made her think herselfe halfe deifide

Afterwards she was married to a

knight.

But well she might,

in

Edens plot she

is

lies,

And
Long

all

men know

that place

paradise.

24

liv'de she not in

Edens

fruitfull soile.
;

For her aspiring minde straight drave her thence

134
But pride ruined
her.

neander; asinius; balbutia.

That Serpent pridc did
-^

[poems.
2-7

lier soe far becfuile, o

'

Eden she banisht was

for her offence

ludge, was not Avonian very

much vnwise
lost paradise
1

That thus by pride hath twice

30

In Neanclrem/
Keander, appointed to
dispute before the king,

Neander, held a great cevillian

(Let

me

not say a Machiavillian)

to dispute before the king,
fear,
;

Appointed
could not say a

(
4

Struck mute with

could not say anything

word.

Save 'twas

ill

luck

for if

he had done well,

As we expected he Avould bear the bell From the Avhole Academie for the test,
'Tis certaine
80 he lost the

I
8

he had been a knight

a[t] lest,

And made
To hinder

his Avife

reward he
expected.

(what she hath lookt for long)

A Madame.

Fortune, thou hast done her wrong

his once

dubbing of his

wife,
life.

I
12

WMch. hath dubde him

soe often in her

Ill

Asinium.
;

Asinius what I speake straight overhears

Asses have long
ears.

"Will

you know why 1

Asses have longest eares.

Peaf48]
Balbutia has

In Balbutiawz.^
Balbutia, wliich hath all the tricks of art

gentleman to
family for
her,"

That doe bcloug vuto a

Avliorisli part,

Wholly bewitchd
His wife
'

a gentleman to leave

&

children vnto her to cleave

obliterated

poem but one have been so thoroughly by means of a thick pen that at first I M-as tempted to omit them. I have been at some pains to read them, but I am by no means sure that my readings are absolutely correct. ^ I cannot ascertain whether this was Bacbutia or Balbutia. I am more inclined to tliink the former.
This and the next

rOEMS.J

FI-ATTERING COURTIERS.

135
and give her his property.

Even

to his end,

&, tliougli

God

did liim blessc

AV/tli a fairc issue, clean to disposscsse

llis children of his goode*-

&

give her

all

15y his last

dying testimonial].
1

But how dost thrive w/th her

She
is

Exceeding well
hell.

How does prosper ?

slie

the likelyst

still to

goe to

But heer she doth not without

Those in her children, sonnes

crosses goe,

&

daughters too.
i'

12
Her
eldest son is
liaiiKed or

Her

eldest sonne is

hangd

or droi^iid

th' seas,

Her
Her

other

is

as

good in forwardnesse.
's

drowned.

eldest daughter

married to her

griefs,

Her

eldest

"Whose hushand

lives a jDrisoner

&

a theefe.

16

daughter is married to a
thief.

Her other daughters would

Thus she

fain married be,

this progenie.

But moste that knoAve doe hate

vt^hich.

made mothers

fare the

worse

In her owne seed hath

this deserved curse.

20

In adulantes Aulicos.
Base sycophante.s, crumbe-catching
Obsequious
slaves, vfhich.

parasites,

Sycopliauts,

bend

at every

nod
<5

Insatiate harpies, gormandizing kites.

harpies, kites,
epicures,

Epicures, at[h]eists, which adore no

God

But yoMr owne

Got by jouT

bellies

&

jour private gaine,

!

oily tongues bewitching traine

how my Muse, armde w/th Ehamnusiaes whip,

Desires to scoui-ge jouv helP-bred viUanie,

how my Muse
desires to scourge

you!

And
The

w/th Astrseas sharp edgd sword

hatefuU cloke of yo?/r deformity

t'

vnrip

Whose naked view

soe odious Avould appear.

is

That we should hate what now

held full deare. 12

Your
deceits liid

Yo?<r sly deceits dissimulation hides,

dissimulation.

Yoi/r false intent faire wordes obnubilate

h'U in MS.

;:

136
as grass hides serpents.

COURT PARASITES.

[poems.

So 'mongst

tlie

greenest grasse the serpent glides,

:

15

And

freshest flowers foule toades coinquinate

is

All

not golde that hath a glistering hiew,

tries

But what the touchstone

You cause
dissensions

&

findeth true.

18

Dissentions,

&

twixt friends vnfriendly jarres,

between friends.

Your hase

tale-carr[y]ing tongues doe sett abroch,

Intestine broyles, cyvill vncivill warres,

Deaf 48, back]

21

"W7"ch end in death or infamous reproch,

Are causd' by jour insinuating wordes,

Whose poysnous
swordes.
Leave the Court, and no longer
flatter greatness.

breath wounds deeper then keen

24
curres,

Avaunt, ye fanning

&

leave

tJiG

Court

Flatter not greatnesse wzth yo?<r scurrill praise.

Dare

flies

approach where eagles doe resort?

27

And

shall the cuckoe in [a] cove[r]t^ chaunt his laies?

ye, like cuckoes, all one note doe sing.

For

And
The king scorns
the whole of you.

like to flies doe buzze about o?<r king.

30

But

he, the princely Eagle, scornes such

butter-flies,

flies,

Such

such gnates, whose hum??2ing sound

;

Eelisheth not his eare

nor doe his eyes

33

Affect yoMr gaudy outside, which,

abound
attire,

More

in queint speach

&

gorgeous

Then

in yoMr loves, which, ought to be entyre.

36

Ye
Leave
off

Aristippian zanies, Albions

off at last

ill,

your

Leave

jouv poysning honnied speach

kill,

flattery.

Let not your sugred wordes be traines to

lust like the foxe

39

when he

to geese

doth preach

And

ye rich men, which selfe-conceit doe love,

geese, foxe-flattering praise to prove.

Be not such
And you rich

42

men, remember jEsop'scrow

,,^

So Acsops crow wliom .,.,, \\ith prey m bill, was

'

Crafty rainard spide

,

carst

by him deceivde

For Court.

; ;

POEMS.]
"

THE FABLE OF THE FOX AND THE CROW.

faire

137
which was deceived by the
crafty fox

thou

bird " (a lewd

lie

!)

then he

cride,

45

" "Why singst thou not, -whose musick hath bereavd

The nightingale

of that respect she held.

"
1

Since thy sweet voice a sweeter note doth yield

48

The

silly

crow, bewitchd with flattering praise,

Addrest herselfe to give the foxe a song,

When

opening wide her

fell

bill to
!

chaunt her

laies,

51
and cheated out
of her prey.

Downe

the prey she held

The

foxe ere long

It quite devoured had,

gan her deride

54
;

Then,

all

too late, his cunning she espide.

are they

Such crowes

whom

flatterers beguile

Such foxes they which

Brittans, let

flatter,

faune,

&

cog
5 7 Men
beguiled

them no more sucke vp

yo?a' oyle

by

flatterers are just

Be Aesops

croAv

noe more, but Aesops dog.

foxes, w/n'ch at yo?/r

like this crow.

Chace hence these

mercy stand,
60

For OUT then happy made Eutopian land.

S omnium.
About that time when
as the chearfull spring

Bedeckes the earth w/th her sweet smelling flowers,

"WTien pretty birds with their sweet caroling,

Eecord their

ditties in Silvanus bowers,

I fortunde, envited

by the

aire,

In the spring I

wandered into a

Vnto

a pleasant grove to

make

repaire.

grove,

Quite through the thicket ran a pleasant spring,

[leaf 40]

Whose
The
Allurde

gentle gliding a sweet

murmure made
and sat down under a broad
beech.

place (sufiicient to content a king)

me

to repose

vnder the shade

Of

a broad beech, the aptnesse of v^hich seat

Preservde

me from

the sun?ies annoying heat.

I there repose.
sleep.

12

Kot many minutes did

Ere gentle Morpheus, powerfull god of

138
where
I

THE COMPLAINT OF RELIGION.

soon

[poems.
close.

W/tli his compelling charmes mine eyes did

15

fell asleep,

Such harmony the chirping birdes did keep

Coniointly
^Y^th.

the sweetly -warbling stream e,

:

That
and dreamed an amazing dream.

my

long slumber did begett this dreame

it

18

Me

thought

was about the dead of night,

What

time there was presented to

that did

my

view
21

A spectacle
And
all

me much

alTright,

my

sences in

amazement drew
24

Till

manly

courage, putting fear to flight,

Made me
The
A woman
appeared to
costly robes

expect the issue of the sight.

fearfull obiect of

my

wandring

ej-e,
;

In shew appeard
me
in

to

be a womans shape

and

Her looke was heavy,

She had

&

did well descrie

27
:

crowned.

been subiect to noe

costly,

mean mishappe

Her robes were

crowned

Avas her head,

'Which, did foretell she

In one hand a Bword, in the other she held a
torch.

was not basely bred.

sword did graspe,

One

of her handes a bloody

Wherwith had been

The other hand

transfisd her tender heart

clasj)e,

a burning torch did

33

By

light Avherof I

might descrie each part

plight

Of her well featured body, whose sad

Drew
I

forth salt teares

from

my

relenting sight.

3G

would have

I would have questiond whence, or who, she was,

questioned her, hut was too

frightened.

But admiration such amasement bred.

That not one word from forth

my

lips

could passe,

39

My

voice

had

lost his office

;

&

Avas dead,
loe, ere

Buried in silence lay

when

long
:

The

apparition thus let lose her tongue

42

" Young man " {quoth she) " thy spirits" recollect Be not amazde mine vncouth shape to see
She spoke and

Such peevish

fear

doth shew a minde deiect.

:

45

commanded me
to listen.

Or

guilty conscience, w7r;'ch are farre from thee

Give ear vnto me,

true sad story of

& I will relate my passed fate.

48

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rOEMS.J
'*

THE COMPLAINT OF RELIGION.

139

For I
I

am by birth of most divine discent am daughter to imHzortall love, Avhom into the workl I first was sent From
I
;

51

saiil she was the il.iugliter of Jove, True Religion by

She

As Avitnesse of his reconciled love With mortall man for which, eifect I came From heaven, & True Eeligion is my name.
**

name.

54
[leaf-to,

First Avent I to the vnboleeving leAves

bacV]
first

She went
:

to

But there I could smale entertainment

findc

the Jews, who refused her.

The

greater part did vtterlie refuse

AvilfuU blinde

57

To lodge me in theu' hearten, & Did cast me from them though

;

alone

by me
GO

Man
"

can attaine to true

felicity.

By them

reiected thus, I did intend

to

Vnto the Gentiles next

bend

my

course,
:

Tlien to tho
Gentiles,

who

To

see if they Avould greater favo?a' lend

63

listened to her.

"Wz'th these I

had indeed

somcAAdiile great force.

And
TiU

purchasde a large kingdome AVith this croAvne,

the ten persecutions put

me

doAvne.

66
No oppressions
could put her

" But noe oppression could

me

quite suppresse

Xay, persecutions made me

I
still Avas slaine,

flourish

more

down.
;

yet

still

I did increase,

69
:

And

groAving lesse, greAV greater

then before

Cammomill trodden doth the

farther spred,
lifts

And

the palme prest, the higher

his head.

72

" Eome Avas of yore my place of residence. Where as a soveraigne I long time did sitt.
Till antichristian prelats drave

me
in

thence

75

Then
I

did I

flie

to Brittaine,

&

She was driven from Rome to

Britain,

it

have

till noAV,

&

ever

Avill

remaine,

Till the Avorld shall to chaos turne againe.

*'

78
I holde,
where Mary

With

this sharp SAVord, \vJiich in

my hand

cruell

Lady pearcd me
is

to the heart

The Avound

fresh to see, the blood scarce colde,

81

pierced her to the heart.

Her name

Avas

Mary

that did act this parte

V
140
ELIZABETH AND "THE GOOD JOSIAH."
[poems.

But

e're

she kilde

me

she was slain e

Elizabeth,

by

death,

And

I revivd'e

by young
far
all

84

" Forty-fower yeares this

But Elizabeth
revived her.

renowned queen,
did honor

Honord
But

of

all,

me

above

fates her, graie in yeares, in vertues green,

87

Cald to a worthier place, death seazd vpon her.

And

for this world,

th'

which nought but sorrow

Elizian
fields.

yeilds,

Carried Eliza to

90

Afterwards came

" After her death the good losiah came,

"good Josiah," James

tlie

I.,

When the
And,

land feard some sodaine innovation.

for the propagation of

my name,
a neighbo?/r nation
a peace,
;

93

Contracts a league w/th

many

Wisely foreseeing that by such

My croAvne
[leaf 50]

should flourish

& my power encrease.

96

"

Ynder

this

monarch, or above him, rather,

Britain in Bpite of Rome.

siie rules

I rule this Britaine

Empire

Many
In

-.^

a some vnto

my

& doe bring i-r'ii heavenly lather,

me
hates the king
:

99

spite of

Eome,

\vh ich. for

But God

will blesse him,

&

vnto the end

He and
The torch she
carries
is

his issue shall

my

cause defend.

102

" If thou wouldst

know whie

this bright

burning light

to

disperse the mists of error.

Mine

other

hand doth

bear, I will thee tell

I have an enemie as darke as night,

105

Cald Error

(I to

heaven, she leades to hell)

Whose
But
She looks downcast because of

blacknesse to obscure

me

doth endevowr,

that this light doth her false mists dissever. 108

"

The reason why

I looke thus heavily.

the hypocrisy

Is 'cause of late

my

power gins decay

That hellish monster, damnd hypocrisie,

Ill

Doth

carry in the land far greater

sway
114

Enters

Ysurps

my temples &, in spite of me, my place & titles soveraigntie.

rOEMS.]

THE PURITANS MUST BE PUT DOWN.

is

m
of the sancti-

" There

a sort of purest
this

seemmg men,
117

That aide

monster in her wrongful! cause,

Those the "world nameth

Sent to supplant

Puritanes I meane
the very iawes

me from
;

monious
Puritans,

Of Of

hell, I

think

by whose apparant shew

120

sanctity doe greatest evils gi'ow.

