O per se O. Or A new cryer of Lanthorne and candle-light Being an addition, or lengthening, of the Bell-mans second night-walke. In which, are discouered those villanies, which the bell-man (because hee went i'th darke) could not see: now laid open to the world. Together with the shooting through the arme, vsed by counterfeit souldiers: the making of the great soare, (commonly called the great cleyme:) the mad-mens markes: their phrase of begging: the articles and oathes giuen to the fraternitie of roagues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggers at their meetings. And last of all, a new canting-song.
         Lanthorne and candle-light
         Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.
      
       
         
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             O per se O. Or A new cryer of Lanthorne and candle-light Being an addition, or lengthening, of the Bell-mans second night-walke. In which, are discouered those villanies, which the bell-man (because hee went i'th darke) could not see: now laid open to the world. Together with the shooting through the arme, vsed by counterfeit souldiers: the making of the great soare, (commonly called the great cleyme:) the mad-mens markes: their phrase of begging: the articles and oathes giuen to the fraternitie of roagues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggers at their meetings. And last of all, a new canting-song.
             Lanthorne and candle-light
             Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.
          
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             [By Thomas Snodham] for Iohn Busbie, and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleete-street,
             Printed at London :
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           O
           per
           se
           O.
           
        
         
           OR
           A
           new
           Cryer
           of
           Lanthorne
           and
           Candle-light
           .
        
         
           Being
           an
           Addition
           ,
           or
           Lengthening
           ,
           of
           the
           Bell-mans
           Second
           Night-walke
           .
        
         
           In
           which
           ,
           are
           Discouered
           those
           Villanies
           ,
           which
           the
           Bell-man
           (
           because
           hee
           went
           i'
           th
           darke
           )
           could
           not
           see
           :
           now
           laid
           open
           to
           the
           world
           .
        
         
           Together
           With
           the
           shooting
           through
           the
           arme
           vsed
           by
           counterfeit
           Souldiers
           :
           The
           making
           of
           the
           great
           Soare
           ,
           (
           commonly
           called
           
             The
             great
             Cleyme
          
           :
           )
           The
           Mad-mens
           markes
           :
           Their
           phrase
           of
           Begging
           :
           The
           Articles
           and
           Oathes
           giuen
           to
           the
           Fraternitie
           of
           Roagues
           ,
           Vagabonds
           ,
           and
           sturdy
           Beggers
           at
           their
           Meetings
           .
        
         
           And
           last
           of
           all
           ,
           A
           new
           Canting-Song
           .
        
         
         
           Printed
           at
           London
           for
           
             Iohn
             Busbie
          
           ,
           and
           are
           to
           be
           sould
           at
           his
           shop
           in
           S.
           Dunstans
           Church-yard
           in
           Fleete-street
           .
           1612.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           To
           my
           owne
           Nation
           .
        
         
           
             Readers
             ,
          
        
         
           AFter
           it
           was
           proclaymed
           abroad
           ,
           that
           
             (
             vnder
             the
             conduct
             of
             the
             Bel-man
             of
             London
             )
          
           new
           Forces
           were
           (
           once
           more
           )
           to
           be
           leauied
           against
           certaine
           Wilde
           and
           barbarous
           Rebels
           ,
           that
           were
           vp
           in
           armes
           against
           the
           tranquilitie
           of
           the
           Weale-publicke
           :
           It
           cannot
           be
           told
           what
           numbers
           of
           voluntaries
           offred
           themselues
           daily
           to
           fight
           against
           so
           common
           ,
           so
           bold
           ,
           so
           strange
           ,
           and
           so
           dangerous
           an
           enemie
           .
           
             Light
             horse
             men
          
           came
           in
           hourely
           with
           discouery
           where
           these
           Mutiners
           lay
           intrenched
           :
           deliuering
           (
           in
           briefe
           notes
           of
           intelligence
           )
           who
           were
           their
           Leaders
           ,
           how
           they
           went
           armed
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           serued
           both
           on
           horse
           and
           foote
           :
           onely
           their
           Strengths
           could
           not
           be
           discried
           ,
           because
           their
           Numbers
           were
           held
           infinite
           .
           Yet
           instructions
           were
           written
           ,
           and
           sent
           euery
           minute
           by
           those
           that
           were
           fauourers
           of
           Goodnesse
           ,
           shewing
           what
           militarie
           discipline
           the
           Foe
           vsed
           in
           his
           battailes
           ,
           and
           what
           Forts
           (
           if
           he
           were
           put
           at
           any
           time
           to
           flight
           )
           he
           would
           retire
           to
           ;
           what
           stratagems
           he
           would
           practise
           ,
           and
           where
           he
           did
           determine
           to
           lye
           in
           Ambuscado
           .
           They
           that
           could
           not
           serue
           in
           person
           ,
           in
           
             this
             Noble
             quarrell
          
           ,
           sent
           their
           Auxiliary
           Forces
           ,
           well
           armed
           with
           Counsell
           .
           So
           that
           the
           Bel-man
           (
           contrary
           to
           his
           hopes
           )
           seeing
           himselfe
           so
           strongly
           and
           strangely
           seconded
           by
           friends
           ,
           doth
           now
           brauely
           aduance
           forward
           ,
           in
           maine
           battalion
           .
           The
           day
           of
           encounter
           is
           appointed
           to
           be
           in
           this
           
             Michaelmas
             Tearme
          
           :
           the
           place
           ,
           
             Paules
             Church-yard
             ,
             Fleetstreete
          
           ,
           and
           other
           parts
           of
           the
           Citie
           .
           But
           before
           they
           ioyne
           let
           me
           giue
           you
           note
           of
           one
           thing
           ,
           and
           that
           is
           this
           .
        
         
           There
           is
           an
           Vsurper
           ,
           that
           of
           late
           hath
           taken
           vpon
           him
           the
           name
           of
           the
           Bel-man
           ,
           but
           being
           not
           able
           to
           maintaine
           that
           title
           ,
           hee
           doth
           now
           call
           himselfe
           the
           Bel-mans
           brother
           ,
           his
           ambition
           is
           (
           rather
           out
           of
           vaine-glory
           then
           the
           true
           courage
           of
           an
           experienced
           Souldier
           )
           to
           haue
           the
           leading
           of
           the
           Van
           ,
           but
           it
           shall
           be
           honor
           good
           enough
           for
           him
           (
           if
           not
           too
           good
           )
           to
           come
           vp
           with
           the
           Rere
           .
           You
           shall
           know
           him
           by
           his
           Habiliments
           ,
           for
           (
           by
           the
           furniture
           he
           weares
           )
           he
           will
           be
           taken
           for
           a
           Beadle
           of
           Bridewell
           .
           It
           is
           thought
           he
           is
           rather
           a
           Nevvter
           then
           a
           friend
           to
           the
           cause
           :
           and
           therefore
           the
           Bel-man
           doth
           here
           openly
           protest
           that
           hee
           comes
           into
           the
           field
           as
           no
           fellow
           in
           armes
           with
           Him.
           
        
         
           Howsoeuer
           it
           be
           strucke
           ,
           or
           whosoeuer
           giues
           the
           first
           blow
           ,
           the
           victorie
           depends
           vpon
           the
           valour
           of
           you
           that
           are
           the
           Wings
           to
           the
           Bel-mans
           army
           ,
           for
           which
           conquest
           he
           is
           in
           hope
           you
           will
           valiantly
           fight
           ,
           sithence
           the
           quarrell
           is
           against
           the
           head
           of
           monstrous
           abuses
           ,
           and
           the
           blowes
           which
           you
           must
           giue
           are
           in
           defence
           of
           
             Law
             ,
             Iustice
             ,
             Order
             ,
             Ceremonie
             ,
             Religion
             ,
             Peace
             ,
          
           and
           that
           honourable
           title
           of
           Goodnesse
           .
        
         
           Saint
           
             George
             ▪
          
           I
           see
           the
           two
           Armies
           moue
           forward
           :
           and
           behold
           ,
           the
           Bel-man
           himselfe
           first
           chargeth
           vpon
           the
           face
           of
           the
           Enemy
           ,
           Thus
           :
        
      
    
     
       
         
           
             
             
               A
               Table
               of
               all
               the
               matters
               that
               are
               contained
               in
               this
               Booke
               .
            
             
               
                 
                   Chap.
                   1.
                   
                
                 Of
                 Canting
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Chap.
                   2.
                   
                
                 
                   
                     1
                     What
                     matters
                     were
                     tryed
                     at
                     a
                     Tearme
                     that
                     was
                     in
                     Hell.
                     
                  
                   
                     2
                     The
                     proceedings
                     of
                     that
                     Court.
                     
                  
                   
                     3
                     A
                     Counsell
                     held
                     in
                     Hell
                     about
                     the
                     Bel-man
                     .
                  
                   
                     4
                     A
                     messenger
                     sent
                     from
                     thence
                     with
                     instructions
                     .
                  
                
              
               
                 
                   Chap.
                   3.
                   
                   Of
                   Gull-groping
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     How
                     Gentlemen
                     are
                     cheated
                     at
                     Ordinaries
                     .
                  
                   
                     To
                     furnish
                     which
                     feast
                     ,
                     these
                     Guests
                     are
                     bidden
                     ,
                     viz.
                     
                     
                       
                         The
                         Leaders
                         .
                      
                       
                         The
                         
                           Forlorne
                           Hope
                        
                         .
                      
                       
                         The
                         Eagle
                         .
                      
                       
                         The
                         Wood-pecker
                         .
                      
                       
                         The
                         Gull.
                         
                      
                       
                         The
                         Gull-groper
                         .
                      
                    
                  
                
              
               
                 
                   Chap.
                   4.
                   
                   Of
                   Ferreting
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     How
                     Gentlemen
                     are
                     vndone
                     by
                     taking
                     vp
                     commodities
                     .
                  
                   
                     Which
                     Tragedy
                     hath
                     these
                     fiue
                     Acts
                     ,
                     viz.
                     
                     
                       
                         A
                         Tumbler
                         .
                      
                       
                         Pursenets
                         .
                      
                       
                         A
                         Ferret
                         .
                      
                       
                         Rabbet-suckers
                         .
                      
                       
                         A
                         Warren
                         .
                      
                    
                  
                
              
               
                 
                   Chap.
                   5.
                   
                   Of
                   Hawking
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     How
                     to
                     catch
                     Birds
                     by
                     the
                     Booke
                     .
                  
                   
                     Which
                     is
                     done
                     with
                     these
                     fiue
                     Nets
                     ,
                     viz.
                     
                     
                       
                         A
                         Falconer
                         .
                      
                       
                         A
                         Lure
                         .
                      
                       
                         A
                         Tercell-Gentle
                         .
                      
                       
                         A
                         Bird.
                         
                      
                       
                         A
                         Mongril
                         .
                      
                    
                  
                
              
               
                 
                   Chap.
                   6.
                   
                
                 Of
                 Iackes
                 of
                 the
                 Clocke-house
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Chap.
                   7.
                   
                   Of
                   Ranckeriders
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     How
                     Inne-keepers
                     and
                     Hackney
                     men
                     are
                     sadled
                     .
                  
                   
                     To
                     make
                     whom
                     goe
                     a
                     round
                     pace
                     ,
                     you
                     must
                     haue
                     
                       
                         A
                         Colt.
                         
                      
                       
                         A
                         Snaffle
                         .
                      
                       
                         A
                         Ring
                         .
                      
                       
                         Prouander
                         .
                      
                    
                  
                
              
               
                 
                   Chap.
                   8.
                   
                
                 Of
                 Moone-men
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Chap.
                   9.
                   
                
                 The
                 infection
                 of
                 the
                 Suburbs
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Chap.
                   10.
                   
                   Of
                   Iynglers
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     The
                     villanie
                     of
                     Horse-coursers
                     .
                  
                   
                     Who
                     consists
                     of
                     —
                     
                       
                         Iynglers
                         .
                      
                       
                         Drouers
                         .
                      
                       
                         Goades
                         .
                      
                       
                         skip-iackes
                         .
                      
                    
                  
                
              
               
                 
                   Chap.
                   11.
                   
                
                 Of
                 Iack
                 in
                 a
                 Boxe
                 ,
                 or
                 a
                 new
                 kind
                 of
                 cheating
                 ,
                 teaching
                 how
                 to
                 change
                 gold
                 into
                 siluer
                 :
                 vnto
                 which
                 is
                 added
                 a
                 Map
                 ,
                 by
                 which
                 a
                 man
                 may
                 learne
                 to
                 trauell
                 all
                 ouer
                 England
                 ,
                 and
                 haue
                 his
                 charges
                 borne
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Chap.
                   12.
                   
                
                 The
                 
                   Bell
                   mans
                
                 second
                 Nights
                 walke
                 ,
                 in
                 which
                 hee
                 meetes
                 with
                 a
                 number
                 of
                 Monsters
                 that
                 liue
                 in
                 darkenesse
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           
             
             
               Lanthorne
               and
               Candle-light
               .
               OR
               The
               Bel-mans
               second
               nights
               walke
               .
            
             
               
                 Of
                 Canting
                 .
                 How
                 long
                 it
                 hath
                 beene
                 a
                 language
                 :
                 how
                 it
                 comes
                 to
                 be
                 a
                 language
                 :
                 how
                 it
                 is
                 deriued
                 :
                 and
                 by
                 whom
                 it
                 is
                 spoken
                 .
                 CHAP.
                 1.
                 
              
               
                 WHen
                 all
                 the
                 World
                 was
                 but
                 one
                 
                 Kingdome
                 ,
                 all
                 the
                 people
                 in
                 that
                 Kingdome
                 spake
                 but
                 one
                 Language
                 .
                 A
                 man
                 could
                 trauell
                 in
                 those
                 dayes
                 neyther
                 by
                 Sea
                 nor
                 Land
                 ,
                 but
                 he
                 met
                 his
                 Countreymen
                 ,
                 &
                 none
                 others
                 .
                 Two
                 could
                 not
                 then
                 stand
                 gabling
                 with
                 strange
                 tongues
                 ,
                 and
                 conspire
                 together
                 (
                 to
                 his
                 owne
                 face
                 )
                 how
                 to
                 cut
                 a
                 third
                 mans
                 throate
                 ,
                 but
                 he
                 might
                 vnderstand
                 them
                 .
                 There
                 was
                 no
                 Spaniard
                 (
                 in
                 that
                 age
                 )
                 to
                 braue
                 his
                 enemie
                 in
                 the
                 rich
                 and
                 loftie
                 Castilian
                 :
                 no
                 Romaine
                 Orator
                 to
                 plead
                 in
                 the
                 Rethoricall
                 and
                 
                   Fluent
                   Latine
                
                 :
                 no
                 Italian
                 to
                 court
                 his
                 Mistressa
                 in
                 the
                 sweet
                 and
                 amorous
                 Tuscane
                 :
                 no
                 French-man
                 to
                 parley
                 in
                 the
                 full
                 and
                 stately
                 phrase
                 of
                 Orleans
                 no
                 Germaine
                 to
                 thunder
                 out
                 the
                 high
                 and
                 ratling
                 Dutch
                 :
                 the
                 vnfruitfull
                 crabbed
                 Irish
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 voluble
                 significant
                 Welch
                 ,
                 were
                 not
                 then
                 so
                 much
                 as
                 spoken
                 of
                 :
                 the
                 quicke
                 Scottish
                 Dialect
                 (
                 sister
                 to
                 
                 the
                 English
                 )
                 had
                 not
                 then
                 a
                 tongue
                 ,
                 neyther
                 were
                 the
                 strings
                 of
                 the
                 English
                 speech
                 (
                 in
                 those
                 times
                 )
                 vntyed
                 .
                 When
                 she
                 first
                 learned
                 to
                 speake
                 ,
                 it
                 was
                 but
                 a
                 broken
                 language
                 :
                 the
                 singlest
                 and
                 the
                 simplest
                 words
                 flowed
                 from
                 her
                 vtterance
                 ;
                 for
                 she
                 dealt
                 in
                 nothing
                 but
                 in
                 Monosillables
                 ,
                 (
                 as
                 if
                 to
                 haue
                 spoken
                 words
                 of
                 greater
                 length
                 would
                 haue
                 crackt
                 her
                 voyce
                 )
                 by
                 which
                 meanes
                 her
                 Eloquence
                 was
                 ●●rest
                 yet
                 hardest
                 to
                 learne
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 (
                 but
                 for
                 necessitie
                 )
                 not
                 regarded
                 amongst
                 Strangers
                 .
                 Yet
                 afterwards
                 those
                 noblest
                 languages
                 
                 lent
                 her
                 words
                 and
                 phrases
                 ,
                 and
                 turning
                 those
                 Borrowings
                 into
                 
                   Good
                   husbandry
                
                 ,
                 shée
                 is
                 now
                 as
                 rich
                 in
                 Elocution
                 ,
                 and
                 as
                 abundant
                 ,
                 as
                 her
                 prowdest
                 and
                 best-stored
                 neighbours
                 .
              
               
                 Whilst
                 thus
                 (
                 as
                 I
                 said
                 before
                 )
                 there
                 was
                 but
                 one
                 
                   Alphabet
                   of
                   Letters
                
                 for
                 all
                 the
                 world
                 to
                 read
                 by
                 :
                 all
                 the
                 people
                 that
                 then
                 liued
                 ,
                 might
                 haue
                 wrought
                 vpon
                 one
                 piece
                 of
                 worke
                 in
                 countries
                 farre
                 distant
                 a
                 sunder
                 ,
                 without
                 mistaking
                 one
                 another
                 ,
                 and
                 not
                 néeding
                 an
                 Interpreter
                 to
                 run
                 betwéene
                 them
                 .
                 Which
                 thing
                 Nymrod
                 (
                 the
                 first
                 Idolater
                 )
                 perceiuing
                 ,
                 and
                 not
                 knowing
                 better
                 how
                 to
                 imploy
                 so
                 many
                 thousand
                 millions
                 of
                 Subiects
                 as
                 bowed
                 before
                 him
                 :
                 a
                 fire
                 of
                 Ambition
                 burned
                 within
                 him
                 ,
                 to
                 climbe
                 vp
                 so
                 high
                 that
                 he
                 might
                 sée
                 what
                 was
                 done
                 in
                 heauen
                 .
                 And
                 for
                 that
                 purpose
                 ,
                 work-men
                 were
                 summoned
                 from
                 all
                 the
                 corners
                 of
                 the
                 Earth
                 ,
                 who
                 presently
                 were
                 set
                 to
                 
                   build
                   the
                   tower
                   of
                
                 
                 Babell
                 .
                 But
                 the
                 Maister-workman
                 of
                 this
                 
                   great
                   Vniuerse
                
                 ,
                 (
                 to
                 checke
                 the
                 insolence
                 of
                 such
                 a
                 
                   sawcie
                   builder
                
                 )
                 that
                 durst
                 raise
                 vp
                 pinnacles
                 equall
                 to
                 his
                 owne
                 (
                 aboue
                 )
                 commanded
                 the
                 selfe-same
                 Spirit
                 ,
                 that
                 was
                 both
                 bred
                 in
                 the
                 Chaos
                 ,
                 and
                 had
                 maintained
                 it
                 in
                 disorder
                 ,
                 to
                 be
                 both
                 Surueyor
                 of
                 those
                 workes
                 ,
                 and
                 Comptroller
                 of
                 the
                 Labourers
                 .
                 This
                 Messenger
                 
                 was
                 called
                 Confusion
                 .
                 It
                 was
                 a
                 Spirit
                 swift
                 of
                 sight
                 ,
                 &
                 faithfull
                 of
                 seruice
                 .
                 Her
                 lookes
                 wilde
                 ,
                 serrible
                 and
                 inconstant
                 :
                 her
                 attire
                 carelesly
                 loose
                 ,
                 and
                 of
                 a
                 thousand
                 seuerall
                 colours
                 .
                 In
                 one
                 hand
                 shée
                 grip'd
                 an
                 heape
                 of
                 stormes
                 ,
                 with
                 which
                 (
                 at
                 her
                 pleasure
                 )
                 she
                 could
                 trouble
                 the
                 waters
                 :
                 in
                 the
                 other
                 she
                 held
                 a
                 whip
                 ,
                 to
                 make
                 thrée
                 Spirits
                 that
                 drew
                 
                 her
                 to
                 gallop
                 fast
                 before
                 her
                 :
                 the
                 Spirits
                 names
                 were
                 
                   Treason
                   ,
                   Sedition
                
                 ;
                 and
                 Warre
                 ,
                 who
                 at
                 euery
                 time
                 when
                 they
                 went
                 abroad
                 ;
                 were
                 ready
                 to
                 see
                 Kingdomes
                 in
                 an
                 vproare
                 .
                 She
                 roade
                 vpon
                 a
                 Chariot
                 of
                 clowdes
                 ,
                 which
                 was
                 alwayes
                 furnished
                 with
                 
                   Thunder
                   ,
                   Lightning
                   ,
                   Windes
                   ,
                   Raine
                   ,
                   Haile-stones
                   ,
                   Snow
                   ,
                
                 and
                 all
                 the
                 other
                 Artillerie
                 belonging
                 to
                 the
                 seruice
                 of
                 
                   Diuine
                   Vengeance
                
                 :
                 and
                 when
                 she
                 spake
                 ,
                 her
                 voyce
                 founded
                 like
                 the
                 roaring
                 of
                 many
                 Torrents
                 ;
                 voysterously
                 strugling
                 together
                 ,
                 for
                 betwéene
                 her
                 iawes
                 did
                 she
                 carry
                 1000000
                 tongues
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 strange
                 Linguist
                 stepping
                 to
                 euery
                 artificer
                 that
                 
                 was
                 there
                 at
                 worke
                 ,
                 whispered
                 in
                 his
                 eare
                 :
                 whose
                 lookes
                 were
                 there-vpon
                 (
                 presently
                 )
                 〈◊〉
                 with
                 a
                 strange
                 distraction
                 :
                 and
                 on
                 a
                 sodaine
                 ,
                 whilst
                 euery
                 man
                 was
                 speaking
                 to
                 his
                 fellow
                 ,
                 his
                 language
                 altered
                 ,
                 and
                 no
                 man
                 could
                 vnderstand
                 what
                 his
                 fellow
                 spake
                 .
                 They
                 all
                 stared
                 one
                 vpon
                 another
                 ,
                 yet
                 none
                 of
                 them
                 all
                 could
                 tell
                 wherefore
                 ,
                 so
                 they
                 stared
                 .
                 Their
                 tongues
                 went
                 ,
                 and
                 their
                 hands
                 gaue
                 action
                 to
                 their
                 tongues
                 ,
                 yet
                 neyther
                 words
                 nor
                 action
                 were
                 vnderstood
                 .
                 It
                 was
                 a
                 noise
                 of
                 a
                 thousand
                 sounds
                 ,
                 and
                 yet
                 the
                 sound
                 of
                 the
                 noise
                 was
                 nothing
                 .
                 Hée
                 that
                 spake
                 knew
                 hée
                 spake
                 well
                 :
                 and
                 hée
                 that
                 heard
                 ,
                 was
                 madde
                 that
                 the
                 other
                 could
                 speake
                 no
                 better
                 .
                 In
                 the
                 end
                 they
                 grew
                 angry
                 one
                 with
                 another
                 ,
                 as
                 thinking
                 they
                 had
                 mocked
                 one
                 another
                 of
                 purpose
                 :
                 so
                 that
                 the
                 Mason
                 was
                 ready
                 to
                 strike
                 the
                 Bricklayer
                 ,
                 the
                 Bricklayer
                 to
                 beate
                 out
                 the
                 braines
                 of
                 his
                 Labourer
                 :
                 the
                 Carpenter
                 tooke
                 vp
                 his
                 Are
                 to
                 throw
                 at
                 the
                 Caruer
                 ,
                 whilst
                 the
                 Caruer
                 was
                 stabbing
                 at
                 the
                 Smith
                 ,
                 because
                 he
                 brought
                 him
                 an
                 Hammer
                 ,
                 when
                 hée
                 should
                 haue
                 made
                 him
                 a
                 Chizzell
                 :
                 He
                 that
                 called
                 for
                 Timber
                 had
                 stones
                 laid
                 before
                 him
                 :
                 and
                 when
                 one
                 was
                 sent
                 for
                 Nayles
                 ,
                 hée
                 fetcht
                 a
                 
                   Tray
                   of
                   Morter
                
                 .
              
               
                 Thus
                 Babel
                 should
                 haue
                 béene
                 raized
                 ,
                 and
                 by
                 this
                 meanes
                 Babell
                 fell
                 .
                 The
                 Frame
                 could
                 not
                 goe
                 forward
                 ,
                 the
                 stuffe
                 was
                 throwne
                 by
                 ,
                 the
                 worke-men
                 made
                 holy-day
                 .
                 Euery
                 one
                 packd
                 vp
                 his
                 Tooles
                 to
                 be
                 gone
                 ,
                 yet
                 not
                 to
                 goe
                 the
                 same
                 way
                 that
                 he
                 came
                 ,
                 but
                 glad
                 was
                 hée
                 ,
                 that
                 could
                 méete
                 
                 another
                 whose
                 speech
                 hée
                 vnderstood
                 :
                 for
                 to
                 what
                 place
                 soeuer
                 hee
                 went
                 ,
                 others
                 (
                 that
                 ran
                 madding
                 vp
                 and
                 downe
                 )
                 hearing
                 a
                 man
                 speak
                 like
                 themselues
                 ,
                 followed
                 onely
                 him
                 :
                 so
                 that
                 they
                 who
                 when
                 the
                 worke
                 began
                 were
                 all
                 Countrey-men
                 ,
                 before
                 a
                 quarter
                 of
                 it
                 was
                 finished
                 ,
                 fled
                 from
                 one
                 another
                 ,
                 s
                 from
                 enemies
                 and
                 strangers
                 .
                 And
                 in
                 this
                 manner
                 did
                 men
                 at
                 the
                 first
                 make
                 vp
                 nations
                 :
                 thus
                 were
                 words
                 coyned
                 into
                 Languages
                 ,
                 &
                 out
                 of
                 those
                 Languages
                 haue
                 others
                 béene
                 molded
                 since
                 ,
                 onely
                 by
                 the
                 mixture
                 of
                 nations
                 after
                 Kingdomes
                 haue
                 béene
                 subdued
                 .
                 But
                 I
                 am
                 now
                 to
                 speake
                 of
                 a
                 People
                 and
                 a
                 Language
                 ,
                 of
                 both
                 which
                 (
                 many
                 thousands
                 of
                 yéeres
                 since
                 that
                 Wonder
                 wrought
                 at
                 Babell
                 )
                 the
                 world
                 till
                 now
                 neuer
                 made
                 mention
                 :
                 yet
                 confusion
                 neuer
                 dwelt
                 more
                 amongst
                 any
                 Creatures
                 .
                 The
                 Bell-man
                 (
                 in
                 his
                 first
                 Voyage
                 which
                 he
                 made
                 for
                 Discoueries
                 )
                 
                 found
                 them
                 to
                 be
                 sauages
                 ,
                 yet
                 liuing
                 in
                 an
                 Iland
                 very
                 temperate
                 ,
                 fruitfull
                 ,
                 full
                 of
                 a
                 noble
                 Nation
                 ,
                 rarely
                 gouerned
                 .
                 The
                 Lawes
                 ,
                 manners
                 ,
                 and
                 habits
                 of
                 these
                 Wild-men
                 are
                 plainly
                 set
                 downe
                 ,
                 as
                 it
                 were
                 in
                 a
                 former
                 painted
                 Table
                 .
                 Yet
                 least
                 happily
                 a
                 stranger
                 may
                 looke
                 vpon
                 this
                 second
                 Picture
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 who
                 neuer
                 beheld
                 
                   The
                   first
                
                 .
                 it
                 shall
                 not
                 be
                 a
                 misse
                 (
                 in
                 this
                 place
                 )
                 to
                 repeate
                 ouer
                 againe
                 ,
                 the
                 Names
                 of
                 all
                 the
                 Tribes
                 ,
                 into
                 which
                 they
                 Diu●de
                 themselues
                 ,
                 both
                 when
                 they
                 Serue
                 abroad
                 in
                 the
                 open
                 fields
                 ,
                 and
                 when
                 they
                 lye
                 in
                 garrison
                 within
                 Townes
                 &
                 walled
                 Cities
                 .
              
               
                 
                   And
                   these
                   are
                   their
                   Ranckes
                   ,
                   as
                   they
                   
                     stand
                     in
                     order
                     ,
                     viz.
                  
                   
                
                 
                   RVfflers
                   .
                
                 
                   Vpright-men
                   .
                
                 
                   Hookers
                   ,
                   alias
                   Anglers
                   .
                
                 
                   Roagues
                   .
                
                 
                   Wilde
                   Roagues
                   .
                
                 
                   Priggers
                   of
                   Prancers
                   .
                
                 
                   Pallyards
                   .
                
                 
                   Fraters
                   .
                
                 
                   Prigges
                   .
                
                 
                   Swadders
                   .
                
                 
                   Curtals
                   .
                
                 
                   Irish
                   Toyles
                   .
                
                 
                   Swigmen
                   .
                
                 
                   Iarkmen
                   .
                
                 
                   Patri-coes
                   .
                
                 
                   Kitchin-Coes
                   .
                
                 
                   
                   Abraham-men
                   ,
                
                 
                   Mad
                   Tom
                   ,
                   alias
                   of
                   Bedlam
                   .
                
                 
                   Whip-Iackes
                   .
                
                 
                   Counterfet
                   Crankes
                   .
                
                 
                   Dommerats
                   .
                
                 
                   Glymmerers
                   .
                
                 
                   Bawdy-Baskets
                   .
                
                 
                   Autem
                   Morts
                   .
                
                 
                   Doxies
                   .
                
                 
                   Dells
                   .
                
                 
                   Kinchin-Morts
                   .
                
              
               
                 Into
                 thus
                 many
                 Regiments
                 are
                 they
                 now
                 deuided
                 :
                 but
                 in
                 former
                 times
                 (
                 aboue
                 foure
                 hundred
                 yeares
                 now
                 past
                 )
                 they
                 did
                 consist
                 of
                 fiue
                 Squadrons
                 onely
                 .
              
               
                 
                   viz.
                   
                
                 
                   
                     
                       1
                       Cursitors
                       ,
                       alias
                       Vagabondes
                       .
                    
                     
                       2
                       Faytors
                       .
                    
                     
                       3
                       Robardsemen
                       .
                    
                     
                       4
                       Draw-latches
                       .
                    
                     
                       5
                       Sturdy
                       Beggars
                       .
                    
                  
                
              
               
                 And
                 as
                 these
                 people
                 are
                 strange
                 both
                 in
                 names
                 and
                 in
                 their
                 conditions
                 ,
                 so
                 doe
                 they
                 speake
                 a
                 Language
                 (
                 proper
                 only
                 to
                 thēselues
                 )
                 called
                 canting
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 more
                 strange
                 .
                 
                 By
                 none
                 but
                 the
                 souldiers
                 of
                 
                   These
                   tottred
                   bandes
                
                 ,
                 is
                 it
                 familiarly
                 or
                 vsually
                 spoken
                 ,
                 yet
                 within
                 lesse
                 then
                 foure-score
                 
                 yeares
                 (
                 now
                 past
                 )
                 not
                 a
                 word
                 of
                 this
                 language
                 was
                 knowen
                 .
                 The
                 first
                 Inuentor
                 of
                 it
                 ,
                 was
                 hang'd
                 ,
                 yet
                 left
                 he
                 apt
                 schollers
                 behind
                 him
                 ,
                 who
                 haue
                 reduced
                 that
                 into
                 Methode
                 ,
                 which
                 he
                 on
                 his
                 death-bed
                 (
                 which
                 was
                 a
                 paire
                 of
                 gallowes
                 )
                 could
                 not
                 so
                 absolutely
                 perfect
                 as
                 he
                 desired
                 .
              
               
                 It
                 was
                 necessary
                 ,
                 that
                 a
                 people
                 (
                 so
                 fast
                 increasing
                 ,
                 &
                 so
                 daity
                 practising
                 new
                 &
                 strange
                 Villanies
                 ,
                 should
                 borrow
                 to
                 themselues
                 a
                 spéech
                 ,
                 which
                 (
                 so
                 néere
                 as
                 they
                 could
                 )
                 none
                 but
                 themselues
                 should
                 vnderstand
                 :
                 &
                 for
                 that
                 cause
                 was
                 this
                 Language
                 ,
                 (
                 which
                 some
                 call
                 
                   Pedlers
                   French
                
                 )
                 
                 Inuented
                 ,
                 to
                 th'
                 intent
                 that
                 (
                 albeit
                 any
                 Spies
                 should
                 secretly
                 steale
                 into
                 their
                 companies
                 to
                 discouer
                 them
                 )
                 they
                 might
                 fréely
                 vtter
                 their
                 mindes
                 one
                 to
                 another
                 ,
                 yet
                 auoide
                 the
                 danger
                 .
                 The
                 language
                 therefore
                 of
                 canting
                 ,
                 they
                 study
                 euen
                 from
                 their
                 Infancy
                 ,
                 that
                 is
                 to
                 say
                 ,
                 from
                 the
                 very
                 first
                 houre
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 take
                 vpón
                 them
                 the
                 names
                 of
                 
                   Kinchin
                   Coes
                
                 ,
                 till
                 they
                 are
                 growne
                 Rufflers
                 ,
                 or
                 Vpright-men
                 ,
                 which
                 are
                 the
                 highest
                 in
                 degrée
                 amongst
                 thē
                 .
              
               
               
                 This
                 word
                 canting
                 séemes
                 to
                 be
                 deriued
                 from
                 the
                 latine
                 
                   verbe
                   (
                   canto
                
                 )
                 which
                 signifies
                 in
                 English
                 ,
                 to
                 sing
                 ,
                 or
                 to
                 make
                 a
                 sound
                 with
                 words
                 ,
                 that
                 is
                 to
                 say
                 ,
                 to
                 speake
                 .
                 And
                 very
                 aptly
                 may
                 canting
                 take
                 his
                 deriuation
                 
                   a
                   cantando
                
                 ,
                 from
                 singing
                 ,
                 because
                 amongst
                 these
                 beggerly
                 consorts
                 that
                 can
                 play
                 vpon
                 no
                 better
                 instruments
                 ,
                 the
                 language
                 of
                 canting
                 is
                 a
                 king
                 of
                 musicke
                 ,
                 and
                 hée
                 that
                 in
                 such
                 assemblies
                 can
                 cant
                 best
                 ,
                 is
                 counted
                 the
                 best
                 Musitian
                 .
              
               
                 Now
                 as
                 touching
                 the
                 Dialect
                 or
                 phrase
                 it selfe
                 ,
                 I
                 sée
                 not
                 that
                 it
                 is
                 grounded
                 vpon
                 any
                 certaine
                 rules
                 ;
                 And
                 no
                 meruaile
                 if
                 it
                 haue
                 none
                 ,
                 for
                 sithence
                 both
                 the
                 Father
                 of
                 this
                 new
                 kinde
                 of
                 Learning
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 children
                 that
                 study
                 to
                 speake
                 it
                 after
                 him
                 ,
                 haue
                 béene
                 from
                 the
                 beginning
                 and
                 stil
                 are
                 the
                 Breeders
                 and
                 Norishers
                 of
                 al
                 base
                 disorder
                 ,
                 in
                 their
                 liuing
                 and
                 in
                 their
                 Manners
                 :
                 how
                 is
                 it
                 possible
                 ,
                 they
                 should
                 obserue
                 any
                 Method
                 in
                 their
                 spéech
                 ,
                 and
                 especialy
                 in
                 such
                 a
                 Language
                 ,
                 as
                 serues
                 but
                 onely
                 to
                 vtter
                 discourses
                 of
                 villanies
                 ?
              
               
                 And
                 yet
                 (
                 euen
                 out
                 of
                 all
                 that
                 Irregularity
                 ,
                 vnhansomnesse
                 ,
                 and
                 fountaine
                 of
                 Barbarisme
                 )
                 doe
                 they
                 draw
                 a
                 kinde
                 of
                 forme
                 :
                 and
                 in
                 some
                 wordes
                 ,
                 (
                 aswell
                 simple
                 as
                 compounds
                 )
                 retaine
                 a
                 certaine
                 salte
                 ,
                 tasting
                 of
                 some
                 wit
                 ,
                 and
                 some
                 Learning
                 .
                 As
                 for
                 example
                 ,
                 they
                 call
                 a
                 cloake
                 (
                 in
                 the
                 canting
                 tongue
                 )
                 a
                 Togeman
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 Latin
                 ,
                 Toga
                 signifies
                 a
                 gowne
                 ,
                 or
                 an
                 vpper
                 garment
                 .
                 Pannam
                 is
                 bread
                 :
                 &
                 Panis
                 in
                 Lattin
                 is
                 likewise
                 bread
                 ,
                 cassan
                 is
                 chéese
                 ,
                 and
                 is
                 a
                 word
                 barbarously
                 coynde
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 substantiue
                 caseus
                 ,
                 which
                 also
                 signifies
                 chéese
                 .
                 And
                 so
                 of
                 others
                 .
              
               
                 Then
                 by
                 ioyning
                 of
                 two
                 simples
                 ,
                 doe
                 they
                 make
                 almost
                 all
                 their
                 compounds
                 .
                 As
                 for
                 example
                 :
                 Nab
                 (
                 in
                 the
                 canting
                 
                 tongue
                 )
                 is
                 a
                 head
                 ,
                 and
                 Nab-cheate
                 ,
                 is
                 a
                 hat
                 ,
                 or
                 a
                 cap
                 :
                 Which
                 word
                 cheate
                 ,
                 being
                 coupled
                 to
                 other
                 wordes
                 ,
                 stands
                 in
                 very
                 good
                 stead
                 ,
                 and
                 does
                 excellent
                 seruice
                 :
                 For
                 a
                 
                   Smelling
                   cheate
                
                 ,
                 signifies
                 a
                 Nose
                 :
                 a
                 
                   Prat-ling
                   cheate
                
                 ,
                 is
                 a
                 tongue
                 
                   Crashing
                   cheates
                
                 ,
                 are
                 téeth
                 :
                 
                   Hearing
                   .
                   cheates
                
                 are
                 Eares
                 :
                 Fambles
                 are
                 Hands
                 :
                 and
                 there
                 vpon
                 a
                 ring
                 is
                 called
                 a
                 
                   Fambling
                   chete
                
                 .
                 A
                 
                   Muffling
                   chete
                
                 ,
                 signifies
                 
                 a
                 Napkin
                 .
                 A
                 
                   Belly
                   chete
                
                 ,
                 an
                 Apron
                 :
                 A
                 
                   Grunting
                   chete
                
                 ,
                 A
                 Pig
                 :
                 A
                 
                   Cackling
                   Chete
                
                 ,
                 a
                 Cocke
                 or
                 a
                 Capon
                 :
                 A
                 
                   Quacking
                   chete
                
                 ,
                 a
                 ducke
                 :
                 A
                 
                   Lowghing
                   chete
                
                 ,
                 a
                 Cow
                 :
                 A
                 
                   Bleating
                   chete
                
                 ,
                 a
                 Calfe
                 ,
                 or
                 a
                 Shéepe
                 :
                 and
                 so
                 may
                 that
                 word
                 be
                 marryed
                 to
                 many
                 others
                 besides
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 word
                 Coue
                 ,
                 or
                 Cofe
                 ,
                 or
                 Cuffin
                 ,
                 signifies
                 a
                 Man
                 ,
                 a
                 Fellow
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
                 But
                 differs
                 something
                 in
                 his
                 propertie
                 ,
                 according
                 as
                 it
                 méetes
                 with
                 other
                 wordes
                 :
                 For
                 a
                 Gentleman
                 is
                 called
                 a
                 
                   Gentry
                   Coue
                
                 ,
                 or
                 Cofe
                 :
                 A
                 good
                 fellow
                 is
                 a
                 
                   Bene
                   Cofe
                
                 :
                 a
                 Churle
                 is
                 called
                 ,
                 a
                 
                   Quier
                   Cuffin
                   ;
                   Quier
                
                 signifies
                 naught
                 ,
                 and
                 Cuffin
                 (
                 as
                 I
                 said
                 before
                 )
                 a
                 man
                 :
                 and
                 in
                 Canting
                 they
                 terme
                 a
                 Iustice
                 of
                 peace
                 ,
                 (
                 because
                 hée
                 punisheth
                 them
                 belike
                 )
                 by
                 no
                 other
                 name
                 then
                 by
                 
                   Quier
                   cuffin
                
                 ,
                 that
                 is
                 to
                 say
                 ,
                 a
                 Churle
                 ,
                 or
                 a
                 naughty
                 man.
                 And
                 so
                 ,
                 Ken
                 signifing
                 a
                 house
                 ,
                 they
                 call
                 a
                 prison
                 ,
                 a
                 
                   Quire
                   Ken
                
                 ,
                 that
                 is
                 to
                 say
                 ,
                 an
                 ill
                 hous
                 .
              
               
                 Many
                 péeces
                 of
                 this
                 strange
                 coyne
                 could
                 I
                 shew
                 you
                 ,
                 but
                 by
                 these
                 small
                 stampes
                 ,
                 you
                 may
                 iudge
                 of
                 the
                 greater
                 .
              
               
                 Now
                 because
                 ,
                 a
                 Language
                 is
                 nothing
                 els
                 ,
                 then
                 heapes
                 of
                 wordes
                 ,
                 orderly
                 wouen
                 and
                 composed
                 together
                 :
                 and
                 that
                 (
                 within
                 so
                 narrow
                 a
                 circle
                 as
                 I
                 haue
                 drawne
                 to
                 my selfe
                 )
                 it
                 is
                 impossible
                 to
                 imprint
                 a
                 Dictionarie
                 of
                 all
                 the
                 Canting
                 phrases
                 :
                 I
                 will
                 at
                 this
                 time
                 not
                 make
                 you
                 surfet
                 on
                 too
                 much
                 ,
                 but
                 as
                 if
                 you
                 were
                 walking
                 in
                 a
                 Garden
                 ,
                 you
                 shall
                 openly
                 plurke
                 here
                 a
                 flower
                 ,
                 and
                 there
                 another
                 ,
                 which
                 (
                 as
                 I
                 take
                 it
                 )
                 will
                 bemore
                 delightfull
                 then
                 if
                 you
                 gathered
                 them
                 by
                 handfulls
                 .
              
