Hickledy-pickledy: or, The Yorkshire curates complaint. To the tune of Alas, poor scholar, &c. T. P. 1665 Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). B04663 14988994 Wing P110A Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.4[97] ESTC R35088 99889998 ocm99889998 182767 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B04663) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182767) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A4:2[98]) Hickledy-pickledy: or, The Yorkshire curates complaint. To the tune of Alas, poor scholar, &c. T. P. 1 sheet ([1] p.). s.n., [London : 1665?] Signed: by T.P. Imprint suggested by Wing. Verse: "HUsh, Poetaster, that abuse ..." Reproduction of original in the British Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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HUsh , Poetasters , that abuse Apollo , and blaspheme the Muse ; That ( like the Senator of worth ) Conceive , and yet bring nothing forth : Or , like that Lyon-seeming Ass , Who ( in the name of Hudibras ) Fool of his penny hath beguil'd , And plaid at Hot-cockles with Wild : Or like those Pamphleteers , who ( last Week ) Canted in tone of Prynne and Bastwick ; Filling the Change with false Tradition Of Chelmsford's Vicar's Circumcision , Who lost his Tithes , ( as Story tells ) For he was Guelt of nothing else . Nor need we Gouty Doctor 's Tongue , Who got a Pars'nage for a Song ; Chirping in phrase of Robert Wisdome , But since the first of August is dumb : Whose Antler fair as Chimny-stock , Whose Cheeks as smoothe as Punching-block ; Whos 's Shanks like Dog-horse Farsie-legs , Whose Teeth like Crispins Holly-pegs , And Leather-ears , were all Retainers To the Right Worshipful Cordwainers : And besides this , his Noping Pate That speaks him famous Huson's Mate , ( This in the Church , that in the State , Did Text as well as Shooes translate ) We scorn . Now fie of his unsav'ry Drolls , With which he Flie-blow'd Bumpkins Souls . But if the vertue of Small-Beer , Christ'nings , and Twen̄ty Marks a year , Can brain with Fancy rich inspire , And teach an Ass to tune a Lyre , Who felt for Poetry , but mist her , Laying his Clutches on her Sister Hight Poverty : and since that time , Borrow'd in Prose , and Paid in Rime : Then listen , Lordlings , unto one At Gossipings yclep'd Sir John ; Who is no better nor no worse Then Lazy Doctor 's Stalking-horse ; Tne Lazy Priest , who ( like to Criple ) Supports each Arm with Crutch of Steeple ; And ( when his crazy bulk grows sick ) Stumbles into a Bishoprick . Religious man ! who more condoles The want of Tithes , then loss of Souls ; And when both Men and Corn are mown , Seeks not Gods Harvest , but his own : Who plays with Simoniack Doxy , And in the Pulpit speaks by Proxy ; Whilst Curate Poor , that bears the heat Of Morning , and the Evening sweat ; And doth his Congregation foster With ' Postles Creed , and Pater Noster ; Dispensing ( in these times of dotage ) That which blind Sectaries call Pottage ; Is Slave to Avaritious Master , For Rector rides on back of Pastor . Had I been Presbyter , perhaps I might have wash'd my Zealous Chaps With blood of Grape , and left the County To taste th' unconstant City's Bounty ; And ( as to Calamy it happens ) Been strange Decoy-bird to dead Capons . Thus might I graze ( like Royal Beast ) And never taste the Wisemans Feast : But tedious is the Curate's way , For he must Fast as well as Pray : But if the Parliament will smother One Priest with Cures , and starve another , The Tott'ring Clergy must submit To Presbyter or Jesuit : For Liturgy will loose her Glory 'Twixt Mass-book and the Directory . By T. P.