" Ynless the hand of wise authority

Doe

reinstall nie in

my

former place,
1

And
They

punish them
will ere long

&

their hypocrisie. deface.

2o who

must be put down.

mine honoz/r quite

And

so I prethee, tell
afraide,
'tis

him

gentle youth,

Be not

nothing but the truth."

126
Then she
vanished,

This saide, methought she vanishd from

my

sight,

And
I

left

me much

perplexed in

my

thought.

musde

a Puritan should be a wight

129

and

mused on
till

So seeming good,

&
&

Puritans

yet soe passing naught

awoke.

Till thinking long %'iDon so strange a theame,

At

last I

wakd,

then I writ

my

dreame.

132

In curiosos theologos.
You high
Is
't

aspiring witter, w7i/ch seeke to prie

Is

it

not enough
is

to

know what

Into the secretes of the Diety,

revealed, but

not enough to

know

some would know

his Avill reveald.

the Divine

But you must aime

at that w7(?'ch is concealdl

secrets ?

By

ciu'ious inquisition, too

much

light

Hath made you

lose the perfect vse of sight.

Saint Austines saying

may you

well

befitt,
all witt)

[leaf 50, back]

'Which vnto one would know (w/thout

8
Eememhcr
sayin;; of

By curious What God

interrogation,

the

did ere he layd the worldes foundation,

Augustine to one
of these inquisitors.

Replide, " I think, or rather

know

full well.

He made

for such as thee infernaU hell."

12

142
IIc'U is tlie place

GRACE AND

SIX.

[poems.
that dare adventure

place most meet for

them

for them.

Into Godes secret cabbinet to enter.

0, strive not then to

know

his secret will,

skill

'Which

art

can never compasse wrth her

16

Gratia peccatum. superat.

Mounted on winges
1 soar to the

of high aspiring thought,

;

I soars a loft vp to the throne of grace

]\Iy heavies repent,

throne jf gnice.

by

true contrition Avrought,

th'

I there present before

and there seek pardon of my
Bins.

Almighties

face.

4
slaine,

The

spotlesse

Lambe

Av7;/ch for

my
:

guilt

was

I offer vp a ransome for

my

sinne

'With sighs, praiers,

teares, I

begge release of paine,

8

Of him

that ever mercifull hath been.

My

soule thus seated in divine desires,

Selfe-love allurs

me
are

ATito vaine delight,

Then c^uenched
Till grace
Sin and grace
strive together.

my

former heavenly

fires.

doth once againe put sinne to

grace,

flight.

12

Thus sinne wrth

Tiil sin lie dead,

& grace with sinne doth strive,

14

&

grace doe sinne survive,

Christianus Agnus.
A
Christian must be like a Lamb

Like a young tender lambe that

man must be

W/h'cIi doth professe true Christianity

With

sincere heart, in imitation

First of that spotlesse

Lambe, whose Passion

endlesse misery

Brought

sinfull

man from
is

To the
in mnocence, gentleness, quietness.

true center of felicity.

K"ext, as a

lambe

harmlesse, innocent,

]\Ieek, gentle,

humble, quiet, patient,

;

So must a Christian be

his harmlesse life

strife.

Must be devoide

of all malicious

Eevilde, he must not once revile againe.

But must doe good

for

ill,

must

suffer paine

12

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POEMS.]

TIIK

CHRISTIAN COlirAUED TO A LAMB.

143

^Viul pt'^-secution

v.-/tli

an humble

lioavt
it

And

patient niinde
;

yea, tliougli

doe impart

patience in
suffering.

TliG bodies death

such martirdome shalbe

16

glorious crowne of im?ortalit3^

Lastly, in this respect (if I not erre)

lamb

is

a true Christians charecter

The infant lambe among a thousand

sheep,
his

[leaf 51]
''"d '"

Whose frequent bleatings a loude murmere keepe, 20 Knowes his owne davume when he but heares her voice,

knowing

own Mother

And
By

to sucke her milke onlie

doth reioyce

So must a Christian know the Church his mother

her owne voice, the word of God, from other
:

24
from all others by whom slie is
surrounded.

'Which are but stepdames

Popish congregations,
& damnd
heresies,
;

Brownisme,
W/^/ch bleat

&

Puritannicke invocation[s],

false doctrine

He must distinguish from true misteries And like an infant lambe, the childe of grace,
Sucke only from her
"\Y/th the sincere

28

breastes,

which flow apace

accord
'le

milke of Gocle^ holie word,

His soules nutrition.

Thus ther
more,
vfJiich.

is

32
Tliere are

In these respectes

&

not trace,

lambs

Twixt lambes of nature

&

the lambes of "race.

3 4 lambs

of nature, and of grace.

Christianus Navis.

ship vnto a certaine haven bent,

Turmoilde in Neptunes watry element,

With longing exjiectation doth attend To make arrivall to his wished end.
This ship thus troubled
is

a Christiane

The

Christian

is

like a ship tossed

Tost vp and downe in the vast ocean

upon the ocean.

all

Of

this terrestriall orbe, of w/izch

fitlie
'tis

even
call

We
For

by the name

of sea

may

a place of perturbation,

Of anguish, sorrowe

&

vexation,

"

144

THE CIIUISTIAN COMPARED TO A

Like the tempestuous sea
;

Kllir.

[pOEMS.

&

is to

vs

endeavouring to escape all dangers

For rockes,
_^

quicksanclc^,
, i

&
m

gulfes, as dangerous.

12

Vpon

this ocean terrestnali,

,,

This ship, this vessell anegoricall,

A
and to reach a haven at last.

Christian, floating

vp

&

clowne, doth strive

to arrive.
.i

To heaven

.,,, Which, harbouv ere he

^

his Safest

haven

can entirely

wmne,
of sinne.

He must first passe hy rockes & gulfes And therfore needes good preparation
To make
Assist
ship must be properly rigged,

a prospe?-ous navigation.

20

me

Phoebus,

&

I will recite
saile vpright.
.^

The

How

he must rigged he to

^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^.^ ^^^.^

^omposde
24

Is flesh

&

bones in order well disposde.

Ships have their sides or ribbes,

&

soe hath

man

All tacklings

else,

soe

must

a Christian.

The maine-mast must be love o' th' Diety The lesser ones, meeke heart & charity
[leaf 51, back]

28

The

sailes strong faith,

hope anchor

is

assignde,

live! Us

of"

And

fervent prayer
.^

is

the gentle winds

;

faitMhe anchor

^^^^^ ^^^^^^^

forward

other tacklings be

Good thoughtes, good

Must
The ^^
all

wordes, good worker, which trinity

sailes.

conioyne in one to holde the

For when these

The pilot, God's Word.

stringer slip, faith then quicklie fades.

pilote w7i/ch

steere the right

must alway be aborde way, is Godes holy worde

sailers be,

36

The common
unde7restraint.

The sences must the com??ion

Kept only

Affectioiis, slaves restraiude of libertie,

to take paines, their actions

Must

still

be ordered by directions

40

Given by reason, which, must have some sway

All

must obey the 111 tliis

Same voyagc

but

all

must obey
stand

^' "

The

counsell of the pilot,

&

still

Prest at his service, Avhen he doth com?/?aiul.

44

Now, 'cause this voyage cannot welbc made

Free from
all

danger, but thcr will invade

"

POEMS.]

THE CHRISTIAN
;

WEArONS.

145

Some

hostile foe or other

he ther placd
o' th'

prospective

vpou the top

mast,

48 ^ sharp

outlook
to

must be kept
'tis fitt

"\Yherin

that carefull diligence

his watclifiill residence,

diBCOvcr enemies

Keep evermore

And
The

straight give notice,

force

when he doth

descrie

&

comming

of the enemie.

52

For Sathan, that leviathan, that whale,

'Who

is

an enemie

&

ever shall

To

Christian man, doth wat[c]h occasion

"N^Tien

he may make his Lest invasion.

foe, which, seelces to kill,
still

5G
weapons offensive and defensive must always ba
ready.

AVherfore against this

Offensive

&

defensive weapons
carrie,

This ship must

&

himselfe prepare

To

fight it out like a strong

man

of warre.

60

First at his beake-head he

must fasten on

Th' impenetrahle helme salvation.

And

then the breastplate of true righteousnes

resist

W7</ch will

the devill,

&

represse

G4

His furious

rage.

Then

faith his sheild

must be

and

faith will, as

To quench the balks

Eut the sword

of -wilde-fyer presentlie

a shield, "quench the balls of wUdfire."

of the spirit Sathan quailes.

:

And
This
This

to attaine the conquest never failes

is
is

G8

the weapon

that the pirate woundes,

the sword-fish w/iich the whale confounds.

if

Thus

vnto the end he doe endm-e

Like a brave champion, then he shalbe sure

The

fiend will like a coward run away,

he, a

Oeaf 52]

And

happy

victo?fr, gett

the day.

Enduring unto
the end he will arrive safe in

Then having once

attaind the victorie,

He may advance his flag trivmphantly, And saile with ioy, till he the port attaine,
Where
in perpetuall blisse he shall remaine.

''''

76

78

TIME

W.

10

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146

NOT TO KNOW GOD

IS

TO

KNOW NOTHING,

[roEJ:s.

Deum
ipsum
Philosophers may search into all
things.

nescire est nihil scire,

rectti scire,

omnia.
cause of tilings

PliilosoplierH,

wA/ch search

tlic

As
To

farre as nature gives their

knowledge Avinges
ready witt
fitt

soar vnto

whose

Cj^uicke

&

definition to each thing can

sillogize

Though they can

with arguments

Of all
To the
Yet
but if they are ignorant of God they are but
fools.

tliing^.'^,

from the heavens circumference

earths center,
poAver,

&

true reason give

Of natures
if

which makes thingc^ move

&

live

they want faiths intellectuall eye

First to believe ther is a Diety,

In Godhead one alone, in Persons

three,

By whom
They
Astronomers can
foretell

all creatures are,

&
'r

cease to be,
still

12

are but fooles,

&

they

blinde, not seeing

The Cause
many
things,

of causes, w7//ch gives all their being.

foretell eventes

Astronomers that can

By By

the celestiall creatures influence,

errant pianettes

16

&

by

fixed starres.

Can

pre-divine of famines, plagues,

&

warres

l>
20

And

of their contraries pre-indicate,

"W/w'ch

come by an inevetable
th'

fate

Can shew

ecclipses of the sunne

&

moone,

And

hoAV the pianettes

out,

make coniunction

'Which have found

&

will maintaine

it true,

Three orbes, which Aristotle never knew.

yet
all

24

their

Yet

all this

knoAvledge, though

it

reach as farre

vain,

knowledge is and they

As

is

the Articke from th' Antarticke starre,

are in ignorance.

Is nothing, if they

know

not

God

above.

That Primus Motor, w7</ch

all

orbes doth

move;

28

Their art Avherin they doe themselves advaunce,

Lives
still

ecclipsed in black ignorance.

Phisitions wJiich prescribe a

remedy
32

To each

disease

&

bodies maladie


; ;; ;

POEMS.]

TO

KNOW
is

II

IS

TO

KNOW ATX

THINGS.

]\'

That know wliat

nocivoiis,

&

wliat good,

[leaf 52, back]

"When

it is lit

to "bath, to purge, let

Lloode
the power
Pliysici.ma

^Uthougli they

know

the nature

&

Of every

simple, every hearbe,

w7</cli

&

flower,
tall

36

know the virtues of herbs.

With. Solomon,

from the cedar

Ynto the hisope spreading on the

wall,
tree,

Knew
Yet

every growing plant, flower, hearbe, or

With, their true vse

&

proper qualitie

40
yet
if tliey are ignorant of

all their skill as follie I deride,

Vnlesse they rightly knoAV Christ

crucified.

Christ, tlieir slcillisbut follv.

He, he

it is,

w/^/ch truly

is

alone
Physition.
call liberall

The

so^iles best
artes, as

phyaicke

&

44

All

well those

we

As

other sciences mechanicall,

"WHiat e're they be,

&

howsoever

lov'de,

And

worthily by mortall

man

approv'de,

48

If the best

knowledge

theologicall,

Be not conioynM w/th

"Wliat e're they

their rationall,

may

vnto the world professe

is

All their best wisdome

starke foolishnesse.

He
For

is

the only wise

&

prudent

man

The

Cliristian is

the only wise

Whose knowledge makes him

practise

the best Christian.

man.

must agree w/th speculation,

56

Belief

&

knowledge must guide operation

believe

Man may
'Tis

&

yet he

may

dissemble,

For even the divels doe beleeve

not enough that

&

tremble.

The

derila believe and

we

beleeve a God,

tremble.

For

this will all confesse that feele his rod

GO

But we must

alsoe in this

God

beleeve.

And

in our actions not the Spirit grieve.

it

"We must beleeve that

WJiich. gave to

was he alone
G4

We
that

must believe God created

us.

man

his first creation,

o?;r

and redeemed

And that Which is

from him alone comes

redemption,

from everlasting death exemption

are iustifide.
glorifide.

That we in him alone

And by him

only shall be

68

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THE CimiSTIAN THE TRULY WISE MAX.

This Ave must trow

[rOEMS.

&

(tliongli it passe oiiv sence)

Repose in
W/r/ch

this assurde confidence,

how we must

pe;-forme in each respect

The
The man who knows these
things,
[leaf 53]

Scripture plainly doth vs all direct.

He that knowes this (although the poorest worme) And to this knowledge doth his life conforme, Want he the giftes of nature, education,
Speake he the tongue but of one only nation
;

though a fool men's eyes.

in

Be he
Yet

a foole in the esteeme of man,

;

In worldly thinges a meer simplician

for all this, I boldly dare averre
great,

has a knovvleilge to be preferred

before that of physicians,

His knowledge

&

will

it

farre preferre

80

Before the skill of wise philosophers,

Phisitions, lawyers,

hiwyers, astronomers.