               
                 But
                 before
                 I
                 lead
                 you
                 into
                 that
                 walke
                 ,
                 stay
                 and
                 heare
                 a
                 Canter
                 in
                 his
                 owne
                 language
                 ,
                 making
                 Rithmes
                 ,
                 albeit
                 (
                 I
                 thinke
                 )
                 those
                 tharmes
                 of
                 Poesie
                 which
                 (
                 at
                 the
                 first
                 )
                 made
                 the
                 barbarous
                 tame
                 ,
                 and
                 brought
                 them
                 ciuillity
                 ,
                 can
                 (
                 vpon
                 these
                 sauage
                 Monsters
                 )
                 worke
                 no
                 such
                 wonder
                 .
                 Yet
                 thus
                 hée
                 sing●
                 (
                 vpon
                 demaund
                 whether
                 any
                 of
                 his
                 owne
                 crue
                 did
                 come
                 that
                 way
                 )
                 to
                 which
                 hée
                 answers
                 ,
                 yes
                 (
                 quoth
                 he
                 .
                 )
              
               
                 
                 
                   Canting
                   rithmes
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     ENough
                     with
                     bowsy
                     Coue
                     maund
                     Nace
                     ,
                  
                   
                     Tour
                     the
                     Patring
                     Coue
                     in
                     the
                     Darkeman
                     Case
                     ,
                  
                   
                     Docked
                     the
                     Dell
                     ,
                     for
                     a
                     Coper
                     meke
                     ,
                  
                   
                     His
                     watch
                     shall
                     feng
                     a
                     Prounces
                     Nab-chere
                     ,
                  
                   
                     Cya●●m
                     ,
                     by
                     Salmon
                     ,
                     and
                     thou
                     shalt
                     pek
                     my
                     Iere
                     ,
                  
                   
                     In
                     thy
                     Ga●
                     ,
                     for
                     my
                     watch
                     it
                     is
                     nace
                     gere
                     .
                  
                   
                     For
                     the
                     beene
                     bowse
                     my
                     watch
                     hath
                     a
                     win
                     ,
                     &c.
                     
                  
                
                 
                   This
                   short
                   Lesson
                   I
                   leaue
                   to
                   be
                   constraued
                   by
                   him
                   that
                   is
                   desirous
                   to
                   try
                   his
                   skill
                   in
                   the
                   language
                   ,
                   which
                   he
                   may
                   use
                   by
                   helpe
                   of
                   the
                   following
                   Dictionary
                   ;
                   into
                   which
                   way
                   that
                   he
                   may
                   more
                   readily
                   come
                   ,
                   I
                   will
                   translate
                   into
                   English
                   ,
                   this
                   broken
                   French
                   that
                   followes
                   in
                   prose
                   .
                   Two
                   Canters
                   hauing
                   wrangled
                   a
                   while
                   about
                   some
                   idle
                   quarrell
                   at
                   length
                   growing
                   friends
                   ,
                   thus
                   one
                   of
                   them
                   speakes
                   to
                   the
                   other
                   .
                   viz.
                   
                
              
               
                 
                   A
                   Canter
                   in
                   prose
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     STowe
                     you
                     beene
                     Cofe
                     ;
                     and
                     cut
                     benar
                     whiddes
                     and
                     bing
                     wee
                     to
                     Rome
                     vile
                     ,
                     to
                     nip
                     a
                     boung
                     :
                     so
                     shall
                     wee
                     haue
                     lowre
                     for
                     the
                     bowsing
                     ken
                     ,
                     and
                     when
                     wee
                     beng
                     back
                     to
                     the
                     Dewese
                     a
                     vile
                     ,
                     wee
                     will
                     filch
                     some
                     Dudes
                     ,
                     off
                     the
                     Ruffmans
                     ,
                     or
                     mill
                     the
                     Ken
                     for
                     a
                     lagge
                     of
                     Dudes
                     .
                  
                
                 
                   
                     Thus
                     in
                     English
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       Stowe
                       you
                       beene
                       cofe
                    
                     :
                     hold
                     your
                     peace
                     good
                     fellow
                     ,
                  
                   
                     
                       And
                       cut
                       bena●
                       whiddes
                    
                     :
                     and
                     speake
                     better
                     words
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       And
                       bing
                       we
                       to
                       Romevile
                    
                     :
                     and
                     goe
                     we
                     to
                     London
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       To
                       nip
                       a
                       boung
                    
                     :
                     to
                     cut
                     a
                     purse
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       So
                       shall
                       we
                       haue
                       lowre
                    
                     :
                     so
                     shall
                     we
                     haue
                     mony
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       For
                       the
                       bowsing
                       Ken
                    
                     ,
                     for
                     the
                     Ale
                     house
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       And
                       when
                       wee
                       bing
                       back
                    
                     :
                     and
                     when
                     we
                     come
                     backe
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       To
                       the
                       Dewse-a-vile
                    
                     :
                     into
                     the
                     Country
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       Wee
                       will
                       filch
                       some
                       dudes
                    
                     :
                     we
                     will
                     filth
                     some
                     clothes
                     ,
                  
                   
                     
                       Off
                       the
                       Ruffmans
                    
                     :
                     from
                     the
                     hedges
                     ,
                  
                   
                     
                       Or
                       mill
                       the
                       Ken
                    
                     :
                     or
                     rob
                     the
                     house
                     ,
                  
                   
                     
                       For
                       a
                       lagge
                       of
                       Duddes
                    
                     :
                     for
                     a
                     bucke
                     of
                     clothes
                     ,
                  
                
              
               
                 
                 
                   Now
                   turne
                   to
                   your
                   Dictionary
                   .
                
                 
                   ANd
                   because
                   you
                   shall
                   not
                   haue
                   one
                   dish
                   twice
                   set
                   before
                   you
                   ,
                   none
                   of
                   those
                   Canting
                   wordes
                   that
                   are
                   englished
                   before
                   ,
                   shal
                   here
                   be
                   found
                   :
                   for
                   our
                   intent
                   is
                   to
                   frast
                   you
                   with
                   varietie
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     The
                     Canters
                     Dictionarie
                     .
                  
                   
                     AVtem
                     ,
                     a
                     church
                     .
                  
                   
                     Autem-mort
                     ,
                     a
                     married
                     woman
                     .
                  
                   
                     Boung
                     ,
                     a
                     purse
                     .
                  
                   
                     Borde
                     ,
                     a
                     shilling
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       Halfe
                       a
                       Borde
                    
                     ,
                     six
                     pence
                     .
                  
                   
                     Bowse
                     ,
                     drinke
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       Bowsing
                       Ken
                    
                     ,
                     an
                     Ale-house
                     .
                  
                   
                     Bene
                     ,
                     good
                     .
                  
                   
                     Beneship
                     ,
                     very
                     good
                     :
                  
                   
                     Bufe
                     ,
                     a
                     Dogge
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       Bing
                       a
                       wast
                    
                     ,
                     get
                     you
                     hence
                     .
                  
                   
                     Caster
                     ,
                     a
                     cloake
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       A
                       Commission
                    
                     ,
                     a
                     shirt
                     .
                  
                   
                     Chates
                     ,
                     the
                     Gallowes
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       To
                       cly
                       the
                       Ierke
                    
                     ,
                     to
                     be
                     whipped
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       To
                       cut
                    
                     ,
                     to
                     speake
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       To
                       cut
                       bene
                    
                     ,
                     to
                     speake
                     gently
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       To
                       cut
                       bene
                       whiddes
                    
                     ,
                     to
                     speake
                     good
                     wordes
                     ,
                  
                   
                     
                       To
                       cut
                       quier
                       whiddes
                    
                     ,
                     to
                     giue
                     euill
                     language
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       To
                       Cant
                    
                     ,
                     to
                     speake
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       To
                       couch
                       a
                       Hogshead
                    
                     ,
                     to
                     lye
                     downe
                     a
                     sléepe
                     .
                  
                   
                     Drawers
                     ,
                     Hosen
                     .
                  
                   
                     Dudes
                     ,
                     clothes
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       Darke
                       mans
                    
                     ,
                     the
                     night
                     .
                  
                   
                     Dewse-a-vile
                     ,
                     the
                     country
                     ,
                  
                   
                     
                       Dup
                       the
                       Giger
                    
                     ,
                     open
                     the
                     dore
                     .
                  
                   
                     Fambles
                     ,
                     hands
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       Fambling
                       Chete
                    
                     ,
                     a
                     King.
                     
                  
                   
                     Flag
                     ,
                     a
                     Goat
                     .
                  
                   
                     Glasiers
                     ,
                     eyes
                     .
                  
                   
                     Gan
                     ,
                     a
                     mouth
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                     Gage
                     ,
                     a
                     Quart
                     pot
                     .
                  
                   
                     Grannam
                     ,
                     Corne.
                     
                  
                   
                     Gybe
                     ,
                     a
                     writing
                     .
                  
                   
                     Glymmer
                     ,
                     fire
                     .
                  
                   
                     Gigger
                     ,
                     a
                     doore
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       Gentry
                       Mort
                    
                     ,
                     a
                     Gentlewoman
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       Gentry
                       cofes
                       Ken
                    
                     ,
                     a
                     Noblemans
                     house
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       Harman
                       beck
                    
                     ,
                     a
                     Constable
                     .
                  
                   
                     Harmans
                     ,
                     the
                     Stockes
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       Heaue
                       a
                       bough
                    
                     ,
                     rob
                     a
                     Booth
                     .
                  
                   
                     Iarke
                     ,
                     a
                     Seale
                     .
                  
                   
                     Ken
                     ,
                     a
                     House
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       Lage
                       of
                       Dudes
                    
                     ,
                     a
                     Bucke
                     of
                     Clothes
                     .
                  
                   
                     Libbege
                     ,
                     a
                     Bed.
                     
                  
                   
                     Lowre
                     ,
                     money
                     .
                  
                   
                     Lap
                     ,
                     Butter
                     ,
                     Milke
                     ,
                     or
                     Whay
                     .
                  
                   
                     Libkin
                     ,
                     a
                     House
                     to
                     lye
                     in
                     .
                  
                   
                     Lage
                     ,
                     Water
                     .
                  
                   
                     Light-mans
                     ,
                     the
                     day
                     .
                  
                   
                     Mynt
                     ,
                     Golde
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       A
                       Make
                    
                     ,
                     a
                     Halfe-penny
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       Margery
                       prater
                    
                     ,
                     a
                     Henne
                     .
                  
                   
                     Mawnding
                     ,
                     asking
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       To
                       Mill
                    
                     ,
                     to
                     steale
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       Mill
                       a
                       Ken
                    
                     ,
                     rob
                     a
                     house
                     .
                  
                   
                     Nosegent
                     ,
                     a
                     Nunne
                     .
                  
                   
                     Niggling
                     ,
                     companying
                     with
                     a
                     woman
                     .
                  
                   
                     Pratt
                     ,
                     a
                     Buttocke
                     .
                  
                   
                     Peck
                     ,
                     meate
                     .
                  
                   
                     Poplars
                     ,
                     Pottage
                     .
                  
                   
                     Prancer
                     ,
                     a
                     Horse
                     .
                  
                   
                     Prigging
                     ,
                     Riding
                     .
                  
                   
                     Patrico
                     ,
                     a
                     Priest
                     .
                  
                   
                     Pad
                     ,
                     a
                     way
                     .
                  
                   
                     Quaromes
                     ,
                     a
                     body
                     .
                  
                   
                     Ruff-peck
                     ,
                     Bacon
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       Roger
                       ,
                       or
                       Tib
                       of
                       the
                       Buttry
                       ,
                    
                     a
                     Goose
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                     Rome-vile
                     ,
                     London
                     .
                  
                   
                     Rome-bowse
                     ,
                     Wine
                     .
                  
                   
                     Rome-mort
                     ,
                     a
                     Queane
                     .
                  
                   
                     Ruffmans
                     ,
                     the
                     woodes
                     ,
                     or
                     bushes
                     .
                  
                   
                     Ruffian
                     ,
                     the
                     Diuell
                     .
                  
                   
                     Stampes
                     :
                     legges
                     .
                  
                   
                     Stampers
                     ?
                     shooes
                     .
                  
                   
                     Slate
                     :
                     a
                     shéete
                     .
                  
                   
                     Skew
                     :
                     a
                     cup.
                     
                  
                   
                     Salomon
                     :
                     the
                     masse
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       Stuling
                       ken
                    
                     :
                     a
                     house
                     to
                     receiue
                     stolne
                     goods
                     .
                  
                   
                     Skipper
                     :
                     a
                     barne
                     .
                  
                   
                     Strommel
                     ,
                     straw
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       Smelling
                       chete
                    
                     ,
                     an
                     Orchard
                     or
                     Garden
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       To
                       scowre
                       the
                       Cramp-ring
                    
                     :
                     to
                     weare
                     boults
                     .
                  
                   
                     Stalling
                     :
                     making
                     or
                     ordeyning
                     .
                  
                   
                     Tryning
                     :
                     hanging
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       To
                       twore
                    
                     :
                     to
                     sée
                     .
                  
                   
                     Wyn
                     :
                     a
                     penny
                     .
                  
                   
                     Yarum
                     :
                     milke
                     .
                  
                
                 
                   And
                   thus
                   haue
                   I
                   builded
                   vp
                   a
                   little
                   Mint
                   ,
                   where
                   you
                   may
                   coyne
                   wordes
                   for
                   your
                   pleasure
                   .
                   The
                   payment
                   of
                   this
                   was
                   a
                   debt
                   :
                   for
                   the
                   Belman
                   at
                   his
                   farewell
                   (
                   in
                   his
                   first
                   Round
                   which
                   hée
                   walk'd
                   )
                   promised
                   so
                   much
                   .
                   If
                   hée
                   kéepe
                   not
                   touch
                   ,
                   by
                   tendring
                   the
                   due
                   Summe
                   ,
                   he
                   desires
                   forbearance
                   ,
                   and
                   if
                   any
                   that
                   is
                   more
                   rich
                   in
                   this
                   Canting
                   commodity
                   will
                   lend
                   him
                   any
                   more
                   ,
                   or
                   any
                   better
                   ,
                   hée
                   will
                   pay
                   his
                   loue
                   double
                   :
                   In
                   the
                   meane
                   time
                   ,
                   receiue
                   this
                   ,
                   and
                   to
                   giue
                   it
                   a
                   little
                   more
                   weight
                   ,
                   you
                   shall
                   haue
                   a
                   
                     Canting
                     song
                  
                   ,
                   wherein
                   you
                   may
                   learne
                   ,
                   how
                   
                     This
                     cursed
                     Generation
                  
                   pray
                   ,
                   or
                   (
                   to
                   speake
                   truth
                   )
                   curse
                   such
                   Officers
                   as
                   punish
                   them
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                 
                   
                     A
                     Canting
                     song
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       THe
                       Ruffin
                       cly
                       the
                       nab
                       of
                       the
                       Harman
                       beck
                       ,
                    
                     
                       If
                       we
                       mawnd
                       Pannam
                       ,
                       lap
                       ,
                       or
                       Ruff
                       pecke
                       ,
                    
                     
                       Or
                       poplars
                       of
                       yarum
                       :
                       he
                       cuts
                       ,
                       bing
                       to
                       the
                       Ruffmans
                       ,
                    
                     
                       Or
                       els
                       he
                       sweares
                       by
                       the
                       light-mans
                       ,
                    
                     
                       To
                       put
                       our
                       stamps
                       in
                       the
                       Harmans
                       .
                    
                     
                       The
                       ruffian
                       cly
                       the
                       ghost
                       of
                       the
                       Harmanbeck
                       ,
                    
                     
                       If
                       we
                       heaue
                       a
                       booth
                       we
                       cly
                       the
                       Ierke
                       .
                    
                  
                   
                     
                       If
                       we
                       niggle
                       ,
                       or
                       mill
                       a
                       bowsing
                       Ken
                       ,
                    
                     
                       Or
                       nip
                       a
                       boung
                       that
                       has
                       but
                       a
                       win
                       ,
                    
                     
                       Or
                       dup
                       the
                       giger
                       of
                       a
                       Gentry
                       cofes
                       ken
                       ,
                    
                     
                       To
                       the
                       quier
                       cuffing
                       we
                       bing
                       ,
                    
                     
                       And
                       then
                       to
                       the
                       quier
                       Ken
                       ,
                       to
                       scowre
                       the
                       Cramp-ring
                       ,
                    
                     
                       And
                       then
                       to
                       the
                       Trin'de
                       on
                       the
                       chutes
                       ,
                       in
                       the
                       lightmans
                    
                     
                       The
                       Bube
                       &
                       Ruffian
                       cly
                       the
                       Harman
                       beck
                       &
                       harmans
                       .
                    
                  
                
                 
                   
                     Thus
                     Englished
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       THe
                       Diuell
                       take
                       the
                       Constables
                       head
                       ,
                    
                     
                       If
                       we
                       beg
                       Bacon
                       ,
                       Butter-milke
                       or
                       bread
                       ,
                    
                     
                       Or
                       Pottage
                       ,
                       to
                       the
                       hedge
                       he
                       bids
                       vs
                       hie
                       ,
                    
                     
                       Or
                       sweares
                       (
                       by
                       this
                       light
                       )
                       i
                       th
                       stocks
                       we
                       shall
                       lie
                       .
                    
                     
                       The
                       Deuill
                       haunt
                       the
                       Constables
                       ghoast
                       ,
                    
                     
                       If
                       we
                       rob
                       but
                       a
                       Booth
                       ,
                       we
                       are
                       whipt
                       at
                       a
                       poast
                       .
                    
                  
                   
                     
                       If
                       an
                       Ale-house
                       we
                       rob
                       ,
                       or
                       be
                       tane
                       with
                       a
                       Whore
                       ,
                    
                     
                       Or
                       cut
                       a
                       purse
                       that
                       has
                       iust
                       a
                       penny
                       and
                       no
                       more
                       ,
                    
                     
                       Or
                       come
                       but
                       stealing
                       in
                       at
                       a
                       Gentlemans
                       dore
                       ,
                    
                     
                       To
                       the
                       Iustice
                       straight
                       we
                       goe
                       ,
                    
                     
                       And
                       then
                       to
                       the
                       Iayle
                       to
                       be
                       shackled
                       :
                       And
                       so
                       ,
                    
                     
                       To
                       be
                       hangd
                       on
                       the
                       gallowes
                       i
                       th
                       day
                       time
                       :
                       the
                       pox
                    
                     
                       And
                       the
                       Deuill
                       take
                       the
                       Constable
                       and
                       his
                       stocks
                       .
                    
                  
                
                 
                   We
                   haue
                   Canted
                   (
                   I
                   feare
                   )
                   too
                   much
                   ,
                   let
                   vs
                   now
                   giue
                   eare
                   to
                   the
                   Bel-man
                   ,
                   and
                   heare
                   what
                   he
                   speaks
                   in
                   english
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
               
                 THE
                 BEL-MANS
                 SECOND
                 Nights
                 walke
                 .
                 CHAP.
                 II.
                 
              
               
                 IT
                 was
                 Terme
                 time
                 in
                 hell
                 (
                 for
                 you
                 
                 must
                 vnderstand
                 ,
                 a
                 Lawyer
                 liues
                 there
                 aswell
                 as
                 héere
                 :
                 )
                 by
                 which
                 meanes
                 
                   don
                   Lucifer
                
                 (
                 being
                 the
                 iustice
                 for
                 that
                 Countie
                 ,
                 where
                 the
                 Brimstone
                 mines
                 are
                 )
                 had
                 better
                 dooings
                 and
                 more
                 rapping
                 at
                 his
                 gates
                 ,
                 then
                 all
                 the
                 Doctors
                 and
                 unpericall
                 Quack-saluers
                 of
                 ten
                 Cities
                 haue
                 at
                 theirs
                 in
                 a
                 great
                 plague
                 time
                 .
                 The
                 hall
                 where
                 these
                 Termers
                 
                 were
                 to
                 try
                 their
                 causes
                 ,
                 was
                 very
                 large
                 and
                 strongly
                 built
                 ,
                 but
                 it
                 had
                 one
                 fault
                 ,
                 it
                 was
                 so
                 hot
                 that
                 people
                 could
                 not
                 indure
                 to
                 walk
                 there
                 :
                 Yet
                 to
                 walke
                 there
                 they
                 were
                 compelled
                 ,
                 by
                 reason
                 they
                 were
                 drawne
                 thither
                 vpon
                 orcasions
                 ,
                 and
                 such
                 iustling
                 there
                 was
                 of
                 one
                 another
                 ,
                 that
                 it
                 would
                 haue
                 grieued
                 any
                 man
                 to
                 be
                 in
                 the
                 thronges
                 amongst
                 me
                 .
                 Nothing
                 could
                 be
                 heard
                 but
                 noise
                 ,
                 and
                 nothing
                 
                 of
                 that
                 noise
                 be
                 vnderstood
                 ,
                 but
                 that
                 it
                 was
                 a
                 sound
                 ,
                 as
                 of
                 men
                 in
                 a
                 kingdome
                 ,
                 when
                 on
                 a
                 sodaine
                 it
                 is
                 in
                 an
                 vprore
                 .
                 Euery
                 one
                 brabled
                 with
                 him
                 that
                 he
                 walked
                 with
                 ,
                 or
                 if
                 hée
                 did
                 but
                 tell
                 his
                 tale
                 to
                 his
                 Councell
                 ,
                 heè
                 was
                 so
                 eager
                 in
                 the
                 very
                 deliuery
                 of
                 that
                 tale
                 ,
                 that
                 you
                 would
                 
                 haue
                 sworne
                 hée
                 did
                 brabble
                 :
                 and
                 such
                 gnashing
                 of
                 téeth
                 there
                 was
                 when
                 aduersaries
                 met
                 together
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 fyling
                 of
                 ten
                 thousand
                 Sawes
                 cannot
                 yéeld
                 a
                 sound
                 more
                 horrible
                 .
                 The
                 Iudge
                 of
                 the
                 Court
                 had
                 a
                 diuelish
                 countenance
                 ,
                 and
                 as
                 cruell
                 he
                 was
                 in
                 punishingthose
                 that
                 were
                 condemned
                 by
                 Lawe
                 ,
                 as
                 he
                 was
                 crabbed
                 in
                 his
                 lookes
                 ,
                 whilst
                 he
                 sat
                 to
                 heare
                 their
                 tryals
                 .
              
               
               
                 But
                 albeit
                 there
                 was
                 no
                 pittie
                 to
                 be
                 expected
                 at
                 his
                 hands
                 ,
                 yet
                 was
                 hée
                 so
                 vpright
                 in
                 iustice
                 ,
                 that
                 none
                 could
                 euer
                 fasten
                 bribe
                 vpon
                 him
                 ,
                 for
                 hée
                 was
                 ready
                 and
                 willing
                 to
                 heare
                 the
                 cryes
                 of
                 all
                 commers
                 .
                 Neither
                 durst
                 any
                 Pleader
                 (
                 at
                 the
                 infernall
                 Barre
                 )
                 or
                 any
                 officer
                 of
                 the
                 Court
                 ,
                 exact
                 any
                 Fée
                 of
                 Plaintiffes
                 ,
                 and
                 such
                 as
                 
                 complained
                 of
                 wrongs
                 and
                 were
                 opprest
                 :
                 but
                 onely
                 they
                 paide
                 that
                 were
                 the
                 wrong
                 dooers
                 ,
                 those
                 would
                 they
                 sée
                 dambd
                 ere
                 they
                 should
                 get
                 out
                 of
                 their
                 fingers
                 ,
                 such
                 fellowes
                 they
                 were
                 appointed
                 to
                 vexe
                 at
                 the
                 very
                 soule
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 matters
                 that
                 here
                 were
                 put
                 in
                 sute
                 ,
                 were
                 more
                 then
                 could
                 be
                 bred
                 in
                 twentie
                 Vacations
                 ,
                 yet
                 should
                 a
                 
                 man
                 be
                 dispached
                 out
                 of
                 hand
                 .
                 In
                 one
                 Terme
                 hée
                 had
                 his
                 Iudgement
                 ,
                 for
                 heare
                 they
                 neuer
                 stand
                 vpon
                 Returnes
                 ,
                 but
                 presently
                 come
                 to
                 Triall
                 .
                 The
                 causes
                 decided
                 here
                 are
                 many
                 ;
                 the
                 Clients
                 that
                 complaine
                 many
                 ;
                 the
                 Counsellors
                 (
                 that
                 plead
                 till
                 they
                 be
                 hoarse
                 ,
                 )
                 many
                 ;
                 the
                 Attornies
                 (
                 that
                 runne
                 vp
                 and
                 downe
                 ,
                 )
                 infinite
                 ;
                 the
                 
                 Clarkes
                 of
                 the
                 Court
                 ,
                 not
                 to
                 be
                 numbred
                 .
                 All
                 these
                 haue
                 their
                 hands
                 full
                 ;
                 day
                 and
                 night
                 are
                 they
                 so
                 plagued
                 with
                 the
                 bawling
                 of
                 Clients
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 neuer
                 can
                 rest
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 Inck
                 where-with
                 they
                 write
                 ,
                 is
                 the
                 blood
                 of
                 Coniurers
                 :
                 they
                 haue
                 no
                 Paper
                 ,
                 but
                 all
                 things
                 are
                 engrossed
                 in
                 Parchment
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 Parchment
                 is
                 made
                 of
                 Scriueners
                 skinnes
                 flead
                 off
                 ,
                 after
                 they
                 haue
                 béene
                 punished
                 for
                 Forgerie
                 :
                 their
                 Standishes
                 are
                 the
                 Seuls
                 of
                 Vsurers
                 :
                 their
                 Pennes
                 ,
                 the
                 bones
                 of
                 vnconscionable
                 Brokers
                 ,
                 and
                 hard-hearted
                 Creditors
                 ,
                 that
                 haue
                 made
                 dice
                 of
                 other
                 mens
                 bones
                 ,
                 or
                 else
                 of
                 periured
                 Excecutors
                 and
                 blind
                 Ouer-séeers
                 ,
                 that
                 haue
                 eaten
                 vp
                 Widdowes
                 and
                 Orphanes
                 to
                 the
                 bare
                 bones
                 :
                 and
                 those
                 Pennes
                 are
                 made
                 of
                 purpose
                 without
                 Nebs
                 ,
                 because
                 they
                 may
                 cast
                 Incke
                 but
                 slowly
                 ,
                 in
                 mockery
                 of
                 those
                 ,
                 who
                 in
                 their
                 life
                 time
                 were
                 slowe
                 in
                 yéelding
                 drops
                 of
                 pitty
                 .
              
               
                 Would
                 you
                 know
                 what
                 actions
                 are
                 tried
                 here
                 ?
                 I
                 will
                 
                 but
                 turne
                 ouer
                 the
                 Recordes
                 ,
                 and
                 read
                 them
                 vnto
                 you
                 as
                 they
                 hang
                 vpon
                 the
                 Fyle
                 .
              
               
               
                 The
                 Courtier
                 is
                 sued
                 héere
                 ,
                 and
                 condemned
                 for
                 Ryots
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 Soldier
                 is
                 sued
                 héere
                 ,
                 and
                 condemned
                 for
                 murders
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 Scholler
                 is
                 sued
                 héere
                 ,
                 &
                 condemned
                 for
                 Heresies
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 Citizen
                 is
                 sued
                 héere
                 ,
                 and
                 condemned
                 for
                 the
                 Citie-sinnes
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 Farmer
                 is
                 suedchéere
                 vpon
                 Penal
                 Statutes
                 ,
                 and
                 
                 condemned
                 for
                 spoyling
                 the
                 Markets
                 .
              
               
                 Actions
                 of
                 batterie
                 are
                 brought
                 against
                 Swaggerers
                 ,
                 and
                 héere
                 they
                 are
                 bound
                 to
                 the
                 peace
                 .
              
               
                 Actions
                 of
                 Waste
                 are
                 brought
                 against
                 Drunkards
                 and
                 Epicures
                 ,
                 and
                 héere
                 they
                 are
                 condemned
                 to
                 begge
                 at
                 the
                 Grate
                 for
                 one
                 drop
                 of
                 colde
                 water
                 to
                 coole
                 their
                 tongues
                 ,
                 or
                 one
                 crum
                 of
                 breade
                 to
                 stay
                 their
                 hunger
                 ,
                 yet
                 are
                 they
                 denyed
                 it
                 .
              
               
                 Harlots
                 haue
                 processe
                 sued
                 vpon
                 them
                 héere
                 ,
                 and
                 are
                 condemned
                 to
                 Howling
                 ,
                 to
                 Rottennesse
                 and
                 to
                 Stench
                 .
                 No
                 Actes
                 of
                 Parliament
                 that
                 haue
                 passed
                 the
                 *
                 Vpper-house
                 ,
                 can
                 be
                 broken
                 ,
                 but
                 here
                 the
                 breach
                 is
                 punished
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 seuerely
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 suddenly
                 :
                 For
                 here
                 they
                 stand
                 vpon
                 no
                 demurres
                 ;
                 no
                 
                   Audita
                   Queraela
                
                 can
                 héere
                 be
                 gotten
                 ,
                 no
                 writs
                 of
                 Errores
                 to
                 
                   Reuerse
                   Iudgement
                
                 :
                 héere
                 is
                 no
                 flying
                 to
                 a
                 
                   court
                   of
                   Chancery
                
                 for
                 reléef
                 ,
                 yet
                 euerie
                 one
                 
                 that
                 comes
                 hether
                 is
                 serued
                 with
                 a
                 Sub-poena
                 .
                 No
                 ,
                 they
                 deale
                 altogether
                 in
                 this
                 Court
                 vpon
                 the
                 
                   Habeas
                   Corpus
                
                 ,
                 vpon
                 the
                 Capias
                 ,
                 vpon
                 the
                 
                   Ne
                   exeat
                   Regnum
                
                 ,
                 vpon
                 Rebellion
                 ,
                 vpon
                 heauie
                 Fines
                 (
                 but
                 no
                 Recoueries
                 )
                 vpon
                 writs
                 of
                 Out-lary
                 ,
                 to
                 attache
                 the
                 body
                 for
                 euer
                 ,
                 and
                 last
                 of
                 all
                 vpon
                 Executions
                 after
                 Iudgement
                 ,
                 which
                 being
                 serued
                 vpon
                 a
                 man
                 is
                 his
                 
                   euerlasting
                   vndoing
                
                 .
              
               
                 Such
                 are
                 the
                 Customes
                 and
                 courses
                 of
                 procéedings
                 in
                 the
                 Offices
                 belonging
                 to
                 the
                 Prince
                 of
                 Darknesse
                 .
                 These
                 hot
                 dooings
                 hath
                 hée
                 in
                 his
                 Terme-times
                 .
                 But
                 vpon
                 a
                 day
                 when
                 a
                 great
                 matter
                 was
                 to
                 be
                 tryed
                 betwéene
                 an
                 Englishman
                 and
                 a
                 Dutchman
                 ,
                 which
                 of
                 the
                 two
                 were
                 the
                 fowlest
                 Drinkers
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 case
                 being
                 a
                 long
                 time
                 in
                 arguing
                 ,
                 by
                 reason
                 that
                 strong
                 euidence
                 came
                 in
                 réeling
                 on
                 both
                 sides
                 ,
                 (
                 yet
                 it
                 was
                 thought
                 that
                 the
                 English-man
                 
                 would
                 carry
                 it
                 away
                 ,
                 and
                 cast
                 the
                 Dutchman
                 )
                 on
                 a
                 sodaine
                 all
                 was
                 staid
                 by
                 the
                 sound
                 of
                 a
                 horne
                 that
                 was
                 heard
                 at
                 the
                 lower
                 end
                 of
                 the
                 Hall.
                 And
                 euery
                 one
                 looking
                 back
                 (
                 as
                 wondring
                 at
                 the
                 strangenes
                 )
                 roome
                 ,
                 roome
                 ,
                 was
                 cryed
                 and
                 made
                 through
                 the
                 thickest
                 of
                 the
                 crowde
                 ,
                 for
                 a
                 certain
                 Spirit
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 likenesse
                 of
                 a
                 Post
                 ,
                 who
                 made
                 away
                 on
                 a
                 little
                 leane
                 Nagge
                 vp
                 to
                 the
                 Bench
                 where
                 indge
                 Radamanth
                 with
                 his
                 two
                 grime
                 Brothers
                 
                   (
                   Minos
                
                 and
                 Aecus
                 )
                 sat
                 .
                 This
                 Spirit
                 was
                 an
                 intelligencer
                 sent
                 by
                 Belzebub
                 of
                 Batharum
                 ,
                 into
                 some
                 Countries
                 of
                 christendome
                 ,
                 to
                 lye
                 there
                 as
                 a
                 Spie
                 ,
                 and
                 had
                 brought
                 with
                 him
                 a
                 packet
                 of
                 letters
                 from
                 seuerall
                 Leigiers
                 that
                 lay
                 in
                 those
                 Countries
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 seruice
                 of
                 the
                 Tartarian
                 ,
                 their
                 Lord
                 and
                 Maister
                 .
                 Which
                 packet
                 being
                 opened
                 ,
                 all
                 the
                 Letters
                 (
                 because
                 they
                 concerned
                 the
                 generall
                 good
                 and
                 state
                 of
                 those
                 low
                 Countries
                 in
                 Hell
                 )
                 were
                 publikely
                 reade
                 .
                 The
                 contents
                 of
                 that
                 Letter
                 that
                 stung
                 most
                 ,
                 and
                 put
                 them
                 all
                 out
                 of
                 their
                 law
                 cases
                 ,
                 tended
                 to
                 this
                 purpose
                 .
              
               
                 That
                 whereas
                 she
                 Lord
                 of
                 the
                 Fiery
                 Lakes
                 had
                 his
                 Ministers
                 in
                 all
                 kingdomes
                 aboue
                 the
                 earth
                 ,
                 whose
                 
                 Offices
                 were
                 not
                 onely
                 to
                 win
                 the
                 subiects
                 of
                 other
                 Princes
                 to
                 his
                 obadience
                 ,
                 but
                 also
                 to
                 giue
                 notice
                 when
                 any
                 of
                 his
                 owne
                 sworne
                 houshold
                 ,
                 or
                 any
                 other
                 that
                 held
                 league
                 with
                 him
                 should
                 reuolt
                 or
                 flie
                 from
                 their
                 allegiance
                 :
                 also
                 discouer
                 from
                 time
                 to
                 time
                 all
                 plots
                 ,
                 conspiracies
                 ,
                 machinations
                 ,
                 or
                 vnderminings
                 ,
                 that
                 should
                 be
                 laid
                 (
                 albeit
                 they
                 that
                 durst
                 lay
                 them
                 should
                 digge
                 déepe
                 inough
                 )
                 to
                 blow
                 vp
                 his
                 great
                 Infernall
                 Citie
                 :
                 so
                 that
                 if
                 his
                 Horned
                 Regiment
                 were
                 not
                 sodainely
                 mustred
                 together
                 ,
                 and
                 did
                 not
                 ●●stely
                 bestirre
                 their
                 clouen
                 stumps
                 ,
                 his
                 territories
                 would
                 be
                 shaken
                 ,
                 his
                 dominions
                 left
                 in
                 time
                 vnpeopled
                 ,
                 his
                 forces
                 looked
                 into
                 ,
                 and
                 his
                 authoritie
                 which
                 he
                 held
                 in
                 the
                 world
                 ,
                 contemned
                 and
                 laughed
                 to
                 scorne
                 .
                 The
                 reason
                 was
                 ,
                 that
                 a
                 certaine
                 fellow
                 .
                 
                   The
                   Childe
                   of
                   Darkenesse
                   ,
                   a
                   common
                   Night-walker
                   ,
                   a
                   man
                   that
                   had
                   no
                   man
                   to
                   waite
                   vpon
                
                 
                 
                   him
                   but
                   onely
                   a
                   Dogge
                   ,
                   one
                   that
                   was
                   a
                   disordered
                   person
                   ,
                   
                   and
                   at
                   midnight
                   would
                   beate
                   at
                   mens
                   doores
                   ,
                   bidding
                   them
                   (
                   in
                   meere
                   mockerie
                   )
                   to
                   looke
                   to
                   their
                   candles
                   ,
                   when
                   they
                   themselues
                   were
                   in
                   their
                   dead
                   sleepes
                   :
                   and
                   albeit
                   hee
                   was
                   an
                   Officer
                   ,
                   yet
                   hee
                   was
                   but
                   of
                   Light-carriage
                   ,
                   being
                   knowne
                   by
                   the
                   name
                   of
                   the
                   Bel-man
                   of
                   London
                   ,
                
                 had
                 of
                 late
                 not
                 onely
                 drawne
                 a
                 number
                 of
                 the
                 Deuils
                 owne
                 kindred
                 into
                 question
                 for
                 their
                 liues
                 ,
                 but
                 had
                 also
                 (
                 onely
                 by
                 the
                 help
                 of
                 the
                 lanthorn
                 &
                 candle
                 )
                 lookt
                 into
                 the
                 serrets
                 of
                 the
                 best
                 trades
                 that
                 are
                 taught
                 in
                 hell
                 ,
                 laying
                 them
                 open
                 to
                 the
                 broad
                 eye
                 of
                 the
                 world
                 ,
                 making
                 them
                 infamous
                 ,
                 odious
                 ,
                 and
                 ridiculous
                 :
                 yea
                 ,
                 and
                 not
                 satisfied
                 with
                 dooing
                 this
                 wrong
                 to
                 his
                 diuelship
                 ,
                 very
                 spitefullie
                 hath
                 hée
                 set
                 them
                 out
                 in
                 print
                 ,
                 drawing
                 their
                 pictures
                 so
                 to
                 the
                 life
                 ,
                 that
                 now
                 a
                 horse-stealer
                 shall
                 not
                 shew
                 his
                 head
                 ,
                 but
                 a
                 hailter
                 with
                 the
                 Hang-mans
                 noose
                 is
                 ready
                 to
                 be
                 fastned
                 about
                 it
                 :
                 A
                 Foyst
                 ,
                 nor
                 a
                 Nip
                 shall
                 not
                 walke
                 into
                 a
                 Fayre
                 or
                 a
                 Play-house
                 ,
                 but
                 euerie
                 tracke
                 will
                 cry
                 ,
                 looke
                 to
                 your
                 purses
                 :
                 nor
                 a
                 poore
                 common
                 Rogue
                 come
                 to
                 a
                 mans
                 doore
                 ,
                 but
                 he
                 shall
                 be
                 examined
                 if
                 hée
                 can
                 cant
                 .
                 If
                 this
                 Baulling
                 fellow
                 therefore
                 haue
                 not
                 his
                 mouth
                 stop'd
                 ,
                 she
                 light
                 Angels
                 that
                 are
                 coynd
                 below
                 ,
                 will
                 neuer
                 be
                 able
                 to
                 passe
                 as
                 they
                 haue
                 done
                 ,
                 but
                 be
                 naild
                 vp
                 for
                 counterfeits
                 ,
                 Hell
                 will
                 haue
                 no
                 dooings
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 deuill
                 be
                 no
                 body
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 was
                 the
                 lyking
                 of
                 the
                 Letter
                 ,
                 and
                 this
                 Letter
                 draue
                 them
                 all
                 to
                 a
                 Non-plus
                 ,
                 because
                 they
                 knew
                 not
                 how
                 to
                 answere
                 it
                 .
                 But
                 at
                 last
                 aduice
                 was
                 taken
                 ,
                 the
                 Court
                 brake
                 vp
                 ,
                 the
                 Tearme
                 was
                 adiournd
                 ,
                 (
                 by
                 reason
                 that
                 the
                 Hell
                 houndes
                 were
                 thus
                 Plagu'd
                 )
                 &
                 a
                 common
                 counsell
                 in
                 hell
                 was
                 presently
                 called
                 how
                 to
                 redresse
                 these
                 abuses
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 
                   Sathanicall
                   Sinagogue
                
                 being
                 set
                 ,
                 vp
                 startes
                 the
                 
                   Father
                   of
                   Hell
                
                 and
                 damnation
                 ,
                 and
                 looking
                 verie
                 terribly
                 ,
                 with
                 apaire
                 of
                 eies
                 that
                 stared
                 as
                 wide
                 as
                 the
                 mouth
                 gapes
                 at
                 Bishops-gate
                 ,
                 fetching
                 foure
                 or
                 fiue
                 déep
                 sighes
                 (
                 which
                 were
                 nothing
                 else
                 but
                 the
                 Smoke
                 of
                 fire
                 &
                 brimstone
                 boyling
                 in
                 his
                 stomacke
                 ,
                 and
                 shewed
                 as
                 if
                 hée
                 were
                 taking
                 Tobacco
                 ,
                 which
                 be
                 oftentimes
                 does
                 )
                 tolde
                 his
                 children
                 &
                 seruants
                 (
                 and
                 the
                 rest
                 of
                 the
                 citizens
                 that
                 dwelt
                 
                 within
                 the
                 freedome
                 of
                 Hell
                 ,
                 and
                 sat
                 there
                 before
                 him
                 vpon
                 narrow
                 low
                 formes
                 )
                 that
                 they
                 neuer
                 had
                 more
                 cause
                 to
                 lay
                 their
                 heads
                 together
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 grow
                 politicians
                 .
                 Hée
                 and
                 they
                 all
                 knew
                 that
                 from
                 the
                 corners
                 of
                 the
                 earth
                 ,
                 some
                 did
                 euery
                 houre
                 in
                 a
                 day
                 créepe
                 forth
                 ,
                 to
                 come
                 and
                 serue
                 him
                 :
                 yea
                 ,
                 that
                 many
                 thousands
                 were
                 so
                 bewitched
                 
                 with
                 his
                 fauours
                 ,
                 and
                 his
                 rare
                 parts
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 would
                 come
                 running
                 quick
                 to
                 him
                 :
                 his
                 dominions
                 (
                 he
                 said
                 )
                 were
                 great
                 ,
                 and
                 ful
                 of
                 people
                 ,
                 Emperors
                 ,
                 and
                 Kings
                 ,
                 (
                 in
                 infinit
                 number
                 )
                 were
                 his
                 slaues
                 ,
                 his
                 court
                 was
                 full
                 of
                 Princes
                 ,
                 if
                 the
                 world
                 were
                 denided
                 (
                 as
                 some
                 report
                 )
                 but
                 into
                 thrée
                 
                 parts
                 ,
                 two
                 of
                 those
                 thrée
                 were
                 his
                 :
                 or
                 if
                 (
                 as
                 others
                 affirme
                 )
                 into
                 foure
                 parts
                 ,
                 almost
                 thrée
                 of
                 that
                 foure
                 hée
                 had
                 firme
                 footing
                 in
                 .
              
               
                 But
                 if
                 such
                 a
                 fellow
                 as
                 a
                 treble
                 voic'd
                 Bel-man
                 ,
                 should
                 be
                 suffer
                 to
                 pry
                 into
                 the
                 infernall
                 Misteries
                 ,
                 &
                 into
                 those
                 blacke
                 Acts
                 which
                 command
                 the
                 spirits
                 of
                 the
                 Déepe
                 ,
                 and
                 hauing
                 sucked
                 what
                 knowledge
                 he
                 can
                 from
                 them
                 ,
                 to
                 turn
                 it
                 all
                 into
                 poison
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 spit
                 it
                 in
                 the
                 very
                 faces
                 of
                 the
                 professors
                 ,
                 with
                 a
                 malicious
                 intent
                 to
                 make
                 them
                 appeare
                 vgly
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 to
                 grow
                 hatefull
                 and
                 out
                 of
                 fauour
                 with
                 the
                 world
                 ,
                 if
                 such
                 a
                 coniurer
                 at
                 midnight
                 should
                 dance
                 in
                 their
                 circles
                 ,
                 and
                 not
                 be
                 driuen
                 out
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 Hell
                 in
                 a
                 few
                 yéers
                 would
                 not
                 be
                 worth
                 the
                 dwelling
                 in
                 .
                 The
                 great
                 Lord
                 of
                 Limbo
                 did
                 therefore
                 command
                 all
                 his
                 blacke
                 guard
                 that
                 stood
                 about
                 him
                 ,
                 to
                 bestirre
                 them
                 in
                 their
                 places
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 defend
                 the
                 court
                 wherein
                 they
                 liued
                 :
                 threatning
                 (
                 besides
                 )
                 that
                 his
                 curse
                 ,
                 and
                 all
                 the
                 plagues
                 of
                 stincking
                 Hell
                 should
                 
                 fall
                 vpon
                 his
                 officers
                 ,
                 seruants
                 ,
                 and
                 subiects
                 ,
                 vnlesse
                 they
                 either
                 aduiz'd
                 him
                 ,
                 how
                 ,
                 or
                 take
                 some
                 spéedie
                 order
                 themselues
                 to
                 punish
                 that
                 saucie
                 intelligencer
                 ,
                 the
                 Bel-man
                 of
                 London
                 .
                 Thus
                 hée
                 spake
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 sat
                 downe
                 .
              
               
                 At
                 last
                 ,
                 a
                 foolish
                 Diuell
                 rose
                 vp
                 ,
                 and
                 shot
                 the
                 bolt
                 of
                 his
                 aduice
                 ,
                 which
                 flew
                 thus
                 farre
                 :
                 That
                 the
                 Black-dogge
                 of
                 New-gate
                 should
                 againe
                 be
                 let
                 loose
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 farre
                 off
                 ,
                 follow
                 the
                 Bauling
                 Bel-man
                 ,
                 to
                 watch
                 into
                 what
                 places
                 hée
                 went
                 ,
                 and
                 what
                 déedes
                 of
                 darkenesse
                 (
                 euerie
                 
                 night
                 )
                 hée
                 did
                 .
                 
                   Hinc
                   risus
                
                 !
                 The
                 whole
                 Synodicall
                 assembly
                 ,
                 fell
                 a
                 laughing
                 at
                 this
                 Wise-acre
                 ,
                 so
                 that
                 neither
                 he
                 ,
                 nor
                 his
                 blacke
                 Dogge
                 durst
                 barke
                 any
                 more
                 .
              
               
                 Another
                 ,
                 thinking
                 to
                 cleaue
                 the
                 very
                 pinne
                 with
                 his
                 arrow
                 ,
                 drew
                 it
                 home
                 to
                 the
                 head
                 of
                 Wisdome
                 (
                 as
                 he
                 imagined
                 )
                 and
                 yet
                 that
                 lighted
                 wide
                 too
                 .
                 But
                 thus
                 shot
                 his
                 counsell
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 Ghosts
                 of
                 all
                 those
                 Théeues
                 ,
                 Cheaters
                 ,
                 and
                 others
                 of
                 that
                 damned
                 crew
                 ,
                 (
                 who
                 by
                 the
                 Bel-mans
                 discouerie
                 ,
                 had
                 béene
                 betraied
                 ,
                 were
                 taken
                 and
                 sent
                 westward
                 )
                 should
                 be
                 fetched
                 from
                 those
                 fields
                 of
                 Horror
                 ,
                 where
                 euery
                 night
                 they
                 walke
                 ,
                 disputing
                 with
                 Doctor
                 Story
                 ,
                 who
                 kéepes
                 them
                 company
                 there
                 in
                 his
                 corner
                 Cap
                 :
                 and
                 that
                 those
                 wry
                 neckt
                 spirits
                 should
                 haue
                 charge
                 giuen
                 them
                 to
                 haunt
                 the
                 Bel-man
                 in
                 his
                 walkes
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 fright
                 him
                 out
                 of
                 his
                 wits
                 .
                 The
                 Diuell
                 for
                 all
                 his
                 roaring
                 went
                 away
                 neither
                 with
                 a
                 Plaudite
                 ,
                 nor
                 with
                 a
                 hisse
                 .
                 Others
                 stept
                 vp
                 ,
                 some
                 pronouncing
                 one
                 verdict
                 ,
                 some
                 another
                 :
                 But
                 at
                 the
                 last
                 ,
                 it
                 being
                 put
                 into
                 their
                 Diulish
                 heads
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 had
                 no
                 power
                 ouer
                 him
                 further
                 then
                 what
                 should
                 be
                 giuen
                 vnto
                 them
                 ,
                 it
                 was
                 concluded
                 and
                 set
                 downe
                 as
                 a
                 rule
                 in
                 Court
                 ,
                 that
                 some
                 one
                 strange
                 Spirit
                 ,
                 who
                 could
                 transport
                 himselfe
                 into
                 all
                 shapes
                 ,
                 should
                 be
                 sent
                 vp
                 to
                 London
                 ,
                 and
                 scorning
                 to
                 take
                 reuenge
                 vpon
                 so
                 meane
                 a
                 person
                 as
                 a
                 Bel-ringer
                 ,
                 should
                 thrust
                 himselfe
                 into
                 such
                 companyes
                 (
                 as
                 in
                 a
                 warrant
                 to
                 be
                 signed
                 for
                 that
                 purpose
                 )
                 should
                 be
                 nominated
                 :
                 and
                 being
                 once
                 growne
                 familiar
                 with
                 them
                 ,
                 hée
                 was
                 to
                 worke
                 and
                 win
                 them
                 by
                 all
                 possible
                 meanes
                 to
                 fight
                 vnder
                 the
                 dismall
                 and
                 blacke
                 colours
                 of
                 the
                 Grand
                 Sophy
                 (
                 his
                 Lord
                 and
                 Maister
                 )
                 the
                 fruit
                 that
                 was
                 to
                 grow
                 vpon
                 this
                 trée
                 of
                 euill
                 ,
                 would
                 be
                 great
                 ,
                 for
                 it
                 should
                 be
                 fit
                 to
                 be
                 serued
                 vp
                 to
                 
                   Don
                   Lucifers
                
                 Table
                 ,
                 as
                 a
                 new
                 banquetting
                 Dish
                 ,
                 sithence
                 all
                 his
                 other
                 meates
                 ,
                 (
                 though
                 they
                 fatted
                 him
                 well
                 )
                 were
                 growne
                 stale
                 .
              
               
                 Hereupon
                 Parmersiell
                 the
                 Messenger
                 was
                 called
                 ,
                 a
                 Pasport
                 was
                 drawne
                 ,
                 signed
                 ,
                 and
                 deliuered
                 to
                 him
                 ,
                 with
                 certaine
                 instructions
                 how
                 to
                 carry
                 himselfe
                 in
                 his
                 trauell
                 .
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 And
                 thus
                 much
                 was
                 openly
                 spoken
                 to
                 him
                 by
                 word
                 of
                 mouth
                 .
              
               
                 Flye
                 Pamersiel
                 with
                 spéede
                 to
                 the
                 great
                 and
                 populous
                 citie
                 in
                 the
                 West
                 :
                 winde
                 thy selfe
                 into
                 all
                 shapes
                 :
                 be
                 a
                 Dogge
                 (
                 to
                 ●awne
                 ,
                 )
                 a
                 Dragon
                 (
                 to
                 confound
                 ,
                 )
                 be
                 a
                 Doue
                 (
                 séeme
                 innocent
                 ,
                 )
                 be
                 a
                 Deuill
                 (
                 as
                 thou
                 art
                 ,
                 )
                 and
                 shew
                 that
                 thou
                 art
                 a
                 Iorniman
                 to
                 hel
                 .
                 Build
                 rather
                 thynest
                 amongst
                 willowes
                 that
                 bend
                 euerie
                 way
                 ,
                 then
                 on
                 tops
                 of
                 Oakes
                 ,
                 whose
                 hearts
                 are
                 hard
                 to
                 be
                 broken
                 :
                 Fly
                 with
                 the
                 Swallow
                 ,
                 close
                 to
                 the
                 earth
                 ,
                 when
                 stormes
                 are
                 at
                 hand
                 ,
                 but
                 kéepe
                 company
                 with
                 
                   Birdes
                   of
                   greater
                   tallants
                
                 ,
                 when
                 the
                 weather
                 is
                 cléere
                 ,
                 and
                 neuer
                 leaue
                 them
                 till
                 they
                 looke
                 like
                 Rauens
                 :
                 créepe
                 into
                 bosomes
                 that
                 are
                 buttond
                 vp
                 in
                 sattin
                 and
                 there
                 spred
                 the
                 wings
                 of
                 thine
                 infection
                 :
                 make
                 euerie
                 head
                 thy
                 pillow
                 to
                 leane
                 vpon
                 ,
                 or
                 vse
                 it
                 like
                 a
                 Mill
                 ,
                 onely
                 to
                 grinde
                 mischiefe
                 .
                 If
                 thou
                 méetst
                 a
                 Dutchman
                 ,
                 drinke
                 with
                 him
                 :
                 if
                 a
                 Frenchman
                 ,
                 stab
                 :
                 if
                 a
                 Spaniard
                 ,
                 betray
                 :
                 if
                 an
                 Italian
                 poyson
                 :
                 if
                 an
                 Englishman
                 doe
                 all
                 this
                 .
              
               
                 Haunt
                 Tauerns
                 ,
                 there
                 thou
                 shalt
                 finde
                 prodigalls
                 :
                 pay
                 thy
                 two-pence
                 to
                 a
                 Player
                 ,
                 in
                 his
                 gallerie
                 maist
                 thou
                 sit
                 by
                 a
                 Harlot
                 :
                 at
                 Ordinaries
                 maist
                 thou
                 dine
                 with
                 filken
                 fooles
                 :
                 when
                 the
                 day
                 steales
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 world
                 ,
                 thou
                 shalt
                 méete
                 rich
                 drunkards
                 ,
                 vnder
                 welted
                 gownes
                 search
                 for
                 thréescore
                 in
                 the
                 hundred
                 ,
                 hugge
                 those
                 golden
                 villaines
                 ,
                 they
                 shine
                 bright
                 ,
                 &
                 will
                 make
                 a
                 good
                 shew
                 in
                 hell
                 ,
                 shricke
                 with
                 a
                 cricket
                 in
                 the
                 brew-house
                 ,
                 and
                 watch
                 how
                 they
                 coniure
                 there
                 :
                 Ride
                 vp
                 and
                 downe
                 Smith-field
                 ,
                 and
                 play
                 the
                 Iade
                 there
                 :
                 Visit
                 prisons
                 ,
                 and
                 teach
                 Iaylors
                 how
                 to
                 make
                 nets
                 of
                 Iron
                 there
                 :
                 binde
                 thy selfe
                 Prentice
                 to
                 the
                 best
                 trades
                 :
                 but
                 if
                 thou
                 canst
                 grow
                 extreame
                 ritch
                 in
                 a
                 very
                 short
                 time
                 (
                 honestly
                 )
                 I
                 banish
                 thée
                 my
                 kingdome
                 ,
                 come
                 no
                 more
                 into
                 hell
                 ,
                 I
                 haue
                 red
                 thée
                 a
                 lecture
                 ,
                 follow
                 it
                 ,
                 farewell
                 .
              
               
                 No
                 sooner
                 was
                 farewell
                 spoken
                 ,
                 but
                 the
                 spirit
                 to
                 whom
                 all
                 these
                 matters
                 were
                 giuen
                 in
                 charge
                 ,
                 vanished
                 :
                 the
                 clouen
                 footed
                 Orator
                 arose
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 whole
                 assembly
                 went
                 about
                 their
                 damnable
                 businesse
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 Gul-groping
                 .
                 How
                 Gentlemen
                 are
                 cheated
                 at
                 Ordinaries
                 .
                 CHAP.
                 III.
                 
              
               
                 THe
                 Diuels
                 foote-man
                 was
                 very
                 nimble
                 of
                 his
                 héeles
                 (
                 for
                 no
                 wilde-Irish
                 man
                 could
                 out-runne
                 him
                 ,
                 and
                 therefore
                 in
                 a
                 few
                 houres
                 ,
                 was
                 hée
                 come
                 vp
                 to
                 London
                 :
                 the
                 miles
                 betwéene
                 Hell
                 and
                 any
                 place
                 vpon
                 earth
                 ,
                 being
                 shorter
                 then
                 those
                 betwéene
                 London
                 and
                 Saint
                 Albones
                 ,
                 to
                 any
                 man
                 that
                 trauels
                 from
                 hence
                 thither
                 ,
                 or
                 to
                 any
                 Lacky
                 that
                 comes
                 from
                 thence
                 hether
                 ,
                 on
                 the
                 Deuils
                 errands
                 :
                 but
                 to
                 any
                 other
                 poore
                 soule
                 ,
                 that
                 dwells
                 in
                 those
                 low
                 countries
                 ,
                 they
                 are
                 neuer
                 at
                 an
                 end
                 ,
                 and
                 by
                 him
                 are
                 not
                 possible
                 to
                 be
                 measured
                 .
              
               
                 No
                 sooner
                 was
                 hée
                 entred
                 into
                 the
                 Citie
                 ,
                 but
                 hée
                 met
                 with
                 one
                 of
                 his
                 Maisters
                 daughters
                 ,
                 called
                 Pride
                 ,
                 drest
                 like
                 a
                 Marchants
                 wife
                 ,
                 who
                 taking
                 acquaintance
                 of
                 him
                 ,
                 and
                 vnderstanding
                 for
                 what
                 he
                 came
                 ,
                 tolde
                 him
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 first
                 thing
                 hée
                 was
                 to
                 doe
                 ,
                 hée
                 must
                 put
                 himselfe
                 in
                 good
                 cloathes
                 ,
                 such
                 as
                 were
                 sutable
                 to
                 the
                 fashion
                 of
                 the
                 time
                 ,
                 for
                 that
                 here
                 ,
                 men
                 were
                 look'd
                 vpon
                 onely
                 for
                 their
                 out-sides
                 :
                 he
                 that
                 had
                 not
                 ten-pounds-worth
                 of
                 wares
                 in
                 his
                 shop
                 ,
                 would
                 carry
                 twentie
                 markes
                 on
                 his
                 backe
                 :
                 that
                 there
                 were
                 a
                 number
                 of
                 sumpter-horses
                 in
                 the
                 citie
                 ,
                 who
                 cared
                 
                 not
                 how
                 coursely
                 they
                 fed
                 ,
                 so
                 they
                 might
                 were
                 gay
                 trappings
                 :
                 yea
                 ,
                 that
                 some
                 pied
                 fooles
                 ,
                 to
                 put
                 on
                 satin
                 and
                 veluet
                 but
                 foure
                 daies
                 in
                 the
                 yeare
                 ,
                 did
                 often-times
                 vndoe
                 themselues
                 ,
                 wiues
                 and
                 Children
                 euer
                 after
                 .
                 The
                 spirit
                 of
                 the
                 
                   Deuils
                   Buttery
                
                 hearing
                 this
                 ,
                 made
                 a
                 legge
                 to
                 Pride
                 for
                 here
                 counsell
                 ,
                 and
                 knowing
                 by
                 his
                 owne
                 experience
                 that
                 euerie
                 Taylor
                 hath
                 his
                 hell
                 to
                 himselfe
                 ,
                 vnder
                 his
                 Shop-board
                 ,
                 (
                 where
                 he
                 dammes
                 new
                 Sattin
                 )
                 amongst
                 them
                 hée
                 thought
                 to
                 finde
                 best
                 welcome
                 ,
                 and
                 therefore
                 into
                 Burchin-lane
                 hée
                 stalkes
                 verie
                 mannerly
                 ,
                 Pride
                 going
                 along
                 with
                 him
                 ,
                 and
                 taking
                 the
                 vpper
                 hand
                 .
              
               
               
                 No
                 sooner
                 was
                 hée
                 entred
                 into
                 the
                 rankes
                 of
                 the
                 Linnen
                 
                 Armorers
                 ,
                 (
                 whose
                 weapons
                 are
                 Spanish
                 néedles
                 )
                 but
                 hée
                 was
                 most
                 terribly
                 and
                 sharpely
                 set
                 vpon
                 ,
                 euerie
                 prentise
                 boy
                 had
                 a
                 pull
                 at
                 him
                 :
                 hee
                 feared
                 they
                 all
                 had
                 bin
                 Serieants
                 ,
                 because
                 they
                 all
                 had
                 him
                 by
                 the
                 backe
                 :
                 neuer
                 was
                 poore
                 deuill
                 so
                 tormented
                 in
                 hell
                 ,
                 as
                 he
                 was
                 amongst
                 them
                 :
                 he
                 thought
                 it
                 had
                 béene
                 Saint
                 Thomas
                 his
                 day
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 he
                 had
                 béene
                 called
                 vpon
                 to
                 be
                 Constable
                 ,
                 there
                 was
                 such
                 bauling
                 in
                 his
                 eares
                 ,
                 and
                 no
                 strength
                 could
                 shake
                 them
                 off
                 ,
                 but
                 that
                 they
                 must
                 shew
                 him
                 some
                 suites
                 of
                 apparell
                 ,
                 because
                 they
                 saw
                 what
                 Gentlewoman
                 was
                 in
                 his
                 company
                 (
                 whom
                 they
                 all
                 knew
                 ,
                 )
                 Seeing
                 no
                 remedie
                 ,
                 into
                 a
                 shop
                 hée
                 goes
                 ,
                 was
                 fitted
                 brauely
                 ,
                 and
                 beating
                 the
                 price
                 ,
                 found
                 the
                 lowest
                 to
                 be
                 vnreasonable
                 ,
                 yet
                 paide
                 it
                 ,
                 and
                 departed
                 ,
                 none
                 of
                 them
                 (
                 by
                 reason
                 of
                 their
                 crowding
                 about
                 him
                 before
                 )
                 perceiuing
                 what
                 customer
                 they
                 had
                 met
                 with
                 ,
                 but
                 now
                 the
                 Taylor
                 spying
                 the
                 deuill
                 ,
                 suffered
                 him
                 to
                 goe
                 ,
                 neuer
                 praying
                 that
                 hée
                 wold
                 know
                 the
                 shop
                 another
                 time
                 ,
                 but
                 looking
                 round
                 about
                 his
                 ware-house
                 if
                 nothing
                 were
                 missing
                 ,
                 at
                 length
                 he
                 found
                 that
                 he
                 had
                 lost
                 his
                 conscience
                 :
                 yet
                 remembring
                 himselfe
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 who
                 deale
                 with
                 the
                 diuell
                 ,
                 can
                 hardly
                 kéepe
                 it
                 ,
                 he
                 stood
                 vpon
                 it
                 the
                 lesse
                 .
              
               
                 
                   The
                   fashions
                   of
                   an
                   Ordinarie
                   .
                
                 
                   THe
                   
                     Stigian
                     traueller
                  
                   being
                   thus
                   translated
                   into
                   an
                   accomplished
                   gallant
                   ,
                   with
                   all
                   acoutrements
                   belonging
                   (
                   as
                   a
                   ●ether
                   for
                   his
                   head
                   ,
                   gilt
                   rapier
                   for
                   his
                   sides
                   ,
                   &
                   new
                   boots
                   to
                   hide
                   his
                   polt
                   foote
                   ,
                   for
                   in
                   Bed-lam
                   he
                   met
                   with
                   a
                   shoemaker
                   ,
                   a
                   mad
                   slaue
                   ,
                   that
                   knew
                   the
                   length
                   of
                   his
                   last
                   )
                   it
                   rested
                   ,
                   onely
                   that
                   now
                   hée
                   was
                   to
                   enter
                   vpon
                   company
                   sutable
                   to
                   his
                   cloathes
                   :
                   and
                   knowing
                   that
                   your
                   most
                   selected
                   Gallants
                   are
                   the
                   onely-tablemen
                   that
                   are
                   plaid
                   with
                   all
                   at
                   Ordinaries
                   ,
                   into
                   an
                   Ordinary
                   did
                   he
                   most
                   gentleman
                   like
                   ,
                   conuay
                   himselfe
                   in
                   state
                   .
                
                 
                   It
                   seemed
                   that
                   all
                   who
                   came
                   thether
                   ,
                   had
                   clocks
                   in
                   their
                   bellies
                   ,
                   for
                   they
                   all
                   strucke
                   into
                   the
                   dyning
                   roome
                   much
                   a-about
                   the
                   very
                   minute
                   of
                   féeding
                   .
                   Our
                   Caualier
                   had
                   all
                   the
                   eyes
                   (
                   that
                   came
                   in
                   )
                   throwne
                   vpon
                   him
                   ,
                   (
                   as
                   being
                   a
                   
                   stranger
                   :
                   for
                   no
                   Ambassador
                   from
                   the
                   diuell
                   euer
                   dined
                   amongst
                   them
                   before
                   ,
                   )
                   and
                   he
                   asmuch
                   tooke
                   especiall
                   notice
                   of
                   them
                   .
                   In
                   obseruing
                   of
                   whom
                   and
                   of
                   the
                   place
                   ,
                   he
                   found
                   ,
                   that
                   an
                   Ordinary
                   was
                   the
                   onely
                   Randeuouz
                   for
                   the
                   most
                   ingenious
                   ,
                   most
                   terse
                   ,
                   most
                   trauaild
                   ,
                   and
                   most
                   phantastick
                   gallant
                   :
                   the
                   very
                   Exchange
                   for
                   newes
                   out
                   of
                   all
                   countries
                   :
                   the
                   only
                   Booke-sellers
                   shop
                   for
                   conference
                   of
                   the
                   best
                   Editions
                   ,
                   that
                   if
                   a
                   woman
                   (
                   to
                   be
                   a
                   Lady
                   )
                   would
                   cast
                   away
                   herselfe
                   vpon
                   a
                   
                     Knight
                     ,
                     there
                  
                   a
                   man
                   should
                   heare
                   a
                   Catalogue
                   of
                   most
                   of
                   the
                   richest
                   London
                   widowes
                   :
                   &
                   last
                   ,
                   that
                   it
                   was
                   a
                   schoole
                   where
                   they
                   were
                   all
                   fellowes
                   of
                   one
                   Forme
                   ,
                   &
                   that
                   a
                   country
                   gentleman
                   was
                   of
                   as
                   great
                   comming
                   as
                   the
                   proudest
                   Iustice
                   that
                   sat
                   there
                   on
                   the
                   bench
                   aboue
                   him
                   :
                   for
                   hée
                   that
                   had
                   the
                   graine
                   of
                   the
                   table
                   with
                   his
                   trencher
                   ,
                   payd
                   no
                   more
                   then
                   he
                   that
                   placed
                   himselfe
                   beneath
                   the
                   salt
                   .
                
                 
                   The
                   
                     diuels
                     intelligencer
                  
                   could
                   not
                   be
                   contented
                   to
                   fill
                   his
                   eye
                   onely
                   with
                   these
                   obiects
                   ,
                   and
                   to
                   féed
                   his
                   belly
                   with
                   delicate
                   chéere
                   :
                   but
                   hée
                   drew
                   a
                   larger
                   picture
                   of
                   all
                   that
                   were
                   there
                   ,
                   and
                   in
                   these
                   collours
                   .
                
                 
                   The
                   voider
                   hauing
                   cléered
                   the
                   table
                   ,
                   
                     Cardes
                     &
                     Dice
                  
                   (
                   for
                   the
                   last
                   Messe
                   )
                   are
                   serued
                   vp
                   to
                   the
                   boord
                   :
                   they
                   that
                   are
                   full
                   of
                   coyne
                   draw
                   :
                   they
                   that
                   haue
                   little
                   ,
                   stand
                   by
                   &
                   giue
                   ayme
                   :
                   they
                   shuffle
                   and
                   cut
                   on
                   one
                   side
                   :
                   the
                   bones
                   rattle
                   on
                   the
                   other
                   :
                   long
                   haue
                   they
                   not
                   plaide
                   ,
                   but
                   oathes
                   fly
                   vp
                   &
                   downe
                   the
                   roome
                   like
                   haile-shot
                   :
                   if
                   the
                   poore
                   dumb
                   Dice
                   be
                   but
                   a
                   little
                   out
                   of
                   square
                   ,
                   the
                   pox
                   &
                   a
                   thousand-plagues
                   breake
                   their
                   neckes
                   out
                   at
                   window
                   :
                   presently
                   after
                   ,
                   the
                   foure
                   knaues
                   are
                   sent
                   packing
                   the
                   same
                   way
                   ,
                   or
                   els
                   (
                   like
                   heretikes
                   )
                   are
                   condemned
                   to
                   be
                   burnt
                   .
                
                 
                   In
                   this
                   battaile
                   of
                   Cardes
                   and
                   Dice
                   ,
                   are
                   seuerall
                   Regiments
                   and
                   seuerall
                   Officers
                   .
                
                 
                   They
                   that
                   sit
                   downe
                   to
                   play
                   ,
                   are
                   at
                   first
                   cald
                   Leaders
                   .
                
                 
                   They
                   that
                   loose
                   ,
                   are
                   
                     the
                     Forlorne
                     Hope
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   He
                   that
                   winnes
                   all
                   ,
                   is
                   the
                   Eagle
                   .
                
                 
                   He
                   that
                   stands
                   by
                   and
                   Ventures
                   ,
                   is
                   
                     the
                     Wood-pecker
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   The
                   fresh
                   Gallant
                   that
                   is
                   fetcht
                   in
                   ,
                   is
                   
                     The
                     Gul.
                  
                   
                
                 
                   He
                   that
                   stands
                   by
                   ,
                   and
                   lends
                   ,
                   is
                   
                     the
                     Gul-groper
                  
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                 
                   The
                   Gul-groper
                   .
                
                 
                   THis
                   Gul-groper
                   is
                   commonly
                   an
                   old
                   Mony-monger
                   ,
                   who
                   hauing
                   trauaild
                   through
                   all
                   the
                   follyes
                   of
                   the
                   world
                   in
                   his
                   youth
                   ,
                   knowes
                   them
                   well
                   ,
                   and
                   shunnes
                   them
                   in
                   his
                   age
                   ,
                   his
                   whole
                   felicitie
                   being
                   to
                   fill
                   his
                   bags
                   with
                   golde
                   and
                   siluer
                   :
                   hée
                   comes
                   to
                   an
                   Ordinary
                   ,
                   to
                   saue
                   charges
                   of
                   house-kéeping
                   ,
                   and
                   will
                   eate
                   for
                   his
                   two
                   shillings
                   ,
                   more
                   meate
                   then
                   will
                   serue
                   thrée
                   of
                   the
                   guard
                   at
                   a
                   dinner
                   ,
                   yet
                   sweares
                   hée
                   comes
                   thether
                   onely
                   for
                   the
                   company
                   ,
                   and
                   to
                   conuerse
                   with
                   trauailers
                   .
                   It
                   is
                   a
                   Gold-Finch
                   that
                   sildome
                   flies
                   to
                   these
                   Ordinary
                   Nests
                   ,
                   without
                   a
                   hundred
                   or
                   two
                   hundred
                   pound
                   in
                   twenty
                   shilling
                   péeces
                   about
                   him
                   .
                   After
                   the
                   tearing
                   of
                   some
                   seauen
                   paire
                   of
                   Cardes
                   ,
                   or
                   the
                   damning
                   of
                   some
                   ten
                   baile
                   of
                   Dice
                   ,
                   steps
                   hée
                   vpon
                   the
                   Stage
                   ,
                   and
                   this
                   part
                   hée
                   playes
                   .
                   If
                   any
                   of
                   the
                   
                     Forlorne
                     Hope
                  
                   be
                   a
                   Gentleman
                   of
                   Meanes
                   ,
                   either
                   in
                   Esse
                   ,
                   or
                   in
                   Posse
                   ,
                   (
                   and
                   that
                   the
                   olde
                   Foxe
                   will
                   be
                   sure
                   to
                   know
                   to
                   halfe
                   an
                   Acre
                   )
                   whose
                   money
                   runnes
                   at
                   a
                   low
                   ebbe
                   ,
                   as
                   may
                   appeare
                   by
                   his
                   scratching
                   of
                   the
                   head
                   ,
                   and
                   walking
                   vp
                   and
                   downe
                   the
                   roome
                   ,
                   as
                   if
                   hée
                   wanted
                   an
                   Ostler
                   :
                   The
                   Gul-groper
                   takes
                   him
                   to
                   a
                   side
                   window
                   and
                   tels
                   him
                   ,
                   hée
                   is
                   sorry
                   to
                   sée
                   his
                   hard
                   lucke
                   ,
                   but
                   the
                   Dice
                   are
                   made
                   of
                   womens
                   bones
                   ,
                   and
                   will
                   cozen
                   any
                   man
                   ,
                   yet
                   for
                   his
                   fathers
                   sake
                   (
                   whom
                   hée
                   hath
                   knowne
                   so
                   long
                   )
                   if
                   it
                   please
                   him
                   ,
                   he
                   shall
                   not
                   leaue
                   off
                   play
                   for
                   a
                   hundred
                   pound
                   or
                   two
                   .
                   If
                   my
                   yong
                   Estrich
                   gape
                   to
                   swallow
                   downe
                   this
                   mettall
                   (
                   as
                   for
                   the
                   most
                   part
                   they
                   are
                   very
                   gréedy
                   ,
                   hauing
                   such
                   prouander
                   set
                   before
                   them
                   )
                   then
                   is
                   the
                   gold
                   powred
                   on
                   the
                   board
                   ,
                   a
                   Bond
                   is
                   made
                   for
                   repaiment
                   ,
                   at
                   the
                   next
                   quarter
                   day
                   ,
                   when
                   Exhibition
                   is
                   sent
                   in
                   :
                   and
                   because
                   it
                   is
                   all
                   gold
                   ,
                   and
                   cost
                   so
                   much
                   the
                   changing
                   ,
                   the
                   Scriuener
                   (
                   who
                   is
                   a
                   whelpe
                   of
                   the
                   old
                   Mastiues
                   owne
                   bréeding
                   )
                   knows
                   what
                   words
                   will
                   bite
                   ,
                   which
                   thus
                   he
                   fastens
                   vpon
                   him
                   ,
                   and
                   in
                   this
                   Net
                   the
                   Gull
                   is
                   sure
                   to
                   be
                   taken
                   (
                   howsoeuer
                   :
                   )
                   for
                   if
                   hée
                   fall
                   to
                   play
                   againe
                   ,
                   and
                   loose
                   ,
                   the
                   hoary
                   Goat-bearded
                   Satyre
                   that
                   stands
                   at
                   his
                   elbow
                   ,
                   laughes
                   
                   in
                   his
                   sléeue
                   :
                   if
                   his
                   bags
                   be
                   so
                   recouered
                   of
                   their
                   Falling-sicknes
                   ,
                   that
                   they
                   be
                   able
                   presently
                   to
                   repay
                   the
                   borrowed
                   gold
                   ,
                   then
                   
                     Monsieur
                     Gul-groper
                  
                   steales
                   away
                   of
                   purpose
                   to
                   auoide
                   the
                   reccipt
                   of
                   it
                   ;
                   hée
                   hath
                   fatter
                   Chickens
                   in
                   hatching
                   :
                   it
                   is
                   a
                   fayrer
                   marke
                   hée
                   shootes
                   at
                   .
                   For
                   the
                   day
                   being
                   come
                   when
                   the
                   bond
                   growes
                   due
                   ,
                   the
                   within
                   named
                   
                     Signior
                     Auaro
                  
                   ,
                   will
                   not
                   be
                   within
                   :
                   or
                   if
                   hée
                   be
                   at
                   home
                   ,
                   hée
                   hath
                   wedges
                   enough
                   in
                   his
                   pate
                   ,
                   to
                   cause
                   the
                   bond
                   to
                   be
                   broken
                   ,
                   or
                   else
                   a
                   little
                   before
                   the
                   day
                   ,
                   hée
                   féeds
                   my
                   young
                   Maister
                   with
                   such
                   swéete
                   words
                   ,
                   that
                   surfetting
                   vpon
                   his
                   protestations
                   ,
                   hée
                   neglects
                   his
                   paiment
                   ,
                   as
                   presuming
                   hée
                   may
                   doe
                   more
                   But
                   the
                   Law
                   hauing
                   a
                   hand
                   in
                   the
                   forfeiture
                   of
                   the
                   bond
                   ,
                   laies
                   presently
                   hold
                   of
                   our
                   yong
                   Gallant
                   with
                   the
                   helpe
                   of
                   a
                   couple
                   of
                   Serieants
                   ,
                   and
                   iust
                   at
                   such
                   a
                   time
                   when
                   old
                   
                     Erra
                     Pater
                  
                   (
                   the
                   Iew
                   )
                   that
                   lent
                   him
                   the
                   money
                   ,
                   knowes
                   by
                   his
                   owne
                   Prognostication
                   ,
                   that
                   the
                   Moone
                   with
                   the
                   siluer
                   face
                   is
                   with
                   him
                   in
                   the
                   waine
                   .
                   Nothing
                   then
                   can
                   frée
                   him
                   out
                   of
                   the
                   phangs
                   of
                   those
                   bloud-hounds
                   ,
                   but
                   he
                   must
                   presently
                   confesse
                   a
                   iudgement
                   ,
                   for
                   so
                   much
                   money
                   ,
                   or
                   for
                   such
                   a
                   Manor
                   or
                   Lordship
                   (
                   thrée
                   times
                   worth
                   the
                   bond
                   forfeited
                   )
                   to
                   be
                   paid
                   ,
                   or
                   to
                   be
                   entred
                   vpon
                   by
                   him
                   ,
                   by
                   such
                   a
                   day
                   ,
                   or
                   within
                   so
                   many
                   moneths
                   after
                   he
                   comes
                   to
                   his
                   land
                   .
                   And
                   thus
                   are
                   young
                   heires
                   coozend
                   of
                   their
                   Acres
                   ,
                   before
                   they
                   well
                   know
                   where
                   they
                   lye
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   The
                   Wood-pecker
                   .
                
                 
                   THe
                   Wood-pecker
                   is
                   a
                   bird
                   that
                   sits
                   by
                   vpon
                   a
                   perch
                   too
                   :
                   but
                   is
                   nothing
                   so
                   dangerous
                   ,
                   as
                   this
                   Vulture
                   spoken
                   of
                   before
                   .
                   He
                   deales
                   altogether
                   vpon
                   Returnes
                   ,
                   (
                   as
                   men
                   doe
                   that
                   take
                   thrée
                   for
                   one
                   ,
                   at
                   their
                   comming
                   back
                   from
                   Ierusalem
                   ,
                   &c.
                   )
                   for
                   hauing
                   a
                   Iewell
                   ,
                   a
                   Clock
                   ,
                   a
                   ring
                   with
                   a
                   Diamond
                   ,
                   or
                   any
                   such
                   like
                   commoditie
                   ,
                   hée
                   notes
                   him
                   well
                   that
                   commonly
                   is
                   best
                   acquainted
                   with
                   the
                   Dice
                   ,
                   and
                   hath
                   euer
                   good
                   lucke
                   :
                   to
                   him
                   he
                   offers
                   his
                   prize
                   ,
                   rating
                   it
                   at
                   ten
                   or
                   fiftéene
                   pound
                   ,
                   when
                   happily
                   it
                   is
                   not
                   worth
                   aboue
                   six
                   ,
                   and
                   for
                   it
                   hée
                   bargaines
                   to
                   receiue
                   fiue
                   shillings
                   or
                   ten
                   shillings
                   (
                   according
                   as
                   it
                   is
                   in
                   value
                   )
                   at
                   
                   euery
                   hand
                   ,
                   second
                   third
                   ,
                   or
                   fourth
                   hand
                   hée
                   drawes
                   :
                   by
                   which
                   means
                   he
                   perhaps
                   in
                   a
                   short
                   time
                   ,
                   makes
                   that
                   yéeld
                   him
                   forty
                   or
                   fifty
                   pound
                   ,
                   which
                   cost
                   not
                   halfe
                   twenty
                   .
                   Many
                   of
                   these
                   Merchant
                   venturers
                   saile
                   from
                   Ordinary
                   to
                   Ordinary
                   ,
                   being
                   sure
                   alwayes
                   to
                   make
                   sauing
                   Voiages
                   ,
                   when
                   they
                   that
                   put
                   in
                   ten
                   times
                   more
                   then
                   they
                   ,
                   are
                   for
                   the
                   most
                   part
                   loosers
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   The
                   Gull.
                   
                
                 
                   NOwifeither
                   
                     The
                     Leaders
                  
                   ,
                   or
                   
                     The
                     forlorne
                     Hope
                  
                   ,
                   or
                   any
                   of
                   the
                   rest
                   ,
                   chance
                   to
                   heare
                   of
                   a
                   yong
                   Fresh-water
                   souldier
                   that
                   neuer
                   before
                   followed
                   these
                   strange
                   warre
                   ,
                   and
                   yet
                   hath
                   a
                   Charge
                   newly
                   giuen
                   him
                   (
                   by
                   the
                   old
                   fellow
                   
                     Soldado
                     Vecchio
                  
                   his
                   father
                   ,
                   when
                   Death
                   had
                   shutte
                   him
                   into
                   the
                   Graue
                   )
                   of
                   some
                   ten
                   or
                   twelue
                   thousand
                   in
                   ready
                   money
                   ,
                   besides
                   so
                   many
                   hundreds
                   a
                   yeare
                   :
                   first
                   are
                   Scoutes
                   sent
                   out
                   to
                   discouer
                   his
                   Lodging
                   :
                   that
                   knowne
                   some
                   lye
                   in
                   ambush
                   to
                   note
                   what
                   Apothecaries
                   shop
                   hée
                   resorts
                   too
                   euery
                   morning
                   ,
                   or
                   in
                   what
                   Tobacco
                   shop
                   in
                   Fléet-stréet
                   he
                   takes
                   a
                   pipe
                   of
                   Smoake
                   in
                   the
                   afternoone
                   :
                   that
                   fort
                   which
                   the
                   Puny
                   holds
                   ,
                   is
                   sure
                   to
                   be
                   beleaguerd
                   by
                   the
                   whole
                   troope
                   of
                   the
                   old
                   weather
                   beaten
                   Gallants
                   :
                   amongst
                   whom
                   some
                   one
                   ,
                   whose
                   wit
                   is
                   thought
                   to
                   be
                   of
                   a
                   better
                   blocke
                   for
                   his
                   head
                   ,
                   than
                   the
                   rest
                   ,
                   is
                   appointed
                   to
                   single
                   out
                   our
                   Nouice
                   ,
                   and
                   after
                   some
                   foure
                   or
                   fiue
                   dayes
                   spent
                   in
                   Complement
                   ,
                   our
                   heire
                   to
                   seauen
                   hundred
                   a
                   yeare
                   is
                   drawne
                   to
                   an
                   Ordinary
                   ,
                   into
                   which
                   hee
                   no
                   sooner
                   enters
                   ,
                   but
                   all
                   the
                   old
                   ones
                   in
                   that
                   Nest
                   flutter
                   about
                   him
                   ,
                   embrace
                   ,
                   protest
                   ,
                   kisse
                   the
                   hand
                   ,
                   Conge
                   to
                   the
                   very
                   garter
                   ,
                   and
                   in
                   the
                   end
                   (
                   to
                   shew
                   that
                   hée
                   is
                   no
                   small
                   foole
                   ,
                   but
                   that
                   he
                   knows
                   his
                   father
                   left
                   him
                   not
                   so
                   much
                   mony
                   for
                   nothing
                   ,
                   )
                   the
                   yong
                   Cub
                   suffers
                   himselfe
                   to
                   be
                   drawne
                   to
                   the
                   stake
                   :
                   to
                   flesh
                   him
                   ,
                   Fortune
                   and
                   the
                   Dice
                   (
                   or
                   rather
                   the
                   False
                   Dice
                   ,
                   that
                   coozen
                   Fortune
                   ,
                   &
                   make
                   a
                   foole
                   of
                   him
                   too
                   )
                   shall
                   so
                   fauor
                   him
                   ,
                   that
                   he
                   marches
                   away
                   from
                   a
                   battaile
                   or
                   two
                   the
                   onely
                   winner
                   .
                   But
                   afterwards
                   ,
                   let
                   him
                   play
                   how
                   warily
                   soeuer
                   hée
                   can
                   ,
                   the
                   damned
                   Dice
                   shall
                   
                   crosse
                   him
                   ,
                   and
                   his
                   siluer
                   crosses
                   shall
                   blesse
                   those
                   that
                   play
                   against
                   him
                   :
                   for
                   euen
                   they
                   that
                   seeme
                   deerest
                   to
                   his
                   bosome
                   ,
                   shall
                   first
                   be
                   ready
                   ,
                   and
                   be
                   the
                   formost
                   to
                   enter
                   with
                   the
                   other
                   Leaders
                   into
                   conspiracy
                   ,
                   how
                   to
                   make
                   spoile
                   of
                   his
                   golden
                   bags
                   .
                   By
                   such
                   ransacking
                   of
                   Cittizens
                   sormes
                   wealth
                   ,
                   the
                   Leaders
                   maintaine
                   themselues
                   braue
                   ,
                   the
                   
                     Forlome
                     hope
                  
                   ,
                   that
                   drooped
                   before
                   ,
                   do'es
                   now
                   gallantly
                   come
                   on
                   .
                   The
                   Eagle
                   fethers
                   his
                   nest
                   ,
                   the
                   Wood-pecker
                   pickes
                   vp
                   his
                   crums
                   ,
                   the
                   Gul-groper
                   growes
                   fat
                   with
                   good
                   feeding
                   :
                   and
                   the
                   Gul
                   himselfe
                   ,
                   at
                   whom
                   euery
                   one
                   has
                   a
                   Pull
                   ,
                   hath
                   in
                   the
                   end
                   scarce
                   fethers
                   enough
                   to
                   kéepe
                   his
                   owne
                   backe
                   warme
                   .
                
                 
                   The
                   Post
                   maister
                   of
                   Hell
                   ,
                   séeing
                   such
                   villaine
                   to
                   goe
                   vp
                   and
                   downe
                   in
                   cloakes
                   lined
                   cleane
                   through
                   with
                   Veluet
                   ,
                   was
                   glad
                   hée
                   had
                   such
                   newes
                   to
                   send
                   ouer
                   ,
                   and
                   therefore
                   sealing
                   vp
                   a
                   letter
                   full
                   of
                   it
                   ,
                   deliuered
                   the
                   same
                   to
                   filthybearded
                   Charon
                   (
                   their
                   owne
                   Water-man
                   )
                   to
                   be
                   conuaied
                   first
                   to
                   the
                   Porter
                   of
                   Hell
                   ,
                   &
                   then
                   (
                   by
                   him
                   )
                   to
                   the
                   Maister
                   Keeper
                   of
                   the
                   Diuels
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
                 Of
                 Ferreting
                 .
                 The
                 Manner
                 of
                 vndooing
                 Gentlemen
                 by
                 taking
                 vp
                 of
                 commodities
                 .
                 CHAP.
                 IIII.
                 