&

astronomers,

WJiieh either want the knowledge of the Diety,

And
Or,

live in sinne

& damnd

impiety,

84

if

they

know

a God, doe fear

Mm rather

As

a just ludge then as a loving Father.

that doth truly

He

know

Christ crucifide.

Doth know enough, though he know nought' beside; But he that knowes him not doth only rave,
Though
all

the skill else in the world he have.

90

Ternarius numerus perfectissimus.

The number Three
is

Of

all

the numbers arithmeticall.

three
is

the principal

number.

The number

heald for principall.

As As

well in naturall philosophy

supernaturall theologie.

Philosophers, in causes naturall,

Holde that
Three
cliief

all thing^'s

have their originall

From

three chief causes, or principia,

causes.

And
Prom

therfor say tria sunt omnia,

three all essence

&

existence growe,

Materia, forma,

&
'

privatio.

Perhaps naught in MS.

POEMS.]

THE NUMBER THREE.

three dimensions doth inchide,
tliese,

119

The body

And

they are

length, bredth, profunditudc.

12
Bodies have three dimensions.

In mathematique bodies three thinges please,

their piinctii??2, linea, superficies.

Tlie soule, that breath of

life,

we

tlirecfold call,

The
fold.

soul

is

three-

Vegitive, sensitive,

&

rationall.

16

Time doth

his three divisive partes endure,

is

That w/u'ch

past, the present,

;

&

future.
Three Graces.

There are three graces

ther be vertues three,

Theologicall, faith, hope,

&

charity.

20
Three angels appeared lo
Abraliaui.
[leaf 53, back]

The

father of the faithfull,

Abraham,
vnto him came.

Eeceivde three Angels

\vJuch.

From the fierce flames of Nebuchadnezar God was the three childrens Deliverer.
lonah, whose flight Gode^ mandat had opposde.

24

Three children.

Jonah three days

in the whale.

In the whales belly three dayes was enclosde.

Christ, to give

man

new

regenerate birth,

Christ three dsiys

in
tlie

grave.

AVas three dayes in the bowels of the earth

28

Wlien he from death

&

hell a Victoz/r rose.

Did

three times visible himselfe disclose

;

To

his disciples

thrice

bad Peter keepe

And

nourish well his flock of lambs

let

&

sheepe.

32
The sheet was let down to Peter
three times.

Thrice was

downe
beaste.<t,

to Peter in a

dreame

sheet,

wtth

birdes, creeping things vncleane,

eat,

And

he thrice bidden

denide consent,
Cornelius sent.

Whilest three

men sought him, from

36

The heavenly kingdome,

that celestiall bower,

A leaven

is,

hid in three peckei* of flower.

all

Lastly, but principallie, above

The Diety in Persons three we

This Trinity
it is^

call

40

Three Persons
the Trinity.

in

indeed alone

AV/i/ch gives this

number

best perfection.

Thrice happy

is

that man, w/th ioy shall see

44:

This Perfect Number, this Thrice Glorious Three.

'

MS.

is is.

150

THE FIRST AND SECOND

[rOEMS.

De
As soon
as

duplici adventu Christi.

man

When
By
The

sinfull

man

in

Edens garden

plac'd,

had sinned,

stubborne disobedience had defac'd

true ida^a of his happinesse,

And had
To
mercy began
mitigate his punisliment.
to

deservde, for soe great Avickednesse,

Eternall death, loe, mercy then began

mitigate the punjdshment of man.

earth was cursde,
labo?a'

Though
Of
his

& man
it

must by the sweat

owne

make

yeild

him meat

Though woman, whom the

In paine

serpent had beguilde,

;

&

sorrowe must bring forth her childe

Yet from

eternall death the promisde seed

i
12

Put them in comfort

that they should be freed.

To
To

w7'ch effect the only

Son of

love,

Out of the
[leaf 51]

infinitenesse of his love

his

own

likenesse man,
liim,

came downe from heaven,

of life bereaven,

Christ

made

Toke
Eor

flesh

vpon

was

16

satisfaction for

him.

And made

full satisfaction
vi'h icli

by
by

his death
a lively fay th

all their sinncs,

Lay holde vpon The

Christ's first

his meritorious Passion,

perfect path that leads vnto salvation.

Christen' first com??zing was, Av7//ch

20

This

we doe name

coming was
the
flesli.

in

comming vnto vs
soule to

in grace
to him,

to frame
first

Mans

come

he

began

To come him

selfe in grace to sinfull

man,

2-1:

From a pure Virgin to take incarnation, From impure lewes, his patient Passion.
His His
His birth was
poor.

first

Advent
life,

yeilds a quaternaU section,

his death, his resurrection.

birth, his

28

His birth

Avas poore, that

by

his poverty

AVe miglit be made rich in

Borne

eternit3^

iu a cratch 'mongst beaste*' (yet for our gaine)

saintes

That in heavens kingdome we w/th

He
lived

might

raigne.

He

livd despisde of
tlie

man,
:

to get vs grace

33

despised of man,

AV/th Clod

Fatlier

meekly did embrace

POEMS.]

COMING OF

CIiniST.

151

(Sole siunc excepted) cacli infirmlly

Coincident to

fraile

humanity,
state,

36

That he

niiglit

put vs in a better

And

in his

wcaknesse vs corroborate.
and gave His
for
liTe

As he was man lie yeikled vp his breath To save vs men from an eternall death,
"W/i/ch death Avas full of agonie

man,

40

&

paine,

That OUT

life

purchasd, might in joy remaine.

Lastly, as

God he subdued death

fro??i

&

hell.

And

rose againe

the infernall cell

44

Of conquerd
For vs

Satlian, to prepare the

way
day
^

to follow

him

and now

this

Sitting in maiesty at

Gods

right hand,

and is now his Mediator in

heaven.

Sole Mediato^a- for

oiiv

cause doth stand,

4b

And

till

his second com?Hing, shall doe still

To plead
"W/h'cIi

their cause

which doe obey his

Avill

second com???ing shall in glory be,

And And
Then Then

in vnvtterable maiestie.

52
[leaf hi, bacl<]

The

generall resurrection shalbe then,

dust

&

wormes rcturne

to living

men.

shall oiiv corruptible^ flesh piit on

Im??2ortalnesse
shall

&

incorruption.

56
cloudtf.?^,

we

see Christ

com?Hing in the

His second

coming

will be

"When some
shroude6\

will

wish whole mountaines were their

in clouds

and

majesty.

Then he the sheep from

The
iust

goatcs shall separate,

&

godly from the reprobate.

;

60

And

sheepe have blisse

the other for their hire

fire.

Perpetuall paines

&

everlasting

Thus

shall his second poAverfull com^?iing

be

It will be

The godlies ioy, the wicked^*' misery. Twixt his first com?Hing & his latter one There wilbe found much discrepation.
First did he

joy to the godly,

64

misery to the
wicked.

come

in all humility.

Then

shall

he come in splendant royalty

'

68

May

be con-ojrtihle in MS.

152

MY VERSES ARE DERIDED BY

First to be iudged

SOME.
lie

[POEMS.

by

tlio,

"world

came,

Then
In
May we
first to

shall
first

he come as Lord to iudge the same

com???ing he for
's

In his
this

man

did die,

he shall give
the
first

lifes eternity.

73

nse the
I

May we
So
to ouv

advent of Christ emploie

latter day,

prepare U3

for the second

good that at the

His second comming, when he

Before owr Iudge

shall appeare,

Expect that

we may without all feare happy sentence, " Come ye blest.

7G

And

enter into everlasting rest."

78

In Monrnm.
Momus
derides

Momus,

that foulmouthd slave,

my

verse derides
;

my verse.
Sayes they are plaine, bald balladstuffe
besides

They want

invention, poetrie,

&

witt,

And

are farre worse

then ever Bavins

writt.

Dost not thou

like 'em,
likst,

Momus 1

Why

I 'me glad

That w7'ch thou

but he has

I 'me sure must needs be bad.

But be they
I.

soe, as

worse thou canst not prove them,

wronged

better

men

Uian

tell

thee they like me,

&

I will love them.

As for thy scoffes, Thou hast wrongd

I neither

doubt nor fear them,

better, therfore I

may

beare tliem.^

[End.]

Tlie Poems end here without any horizontal line, next leaf of the volume is the fly-leaf of another MS.
'

The

153

GLOSSARIAL

^DEX

(INCLUDIXG PROPER NAMES).

Note.

For the extracts from Marlowe I have used Mr Dyce's ed. 1858 from Greene and Peele, his ed. 1861. For those from John Taylor, the WaterPoet, I have used the Spenser Society's reprint of the Folio ed. of 1(530. HalliweU's Where not otherwise stated the reference is to the page. H. Kersey's Pliillips, 1708. Archaic Diet. P.
;

A, a

niglates,

90/2852.
safe.

A forehand,
act.

83/2609, before.

A, a safe, To steal sands from

loves a-life.

60/1813, very

the shore he Marlowe, 337.

for, expiate.

After-clap, 68/2126, the punishment which follows an unlawful

Ahie, 23/613, pay

Ahab, 50/1501.
Alcheron,
Koran.

Thou

shalt dear abi/ this blow.

Greene, 259.

9/188,

Alcoran,

the

Abraham, 39/1158, 149/21.

Abroach, new-set-ahroach-fantastique
fashion,

Alehouse, 60/1821.
Farewell

85/2706.

Fantasin-

tic fashious,

newly invented, or

Pray

troduced.

Cowslippe sweete, a Sunday at the AleSam. Rowlands, house meet. The Letting of Ilcmocrs Blood,
lets

my

Adon[is], 37/1101.

etCs
.

Sat. 4.

Adrus, 105/3352, Dives, rich. Advantageous, 107/3429.

Adtantufjeous care

Alehouse-haunter, 60/1813, a
quenter of the ale-house.

fre-

Withdrew me from the odds

^sculapius, 69/2163.

Alexander YL, 78/2436, Pope.

of

Died, 1503.

multitude. Troil. Sf Cress, v. 4.

Allegant,
Alicant.

63/1919,

wine

from

^sop, 136/43.
Aflaunt, 86/2726, showily dressed. Al ({flaunt now vaunt it Brave wench, cast away care With layes of love chaunt it, For no cost see thou spare.

Sweet Allegant, and the concocted

Cute. Taj/lor, 549.

Boxt AUigant with Sugar and

Eggs. Hei/wood'sPIdlocoth. p. 48.

Sweet wines

Tent, Hulliganf.
lb.

Promos and Cassandra,

i.

2. //.

Alston, 107/3442.

154

OLOSSARIAL INDEX,
of,

Amber, greece
gris, a

3G/978,

ainljer-

Architecture,

55/1668, heaven's

perfume. Einbalm'd with cassia, umbergm, and myrrh. Marlowe, 53.

architecture, the skies.

Argus, 2/27.
Ai'istippian,

Amoretto,

93/2927,

one

who

136/37,

pertaining

yields to " love-kindling looks." martial is the iigure of his

to Aristippus.

How

Aristotle, 29/821, 146/24.

face! Yet lovely and beset with amords. Greene, IGS.

Arras,

clothes

of,

36/1044,

Cotgrave has " Amourettes.

tricics,

Loueticking,
lb. note

superior kind of tapestry, so named from Arras in the French Netherlands, which was celebrated for its

wanton loue-toyes,

ticklings, daliances," &c.

by Ed.

not speak "I'll manufacture. another word, except the ground were perfumed, and covered with
cloth of arras." 3[arlowe, 89. Assimilate, 118/78, to compare.

Amorphus, 97/3088,

deformed,

Anabaptists, 9/195, a sect Avhose

tenet is, that those who have been baptized in their infancy ought to be baptized
distinctive

Astrcea, 50/1524, 88/2791, 135/9.

Athenian, 94/2965.
Angiistin, S., 28/816, 141/7.

anew.

Aurimont, 41/1211.
Aurora, 113/5.
Avarice, 41/1201.

Anaidus, 10-1/3332, irreverent.

Ananias, 46/1370.

Anchoves, 87/27 G9, ancliovies.

Angels, 48/1490, the
coin
shillings

Avicen, 29/822.
Baal, 51/1562.

Died, 1037.

name

of a

varying in value from six and eightpence to ten It was introduced by shillings. Ed. IV.

Bacchanal, 62/1907.

Bacchus, 63/1919, 70/2193, 87/

2762, 114/29.
Balhidstuffe,

My

Lawyer

said

the

case

was

plaine for mee, The Angell told him so hee tooke

for fee
:

152/2,

worthless

rhymes.

But
Eor

yet my Angell and yer lyed,

at

my LawI was

Bavins, 152/4, a bad poet, contemporary with Virgil and Horace.

my ludgement

damnified. Taylor, 515.

Anteus, 101/3213."'

Bayard, pro v., ""Who so bold as blind Bayard ? " 95/3000.

I '

Anthony, 59/1779.
Antilegon, 49/1487, a disputer.

Beake-head, 145/61, of a ship.

Beer, broken, 60/1845, spilt beer.
" Remnants of beer." H.

Aphrodite, 131/3.
Apitius,
perry.
-

Begorde, 68/2100, covered witli

%

58/17G5,
''

Gr.

apltc^,

gore.

i^^j-^i

=.

(%pA^z^^

Beholding,
"

90/2853,

behohlen.
;

Apollo, 41/1214, 70/2170, 103/

3300, 113/1.

Appetituall, 18/496, appetive, belonging to the appetite.

and, so I will, my Lord whilst I live, rest beholding for this courtesy." Marloice, 98.

And

Belike,
haps.

53/1611, 73/2306,
" Staves-acre
!

per-

Arch-defender, 68/2111.

why, then,

GLOSSAIUAL INDEX.
bdikt', if I

155

be

full of

were your man, 1 slioukl vermin." Marlowe, 8i.

Bord, 19/520, board, table.

Borgia,
1507.
Botle-ale, 62/1909.
Ctesar,

78/2431.

Died,

Bell, pin-.,
to

"Win

the silver bell,"

62/1881, to gain the highest prize, See also beat, or excel all.
119/2i.

Away, you

bottle-ale rascal.

2 Hen. IF.
that eucr were,

ii.

4.

Of all The Deuill

Bellie-clieer,

f be Bawdes

One madly
and

sits

like

bottle- Ale,

hiniselfc (he bell aicaj/

hisses.

Taylor, 307.

(loth heare.

Taylor, 251.

10/232, eating and

Bald-pate
friars.
hellij-

Botle-nose, 98/3100, a large nose.

driuking.

Bout, 60/1832, a contest.

bontim is iu Marloice, 91.

Whose summum
cheer.

Braggadochio, 26/731 Braue Bragadocia whom the world

At supper with such brllij-cheer As Wagner ne'er beheld iu all

his
life.

Was

doth threaten. lately with a Faggot-sticke

sore beaten. Taylor, 508.

lb. 98.

Brat, 131/1, a child.

Bellona,25/708,tliegoddessofwar.

Bread, phr.,

"To know on which

is

Bereaven, 54/1G38, bereft.

_

side the bread

buttered," 64/

My

senslessc braiues, of wit and sence bercauen. Taylor, 389.

S.,

Bernard,

28/816.

1987, to know what is for one's In Heywood's BhUoadvantage. coth. one of the titles of a drunkard
is,

Besprent, 100/3174, besprinkled.

Betterice, 104/3316,
1

"One

that
is

knowes

side his bread

of which butter'd." p. 45.

Beatrice.

Bread-chipper, 27/775, one

;

who

Bewraide, 108/3471, bewrayed.

Bit,

phr.,
bites,

"two

bits,"

20/571,

two

two morsels.

chipped the crusts off burnt bread (see l\\Ae\ioBabe('sBook) a term of contempt. " A' would have made
a good pautler, a' would ha' chij)ped bread well." 2 Hen. IF. ii. 4. " Not to dispraise me, and call me pautler and bread-chipper." lb.

Bitte, 109/3500, bit.

Blew, 60/1837, "Till the groiuid

seems blue," drunkard

drinke
till

till

they are drunk.

that will the ground lookes blew," in Heywood's Fhilocoth. p. 44.

is

"One

Brooke, 6 0/ 1 8 1 1 to bear patiently.

,

Blotted, 86/2735, spotted, ruined.

me ask of these, If they can brook I bow a knee to man. 2 Hen. FI. v. 1.
First let

"0, run, Blubbered, 100/3195. come. Doll, run run, good Doll [She comes blubbered.'] Yea, will you come, Doll?" 2 Hen. IV. ii. 4.
;

Brownisnie, 4/16.

See
life.

p. xxviii.

Brusano,

90/2865,

one

who

is

vigorous, or enjoys
_

Blushlesse, 115/34.
Bolster, 37/1 073, prop up, support.

Brute, 26/728, the founder of Britain.

to undeceive.

legendary

By, to put by conceit, 119/102,

Boore, 27/763, boor, a rustic. Hobuaild Boores, & sheep skin

country clowns. Taylor, 511. Bootelesse, 45/1325, in vain, to no purpose, profitless. I'll follow him no more with l/oolless prayers. Mer. ofVen. iii. 3.

Ceecilius,

98/3119, proper name.

Cain, 94/2967.
Calidity, 117/53, heat.

Caligula, 102/3267.

156

GLOSSARIAL I\DEX.

\
hither.

Camelion, 118/75, chameleon.

Chalkd
For

Can, 59/1800, a
Cafine

vessel.

follow'd Ca/me, aud Pot succeeded Pot. Taylor, 136.

out, 9/181, pointed out. is you that have chaWd forth the way
it

Which brought us
Channell,
gutter.
lustled.

Canarie, 62/1916. "From the Spaniard Malligo sherry,

.

Tempest, v. 1.

105/3367,
See

Canary, Moscatell."
Philocoth. p. 48.

Heywood's

kennell, quotation under

dealers,

Cancer, 113/20.

Chapmen,
customers.

43/1282,

Canckered, 91/2887. Eaten with the Cauker or with Rust. P. See Anat. of Abuses, p. Ill "There
:

Charles V., 25/685. Died, 1558.

Charnico,

62/1916, a
is

kind

of
doth

are three canckers, whiche, in processe of time, wil eate vpp the

sweet wine. Well, happy

rightly

the
three

man

whole

common
is
i.

caterpillar

wealth," where meant, as in Two

know
of

The vertue
Charnico.
S.

cuppes of

Gent. Ver.

1.

Captivde,

109/3495,

held

in
note,

captivity, enslaved.

Carrier, Dr, 52/1583.

p. X.

See

Rowlands, The Letting of Hvmocrs Blood, etc.. Sat. 6. And here, neighbour, here's a cup of charneco. 2 Hen. 11. ii. 3.
Peter-se-mea,
or

head

strong

Cashier, 87/2744.

charnico. Taylor, 549.

Maymed

cassiered

Soldiers

and

Mariners. Taylor, 87.

It is called eharnio by Philocoth. p. 8.

Hey wood,

Cast, 61/1851, to vomit.

Charon, 72/2267.
off,

Cast

office,

27/781, cast

de-

spised, abandoned.

While thread-bare Martial] turns his merry note, To beg of ilufus a cast wintercoat. Hairs Satires, vi. 1.
Castles in the
air,

Charret, 63/1921, claret. Claret, Red nor White, Graues nor High-Country could our hearts delight. Taylor, 549.

Cheap, phrase, good cheap, 65/

2014.

to build,

1 1

8/97.

Catastrophe, 111, end.

Cates, 56/1683, 87/2774, dainty
victuals.

Cliecke, 52/1576, restraint; censure, reproof, or reproach.

Rebuke aud

check was the reward of valour. 2 Hen. IF. iv. 3.

Cato, 29/824, 132/9.

Ceres, 87/2763,113/23.
Cervisius,
Cervisia, a

Child, prov., "

dreads the

The burnt
102/3243.

cliild

fire,"

Chinck,
money.

61/1872,
lybertie

104/3341,

59/1799,
Gallic

61/1887, word, meaning

Roth

aud Chinck ynough

Beer.

hiniselfe he will allow.

Ceyillian,
civil law.

134/1, one versed in

See p. xvi.

Some

Chalk from cheese, phrase, 28/794.

Neices oat of Puirles, Sat. 5. of their pockets arc oft stor'd with c///;//-. Taylor, 197.

Tom

is

no more

like

thee, f/ien
S.

Chockt, 14/343, choked.

Chalks like cheese.

lands, The Letting

Row-

Chremes, 103/3289, the name of

an avaricious old
of Terence.

o/Hcmocrs

man

in the

Andria

Blood,

etc., Sat." 6.

1 i

"

GLOSSAKIAL INDnX.
Cliulfe, 2G/7-i9,a reproachful

1.37

term
doe

like,

the collier and the devil," 98/

often applied to an old miser. Mizer chiifffs wiio cliaritie bauisli. Titjihr, 398.
tlie fold,

3097.

Comines, Philip de, 28/814.

If he but stcalc a sheepe from out

Commaculate, 71/2216, 96/3046,

to spot, pollute.

The

chiiffc

would hans: him

41)i.

for it

Commerce, 5 1/1 53 7, to trade with,

deal with.

if

he could. lb.

Circe, 23/G17.

Comprisde, 85/2682,

comprised

Civet, 34/979, a perfume obtained from the civet-cat. Is not this a sweet pride, to haue duet ? Atiaf. of Abuses, p. 73. And thouffh they were perfum'd with Ciuet hot Yet wanting these things they

" to act, etc., in which the " villauy was to be acted,

Consuhatantiation, 17/473.

would stiuke and

rot.

Convented, 49/1472, convened, summoned. The king hath commanded To-morrow morning to the coun-

Taylor, 549.

Clap, 80/2530, caugM a clap met with a mishap.

Claudia, 80/2530.
Cleopatra, 59/1779.
Cliinenes, 131/1(2).

He

cil-board be convented. Hen. VIII. v. 1.

Convertites, 77/2413, converts. No, governor, I will be no con vertite. Marlowe, 149. See As Fou Like It, v. 4.

Coram,
loading,
:

46/1382,

"Justice

of

Clogd, 109/3496, burdened.

Clogging,

92/2918,

or

peace and coram." Coram, " an ignorant mistake for Quorum."

"Robert Shallow, esquire

justice

The noun is used in bnrthening. "I '11 hang the following passage a cloff about your neck for running away again." Marlowe, 59.

of

peace and
1.

'

Coram.'

Merry W. of W. i. Cornelius, 149/36.

Closely, 85/2691, secretly. Now every man put off his bur_

Corrivals, 35/1024, rivals. So he that doth redeem her thence

And

gonet, so convey him closelj/ to his bed. Marloice, 234.

might wear
"Without corrical
all

her dignities.
i.

1 Hen. IF.

3.

Cloy, 85/2674.

Corroborate, 151/38, to strengthen.

artificial

Cocus, 48/1433, a cook.

Codpiece,

"Meates (moderately taken)

27/758,

an

protuberance to the breeches.

coroborate the body, refreshe the arteries, and reuiue the spirits." Anat. of Abuses, 114.

Codrus, 49/1481, proper name.

Cog, 137/56, to
lie,

to cheat.

Coinqninate, 136/16.
1627.

"TocoinMinsh.

Coryate, 26/721, " was bepraised and abused as much as any man." See Taylor's Worhs, Oorbefs Foems,
etc.

He
lye,

died in 1617.

quiuate, staine, or defile."

Cosens, 43/1282, cheats.

Cold comfort, phr. 57/1704, no

relief,

To

to couzen, to forsweare,

and sweare. Taylor, 536.

quote, Cote, 13/316, 16/408, speak about, "make a note of.' " He sayeth moreover that he hath

no sympathy.

CoUation, 88/2785.
Collier

devil,

prov.,

"Like

to

158

CxLOSSARIVL INDEX.

coated a number of contrarieties out of the Scriptures." {Bame's Note), Marlowe, 390.

Cyclops, 117/38.

Cynick-dog, 99/3143.
Cynthia, 41/1214.
Cythercea, 37/1102.

Gotten, 62/1883, to cotton, to succeed or prosper to go right. "Why, so now it cottens, now the
;
;

game

begins.

Geo. Peele, 396.

Coui'se, 26/718, coarse.

Her with your

pare.

course wives

com-

Dabbes, 77/2402, haps the same as

134/12.

dub.

deceives. PerSee 134/11,

Taylor,

Pedlar and
p. 8.

a Romish Priest,

Cow, 26/731, coward.

K.
Lear, iv. 2.
sliy.

Cf. cowisli,

Dad, 78/2448, Thy body is

The

father.

the Bad, thy minde the Mam. Taylor, 232. names used for food in North-

Coy, 59/1804,
Crasis, 24/647.

amptonshire sometimes show the

different classes of society
:

In a PhysicalSense, a proper Constitution, Temperature, or Mixture of Humours

in an

"

Animal Body." P.

Bad, mam, and porridge Father, mother, and broth Pa, ma, and soup.
Dtedalus, 132/11.

Crassns, 46/1393, proper name.

Cratch, 150/31, a manger.

"And

Dagon, 51/1559.

she broglit forth her fyrst begotten Sonne, and wrapped him in swadlyng clothes, and layd him in a cretcJie, because there was no rowme for them with in y' ynne." Luke ii. 7, Gen. ISfeio. Test. 1557.

Damon, 24/654,

a Pythagorean
friend of

philosopher, the intimate Pythias. "When Damon tenced to death, and had leave to go and settle his
affairs,

was senobtained domestic

Pythias pledged himself to

if

Cronologers, 100/3167.

undergo the punishment

Damon

Cronologized, 72/2 2 5 3, chronicled.

Crosse-loarre, 39/1 151,

should not return in time.

an obstacle. probably a reference to the cross-bar, or cross-beam of the

There
is

Danae, 42/1252.
Dance^
phr., "goe dance for," 39/1164, to wait for, obsequiously,

gallows. Out of the water shall appeare one dead, halter and a crosse-harre o'r his head. Taylor, 316,

perhaps. Cf. "Danced attendance on," 2 Een. VI. i. 3 ; and " I dance attendance here," K. Rich.
III.
iii.

7.

DareKng, 37/1102, darling.

Crumbe-cutchmg, 135/1.
Cue, 66/2038, 90/2879. "Cue, a terme vsed by Stage-players."
Minsk. 1627. His Buckram-bearer,

Daunce, a Scottish daunce, 86/ 2716. Cf. The Gallia Morbus, and
the
Scottish
fleas

{Taylor,

549),

one

that

kuowes

which were the result of indulging in the " Scottish dance."

his

Jcu,

Can

write with one hand and receive with two." Taylor, 495.
v.

Daw, 46/1380,

a foolish feUow,

Cuffe, 43/1 255, same as chufre,;^.

a slattern, or sluggard. H. to a solicitor probably means

daw
what

we now understand by a
clerk."

"lawyer's

Cupid, 45/1339, 93/2927.

Curry favour, 48/1434,

gain favour.
^

to flatter,

Day,

phr.,

"dying day," 62/1900,

day of death.

GLOSSARIAL INDEX.

ir,!)

Day,

pin-.,

" liappic ilay," 12/275,

happiness, prosperity.

dog," fil/lSGO, the homrcopathy of the period.

Dealing trade.
Debaiisli,
(Hssohite.

See Trade.

Dores, keep the doors, 86/2724,

2742.

58/1759,

debauched,

"A

Behosht Drunkard."
to render

APander (Hostler like)

a whore,

tli:,!

walks
the

Taylor, 335.

And

for a

Fee securely keeps

Defame, 51/1541, 155G,

infamous.

doore. Taylor, 215.

Deianira, G6/2059,

Demosthenes, 42/1237.
Descride, 121/26, descried.

Drabbes, 80/2525. The Deuils deere drab must be the Cimrch of Pome. That Church is the devils
. . .

whore. Taylor, 503.