              
               
                 HVnting
                 is
                 anoble
                 ,
                 a
                 manly
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 healthfull
                 exercise
                 ,
                 it
                 is
                 a
                 very
                 true
                 picture
                 of
                 warre
                 ,
                 nay
                 it
                 is
                 a
                 war
                 in
                 it selfe
                 ,
                 for
                 engines
                 are
                 brought
                 into
                 the
                 steid
                 ,
                 stratagems
                 are
                 contriued
                 ,
                 ambushes
                 are
                 laide
                 ,
                 onsets
                 are
                 giuen
                 ,
                 allarums
                 strucke
                 vp
                 ,
                 braue
                 incounters
                 are
                 made
                 ,
                 fierce
                 assailings
                 are
                 resisted
                 by
                 strength
                 ,
                 by
                 courage
                 ,
                 or
                 by
                 pollicy
                 :
                 the
                 enemy
                 is
                 pursued
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Pursuers
                 neuer
                 giue
                 ouer
                 till
                 they
                 haue
                 him
                 in
                 execution
                 ,
                 then
                 is
                 a
                 Retreate
                 sounded
                 ,
                 then
                 are
                 spoiles
                 diuided
                 ,
                 then
                 come
                 they
                 home
                 wearied
                 ,
                 but
                 yet
                 crowned
                 with
                 honor
                 &
                 victory
                 .
                 And
                 as
                 in
                 battailes
                 there
                 be
                 seuerall
                 maners
                 of
                 fight
                 :
                 so
                 in
                 the
                 pastime
                 of
                 hunting
                 ,
                 there
                 are
                 seuerall
                 degrées
                 of
                 game
                 .
              
               
               
                 Some
                 hunt
                 the
                 Lyon
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 shewes
                 as
                 when
                 subiects
                 
                 rise
                 in
                 Armes
                 against
                 their
                 King.
                 Some
                 hunt
                 the
                 Vnicorne
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 treasure
                 on
                 his
                 head
                 ,
                 and
                 they
                 are
                 like
                 couetous
                 men
                 ,
                 that
                 care
                 not
                 whom
                 they
                 kill
                 for
                 riches
                 .
                 Some
                 hunt
                 the
                 spotted
                 Panther
                 ,
                 &
                 the
                 freckled
                 Leopard
                 ,
                 they
                 are
                 such
                 as
                 to
                 inioy
                 their
                 pleasures
                 regard
                 not
                 how
                 blacke
                 an
                 infamie
                 stickes
                 vpon
                 them
                 :
                 All
                 these
                 are
                 barbarous
                 and
                 vnnaturall
                 Huntsmen
                 ,
                 for
                 they
                 range
                 vp
                 and
                 downe
                 the
                 deserts
                 ,
                 the
                 Wildernes
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Mountaines
                 ,
                 Others
                 pursue
                 the
                 long-liued
                 Hart
                 ,
                 the
                 couragious
                 Stag
                 
                 or
                 the
                 nimble
                 footed
                 Déere
                 :
                 these
                 are
                 the
                 noblest
                 hunters
                 ,
                 and
                 they
                 exercise
                 the
                 Noblest
                 game
                 :
                 these
                 by
                 following
                 the
                 Chace
                 ,
                 get
                 strength
                 of
                 body
                 ,
                 a
                 frée
                 and
                 vndisquieted
                 minde
                 ,
                 magnanimitie
                 of
                 spirit
                 ,
                 alacritie
                 of
                 heart
                 ,
                 and
                 an
                 vnwearisomnesse
                 to
                 breake
                 through
                 the
                 hardest
                 labours
                 :
                 their
                 pleasures
                 are
                 not
                 insatiable
                 ,
                 but
                 are
                 contented
                 to
                 be
                 kept
                 within
                 limits
                 ,
                 for
                 these
                 hunt
                 within
                 Parkes
                 inclosed
                 ,
                 or
                 within
                 bounded
                 Forrests
                 .
                 The
                 hunting
                 of
                 the
                 Hare
                 teaches
                 feare
                 to
                 be
                 bould
                 ,
                 and
                 puts
                 
                 simplicitie
                 so
                 to
                 her
                 shifts
                 ,
                 that
                 she
                 growes
                 cunning
                 and
                 prouident
                 :
                 the
                 turnings
                 and
                 crosse
                 windings
                 that
                 shée
                 makes
                 are
                 embleames
                 of
                 this
                 lifes
                 vncertaintie
                 :
                 when
                 shée
                 thinkes
                 she
                 is
                 further
                 from
                 danger
                 ,
                 it
                 is
                 at
                 her
                 héeles
                 ,
                 and
                 when
                 it
                 is
                 néerest
                 to
                 her
                 ,
                 the
                 hand
                 of
                 safety
                 defends
                 her
                 .
                 When
                 shée
                 is
                 wearied
                 and
                 hath
                 runne
                 her
                 race
                 ,
                 shée
                 takes
                 her
                 death
                 patiently
                 ,
                 thereby
                 to
                 teach
                 man
                 to
                 make
                 himselfe
                 ready
                 ,
                 when
                 the
                 graue
                 gapes
                 for
                 him
                 .
              
               
                 All
                 these
                 kindes
                 of
                 hunting
                 are
                 abroad
                 in
                 the
                 open
                 field
                 ,
                 but
                 there
                 is
                 a
                 close
                 Citie
                 hunting
                 ,
                 onely
                 within
                 the
                 
                 wals
                 ,
                 that
                 pulles
                 downe
                 Parkes
                 ,
                 layes
                 open
                 Forrests
                 ,
                 destroyes
                 Chaces
                 ,
                 wounds
                 the
                 Déere
                 of
                 the
                 land
                 ,
                 and
                 makes
                 such
                 hauocke
                 of
                 the
                 goodliest
                 Heards
                 ,
                 that
                 by
                 their
                 wils
                 ,
                 (
                 who
                 are
                 the
                 rangers
                 ,
                 )
                 none
                 should
                 be
                 lest
                 aliue
                 but
                 the
                 Rascalls
                 .
                 This
                 kinde
                 of
                 hunting
                 is
                 base
                 and
                 ignoble
                 .
                 It
                 is
                 the
                 meanest
                 ,
                 yet
                 she
                 most
                 mischieuous
                 ,
                 and
                 it
                 is
                 called
                 Ferreting
                 .
                 To
                 behold
                 a
                 course
                 or
                 two
                 at
                 this
                 ,
                 did
                 the
                 light-horseman
                 of
                 Hell
                 one
                 day
                 leape
                 into
                 the
                 saddle
                 .
              
               
                 
                 
                   Citie-Hunting
                   .
                
                 
                   THis
                   Ferret-hunting
                   hath
                   his
                   Seasons
                   as
                   other
                   
                   games
                   haue
                   ,
                   and
                   is
                   onely
                   followed
                   at
                   such
                   a
                   time
                   of
                   yeare
                   ,
                   when
                   the
                   Gentry
                   of
                   our
                   kingdome
                   by
                   riots
                   ,
                   hauing
                   chased
                   them selues
                   out
                   of
                   the
                   faire
                   reuenewes
                   and
                   large
                   possessions
                   left
                   to
                   them
                   by
                   their
                   ancestors
                   are
                   forced
                   to
                   hide
                   their
                   heads
                   like
                   Conies
                   ,
                   in
                   little
                   caues
                   ,
                   and
                   in
                   vnfrequented
                   places
                   :
                   or
                   else
                   being
                   almost
                   windelesse
                   ,
                   by
                   running
                   after
                   sensuall
                   pleasures
                   too
                   fiercely
                   ,
                   they
                   are
                   glad
                   
                   (
                   for
                   keeping
                   them-selues
                   in
                   breath
                   so
                   long
                   as
                   they
                   can
                   )
                   to
                   fal
                   to
                   Ferret-hunting
                   ,
                   that
                   is
                   to
                   say
                   ,
                   to
                   tak
                   vp
                   commodities
                   .
                
                 
                   No
                   warrant
                   can
                   be
                   graunted
                   for
                   a
                   Bucke
                   in
                   this
                   forrest
                   ,
                   but
                   it
                   must
                   passe
                   vnder
                   these
                   fiue
                   hānds
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     1
                     He
                     that
                     hunts
                     vp
                     and
                     downe
                     to
                     finde
                     game
                     ,
                     is
                     called
                     ,
                     
                     the
                     Tumbler
                     .
                  
                   
                     2
                     The
                     commodities
                     that
                     are
                     taken
                     vp
                     are
                     called
                     Purse-nets
                     .
                  
                   
                     3
                     The
                     Citizens
                     that
                     selles
                     them
                     is
                     the
                     Ferret
                     .
                  
                   
                     4
                     They
                     that
                     take
                     vp
                     are
                     the
                     Rabbet-suckers
                     .
                  
                   
                     5
                     Hee
                     vpon
                     whose
                     credit
                     these
                     Rabbet-suckers
                     runne
                     ,
                     is
                     called
                     the
                     Warren
                     .
                  
                
              
               
                 
                   How
                   the
                   Warren
                   is
                   made
                   .
                
                 
                   AFter
                   a
                   raine
                   ,
                   Conies
                   vse
                   in
                   come
                   out
                   of
                   their
                   Holes
                   ,
                   and
                   to
                   sit
                   nibling
                   on
                   wéeds
                   ,
                   or
                   any
                   thing
                   in
                   the
                   coole
                   of
                   the
                   euening
                   ,
                   and
                   after
                   a
                   reueling
                   ,
                   when
                   younger
                   brothers
                   haue
                   spent
                   all
                   ,
                   or
                   in
                   gaining
                   haue
                   lost
                   all
                   ,
                   they
                   sit
                   plotting
                   in
                   their
                   chambers
                   ,
                   with
                   necessity
                   ,
                   how
                   to
                   be
                   furnished
                   ,
                   presently
                   with
                   a
                   new
                   supply
                   of
                   〈◊〉
                   .
                   They
                   
                   would
                   take
                   vp
                   any
                   commodity
                   whatsoeuer
                   ,
                   but
                   the●●
                   names
                   〈◊〉
                   in
                   too
                   many
                   texted
                   letters
                   all
                   ready
                   in
                   Mercers
                   and
                   Soriueners
                   bookes
                   :
                   vpon
                   a
                   hundred
                   poundes
                   worth
                   of
                   Roasted
                   béefe
                   they
                   could
                   finde
                   in
                   their
                   hearts
                   to
                   venture
                   ,
                   for
                   that
                   would
                   away
                   〈…〉
                   of
                   a
                   hand
                   :
                   but
                   where
                   shall
                   they
                   finde
                   Butcher
                   ,
                   or
                   a
                   Cooke
                   ,
                   that
                   will
                   let
                   any
                   〈…〉
                   so
                   much
                   vpon
                   the
                   score
                   for
                   flesh
                   onely
                   
                   Suppose
                   therefore
                   that
                   foure
                   of
                   such
                   loose-fortuned
                   gallants
                   were
                   tied
                   in
                   one
                   knot
                   ,
                   and
                   knew
                   not
                   how
                   to
                   fasten
                   themselues
                   vpon
                   some
                   wealthy
                   cittizen
                   .
                   At
                   the
                   length
                   it
                   runnes
                   into
                   their
                   heads
                   ,
                   that
                   
                     such
                     a
                     young
                     Nouice
                  
                   (
                   who
                   daily
                   serues
                   to
                   fill
                   vp
                   their
                   company
                   )
                   was
                   neuer
                   intangled
                   in
                   any
                   
                     citie
                     limebush
                  
                   :
                   they
                   know
                   his
                   present
                   meanes
                   to
                   be
                   good
                   ,
                   and
                   those
                   to
                   come
                   to
                   be
                   great
                   :
                   him
                   therefore
                   they
                   lay
                   vpon
                   the
                   Anuill
                   of
                   their
                   wits
                   ,
                   till
                   they
                   haue
                   wrought
                   him
                   like
                   wax
                   ,
                   for
                   him-selfe
                   as
                   well
                   as
                   for
                   them
                   ,
                   to
                   doe
                   any
                   thing
                   in
                   wax
                   ,
                   or
                   indéed
                   till
                   they
                   haue
                   won
                   him
                   
                   to
                   slide
                   vpon
                   this
                   Ice
                   ,
                   because
                   hée
                   knowes
                   not
                   the
                   danger
                   )
                   he
                   is
                   easily
                   drawne
                   :
                   for
                   hée
                   considers
                   within
                   him-selfe
                   that
                   they
                   are
                   all
                   gentlemen
                   well
                   descended
                   ,
                   they
                   haue
                   rich
                   fathers
                   ,
                   they
                   weare
                   good
                   clothes
                   ,
                   haue
                   bin
                   gallant
                   spenders
                   ,
                   and
                   doe
                   now
                   and
                   then
                   (
                   still
                   )
                   let
                   it
                   flye
                   fréely
                   :
                   hée
                   is
                   to
                   venture
                   vpon
                   no
                   more
                   rockes
                   than
                   all
                   they
                   ,
                   what
                   then
                   should
                   hée
                   feáre
                   ?
                   hée
                   therefore
                   resolues
                   to
                   doe
                   it
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   rather
                   because
                   his
                   owne
                   exhibition
                   runnes
                   low
                   ,
                   &
                   that
                   there
                   lacke
                   a
                   great
                   many
                   wéekes
                   to
                   the
                   quarter
                   day
                   ,
                   at
                   which
                   time
                   ,
                   he
                   shall
                   be
                   refurnished
                   from
                   his
                   father
                   .
                   The
                   Match
                   being
                   thus
                   agréed
                   vpon
                   ,
                   one
                   of
                   them
                   that
                   has
                   béene
                   an
                   ould
                   Ferret-monger
                   ,
                   &
                   knowes
                   all
                   the
                   trickes
                   of
                   such
                   Hunting
                   ,
                   séeks
                   out
                   a
                   Tumbler
                   ,
                   that
                   is
                   to
                   say
                   ,
                   a
                   fellow
                   ,
                   who
                   beates
                   the
                   bush
                   for
                   them
                   till
                   they
                   catch
                   the
                   birds
                   ,
                   he
                   himselfe
                   being
                   contented
                   (
                   as
                   he
                   protests
                   &
                   sweares
                   )
                   onely
                   with
                   a
                   few
                   fethers
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   The
                   Tumblers
                   Hunting
                   dry-foote
                   .
                
                 
                   THis
                   Tumbler
                   being
                   let
                   loose
                   ,
                   runnes
                   Snuffing
                   
                   vp
                   and
                   downe
                   close
                   to
                   the
                   ground
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   shoppes
                   either
                   of
                   Merrers
                   ,
                   Gouldsmithes
                   ,
                   Drapers
                   ,
                   Haberdashers
                   ,
                   or
                   of
                   any
                   other
                   trade
                   ,
                   where
                   hée
                   thinckes
                   hée
                   may
                   méete
                   with
                   a
                   Ferret
                   :
                   and
                   the
                   vpon
                   his
                   very
                   first
                   course
                   ,
                   hée
                   can
                   finde
                   his
                   game
                   ,
                   yet
                   to
                   make
                   his
                   gallants
                   more
                   hungry
                   ,
                   and
                   to
                   thinke
                   hée
                   wearies
                   himselfe
                   in
                   hunting
                   the
                   more
                   ,
                   hée
                   comes
                   to
                   them
                   sweating
                   and
                   swearing
                   that
                   the
                   
                     Citie
                     Ferrets
                  
                   are
                   so
                   coaped
                   (
                   that
                   is
                   to
                   say
                   ,
                   
                   haue
                   their
                   lippes
                   stitched
                   vp
                   close
                   )
                   that
                   hée
                   can
                   hardly
                   get
                   them
                   open
                   to
                   so
                   great
                   a
                   sum
                   as
                   fiue
                   hundred
                   pounds
                   ,
                   which
                   they
                   desire
                   .
                   This
                   heache
                   being
                   chewd
                   downe
                   
                   by
                   the
                   Rabbet-suckers
                   almost
                   kils
                   their
                   hearts
                   ,
                   and
                   is
                   worse
                   to
                   them
                   then
                   dabbing
                   on
                   the
                   neckes
                   to
                   Connies
                   .
                   They
                   bid
                   him
                   if
                   hée
                   cannot
                   fasten
                   his
                   tieth
                   vpon
                   plate
                   or
                   Cloth
                   ,
                   or
                   Silkes
                   ,
                   to
                   lay
                   hold
                   on
                   browne
                   paper
                   or
                   Tobacco
                   ,
                   Bartholmew
                   babies
                   ,
                   Lute
                   stringes
                   or
                   Hobnailes
                   ,
                   or
                   two
                   hundred
                   poundes
                   in
                   Saint
                   Thomas
                   Onions
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   rest
                   in
                   mony
                   ;
                   the
                   Onions
                   they
                   coulde
                   get
                   wenches
                   enough
                   to
                   cry
                   and
                   sell
                   them
                   by
                   the
                   Rope
                   ,
                   and
                   what
                   remaines
                   should
                   serue
                   them
                   with
                   Mutton
                   .
                   Vpon
                   this
                   ,
                   their
                   Tumbler
                   trottes
                   vp
                   and
                   downe
                   againe
                   .
                   And
                   at
                   last
                   lighting
                   on
                   a
                   Cittizen
                   that
                   will
                   deale
                   ,
                   the
                   names
                   are
                   receiued
                   ,
                   and
                   deliuered
                   to
                   a
                   Scriuener
                   ,
                   who
                   enquiring
                   whether
                   they
                   be
                   good
                   men
                   and
                   true
                   ,
                   that
                   are
                   to
                   passe
                   vpon
                   the
                   life
                   and
                   death
                   of
                   fiue
                   hundred
                   poundes
                   ,
                   findes
                   that
                   foure
                   of
                   the
                   fiue
                   ,
                   are
                   winde-shaken
                   ,
                   and
                   ready
                   to
                   fall
                   into
                   the
                   Lordes
                   handes
                   :
                   marry
                   the
                   fist
                   man
                   ,
                   is
                   an
                   Oake
                   ,
                   and
                   there
                   's
                   hope
                   that
                   hée
                   cannot
                   be
                   hewed
                   downe
                   in
                   haste
                   .
                   Vpon
                   him
                   therefore
                   the
                   Cittizen
                   buildes
                   so
                   much
                   as
                   comes
                   to
                   fiue
                   hundred
                   poundes
                   ,
                   yet
                   takes
                   in
                   the
                   other
                   foure
                   to
                   make
                   them
                   serue
                   as
                   scaffolding
                   ,
                   till
                   the
                   Frame
                   be
                   furnished
                   ,
                   and
                   if
                   then
                   it
                   hold
                   ,
                   hée
                   cares
                   not
                   greatly
                   who
                   takes
                   them
                   downe
                   .
                   In
                   all
                   hast
                   ,
                   are
                   the
                   bondes
                   sealed
                   and
                   the
                   commodities
                   deliuered
                   ,
                   And
                   then
                   does
                   the
                   Tumbler
                   fetch
                   his
                   second
                   carréere
                   ,
                   and
                   that
                   's
                   this
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   The
                   Tumblers
                   Hunting
                   Counter
                   .
                
                 
                   THe
                   wares
                   which
                   they
                   fished
                   for
                   being
                   in
                   the
                   hand
                   of
                   the
                   fiue
                   shauers
                   ,
                   doe
                   now
                   more
                   trouble
                   their
                   wits
                   how
                   to
                   turne
                   those
                   Wares
                   into
                   ready
                   mony
                   ,
                   then
                   before
                   they
                   were
                   troubled
                   to
                   turne
                   their
                   credits
                   into
                   wares
                   .
                   The
                   Trée
                   being
                   once
                   more
                   to
                   be
                   shaken
                   ,
                   they
                   know
                   it
                   must
                   loose
                   fruit
                   ,
                   and
                   therefore
                   their
                   Factor
                   must
                   barter
                   away
                   their
                   Marchandise
                   ,
                   tho
                   it
                   be
                   with
                   losse
                   :
                   Abroad
                   into
                   
                   the
                   Citie
                   he
                   Sailes
                   for
                   that
                   purpose
                   ,
                   and
                   deales
                   with
                   him
                   that
                   sold
                   ,
                   to
                   but
                   his
                   owne
                   Commodities
                   againe
                   for
                   ready
                   mony
                   ;
                   Hée
                   will
                   not
                   doe
                   it
                   vnder
                   .
                   30
                   l.
                   losse
                   in
                   the
                   Hunored
                   :
                   other
                   Archers
                   bowes
                   are
                   tryed
                   at
                   the
                   same
                   marke
                   ,
                   but
                   all
                   kéepe
                   much
                   about
                   one
                   scantling
                   :
                   backe
                   therfore
                   comes
                   their
                   Carrier
                   with
                   this
                   newes
                   ,
                   that
                   no
                   man
                   will
                   disburse
                   so
                   much
                   present
                   money
                   vpon
                   any
                   〈◊〉
                   whatsoeuer
                   .
                   Onely
                   hée
                   met
                   by
                   good
                   fortune
                   with
                   one
                   friend
                   (
                   and
                   that
                   friend
                   is
                   himselfe
                   )
                   who
                   for
                   10
                   l.
                   will
                   procure
                   them
                   a
                   Chapman
                   ,
                   marry
                   that
                   chapman
                   will
                   not
                   buy
                   vnlesse
                   hée
                   may
                   haue
                   them
                   at
                   30.
                   l.
                   losse
                   in
                   the
                   Hundred
                   :
                   ●u●h
                   ,
                   cry
                   all
                   the
                   Sharers
                   ,
                   〈…〉
                   these
                   〈…〉
                   Curmudgions
                   ,
                   giue
                   that
                   〈◊〉
                   your
                   friend
                   10.
                   l.
                   for
                   his
                   paines
                   ,
                   and
                   ●etch
                   the
                   rest
                   of
                   the
                   money
                   :
                   within
                   an
                   houre
                   after
                   ,
                   it
                   is
                   brought
                   ,
                   and
                   powred
                   downe
                   in
                   one
                   heape
                   vpon
                   a
                   tauerne
                   table
                   ;
                   where
                   making
                   a
                   goodly
                   shew
                   as
                   if
                   it
                   could
                   neuer
                   be
                   spent
                   ,
                   all
                   of
                   them
                   consult
                   what
                   sée
                   the
                   Tombler
                   is
                   to
                   haue
                   ,
                   for
                   Hunting
                   so
                   well
                   ,
                   and
                   conclude
                   that
                   lesse
                   then
                   10
                   l.
                   they
                   cannot
                   giue
                   him
                   ,
                   which
                   10.
                   l.
                   is
                   the
                   first
                   told
                   out
                   .
                   Now
                   let
                   vs
                   cast
                   vp
                   this
                   Account
                   :
                   In
                   euery
                   100.
                   l.
                   is
                   
                   lost
                   30.
                   which
                   being
                   5.
                   times
                   30.
                   l.
                   makes
                   150.
                   l.
                   that
                   Sum
                   the
                   Ferret
                   puts
                   vp
                   cléer
                   besides
                   his
                   ouer-prising
                   the
                   wares
                   :
                   vnto
                   which
                   150.
                   l.
                   lost
                   ,
                   ad
                   10.
                   l.
                   more
                   ,
                   which
                   the
                   Tumbler
                   guls
                   them
                   off
                   ,
                   and
                   other
                   10.
                   l.
                   which
                   hée
                   hath
                   for
                   his
                   voyage
                   ,
                   all
                   which
                   makes
                   170.
                   l.
                   which
                   deducted
                   from
                   500.
                   l.
                   there
                   remaineth
                   onely
                   330.
                   to
                   be
                   deuided
                   amongst
                   5.
                   so
                   that
                   euery
                   one
                   of
                   the
                   partners
                   shall
                   haue
                   but
                   66.
                   l.
                   yet
                   this
                   they
                   all
                   put
                   vp
                   merily
                   ,
                   washing
                   downe
                   their
                   losses
                   with
                   Sacke
                   and
                   Suger
                   ,
                   whereof
                   they
                   drinke
                   that
                   night
                   profoundly
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   How
                   the
                   Warren
                   is
                   spoyled
                   .
                
                 
                   VVHilst
                   this
                   weather
                   lasteth
                   lasteth
                   ,
                   and
                   that
                   there
                   is
                   any
                   grake
                   to
                   nibble
                   vpon
                   ,
                   
                     These
                     Rabbet-suckers
                  
                   keepe
                   to
                   the
                   Warren
                   wherein
                   they
                   fatned
                   :
                   but
                   the
                   cold
                   day
                   of
                   repaiment
                   approaching
                   ,
                   they
                   retire
                   déepe
                   into
                   their
                   Caues
                   ;
                   so
                   that
                   when
                   the
                   Ferret
                   makes
                   account
                   to
                   haue
                   fiue
                   before
                   him
                   in
                   chase
                   ;
                   foure
                   of
                   the
                   fiue
                   lye
                   hidden
                   ,
                   
                   and
                   are
                   stolne
                   into
                   other
                   groun
                   vs.
                   No
                   maruell
                   then
                   if
                   the
                   Ferret
                   growe
                   fierce
                   and
                   teare
                   open
                   his
                   own
                   iawes
                   ,
                   to
                   suck
                   blood
                   from
                   him
                   that
                   is
                   left
                   :
                   no
                   maruaile
                   if
                   he
                   scratch
                   what
                   woolhe
                   can
                   from
                   his
                   back
                   :
                   the
                   Pursnets
                   that
                   were
                   Set
                   ,
                   are
                   all
                   taken
                   vp
                   &
                   carried
                   away
                   .
                   The
                   Warren
                   therefore
                   must
                   be
                   Searched
                   ,
                   That
                   must
                   pay
                   for
                   all
                   :
                   ouer
                   that
                   does
                   hée
                   range
                   like
                   a
                   little
                   Lord.
                   Sargeants
                   ,
                   Marshals-men
                   ,
                   and
                   Baliffes
                   are
                   sent
                   forth
                   ,
                   who
                   lye
                   scowting
                   at
                   euery
                   corner
                   ,
                   and
                   with
                   terrible
                   pawes
                   haunt
                   euery
                   walke
                   .
                   Inconelusion
                   the
                   bird
                   that
                   these
                   Hawkes
                   slie
                   after
                   ,
                   is
                   seazd
                   vpon
                   ,
                   then
                   are
                   his
                   fethers
                   pluck'd
                   ,
                   his
                   estate
                   look'd
                   into
                   ,
                   then
                   are
                   his
                   wings
                   broken
                   ,
                   his
                   lands
                   made
                   ouer
                   to
                   a
                   stranger
                   :
                   then
                   must
                   our
                   yong
                   son
                   &
                   heire
                   pay
                   500.
                   l.
                   (
                   for
                   which
                   he
                   neuer
                   had
                   but
                   66.
                   l.
                   )
                   or
                   else
                   lie
                   in
                   prison
                   .
                   To
                   kéepe
                   himselfe
                   from
                   which
                   ,
                   he
                   feales
                   to
                   any
                   bond
                   ,
                   enters
                   into
                   any
                   statute
                   ,
                   morgageth
                   
                   any
                   Lordship
                   ,
                   Does
                   any
                   thing
                   ,
                   Sales
                   any
                   thing
                   ,
                   yéews
                   to
                   pay
                   any
                   thing
                   .
                   And
                   these
                   Citie
                   stormes
                   (
                   which
                   will
                   wet
                   a
                   man
                   ,
                   till
                   he
                   haue
                   neuer
                   a
                   dry
                   thried
                   about
                   him
                   ,
                   tho
                   he
                   be
                   kept
                   neuer
                   so
                   warme
                   )
                   fall
                   not
                   vpon
                   him
                   once
                   or
                   twise
                   :
                   But
                   being
                   a
                   little
                   way
                   in
                   ,
                   hee
                   cares
                   not
                   how
                   déepe
                   he
                   wades
                   :
                   the
                   greater
                   his
                   possessions
                   are
                   ,
                   the
                   apter
                   he
                   is
                   to
                   
                   take
                   vp
                   &
                   to
                   be
                   trusted
                   :
                   the
                   more
                   he
                   is
                   trusted
                   ,
                   the
                   more
                   he
                   comes
                   in
                   debt
                   ,
                   the
                   farther
                   in
                   debt
                   ,
                   the
                   néerer
                   to
                   danger
                   .
                   Thus
                   Gentlemen
                   are
                   wrought
                   vpon
                   ,
                   thus
                   are
                   they
                   Cheated
                   ,
                   thus
                   are
                   they
                   Ferreted
                   ,
                   thus
                   are
                   they
                   Vndone
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
                 Fawlconers
                 .
                 Of
                 a
                 new
                 kinde
                 of
                 Hawking
                 ,
                 teaching
                 how
                 to
                 catch
                 Birds
                 by
                 Bookes
                 .
              
               
                 HVnting
                 and
                 Hawking
                 are
                 of
                 kin
                 ,
                 and
                 therefore
                 it
                 is
                 
                 sit
                 they
                 should
                 kéepe
                 company
                 together
                 :
                 both
                 of
                 them
                 are
                 noble
                 Games
                 ,
                 and
                 Recreations
                 ,
                 honest
                 and
                 healthfull
                 ,
                 yet
                 they
                 may
                 so
                 be
                 abused
                 that
                 nothing
                 can
                 be
                 more
                 hurtfull
                 .
                 In
                 Hunting
                 ,
                 the
                 Game
                 is
                 commonly
                 still
                 before
                 you
                 ,
                 or
                 〈…〉
                 hearing
                 ,
                 and
                 within
                 a
                 little
                 compasse
                 :
                 In
                 Hawking
                 ,
                 
                 the
                 game
                 flies
                 farre
                 off
                 ,
                 and
                 oftentimes
                 out
                 of
                 sight
                 :
                 A
                 Couple
                 of
                 Rookes
                 therefore
                 (
                 that
                 were
                 birds
                 of
                 the
                 last
                 feather
                 )
                 conspired
                 together
                 to
                 leaue
                 their
                 nest
                 in
                 
                 the
                 Citie
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 flutter
                 abroad
                 ,
                 into
                 the
                 Countrie
                 :
                 Vpon
                 two
                 leane
                 hackneies
                 were
                 these
                 two
                 
                   Doctor
                   doddipols
                
                 horst
                 ,
                 Ciuilly
                 suited
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 might
                 carry
                 about
                 them
                 some
                 badge
                 of
                 a
                 Scholler
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 diuels
                 Ranck-ryder
                 ,
                 that
                 came
                 from
                 the
                 last
                 Cityhunting
                 ,
                 vnderstanding
                 that
                 two
                 such
                 Light-horsemen
                 were
                 gone
                 a
                 Hawking
                 ,
                 posts
                 after
                 ,
                 and
                 ouer-takes
                 them
                 .
                 After
                 some
                 ordinary
                 high-way
                 talke
                 ,
                 he
                 begins
                 to
                 question
                 of
                 what
                 profession
                 they
                 were
                 ?
                 One
                 of
                 them
                 smyling
                 scornfully
                 in
                 his
                 face
                 ,
                 as
                 thinking
                 him
                 to
                 be
                 some
                 Gul
                 ,
                 (
                 and
                 *
                 indéed
                 such
                 fellowes
                 take
                 all
                 men
                 for
                 Gulles
                 ,
                 who
                 they
                 
                 thinke
                 to
                 be
                 beneath
                 them
                 in
                 qualitie
                 )
                 tolde
                 him
                 they
                 were
                 Falconers
                 .
                 But
                 the
                 Foxethat
                 followed
                 them
                 ,
                 séeing
                 no
                 properties
                 ,
                 (
                 belonging
                 to
                 a
                 Falconer
                 )
                 about
                 them
                 ,
                 smelt
                 knauery
                 ,
                 tooke
                 them
                 for
                 a
                 paire
                 of
                 mad
                 rascals
                 ,
                 and
                 therefore
                 resolued
                 to
                 sée
                 at
                 what
                 these
                 Falconers
                 would
                 let
                 flie
                 .
              
               
                 
                   How
                   to
                   cast
                   vp
                   the
                   Lure
                   .
                
                 
                   AT
                   last
                   on
                   a
                   suddaine
                   sayes
                   one
                   of
                   them
                   to
                   him
                   ,
                   Sir
                   ,
                   
                   we
                   haue
                   
                     Sprung
                     a
                     Partridge
                  
                   ,
                   &
                   so
                   fare
                   you
                   well
                   :
                   which
                   words
                   came
                   stammering
                   out
                   with
                   the
                   haste
                   that
                   they
                   made
                   ,
                   for
                   presently
                   the
                   two
                   Forragers
                   of
                   the
                   Countrie
                   ,
                   were
                   vpon
                   the
                   Spurre
                   :
                   
                     Plutoes
                     Post
                  
                   séeing
                   this
                   ,
                   stood
                   still
                   to
                   watch
                   them
                   ,
                   and
                   at
                   length
                   saw
                   them
                   in
                   maine
                   gallop
                   make
                   toward
                   a
                   goodly
                   fayre
                   place
                   ,
                   where
                   eyther
                   some
                   Knight
                   ,
                   or
                   some
                   great
                   Gentleman
                   kept
                   ;
                   and
                   this
                   goodly
                   house
                   belike
                   was
                   the
                   Partridge
                   which
                   those
                   Falconers
                   had
                   sprung
                   .
                   Hee
                   being
                   loath
                   to
                   loose
                   his
                   share
                   in
                   this
                   Hawking
                   ,
                   and
                   hauing
                   power
                   to
                   transforme
                   himselfe
                   as
                   he
                   listed
                   ,
                   came
                   thither
                   as
                   soone
                   as
                   they
                   ,
                   but
                   beheld
                   all
                   (
                   which
                   they
                   did
                   )
                   inuisible
                   .
                   They
                   both
                   ,
                   like
                   two
                   Knights
                   Errant
                   ,
                   alighted
                   at
                   the
                   Gate
                   ,
                   knocked
                   ,
                   and
                   were
                   let
                   in
                   :
                   The
                   one
                   walkes
                   the
                   Hackneyes
                   in
                   an
                   outward
                   Court
                   ,
                   as
                   if
                   he
                   had
                   béene
                   but
                   Squire
                   to
                   Sir
                   Dagonet
                   .
                   The
                   other
                   (
                   as
                   boldly
                   
                   as
                   S.
                   George
                   ,
                   when
                   hee
                   dar'd
                   the
                   Dragon
                   at
                   his
                   very
                   Den
                   )
                   marcheth
                   vndauntedly
                   vp
                   to
                   the
                   Hall
                   ,
                   where
                   ,
                   looking
                   ouer
                   those
                   poore
                   creatures
                   of
                   the
                   house
                   ,
                   that
                   weare
                   but
                   the
                   bare
                   Blew-coates
                   (
                   for
                   
                     Aquila
                     non
                     capit
                     Muscas
                  
                   )
                   what
                   should
                   a
                   Falconer
                   meddle
                   with
                   files
                   ?
                   he
                   onely
                   salutes
                   him
                   that
                   in
                   his
                   eye
                   séemes
                   to
                   be
                   a
                   Gentleman-like
                   fellow
                   :
                   Of
                   him
                   he
                   askes
                   for
                   his
                   
                     good
                     Knight
                  
                   ,
                   or
                   so
                   ,
                   and
                   sayes
                   that
                   he
                   is
                   a
                   *
                   Gentleman
                   come
                   from
                   London
                   on
                   a
                   
                   businesse
                   ,
                   which
                   he
                   must
                   deliuer
                   to
                   his
                   owne
                   Worshipfull
                   Eare.
                   Vp
                   the
                   staires
                   does
                   braue
                   
                     Mount
                     Dragon
                  
                   ascend
                   ;
                   the
                   Knight
                   and
                   he
                   encounter
                   ,
                   and
                   with
                   this
                   staffe
                   does
                   he
                   valiantly
                   charge
                   vpon
                   him
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   How
                   the
                   Bird
                   is
                   Caught
                   .
                
                 
                   SIr
                   ,
                   I
                   am
                   a
                   poore
                   *
                   Scholler
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   report
                   of
                   your
                   
                   vertues
                   hath
                   drawne
                   me
                   hither
                   ,
                   venturously
                   bold
                   to
                   fixe
                   your
                   worthy
                   name
                   as
                   a
                   patronage
                   to
                   a
                   poore
                   short
                   discourse
                   ,
                   which
                   here
                   I
                   dedicate
                   (
                   out
                   of
                   my
                   loue
                   )
                   to
                   your
                   noble
                   and
                   eternal
                   Memorie
                   :
                   this
                   spéech
                   he
                   vtters
                   barely
                   .
                
                 
                   The
                   
                     Hawking
                     pamphleter
                  
                   is
                   then
                   bid
                   to
                   
                     put
                     on
                  
                   ,
                   whilst
                   his
                   
                     Miscellane
                     Maecenas
                  
                   ,
                   opens
                   a
                   Booke
                   fayrely
                   aparreld
                   in
                   Vellom
                   ,
                   with
                   gilt-fillets
                   ,
                   and
                   foure-penny
                   silke
                   ribbon
                   at
                   least
                   ,
                   like
                   little
                   streamers
                   on
                   the
                   top
                   of
                   a
                   March-pane
                   Castle
                   ,
                   hanging
                   dandling
                   by
                   at
                   the
                   foure
                   corners
                   :
                   the
                   title
                   being
                   superficially
                   suruaid
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   next
                   leafe
                   hee
                   sées
                   that
                   the
                   
                     Author
                     hee
                  
                   ,
                   hath
                   made
                   him
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Gossips
                   ,
                   for
                   the
                   Booke
                   carries
                   his
                   Worships
                   name
                   ,
                   and
                   vnder
                   it
                   stands
                   an
                   Epistle
                   iust
                   the
                   length
                   of
                   a
                   Hench-mans
                   grace
                   before
                   dinner
                   ,
                   which
                   is
                   long
                   inough
                   for
                   any
                   Booke
                   in
                   conscience
                   ,
                   vnlesse
                   the
                   writer
                   be
                   vnreasonable
                   .
                
                 
                   The
                   Knight
                   being
                   told
                   before
                   hand
                   ,
                   that
                   this
                   little
                   sun-beame
                   of
                   Phoebus
                   (
                   shining
                   thus
                   briskly
                   in
                   print
                   )
                   hath
                   his
                   Mite
                   or
                   Atmy
                   wayting
                   vpon
                   him
                   in
                   the
                   outward
                   court
                   ,
                   thankes
                   him
                   for
                   his
                   loue
                   and
                   labour
                   ,
                   and
                   considering
                   with
                   himselfe
                   ,
                   what
                   cost
                   he
                   hath
                   béene
                   at
                   ,
                   and
                   hold
                   farre
                   hee
                   hath
                   ridden
                   to
                   come
                   to
                   him
                   ,
                   hee
                   knowes
                   that
                   Patrons
                   and
                   Godfathers
                   ,
                   are
                   to
                   pay
                   scot
                   and
                   lot
                   alike
                   ,
                   and
                   
                   therefore
                   to
                   cherish
                   his
                   young
                   and
                   tender
                   Muse
                   ,
                   he
                   giues
                   him
                   foure
                   or
                   sixe
                   Angles
                   ,
                   inuiting
                   him
                   either
                   to
                   stay
                   breakefast
                   ,
                   or
                   if
                   the
                   sun-diall
                   of
                   the
                   house
                   points
                   towards
                   eleauen
                   ,
                   then
                   to
                   tary
                   dinner
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   How
                   the
                   Bird
                   is
                   drest
                   .
                
                 
                   BVt
                   the
                   fish
                   being
                   caught
                   (
                   for
                   which
                   our
                   
                     Heliconian
                     Angler
                  
                   threw
                   out
                   his
                   lines
                   )
                   with
                   thankes
                   ,
                   and
                   legs
                   ,
                   and
                   kissing
                   his
                   owne
                   hand
                   ,
                   he
                   parts
                   .
                   No
                   sooner
                   is
                   he
                   horst
                   ,
                   but
                   his
                   Hostler
                   (
                   who
                   all
                   this
                   while
                   walked
                   the
                   iades
                   ,
                   and
                   trauailes
                   vp
                   &
                   downe
                   with
                   him
                   (
                   like
                   an
                   vndeseruing
                   plaier
                   for
                   halfe
                   a
                   share
                   )
                   askes
                   this
                   question
                   ,
                   Strawes
                   or
                   not
                   ?
                   Strawes
                   cries
                   the
                   
                     whole
                     sharer
                     and
                     a
                     halfe
                  
                   ,
                   away
                   then
                   replies
                   the
                   first
                   ,
                   flie
                   to
                   our
                   nest
                   :
                   This
                   nest
                   is
                   neuer
                   in
                   the
                   
                   same
                   towne
                   but
                   commonly
                   a
                   mile
                   or
                   two
                   off
                   ,
                   and
                   it
                   is
                   nothing
                   els
                   but
                   the
                   next
                   Tauerne
                   they
                   come
                   to
                   .
                   But
                   the
                   Village
                   into
                   which
                   they
                   rode
                   being
                   not
                   able
                   to
                   maintaine
                   an
                   Iuybush
                   ,
                   an
                   Ale-house
                   was
                   their
                   Inne
                   :
                   where
                   aduancing
                   themselues
                   into
                   the
                   fairest
                   Chamber
                   ,
                   and
                   bespeaking
                   
                   the
                   best
                   chéere
                   in
                   the
                   towne
                   for
                   dinner
                   ,
                   downe
                   they
                   sit
                   ,
                   and
                   share
                   before
                   they
                   speake
                   of
                   any
                   thing
                   els
                   :
                   That
                   done
                   ,
                   he
                   that
                   ventures
                   vpon
                   all
                   he
                   méetes
                   ,
                   and
                   discharges
                   the
                   paper
                   Bullets
                   ,
                   (
                   for
                   to
                   tel
                   truth
                   ,
                   the
                   other
                   serues
                   but
                   as
                   a
                   signe
                   ,
                   and
                   is
                   méerely
                   no-body
                   )
                   beginnes
                   to
                   discourse
                   ,
                   how
                   he
                   caried
                   himselfe
                   in
                   the
                   action
                   ,
                   how
                   hée
                   was
                   encountred
                   :
                   how
                   hée
                   stood
                   to
                   his
                   tackling
                   ,
                   and
                   how
                   well
                   hée
                   came
                   off
                   :
                   hée
                   cals
                   the
                   Knight
                   ,
                   a
                   
                     Noble
                     fellow
                  
                   ,
                   yet
                   they
                   both
                   shrug
                   ,
                   and
                   laugh
                   ,
                   and
                   sweares
                   they
                   are
                   glad
                   they
                   haue
                   Guld
                   him
                   .
                