Detect,82/2569,133/10, to accuse.
These
fishers tell the infirmities of

Draco, 57/1728.

men And from

recollect

Driven, 98/3098.

their

watery empire
or

Drugo, 78/2459.
Drusus, 37/1077, proper name.

All

tliat

may men approve

ii.

men

detect! Pericles,

1.

Dubbing, 134/11

^'ee

Dabbes,

Devil,

blew devUl, 107/3443. "Blue devils," the "horrors," or

fol-

supra. Dubde, 134/12 ) Ducke, 85/2699, an endearing

the remorse which frequently lows an ill course of lite.

term often applied to a child or

young

girl.

Devil, prov., " Goe they must because the devill drives," 52/15S2; " Needs must when the devil
drives."

Will you buy any tape, Or lace for your cape,

My

dainty duck,

my

dear- a

Winter'' s T. iv. 4.

Diana, 93/2943, 116/26.

Dilate, 117/61, 121/22, to show, declare, open.

" Eat to
. .

live,

not live to eate,"

.

Diogenes, 99/3137.
Dioscorides, 29/821, in 2nd century a.d.
flourished

50/1672. " The olde adage saith toe must not line to eat, but we must eate to line ! " Stubbs's Auat., ed. 1836, p. 109.

Dirges, 13/336, dirge, corrupted from Birlge, the commencing woi'd

of Dirige
tios,

Effeminize, 34/972, to effeminate, to make womanish or wanton, to soften by voluptuousness. P.

Elizabeth, 140/84.

Boiiihie.

Discrepation, 15 1/6 6, discrepancy,

difference.

Elohim, 7/112, God.

Elpinas, 106/3410, hopeful.

Distaine, 121/27, 132/17, to sully by contrast. Her beauty glancing on the waves Distains the cheek of fair Proserpina. George Peele, 430.
Distast, 100/3193, disgust, disagree with.

Embase, 127/16, debase.

Emilia, 90/2877, Emily.

Eminent, 101/3231, imminent.

Emperie, 35/1024, empire.
^Nleasuring the limits of his empery By east and west, as Phoebus dotii
his course. Marloioe, 10.

Divisive, 149/17, divisible.

Enable, 12/272, to encourage, to

Dog,

phr., "

hair of the same

make

firm, to strengthen.

iGO
Enact, 39/1156, commit.

GLOSSARIAL IXDEX.
Flat, " that
IS
's

flat,"

39/1166, that

Enditers, 28/816, imliters, composers, writers. Cp. heart is incHtbig of k good matter.'" Fmlm
xlv.

"My

or clear. "The boyhath sold him a bargain, a goose, that 'sfat." Love's L. L. iii. 1.

certain,

P. B. Vers.

Flavia, 45/1331. Fleece, 86/2718, to rob, plunder,

strip.

Epainnutus, 37/1085, praise. Equipage, 58/1764.

Eringoes, 87/2773.
Lolly,

Eringo, sea-

To

fleese

and

ilea

the

simple

the roots of which, being candied, made excellent sweatmeats: they were considered provocatives.

M'retche,

to pylfer and to powle. Newes out of Poicles, Sat. 2.

Flincher, 59/1801, one

over.

who

gives

Errant, 146/17.

Estrange, 129/35
Eulalius, 76/2385, eloquent.

Fond, 13/329,

foolish.

Foulmouthd, 152/1.
Fox, 58/1762, 59/1806, 1807, to make drunk. " No man must call a Good-fellow Drunkard ... but
" The hquor .... would fox a dry Traveller, before he had half quencht his thirst." 1G39. /. Tajjlor, Travels, p. 8. "You were never so fox'd but you knew the way home."
lb. p. 46.

Eve, 32/915.
Except, 9/164, accept.
Exoration, 80/2511, a prayer, a
desire or wish.

say ... He is foxt." 1G35. wood, Philocothoiiisia, p. 60.

Uei/-

Extenuate, 96/3042.

Eyen, 56/1686,
His angry

eyes.

look all so glariu"bright. 'EalVs Satires, v. 1.

ej/ne

Fact, 48/1451, act, deed.

Fox, 64/1985, crafty fox, a clever

and
rogue.

And

praise his gentle soule

it

wish

well,

And

of his hiandX^ facts full often

tell.

HaWs

Frenchifide, 80/2518, made like a Trenchman. See Ladifide, infra.

Satires, iv. 2.

Families of Love, 9/196, sometimes called Familists.

p. xxix.

See Note,

Erie, " the yoonger frie," 15/386, the younger children. Thither went the doctors,

Fatuo, 44/1311, a fool. Faune, 137/56, fawn.

Faustus,

And
With
Marlowe's

sattin-sleev'd proctors, the rest of the learned /);/. Bp. Corbefs Poems, ed. 1807,

53/1625.

Intro, xxiii.

Doctor Faustus first appeared about 1590. It was published in quarto in 1G04, and again in 1616.

Fucata, 24/661, painted.

Fawkes, 12/291.
Fees, 27/780, rewards.
Felt, 27/751, a
liat.

Fucus, 34/973, a red dye, rouge. Fulsome, 127/1, nauseous.

Fume, 105/3368, angry humour.

Fumoso,
72/2237, well-smoked,
smoke-dried, smoky.

Figs of Spaine, 39/1153, a kind

of poison.

Furder, 12/270, further.

Fire, plir.,

"to give

false

fire,"

122/51, to raise a false alarm.

Gabrina, 85/2699.

GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
Claudius Galen, Galen, 29/822. d. A.D. 200; M. Galen iu 1573.
Galla, 82/2581, proper name.

IGl

That some fat bribe might grease him in the fist.

Gallicus morbus, 80/2519.

TlaWs Satires, Greece of Amber, 36/978. Amber.

iv. 5.

See

The

Spauisli Pip, or else the Gal-

lian Morbid^,

Boue-bred diseases, mainely doe

The

disturbe vs. Taylor, 178. Galliee Morbus or the Scottish

for all's

Guld, 29/838, cheated, deceived. " But my Gowne-brother promised mee good stuffe .... and verily did gull mee." Sam. Rowlands,
Diogenes Lanthorne, sig. B. 1628.

fleas,

Or English Poxe,

but one

Gullj 29/843, a cheat, a deceiver.

Guiles, 13/320, people easily deceived.

disease. lb. 5i9.

Ganymede, 79/2470.
Garnet, 12, note.

Geason, 113/15, this word generas, ally means scarce, rare Base Death, that took away a
;

Hackny, 86/2720, hackney women, women who let out, etc., as

explained in
11.

2720-1.

man

so geason.

Had

That measur'd every thought by time and season. Greene, 279. Good men are scarce, and honest

I Avist, 40/1194, a proverbial had 1 known ; an expresphrase

sion of regret.

When

men

are geason. Taylor, 404.

George, 60/1814, 61/1879.

Gives, 95/3019, shackles, or fetters.

dede is doun, hit ys to lat be ware of had-y-wyst. Qu. Eliz. Achad. p. 42. Clad iu a Gowne of mourning had

I wist.
Conf.

Taj/lor, 165.

See also Marlowe, 201, and Gotcefs

!Manacles, and Bolts, and Ghies, "Which fetter vs in bondage all

Amant.

i.

105, ed. 1857.

Haire, phr., ''unto a hair," 72/

2244, 80/2520, to a nicety.

our hues. Taylor, 291.

Glabria, 82/2567, one

a beardless youth.

who

loves

Hannibal, 99/3163.
Hard-favourd, 123/24.

Gogle, 98/3099, goggle.

Harry (Henry Till.), 61/1876.

Heliogabalus, 59/1786.
Hell-bread, 45/1342, hell-bred. Cp. hell-borne {Taylor, 511), and
hell-begot {lb. 535).

Golde,
1876.

King Harries
See Note,
p.

golde, 61/ xxxv.

Grandams, 29/836, grandmothers.

and Granddams should Rise from the dead. Taylor, 488.
If our Grand-fathers

Gray-beard, 66/2038, 69/2135.

Hell-hatched, 37/1079, 58/1741. For ther's no habite of hell-hatched

siune,

Grease .... in the

phrase, " If you have 43/12G9, 48/1442. ardent, or rather rubrum ungnentum, I dare not sale gold, but red ointfist,

That we delight not to be clothed Sam. Rowlands, The Letin. ting of Ilvmocrs Blood, etc.,
sig.

A.

2.

ment

grease them In the fist withall, then your sute shall want no furtheraunce." Stubbs's Anat., cd. 1S3G, p. 129. Would now that Matho were the
to

Down must
Babylon Like hell-hatch'' d pride.

tumble

TheNimrods proud cloud-picrciug

Tai/lor,

500.

Satyrist,

Hell-hatcht plots. lb. 501.

11

times' W.

1G2
Hell-houn<l, 42/1249. Yet all their Hues here
cares are vext,

GLOSSARIAL INDEX.

lliey -willi

Here the sense seems to be " like a lord standing among his riches."
Hypocrates, 29/822, Hippocrates,
d. B.C.

'

Slaues iu this world, and Hellhounds iu the next. Taylor, 489.

357.

Helottes, 58/1755, Spartan serfs

or bondmen.

Hypolitus, 98/3110, Hippolytus, a son of Theseus and of llippolyte. Tiie story of Hippolytus and IMiBe dra is well known.
I,

Hercules, 66/2057.

Herod, 36/1059.

Hiew, 7/98, hue.

Higlit,

46/1388, and elsewhere. Aye. "The motion was hotly canvas'd

in the

house of Peers, and

like to

123/19,

124/9,

called,

pass,

named.

when the Lord Paget rose up and said, 'I, but who shall sue the
king's

Hippocras, 62/1918, a beverage composed of wine, with spices and sugar, strained through a cloth.
It is said to have taken its name from Bipiwcratei sleeve, the term apothecaries- gave to a strainer. H.

dasht."

bond ? so the business was HoweVs Fam. Letters, ed.

'

1678,

p.

135.

Icarus, 132/9.
Ice,

ice," to

3/38, phr., "To break the open or commence a sub-

Hippolytus, 69/2164.
Histriographers, 100/3168, historiographers.

ject, or conversation,

les,

41/1207, ?eyes, searches, exphr.,

amines.
let,

Hohnol, 22/604,

] a countryman. "Hobbinol, as most readers are

"jet

it,"

86/2726,
it

struts.

aware, was the poetic name of George Teele, Gabriel Harvey." G. Harvey died 5 S3, note by Ed. about 1630.

And, Midas-like, he
court,

jets

in the

With base

outlandish cullions at
ed.

his heels.

Hoggishlie, 14/344, hoglike.

(Works,
let,

Marlowe, Dyce,

JEd. Sec. p.

193).

Homebred, 114/36. Home-spun.

Home-spun medley
of

72/2248, a stream of water.

Pr. jet.

my

mottley

lezebel, 34/965.

braiues. Taylor, 3S7.

Honorius, 98/3120, pertaining to

honour.

Iframde, 128/3, framed. " Ifmorance is the mother of devotion," phr., 11/244.

Horace, 28/815.

The woman, musing

motion,
Said, igiwrance Becolion.
lie)
is

little

at the

Horn, give him not the horn, 78/ 2444, don't make him a cuckold.
Houreglasse, 53/1627.

the

Mother of

If Ignorance be mother then (said

Hunger-starved, 57/1705. Meanwhile the hunger-starv'd appurtenance

Sure darknessc must her onely daughter be. Taylor's Pedlar

and

Priest, p. 21.

Must
ill

bide the brunt, whatever mischance. IJairs Satires, v. 2.

Immediatly, 6/89,

without the
"

intervention of anything.

Hutch, 60/1817,

like lord within a " hutch i" hutch means a chest.

Imp, 46/1363,
of

child.

An impe
of

Sathau,

and a

Umme

th

GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
deuiU." Stiilb>i'sAiiut., ed. 1S36, p. 119.

1G3

imfled him from the wall almost

into the kcunell." Taylor, 352.

Impostume, 2/1 2. The Conimou wealths Impostum

Keepen, 33/962, keep.

And

hce doth cut, the corruption in his purse doth put. Taylor, 495.

Kembe, 34/979,
Knights of the

to

comb.
49/1475,

post,

Inchoation, 3/56, a beginning of any work. P.

professional pei-jurers. pod-knight that for fiue groats

Index,

face is index to the heart," 23/631-2.

plir.,

"

The

gaine

"Would sweare

Inly, 99/3159.

& for foure groats foreswear't againe. Taylor, 557.

Innocuous, 64/1955, harmless.

Intend, 56/1696, aim at.
fix

the

mind

on,

Lacklattin, Sir John, 43/1267, a term of contempt applied to an

ignorant parson. This sir lohi Lacklatine, true course doth keepe, To preach the Vestry men all fast asleepe. Taylor, 493.

Men
But God

intend.

it is that consummates the end. 17/467-8. Paraphrase of " Man proposes, but God disposes."

Intret, 132/7, introit, preface.

Im-itement, 104/3308, invitation,

lole,

Ladifide, 133/20, made a lady. Because his Landlords daughters (deckt with pride) With ill-got portions may be
Laclyfide.

67/1961.

lonah, 149/25.
lonson, 132/1, 17.
losiah (James
lot, time,
I.),

Thy Female
turpitide,

Taylor, 42. fahe, adorn'd

and

140/91.

Should, for thy services be ladifide. Aqua-Muso', 11.

15/401, jot, small space of

j:>7?ie/),

Landresses, 89/2838, laundresses.

Latro, 108/3462, an assassin.

love (Jupiter,
IrefiiU,

114/13,

Lazarus, 56/1703.
Let, 18/503, a liindrance, an obstacle.

105/3376.

Irus,

102/3241, the name of a beggar in the house of Ulysses at

Ithica.

Let, 78/2435, to hinder, prevent.

Lethe, 131/11(1).
its.

It,

129/4,

It's

Letia, 102/3238, deHghting, taking pleasure in.

or

ludas, 20/567, 44/1291.

Levi, 76/2371.

lump,

phr.,

''many jump," 127/

Master, for

Levie, the tribe

of,

phr., 76/2371,

IS, coincide, agree.

my

hand,

Both our inventions meet and jump in one. Taming of the Slir. i. 1.
luno, 38/1122, 93/2942.
lupiter, 131/4.

the clergy. Cease to Abuse the Bishops, and the Tribe of sacred I^evi.

Aqua-Muscp,

p. 9.

Lidian, 88/2800,the Lydian stone.

Liew, 9/164,
Gallant
89/2828.

lieu.

Lightly come, lightly go, prov.,

lustled, 105/3366.

"A

1G4

GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
of our early dramatists refer to it as opening locks in a more literal

Lightsome, 85/2G81, cheerful.

Linceus, 81/25G3, Lynceus.
note^ p. 81.

See

sense."

Linne, 91/2893,
stop.

lin, to

cease, to

Lurch, 46/1364, to evade, neglect.

There's a crue of Thieues that prie

and

lurch,

Forth then sliottcn these children 2 and they did ueuer lin Vntill they came to merry churchlees,

And

and share the linings of the Church. Tai/lor, 279.

steale

Lusco, 82/2571, one

who

is

de-

to

Merry churchlcc with -in.

Ferry
Fo..,

prived of something.

ed.
i.

Hales and
55.

Ly, 34/977,

lye.

"Will Back-

Furnivali,

Lip-labour, 102/3252.
Littleton, 4G/1380.

stead the Plaier cast his ChamberTaylor, lye out of his window." 342. See 1 Hen. IV. ii. 1.

Loaf, pro v., '"Tis safest gutting at a loaf begun," 76/2393, may be for " ciittbig at," etc.

Machivillian, 49/1467, 94/2963. hast beene a Machiitilian, Thou Tor damned sleights, conceits, and
.

Lockram band, 27/755,

band

polieie.

Taylor, 510.

or collar to the shirt made of lockram, -which was of a finer texture than the shirt itself. Hempseed doth yeeld or else it

Hee's no state-plotting Machiuilian. lb. 535.

Mahomet, 51/1561.
Maic^, 115/37.

doth allow

Lawne, Cambricke, Holland, Canuase, Callico,

Malago, 62/1915, Malaga wine. Little were your gaine,

Normandy,

Hambrough, strong

By Malleyoes, Canaries Saeke from

Spaine. Taylor, 549.

poledanis, Lockram. Taylor, 549.

Malicing,

94/2956,

maligning,
imperial

Loose, 17/452, to lose.

Lop, 88/2809, to lop

Lot, 75/2347.

off,

cut away.

envying. I willingly receive th' crown,

And vow
In

to

wear

it

for

my

coun-

Loutish, 58/1756, cloAvnish.

try's good.

Lovelock, 34/971, a pendant lock

of hair, falling near or over the ear, and cut in a variety of fashions.

spite of
estate.

them

shall malice
9.

my

Marlowe,

Manlius, 106/3398, proper name.

Lozell, 130/8, a worthless fello^v^ Sot, I say, loscl, lewdest of all swains. George Feele, 501.

Marchpaine

stuffe,

87/2773.

" jMarchpanes are made of verie little flower, but with addition of
greater quantitie of filberds, pine nuts, pistaces, almonds, and rosed sugar." Markham's Coioilry Farme,

Lucius, 3C/10G3, proper name.

Luctantia, 100/3187, L. liidans,
struggling, reluctant.

Luna, 115/44.
Lunacy, 51/1549. Tlie IMS. reads
liinari/.

1616,

p.

They

sell

585, quoted in H. so deare and take such

gaine,

Mr

Halliwcll's note on the

is
:

latter

word

" The herb moon-

that well they may afoorde To set fine Marchpaiies and such like

wort.

This herb was formerly be-

lieved to open the locks of horses' feet. See Harrison, p. 131. Some

vpon their seruaunts boorde. Newes out of Foidea

Churchyarde, Sat.
4.

GLOSSARIAL IXDEX.
Marie,

1G5
in

68/2130,

marvel.

"I

Wlio

my Microcosme doth

lawes

marie iu what dull cold nook he found this liidy out." Eo. Man Out

ordaine. Taylor, 208.

Midas, 45/1351.
Mirre-breathing, 38/1112, having sweet breath.

of 11.

ii.

1.

Marmalade, %1 j'lll'l, a confection commonly made of quinces.

Greeneginger, Suckct, Sugar Plate, and ManiK/ladle tine. Kewes Old ofPowles Churchyarde. Sat. 4.

Mm-ha, 82/2595,
INIisthink,

IMyrrha.

Misotochus, 99/3129, man-hater.

67/2086, think amiss.

Mollified, 45/1327, softened.

Mars, 26/732, 82/2590, 115/19.

Mary

(Queen), 139/82.
this

Momists, 111, fault-finders, carping critics, so named from Momus.

Massie, 47/1422, massive. To make a Globe to serue

massie earth. Taylor, 23G.

Momus, 152/1.
Moncking-stock,
5/23,

perhaps

forniocking-stock. "

One that doth

Maiidline, 64/1959, corruption of Magdalene. " With Mandlid sorrow .... they have wept with very griefe." Taylor, Apology for P.
Preaching, p.
7.

purpose to make this towne a lasting mocking stocke throughout the whole Kingdome." Taylor, 35G.
Cf. laughing-stock.

Montaigne, 28/813.
stomach.
of the
jNIony-taker,
of bribes.

Maw, 101/3226,

48/1442, a receiver
" Mopsey, a

May, 65/2010, the blossom

white or haw-thorn.

Mopsa, 100/3181.

Meacocke, 27/783, a silly eifemi" Some are suche nate fellow.

peasautes and such, maicokes, that either they will not, or ... they dare not, reproue tliem for it." Slidjbs's A>iat., ed. lS3fi, p. 105. " He (The Great Eater of Kent) is no puling Meacocke, nor in all his life time the queasinesse of his stomacke needed any sawcy spurre or switch of sowre Yeriuice." Taylor, 156.
.

term of endearment." H. See the Anatomic ofAbuses,"^. 1G9. "Handeborrowed for the kercheifes moste parte of their pretie mopsies and loouyng bessies, for bussyng
. . .

them in the darcke." Moros, 28/789, L. mos, manners.

]\lorpheus, 137/14.

Muskadine, 62/1918, 88/2778, a

rich wine

The wind

Meclianico,
Wright.

24/655,

mechanic,

Or

muscadel. no 2Iuskadine could hither bandy, sprightly Malmesey out of

;

fruit full

Mediocrity, 71/2210, moderation.

Candy. Taylor, 549.

Mutius,

100/3199, changed

in

Medusa, 23/623.
Mercury, 115/38.
Messalina, 77/2424, the

circumstances.

name

of

the profligate wife of Claudius.

Xainius, 99/3153, a heaping of praise, or commendation.

up

Messe, 60/1826, number.

Nappy

ale,

71/2224, strong

ale.

Microcosme,

8/145,

92/2908.

Narcissus, 34/984.

" Microcosme, or little world, ^lan." Minsk. 1627. I haue a heart doth, like a Monarch raigue.

Nathlesse, 23/624, nevertheless.

ISTeandrem, 134,
?

Ne-wman.

Nebuchadnezar, 149/23.

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j:v[ecessity,

GLOSSA.RIAL INDEX.
that hath no law, 46/
obnebulaic the memory." Andrew Boorde's Byetury, p. 244, ed. Eurnivall.

1379, a quibble on the

phrase, "Necessity has, or knows, no law."

Nectar, 62/1913, the driiik of the gods ; hence, a delicious or inspiring beverage. What god soever holds thee in his arms, Giving thee nectat and ambrosia.
Murloioe, 53.

Mans vnderstanding
late.,

's

so obnubi-

That when thereon I doe excogitate,

Intrinsicall

and

querimouious

paines, Doe puluerise the concaue of braiues. Taylor, 404.

my

Neighl30ur,_ 52/1594, neighbouring. The hope of Persia

140/94,

Obsenvancie,

89/2830,

respect,

obsequiousness.

Occasion, as occasion serves, 97/

foils

That holds us up and

our
i.

3062, as opportunity
sents.

offers, or pre-

neighbour foes. 1 Tamlurlaine,

1.

Occurrentes,
rences.

104/3307,

occur-

Neotimus, 38/1121, an upstart. Nepenthe, 62/1914, the name of

an Egyptian drug which lulled sorrow for the day. Gr. vr]TZivdi]Q, removing all sorrow. Neptune, 75/2353, 131/6, 143/2.

Oddes, phr.,
62/1914.

odds," 11/259, ods is, my Cormorants appetite is limited, but most of theirs is vnsatiable." Tay-

"by

"The

lor,

4S3.

Oldcorn, 12, noie.

Nessus, 66/2059.
Nill, 120/31,
[I] left

ne

will, -will not.

my

mill to go with thee.

On, on 's, 94/2976, 2986, of his. Look how his brains drop out on 's
nose.

And

nill

repent that I have doue. Greene, 261.

One, 4/9, on.

Jew of Malta, iv. This form is not

Nisus, 23/645, proper name.

common
period.

in other writers of this

Noble, 48/1443, the name of a " A Noble in money six coin. shillings and eightpence in England, where there hath beene an
.
.

One, phrase, "

all

one with," 30/

866, equivalent to.

Opifice, 7/104, worlananship, L.

opificium,

old English coine of gold called an

from

opifex.

Edward Noble .... worth some

fifteene shillings sterling, and is the Rose Noble ... as I take it, now worth seuen shillings, and six

Orestes, 126/7(2).

Orgia, 106/3380.

pence." Minsk. 1627.

Oiieance, 62/1917, wine from Orleans. " From Erance Red, "White,
claret, Orleance."
coth. p. 48.

Heywood's P/nYo-

Nocivous, 147/33,

liurtful.

Nonce,. 60/1831, occasion. Nothus, 80/2513, spurious,

gitimate.

Orpheus, 93/2934.
ille-

Ougly, 23/638, 37/1100, ugly. Overquell, 112/5, overcome.

Oheisaunce, 25/703, ohediencc. Obnuhilato, 135/14, darken, con"Immoderate found, cloud over. doth obfuske and doth slepe
.

Oxe, phr.,

"A right ox," 64/1986.

Pact, 39./1166,pacl:ed,sent; often " be off," as,

GLOSSARIAL IXDEX.
'Tis time, I think, to trudEjo,

ig;

pack
iii.

PhoeJra,

98/3109.

See
fear.

Ilippo-

and be gone.
Pallas, 93/2940.

Com. of Er.

2.

litus, supra.

Phorhus, 102/3255,
Phrygian, 79/2470.
Pickle, 60/1841, drunkenness.

Pampliila, 98/3105, all-loving.

Pamphlet, 29/842.
write
all

" Slioidd I

condition

of

that I

am

my Eooke
limits of a

would Famphlety Taylor,

trncly informed, out-swell the

74.

Pandarns, 50/1529.
and Cressida.

Bee Troilus

Where should they grand liquor that hath gilded 'em ? How earnest thou in this pickle F Temp. V. 1.
rind
this

Papistrie, 4/16. Yea, and a church, unspotted, pure. From dregs of papist n/ secure. Poem on New England, hied. Misc. 1870. I may be mannerly In Gods House, and be free from

Pils of Italy, 39/1153, a kind of

poison.

Pinne, 58/1742, phr., ''not worth a pin," of no value.

Pistor, 53/1601, mdler, baker.

Papistrie.

Pithias,

24/654,
snpra.

Pythias.

See

Taylor,
Pasiplije,

Mad Fashions,

p. 7.

Damon,
Pises,
vessel in

82/2593.

Passion, "void of passion, void of good," phr., 9G/3038.

Pelt, 27/752, a skin.
. . .

13/333, pix, the sacred which the Host is kept.

Plato, 29/823.

"

The Lord
felles,

Pinto, 99/3162.
Polte-foot, 98/3101, a club foot.

gaue them

pelfes,

and

skins of beastes to make them garments withal." Anat. of Abuses, p.

20.
.

Polupragma,

103/3305,

many

matters, well rendered in the same

Peppercorne, 65/2010.
Peter, S., 35/1014, 149/31.

Une by " Tittle-tattle." Poppsea, 36/1037, L. a cosmetic made of dough moistened with
asses' milk.

Phaeton, 34/995, 76/2367, 131/1. Phalerno, 62/1917, a wine noAV

Pot companion, 59/1795.

Poynts,

known Mount

as Falerniau wine, Falernus, in Italy.

from

69/2135,

tagged

laces

Philarchus, 39/1143, a lover of authority, or the power which comes of wealth.

self-love. Philautus, 97/3071, " Such as give themselves to jildlautia .... are choleric of com-

To truss a point was to tie the laces which held the breeches to untruss a point was to untie them. man's praises Praise, prov., "

used in dress.
;

in his

own mouth

stink," 37/1089.

Pratle, 103/3306, prattle.

plexion." Greene, 204.

Philogonous, 76/2391, loving his

children
;

here his flock

is

probably

Precisians, 10/213, persons who are over scrupulous in matters of " I will set my countenreligion.
ance like a. precisian." Marlotce, 82. ' Corbet was certainly no precisian."
Gilchrist's Corbet, xxxi.

meant.
Phisicall, 71/2212, medicinal.

Phoebe, 41/1212, the moon-goddess, sister of Phoebus, or Sol.

Pre-devine, 146/18.
Pre-indicate, 1 46;
i

Phcebus, 103/3295, 144/21.

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Pre-ordaindc, 101/3216.
Profundituile, 149/12.

GLOSSARIAL INDEX.

And

Promethean, 67/2078.
Prometheus, 117/40.
Prospective, 145/48.
Protasis,

to rcrure me from this strange quandary, Hence Vsqiiebaugh, and welcome sweet Canary. Taylor, 179.

Regiment,
rule.