                 
                   More
                   arrowes
                   must
                   they
                   shoote
                   of
                   the
                   same
                   length
                   that
                   this
                   first
                   was
                   of
                   ,
                   and
                   therefore
                   there
                   is
                   Truncke
                   full
                   of
                   Trinckets
                   ,
                   that
                   is
                   to
                   say
                   ,
                   their
                   budget
                   of
                   Bookes
                   is
                   opend
                   againe
                   ,
                   to
                   sée
                   what
                   leafe
                   they
                   are
                   to
                   turne
                   ouer
                   next
                   ,
                   which
                   whilst
                   they
                   are
                   dooing
                   ,
                   the
                   Ghost
                   that
                   all
                   this
                   space
                   haunted
                   them
                   ,
                   and
                   hard
                   what
                   they
                   said
                   ,
                   hauing
                   excellent
                   ,
                   skill
                   in
                   the
                   blacke
                   art
                   ,
                   that
                   is
                   to
                   say
                   ,
                   in
                   picking
                   of
                   lockes
                   ,
                   makes
                   the
                   dore
                   suddenly
                   flye
                   open
                   (
                   which
                   they
                   had
                   closely
                   
                   shut
                   .
                   At
                   his
                   strange
                   entrunce
                   they
                   being
                   somwhat
                   agast
                   ,
                   began
                   to
                   shustle
                   away
                   their
                   bookes
                   ,
                   but
                   he
                   knowing
                   what
                   cardes
                   they
                   plaide
                   withall
                   ,
                   offred
                   to
                   cut
                   ,
                   and
                   turnd
                   vp
                   two
                   Knaues
                   by
                   this
                   tricke
                   :
                   my
                   Maisters
                   (
                   quoth
                   he
                   )
                   I
                   know
                   where
                   you
                   haue
                   bin
                   ,
                   I
                   know
                   what
                   you
                   haue
                   done
                   ,
                   I
                   know
                   what
                   you
                   meane
                   to
                   doe
                   ,
                   I
                   sée
                   now
                   you
                   are
                   Fakoners
                   indéed
                   ,
                   but
                   by
                   the
                   (
                   and
                   then
                   hée
                   swore
                   a
                   danuiable
                   oth
                   )
                   vnlesse
                   you
                   teach
                   me
                   to
                   shoote
                   in
                   this
                   
                     Birding
                     peece
                  
                   ,
                   I
                   will
                   raise
                   the
                   Village
                   ,
                   send
                   for
                   the
                   Knight
                   whom
                   you
                   boast
                   you
                   haue
                   guld
                   ,
                   and
                   so
                   disgrace
                   you
                   :
                   for
                   your
                   mony
                   I
                   care
                   not
                   .
                
                 
                   The
                   two
                   Frée-booters
                   séeing
                   themselues
                   smoaked
                   ,
                   told
                   their
                   third
                   Brother
                   ,
                   hée
                   séemed
                   to
                   be
                   a
                   gentleman
                   and
                   a
                   boone
                   companion
                   ,
                   they
                   prayed
                   him
                   therefore
                   to
                   sit
                   downe
                   with
                   silence
                   ,
                   and
                   sithence
                   dinner
                   was
                   not
                   yet
                   ready
                   ,
                   hée
                   should
                   heare
                   all
                   .
                
                 
                   This
                   new
                   kinde
                   of
                   Hawking
                   (
                   qd
                   .
                   one
                   of
                   them
                   )
                   which
                   you
                   sée
                   vs
                   vse
                   ,
                   can
                   afford
                   no
                   name
                   vnles
                   5.
                   be
                   at
                   it
                   .
                   viz.
                   
                
                 
                   
                     1
                     He
                     that
                     casts
                     vp
                     the
                     Lure
                     is
                     called
                     the
                     Falconer
                     .
                  
                   
                     2
                     The
                     Lure
                     that
                     is
                     cast
                     vp
                     is
                     an
                     idle
                     Pamphlet
                     .
                  
                   
                     3
                     The
                     Tercel-Gentle
                     that
                     comes
                     to
                     the
                     Lure
                     ,
                     is
                     some
                     Knight
                     ,
                     or
                     some
                     gentleman
                     of
                     like
                     qualitie
                     .
                  
                   
                     4
                     The
                     Bird
                     that
                     is
                     preied
                     vpon
                     ,
                     is
                     Mony.
                     
                  
                   
                     5
                     Hee
                     that
                     walkes
                     the
                     horses
                     ,
                     and
                     hunts
                     dry-foote
                     is
                     called
                     a
                     Mongrell
                     .
                  
                
              
               
                 
                   The
                   Falconer
                   and
                   his
                   Spaniell
                   .
                
                 
                   THe
                   Falconer
                   hauing
                   scraped
                   together
                   certaine
                   small
                   parings
                   of
                   witte
                   ,
                   hée
                   first
                   cuttes
                   them
                   hansomely
                   in
                   pretty
                   péeces
                   ,
                   and
                   of
                   those
                   péeces
                   does
                   hée
                   patch
                   vp
                   a
                   booke
                   .
                   This
                   booke
                   hée
                   priúits
                   at
                   his
                   own
                   charge
                   ,
                   the
                   Mongrell
                   running
                   vp
                   and
                   downe
                   to
                   looke
                   to
                   the
                   workemen
                   ,
                   and
                   bearing
                   likewise
                   some
                   part
                   of
                   the
                   cost
                   ,
                   (
                   for
                   which
                   he
                   enters
                   vpon
                   his
                   halfe
                   share
                   .
                   )
                   When
                   it
                   is
                   fully
                   finished
                   ,
                   the
                   Falconer
                   and
                   his
                   Mongrell
                   ,
                   or
                   it
                   may
                   be
                   two
                   Falconers
                   ioyne
                   in
                   one
                   ,
                   )
                   but
                   howsoeuer
                   ,
                   it
                   is
                   by
                   them
                   deuised
                   what
                   Shire
                   in
                   England
                   it
                   is
                   best
                   to
                   forrage
                   next
                   :
                   
                   that
                   being
                   set
                   downe
                   ,
                   the
                   Falconers
                   ●ea
                   〈…〉
                   either
                   with
                   ●
                   Herauld
                   for
                   a
                   note
                   of
                   all
                   the
                   Knights
                   and
                   Gentlemens
                   names
                   of
                   worth
                   that
                   dwell
                   in
                   
                     that
                     circuit
                  
                   ,
                   which
                   they
                   meane
                   to
                   ride
                   ,
                   or
                   els
                   by
                   inquiry
                   ,
                   get
                   the
                   chiefest
                   of
                   them
                   ,
                   printing
                   of
                   so
                   many
                   Epistles
                   as
                   they
                   haue
                   names
                   ,
                   the
                   Epistles
                   Dedicatory
                   being
                   all
                   one
                   ,
                   &
                   vary
                   in
                   nothing
                   but
                   in
                   the
                   titles
                   of
                   their
                   patrons
                   .
                
                 
                   Hauing
                   thus
                   furnished
                   themselues
                   ,
                   and
                   packed
                   vp
                   their
                   wares
                   ,
                   away
                   they
                   trudge
                   ,
                   like
                   tinckers
                   ,
                   with
                   a
                   budget
                   at
                   
                   one
                   of
                   their
                   backes
                   ,
                   or
                   it
                   may
                   be
                   the
                   circle
                   they
                   meane
                   to
                   coniure
                   in
                   shall
                   not
                   be
                   out
                   of
                   London
                   ,
                   especially
                   if
                   it
                   be
                   Tearme-time
                   ,
                   or
                   when
                   a
                   Parliament
                   is
                   holden
                   (
                   for
                   then
                   they
                   haue
                   choise
                   of
                   swéete-meats
                   to
                   féed
                   vpon
                   .
                   (
                   If
                   a
                   gentleman
                   séeing
                   one
                   of
                   these
                   bookes
                   Dedicated
                   onely
                   to
                   his
                   name
                   ,
                   suspect
                   it
                   to
                   be
                   a
                   bastard
                   ,
                   that
                   hath
                   more
                   fathers
                   besides
                   himselfe
                   ,
                   and
                   to
                   try
                   that
                   ,
                   does
                   deferre
                   the
                   Presenter
                   for
                   a
                   day
                   or
                   two
                   ,
                   sending
                   in
                   the
                   meane
                   time
                   (
                   as
                   some
                   haue
                   done
                   )
                   into
                   Paules
                   Church-yard
                   amongst
                   the
                   Stationers
                   to
                   inquire
                   if
                   any
                   such
                   worke
                   be
                   come
                   forth
                   ,
                   and
                   if
                   they
                   cannot
                   tell
                   ,
                   then
                   to
                   steppe
                   to
                   the
                   Printers
                   :
                   Yet
                   haue
                   the
                   Falconers
                   a
                   tricke
                   to
                   goe
                   beyond
                   such
                   Hawkes
                   too
                   ,
                   for
                   all
                   they
                   flye
                   so
                   hie
                   :
                   and
                   that
                   is
                   this
                   :
                   The
                   bookes
                   lye
                   all
                   at
                   the
                   Printers
                   ,
                   but
                   not
                   one
                   line
                   of
                   an
                   epistle
                   to
                   any
                   of
                   them
                   (
                   those
                   bug-beares
                   lurke
                   in
                   Tenebris
                   )
                   if
                   then
                   the
                   Spy
                   that
                   is
                   sent
                   by
                   his
                   Maister
                   ,
                   aske
                   why
                   they
                   haue
                   no
                   dedications
                   to
                   them
                   ,
                   Mounsier
                   Printer
                   tels
                   him
                   ,
                   the
                   author
                   would
                   not
                   venture
                   to
                   adde
                   any
                   to
                   them
                   all
                   ,
                   (
                   sauing
                   onely
                   to
                   that
                   which
                   was
                   giuen
                   to
                   his
                   Maister
                   ,
                   vntill
                   it
                   was
                   knowne
                   whether
                   he
                   would
                   accept
                   of
                   it
                   or
                   no.
                   
                
                 
                   This
                   satisfies
                   the
                   Patron
                   ,
                   this
                   fetches
                   money
                   from
                   him
                   ,
                   and
                   this
                   Cozens
                   fiue
                   hundred
                   besides
                   .
                   Nay
                   there
                   be
                   other
                   Bird-catchers
                   ,
                   that
                   vse
                   stranger
                   Quaile-pipes
                   :
                   you
                   shall
                   haue
                   fellows
                   ,
                   foure
                   or
                   fiue
                   in
                   a
                   country
                   ,
                   that
                   buying
                   vp
                   any
                   old
                   Booke
                   (
                   especially
                   a
                   Sermon
                   ,
                   or
                   any
                   other
                   matter
                   of
                   Diuinity
                   )
                   that
                   lies
                   for
                   wast
                   paper
                   ,
                   and
                   is
                   cleane
                   forgotten
                   ,
                   ad
                   a
                   new
                   printed
                   Epistle
                   to
                   it
                   ,
                   and
                   with
                   an
                   Alphabet
                   of
                   letters
                   which
                   they
                   cary
                   about
                   them
                   ,
                   being
                   able
                   
                   to
                   print
                   any
                   mans
                   name
                   (
                   for
                   a
                   Dedscation
                   )
                   on
                   the
                   suddaine
                   trauaile
                   vp
                   and
                   downe
                   most
                   Shires
                   in
                   England
                   ,
                   and
                   liue
                   by
                   this
                   Hawking
                   .
                
                 
                   Are
                   we
                   not
                   excellent
                   Falconersnow
                   (
                   quoth
                   thrée
                   halfe
                   shares
                   ?
                   )
                   excellent
                   villaines
                   ,
                   cryed
                   the
                   deuils
                   Deputy
                   :
                   by
                   this
                   the
                   meate
                   (
                   for
                   dinnet
                   came
                   smoaking
                   in
                   ,
                   vpon
                   which
                   they
                   fell
                   most
                   firannically
                   ,
                   yet
                   (
                   for
                   manners
                   sake
                   )
                   offring
                   first
                   ,
                   to
                   the
                   Balife
                   of
                   Belzebub
                   the
                   vpper
                   end
                   of
                   the
                   table
                   ,
                   but
                   he
                   fearing
                   they
                   would
                   make
                   a
                   Hauke
                   ,
                   or
                   a
                   Buzzard
                   of
                   him
                   too
                   ,
                   and
                   report
                   they
                   had
                   ridden
                   himlike
                   an
                   Asse
                   ,
                   as
                   they
                   had
                   done
                   others
                   ,
                   out
                   a
                   doores
                   hée
                   flung
                   with
                   a
                   vengeance
                   as
                   he
                   came
                   .
                
                 
                   O
                   sacred
                   Learning
                   why
                   doost
                   thou
                   suffer
                   thy
                   seauen
                   leaued
                   trée
                   ,
                   to
                   be
                   plucked
                   by
                   barbarous
                   and
                   most
                   vnhallowed
                   handes
                   ?
                   Why
                   is
                   thy
                   beantifull
                   Maiden-body
                   ,
                   polluted
                   like
                   a
                   strumpets
                   ,
                   and
                   prostituted
                   to
                   beastly
                   and
                   slanish
                   
                   Ignoraike
                   ?
                   O
                   then
                   Base-broode
                   ,
                   that
                   make
                   the
                   Muses
                   harlots
                   ,
                   yet
                   say
                   they
                   are
                   your
                   Mothers
                   ?
                   You
                   Theeues
                   of
                   
                     Wit
                     ,
                     Cheators
                  
                   of
                   Arte
                   ,
                   Traitors
                   of
                   schooles
                   of
                   
                     Learning
                     :
                     murderers
                  
                   of
                   Schollers
                   :
                   More
                   worthy
                   you
                   are
                   ,
                   to
                   vndergoe
                   the
                   Romane
                   Furca
                   ,
                   like
                   slaues
                   ,
                   and
                   to
                   be
                   branded
                   i'
                   th
                   fore-head
                   déeper
                   then
                   they
                   that
                   forge
                   Testaments
                   to
                   vndoe
                   Orphants
                   :
                   Such
                   doe
                   but
                   rob
                   children
                   of
                   goods
                   that
                   may
                   be
                   lost
                   :
                   but
                   you
                   rob
                   Schollers
                   of
                   their
                   Fame
                   ,
                   which
                   is
                   déerer
                   then
                   life
                   .
                   You
                   are
                   not
                   worth
                   an
                   Inuectiue
                   ,
                   not
                   worthy
                   to
                   haue-your
                   names
                   drop
                   out
                   of
                   a
                   deseruing
                   pen
                   ,
                   you
                   shall
                   onely
                   be
                   executed
                   in
                   Picture
                   ,
                   (
                   as
                   they
                   vse
                   to
                   handle
                   Malefactors
                   in
                   France
                   )
                   and
                   the
                   picture
                   (
                   though
                   it
                   were
                   drawne
                   to
                   be
                   hung
                   vp
                   in
                   
                     another
                     place
                  
                   )
                   shal
                   leaue
                   you
                   impudently
                   arrogant
                   to
                   your selues
                   ,
                   and
                   ignominiously
                   rioiculeus
                   to
                   after
                   ages
                   :
                   in
                   these
                   collours
                   ,
                   are
                   you
                   drawne
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     The
                     true
                     picture
                     of
                     these
                     Falconers
                     .
                  
                   
                     —
                     There
                     be
                     Fellowes
                     
                  
                   
                     Of
                     course
                     and
                     common
                     bloud
                     ;
                     Mechanicke
                     knaues
                     ,
                  
                   
                     Whose
                     〈…〉
                     buried
                     then
                     in
                     graues
                     :
                  
                   
                     And
                     indeed
                     〈…〉
                     earthy
                     ,
                     whose
                     creation
                     .
                  
                   
                   
                     Was
                     but
                     to
                     giue
                     a
                     Boote
                     or
                     Shooe
                     good
                     fashion
                     .
                  
                   
                     Yet
                     these
                     (
                     shrowing
                     by
                     the
                     Apron
                     and
                     the
                     Awle
                     )
                  
                   
                     Being
                     druncke
                     with
                     their
                     own
                     wit
                     ,
                     cast
                     vp
                     their
                     gall
                     
                  
                   
                     Onely
                     of
                     yncke
                     :
                     and
                     in
                     patchd
                     ,
                     beggerly
                     Rimes
                     ,
                  
                   
                     (
                     As
                     full
                     of
                     fowle
                     corruption
                     ,
                     as
                     the
                     Times
                     )
                  
                   
                     From
                     towne
                     to
                     towne
                     they
                     strowle
                     in
                     soule
                     ,
                     as
                     poore
                  
                   
                     As
                     th'
                     are
                     in
                     clothes
                     :
                     yet
                     these
                     at
                     euery
                     doore
                     ,
                  
                   
                     Their
                     labors
                     Dedicate
                     .
                     But
                     (
                     as
                     at
                     Faires
                     )
                  
                   
                     Like
                     Pedlars
                     ,
                     they
                     shew
                     still
                     one
                     sort
                     of
                     wares
                  
                   
                     Vnto
                     all
                     commers
                     (
                     with
                     some
                     filde
                     oratlon
                     )
                  
                   
                     And
                     thus
                     to
                     giue
                     bookes
                     now
                     's
                     an
                     occupation
                     .
                     
                  
                   
                     One
                     booke
                     hath
                     seauen
                     score
                     patrons
                     :
                     thus
                     desart
                  
                   
                     Is
                     cheated
                     of
                     her
                     due
                     :
                     thus
                     noble
                     art
                  
                   
                     Giues
                     Ignorance
                     (
                     that
                     common
                     strumpet
                     )
                     place
                     ,
                  
                   
                     Thus
                     the
                     true
                     schollers
                     name
                     growes
                     cheap
                     and
                     base
                     ,
                     &c.
                     
                  
                
              
            
             
               
                 
                   Iacks
                   of
                   the
                   Clock-house
                
                 .
                 A
                 new
                 and
                 cunning
                 drawing
                 of
                 money
                 from
                 Gentlemen
                 .
                 
                   CHAP.
                   VI.
                
                 
              
               
                 THere
                 is
                 another
                 Fraternitie
                 of
                 wandring
                 Pilgrims
                 who
                 merrily
                 call
                 themselues
                 ,
                 
                   Iackes
                   of
                   the
                   Clocke-house
                
                 ,
                 and
                 are
                 very
                 néere
                 allyed
                 to
                 the
                 Falconers
                 ,
                 that
                 went
                 a
                 Hawking
                 before
                 .
                 The
                 Clarke
                 of
                 Erebus
                 set
                 downe
                 their
                 names
                 too
                 in
                 his
                 Tables
                 ,
                 with
                 certaine
                 bréefe
                 notes
                 of
                 their
                 practises
                 :
                 and
                 these
                 they
                 are
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 Iacke
                 of
                 a
                 Clocke-house
                 goes
                 vpon
                 Screws
                 ,
                 and
                 his
                 office
                 is
                 to
                 doe
                 nothing
                 but
                 strike
                 :
                 so
                 does
                 this
                 noise
                 ,
                 (
                 for
                 they
                 walke
                 vp
                 and
                 downe
                 like
                 Fidlers
                 )
                 trauaile
                 with
                 Motions
                 ,
                 and
                 whatsoeuer
                 their
                 Motions
                 get
                 them
                 ,
                 is
                 called
                 striking
                 .
              
               
                 Those
                 Motions
                 are
                 certaine
                 Collections
                 ,
                 or
                 wittie
                 Inuentions
                 ,
                 some-times
                 of
                 one
                 thing
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 of
                 an
                 other
                 (
                 there
                 is
                 a
                 new
                 one
                 now
                 in
                 towne
                 ,
                 in
                 praise
                 of
                 the
                 
                   Vnion
                   .
                
                 )
                 And
                 these
                 are
                 fairely
                 written
                 and
                 engrossed
                 in
                 Vellum
                 ,
                 Parchement
                 ,
                 or
                 Royall
                 paper
                 ,
                 richly
                 adorned
                 
                 with
                 compartiments
                 ,
                 and
                 set
                 out
                 with
                 letters
                 both
                 in
                 gold
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 various
                 coulours
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 labour
                 being
                 taken
                 ,
                 the
                 Maister
                 of
                 the
                 Motion
                 hearkens
                 where
                 such
                 a
                 Nobleman
                 ,
                 such
                 a
                 Lord
                 ,
                 or
                 such
                 a
                 Knight
                 lyes
                 ,
                 that
                 is
                 liberall
                 :
                 hauing
                 found
                 one
                 to
                 his
                 liking
                 ,
                 The
                 Motion
                 (
                 with
                 his
                 Patrons
                 name
                 fairely
                 texted
                 out
                 ,
                 in
                 manner
                 of
                 a
                 Dedication
                 ,
                 )
                 is
                 presented
                 before
                 him
                 :
                 hée
                 receiues
                 it
                 ,
                 and
                 thinking
                 it
                 to
                 be
                 a
                 worke
                 onely
                 vnder-taken
                 for
                 his
                 sake
                 ,
                 is
                 bounteous
                 to
                 the
                 giuer
                 ,
                 estéeming
                 him
                 a
                 Scholler
                 ,
                 and
                 knowing
                 that
                 not
                 without
                 great
                 trauaile
                 ,
                 hée
                 hath
                 drawne
                 so
                 many
                 little
                 stragling
                 streames
                 into
                 so
                 faire
                 and
                 smoothe
                 a
                 Riuer
                 :
                 whereas
                 the
                 Worke
                 is
                 the
                 labour
                 of
                 some
                 other
                 (
                 copied
                 out
                 by
                 stealth
                 )
                 by
                 an
                 impudent
                 ignorant
                 fellow
                 ,
                 that
                 runnes
                 vp
                 and
                 downe
                 with
                 the
                 Transcripts
                 ,
                 and
                 euery
                 Ale-house
                 may
                 haue
                 one
                 of
                 them
                 (
                 hanging
                 in
                 the
                 basest
                 drinking
                 roome
                 )
                 if
                 they
                 will
                 be
                 but
                 at
                 the
                 charges
                 of
                 writing
                 it
                 out
                 .
                 Thus
                 the
                 liberallitie
                 of
                 a
                 Nobleman
                 ,
                 or
                 of
                 a
                 Gentleman
                 is
                 abused
                 :
                 thus
                 learning
                 is
                 brought
                 into
                 scorne
                 and
                 contempt
                 :
                 Thus
                 men
                 are
                 cheated
                 of
                 their
                 bountie
                 ,
                 giuing
                 much
                 for
                 that
                 (
                 out
                 of
                 their
                 frée
                 mindes
                 )
                 which
                 is
                 common
                 abroad
                 ,
                 and
                 put
                 away
                 for
                 base
                 prices
                 .
                 Thus
                 villanie
                 some-times
                 walkes
                 alone
                 ,
                 as
                 if
                 it
                 were
                 giuen
                 to
                 Melancholy
                 ,
                 and
                 some-times
                 knaues
                 tie
                 themselues
                 in
                 a
                 knot
                 ,
                 because
                 they
                 may
                 be
                 more
                 merry
                 ,
                 as
                 by
                 a
                 mad
                 sort
                 of
                 Comrades
                 whom
                 I
                 sée
                 leaping
                 into
                 the
                 Saddle
                 ,
                 anon
                 it
                 will
                 apeare
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 
                   Rancke
                   Riders
                
                 ,
                 The
                 manner
                 of
                 Cozening
                 Inne-keepers
                 .
                 Post-masters
                 and
                 Hackney-men
                 .
                 
                   CHAP.
                   VII
                
                 .
              
               
                 THere
                 is
                 a
                 troope
                 of
                 Horsemen
                 ,
                 that
                 runne
                 vp
                 and
                 downe
                 the
                 whole
                 kingdome
                 ,
                 they
                 are
                 euer
                 in
                 a
                 gallop
                 ,
                 their
                 businesse
                 is
                 weightie
                 ,
                 their
                 iournyes
                 many
                 ,
                 
                 their
                 expences
                 great
                 ,
                 their
                 Innes
                 euerie
                 where
                 ,
                 their
                 lands
                 no
                 where
                 :
                 they
                 haue
                 onely
                 a
                 certaine
                 Frée-holde
                 called
                 Tyborne
                 ,
                 (
                 scituate
                 néere
                 London
                 ,
                 and
                 many
                 a
                 faire
                 paire
                 of
                 Gallowes
                 in
                 other
                 Countries
                 besides
                 ,
                 )
                 vpon
                 which
                 they
                 liue
                 verie
                 poorely
                 ,
                 till
                 they
                 dye
                 ,
                 and
                 dye
                 for
                 the
                 most
                 part
                 wickedly
                 ,
                 because
                 their
                 liues
                 are
                 villanous
                 and
                 desperate
                 .
                 But
                 what
                 race
                 so
                 euer
                 they
                 runne
                 ,
                 their
                 they
                 end
                 it
                 ,
                 there
                 they
                 set
                 vp
                 their
                 rest
                 ,
                 there
                 is
                 their
                 last
                 baite
                 ,
                 whether
                 soeuer
                 their
                 iourney
                 lyes
                 .
                 And
                 these
                 horsmen
                 haue
                 no
                 other
                 names
                 but
                 rancke
                 Riders
                 .
              
               
                 To
                 furnish
                 whem
                 foorth
                 for
                 any
                 iourney
                 ,
                 they
                 must
                 haue
                 Riding
                 sutes
                 cut
                 out
                 of
                 these
                 foure
                 péeces
                 .
              
               
                 
                   1
                   The
                   Inne-kéeper
                   or
                   Hackney-man
                   ,
                   of
                   whom
                   they
                   haue
                   horses
                   ,
                   is
                   called
                   ,
                   A
                   Colt.
                   
                
                 
                   2
                   He
                   that
                   neuer
                   alights
                   off
                   a
                   rich
                   Farmer
                   or
                   country
                   Gentleman
                   ,
                   till
                   he
                   haue
                   drawne
                   mony
                   from
                   him
                   ,
                   is
                   called
                   ,
                   
                     The
                     Snaffle
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   3
                   The
                   money
                   so
                   gotten
                   ,
                   is
                   
                     The
                     Ring
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   4
                   He
                   that
                   féedes
                   them
                   with
                   mony
                   is
                   called
                   ,
                   
                     The
                     prouander
                  
                   .
                
              
               
                 These
                 Ranck-riders
                 (
                 like
                 Butchers
                 to
                 Rumford
                 market
                 )
                 sildome
                 goe
                 vnder
                 sixe
                 or
                 seauen
                 in
                 a
                 company
                 ,
                 and
                 these
                 Caréeres
                 they
                 fetch
                 .
                 Their
                 pursses
                 being
                 warmely
                 lined
                 with
                 some
                 purchase
                 gotten
                 before
                 ,
                 and
                 they
                 themselues
                 well
                 booted
                 and
                 spur'd
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 reasonable
                 good
                 outsides
                 ,
                 arriue
                 at
                 the
                 fairest
                 Inne
                 they
                 can
                 choose
                 ,
                 either
                 in
                 Westminster
                 ,
                 the
                 Strand
                 ,
                 the
                 Citie
                 ,
                 or
                 the
                 Suburbes
                 .
              
               
                 Two
                 of
                 them
                 who
                 haue
                 cloathes
                 of
                 purpose
                 to
                 fit
                 the
                 play
                 ,
                 carrying
                 the
                 shew
                 of
                 Gentlemen
                 ,
                 the
                 other
                 act
                 their
                 partes
                 in
                 blew
                 coates
                 ,
                 as
                 they
                 were
                 their
                 Seruingmen
                 ,
                 though
                 indéede
                 they
                 be
                 all
                 fellowes
                 .
                 They
                 enter
                 all
                 durted
                 
                 or
                 dustied
                 (
                 according
                 as
                 it
                 shall
                 please
                 the
                 high
                 way
                 to
                 vse
                 them
                 )
                 and
                 the
                 first
                 bridle
                 they
                 put
                 into
                 the
                 Colts
                 mouth
                 (
                 that
                 is
                 to
                 say
                 ,
                 the
                 Inkéepers
                 )
                 is
                 at
                 their
                 comming
                 in
                 to
                 aske
                 alowde
                 if
                 the
                 footeman
                 be
                 gone
                 backe
                 with
                 the
                 horses
                 ?
                 t
                 is
                 answered
                 yes
                 .
                 Héere
                 ,
                 the
                 Ranck-riders
                 lye
                 
                 thrée
                 or
                 foure
                 daies
                 ,
                 spending
                 moderately
                 enough
                 ,
                 yet
                 abating
                 not
                 a
                 penny
                 of
                 any
                 reckoning
                 ,
                 to
                 shew
                 of
                 what
                 house
                 they
                 come
                 :
                 in
                 which
                 space
                 their
                 counterfeit
                 followers
                 learne
                 what
                 country-man
                 the
                 maister
                 of
                 the
                 house
                 is
                 ,
                 where
                 the
                 Hostlars
                 and
                 Chamberlaines
                 were
                 borne
                 ,
                 and
                 what
                 other
                 countrie
                 Gentlemen
                 are
                 guests
                 to
                 the
                 Inne
                 :
                 which
                 lessons
                 being
                 presently
                 gotten
                 by
                 heart
                 ,
                 they
                 fall
                 in
                 study
                 with
                 the
                 generall
                 rules
                 of
                 their
                 knauerie
                 :
                 and
                 those
                 are
                 ,
                 first
                 to
                 giue
                 out
                 ,
                 that
                 their
                 Maister
                 is
                 a
                 Gentleman
                 of
                 such
                 and
                 such
                 meanes
                 ,
                 in
                 such
                 a
                 shire
                 (
                 which
                 shall
                 be
                 sure
                 to
                 stand
                 farre
                 enough
                 from
                 those
                 places
                 where
                 any
                 of
                 the
                 house
                 ,
                 or
                 of
                 other
                 guests
                 were
                 borne
                 ,
                 )
                 that
                 hée
                 is
                 come
                 to
                 receiue
                 so
                 many
                 hundred
                 poundes
                 vpon
                 land
                 which
                 hée
                 hath
                 solde
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 hée
                 meanes
                 to
                 Inne
                 there
                 some
                 quarter
                 of
                 a
                 yeare
                 at
                 least
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 Brasse
                 money
                 passing
                 for
                 currant
                 through
                 the
                 house
                 ,
                 hée
                 is
                 more
                 obserued
                 and
                 better
                 attended
                 ,
                 is
                 worshipped
                 at
                 euerie
                 word
                 :
                 and
                 the
                 easier
                 to
                 breake
                 and
                 bridle
                 the
                 Colt
                 ,
                 his
                 Worship
                 will
                 not
                 sit
                 downe
                 to
                 Dinner
                 or
                 supper
                 ,
                 till
                 the
                 Maister
                 of
                 the
                 house
                 be
                 placed
                 at
                 the
                 vpper
                 end
                 of
                 the
                 boord
                 by
                 him
                 .
              
               
                 In
                 the
                 middle
                 of
                 Supper
                 ,
                 or
                 else
                 verie
                 earely
                 in
                 the
                 following
                 morning
                 ,
                 comes
                 in
                 a
                 counterfeit
                 footeman
                 ,
                 sweatingly
                 deliuering
                 a
                 message
                 ,
                 that
                 such
                 a
                 Knight
                 hath
                 sent
                 for
                 the
                 head-Maister
                 of
                 these
                 Rancke-ryders
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 hée
                 must
                 be
                 with
                 him
                 by
                 such
                 an
                 houre
                 ,
                 the
                 iourney
                 being
                 not
                 aboue
                 twelue
                 or
                 fouretéene
                 miles
                 .
                 Vpon
                 deliuerie
                 of
                 this
                 message
                 ,
                 (
                 from
                 so
                 déere
                 and
                 noble
                 a
                 friend
                 )
                 hée
                 sweares
                 and
                 chafes
                 ,
                 because
                 all
                 his
                 horses
                 are
                 out
                 of
                 Towne
                 ,
                 curseth
                 the
                 sending
                 of
                 them
                 backe
                 ,
                 offers
                 any
                 mony
                 to
                 haue
                 himselfe
                 ,
                 his
                 couzen
                 with
                 him
                 ,
                 and
                 his
                 men
                 but
                 reasonably
                 horst
                 .
                 Mine
                 host
                 being
                 a
                 credulous
                 Asse
                 ,
                 suffers
                 them
                 all
                 to
                 get
                 vp
                 vpon
                 him
                 ,
                 for
                 hée
                 prouides
                 them
                 horses
                 ,
                 either
                 of
                 his
                 owne
                 (
                 thinking
                 his
                 Guest
                 to
                 be
                 a
                 man
                 of
                 great
                 accompt
                 ,
                 and
                 being
                 loath
                 to
                 loose
                 him
                 ,
                 because
                 hée
                 spends
                 well
                 )
                 or
                 else
                 sendes
                 out
                 to
                 hire
                 them
                 of
                 his
                 neighbours
                 ,
                 passing
                 his
                 word
                 for
                 their
                 forth-comming
                 
                 within
                 a
                 day
                 or
                 two
                 ,
                 Vp
                 they
                 get
                 and
                 away
                 Gallop
                 our
                 Ranck-riders
                 ,
                 as
                 far
                 as
                 the
                 poore
                 Iades
                 can
                 carry
                 them
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 two
                 daies
                 being
                 ambled
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 world
                 ,
                 and
                 perhaps
                 thrée
                 more
                 after
                 them
                 ,
                 yet
                 neither
                 a
                 supply
                 of
                 Horse-men
                 or
                 Foote-men
                 ,
                 (
                 as
                 was
                 promised
                 )
                 to
                 be
                 set
                 eye
                 vpon
                 .
                 The
                 lamentable
                 In-kéeper
                 (
                 or
                 Hackney
                 man
                 ,
                 if
                 hée
                 chance
                 to
                 be
                 Sadled
                 for
                 this
                 iourney
                 too
                 )
                 loose
                 their
                 Colts
                 téeth
                 ,
                 and
                 finde
                 that
                 they
                 are
                 made
                 olde
                 arrant
                 Iades
                 :
                 Search
                 ,
                 then
                 runnes
                 vp
                 and
                 downe
                 ,
                 like
                 a
                 Constable
                 halfe
                 out
                 of
                 his
                 wittes
                 (
                 vpon
                 a
                 Shroue-tuesday
                 )
                 and
                 hue
                 and
                 cry
                 followes
                 after
                 ,
                 some
                 twelue
                 or
                 fouretéene
                 miles
                 off
                 ,
                 (
                 round
                 about
                 London
                 )
                 which
                 was
                 the
                 farthest
                 of
                 their
                 iourney
                 as
                 they
                 gaue
                 out
                 .
                 But
                 (
                 alas
                 !
                 )
                 the
                 horses
                 are
                 at
                 pasture
                 fourescore
                 or
                 a
                 hundred
                 miles
                 from
                 their
                 olde
                 mangers
                 :
                 they
                 were
                 sould
                 at
                 some
                 blinde
                 drunken
                 théeuish
                 faire
                 ,
                 (
                 there
                 being
                 enow
                 of
                 them
                 in
                 company
                 to
                 saue
                 themselues
                 ,
                 by
                 their
                 Toll-booke
                 ,
                 )
                 the
                 Seruing-men
                 cast
                 off
                 their
                 blew-coates
                 ,
                 and
                 cried
                 ,
                 
                   All
                   fellowes
                
                 :
                 the
                 money
                 is
                 spent
                 vpon
                 wine
                 ,
                 vpon
                 whores
                 ,
                 vpon
                 fidlers
                 ,
                 vpon
                 fooles
                 ,
                 (
                 by
                 whom
                 they
                 wil
                 loose
                 nothing
                 )
                 and
                 the
                 tyde
                 being
                 at
                 an
                 ebbe
                 ,
                 they
                 are
                 as
                 ready
                 to
                 practise
                 their
                 skill
                 in
                 horse-manship
                 to
                 bring
                 Coltes
                 to
                 the
                 saddle
                 in
                 that
                 Towne
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 make
                 Nags
                 run
                 a
                 race
                 of
                 thrée-score
                 or
                 a
                 hundred
                 miles
                 of
                 from
                 that
                 place
                 ,
                 as
                 before
                 they
                 did
                 from
                 London
                 .
              
               
                 
                   Running
                   at
                   the
                   Ring
                   .
                
                 
                   THus
                   ,
                   so
                   long
                   as
                   Horseflesh
                   can
                   make
                   them
                   fat
                   ,
                   they
                   neuer
                   leaue
                   féeding
                   .
                   But
                   when
                   they
                   haue
                   beaten
                   so
                   many
                   high-waies
                   in
                   seuerall
                   countries
                   ,
                   that
                   they
                   feare
                   to
                   be
                   ouer-taken
                   by
                   Tracers
                   ,
                   then
                   (
                   like
                   Soldiers
                   comming
                   from
                   a
                   Breach
                   )
                   they
                   march
                   faire
                   &
                   softly
                   on
                   foote
                   ,
                   lying
                   in
                   garrison
                   ,
                   as
                   it
                   were
                   ,
                   close
                   in
                   some
                   out
                   townes
                   ,
                   till
                   the
                   foule
                   Rumor
                   of
                   their
                   Villanies
                   (
                   like
                   a
                   stormy
                   durty
                   winter
                   )
                   be
                   blown
                   ouer
                   :
                   In
                   which
                   time
                   of
                   lurking
                   in
                   the
                   shel
                   ,
                   they
                   are
                   not
                   idle
                   neither
                   ,
                   but
                   like
                   snailes
                   ,
                   they
                   venture
                   abroad
                   tho
                   
                   the
                   law
                   hath
                   threatned
                   to
                   rain
                   down
                   neuer
                   so
                   much
                   punishment
                   vpon
                   them
                   :
                   &
                   what
                   doe
                   they
                   ?
                   they
                   are
                   not
                   bées
                   ,
                   to
                   liue
                   by
                   their
                   owne
                   painfull
                   labors
                   ,
                   but
                   Drones
                   that
                   must
                   eate
                   vp
                   the
                   swéetnesse
                   ,
                   and
                   be
                   fedde
                   wilh
                   the
                   earnings
                   of
                   others
                   :
                   This
                   therefore
                   is
                   their
                   worke
                   .
                   They
                   carelesly
                   inquire
                   what
                   gentleman
                   of
                   worth
                   ,
                   or
                   what
                   rich
                   Farmers
                   dwell
                   within
                   fiue
                   ,
                   six
                   or
                   seauen
                   miles
                   of
                   the
                   Fort
                   where
                   they
                   are
                   insconc'd
                   (
                   which
                   they
                   may
                   doe
                   without
                   suspition
                   )
                   and
                   hauing
                   got
                   their
                   names
                   ,
                   they
                   single
                   out
                   themselues
                   in
                   a
                   morning
                   ,
                   and
                   each
                   man
                   takes
                   a
                   seuerall
                   path
                   to
                   himselfe
                   :
                   one
                   goes
                   East
                   ,
                   one
                   West
                   ,
                   one
                   North
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   other
                   South
                   :
                   walking
                   either
                   in
                   bootes
                   with
                   wandes
                   in
                   their
                   handes
                   ,
                   or
                   otherwise
                   ,
                   for
                   it
                   is
                   all
                   to
                   one
                   purpose
                   .
                   And
                   note
                   this
                   by
                   the
                   way
                   ,
                   that
                   when
                   they
                   trauell
                   thus
                   one
                   foot
                   ,
                   they
                   are
                   no
                   more
                   called
                   Ranck-riders
                   but
                   Ttrowlers
                   ,
                   a
                   proper
                   name
                   giuen
                   to
                   Country
                   plaiers
                   ,
                   that
                   (
                   without
                   Sockes
                   )
                   trot
                   from
                   towne
                   to
                   towne
                   vpon
                   the
                   bare
                   hoofe
                   .
                
                 
                   Being
                   ariued
                   at
                   the
                   Gate
                   where
                   the
                   Gentlemen
                   ,
                   or
                   Farmer
                   dwelleth
                   ,
                   he
                   boldly
                   knockes
                   ,
                   inquiring
                   for
                   him
                   by
                   name
                   ,
                   and
                   steppes
                   into
                   speake
                   with
                   him
                   :
                   the
                   seruant
                   séeing
                   a
                   fashionable
                   person
                   ,
                   tells
                   his
                   Maister
                   there
                   is
                   a
                   Gentleman
                   desires
                   to
                   speake
                   with
                   him
                   :
                   the
                   maister
                   coms
                   and
                   salutes
                   him
                   ,
                   but
                   eying
                   him
                   well
                   ,
                   saies
                   he
                   does
                   not
                   know
                   him
                   :
                   No
                   Sir
                   ,
                   replies
                   the
                   other
                   (
                   with
                   a
                   face
                   bolde
                   ynough
                   )
                   it
                   may
                   be
                   so
                   ,
                   but
                   I
                   pray
                   you
                   Sir
                   ,
                   will
                   you
                   walke
                   a
                   turne
                   or
                   two
                   in
                   your
                   Orchard
                   or
                   Garden
                   ,
                   I
                   would
                   there
                   conferre
                   :
                   Hauing
                   got
                   him
                   thether
                   ,
                   to
                   this
                   tune
                   he
                   plaies
                   vpon
                   him
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   How
                   the
                   snaffle
                   is
                   put
                   on
                   .
                
                 
                   SIr
                   ,
                   I
                   am
                   a
                   Gentleman
                   ,
                   borne
                   to
                   better
                   meanes
                   then
                   my
                   present
                   fortunes
                   doe
                   allow
                   me
                   :
                   I
                   serued
                   in
                   the
                   field
                   ,
                   and
                   had
                   commaunde
                   there
                   ,
                   But
                   long
                   peace
                   (
                   you
                   know
                   Sir
                   )
                   is
                   the
                   Cancker
                   that
                   eates
                   vp
                   Souldiers
                   ,
                   and
                   so
                   it
                   hath
                   mée
                   .
                   I
                   lie
                   héere
                   not
                   far
                   off
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   Country
                   ,
                   at
                   mine
                   Inne
                   ,
                   where
                   staying
                   vpon
                   the
                   
                   dispatch
                   of
                   some
                   businesse
                   ,
                   I
                   am
                   indebted
                   to
                   the
                   house
                   in
                   monies
                   ,
                   so
                   that
                   I
                   cannot
                   with
                   the
                   credit
                   of
                   a
                   Gentleman
                   leaue
                   the
                   house
                   till
                   I
                   haue
                   paide
                   them
                   .
                   Make
                   mée
                   sir
                   so
                   much
                   beholden
                   to
                   your
                   loue
                   as
                   to
                   lend
                   mée
                   fortye
                   or
                   fiftie
                   shillings
                   to
                   beare
                   my
                   horse
                   and
                   my selfe
                   to
                   London
                   ,
                   from
                   whence
                   within
                   a
                   day
                   or
                   two
                   ,
                   I
                   shall
                   send
                   you
                   many
                   thankes
                   ,
                   with
                   a
                   faithfull
                   repayment
                   of
                   your
                   curtesie
                   .
                
                 
                   The
                   honest
                   Gentleman
                   ,
                   or
                   the
                   good
                   natur'd
                   Farmer
                   beholding
                   a
                   personable
                   man
                   ,
                   fashionably
                   attired
                   ,
                   and
                   not
                   carrying
                   in
                   outward
                   coullors
                   ,
                   the
                   face
                   of
                   a
                   cogging-knaue
                   ,
                   giues
                   credit
                   to
                   his
                   words
                   ,
                   are
                   sorry
                   that
                   they
                   are
                   not
                   at
                   this
                   present
                   time
                   so
                   well
                   furnished
                   as
                   they
                   could
                   wish
                   ,
                   but
                   if
                   a
                   matter
                   of
                   twentie
                   shillings
                   can
                   stead
                   him
                   ,
                   he
                   shall
                   commaund
                   it
                   ,
                   because
                   it
                   were
                   pittie
                   any
                   honest
                   Gentleman
                   should
                   for
                   so
                   small
                   a
                   matter
                   miscarry
                   .
                   Happily
                   they
                   meete
                   with
                   some
                   Chapmen
                   that
                   giue
                   them
                   their
                   owne
                   asking
                   ;
                   but
                   howsoeuer
                   ,
                   all
                   is
                   fish
                   that
                   comes
                   to
                   net
                   ,
                   they
                   are
                   the
                   most
                   conscionable
                   market
                   folkes
                   that
                   euer
                   rode
                   betwéene
                   two
                   paniers
                   ,
                   for
                   from
                   forty
                   they
                   will
                   fall
                   to
                   twentie
                   ,
                   from
                   twenty
                   to
                   ten
                   ,
                   from
                   ten
                   to
                   fiue
                   :
                   nay
                   these
                   Mountibanekes
                   are
                   so
                   base
                   ,
                   that
                   they
                   are
                   not
                   ashamed
                   to
                   take
                   two
                   shillings
                   of
                   a
                   plaine
                   Husbandman
                   ,
                   and
                   sometimes
                   sixe
                   pence
                   (
                   which
                   the
                   other
                   giues
                   simply
                   and
                   honestly
                   )
                   of
                   whom
                   they
                   demaunded
                   a
                   whole
                   fifteene
                   .
                
                 
                   In
                   this
                   manner
                   doe
                   they
                   digge
                   siluer
                   out
                   of
                   mens
                   purses
                   all
                   the
                   day
                   ,
                   and
                   at
                   night
                   meet
                   together
                   at
                   the
                   appointed
                   Rendeuouz
                   ,
                   where
                   all
                   these
                   Snaffles
                   are
                   loosed
                   to
                   their
                   full
                   length
                   ,
                   the
                   Ringes
                   which
                   that
                   day
                   they
                   haue
                   made
                   ,
                   are
                   worne
                   .
                   The
                   Prouender
                   is
                   praised
                   or
                   dispraised
                   ,
                   as
                   they
                   finde
                   it
                   in
                   goodnesse
                   ,
                   but
                   it
                   goes
                   downe
                   all
                   ,
                   whilst
                   they
                   laugh
                   at
                   all
                   .
                
                 
                   And
                   thus
                   does
                   a
                   Common
                   Wealth
                   bring
                   vp
                   children
                   ,
                   that
                   care
                   not
                   how
                   they
                   discredit
                   her
                   ,
                   or
                   vndoe
                   her
                   :
                   who
                   would
                   imagine
                   that
                   Birdes
                   so
                   faire
                   in
                   shewe
                   ,
                   and
                   so
                   sweete
                   in
                   voice
                   ,
                   should
                   be
                   so
                   dangerous
                   in
                   condition-but
                   Kanens
                   thinke
                   carryon
                   the
                   daintiest
                   meate
                   ,
                   and
                   villaines
                   
                   estéeme
                   most
                   of
                   that
                   mony
                   which
                   is
                   purchast
                   by
                   basenes
                   .
                
                 
                   The
                   Vnder-Shriffe
                   for
                   the
                   county
                   of
                   the
                   Cacodemons
                   ,
                   knowing
                   into
                   what
                   arrerages
                   these
                   Rank-riders
                   were
                   runne
                   ,
                   for
                   horse-flesh
                   to
                   his
                   maister
                   ,
                   (
                   of
                   whom
                   hée
                   farmed
                   the
                   office
                   )
                   sent
                   out
                   his
                   writs
                   to
                   attach
                   them
                   ,
                   and
                   so
                   narrowly
                   pursued
                   them
                   ,
                   that
                   for
                   all
                   they
                   were
                   well
                   horst
                   ,
                   some
                   hée
                   sent
                   post
                   to
                   the
                   gallowes
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   rest
                   to
                   seuerall
                   iayles
                   :
                   After
                   which
                   ,
                   making
                   all
                   the
                   hast
                   hée
                   possibly
                   could
                   to
                   get
                   to
                   London
                   againe
                   ,
                   hée
                   was
                   way-layd
                   by
                   an
                   army
                   of
                   a
                   strong
                   and
                   new
                   found
                   people
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
                 Moone-men
                 .
                 A
                 discouery
                 of
                 a
                 strange
                 wild
                 people
                 ,
                 very
                 dangerous
                 to
                 Townes
                 and
                 Country
                 Villages
                 .
                 CHAP.
                 VIII
                 .
              
               
                 
                   A
                   Moone-man
                
                 ,
                 signifies
                 in
                 English
                 ,
                 a
                 mad-man
                 ,
                 because
                 the
                 Moone
                 hath
                 greatest
                 domination
                 (
                 aboue
                 any
                 other
                 Planet
                 )
                 ouet
                 the
                 bodies
                 of
                 Franticke
                 persons
                 .
                 But
                 these
                 Moone-men
                 (
                 whose
                 Images
                 are
                 now
                 to
                 be
                 carued
                 )
                 are
                 neither
                 absolutely
                 mad
                 ,
                 nor
                 yet
                 perfectly
                 in
                 their
                 wits
                 .
                 )
                 Their
                 name
                 they
                 borrow
                 from
                 the
                 Moone
                 ,
                 because
                 as
                 the
                 Moone
                 is
                 neuer
                 in
                 one
                 shape
                 two
                 nights
                 together
                 ,
                 but
                 wanders
                 vp
                 and
                 downe
                 Heauen
                 ,
                 like
                 an
                 Anticke
                 ,
                 so
                 these
                 changeable-stuffe-companions
                 neuer
                 tary
                 one
                 day
                 in
                 a
                 place
                 ,
                 but
                 are
                 the
                 onely
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 onely
                 base
                 Runnagats
                 vpon
                 earth
                 .
                 And
                 as
                 in
                 the
                 Moone
                 there
                 is
                 a
                 man
                 ,
                 that
                 neuer
                 stirres
                 without
                 a
                 bush
                 of
                 thornes
                 at
                 his
                 backe
                 ,
                 so
                 these
                 Moone-men
                 lie
                 vndes
                 bushes
                 ;
                 and
                 are
                 indeed
                 no
                 better
                 then
                 Hedge
                 créepers
                 .
              
               
                 They
                 are
                 a
                 people
                 more
                 scattred
                 then
                 Iewes
                 ,
                 and
                 more
                 hated
                 :
                 beggerly
                 in
                 apparrell
                 ,
                 barbarous
                 in
                 condition
                 ,
                 beastly
                 in
                 behauior
                 ,
                 and
                 bloudy
                 if
                 they
                 meete
                 aduantage
                 .
                 A
                 man
                 that
                 sées
                 them
                 would
                 sweare
                 they
                 had
                 all
                 thè
                 yellow
                 Iawndis
                 ,
                 or
                 that
                 they
                 were
                 To●●y
                 ,
                 Moores
                 bastardes
                 ,
                 for
                 no
                 Red-oaker
                 man
                 caries
                 a
                 face
                 of
                 a
                 more
                 
                 filthy
                 complexion
                 ,
                 yet
                 are
                 they
                 not
                 borne
                 so
                 ,
                 neither
                 has
                 the
                 Sunne
                 burnt
                 them
                 so
                 ,
                 but
                 they
                 are
                 painted
                 so
                 ,
                 yet
                 they
                 are
                 not
                 good
                 painters
                 neither
                 :
                 for
                 they
                 doe
                 not
                 make
                 faces
                 ,
                 but
                 marte
                 faces
                 .
                 By
                 a
                 by-name
                 they
                 are
                 called
                 Gipsies
                 ,
                 they
                 call
                 themselues
                 Egiptians
                 ,
                 others
                 in
                 mockery
                 call
                 them
                 Moone-men
                 .
              
               
                 If
                 they
                 be
                 Egiptians
                 ,
                 sure
                 I
                 am
                 they
                 neuer
                 discended
                 from
                 the
                 tribes
                 of
                 any
                 of
                 those
                 people
                 that
                 came
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 Land
                 of
                 
                   Egypt
                   :
                   Ptolomy
                
                 (
                 King
                 of
                 the
                 Egiptians
                 )
                 I
                 warrant
                 neuer
                 called
                 them
                 his
                 Subiects
                 :
                 no
                 nor
                 Pharao
                 before
                 him
                 .
                 Looke
                 what
                 difference
                 their
                 is
                 betweene
                 a
                 ciuell
                 cittizen
                 of
                 Dublin
                 ,
                 &
                 a
                 wilde
                 Irish
                 Kerne
                 ,
                 so
                 much
                 difference
                 there
                 is
                 betweene
                 one
                 of
                 these
                 counterfeit
                 Egiptians
                 and
                 a
                 true
                 English
                 Begger
                 .
                 An
                 English
                 Roague
                 is
                 iust
                 of
                 the
                 same
                 liuery
                 .
              
               
                 They
                 are
                 commonly
                 an
                 army
                 about
                 foure-score
                 
                 strong
                 ,
                 yet
                 they
                 neuer
                 march
                 with
                 all
                 their
                 bagges
                 and
                 baggages
                 together
                 ,
                 but
                 (
                 like
                 boot-halers
                 )
                 they
                 forrage
                 vp
                 and
                 downe
                 countries
                 ,
                 45.
                 or
                 6.
                 in
                 a
                 company
                 .
                 As
                 the
                 swizer
                 has
                 his
                 wench
                 and
                 his
                 Cocke
                 with
                 him
                 when
                 he
                 goes
                 to
                 the
                 warres
                 ,
                 so
                 these
                 vagabonds
                 haue
                 their
                 harlots
                 with
                 a
                 number
                 of
                 little
                 children
                 following
                 at
                 their
                 héeles
                 :
                 which
                 young
                 brood
                 of
                 Beggers
                 ,
                 are
                 sometimes
                 caried
                 (
                 like
                 so
                 many
                 gréene
                 géese
                 aliue
                 to
                 a
                 market
                 )
                 in
                 payres
                 of
                 pameres
                 ,
                 or
                 in
                 dosters
                 like
                 fresh-fish
                 from
                 Kye
                 that
                 comes
                 on
                 horsebacke
                 ,
                 (
                 if
                 they
                 be
                 but
                 infants
                 .
                 )
                 But
                 if
                 they
                 can
                 stradle
                 once
                 ,
                 then
                 aswell
                 the
                 shée
                 roagues
                 as
                 the
                 héeroagues
                 are
                 horst
                 ,
                 seauen
                 or
                 eight
                 vpon
                 one
                 iade
                 ,
                 strongly
                 pineond
                 ,
                 and
                 strangely
                 tyed
                 together
                 .
              
               
                 One
                 Shire
                 alone
                 &
                 no
                 more
                 is
                 sure
                 stil
                 at
                 one
                 time
                 ,
                 to
                 haue
                 these
                 Egiptian-tice
                 swarming
                 within
                 it
                 ,
                 for
                 like
                 flockes
                 of
                 wild
                 géese
                 ,
                 they
                 will
                 euermore
                 fly
                 one
                 after
                 another
                 :
                 let
                 them
                 be
                 scattred
                 worse
                 then
                 the
                 quarters
                 of
                 a
                 traitor
                 are
                 after
                 hée
                 s
                 hang'd
                 drawne
                 and
                 quartred
                 ,
                 yet
                 they
                 haue
                 a
                 tricke
                 (
                 like
                 water
                 cut
                 with
                 a
                 sword
                 )
                 to
                 come
                 together
                 instantly
                 and
                 easily
                 againe
                 :
                 and
                 this
                 is
                 their
                 pollicy
                 ,
                 which
                 way
                 soeuer
                 the
                 formostranckes
                 lead
                 ,
                 
                 they
                 sticke
                 vp
                 small
                 boughes
                 in
                 seuerall
                 places
                 ,
                 to
                 euery
                 village
                 where
                 they
                 passe
                 ,
                 which
                 serue
                 as
                 ensignes
                 to
                 waft
                 on
                 the
                 rest
                 .
              
               
                 Their
                 apparell
                 is
                 old
                 ,
                 and
                 phantasticke
                 ,
                 tho
                 it
                 be
                 neuer
                 so
                 full
                 of
                 rents
                 :
                 the
                 men
                 weare
                 scarfes
                 of
                 Callico
                 ,
                 or
                 any
                 other
                 base
                 stuffe
                 ,
                 hanging
                 their
                 bodies
                 like
                 Morris-dancers
                 ,
                 
                 with
                 bels
                 ,
                 &
                 other
                 toyes
                 ,
                 to
                 intice
                 the
                 countrey
                 people
                 to
                 flocke
                 about
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 wounder
                 at
                 their
                 fooleries
                 ,
                 or
                 rather
                 rancke-knaueryes
                 .
                 The
                 women
                 as
                 ridiculously
                 attire
                 them-selues
                 ,
                 and
                 (
                 like
                 one
                 that
                 plaies
                 ,
                 the
                 Roague
                 on
                 a
                 Stage
                 )
                 weare
                 rags
                 ,
                 and
                 patched
                 filthy
                 mantles
                 vppermost
                 ,
                 when
                 the
                 vnder
                 garments
                 are
                 hansome
                 and
                 in
                 fashion
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 battailes
                 these
                 Out-lawes
                 make
                 ,
                 are
                 many
                 and
                 
                 very
                 bloudy
                 .
                 Whosoeuer
                 falles
                 into
                 their
                 hands
                 neuer
                 escapes
                 aliue
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 cruell
                 they
                 are
                 in
                 these
                 murders
                 ,
                 that
                 nothing
                 can
                 satisfie
                 them
                 but
                 the
                 very
                 heart
                 bloud
                 of
                 those
                 whom
                 they
                 kill
                 .
                 And
                 who
                 are
                 they
                 (
                 thinke
                 you
                 )
                 that
                 thus
                 goe
                 to
                 the
                 pot
                 ?
                 Alasse
                 !
                 Innocent
                 Lambs
                 ,
                 Shéep
                 ,
                 Calues
                 ,
                 Pigges
                 ,
                 &c.
                 Poultrie-Ware
                 are
                 more
                 churlishly
                 handled
                 by
                 them
                 ,
                 then
                 poore
                 prisoners
                 are
                 by
                 kéepers
                 in
                 the
                 counter
                 it
                 'h
                 Pouitry
                 .
                 A
                 goose
                 comming
                 amongst
                 them
                 learnes
                 to
                 be
                 wise
                 ,
                 that
                 hée
                 neuer
                 will
                 be
                 Goose
                 any
                 more
                 .
                 The
                 bloudy
                 trage
                 dies
                 of
                 al
                 these
                 ,
                 are
                 only
                 acted
                 by
                 the
                 women
                 ,
                 who
                 carrying
                 long
                 kniues
                 or
                 Skeanes
                 vnder
                 their
                 mantles
                 ,
                 doe
                 thus
                 play
                 their
                 parts
                 :
                 The
                 Stage
                 is
                 some
                 large
                 Heath
                 :
                 or
                 a
                 Firre-bush
                 Common
                 ,
                 far
                 from
                 any
                 houses
                 :
                 Vpon
                 which
                 casting
                 them-selues
                 into
                 a
                 King
                 ,
                 they
                 inclose
                 the
                 Murdered
                 ,
                 till
                 the
                 Massacare
                 be
                 finished
                 .
                 If
                 any
                 passenger
                 come
                 by
                 ,
                 and
                 wondring
                 to
                 sée
                 such
                 a
                 coniuring
                 circle
                 kept
                 by
                 Hel
                 hounds
                 &
                 demaund
                 what
                 spirits
                 they
                 raise
                 there
                 :
                 one
                 of
                 the
                 Murderers
                 steps
                 to
                 him
                 ,
                 poysons
                 him
                 with
                 swéete
                 wordes
                 and
                 shifts
                 him
                 off
                 ,
                 with
                 this
                 lye
                 ,
                 that
                 one
                 of
                 the
                 women
                 is
                 falne
                 in
                 labour
                 :
                 but
                 if
                 any
                 made
                 Hamlet
                 hearing
                 this
                 ,
                 smell
                 villanie
                 ,
                 &
                 rush
                 in
                 by
                 violence
                 to
                 fée
                 what
                 the
                 tawny
                 .
                 Diuels
                 are
                 dooing
                 ,
                 then
                 they
                 excuse
                 the
                 fact
                 ,
                 lay
                 the
                 blame
                 on
                 those
                 that
                 are
                 the
                 actors
                 ,
                 a
                 perhaps
                 (
                 it
                 
                 they
                 sée
                 no
                 remedie
                 )
                 deliuer
                 them
                 to
                 an
                 officer
                 ,
                 to
                 be
                 had
                 to
                 punishment
                 :
                 But
                 by
                 the
                 way
                 a
                 rescue
                 is
                 surely
                 laid
                 ,
                 and
                 very
                 valiantly
                 (
                 tho
                 very
                 villanously
                 )
                 doe
                 they
                 fetch
                 them
                 off
                 ,
                 and
                 guard
                 them
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 Cabbines
                 where
                 these
                 Land-pyrates
                 lodge
                 in
                 the
                 night
                 ,
                 are
                 the
                 Out-barnes
                 of
                 Farmers
                 and
                 Husbandmen
                 ,
                 (
                 in
                 some
                 poore
                 Village
                 or
                 other
                 )
                 who
                 dare
                 not
                 deny
                 them
                 ,
                 for
                 feare
                 they
                 should
                 ere
                 Morning
                 haue
                 their
                 thatched
                 houses
                 burning
                 about
                 their
                 eares
                 :
                 in
                 these
                 Barnes
                 ,
                 are
                 both
                 their
                 Cooke-rooines
                 ,
                 their
                 Supping
                 Parlors
                 ,
                 and
                 their
                 Bed-chambers
                 :
                 for
                 there
                 they
                 dresse
                 after
                 a
                 beastly
                 manner
                 ,
                 what
                 soeuer
                 they
                 purchast
                 after
                 a
                 théeuish
                 fashion
                 :
                 sometimes
                 they
                 eate
                 Venison
                 ,
                 &
                 haue
                 Gray-hounders
                 that
                 kill
                 it
                 for
                 them
                 ,
                 but
                 if
                 they
                 had
                 not
                 ,
                 they
                 are
                 Houndes
                 themseiues
                 and
                 are
                 damnable
                 Hunters
                 after
                 flesh
                 :
                 Which
                 appeares
                 by
                 their
                 vgly-faced
                 queanes
                 that
                 follow
                 them
                 ,
                 with
                 whom
                 in
                 these
                 barnes
                 they
                 lye
                 ,
                 as
                 Swine
                 doe
                 together
                 in
                 Hogsties
                 .
              
               
                 These
                 Barnes
                 are
                 the
                 beds
                 of
                 Incests
                 ,
                 Whoredomes
                 
                 Adulteries
                 ,
                 and
                 of
                 all
                 other
                 blacke
                 and
                 deadly-damned
                 Impieties
                 ;
                 here
                 growes
                 the
                 cursed
                 
                   Tree
                   of
                   bastardie
                
                 ,
                 that
                 is
                 so
                 fruitfull
                 :
                 here
                 are
                 written
                 the
                 Bookes
                 of
                 all
                 
                   Blasphemies
                   ,
                   Swearings
                
                 and
                 Curses
                 ,
                 that
                 are
                 so
                 dreadfull
                 to
                 be
                 read
                 .
                 Yet
                 the
                 simple
                 country-people
                 will
                 come
                 running
                 out
                 of
                 their
                 houses
                 to
                 gaze
                 vpon
                 them
                 ,
                 whilst
                 in
                 the
                 meane
                 time
                 one
                 steales
                 into
                 the
                 next
                 Roome
                 ,
                 and
                 brings
                 away
                 whatsoeuer
                 he
                 can
                 lay
                 hold
                 on
                 .
                 Vpon
                 daies
                 of
                 pastime
                 and
                 libertie
                 ,
                 they
                 Spred
                 themselues
                 in
                 small
                 companies
                 amongst
                 the
                 Villages
                 :
                 and
                 when
                 young
                 maids
                 and
                 batchelers
                 (
                 yea
                 sometimes
                 old
                 doting
                 fooles
                 ;
                 that
                 should
                 be
                 beaten
                 to
                 this
                 world
                 of
                 villanies
                 ,
                 and
                 forewarn
                 others
                 (
                 doe
                 flocke
                 about
                 them
                 ,
                 they
                 then
                 professe
                 skil
                 in
                 Palmestry
                 ,
                 &
                 (
                 forsooth
                 )
                 can
                 
                 tell
                 fortunes
                 ,
                 which
                 for
                 the
                 most
                 part
                 are
                 infallibly
                 true
                 ,
                 by
                 reason
                 that
                 they
                 worke
                 vpon
                 rules
                 ,
                 which
                 are
                 grounded
                 vpon
                 certamty
                 :
                 for
                 one
                 of
                 them
                 will
                 tell
                 you
                 that
                 you
                 shall
                 shortly
                 haue
                 some
                 euill
                 lucke
                 fall
                 vpon
                 you
                 ,
                 &
                 within
                 halfe
                 an
                 houre
                 after
                 you
                 shall
                 find
                 your
                 pocket
                 pick'd
                 ,
                 or
                 your
                 
                 purse
                 cut
                 .
                 These
                 are
                 those
                 
                   Egiptian
                   Grashoppers
                
                 that
                 eate
                 vp
                 the
                 fruites
                 of
                 the
                 Earth
                 ,
                 and
                 destroy
                 the
                 poore
                 corne
                 fieldes
                 :
                 to
                 swéepe
                 whose
                 swarmes
                 out
                 of
                 this
                 kingdome
                 ,
                 there
                 are
                 no
                 other
                 meanes
                 but
                 the
                 sharpnes
                 of
                 the
                 most
                 infamous
                 and
                 basest
                 kinds
                 of
                 punishment
                 .
                 For
                 if
                 the
                 vgly
                 body
                 of
                 this
                 Monster
                 be
                 suffred
                 to
                 grow
                 and
                 fatten
                 it selfe
                 with
                 mischiefes
                 and
                 disorder
                 ,
                 it
                 will
                 haue
                 a
                 necke
                 so
                 Sinewy
                 &
                 so
                 brawny
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 arme
                 of
                 the
                 law
                 will
                 haue
                 much
                 a
                 doe
                 to
                 stricke
                 of
                 the
                 Head
                 ,
                 sithence
                 euery
                 day
                 the
                 members
                 of
                 it
                 increase
                 ,
                 and
                 it
                 gathers
                 new
                 ioints
                 and
                 new
                 forces
                 by
                 
                   Priggers
                   ,
                   Anglers
                   ,
                   Cheators
                   ,
                   Morts
                   ,
                
                 Yeomens
                 Daughters
                 (
                 that
                 haue
                 taken
                 some
                 by
                 blowes
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 auoid
                 shame
                 ,
                 fall
                 into
                 their
                 Sinnes
                 )
                 and
                 other
                 Seruants
                 ,
                 both
                 men
                 and
                 maides
                 ,
                 that
                 haue
                 béene
                 pilferers
                 ,
                 with
                 all
                 the
                 rest
                 of
                 that
                 Damned
                 Regiment
                 ,
                 marching
                 together
                 in
                 the
                 first
                 Army
                 of
                 the
                 Bel-man
                 ,
                 who
                 running
                 away
                 from
                 their
                 own
                 Coulours
                 (
                 which
                 are
                 bad
                 ynough
                 )
                 serue
                 vnder
                 these
                 ,
                 being
                 the
                 worst
                 .
                 
                   Lucifers
                   Lansprizado
                
                 that
                 stood
                 alooft
                 to
                 behold
                 the
                 mustrings
                 of
                 these
                 Hell-hounds
                 tooke
                 delight
                 to
                 sée
                 them
                 Double
                 their
                 Fyles
                 so
                 nimbly
                 ,
                 but
                 held
                 it
                 no
                 pollicy
                 to
                 come
                 néere
                 them
                 (
                 for
                 the
                 Diuell
                 him-selfe
                 durst
                 scarse
                 haue
                 done
                 that
                 .
                 )
                 Away
                 therefore
                 hée
                 gallops
                 ,
                 knowing
                 that
                 at
                 one
                 time
                 or
                 other
                 
                   they
                   would
                   all
                   come
                   to
                
                 fetch
                 their
                 pay
                 in
                 Hell.
                 
              
            
             
               
                 The
                 infection
                 of
                 the
                 Suburbs
                 .
                 CHAP.
                 IX
                 .
              
               
                 THe
                 
                   Infernall
                   Promoter
                
                 being
                 wearied
                 with
                 riding
                 vp
                 and
                 downe
                 the
                 Country
                 ,
                 was
                 glad
                 when
                 hée
                 had
                 gotten
                 Citie
                 ouer
                 his
                 head
                 ,
                 but
                 the
                 Citie
                 being
                 not
                 able
                 to
                 hold
                 him
                 within
                 the
                 fréedome
                 ,
                 because
                 hée
                 was
                 a
                 Forrener
                 ,
                 the
                 gates
                 were
                 sette
                 wide
                 open
                 for
                 him
                 to
                 passe
                 through
                 ,
                 and
                 into
                 the
                 Suburbes
                 hée
                 went.
                 And
                 what
                 saw
                 hée
                 there
                 ?
                 More
                 Ale
                 houses
                 than
                 there
                 are
                 Tauernes
                 in
                 all
                 Spayne
                 and
                 France
                 .
                 Are
                 they
                 so
                 dry
                 in
                 the
                 Suburbes
                 ?
                 Yes
                 ,
                 pockily
                 dry
                 .
                 What
                 saw
                 he
                 besides
                 ?
              
               
               
                 Hée
                 saw
                 the
                 dores
                 of
                 notorious
                 
                   Carted
                   Bawdes
                
                 ,
                 (
                 like
                 Hell
                 gates
                 )
                 stand
                 night
                 and
                 day
                 wide
                 open
                 ,
                 with
                 a
                 paire
                 of
                 Harlots
                 in
                 Taffata
                 gownes
                 (
                 like
                 two
                 painted
                 posts
                 )
                 
                 garnishing
                 out
                 those
                 dores
                 ,
                 being
                 better
                 to
                 the
                 house
                 then
                 a
                 
                   Double
                   signe
                
                 :
                 when
                 the
                 dore
                 of
                 a
                 poore
                 Artificer
                 (
                 if
                 his
                 childe
                 had
                 died
                 but
                 with
                 one
                 Token
                 of
                 death
                 about
                 him
                 )
                 was
                 close
                 ram'd
                 vp
                 and
                 Guarded
                 for
                 feare
                 others
                 should
                 haue
                 béene
                 infected
                 :
                 Yet
                 the
                 plague
                 that
                 a
                 Whore-house
                 layes
                 vpon
                 a
                 Citie
                 is
                 worse
                 ,
                 yet
                 is
                 laughed
                 at
                 :
                 if
                 not
                 laughed
                 at
                 ,
                 yet
                 not
                 looked
                 into
                 ,
                 or
                 if
                 looked
                 into
                 Wincked
                 at
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 Tradesman
                 hauing
                 his
                 house
                 locked
                 vp
                 ,
                 looseth
                 his
                 customers
                 ,
                 is
                 put
                 from
                 worke
                 and
                 vndone
                 :
                 whilst
                 in
                 the
                 meane
                 time
                 the
                 strumpet
                 is
                 set
                 on
                 worke
                 and
                 maintained
                 (
                 perhaps
                 )
                 by
                 those
                 that
                 vndoe
                 the
                 other
                 :
                 giue
                 thankes
                 O
                 wide
                 mouth'd
                 Hell
                 !
                 laugh
                 Lucifer
                 at
                 this
                 ,
                 Dance
                 for
                 ioy
                 all
                 you
                 Diuells
                 .
              
               
                 Belzebub
                 kéepes
                 the
                 Register
                 booke
                 ,
                 of
                 all
                 the
                 Bawdes
                 ,
                 Panders
                 and
                 Curtizans
                 :
                 &
                 he
                 knows
                 ,
                 that
                 these
                 Suburb
                 sinners
                 haue
                 no
                 landes
                 to
                 liue
                 vpon
                 but
                 their
                 legges
                 :
                 euery
                 prentice
                 passing
                 by
                 them
                 ,
                 can
                 say
                 ,
                 
                   There
                   sits
                   a
                   whore
                
                 :
                 Without
                 putting
                 them
                 to
                 their
                 booke
                 ,
                 they
                 will
                 sweare
                 so
                 much
                 themselues
                 :
                 if
                 so
                 ,
                 are
                 not
                 Counstables
                 ,
                 Church-wardens
                 ,
                 Bayliffes
                 ,
                 Beadels
                 ,
                 other
                 Officers
                 ,
                 Pillars
                 and
                 Pillowes
                 to
                 all
                 the
                 villanies
                 ,
                 that
                 are
                 by
                 these
                 committed
                 ?
                 Are
                 they
                 not
                 parcell-Bawdes
                 to
                 wincke
                 at
                 such
                 damned
                 abuses
                 ,
                 considering
                 they
                 haue
                 whippes
                 in
                 their
                 owne
                 handes
                 ,
                 and
                 may
                 draw
                 bloud
                 if
                 they
                 please
                 ?
                 Is
                 not
                 the
                 Land-lord
                 of
                 such
                 rentes
                 the
                 Graund-Bawde
                 ?
                 and
                 the
                 Dore-Kéeping
                 mistresse
                 of
                 such
                 a
                 house
                 of
                 sinne
                 ,
                 but
                 his
                 Vnder-Bawd
                 ?
                 sithence
                 hée
                 takes
                 twenty
                 pounds
                 rent
                 euery
                 yeare
                 ,
                 for
                 a
                 vaulting
                 schoole
                 (
                 which
                 from
                 no
                 Artificer
                 liuing
                 by
                 the
                 hardnesse
                 of
                 the
                 hand
                 could
                 be
                 worth
                 fiue
                 pound
                 .
                 )
                 And
                 that
                 twenty
                 pound
                 rent
                 ,
                 hée
                 knowes
                 must
                 be
                 prest
                 out
                 of
                 petticoates
                 :
                 )
                 his
                 mony
                 smells
                 of
                 sinne
                 ,
                 the
                 very
                 siluerlookes
                 pale
                 ,
                 because
                 it
                 was
                 earned
                 by
                 lust
                 .
              
               
                 How
                 happy
                 therefore
                 were
                 Cities
                 if
                 they
                 had
                 no
                 Suburbes
                 ,
                 sithence
                 they
                 serue
                 but
                 as
                 caues
                 ,
                 where
                 monsters
                 
                 are
                 bred
                 vp
                 to
                 deuoure
                 the
                 Cities
                 them-selues
                 ?
                 Would
                 the
                 Diuell
                 hire
                 a
                 villaine
                 to
                 spil
                 bloud
                 ?
                 there
                 he
                 shall
                 finde
                 him
                 .
                 One
                 to
                 blaspheme
                 ?
                 there
                 hée
                 hath
                 choice
                 .
                 A
                 Pandar
                 that
                 would
                 court
                 a
                 matron
                 at
                 her
                 praiers
                 ?
                 he
                 is
                 there
                 .
                 A
                 cheator
                 that
                 would
                 turne
                 his
                 owne
                 father
                 a
                 begging
                 ?
                 Hée
                 is
                 there
                 too
                 :
                 A
                 harlot
                 that
                 would
                 murder
                 her
                 new
                 borne
                 Infant
                 ?
                 She
                 lies
                 in
                 there
                 .
              
               
                 What
                 a
                 wretched
                 wombe
                 hath
                 a
                 strumpet
                 ,
                 which
                 being
                 (
                 for
                 the
                 most
                 part
                 )
                 barren
                 of
                 Children
                 ,
                 is
                 notwithstanding
                 the
                 onely
                 Bedde
                 that
                 bréedes
                 vp
                 these
                 Serpente
                 ?
                 vpon
                 that
                 one
                 stalke
                 grow
                 all
                 these
                 mischiefes
                 .
                 Shee
                 is
                 the
                 Cockatrice
                 that
                 hatcheth
                 all
                 these
                 egges
                 of
                 euills
                 .
                 When
                 the
                 diuell
                 takes
                 the
                 Anatomy
                 of
                 all
                 damnable
                 sinnes
                 ,
                 he
                 lookes
                 onely
                 vpon
                 her
                 body
                 .
                 When
                 she
                 dies
                 ,
                 he
                 sits
                 as
                 her
                 Coroner
                 .
                 When
                 her
                 soule
                 comes
                 to
                 hell
                 ,
                 all
                 shunne
                 that
                 there
                 ,
                 as
                 they
                 flie
                 from
                 a
                 body
                 strucke
                 with
                 the
                 plague
                 here
                 shee
                 hath
                 her
                 dore-keeper
                 ,
                 and
                 she
                 her selfe
                 is
                 the
                 Diuells
                 chamber-maide
                 .
                 And
                 yet
                 for
                 all
                 this
                 ,
                 that
                 shée
                 's
                 so
                 dangerous
                 and
                 detestable
                 ,
                 when
                 she
                 hath
                 croak'd
                 like
                 a
                 Rauen
                 on
                 the
                 Eues
                 ,
                 then
                 comes
                 she
                 into
                 the
                 house
                 like
                 a
                 Doue
                 .
                 When
                 her
                 villaines
                 (
                 like
                 the
                 mote
                 about
                 a
                 castle
                 )
                 are
                 rancke
                 ,
                 thicke
                 ,
                 and
                 muddy
                 ,
                 with
                 standing
                 long
                 together
                 ,
                 then
                 (
                 to
                 purge
                 herselfe
                 )
                 is
                 shee
                 dreind
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 Suburbes
                 (
                 as
                 though
                 her
                 corruption
                 were
                 there
                 left
                 behind
                 her
                 )
                 and
                 (
                 as
                 a
                 cléere
                 streame
                 )
                 is
                 let
                 into
                 the
                 Citie
                 .
              
               
                 
                   What
                   armor
                   a
                   harlot
                   weares
                   comming
                   out
                   of
                   the
                   Suburbes
                   to
                   besiege
                   the
                   Citie
                   within
                   the
                   wals
                   .
                
                 
                   VPon
                   what
                   perch
                   then
                   does
                   she
                   sit
                   ?
                   what
                   part
                   plaies
                   she
                   then
                   ?
                   onely
                   the
                   Puritane
                   .
                   If
                   before
                   she
                   ruffled
                   in
                   filkes
                   ,
                   now
                   is
                   she
                   more
                   ciuilly
                   attired
                   then
                   a
                   Mid
                   wife
                   .
                   If
                   before
                   she
                   swaggred
                   in
                   Tauernes
                   ,
                   now
                   with
                   the
                   Snaile
                   she
                   stirreth
                   not
                   out
                   of
                   dores
                   .
                   And
                   where
                   must
                   her
                   lodging
                   be
                   taken
                   vp
                   ,
                   but
                   in
                   the
                   house
                   of
                   some
                   cittizen
                   ,
                   whose
                   known
                   reputation
                   ,
                   she
                   borrowes
                   (
                   or
                   rather
                   steales
                   )
                   putting
                   it
                   on
                   as
                   a
                   cloake
                   to
                   couer
                   her
                   deformities
                   .
                   Yet
                   euen
                   in
                   that
                   ,
                   hath
                   she
                   an
                   art
                   too
                   ,
                   for
                   he
                   shal
                   be
                   of
                   such
                   a
                   profession
                   ,
                   that
                   all
                   commers
                   
                   may
                   enter
                   ,
                   without
                   the
                   danger
                   of
                   any
                   eyes
                   to
                   watch
                   them
                   .
                   As
                   for
                   example
                   ,
                   she
                   wil
                   lie
                   at
                   some
                   
                     Scriueners
                     house
                  
                   ,
                   and
                   so
                   vnder
                   the
                   collour
                   of
                   comming
                   to
                   haue
                   a
                   Bond
                   made
                   ,
                   she
                   herselfe
                   may
                   write
                   
                     Nouerint
                     vniuersi
                  
                   .
                   And
                   tho
                   the
                   law
                   threaten
                   to
                   hit
                   her
                   neuer
                   so
                   often
                   ,
                   yet
                   hath
                   she
                   subtile
                   defences
                   to
                   ward
                   off
                   the
                   blowes
                   .
                   For
                   ,
                   if
                   Gallants
                   haunt
                   the
                   house
                   ,
                   then
                   spreds
                   shée
                   these
                   collours
                   :
                   she
                   is
                   a
                   captaine
                   or
                   a
                   lieutenants
                   wife
                   in
                   the
                   Low-countries
                   ,
                   &
                   they
                   come
                   with
                   letters
                   ,
                   from
                   the
                   souldier
                   her
                   husband
                   .
                   If
                   Marchants
                   resort
                   to
                   her
                   ,
                   then
                   hoistes
                   shée
                   vp
                   these
                   sayles
                   ,
                   she
                   is
                   wife
                   to
                   the
                   Maister
                   of
                   a
                   shippe
                   ,
                   &
                   they
                   bring
                   newes
                   that
                   her
                   husband
                   put
                   in
                   at
                   the
                   Straytes
                   ,
                   or
                   at
                   Venice
                   ,
                   at
                   
                     Aleppo
                     ,
                     Alexandria
                  
                   ,
                   or
                   
                     Scanderoon
                     ,
                     &c.
                     
                     If
                     shop-keepers
                  
                   come
                   to
                   her
                   ,
                   with
                   
                     what
                     doe
                     you
                     lacke
                  
                   ,
                   in
                   their
                   mouthes
                   ,
                   then
                   she
                   takes
                   vp
                   such
                   and
                   such
                   commodities
                   ,
                   to
                   send
                   them
                   to
                   Rye
                   ,
                   to
                   Bristow
                   ,
                   to
                   Yorke
                   ,
                   &c.
                   where
                   her
                   husband
                   dwells
                   .
                   But
                   if
                   the
                   streame
                   of
                   her
                   fortunes
                   runne
                   low
                   ,
                   and
                   that
                   none
                   but
                   Apron-men
                   lanch
                   forth
                   there
                   ,
                   then
                   kéepes
                   shée
                   a
                   polliticke
                   sempsters
                   shop
                   ,
                   or
                   shée
                   starches
                   them
                   .
                
                 
                   Perhaps
                   shée
                   is
                   so
                   polliticke
                   ,
                   that
                   none
                   shall
                   be
                   noted
                   to
                   
                   board
                   her
                   :
                   if
                   so
                   then
                   she
                   sailes
                   vpon
                   these
                   points
                   of
                   the
                   compasse
                   ,
                   so
                   soone
                   as
                   euer
                   shée
                   is
                   rig'd
                   ,
                   and
                   all
                   her
                   furniture
                   on
                   ,
                   forth
                   shée
                   lancheth
                   into
                   those
                   stréetes
                   that
                   are
                   most
                   frequented
                   :
                   where
                   the
                   first
                   man
                   that
                   shée
                   méetes
                   of
                   her
                   acquaintance
                   ,
                   shall
                   (
                   without
                   much
                   pulling
                   )
                   get
                   her
                   into
                   a
                   Tauerne
                   :
                   out
                   of
                   him
                   she
                   kisses
                   a
                   breakefast
                   ,
                   and
                   then
                   leaues
                   him
                   :
                   the
                   next
                   shée
                   méetes
                   ,
                   does
                   vpon
                   as
                   easie
                   pullies
                   ,
                   draw
                   her
                   to
                   a
                   Tauerne
                   againe
                   ,
                   out
                   of
                   him
                   she
                   cogs
                   a
                   dinner
                   ,
                   and
                   then
                   leaues
                   him
                   :
                   the
                   third
                   man
                   ,
                   squires
                   her
                   to
                   a
                   play
                   ,
                   which
                   being
                   ended
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   wine
                   offred
                   and
                   taken
                   (
                   for
                   she
                   's
                   on
                   Recusant
                   ,
                   to
                   refuse
                   any
                   thing
                   )
                   him
                   shée
                   leaues
                   too
                   :
                   and
                   being
                   set
                   vpon
                   by
                   a
                   fourth
                   ,
                   him
                   she
                   answers
                   at
                   his
                   own
                   weapon
                   ,
                   sups
                   with
                   him
                   ,
                   &
                   drinckes
                   
                     Vpsie
                     Freeze
                  
                   ,
                   till
                   the
                   clock
                   striking
                   Twelue
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   Drawers
                   being
                   drowzy
                   ,
                   away
                   they
                   march
                   arme
                   in
                   arme
                   ,
                   being
                   at
                   euery
                   foot-step
                   fearfull
                   to
                   be
                   set
                   vpon
                   by
                   the
                   Band
                   of
                   Halberdiers
                   ,
                   that
                   lye
                   scowting
                   in
                   rug-gownes
                   to
                   cut
                   off
                   such
                   mid-night
                   straglers
                   .
                   But
                   the
                   
                   word
                   being
                   giuen
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     who
                     goes
                     there
                  
                   ,
                   with
                   
                     come
                     before
                     the
                     Constable
                  
                   ,
                   being
                   shot
                   at
                   them
                   ,
                   they
                   vaile
                   presently
                   and
                   come
                   ,
                   she
                   taking
                   vpon
                   her
                   to
                   answere
                   all
                   the
                   Bil-men
                   and
                   their
                   Leader
                   .
                   Betwéene
                   whom
                   and
                   her
                   ,
                   suppose
                   you
                   heare
                   this
                   sléepy
                   Dialogue
                   ,
                   where
                   haue
                   you
                   bin
                   so
                   late
                   ?
                   
                     at
                     supper
                     forsooth
                     with
                     my
                     Vncle
                     ,
                     here
                     ,
                     (
                     if
                     he
                     be
                     well
                     bearded
                     )
                     or
                     with
                     my
                     brother
                     (
                     if
                     the
                     haire
                     be
                     but
                     budding
                     forth
                     )
                     and
                     hee
                     is
                     bringing
                     me
                     home
                     .
                  
                   Are
                   you
                   married
                   ?
                   
                     yes
                     forsooth
                  
                   :
                   what
                   is
                   your
                   husband
                   ?
                   
                     such
                     a
                     Noble-mans
                     man
                     ,
                     or
                     such
                     a
                     Iustices
                     Clarke
                     ,
                  
                   (
                   And
                   then
                   names
                   some
                   Alderman
                   of
                   London
                   ,
                   to
                   whom
                   shée
                   perswades
                   herselfe
                   ,
                   one
                   or
                   other
                   of
                   the
                   bench
                   of
                   browne
                   billes
                   are
                   beholding
                   :
                   )
                   where
                   lye
                   you
                   ?
                   
                     At
                     such
                     a
                     mans
                     house
                     :
                     Sic
                     tenues
                     euanescit
                     in
                     Auras
                     :
                  
                   and
                   thus
                   by
                   stopping
                   the
                   Constables
                   mouth
                   with
                   sugur-plummes
                   (
                   that
                   is
                   to
                   say
                   ,
                   )
                   whilst
                   shée
                   poisons
                   him
                   with
                   sweet
                   wordes
                   ,
                   the
                   puncke
                   vanisheth
                   .
                   