99/3162,

kingdom,

HI, beginning;

protasis

Four elements Warring within our breasts

regiment. Marlowe, 18.

for

aud catastropbe, commencement and ending. Proteus, 128/6, 129/31.

Provocatives, 87/2765.

Repent, 53/1628, 142/3, repentance.

Repurifide,

38/1118,

purged,
residence,

Psyche, 117/29.
Ptolomeus, 29/823, Ptolemy. Put up aU, phr., 105/3361, put up with all, endure all. Putrefactions, 70/2178, putrifying.

made

pure.

Residence,

monthly

102/3245. Reference to Canons " in of Cathedral Churches being residence " one month in the year.

Rhamnusise, 135/7, Nemesis.

Rhamnusian,

2/1.

Rhenish, 62/1918.
Quadruplicity, 117/43.

No
.
.

,;,,
Rhenish from the

Quades, 145/67, quells, coavs. Quarrell, 61/1852, comhat, bout.

Quaternall, 150/27, fourfold.

Rheme

would be apparent.
Tai/Ior, p. 519.

Quean, 36/1053. Quintus, 82/2568.

Quite, 81/2537, reqiiite. Lose more labour than the
shall quite. Morloice, 17.

Rising, prov., hath a sudden

''

sudden rising
39/1142.

fall,"

Rivolet, 116/22,

ri\nilet.

Romanus, 102/3245.

gam
cote,

Roringboy, 47/1397, roringboyes, 02/1889, riotous fellows who took

delight in annoying quiet people. "And many sat" there [in the Parhament] that were more fit to have

Quoted, 63/1937, same as

supra.

been among roaringboi/s than in

Eafe (Ralph), 60/1814, 61/1880.

Ptape, 128/12, prey.
Cf. rapine.

tliat

assembly." Court

S,-

Times of-

Ravaillac, 12/283.

See

/?.

p. x.

Eeassume, 126/15.
Recordation, 68/2108, the act of
recording, mentioning, writing.

James I. i. 322. Like shamelesse double sex d Hermaphrodites, Yirago Boa ring Girles. Taylor, 43. Sometimes these disturbers of the peace were called " roarers." See

News From
to,
re-

Uell, IIull,

and Halli-

Recover,
reach.

100/3176, return "I swam, ere I could

fax,

etc., p.

43.

the shore, live and thirty leagues off and on." Tempest, iii. 2. Rccure, 2/14, 130/11, to cure,
cover
he;d.

rost," Rost, phr., "to rule the 117/04, to have most mtluence. Roundly, 81/2556, vigorously,

without

fear.

A smile recnres the

woundnig

ol _a

frown. Venus and Adonis, 405.

Rushes, phr., "picking rushes," 90/2882, idling away the tmie.

GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
Euffino, 47/1397, It. rvffimio, a cause tliy pimp. " She will throatc to be cut by her Ii//Jfuaio"
.

1G9
that

Give laud to him

Israel,

loveth

And

sing his praise that shendeth

Cori/ate, 2G-i/i.

Salamander, 118/76, 119/108.

David's fame. George Peek, 471.

Sampson, 25/688.
Sanctimonious, 10/224, holy, full of sanctity used iu a good sense,
;

Sherry, 62/1916. Gascoygne, Orleance,

Ship,

or the Chrystall Slicrrant, Taylor, 54'J.

made

as

it is

in

fitted

All mndimonious ceremonies may "With full and holy rite be minister'd.

a ship out, 106/3411, out a ship.

Shoe, to tread the shoe awry, 81/

2543, to leave the path of virtue. This is probably Taylor's meaning " He bade me leave prating, for I hindred him from mending Alderman Pennington's shooes, (who

Temp.

iv. 1.

Sardanapalus, 59/1785.
Saturn, 114/7.

Sawe, 37/1088, "Saw, saying,"

proverb.

Scanderbeg, 25/687. Died, 1467.

SciUa, 82/2575, ScyUa.
Score, 81/2561, to cut, or mark.

had gone much aside.) and that his especiall care and charge was, to set him upright if it were possible."
Complaint of Christmas, p.
3.

Scotus, 27/767, Scott, probably a fling at one of James's courtiers.

Shoes, pro v., " He who waits for dead men's shoes goes barefoot," 106/3408.

Shoone, 27/754, j^Z. of shoe, shoes.

Shroudes, 151/58, coverings or a "They turne them [the shelter.
poor] out of their shrouds as mice." B. Gilpin's Sermon, p. 33.
Siccity, 117/54, dryness.
Sillie,

Scullian, 133/11.
Scurrill, 136/26, scurrilous.

"And now Sea, 51/1564, see. 1 speake of Rome euen in her Sea" Tai/lor, 484.
Seld, 120/5, seldom, not often. Seeld and seldome can they helpe to keepe the good from harme. Newes out of Powles, Sat. 2.
Seller,

25/710, seely, simple.

Silvanus, 137/4.
Silvius, 90/2851, proper

name.
medi-

Simple,

147/36,

simples,

60/1829,

cellar.

cinal plants.

Sempronia, 77/2417, proper name.

Separists, 15/375, separatists. See note, p. XXX.

Simplician, 148/78, simpleton.

Simpring, 29/829, simpering.

Simula, 26/733, pretence.
Sir,

Sharke,

85/2694, to
Cf.

cheat,

to

28/807, a scholastic

title,

the

" sponge."

The sharking Of cooz'ning Tradsmen.

tricks

translation of dominus commonly applied to priests and curates.

Tai/Ior,

210.

Sheet, standing in a sheet, 104/ 3342, customary mode of punish-

Skip-iacke, 71/2219, a dandy, a puppy, lacke of Newbery I will not rcpeate,

ment

for a certain sin.

Nor lacke

Shelfe, 43/1288, a ledge of rock.

of both sides, nor of Skip-Iacke ncate. Taylor, 123.

Shend, 68/2103, 121/42, to protect, defend.

Skin, leap out on's, 94/2976, to be beyond one's self with joy.

170
Skull, 71/2218.
:

GLOSSARIAL IXDEX.
Stationer, 28/806, See Taylor, 228.

I
a bookseller.

Slavering, 43/1259. She mumbled and she slavered, and she spun. Tayior, A Pedfar and a Romish Priest, p. 20.
Sleas, 129/18, slays.

Stint, 89/2808, stop.

StoHdo, 45/1352, dunce.

Stones, 87/2769,
testes.

Sleeve, " pinned upon the," plir., 28/784. This gallant pins the wenches on
his sleeve.

Stound,
time.

129/17,

an instant of

Stow, 81/2544, bestow.

Straw, 5/21, phr.,

Love's L. L. v. 2.
A\T:etch.
;

"Xot

to set a

Snake, 71/2221, a poor

term of reproach.
Snowt-faire, 34/975, ible, coxcombical.
Snufre,_ 60/1833,
quantity.
Cf.

straw bv," to

liold in

small esteem.

String, phr., "lead in a string,"

contemptsmall
and

76y23S3_.

Following their Tickers steps in

every thing.

a very

He

led the parish euen by a string.

When

as is spent his credit

chink, And he quite wasted to a snv.ffe. Taylor, 214.

Sam. Rowlands, The Letting of Hciitocrs Blood, etc., Epi.

37.

String, a golden, 44/1307.

Sodomeo, 79/2467.
Sol, 113/19, 115/26.

Stroke, phr., 92/2917.

"bear the

stroke,"

Solomon, 147/37.
Solon, 38/1120.

Strouting, 89/2844, swelling out.

Sulpitia, 78/2441, proper

name.

Sordido, 26/749, sordid, dirty. See Ben Jonson, Hveru Man out

Sumner, 81/2538, summoner, apparitor.

o/H.
Sorrow, phr., "drink down sorrow," 62/1894, "to drive duU care away " by drinking.
Source, 113y'4, souse, dip. "This little barke of ours being sourst in cumbersome waves." Optick glasse of Hiunors, 1639, p. 161, quoted
iu II.

Swinge,

71/2232,
145/70.

swing,

bent,

inclination.

S"ivord-fish,

Tagus, the river, and

sand, 116/21.
Tlie sands of

its

golden

Tagus

all

of burnish'd

gold.

Greene, 90.
e're, 72/2251, take show me.

Spare, prov., "He harmes the good that doth the evill spare," 45/1350.

Take me
to any
;

me

Tamburlaine,

25/686.

Mar-

SpleenfuU, 97/3070.
Spring,
" 'Tis phr., sweetest drinking at the spring," 60/1S30.

lowe's Tamburlaine the Great was probably written before 1590. It was printed in Svo in 1592, and iu
4to, in

1605 and 1606.

Spurio, 77/2421, false-one.

Tane, 26/739, taken.

Taurus, 48/1449, buU.
Tellus, 41/1209, Earth, as a deity.

Spurt, 79/2494, probably an error

for sport.

Stage-plaies, 127/19.

Temerus, 104/3318,

rasliness.

Starke, 147/52, mere, sheer.

Tempc, 116/12.

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GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
Teuder-nosd, 112/11.
Thersites, 43/1255. a deformed and scurrilous Grecian." It is Troi. and Crs., Dram. Pers. probable tluit R. C. gained liis idea of Thersites from seeing this Play
_

one

at the time.

"In 1000 John

his

Lane published
"Thersites,

Tom

Ttd-troths

Message, and his Pens Complaint." Tom tell-troth is a foolish gull to thee. Tai/lor, 237.

Troynovant, 86/2725, London.

Like Minos, or iust iudging Rhadamant, He walkes the darkesome streets
of Trot/nouant,

performed,

Thetis, 113/3.

Thieues

receivers,

prov.,

"

ISTo

Taylor, 491.

receivers no thieves," 89/2818.

See also George Peele, 543.

Tuffe, 27/752, tough.

Thrush, prov.,
the hand
is

"One

thrush in

worth two in tlie bush," " A bird in the hand," 10G/3iOG.

&c.

Turnus, 49/1465, Latin name._ Come, now, as Turnus 'gainst

J^lueas did. Marlowe, 39.

Timon
our.

of Athens, 94/2965.

Tyranness, 92/2917.

Timophila, 103/3279, love-honVeneria, 83/2622, Venus.

Title-tattle,

103/3305.

Tohacconist, 72/2239, a tobaccosmoker. The smoakie black-luug puft Tobaccoi/i,sl

A^enus, 77/2418, 87/2753, 93/ 2939, 97/3072, 115/32, 131/2.

Ver, 126/13, spring.

Yilde, 44/1321, 68/2120, vile. Goe but to Spaine, and shew thy
vild
p. 8.

"V\liose ioy

doth in Tobacco sole

Ta//lor, 511.

consist.

condition.

Taylor,

See also

Ili.

214.

Pedlar and a Romish Priest,

This form is sometimes used in the folio Shakespeare, 1623.
Virgil, 28/815.

Toiels, 118/82, toils, fatigues.

Trade,

common

trade,

83/2G26

see next.

Trade, phr., "

72/2258. Wiiores haue a Mistris of their owne deaVuig-trade ? " Taylor, 261.

The dealing trade," "And why should not

Vitellius, 89/2825.

Vixen, 106/3394.
Vncase, 82/2579, expose.
literal

In a

A gentlewoman of the di-aling trade

Procur'd her owne sweet picture Sam. Rowlands, to be made. The Letting ofHvmovrs Blood,
etc.,

sense
Tranio, at once

Epi. 29.
trick,

Traine, 87/2761, ment.

arrange-

Trans,
ation]

17/473,

trans[ubstanti-

Vncase thee; take my coloured hat and cloak. Taming of a Shr. i. 1. Vndermining, 44/1317, undermining bribes, bribes which procure one to commit unlawful or
dishonourable actions.

a 27/771, T rencher-scraper, Cf. menial who works for food. Trencher-man, trencher-fly (Ash.).
Trinity, 144/32, three things.

They

Have

hired me to vndermine the duchess, And buz these coniur;iiious in her brain. 2 lien. VI. i. 2.
un-'

Troth, 2/21, tell-troth rimes. Tell

truth, the phrase

Vnkenid, 27/760, uncombed,

trimmed.

was a favourite

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GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
locks asunder tearMarlowe, 3i5.

I
once, formerly.

Her unkemb'd
ing.

Warrantize, 12/275, to warrant,

promise.

Vntemperate, 58/1763, iutemi>erate.

Whilome, 121/37,
Thou

Vutrust,
See
/.
( '

69/2135,
1

unfastened.

Saint (quoth he) I whilome did adore. Taylor, 3S8.

poynts,' supra.

Whipping-cheer,
wish,
de-

Vntwitten, 132/15,
Votarius,
sire.

1 3/332. " and then not a fewe haue ivhippbig

^we

102/3271,

Vp,

phr., and tells," 55, tells without hesitation.

"Up

cheare to feede themselues withStubbs's Anat. ed 1836 p. ^ ' 111.

all."

122/

Whit, "ne're a whit,"

3190, not in the least.

phr.,

100/

Vpsefreese, 60/1816, a kind of beer imported from Friesland. Cf.

vpse - Butch, vpse - EurjlM "To drink upse-freeze," " to drink swinishly " to drink all off at a swig. This valiant pot-leach, that vpon
.

Wilde-fyer, 145/66. Wishers, prov., "Great wishers and common woulders seldom good
householders," 103/3277.

his

knees
a thousand pottles vp Taylor, 4S7.

Worser, 75/2358.

Has drunk

Wreck, 97/3070, wreak,

Ycie, 125/9, icy.

inflict.

sefrecse.
p. 45,

See also Hey wood's Vhilocothonista, where one of the names for a drunkard is "One that driukes
Vpse-freeze."

Yclad, 30/869, clothed.

Ycleped, 22/607, called, named.

Yslaine, 122/56, slain. Yspread, 64/1988, spread.

Vulcan, 82/2588, 117/38.

Warrant, phr., "

with butter/' promise.

warrant seald 12/276, an empty

Yspunne, 27/753, spun.

Zephyrus, 116/28.

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GENERAL INDEX.

Academical
31.

lionoiirs

bought, 47.
to,

Arabia referred
Asses have long
Atheists, the
3
;

to,

116.

Acheron, angel driven down

Actors prone to vice, 82.

Ai'istippian zanies, 136.

ears, 134.

greatest offenders,
of, 5.

Address to the reader, 110.

Adultery, 26, 77.

opinions

Authors, various, referred

disadvantages,
29.

to, 28,

Advantages
127.

and

Autliorsliip
the, of Christ, 150.
xiii.

of

Times'

WliistU,
of,

Advent,

Adversity, 101.
Adversity, friends
in, 121.

Avarice, the beginning punishment of, 99, xxxii.

41

Ale, song on, xxxvii.

Ale house, from the church

the, 19.

Balbutia and her victim, 134.

to

Bancroft and "Whitgift,

x.

Alicant wine, 87, sxi. note.

Allegories, brief, 123.

Bawds and

their devices, 86.

Bosworth's, W., Cliast

Lovers, xix.
7i.

and Lost

Ambition of Popes, 35. Ambitious men, 34. Amsterdam, a residence

Sectaries, 11, xxix.

Bout, sketch of a drinking, 60.

Bragging
of

fool, a, 25.

Bread, coarse, 99, xxxvi.

Bribery,
of the,

Anabaptists,
31.

9,

xxviii.
fall

prevalence

of,

among

Angels, creation and

lawyers, 42, xxxii.

Brown, E., some account

Brownism,
4,

of, xxviii.

Anger,

effects of, 95.

to,

143, xxviii.

Apennines, the, referred

116.

Building, gorgeous, 33.

Appearances

may

deceive, 29, 30.

Buried

alive, 67.

Appetite, provocatives to, 87.

Apostates, the end of, 51, 52 to Home and Mahomet, 51.

Cambridge, the King's

134,
xii.,

visit to,

xvi. tiote 3.

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174
Cardinals and
tues, 119.
tlie

GENERAL INDEX.
cardinal vir-

Cuckolds, 90.
Curiosity relinked, 141.

Carrier, Dr, 52, x. note.

Cydonius, Joannes, referred

12, note.

to,

Chameleon,
Cliast
note.

the,

118
Lovers, The, xix.
to

and Lost

Christian, the, compared lamb, 142 ; to a ship, 143.

Dancing, 85, xxxvi.

Date of Times' Whistle,

15
Poems,
;

x.

of
to,

Church,

why men
;

go

xi.

to,

sleeping in, xxx. ale-house, 19.

from the, to the

Davenant,

Dr

John, referred
to, xi.,

xvi. note 3.

Churchmen, English, their neglect

of duty, 14.

Davis referred

xxxvi.

Death and the hyena, 128.

City, the, given to vice, 79.

De
the,

Clergy, vice prevalent

76.

among
first

alive, 67,

Foe's story of the margin.

man
56,

biuied

Delicacies,

numbers

of,

Coming

of Christ, the

and

Desires, unlawful, 95.

second, 150.

Despair, 9G.
Devil, the, devours man, 20.

Communion, Holy, much ahused, 17; why men neglect it, 18.
Conscience, remorse
of,

108.

Dishes, various kinds Dissimulation, 24, 94.

of,

87.

Consequences, fear
17.

of,

102.

Consubstantiation of Lutherans,
Corbet, Bp, account
habits, XV.
;

Dream,
137.

a,

122
of,

another dream,
43, xxxiii.
Q$>.

of, xiv.

his

Dress, value

his writings, xvi.-xviii.;

Drink

is

necessary, say some,

song attributed to him, xxxvii.

Coryate's Crudities, 2G, x.

Drunkards, four kinds of:

; ;

(1) the

Cosmetics and perfumes, 34, 3G,

xxxii.

Country, drunkenness in the, on

Sundays, 19.

merry drunk, 63 (2) the maudlin drunk, 04 (3) the lion-drunk, 00 (4) the beastly drunk, 07 must give an account to God, 74.
;

Drunkenness,
the,

on

Sunday,
;

19

Country

lass,

and the mer-

prevalence
of,

of,

57, xxxv.

effects

chant, 133.

58, 59, 02.

Court, the, corrupt, 79 ; vices and practices, 89 ; parasites, 135.

Dutch drunkards,
Eden's

57.

Covetousness, results
Crane,

of, 39.

plot, 133.

Ealph,
all,

his

New

Tear's

Elements,
"qualities

the

four,

116;

the

Gift, xiv.

"of

the, 117.

Crimes,
42.

purged by money,

Epicureans, 14,
Epicures, a warning
to,

74
xi.

Crocodile, the tears of the, 22,

23.

Epigrams, Ben Jonsoix's, 132,

Essays, Montaigne's, 28.

Crudities, Coryate's, referred to,

20, note, x.

Evil

is

esteemed as good, 30

GENERAL INDEX.
may
not,

175

be done

tliat

good may

Grief in adversity, 100, 101.

Hair, false, 24.

come, 70.

Table, the, of the fox

crow, 130.

and the

Hake's Newes out of Pauls,

ix.

Face, the, not the index to the

heart, 23.

Hall's Satires, ix., xx. note, xxii.

Harington's Orlando Furioso, x.

Harrie's, king, gold, 61, xxxv.

Faces, painted, 24, 34.

Fairies, 53, xxxiii.

Hate and dissimulation,

of the angels,
xxix.

94.

Fall, of
31.

Adam, 32

Heaven,

faith the only

means

to

gain, 73.
9,

Families of love,

Hebrew Eabbins,
Hell,

29.

Fashions in dress, 33.

how

populated, 40.
of France,

Fawkes, and
martyr, x. note

his
3.

plot,

12

Henry IV.
12;

murder

of,

X. note 2.

Fear, effects
Fears, three

of,
ill,

94.

Honour, transitory, 38.

Honours, bought and
of,

101.
87.

sold, 43, 46.

note.

Food, various kinds

Howel, quoted on wine, xxi.

Hungary, Turks
Images, worship
in, 25.

Fools, if rich, promoted to office and honour, 46.

Fortune, freaks

of,

125.

of,

13.

France and
;

vice, 80.

Islington, a trip to, to eat cream,

Friends, and their friendship, 120 the man who proved his, 120.

8285.

James
Ganges, the, referred
Garnet, a martyr, 12,
note
2.
;

I.,

reference to, 136, 140.

to,

to,

116.

Jonson, Ben, references

xii.

xi.,

note,

xix. note;

quoted, xx.,

note.

2:

x.

xxii.,

XXV.
eflTects

Joy, fatal

of sudden, 100

Gluttons, and drunkards, 58, 59 must give an account to God, 74.

excessive, 94.

Judges are bribed, 48.

Justice overcome

Gluttony,

against,
;

effects, 57, xxxiv. ness, examples of their effects, 58, 59.

55, 56 ; its and drunken-

by

bribery, 42.

Kent,

fertile,

26, xxxi., xxxii.

God, His Avorks declare Him, 7

what
47.

Knowledge of God, 146.

Lacedemonian custom with drunkenness, 58.

He

is,

knowledge
of,

of,

14G.

Gold, the influence

42, 43, 44,

Good esteemed
Gossip,
a,

evil, 30.

Lamb, the Christian

a,

com2:)arcd to

103, 104.

142.

Grace in

sin, 142.
in, 25.

Greece, Turks

Grey-heard, old, 69.

Lasciviousness, against, 75 ; extlie amples of, from history, 75 clergy infected with, 76 ; the whole country defiled by, 79.
;

; ;

1
176
La"\vyers, plead for

GENERAL INDEX.
money, 42
;

Nile, the, 22.

some
47.

are honest, 50, xxxii.

Number

three, the, 147.

Learning gives place to wealth,

Ofiices bought, 43, 46.

Lenten
money,

customs
48.

set

aside

for

Oldcorn, a martyr, 12, note

2.

Life, shortness of, 20.

" Like to like," 97.

Painted

faces, 24, 34.

to,

Palestine referred

116.

London,
to,

25

population referred a huge brothel, 88.

its

Pandar, a greedy, 50,

Papists, errors of the, 11, 13, 17.

Love,
kinds

families
of,

of,

9
93.

various

97.
a,

Parnassus referred

to,

116.

Love-sick swain,
Lnst,

Passions are good, 96.

winked

at, 45.

Pecuniary
17.

fines, 81.

Lutheran Consubstantiation,
note.

Penances, 13.

Lyte quoted on lettuce seed, xx.

Perfumes and cosmetics, 34.

Perjiu'ers, professional, 49.

JSIagistrates neglect their duty, 88.

Perjury for monej', 49.

Persecution, the INlarian, 139.
Persecutions, the ten, 139.

Man, definition of, 6. Man, what makes a perfect,

Marston's
ix.
;

112.
to,

writings

referred

Phrygian Oracle,
Phrygians, 32.

the, 32, note.

quoted, xx.

Marlowe quoted, xxi. Mausoleum, the, 22, xxxi. Memoirs, by Philip de Comines,
28, note.

Picthatch, 80, xxx-^d.

Pilgrimages, 13.
Piracy, 118.

Plague, an incident of the, 67.

suffer, 5.

Men, good,

Planetary influences, 114.

Players given to vice, 81.
Poisoning, secret, 39. Poor, oppressed

Merchant, the anxious, 107.

Milk, a cosmetic, 36, xxxii.
]\Iind, the passions of the, 92.

by the

rich,

49

Miser, the, described, 26, 27.

the, neglected, 56, 57.

IMoney, influence of, 42, 43, 44, purges every crime, 42 46, 47
;

Pope, the, can pardon

Pope's,
a,

sin, 11, 13.

lasciviousness, 78.

souls sold for, 53.

Mourning for trifles, 100. Murder enjoined by papists, 12

springing from covetousness, 39 and remorse, 107.

Pride, against, 31 ; of dress, 33 of good looks, 37 of fashion, 37 of woof rank, 38 of popes, 34 men, 33, 36.
; ;

Priests, popish,

and

lust, 76.

^Murderers
note
;

canonized, 12, and escape through gold, 48.

Prosperity, friends in, 121.

Prostitutes, haunts of, 80.

Nethersole, Sir Francis, referred

to, xii

Provocatives, 87, xx.

Puritanism,

4,

143.

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GENERAL IXDEX.
Puritans, numbers of, 10; tlieir their abuse hypocrisy, 10, 2G, 111 their private meetoi' bishops, 10
;
;

177

Sketch of a drinking bout, GO.

Sleeping in church, 15, xxx.

ings, 10, 11, xxviii.

Song, a convivial, xxxvii.

Souls,

some

sell their, for

money,

Quarrel, the

man

ready

to,

105.

53.

Spendthrift, manners and habits

of a, 36.

Eashness, 95.
Eavaillac
note.

Spittle, the, 80, xxxvi.

and

Fawkes,

12,

x.

Eeason the

gift of

God, 92.

String, the world is parson 44 golden, parish in a, 70.

;

led
leads

in

the

Religion, the complaint of, 138; under Elizabeth and James I., 110.

Sunday drinking,
Swearing, 24.
Sword-fish, the,
145.

19.

Eemorse of conscience, 108.

Eich oppressors,
49.
to, xvi.

and the whale,

Coiirt, 135.

Eichardson, Dr, referred and note 2.

Eiches, desire
of,

Sycophants of the

Syrens, the singing of the, 23.

103.

Eome,

apostates to, 51.

vs'ithout

Eose, no,
ix.

a thorn, 127.
to,

Tagus, the, referred

to,

116.

Eowlands,

Samuel, referred

Temper, 105.
Theatre, the world
a,

126.

Tliief, the penitent, 73.

Sabbath-breaking, 16.

Three, the number, 147.

1G

Sabbath,

trading on the, drinking on the, 19, xxx. Safety in moderation, 131.

Timme's Discover le of Ten Lepers,

ix. note.

Tobacco,
is it

its

excessive use,
?

70

Salamander, the, 118.

Satirical
time,
Avriters

medicinal

71

its

ill
;

effects,

of

Elizabeth's

many

ix., 5.

brings to ruin. 12 ; drink and vice follow in its train, 72, xxxv. xxxvi.

71

commonly used, 71

Scholar, the sham, 28.

Trader, the

West

Indian, 107.

Seasons, the four, 113.

Sects and schisms,
9.

Tradesmen, cheating, 24.

Transubstantiation of the papist,

Self-knowledge
self-love, 97.

enjoined,

38

17.

Tree,
Avritings
xix.

man compared
tell the, 2.

to

a,

125.

Separatists, 15, xxx.

Truth, punishment for those

referred
dare to

who

Shakespeare's
to,

109,

7iote,

Turks, their
9
;

Koran

referred to,

Shams,

against, 22.

in Greece

and Hungary, 25.

Ship, the Christian, 143. Shoes, dead men's, 106.

Turnbull Street, 80, xxxvi.

Universities, gi'ave faults at the,

Simony, 45, xxxii.

Sin,

men who
times' w.

boast

of,

104.
12

79, 80.

178

GENERAL IXDEX.
Vii'tue, the praise of, 130.

University honours bought, 47. Upstart, the, described, 27.

Vii"tues, tlie four cardinal, 119.

Vanity,

man

a creature
of,

of,

20.

Wapping,

Venery, the blood

88.

a place of execution, 118, xxxvi.

of,

Venus and the

sea-foam, 131.

Wealth, influence
46, 47.

42, 43, 44
' ' >

Verses derided, 151. Vice and sin to be exposed, 2

harnits of, 80.

Weever, reference

to, xi.

Vices compounded
priests,

for, 81.
;

Whitgift and Bancroft, x. Wife, the choice of a, 122.

Vices of clergy, 76
;

Wines
of popish
;

of various names, 88.

70 of popes, 78 in the umversities, 79, 80; in the court 79 ; in the city, 79.

Women,

pride of, 33, 36; born under Luna, 115.

the, 129.

LWork, the end crowns

World,

Vices of womeu, 82, 85, 90, 98.

the, a theatre, 126.

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