                     O
                     Lanthorne
                     and
                     Candle-light
                  
                   ,
                   how
                   art
                   thou
                   made
                   a
                   blinde
                   Asse
                   ?
                   because
                   thou
                   hast
                   but
                   one
                   eye
                   to
                   sée
                   withall
                   :
                   Be
                   not
                   so
                   guld
                   ,
                   be
                   not
                   so
                   dull
                   in
                   vnderstanding
                   :
                   doe
                   thou
                   but
                   follow
                   aloofe
                   ;
                   those
                   two
                   tame
                   Pigeons
                   ,
                   and
                   thou
                   shalt
                   finde
                   ,
                   that
                   her
                   new
                   Vncle
                   lies
                   by
                   it
                   all
                   that
                   night
                   ,
                   to
                   make
                   his
                   kins-woman
                   on
                   of
                   mine
                   Aunts
                   :
                   or
                   if
                   shée
                   be
                   not
                   in
                   trauell
                   all
                   night
                   ,
                   they
                   spend
                   some
                   halfe
                   an
                   houre
                   together
                   ,
                   but
                   what
                   doe
                   they
                   ?
                   marry
                   ,
                   they
                   doe
                   that
                   which
                   the
                   Constable
                   should
                   haue
                   done
                   for
                   them
                   both
                   in
                   the
                   stréetes
                   ,
                   that
                   is
                   to
                   say
                   ,
                   
                     commit
                     ,
                     commit
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   You
                   Guardians
                   ouer
                   so
                   great
                   a
                   Princesse
                   as
                   the
                   eldest
                   daughter
                   to
                   King
                   Brutus
                   :
                   you
                   
                     twice
                     twelue
                     fathers
                  
                   and
                   gouernours
                   ouer
                   the
                   Noblest
                   Cittie
                   ,
                   why
                   are
                   you
                   so
                   careful
                   to
                   plant
                   Trees
                   to
                   beautifie
                   your
                   outward
                   walks
                   ,
                   yet
                   suffer
                   the
                   goodliest
                   garden
                   (
                   within
                   )
                   to
                   be
                   ouer-run
                   with
                   stincking
                   wéedes
                   :
                   You
                   are
                   the
                   proining
                   kniues
                   that
                   should
                   loppe
                   off
                   such
                   idle
                   ,
                   such
                   vnprofitable
                   ,
                   and
                   such
                   destroying
                   branches
                   from
                   the
                   Vine
                   :
                   The
                   beames
                   of
                   your
                   authoritie
                   should
                   purge
                   the
                   ayre
                   of
                   such
                   infection
                   :
                   your
                   breath
                   of
                   Iustice
                   should
                   scatter
                   those
                   foggy
                   vapors
                   ,
                   &
                   driue
                   them
                   out
                   of
                   your
                   gates
                   ,
                   as
                   chaffe
                   tossed
                   abroad
                   by
                   the
                   windes
                   .
                
                 
                 
                   But
                   stay
                   :
                   is
                   our
                   walking
                   spirit
                   become
                   an
                   Orator
                   to
                   perswade
                   ?
                   no
                   :
                   but
                   the
                   Bel-man
                   of
                   London
                   ,
                   with
                   whom
                   he
                   met
                   in
                   this
                   perambulation
                   of
                   his
                   ,
                   and
                   to
                   whom
                   hée
                   betraied
                   himselfe
                   and
                   opened
                   his
                   very
                   bosome
                   ,
                   (
                   as
                   hereafter
                   you
                   shall
                   heare
                   ,
                   )
                   is
                   bould
                   to
                   take
                   vpon
                   him
                   that
                   speakers
                   Office.
                   
                
              
            
             
               
                 Of
                 Ginglers
                 .
                 Or
                 the
                 knauery
                 of
                 Horse-Coursers
                 in
                 Smith-field
                 discouered
                 .
                 CHAP.
                 X.
                 
              
               
                 AT
                 the
                 end
                 of
                 fierce
                 battailes
                 ,
                 the
                 onely
                 Rendeuouz
                 for
                 lame
                 souldiers
                 to
                 retire
                 vnto
                 ,
                 is
                 an
                 Hospitall
                 :
                 and
                 at
                 the
                 end
                 of
                 a
                 long
                 Progresse
                 ,
                 the
                 onely
                 ground
                 for
                 a
                 tyred
                 Iade
                 to
                 runne
                 in
                 ,
                 is
                 some
                 blind
                 country
                 faire
                 ,
                 where
                 hée
                 may
                 be
                 sure
                 to
                 be
                 sold
                 .
                 To
                 these
                 Markets
                 of
                 vnwholesome
                 Horse-flesh
                 ,
                 (
                 like
                 so
                 many
                 Kites
                 to
                 f●ede
                 vpon
                 Carion
                 )
                 doe
                 all
                 the
                 Horse-coursers
                 (
                 that
                 roost
                 about
                 the
                 Citie
                 )
                 flye
                 one
                 after
                 another
                 .
                 And
                 whereas
                 in
                 buying
                 all
                 other
                 commodities
                 ,
                 men
                 striue
                 to
                 haue
                 the
                 best
                 ,
                 how
                 great
                 so
                 euer
                 the
                 price
                 be
                 ,
                 onely
                 the
                 Horsecouser
                 is
                 of
                 a
                 baser
                 minde
                 ,
                 for
                 the
                 worst
                 Horse-flesh
                 (
                 so
                 it
                 be
                 cheape
                 )
                 does
                 best
                 goe
                 downe
                 with
                 him
                 .
                 Hée
                 cares
                 for
                 nothing
                 but
                 a
                 fayre
                 out-side
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 hansome
                 shape
                 (
                 like
                 those
                 that
                 hyre
                 whores
                 ,
                 )
                 though
                 there
                 be
                 an
                 hundred
                 diseases
                 within
                 :
                 he
                 (
                 as
                 the
                 other
                 )
                 ventures
                 vpon
                 them
                 all
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 first
                 lesson
                 therefore
                 that
                 a
                 Horse-courser
                 takes
                 out
                 ,
                 when
                 he
                 comes
                 to
                 one
                 of
                 these
                 Markets
                 ,
                 is
                 to
                 make
                 choyce
                 of
                 such
                 Nags
                 ,
                 Geldings
                 ,
                 or
                 Mares
                 ,
                 especially
                 ,
                 as
                 are
                 fat
                 ,
                 fayre
                 ,
                 and
                 well-fauor'd
                 to
                 the
                 eye
                 :
                 and
                 because
                 men
                 delight
                 to
                 behold
                 beautifull
                 colours
                 ,
                 and
                 thath
                 some
                 colours
                 are
                 more
                 delicate
                 (
                 euen
                 in
                 beasts
                 )
                 then
                 others
                 are
                 ,
                 hée
                 will
                 so
                 néere
                 as
                 hée
                 can
                 ,
                 bargaine
                 for
                 those
                 horses
                 that
                 haue
                 the
                 daintiest
                 complexion
                 :
                 as
                 the
                 Milke-white
                 ,
                 the
                 Gray
                 ,
                 the
                 Dapple-Gray
                 ,
                 the
                 Cole
                 blacke
                 with
                 his
                 proper
                 markes
                 (
                 as
                 the
                 white
                 starre
                 in
                 the
                 fore-head
                 ,
                 the
                 
                 white
                 héele
                 ,
                 &c.
                 )
                 or
                 the
                 bright
                 Bay
                 ,
                 with
                 the
                 like
                 proper
                 ●●arkes
                 also
                 .
                 And
                 the
                 goodlier
                 proportion
                 the
                 beast
                 carries
                 or
                 the
                 fayrer
                 markes
                 or
                 colour
                 that
                 hée
                 ●eares
                 ,
                 are
                 or
                 ●●ght
                 to
                 be
                 watch-words
                 as
                 it
                 were
                 to
                 him
                 that
                 after●ards
                 buyes
                 him
                 of
                 the
                 horse
                 courser
                 ,
                 that
                 hée
                 be
                 not
                 coozend
                 with
                 an
                 ouer-price
                 for
                 a
                 had
                 peny-worth
                 ,
                 because
                 such
                 Horses
                 (
                 belonging
                 for
                 the
                 most
                 part
                 to
                 Gentlemen
                 )
                 are
                 seldome
                 or
                 neuer
                 solde
                 away
                 ,
                 but
                 vpon
                 some
                 fowle
                 quality
                 ,
                 or
                 some
                 incurable
                 disease
                 ,
                 which
                 the
                 Beast
                 is
                 falne
                 into
                 .
                 The
                 Best
                 colours
                 are
                 therefore
                 the
                 best
                 Cloakes
                 to
                 hide
                 those
                 fa●●ts
                 that
                 most
                 disfigure
                 a
                 Horse
                 :
                 and
                 next
                 vnto
                 colour
                 ,
                 his
                 Pace
                 doth
                 often-times
                 deceiue
                 and
                 goe
                 beyond
                 a
                 very
                 quicke
                 Iudgement
                 .
              
               
                 Some
                 of
                 these
                 Horse-hunters
                 ,
                 are
                 as
                 nimble
                 Knaues
                 in
                 finding
                 out
                 the
                 infirmities
                 of
                 a
                 Iade
                 ,
                 as
                 a
                 Barber
                 is
                 in
                 drawing
                 of
                 téeth
                 :
                 and
                 albeit
                 (
                 without
                 casting
                 his
                 water
                 )
                 hée
                 does
                 more
                 readily
                 reckon
                 vp
                 all
                 the
                 Aches
                 ,
                 Crampes
                 ,
                 Crickes
                 ,
                 and
                 whatsoeuer
                 disease
                 else
                 lyes
                 in
                 his
                 bones
                 :
                 and
                 for
                 those
                 diseases
                 seemes
                 vtterly
                 to
                 dislike
                 him
                 ,
                 yet
                 if
                 by
                 looking
                 vpon
                 the
                 Dyall
                 within
                 his
                 mouth
                 ,
                 he
                 finde
                 that
                 his
                 yeeres
                 haue
                 struck
                 but
                 fiue
                 ,
                 sixe
                 ,
                 or
                 seuen
                 :
                 and
                 that
                 he
                 prooues
                 but
                 young
                 ,
                 or
                 that
                 his
                 diseases
                 are
                 but
                 newly
                 growing
                 vpon
                 him
                 ,
                 if
                 they
                 be
                 outward
                 ,
                 or
                 haue
                 but
                 hayre
                 and
                 skin
                 to
                 hide
                 them
                 ,
                 if
                 they
                 be
                 inward
                 ,
                 let
                 him
                 sweare
                 neuer
                 so
                 damnably
                 ,
                 that
                 it
                 is
                 but
                 a
                 Iade
                 ,
                 yet
                 he
                 will
                 be
                 sure
                 to
                 fasten
                 vpon
                 him
                 .
              
               
                 So
                 then
                 ,
                 a
                 Horse-courser
                 to
                 the
                 Merchant
                 ,
                 (
                 that
                 out
                 of
                 his
                 sound
                 iudgement
                 buyes
                 the
                 fairest
                 ,
                 the
                 best
                 bred
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 noblest
                 Horses
                 ,
                 selling
                 them
                 againe
                 for
                 bréede
                 or
                 seruice
                 ,
                 with
                 plainnesse
                 and
                 honesty
                 ,
                 )
                 is
                 as
                 the
                 Cheator
                 to
                 the
                 faire
                 Gamester
                 :
                 hée
                 is
                 indéed
                 a
                 meere
                 Iadish
                 Nonopolitane
                 ,
                 and
                 deales
                 for
                 none
                 but
                 tyred
                 ,
                 tainted
                 ,
                 dull
                 and
                 diseased
                 horses
                 .
                 By
                 which
                 meanes
                 ,
                 if
                 his
                 picture
                 
                 be
                 drawne
                 to
                 the
                 life
                 ,
                 you
                 shall
                 finde
                 euery
                 Horse-courser
                 for
                 the
                 most
                 part
                 to
                 be
                 in
                 quality
                 a
                 coozener
                 ,
                 by
                 profession
                 a
                 knau
                 ,
                 by
                 his
                 cunning
                 a
                 Varlet
                 ,
                 in
                 fayres
                 a
                 Hagling
                 Chapman
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Citie
                 a
                 Cogging
                 dissembler
                 ,
                 
                 and
                 in
                 Smith-field
                 a
                 common
                 forsworne
                 Villaine
                 .
                 Hée
                 will
                 sweare
                 any
                 thing
                 ,
                 but
                 the
                 faster
                 hée
                 sweares
                 ,
                 the
                 more
                 danger
                 t
                 is
                 to
                 beleeue
                 him
                 :
                 In
                 one
                 forenoone
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 seiling
                 a
                 Iade
                 not
                 worth
                 fiue
                 Nobles
                 ,
                 will
                 hée
                 forsweare
                 himselfe
                 fiftéene
                 times
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 forswearing
                 too
                 shall
                 be
                 by
                 Equiuocation
                 .
                 As
                 ●ée
                 example
                 ,
                 if
                 an
                 ignorant
                 Chap-man
                 comming
                 to
                 beatethe
                 price
                 ,
                 say
                 to
                 the
                 Horse-courser
                 your
                 nagge
                 is
                 verie
                 old
                 ,
                 or
                 thus
                 many
                 yéeres
                 old
                 ,
                 and
                 reckon
                 ten
                 or
                 twelue
                 :
                 hée
                 claps
                 his
                 hand
                 presently
                 on
                 the
                 buttocke
                 of
                 the
                 beast
                 ,
                 and
                 prayes
                 he
                 may
                 be
                 damb's
                 if
                 the
                 Horse
                 be
                 not
                 vnder
                 fiue
                 ,
                 meaning
                 that
                 the
                 horse
                 is
                 not
                 vnder
                 fiue
                 yeeres
                 of
                 age
                 ,
                 but
                 that
                 hée
                 standes
                 vnder
                 fiue
                 of
                 his
                 fingers
                 ,
                 when
                 his
                 hand
                 is
                 clap'd
                 vpon
                 him
                 .
                 These
                 Horse-coursers
                 are
                 called
                 Iynglers
                 ,
                 and
                 these
                 Iynglers
                 hauing
                 laide
                 out
                 theirmony
                 on
                 a
                 company
                 of
                 Iades
                 ,
                 at
                 some
                 drunken
                 fayre
                 ,
                 vp
                 to
                 London
                 they
                 driue
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 vpon
                 the
                 Market
                 day
                 into
                 Smithfield
                 brauely
                 come
                 they
                 prauncing
                 .
                 But
                 least
                 their
                 Iades
                 should
                 shew
                 too
                 many
                 horse-trickes
                 in
                 Smith-field
                 ,
                 before
                 so
                 great
                 an
                 Audience
                 as
                 commonly
                 resort
                 thither
                 ,
                 their
                 maisters
                 doe
                 therefore
                 Schooe
                 them
                 at
                 home
                 after
                 this
                 manner
                 .
              
               
                 
                   How
                   a
                   Horse-courser
                   workes
                   vpon
                   a
                   Iade
                   in
                   his
                   own
                   Stable
                   ,
                   to
                   make
                   him
                   seruiceable
                   for
                   a
                   couzening
                   Race
                   in
                   Smith-field
                   .
                
                 
                   THe
                   Glanders
                   in
                   a
                   horse
                   is
                   so
                   filthy
                   a
                   disease
                   ,
                   that
                   he
                   who
                   is
                   troubled
                   with
                   it
                   can
                   neuer
                   kéepe
                   his
                   nose
                   cleane
                   :
                   so
                   that
                   when
                   such
                   a
                   foule-nosed
                   Iade
                   happens
                   
                   to
                   serue
                   a
                   Horse-courser
                   ,
                   hée
                   hath
                   more
                   strange
                   pil●
                   (
                   then
                   a
                   Pothecarie
                   makes
                   )
                   for
                   the
                   purging
                   of
                   his
                   head
                   ,
                   he
                   knows
                   that
                   a
                   horse
                   with
                   such
                   a
                   qualitie
                   ,
                   is
                   but
                   a
                   beastly
                   companion
                   to
                   trauell
                   vpon
                   the
                   high
                   way
                   with
                   any
                   Gentleman
                   .
                
                 
                   Albeit
                   therefore
                   that
                   the
                   Glanders
                   haue
                   played
                   with
                   his
                   Nose
                   so
                   long
                   ,
                   that
                   hée
                   knowes
                   not
                   how
                   to
                   mend
                   him-selfe
                   ,
                   
                   but
                   that
                   disease
                   being
                   suffered
                   to
                   runne
                   vpon
                   him
                   many
                   yeeres
                   together
                   is
                   growne
                   inumcible
                   ,
                   yet
                   hath
                   our
                   Ingling
                   Mountihancke
                   Smith-field-rider
                   ,
                   a
                   trick
                   to
                   cure
                   him
                   ,
                   fiue
                   or
                   sixe
                   waies
                   :
                   and
                   this
                   is
                   one
                   of
                   them
                   .
                
                 
                   In
                   the
                   very
                   morning
                   when
                   hée
                   is
                   to
                   be
                   rifled
                   away
                   amongst
                   the
                   Gamsters
                   in
                   Smithfield
                   ,
                   before
                   hée
                   thrust
                   his
                   head
                   out
                   of
                   his
                   Maisters
                   Stable
                   ,
                   the
                   Horse
                   courser
                   tickles
                   his
                   nose
                   (
                   not
                   with
                   a
                   Pipe
                   of
                   Tobacco
                   )
                   but
                   with
                   a
                   good
                   quantitie
                   of
                   the
                   best
                   Néesing
                   powder
                   that
                   can
                   be
                   gotten
                   :
                   which
                   with
                   a
                   quil
                   being
                   blown
                   vp
                   into
                   the
                   Nostrills
                   ,
                   to
                   make
                   it
                   worke
                   the
                   better
                   ,
                   he
                   stands
                   poaking
                   there
                   vp
                   and
                   downe
                   with
                   two
                   long
                   feathers
                   plucked
                   from
                   the
                   wing
                   of
                   a
                   Goose
                   ,
                   they
                   being
                   dipt
                   in
                   the
                   iuyce
                   of
                   Garlicke
                   ,
                   or
                   in
                   any
                   strong
                   oyle
                   ,
                   and
                   thrust
                   vp
                   to
                   the
                   verie
                   top
                   of
                   his
                   head
                   ,
                   so
                   farre
                   as
                   possibly
                   they
                   can
                   reach
                   ,
                   to
                   make
                   the
                   pore
                   dumbe
                   beast
                   auoide
                   the
                   filth
                   from
                   his
                   nostrils
                   ,
                   which
                   hée
                   will
                   doe
                   in
                   great
                   aboundance
                   :
                   this
                   being
                   done
                   ,
                   hée
                   comes
                   to
                   him
                   with
                   a
                   new
                   medicine
                   for
                   a
                   sicke
                   horse
                   ,
                   and
                   mingling
                   the
                   iuyce
                   of
                   Bruzed
                   Garlike
                   ,
                   sharpe
                   biting
                   Mustard
                   ,
                   and
                   strong
                   Ale
                   together
                   ,
                   into
                   both
                   the
                   Nostrils
                   (
                   with
                   a
                   Horne
                   )
                   is
                   powred
                   a
                   good
                   quantitie
                   of
                   this
                   filthy
                   Broth
                   ,
                   which
                   by
                   the
                   hand
                   being
                   held
                   in
                   by
                   stopping
                   the
                   nostrils
                   close
                   together
                   ,
                   at
                   length
                   with
                   a
                   little
                   néezzing
                   more
                   ,
                   his
                   nose
                   will
                   be
                   cleaner
                   then
                   his
                   Maisters
                   the
                   Horse-courser
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   filth
                   be
                   so
                   Artificially
                   stop'd
                   that
                   for
                   eight
                   or
                   ten
                   houres
                   a
                   Iade
                   will
                   holde
                   vp
                   his
                   head
                   with
                   the
                   prowdest
                   Gelding
                   that
                   gallops
                   scornefully
                   by
                   him
                   ,
                   and
                   neuer
                   haue
                   néed
                   of
                   wiping
                   .
                
                 
                   This
                   is
                   one
                   of
                   the
                   Comedies
                   a
                   Common
                   horse-courser
                   playes
                   by
                   himselfe
                   at
                   home
                   ,
                   but
                   if
                   when
                   hée
                   comes
                   to
                   act
                   the
                   second
                   part
                   abroad
                   ,
                   you
                   would
                   disgrace
                   him
                   ,
                   and
                   haue
                   him
                   hissed
                   at
                   for
                   not
                   playing
                   the
                   Knaue
                   well
                   ,
                   then
                   handle
                   him
                   thus
                   :
                   If
                   you
                   suspect
                   that
                   the
                   Nagge
                   which
                   hee
                   would
                   Iade
                   you
                   with
                   ,
                   be
                   troubled
                   with
                   that
                   or
                   any
                   other
                   such
                   like
                   disease
                   ,
                   gripe
                   him
                   hard
                   about
                   the
                   wesand
                   pipe
                   ,
                   close
                   toward
                   the
                   roofe
                   of
                   the
                   tongue
                   ,
                   and
                   holding
                   
                   him
                   there
                   so
                   long
                   and
                   so
                   forcibly
                   ,
                   that
                   hée
                   cough
                   twice
                   or
                   thrice
                   ,
                   if
                   then
                   (
                   after
                   you
                   let
                   goe
                   your
                   hold
                   )
                   his
                   chappes
                   begin
                   to
                   walke
                   as
                   if
                   hée
                   were
                   chewing
                   downe
                   a
                   Horseleafe
                   ,
                   shake
                   hands
                   with
                   old
                   
                     Mounsier
                     Cauiliero
                     Horse-Courser
                  
                   ,
                   but
                   clap
                   no
                   bargain
                   vpon
                   it
                   ,
                   for
                   his
                   Iade
                   is
                   as
                   full
                   of
                   infirmitie
                   ,
                   as
                   the
                   Maister
                   Villanie
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   Other
                   Gambals
                   that
                   Horse-coursers
                   practise
                   vpon
                   Foundred
                   Horses
                   ,
                   old
                   Lades
                   ,
                   &c.
                   
                
                 
                   SMithfield
                   is
                   the
                   Stage
                   vpon
                   which
                   the
                   
                     Mountibanke
                     English
                     Horse-courser
                  
                   aduancing
                   his
                   banner
                   ,
                   defies
                   any
                   disease
                   that
                   dares
                   touch
                   his
                   Prancer
                   :
                   Insomuch
                   that
                   if
                   a
                   horse
                   be
                   so
                   olde
                   ,
                   as
                   that
                   foure
                   legs
                   can
                   but
                   carry
                   him
                   ,
                   yet
                   shall
                   he
                   beare
                   the
                   markes
                   of
                   an
                   Nag
                   not
                   aboue
                   sixe
                   or
                   seauen
                   yeeres
                   of
                   age
                   :
                   and
                   that
                   counterfeit
                   badge
                   of
                   youth
                   ,
                   hée
                   weares
                   thus
                   :
                   The
                   Horse-courser
                   with
                   a
                   small
                   round
                   yron
                   made
                   very
                   hot
                   ,
                   burnes
                   two
                   blacke
                   hoses
                   in
                   the
                   top
                   of
                   the
                   two
                   out-most
                   téeth
                   of
                   each
                   side
                   the
                   out-side
                   of
                   the
                   Horse
                   mouth
                   vpon
                   the
                   nether
                   téeth
                   ,
                   and
                   so
                   likewise
                   of
                   the
                   téeth
                   of
                   the
                   vpper
                   chap
                   ,
                   which
                   stand
                   opposit
                   to
                   the
                   nether
                   ,
                   the
                   qualitie
                   of
                   which
                   markes
                   is
                   to
                   shew
                   that
                   a
                   horse
                   is
                   but
                   yong
                   :
                   but
                   if
                   the
                   iade
                   be
                   so
                   old
                   that
                   those
                   téeth
                   are
                   dropt
                   out
                   of
                   his
                   head
                   ,
                   then
                   is
                   there
                   a
                   tricke
                   still
                   to
                   be
                   fumbling
                   about
                   his
                   old
                   chaps
                   ,
                   and
                   in
                   that
                   strooking
                   his
                   chin
                   ,
                   to
                   pricke
                   his
                   lips
                   closely
                   with
                   a
                   pin
                   or
                   a
                   naile
                   ,
                   till
                   they
                   be
                   so
                   tender
                   ,
                   that
                   albeit
                   be
                   were
                   a
                   giuen
                   horse
                   none
                   could
                   be
                   suffered
                   to
                   looke
                   him
                   in
                   the
                   mouth
                   (
                   which
                   is
                   one
                   of
                   the
                   best
                   Calender
                   to
                   tell
                   his
                   age
                   )
                   but
                   a
                   reasonable
                   sighted
                   eye
                   (
                   without
                   helpe
                   of
                   spectacles
                   )
                   may
                   easily
                   discouer
                   this
                   Iugling
                   ,
                   because
                   it
                   is
                   grosse
                   and
                   common
                   .
                
                 
                   If
                   now
                   a
                   Horse
                   (
                   hauing
                   béene
                   a
                   sore
                   Trauailer
                   )
                   happen
                   by
                   falling
                   into
                   a
                   cold
                   sweate
                   to
                   be
                   Foundred
                   ,
                   so
                   that
                   (
                   as
                   if
                   hée
                   were
                   druncke
                   or
                   had
                   the
                   staggers
                   )
                   he
                   can
                   scarce
                   stand
                   on
                   his
                   legges
                   ,
                   then
                   will
                   his
                   maister
                   ,
                   before
                   hée
                   enter
                   into
                   the
                   lists
                   of
                   the
                   field
                   against
                   all
                   commers
                   ,
                   put
                   him
                   into
                   a
                   villanous
                   chasing
                   by
                   ryding
                   him
                   vp
                   and
                   
                   downe
                   a
                   quarter
                   ,
                   or
                   halfe
                   an
                   houre
                   ,
                   till
                   his
                   limbes
                   be
                   thoroughly
                   heated
                   ,
                   and
                   this
                   hée
                   does
                   ,
                   because
                   so
                   long
                   as
                   hée
                   can
                   discharge
                   that
                   false
                   fire
                   ,
                   or
                   that
                   (
                   being
                   so
                   collerickly
                   hatte
                   )
                   hée
                   tramples
                   onely
                   vpon
                   soft
                   ground
                   ,
                   a
                   very
                   cunning
                   Horseman
                   shall
                   hardly
                   finde
                   where
                   his
                   shooe
                   wrings
                   him
                   ,
                   or
                   that
                   hée
                   is
                   Fowndred
                   .
                   And
                   (
                   to
                   blinde
                   the
                   eyes
                   of
                   the
                   Chapman
                   )
                   the
                   Horse-courser
                   will
                   be
                   euer
                   tickling
                   of
                   him
                   with
                   his
                   wand
                   ,
                   because
                   hée
                   may
                   not
                   by
                   standing
                   still
                   like
                   an
                   Asse
                   ,
                   shew
                   of
                   what
                   house
                   he
                   comes
                   .
                
                 
                   If
                   a
                   Horse
                   come
                   into
                   the
                   fielde
                   (
                   like
                   a
                   lame
                   soldier
                   )
                   Halting
                   ,
                   hée
                   has
                   not
                   Crutches
                   made
                   for
                   him
                   ,
                   as
                   the
                   soldier
                   hath
                   ,
                   but
                   because
                   you
                   shall
                   thinke
                   the
                   Horses
                   shooemaker
                   hath
                   serued
                   him
                   like
                   a
                   Iade
                   ,
                   by
                   not
                   fitting
                   his
                   foote
                   well
                   ,
                   the
                   shooe
                   shall
                   be
                   taken
                   off
                   purposely
                   from
                   that
                   foote
                   which
                   halts
                   ,
                   as
                   though
                   it
                   had
                   béene
                   lost
                   by
                   chance
                   :
                   And
                   to
                   proue
                   this
                   ,
                   witnesses
                   shall
                   come
                   in
                   ,
                   if
                   at
                   least
                   twenty
                   or
                   thirty
                   damnable
                   oathes
                   can
                   be
                   taken
                   ,
                   that
                   the
                   want
                   of
                   the
                   Shooe
                   is
                   onely
                   the
                   cause
                   of
                   his
                   Halting
                   .
                   But
                   if
                   a
                   Horse
                   cannot
                   be
                   lustie
                   at
                   legges
                   ,
                   by
                   reason
                   that
                   either
                   his
                   hoofes
                   be
                   not
                   good
                   ,
                   or
                   that
                   there
                   be
                   Splents
                   ,
                   or
                   any
                   other
                   Eye-sore
                   about
                   the
                   nether
                   Ioynt
                   ,
                   the
                   Horse-courser
                   vses
                   him
                   then
                   as
                   
                     Cheating
                     Swaggerers
                  
                   handle
                   Nouices
                   ,
                   what
                   they
                   cannot
                   winne
                   by
                   the
                   Dyce
                   ,
                   they
                   will
                   haue
                   by
                   Foule-play
                   :
                   and
                   in
                   that
                   foule
                   manner
                   ,
                   deales
                   hée
                   with
                   the
                   poore
                   horse
                   ,
                   ryding
                   him
                   vp
                   and
                   downe
                   in
                   the
                   thickest
                   and
                   the
                   durtiest
                   places
                   ,
                   till
                   that
                   durt
                   ,
                   like
                   a
                   ruffled
                   boote
                   drawne
                   vpon
                   an
                   ill-fauour'd
                   gowtie
                   legge
                   ,
                   couer
                   the
                   Iades
                   infirmitie
                   from
                   the
                   eye
                   of
                   the
                   Buyer
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   How
                   a
                   Horse-courser
                   makes
                   a
                   Iade
                   that
                   has
                   no
                   stomach
                   ,
                   to
                   eate
                   Lamb-pye
                   .
                
                 
                   ALbeit
                   
                   Lamb-pie
                   be
                   good
                   meat
                   vpon
                   a
                   table
                   ,
                   yet
                   it
                   is
                   so
                   offensiue
                   to
                   a
                   horses
                   stomach
                   ,
                   that
                   he
                   had
                   rather
                   be
                   fed
                   a
                   moneth
                   together
                   with
                   mustie
                   oates
                   ,
                   than
                   to
                   taste
                   it
                   :
                   Yet
                   are
                   not
                   all
                   Horses
                   bidden
                   to
                   this
                   Lamb-pye-Breakefasts
                   ,
                   
                   but
                   onely
                   such
                   as
                   are
                   dyeted
                   with
                   no
                   other
                   meate
                   :
                   and
                   those
                   are
                   Dull
                   ,
                   Blockish
                   ,
                   Sullen
                   ,
                   and
                   heauie
                   footed
                   Iades
                   ,
                   When-soeuer
                   therefore
                   a
                   Horse-courser
                   hath
                   such
                   a
                   
                     Dead
                     commoditie
                  
                   ,
                   as
                   a
                   
                     Lumpish
                     slow
                     Iade
                  
                   ,
                   that
                   goes
                   more
                   heauily
                   then
                   a
                   Cow
                   when
                   shée
                   trots
                   ,
                   and
                   that
                   neither
                   by
                   a
                   sharpe
                   bitte
                   nor
                   a
                   tickling
                   spurre
                   he
                   can
                   put
                   him
                   out
                   of
                   his
                   lazie
                   and
                   dogged
                   pace
                   ,
                   what
                   does
                   hée
                   with
                   him
                   then
                   ?
                   Onely
                   hee
                   giues
                   him
                   Lambpie
                   .
                   That
                   is
                   to
                   say
                   ,
                   euery
                   morning
                   when
                   the
                   Horse-courser
                   comes
                   into
                   the
                   Stable
                   ,
                   hée
                   takes
                   vp
                   a
                   tough
                   round
                   cudgell
                   ,
                   and
                   neuer
                   leaues
                   fencing
                   with
                   his
                   Quarter-staffe
                   at
                   the
                   poore
                   Horses
                   sides
                   and
                   buttockes
                   ,
                   till
                   with
                   blowes
                   hée
                   hath
                   made
                   them
                   so
                   tender
                   ,
                   that
                   the
                   verry
                   shaking
                   of
                   a
                   bough
                   will
                   be
                   able
                   to
                   make
                   the
                   horse
                   ready
                   to
                   runne
                   out
                   of
                   his
                   wittes
                   .
                   And
                   to
                   kéepe
                   the
                   horse
                   still
                   in
                   this
                   mad
                   mood
                   ,
                   because
                   he
                   shall
                   not
                   forget
                   his
                   lesson
                   ,
                   his
                   maister
                   will
                   neuer
                   come
                   néer
                   him
                   ,
                   but
                   he
                   will
                   haue
                   a
                   fling
                   at
                   him
                   :
                   If
                   he
                   doe
                   touch
                   him
                   ,
                   hée
                   strikes
                   him
                   :
                   if
                   he
                   speakes
                   to
                   him
                   ,
                   there
                   is
                   but
                   a
                   word
                   and
                   a
                   blow
                   :
                   if
                   he
                   doe
                   but
                   looke
                   vpon
                   him
                   ,
                   the
                   Horse
                   flings
                   and
                   takes
                   on
                   ,
                   as
                   though
                   hée
                   would
                   breake
                   through
                   the
                   walles
                   ,
                   or
                   had
                   béene
                   a
                   Horse
                   bredde
                   vp
                   in
                   Bedlam
                   amongst
                   mad
                   folkes
                   .
                   Hauing
                   thus
                   gotten
                   this
                   hard
                   lesson
                   by
                   heart
                   ,
                   forth
                   comes
                   he
                   into
                   Smithfield
                   to
                   repeat
                   it
                   ,
                   where
                   the
                   Rider
                   shall
                   no
                   sooner
                   leap
                   into
                   the
                   saddle
                   but
                   the
                   Horse-courser
                   giuing
                   the
                   Iade
                   (
                   that
                   is
                   halfe
                   scarred
                   out
                   of
                   his
                   wits
                   already
                   )
                   thrée
                   or
                   foure
                   good
                   bangs
                   ,
                   away
                   flies
                   Bucephalus
                   as
                   if
                   young
                   Alexander
                   were
                   vpon
                   his
                   backe
                   .
                   No
                   ground
                   can
                   holde
                   him
                   ,
                   no
                   bridle
                   raine
                   him
                   in
                   ,
                   hée
                   gallops
                   away
                   as
                   if
                   the
                   Diuell
                   had
                   hired
                   him
                   of
                   some
                   Hackney-man
                   ,
                   and
                   scuds
                   through
                   thicke
                   and
                   thinne
                   ,
                   as
                   if
                   crackers
                   had
                   hung
                   at
                   his
                   héeles
                   .
                   If
                   his
                   taile
                   play
                   the
                   wag
                   ,
                   and
                   happen
                   to
                   whiske
                   vp
                   and
                   downe
                   (
                   which
                   is
                   a
                   signe
                   that
                   hée
                   does
                   his
                   feates
                   of
                   Actiuitie
                   ,
                   like
                   a
                   Tumblers
                   prentice
                   ,
                   by
                   compulsion
                   and
                   without
                   taking
                   pleasure
                   in
                   them
                   (
                   then
                   shall
                   you
                   sée
                   the
                   Horse-courser
                   laie
                   about
                   him
                   like
                   a
                   thrasher
                   ,
                   till
                   with
                   blowes
                   hée
                   make
                   him
                   carry
                   his
                   taile
                   to
                   his
                   Buttockes
                   :
                   
                   which
                   in
                   a
                   Horse
                   (
                   contrary
                   to
                   the
                   nature
                   of
                   a
                   Dog
                   )
                   is
                   an
                   argument
                   that
                   hée
                   hath
                   mettell
                   in
                   him
                   and
                   Spirit
                   ,
                   as
                   in
                   the
                   other
                   it
                   is
                   the
                   note
                   of
                   cowardise
                   .
                
                 
                   These
                   and
                   such
                   other
                   base
                   iuglings
                   are
                   put
                   in
                   practise
                   ,
                   by
                   the
                   Horse-courser
                   ;
                   in
                   this
                   manner
                   comes
                   hée
                   arm'd
                   into
                   the
                   field
                   :
                   with
                   such
                   bad
                   and
                   deceiptfull
                   commodities
                   does
                   he
                   furnish
                   the
                   markets
                   .
                   Neither
                   steps
                   he
                   vpon
                   the
                   diuels
                   stage
                   alone
                   ,
                   but
                   others
                   are
                   likewise
                   Actors
                   in
                   the
                   selfe-same
                   Scene
                   ,
                   and
                   sharers
                   with
                   him
                   :
                   for
                   no
                   sooner
                   shall
                   mony
                   be
                   offred
                   for
                   a
                   Horse
                   ,
                   but
                   presently
                   one
                   Snake
                   thrusts
                   out
                   his
                   head
                   and
                   stings
                   the
                   buyer
                   with
                   false
                   praises
                   of
                   the
                   Horses
                   goodnesse
                   :
                   An
                   other
                   throwes
                   out
                   his
                   poisoned
                   hooke
                   and
                   whispers
                   in
                   the
                   Chapmans
                   erre
                   ,
                   that
                   vpon
                   his
                   knowledge
                   so
                   much
                   or
                   so
                   much
                   hath
                   béene
                   offred
                   by
                   foure
                   or
                   fiue
                   ,
                   and
                   would
                   not
                   be
                   taken
                   :
                   and
                   of
                   these
                   Rauens
                   there
                   be
                   sundry
                   nests
                   ,
                   but
                   all
                   of
                   them
                   as
                   blacke
                   in
                   soule
                   as
                   the
                   Horse-courser
                   (
                   with
                   whom
                   they
                   are
                   yoaked
                   )
                   is
                   in
                   conscience
                   .
                   This
                   Regiment
                   of
                   Horse-men
                   is
                   therefore
                   deuided
                   into
                   foure
                   
                     Squadrons
                     .
                     viz.
                  
                   
                
                 
                   
                     1
                     When
                     Horse-coursers
                     trauaile
                     to
                     country
                     faires
                     ,
                     they
                     are
                     called
                     Iynglers
                     .
                  
                   
                     2
                     When
                     they
                     haue
                     the
                     leading
                     of
                     the
                     Horse
                     ,
                     and
                     serue
                     in
                     Smithfield
                     ,
                     they
                     are
                     Drouers
                     .
                  
                   
                     3
                     They
                     that
                     stand
                     by
                     and
                     cony-catch
                     the
                     Chapman
                     ,
                     either
                     with
                     
                       Out-bidding
                       ,
                       false-praises
                       ,
                       &c.
                    
                     are
                     called
                     Goades
                     .
                  
                   
                     4
                     The
                     hoyes
                     ,
                     striplings
                     ,
                     &c.
                     that
                     haue
                     the
                     ryding
                     of
                     the
                     Iades
                     vy
                     and
                     downe
                     ,
                     are
                     called
                     Skip-iackes
                     .
                  
                
              
            
             
               
               
                 Iacke
                 in
                 a
                 Boxe
                 :
                 Or
                 a
                 new
                 kinde
                 of
                 Cheating
                 ,
                 teaching
                 how
                 to
                 change
                 golde
                 into
                 Siluer
                 :
                 vnto
                 which
                 is
                 added
                 a
                 Map
                 ,
                 by
                 which
                 a
                 man
                 may
                 learne
                 how
                 to
                 trauell
                 all
                 ouer
                 England
                 ,
                 and
                 haue
                 his
                 charges
                 borne
                 .
                 CHAP.
                 XI
                 .
              
               
                 HOw
                 many
                 Trees
                 of
                 Euill
                 are
                 growing
                 in
                 this
                 countrie
                 ,
                 
                 how
                 tall
                 they
                 are
                 ,
                 how
                 Mellow
                 is
                 their
                 fruit
                 ,
                 and
                 how
                 gréedily
                 gathered
                 ,
                 so
                 much
                 ground
                 doe
                 they
                 take
                 vp
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 thickly
                 doe
                 they
                 stand
                 together
                 ,
                 that
                 it
                 séemeth
                 a
                 kingdom
                 can
                 bring
                 forth
                 no
                 more
                 of
                 their
                 nature
                 ,
                 yes
                 ,
                 yes
                 ,
                 there
                 are
                 not
                 halfe
                 so
                 many
                 Riuers
                 in
                 Hell
                 ,
                 in
                 which
                 a
                 soule
                 may
                 saile
                 to
                 damnation
                 ,
                 as
                 there
                 are
                 Blacke
                 
                 Streames
                 of
                 Mischiefe
                 and
                 Villany
                 (
                 besides
                 all
                 those
                 which
                 in
                 our
                 Now-two
                 Voyages
                 wée
                 haue
                 ventured
                 so
                 many
                 leagues
                 vp
                 ,
                 for
                 discouerie
                 )
                 in
                 which
                 thousandes
                 of
                 people
                 are
                 continually
                 swimming
                 ,
                 and
                 euerie
                 minute
                 in
                 danger
                 vtterly
                 to
                 be
                 cast
                 away
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 Horse-Courser
                 of
                 hell
                 ,
                 after
                 hée
                 had
                 durtyed
                 him-selfe
                 
                 with
                 ryding
                 vp
                 and
                 downe
                 Smithfield
                 ,
                 and
                 hauing
                 his
                 beast
                 vnder
                 him
                 ,
                 gallopped
                 away
                 amaine
                 to
                 beholde
                 a
                 race
                 of
                 fiue
                 myles
                 by
                 a
                 couple
                 of
                 Running-Horses
                 ,
                 vpon
                 whose
                 swiftnesse
                 great
                 summes
                 of
                 money
                 were
                 laide
                 in
                 wagers
                 .
                 In
                 which
                 Schoole
                 of
                 Horse-manship
                 (
                 wherein
                 for
                 the
                 most
                 part
                 none
                 but
                 Gallants
                 are
                 the
                 Studients
                 )
                 hée
                 construed
                 but
                 strange
                 Lectures
                 of
                 Abuses
                 :
                 hée
                 could
                 make
                 large
                 Comments
                 vpon
                 those
                 that
                 are
                 the
                 Runners
                 of
                 those
                 Races
                 ,
                 and
                 could
                 teach
                 others
                 how
                 to
                 loose
                 fortie
                 or
                 fiftie
                 pound
                 pollitickely
                 in
                 the
                 fore-noone
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 the
                 after-noone
                 (
                 with
                 the
                 selfe-same
                 Gelding
                 )
                 to
                 winne
                 a
                 thousand
                 markes
                 in
                 fiue
                 or
                 sixe
                 myles
                 riding
                 .
                 Hée
                 could
                 tell
                 how
                 Gentlemen
                 are
                 fetched
                 in
                 and
                 made
                 younger
                 brothers
                 ,
                 and
                 how
                 your
                 
                   new
                   Knight
                
                 comes
                 to
                 be
                 a
                 Couzen
                 of
                 this
                 Race
                 .
                 Hée
                 could
                 draw
                 the
                 true
                 pictures
                 of
                 some
                 fellowes
                 ,
                 that
                 dyet
                 these
                 Running-Horses
                 ,
                 
                 who
                 for
                 a
                 bribe
                 of
                 forty
                 shillings
                 can
                 by
                 a
                 false
                 Dye
                 ,
                 make
                 their
                 owne
                 Maisters
                 loose
                 a
                 hundred
                 pound
                 a
                 race
                 .
                 Hée
                 could
                 shew
                 more
                 craftie
                 Foxes
                 in
                 this
                 wilde-goose
                 chase
                 ,
                 then
                 there
                 are
                 white
                 Foxes
                 in
                 Russia
                 ,
                 and
                 more
                 strange
                 Horse-trickes
                 plaide
                 by
                 such
                 Riders
                 ,
                 then
                 Bankes
                 his
                 curtall
                 did
                 euer
                 practise
                 (
                 whose
                 Gamballs
                 of
                 the
                 two
                 ,
                 were
                 the
                 honester
                 .
                 )
              
               
                 But
                 because
                 this
                 sort
                 of
                 Birdes
                 haue
                 many
                 feathers
                 to
                 loose
                 ,
                 before
                 they
                 can
                 féele
                 any
                 colde
                 ,
                 hée
                 suffers
                 them
                 to
                 make
                 their
                 owne
                 flight
                 ,
                 knowing
                 that
                 prodigalls
                 doe
                 but
                 test
                 at
                 the
                 stripes
                 which
                 other
                 mens
                 rods
                 giue
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 neuer
                 complaine
                 of
                 smarting
                 ,
                 till
                 they
                 are
                 whip'd
                 with
                 their
                 owne
                 .
              
               
                 In
                 euerie
                 Corner
                 did
                 he
                 finde
                 Serpents
                 ingendering
                 :
                 vnder
                 euerie
                 roofe
                 some
                 impyetie
                 or
                 other
                 lay
                 breeding
                 :
                 
                 but
                 at
                 last
                 perceiuing
                 that
                 the
                 most
                 part
                 of
                 men
                 were
                 by
                 the
                 sorcerie
                 of
                 their
                 own
                 diuelish
                 conditions
                 transformed
                 into
                 Wolues
                 ,
                 and
                 being
                 so
                 changed
                 were
                 more
                 brutish
                 &
                 bloody
                 ,
                 then
                 those
                 that
                 were
                 Wolues
                 by
                 nature
                 :
                 his
                 spléene
                 leap'd
                 against
                 his
                 ribbes
                 with
                 laughter
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 the
                 height
                 of
                 that
                 ioy
                 ,
                 resolued
                 to
                 write
                 the
                 villanies
                 of
                 the
                 world
                 in
                 Folio
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 dedicate
                 them
                 in
                 priuate
                 to
                 his
                 Lord
                 and
                 Maister
                 ,
                 because
                 hée
                 knew
                 him
                 to
                 be
                 an
                 open-handed
                 patron
                 ,
                 albeit
                 he
                 was
                 no
                 great
                 louer
                 of
                 schollers
                 .
              
               
                 But
                 hauing
                 begunne
                 one
                 picture
                 of
                 a
                 certaine
                 strange
                 Beast
                 ,
                 (
                 called
                 
                   Iacke
                   in
                   a
                   Boxe
                
                 )
                 that
                 onely
                 (
                 because
                 the
                 Citie
                 had
                 giuen
                 money
                 already
                 to
                 sée
                 it
                 )
                 hée
                 finished
                 :
                 and
                 in
                 these
                 colours
                 was
                 
                   Iacke
                   in
                   a
                   Boxe
                
                 drawne
                 .
                 It
                 hath
                 
                 the
                 head
                 of
                 a
                 man
                 (
                 the
                 face
                 well
                 bearded
                 )
                 the
                 eyes
                 of
                 a
                 Hawke
                 ,
                 the
                 tongue
                 of
                 a
                 Lap-wing
                 ,
                 which
                 saies
                 
                   heere
                   it
                   is
                
                 ,
                 when
                 the
                 nest
                 is
                 a
                 good
                 way
                 off
                 :
                 it
                 hath
                 the
                 stomacke
                 of
                 an
                 Estrich
                 ,
                 and
                 can
                 disgest
                 siluer
                 ,
                 as
                 easily
                 as
                 that
                 Bird
                 doth
                 Yron
                 .
                 It
                 hath
                 the
                 pawes
                 of
                 a
                 Beare
                 instead
                 of
                 handes
                 ,
                 for
                 whatsoeuer
                 it
                 fastneth
                 vpon
                 it
                 houldes
                 :
                 From
                 the
                 middle
                 downe-wardes
                 ,
                 it
                 is
                 made
                 like
                 a
                 Gray-hound
                 ,
                 and
                 is
                 so
                 swift
                 of
                 foote
                 ,
                 that
                 if
                 it
                 once
                 get
                 the
                 Start
                 of
                 you
                 ,
                 a
                 whole
                 
                   Kennel
                   of
                   Hounds
                
                 
                 cannot
                 ouertake
                 it
                 .
                 It
                 loues
                 to
                 hunt
                 dry-foote
                 ,
                 and
                 can
                 Scent
                 a
                 Traine
                 in
                 no
                 ground
                 so
                 well
                 as
                 the
                 Citie
                 ,
                 and
                 yet
                 not
                 in
                 all
                 places
                 of
                 the
                 Citie
                 .
                 But
                 hée
                 is
                 best
                 in
                 Scenting
                 betwéene
                 Ludgate
                 and
                 Temple-barre
                 :
                 and
                 it
                 is
                 thought
                 that
                 his
                 next
                 hunting
                 shall
                 be
                 betwéene
                 Lumbard-streete
                 and
                 the
                 
                   Gold
                   smithes
                   Row
                
                 in
                 Cheadeside
                 .
                 Thus
                 much
                 for
                 his
                 outward
                 parts
                 ,
                 now
                 you
                 shall
                 haue
                 him
                 vnrip'd
                 ,
                 and
                 sée
                 his
                 inward
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 Iacke
                 in
                 a
                 Boxe
                 ,
                 or
                 this
                 Deuill
                 in
                 mans
                 shape
                 ,
                 wearing
                 (
                 like
                 a
                 player
                 on
                 a
                 Stage
                 ,
                 good
                 cloathes
                 on
                 his
                 
                 backe
                 ,
                 comes
                 to
                 a
                 Golde-smithes
                 Stall
                 ,
                 to
                 a
                 Drapers
                 ,
                 a
                 Haberdashers
                 ,
                 or
                 into
                 any
                 other
                 shop
                 where
                 hée
                 knows
                 good
                 store
                 of
                 siluer
                 faces
                 are
                 to
                 be
                 séene
                 .
                 And
                 there
                 drawing
                 foorth
                 a
                 faire
                 new
                 boxe
                 ,
                 hammered
                 all
                 out
                 of
                 
                   Siluer
                   Plate
                
                 ,
                 hée
                 opens
                 it
                 ,
                 and
                 powres
                 foorth
                 twentie
                 or
                 forty
                 Twentie-shilling-peeces
                 in
                 
                   New
                   Golde
                
                 .
                 To
                 which
                 heape
                 of
                 Worldly-Temptation
                 ,
                 thus
                 much
                 hée
                 addes
                 in
                 words
                 ,
                 that
                 either
                 
                   hee
                   him-selfe
                
                 ,
                 or
                 such
                 a
                 Gentleman
                 (
                 to
                 whom
                 hée
                 belongs
                 )
                 hath
                 an
                 occasion
                 for
                 foure
                 or
                 fiue
                 daies
                 to
                 vse
                 fortie
                 pound
                 .
                 But
                 because
                 hée
                 is
                 verie
                 shortly
                 ,
                 (
                 nay
                 hée
                 knows
                 not
                 how
                 suddenly
                 )
                 
                   to
                   trauaile
                   to
                   Venice
                
                 ,
                 to
                 Ierusalem
                 or
                 so
                 ,
                 and
                 would
                 not
                 willingly
                 be
                 disfurnished
                 of
                 Golde
                 ,
                 hée
                 dooth
                 therefore
                 request
                 the
                 Cittizen
                 to
                 lend
                 (
                 vpon
                 those
                 
                   Forty
                   twenty-shilling-peeces
                
                 )
                 so
                 much
                 in
                 white
                 money
                 (
                 but
                 for
                 foure
                 ,
                 fiue
                 or
                 sixe
                 daies
                 at
                 most
                 )
                 and
                 for
                 his
                 good-will
                 hée
                 shall
                 receiue
                 any
                 reasonable
                 satisfaction
                 .
                 The
                 Cittizen
                 (
                 knowing
                 the
                 pawne
                 to
                 be
                 better
                 then
                 
                 a
                 Bond
                 )
                 powres
                 downe
                 fortie
                 pound
                 in
                 siluer
                 ,
                 the
                 other
                 drawes
                 it
                 ,
                 and
                 leauing
                 so
                 much
                 golde
                 in
                 Hostage
                 ,
                 marcheth
                 away
                 with
                 Bag
                 and
                 Baggage
                 .
              
               
                 Fiue
                 daies
                 being
                 expired
                 ,
                 
                   Iacke
                   in
                   a
                   boxe
                
                 (
                 according
                 to
                 his
                 Bargaine
                 )
                 being
                 a
                 man
                 of
                 his
                 word
                 ,
                 comes
                 againe
                 to
                 the
                 Shop
                 or
                 stall
                 (
                 at
                 which
                 hée
                 angles
                 for
                 fresh
                 fish
                 )
                 and
                 there
                 casting
                 out
                 his
                 line
                 with
                 the
                 siluer
                 hooke
                 ,
                 that
                 is
                 to
                 say
                 ,
                 pouring
                 out
                 the
                 fortie
                 pound
                 which
                 hée
                 borrowed
                 ,
                 The
                 Cittizen
                 sends
                 in
                 ,
                 or
                 steps
                 himselfe
                 for
                 the
                 Boxe
                 with
                 the
                 
                   Golden
                   deuill
                
                 in
                 it
                 :
                 it
                 is
                 opened
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 army
                 of
                 
                 angels
                 being
                 mustred
                 together
                 ,
                 they
                 are
                 all
                 found
                 to
                 be
                 there
                 .
                 The
                 Boxe
                 is
                 shut
                 agen
                 and
                 set
                 on
                 the
                 Stall
                 ,
                 whilst
                 the
                 Cittizen
                 is
                 telling
                 of
                 his
                 money
                 :
                 But
                 whilst
                 this
                 musicke
                 is
                 sounding
                 ,
                 
                   Iacke
                   in
                   a
                   Boxe
                
                 actes
                 his
                 part
                 in
                 a
                 dumb
                 shew
                 thus
                 ;
                 hée
                 shifts
                 out
                 of
                 his
                 fingers
                 
                   another
                   Boxe
                
                 of
                 the
                 Tame
                 mettall
                 and
                 making
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 former
                 beares
                 ,
                 which
                 
                   second
                   Boxe
                
                 is
                 filled
                 onely
                 with
                 shillings
                 and
                 being
                 poized
                 in
                 the
                 hand
                 ,
                 shall
                 séeme
                 to
                 cary
                 the
                 weight
                 of
                 the
                 former
                 ,
                 and
                 is
                 clap'd
                 down
                 in
                 place
                 of
                 the
                 first
                 .
                 The
                 Cittizen
                 in
                 the
                 meane
                 time
                 (
                 whilst
                 this
                 Pit-fall
                 is
                 made
                 for
                 him
                 )
                 telling
                 the
                 fortie
                 poundes
                 ,
                 mi●●eth
                 thirtie
                 or
                 fortie
                 shilling
                 in
                 the
                 whole
                 summe
                 ,
                 at
                 which
                 the
                 
                   Iacke
                   in
                
                 a
                 Boxe
                 starting
                 backe
                 (
                 as
                 if
                 it
                 were
                 a
                 matter
                 strange
                 vnto
                 him
                 )
                 at
                 last
                 making
                 a
                 gathering
                 within
                 himselfe
                 )
                 for
                 his
                 wits
                 ,
                 hée
                 remembers
                 (
                 hée
                 saies
                 )
                 that
                 hée
                 said
                 by
                 so
                 much
                 money
                 as
                 is
                 wanting
                 (
                 of
                 the
                 fortie
                 poundes
                 )
                 to
                 dispatch
                 some
                 businesse
                 or
                 other
                 ,
                 and
                 forgot
                 to
                 put
                 it
                 into
                 the
                 Bag
                 againe
                 ,
                 notwithstanding
                 ,
                 hée
                 intreates
                 the
                 Cittizen
                 ,
                 to
                 kéepe
                 his
                 Golde
                 still
                 ,
                 hée
                 will
                 take
                 the
                 white
                 money
                 home
                 to
                 fetch
                 the
                 rest
                 ,
                 and
                 make
                 vp
                 the
                 Summe
                 ,
                 his
                 absence
                 shall
                 not
                 be
                 aboue
                 an
                 houre
                 or
                 two
                 :
                 before
                 which
                 time
                 hée
                 shall
                 be
                 sure
                 to
                 heare
                 of
                 him
                 ,
                 and
                 with
                 this
                 the
                 little
                 Diuell
                 vanisheth
                 ,
                 carrying
                 that
                 away
                 with
                 him
                 ,
                 which
                 in
                 the
                 end
                 will
                 send
                 him
                 to
                 the
                 Gallowes
                 ,
                 (
                 that
                 is
                 to
                 say
                 ,
                 his
                 owne
                 Gold
                 ,
                 )
                 and
                 fortie
                 pound
                 besides
                 of
                 the
                 Shop-kéepers
                 ,
                 which
                 hée
                 borrowed
                 ,
                 the
                 other
                 being
                 
                 glad
                 to
                 take
                 fortie
                 shillings
                 for
                 the
                 whole
                 debt
                 ,
                 and
                 yet
                 is
                 soundly
                 box'd
                 for
                 his
                 labour
                 .
              
               
                 This
                 
                   Iacke
                   in
                   a
                   Boxe
                
                 ,
                 is
                 yet
                 but
                 a
                 Chicken
                 ,
                 and
                 hath
                 laide
                 verie
                 few
                 Egges
                 ,
                 if
                 the
                 Hang-man
                 doe
                 not
                 spoyle
                 it
                 with
                 treading
                 ,
                 it
                 will
                 prooue
                 an
                 excellent
                 Henne
                 of
                 the
                 Game
                 .
                 It
                 is
                 a
                 knot
                 of
                 Cheators
                 but
                 newly
                 tyed
                 ,
                 they
                 are
                 not
                 yet
                 a
                 company
                 .
                 They
                 flie
                 not
                 like
                 Wilde-Géese
                 (
                 in
                 stockes
                 )
                 but
                 like
                 Kites
                 (
                 single
                 )
                 as
                 loath
                 that
                 any
                 should
                 share
                 in
                 their
                 pray
                 .
                 They
                 haue
                 two
                 or
                 thrée
                 names
                 ,
                 (
                 yet
                 they
                 are
                 no
                 Romanes
                 ,
                 but
                 errant
                 Rogues
                 )
                 for
                 some-times
                 they
                 call
                 themselues
                 
                   Iacke
                   in
                   a
                   Boxe
                
                 ,
                 
                 but
                 now
                 that
                 their
                 infantrie
                 growes
                 strong
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 it
                 is
                 knowne
                 abroad
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 carrie
                 the
                 Philosophers
                 stone
                 about
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 are
                 able
                 of
                 fortie
                 shillings
                 to
                 make
                 fortie
                 pound
                 ,
                 they
                 therefore
                 vse
                 a
                 deade
                 March
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 better
                 to
                 cloake
                 their
                 villanies
                 ,
                 doe
                 put
                 on
                 these
                 
                   Masking
                   suites
                   :
                   viz.
                
                 
              
               
                 
                   1
                   This
                   art
                   or
                   sleight
                   of
                   changing
                   golde
                   into
                   siluer
                   ,
                   is
                   called
                   Trimming
                   .
                
                 
                   2
                   They
                   that
                   practise
                   it
                   ,
                   terme
                   them-selues
                   Sheepe-shearers
                   .
                
                 
                   3
                   The
                   Gold
                   which
                   they
                   bring
                   to
                   the
                   Cittizen
                   ,
                   is
                   called
                   
                     Iasons
                     Fleece
                  
                   .
                
                 
                   4
                   The
                   siluer
                   which
                   they
                   picke
                   vp
                   by
                   this
                   wandring
                   ,
                   is
                   White-wooll
                   .
                
                 
                   5
                   They
                   that
                   are
                   Cheated
                   by
                   
                     Iacke
                     in
                     a
                     Boxe
                  
                   ,
                   are
                   called
                   Bleaters
                   .
                
              
               
                 Oh
                 Fléete-stréete
                 ,
                 Fléete-stréete
                 !
                 how
                 hast
                 thou
                 béene
                 trimd
                 ,
                 washed
                 ,
                 Shauen
                 and
                 Polde
                 ,
                 by
                 these
                 déere
                 and
                 damnable
                 Barbers
                 ?
                 how
                 often
                 hast
                 thou
                 mette
                 with
                 these
                 Sheepe-shearers
                 ?
                 how
                 many
                 warme
                 flakes
                 of
                 wooll
                 haue
                 they
                 pulled
                 from
                 they
                 Backe
                 ,
                 yet
                 if
                 thy
                 Bleating
                 can
                 make
                 the
                 flockes
                 that
                 graze
                 néere
                 vnto
                 thée
                 and
                 round
                 about
                 thée
                 ,
                 to
                 lift
                 vp
                 their
                 eyes
                 ,
                 &
                 to
                 shunne
                 such
                 Wolues
                 and
                 Fores
                 ,
                 when
                 they
                 are
                 approaching
                 ,
                 or
                 to
                 haue
                 them
                 worryed
                 to
                 death
                 before
                 they
                 sucke
                 the
                 blood
                 of
                 others
                 ,
                 thy
                 misfortunes
                 are
                 the
                 lesse
                 ,
                 because
                 thy
                 neighbours
                 by
                 them
                 shall
                 be
                 warned
                 from
                 danger
                 .
              
               
                 Many
                 of
                 thy
                 Gallants
                 (
                 O
                 Fléete-stréete
                 )
                 haue
                 spent
                 hundreds
                 of
                 poundes
                 in
                 thy
                 presence
                 ,
                 and
                 yet
                 neuer
                 were
                 so
                 much
                 as
                 drunke
                 for
                 it
                 :
                 but
                 for
                 euerie
                 fortye
                 pound
                 that
                 thou
                 layest
                 out
                 in
                 this
                 Indian
                 commoditie
                 (
                 of
                 Gold
                 )
                 thou
                 hast
                 a
                 
                   Siluer
                   Boxe
                
                 bestowed
                 vpon
                 thée
                 ,
                 to
                 carry
                 thy
                 Tobacco
                 in
                 ,
                 because
                 thou
                 hast
                 euer
                 loued
                 that
                 costlye
                 and
                 Gentleman-like
                 Smoake
                 .
                 
                   Iacke
                   in
                   a
                   Boxe
                
                 hath
                 thus
                 plaide
                 his
                 part
                 .
                 There
                 is
                 yet
                 another
                 Actor
                 to
                 step
                 vpon
                 the
                 stage
                 ,
                 and
                 he
                 séemes
                 to
                 haue
                 good
                 skil
                 in
                 Cosmography
                 for
                 hée
                 holdes
                 in
                 his
                 hand
                 a
                 Map
                 ,
                 wherein
                 hée
                 hath
                 layde
                 
                 downe
                 a
                 number
                 of
                 Shires
                 in
                 England
                 ,
                 and
                 with
                 small
                 
                 prickes
                 hath
                 beaten
                 but
                 a
                 path
                 ,
                 teaching
                 how
                 a
                 men
                 may
                 easily
                 ,
                 (
                 tho
                 not
                 verry
                 honestly
                 )
                 trauell
                 from
                 Country
                 to
                 Country
                 ,
                 and
                 haue
                 his
                 charges
                 borne
                 ;
                 and
                 thus
                 it
                 is
                 .
              
               
                 He
                 that
                 vnder-takes
                 this
                 strange
                 iourney
                 ,
                 layes
                 his
                 first
                 plotte
                 how
                 to
                 be
                 turned
                 into
                 a
                 
                   Braue
                   man
                
                 ,
                 which
                 he
                 findes
                 can
                 be
                 done
                 by
                 none
                 better
                 then
                 by
                 a
                 
                   trusty
                   Tailor
                
                 :
                 working
                 therefore
                 hard
                 with
                 him
                 ,
                 till
                 his
                 suite
                 be
                 granted
                 ,
                 Out
                 of
                 the
                 Citie
                 ,
                 being
                 mounted
                 on
                 a
                 good
                 gelding
                 hée
                 rides
                 ,
                 vpon
                 his
                 owne
                 bare
                 credit
                 ,
                 not
                 caring
                 whether
                 hée
                 trauell
                 to
                 méete
                 the
                 Sunne
                 at
                 this
                 Rysing
                 ,
                 or
                 at
                 his
                 going
                 downe
                 .
                 Hée
                 knowes
                 his
                 Kitchin
                 smokes
                 in
                 euery
                 countie
                 ,
                 and
                 his
                 table
                 is
                 couered
                 in
                 euery
                 Shire
                 .
                 For
                 when
                 he
                 comes
                 within
                 a
                 mile
                 of
                 the
                 Towne
                 ,
                 where
                 hée
                 meanes
                 to
                 catche
                 Quailes
                 ,
                 setting
                 Spurres
                 to
                 his
                 Horse
                 ,
                 away
                 hée
                 gallops
                 ,
                 with
                 his
                 cloake
                 off
                 (
                 for
                 in
                 these
                 Beseigings
                 of
                 Townes
                 hée
                 goes
                 not
                 armed
                 with
                 any
                 ,
                 his
                 Hatte
                 thrust
                 into
                 his
                 Hose
                 ,
                 as
                 if
                 it
                 were
                 lost
                 ,
                 and
                 onely
                 an
                 emptie
                 paire
                 of
                 Hangers
                 by
                 his
                 side
                 ,
                 to
                 shew
                 that
                 hée
                 had
                 béene
                 disarmed
                 .
                 And
                 you
                 must
                 note
                 ,
                 that
                 this
                 Hot-spurre
                 does
                 neuer
                 set
                 vpon
                 any
                 places
                 but
                 onely
                 such
                 ,
                 where
                 hée
                 knowes
                 (
                 by
                 intelligence
                 )
                 there
                 are
                 store
                 of
                 Gentlemen
                 ,
                 or
                 wealthy
                 Farmers
                 at
                 the
                 least
                 .
                 Amongst
                 whom
                 when
                 hée
                 is
                 come
                 ,
                 hée
                 tels
                 with
                 distracted
                 lookes
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 voice
                 almost
                 breathlesse
                 ,
                 how
                 many
                 Villaines
                 set
                 vpon
                 him
                 ,
                 what
                 golde
                 and
                 siluer
                 they
                 tooke
                 from
                 him
                 ,
                 what
                 woods
                 they
                 are
                 fled
                 into
                 ,
                 from
                 what
                 part
                 of
                 England
                 hée
                 is
                 come
                 ,
                 to
                 what
                 place
                 he
                 is
                 going
                 ,
                 how
                 farre
                 hée
                 is
                 from
                 home
                 ,
                 how
                 farre
                 from
                 his
                 fornies
                 end
                 ,
                 or
                 from
                 any
                 Gentleman
                 of
                 his
                 acquaintance
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 liuely
                 personates
                 the
                 lying
                 
                   Greeke
                   (
                   Synon
                
                 )
                 in
                 telling
                 a
                 lamentable
                 tale
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 mad
                 Troianes
                 (
                 the
                 Gentlemen
                 of
                 the
                 towne
                 ,
                 beléeuing
                 him
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 rather
                 because
                 hée
                 carries
                 the
                 shape
                 of
                 an
                 honest
                 man
                 in
                 shew
                 ,
                 and
                 of
                 a
                 Gentleman
                 in
                 his
                 apparrell
                 )
                 are
                 liberall
                 of
                 their
                 purses
                 ,
                 lending
                 him
                 money
                 to
                 beare
                 him
                 on
                 his
                 iourney
                 ,
                 to
                 pay
                 which
                 hée
                 offers
                 either
                 his
                 bill
                 or
                 bond
                 (
                 naming
                 his
                 lodging
                 
                 in
                 London
                 )
                 or
                 giues
                 his
                 word
                 (
                 as
                 he
                 is
                 a
                 Gentleman
                 )
                 which
                 they
                 rather
                 take
                 ,
                 knowing
                 the
                 like
                 misfortune
                 may
                 be
                 theirs
                 at
                 any
                 time
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 thus
                 with
                 the
                 feathers
                 of
                 other
                 birdes
                 ,
                 is
                 this
                 Monster
                 stucke
                 ,
                 making
                 wings
                 of
                 sundry
                 fashions
                 ,
                 with
                 which
                 hée
                 thus
                 basely
                 flies
                 ouer
                 a
                 whole
                 kingdom
                 .
                 Thus
                 doth
                 he
                 ride
                 from
                 Towne
                 to
                 Towne
                 ,
                 from
                 Citie
                 to
                 Citie
                 as
                 if
                 he
                 were
                 a
                 Land-lord
                 in
                 euery
                 shire
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 hée
                 were
                 to
                 gather
                 Rents
                 vp
                 of
                 none
                 but
                 Gentlemen
                 .
              
               
                 There
                 is
                 a
                 Twin-brother
                 to
                 this
                 Falsegalloper
                 ,
                 and
                 hée
                 cheats
                 Inne-keepers
                 onely
                 ,
                 or
                 their
                 Tapsters
                 ,
                 by
                 learning
                 first
                 what
                 Country-men
                 they
                 are
                 ,
                 and
                 of
                 what
                 kindred
                 :
                 and
                 then
                 bringing
                 counterfeit
                 letters
                 of
                 commendations
                 from
                 such
                 an
                 Vncle
                 ,
                 or
                 such
                 a
                 Coozen
                 (
                 wherin
                 is
                 requested
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 
                   Bearer
                   thereof
                
                 may
                 be
                 vsed
                 kindely
                 )
                 he
                 lyes
                 in
                 the
                 Inne
                 till
                 he
                 haue
                 fetcht
                 ouer
                 the
                 Maister
                 or
                 seruant
                 for
                 some
                 mony
                 (
                 to
                 draw
                 whom
                 to
                 him
                 he
                 hath
                 may
                 hookes
                 )
                 and
                 when
                 they
                 hang
                 fast
                 enough
                 by
                 the
                 gils
                 ,
                 vnder
                 water
                 
                   Our
                   Sharke
                
                 diues
                 ,
                 and
                 is
                 neuer
                 séene
                 to
                 swimme
                 againe
                 in
                 that
                 Riuer
                 .
              
               
                 Vpon
                 this
                 Scaffold
                 ;
                 also
                 might
                 be
                 mounted
                 a
                 number
                 
                 of
                 
                   Quack-saluing
                   Emperickes
                
                 ,
                 who
                 ariuing
                 in
                 some
                 Country
                 towne
                 ,
                 clappe
                 vp
                 their
                 
                   Terrible
                   Billes
                
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Market-place
                 ,
                 and
                 filling
                 the
                 Paper
                 with
                 such
                 horrible
                 names
                 of
                 diseases
                 ,
                 as
                 if
                 euery
                 disease
                 were
                 a
                 Diuell
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 they
                 could
                 coniure
                 them
                 out
                 of
                 any
                 Towne
                 at
                 their
                 pleasure
                 .
                 Yet
                 these
                 Beggerly
                 Mountibanckes
                 are
                 méere
                 Coozeners
                 ,
                 and
                 haue
                 not
                 so
                 much
                 skill
                 as
                 Horseléeches
                 .
                 The
                 poore
                 people
                 not
                 giuing
                 money
                 to
                 them
                 to
                 be
                 cured
                 of
                 any
                 infirmities
                 ,
                 but
                 rather
                 with
                 their
                 money
                 buying
                 worse
                 infirmities
                 of
                 them
                 .
              
               
                 Vpon
                 the
                 same
                 post
                 ,
                 doe
                 certain
                 stragling
                 Scribling
                 
                 Writers
                 deserue
                 to
                 haue
                 both
                 their
                 names
                 and
                 themselues
                 hung
                 vp
                 ,
                 in
                 stéede
                 of
                 those
                 faire
                 tables
                 which
                 they
                 hang
                 vp
                 in
                 Townes
                 ,
                 as
                 gay
                 pictures
                 to
                 intice
                 Schollers
                 to
                 them
                 :
                 the
                 Tables
                 are
                 written
                 with
                 sundry
                 kindes
                 of
                 hands
                 ,
                 but
                 not
                 one
                 finger
                 of
                 those
                 hands
                 (
                 not
                 one
                 letter
                 
                 there
                 )
                 drops
                 from
                 the
                 Penne
                 of
                 such
                 a
                 false
                 wandring
                 Scribe
                 .
                 Hée
                 buyes
                 other
                 mens
                 cunning
                 good
                 cheape
                 in
                 London
                 ,
                 and
                 sels
                 it
                 déere
                 in
                 the
                 Country
                 .
                 These
                 Swallowes
                 bragge
                 of
                 no
                 qualitie
                 in
                 them
                 so
                 much
                 as
                 of
                 swiftnesse
                 .
                 In
                 foure
                 and
                 
                   twenty
                   houres
                
                 ,
                 they
                 will
                 worke
                 foure
                 and
                 twenty
                 wonders
                 ,
                 and
                 promise
                 to
                 teach
                 those
                 ,
                 that
                 know
                 no
                 more
                 what
                 belongs
                 to
                 an
                 A
                 then
                 an
                 Asse
                 ,
                 to
                 be
                 able
                 (
                 in
                 that
                 narrow
                 compasse
                 )
                 
                   to
                   write
                   as
                   faire
                
                 and
                 as
                 fast
                 as
                 a
                 country
                 Vicar
                 ,
                 who
                 commonly
                 reads
                 all
                 the
                 Townes
                 Letters
                 .
              
               
                 But
                 wherefore
                 doe
                 these
                 counterfeit
                 Maisters
                 of
                 that
                 
                   Noble
                   Science
                   of
                   Writing
                
                 ,
                 kéepe
                 such
                 a
                 florishing
                 with
                 the
                 borrowed
                 weapons
                 of
                 other
                 Mens
                 Pennes
                 ?
                 onely
                 for
                 this
                 ,
                 to
                 gette
                 halfe
                 the
                 Birdes
                 (
                 which
                 they
                 striue
                 to
                 catch
                 )
                 into
                 their
                 hands
                 ,
                 that
                 is
                 to
                 say
                 ,
                 to
                 be
                 payed
                 halfe
                 the
                 money
                 which
                 is
                 agréed
                 vpon
                 for
                 the
                 Scholler
                 ,
                 and
                 his
                 nest
                 being
                 halfe
                 fild
                 with
                 such
                 Gold-finches
                 ,
                 hée
                 neuer
                 stayes
                 till
                 the
                 rest
                 be
                 fledge
                 ,
                 but
                 suffers
                 him
                 that
                 comes
                 next
                 ,
                 to
                 beate
                 the
                 bush
                 for
                 the
                 other
                 halfe
                 .
                 At
                 this
                 Caréere
                 the
                 Ryder
                 that
                 set
                 out
                 last
                 from
                 Smith
                 field
                 ,
                 stop'd
                 :
                 and
                 alighting
                 from
                 Pacolet
                 (
                 the
                 horse
                 that
                 carried
                 him
                 )
                 his
                 nextiourney
                 was
                 made
                 on
                 foote
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 The
                 Bel-mans
                 second
                 Night-walke
                 .
                 CHAP.
                 XII
                 .
              
               
                 SIr
                 Lancelot
                 of
                 the
                 infernall
                 Lake
                 ,
                 or
                 the
                 Knight
                 Errant
                 of
                 Hell
                 ,
                 hauing
                 thus
                 (
                 like
                 a
                 young
                 Country
                 gentleman
                 )
                 gone
                 round
                 about
                 the
                 Citie
                 ,
                 to
                 sée
                 the
                 sights
                 not
                 onely
                 within
                 the
                 walles
                 ,
                 but
                 those
                 also
                 in
                 the
                 Suburbes
                 ,
                 was
                 glad
                 when
                 hée
                 sawe
                 night
                 hauing
                 put
                 on
                 the
                 vizard
                 that
                 Hell
                 lends
                 
                 her
                 (
                 called
                 darkenes
                 to
                 leap
                 into
                 her
                 Coach
                 )
                 because
                 now
                 hée
                 knew
                 hée
                 should
                 méete
                 with
                 other
                 strange
                 birdes
                 
                 and
                 beasts
                 fluttring
                 from
                 their
                 nests
                 ,
                 and
                 crawling
                 out
                 of
                 their
                 dennes
                 .
                 His
                 prognostication
                 held
                 currant
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 foule
                 weather
                 (
                 which
                 hée
                 fore-told
                 )
                 fell
                 out
                 accordingly
                 .
                 For
                 Candle-light
                 had
                 scarce
                 opened
                 his
                 eye
                 (
                 to
                 looke
                 at
                 the
                 Citie
                 ,
                 like
                 a
                 gunner
                 shooting
                 at
                 a
                 marke
                 ,
                 )
                 but
                 fearefully
                 (
                 their
                 féet
                 trembling
                 vnder
                 them
                 )
                 their
                 eyes
                 suspitiously
                 rouling
                 from
                 euery
                 nooke
                 to
                 nooke
                 round
                 
                 about
                 them
                 ,
                 and
                 their
                 heads
                 (
                 as
                 if
                 they
                 stood
                 vpon
                 oyled
                 skrewes
                 )
                 still
                 turning
                 backe
                 behinde
                 them
                 ,
                 came
                 créeping
                 out
                 of
                 hollow
                 trées
                 ,
                 where
                 they
                 lay
                 hidden
                 ,
                 a
                 number
                 of
                 couzning
                 Bankrupts
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 shapes
                 of
                 Owles
                 ,
                 who
                 when
                 the
                 Marshall
                 of
                 light
                 ,
                 the
                 Sunne
                 ,
                 went
                 vp
                 and
                 downe
                 to
                 search
                 the
                 Citie
                 ,
                 durst
                 not
                 stir
                 abroad
                 ,
                 for
                 feare
                 of
                 being
                 houted
                 at
                 and
                 followed
                 by
                 whole
                 flockes
                 of
                 
                   vndone
                   creditors
                
                 .
              
               
                 But
                 now
                 when
                 the
                 stage
                 of
                 the
                 world
                 was
                 hung
                 in
                 blacke
                 ,
                 they
                 ietted
                 vp
                 and
                 downe
                 like
                 proud
                 Tragedians
                 .
                 O
                 what
                 thankes
                 they
                 gaue
                 to
                 Darknesse
                 !
                 what
                 *
                 songs
                 they
                 balladed
                 out
                 in
                 praise
                 of
                 Night
                 ,
                 for
                 bestowing
                 vpon
                 them
                 so
                 excellent
                 a
                 cloake
                 ,
                 wherein
                 they
                 might
                 so
                 safely
                 walke
                 muffled
                 ▪
                 Now
                 durst
                 they
                 ,
                 as
                 if
                 they
                 had
                 béene
                 Constables
                 ,
                 rap
                 alowd
                 at
                 the
                 dores
                 of
                 those
                 to
                 whom
                 they
                 owed
                 most
                 mony
                 ,
                 and
                 braue
                 them
                 with
                 hie
                 wordes
                 ,
                 tho
                 they
                 payd
                 them
                 not
                 a
                 penny
                 .
              
               
                 Now
                 did
                 they
                 boldly
                 step
                 into
                 some
                 priuiledged
                 Tauerne
                 ,
                 and
                 there
                 drinke
                 healths
                 ,
                 dance
                 with
                 Harlots
                 ,
                 and
                 pay
                 both
                 Drawers
                 and
                 Fidlers
                 after
                 mid-night
                 with
                 other
                 mens
                 money
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 march
                 home
                 againe
                 fearelesse
                 of
                 the
                 blowes
                 that
                 any
                 showlder-clapper
                 durst
                 giue
                 them
                 .
                 Out
                 of
                 another
                 nest
                 flew
                 certaine
                 Murderers
                 and
                 Theeues
                 in
                 the
                 shapes
                 of
                 Skreech-owles
                 ,
                 who
                 ,
                 being
                 set
                 on
                 by
                 the
                 Night
                 ,
                 did
                 beate
                 with
                 their
                 bold
                 and
                 venturous
                 fatall
                 wings
                 at
                 the
                 very
                 dores
                 ,
                 whereas
                 in
                 former
                 times
                 ,
                 their
                 villanies
                 had
                 entred
                 .
              
               
                 Not
                 farre
                 from
                 These
                 ,
                 came
                 crawling
                 out
                 of
                 their
                 bushes
                 a
                 company
                 of
                 graue
                 and
                 wealthy
                 Lechers
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 shapes
                 of
                 Glowe-wormes
                 ,
                 who
                 with
                 Gold
                 ,
                 Iyngling
                 in
                 their
                 
                 pockets
                 ,
                 made
                 such
                 a
                 shew
                 in
                 the
                 night
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 dores
                 of
                 
                 Common
                 Brothelryes
                 flew
                 open
                 to
                 receiue
                 them
                 ,
                 tho
                 in
                 the
                 day
                 time
                 they
                 durst
                 not
                 passe
                 that
                 way
                 ,
                 for
                 feare
                 that
                 noted
                 Currizans
                 should
                 challenge
                 them
                 of
                 acquaintance
                 ,
                 or
                 that
                 others
                 should
                 laugh
                 at
                 them
                 to
                 sée
                 
                   white
                   heads
                
                 growing
                 vpon
                 
                   greene
                   stalkes
                
                 .
              
               
                 Then
                 came
                 forth
                 certaine
                 infamous
                 earthy
                 minded
                 Creatures
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 shapes
                 of
                 Snailes
                 ,
                 who
                 all
                 the
                 day
                 time
                 hiding
                 their
                 heads
                 in
                 their
                 shells
                 ,
                 least
                 boies
                 should
                 with
                 two
                 fingers
                 point
                 at
                 them
                 for
                 liuing
                 basely
                 vpon
                 the
                 prostitution
                 of
                 their
                 wiues
                 bodies
                 ,
                 cared
                 not
                 now
                 ,
                 before
                 candle-light
                 to
                 shoote
                 out
                 their
                 largest
                 Hornes
                 .
              
               
                 A
                 number
                 of
                 other
                 monsters
                 ,
                 like
                 These
                 ,
                 were
                 séene
                 (
                 as
                 the
                 sunne
                 went
                 downe
                 )
                 to
                 venture
                 from
                 their
                 dennes
                 ,
                 onely
                 to
                 ingender
                 with
                 Darknesse
                 :
                 but
                 candle-lights
                 eye-sight
                 growing
                 dimmer
                 and
                 dimmer
                 ,
                 and
                 he
                 at
                 last
                 falling
                 starke
                 blind
                 ,
                 Lucifers
                 Watch-man
                 went
                 stumbling
                 vp
                 and
                 downe
                 in
                 the
                 darke
                 .
              
               
                 
                   How
                   to
                   weane
                   Horses
                   .
                
                 
                   EVery
                   dore
                   on
                   a
                   sudden
                   was
                   shut
                   ,
                   not
                   a
                   candle
                   stood
                   péeping
                   through
                   any
                   window
                   ,
                   not
                   a
                   Vintner
                   was
                   to
                   be
                   séene
                   brewing
                   in
                   his
                   Cellor
                   ,
                   not
                   a
                   drunkerd
                   to
                   be
                   met
                   reeling
                   ,
                   not
                   a
                   Mouse
                   to
                   be
                   heard
                   stiring
                   :
                   al
                   the
                   citie
                   shewed
                   like
                   one
                   Bed
                   ,
                   and
                   al
                   in
                   that
                   Bed
                   were
                   soundly
                   cast
                   into
                   a
                   sléepe
                   .
                   Noyse
                   made
                   no
                   noise
                   ,
                   for
                   euery
                   one
                   that
                   wrought
                   with
                   the
                   hammer
                   was
                   put
                   to
                   silence
                   .
                   Yet
                   notwithstanding
                   when
                   euen
                   the
                   Diuel
                   himselfe
                   could
                   haue
                   béene
                   contented
                   to
                   take
                   a
                   nap
                   ,
                   there
                   were
                   few
                   Inkeepers
                   about
                   the
                   towne
                   but
                   had
                   their
                   spirits
                   walking
                   .
                   To
                   watch
                   which
                   spirits
                   what
                   they
                   doe
                   ,
                   
                     our
                     Spy
                  
                   ,
                   that
                   came
                   lately
                   out
                   of
                   the
                   Lowercountries
                   ,
                   stole
                   into
                   one
                   of
                   their
                   Circles
                   ,
                   where
                   lurking
                   very
                   closely
                   ,
                   he
                   perceiued
                   that
                   when
                   all
                   the
                   guests
                   were
                   profoundly
                   sléeping
                   ,
                   when
                   Carriers
                   were
                   soundly
                   snorting
                   ,
                   and
                   not
                   so
                   much
                   as
                   the
                   chamberlaine
                   of
                   the
                   house
                   
                   but
                   was
                   layd
                   vp
                   ,
                   suddenly
                   out
                   of
                   his
                   bed
                   started
                   an
                   hostler
                   ,
                   who
                   hauing
                   no
                   apparrell
                   on
                   but
                   his
                   shirt
                   ,
                   a
                   paire
                   of
                   slip-shooes
                   
                   on
                   his
                   féete
                   ,
                   &
                   a
                   Candle
                   burning
                   in
                   his
                   hand
                   ,
                   like
                   olde
                   Ieronimo
                   ,
                   step'd
                   into
                   the
                   stable
                   amongst
                   a
                   number
                   of
                   poore
                   hungry
                   Iades
                   ,
                   as
                   if
                   that
                   night
                   he
                   had
                   béene
                   to
                   ride
                   poast
                   to
                   the
                   Diuell
                   .
                   But
                   his
                   iorney
                   not
                   lying
                   that
                   way
                   till
                   some
                   other
                   time
                   ,
                   he
                   neither
                   bridled
                   nor
                   sadled
                   any
                   of
                   his
                   foure-footed
                   guests
                   that
                   stood
                   there
                   at
                   racke
                   and
                   manger
                   ,
                   but
                   séeing
                   them
                   so
                   late
                   at
                   supper
                   ,
                   and
                   knowing
                   that
                   to
                   ouer-eate
                   them-selues
                   would
                   fill
                   them
                   full
                   of
                   diseases
                   ,
                   (
                   they
                   being
                   subiect
                   to
                   aboue
                   a
                   hundred
                   &
                   thirty
                   already
                   )
                   hée
                   first
                   (
                   without
                   a
                   voyder
                   )
                   after
                   a
                   most
                   vnmanerly
                   fashion
                   tooke
                   away
                   ,
                   not
                   onely
                   all
                   the
                   Prouander
                   that
                   was
                   set
                   before
                   them
                   ,
                   but
                   also
                   all
                   the
                   hay
                   ,
                   at
                   which
                   before
                   they
                   were
                   glad
                   to
                   licke
                   their
                   lippes
                   .
                   The
                   poore
                   Horse
                   looked
                   very
                   rufully
                   vpon
                   him
                   for
                   this
                   ,
                   but
                   hée
                   rubbing
                   their
                   téeth
                   onely
                   with
                   the
                   end
                   of
                   a
                   Candle
                   (
                   in
                   stéed
                   of
                   a
                   Corrall
                   )
                   tolde
                   them
                   ,
                   that
                   for
                   their
                   Iadish
                   trickes
                   it
                   was
                   now
                   time
                   to
                   weane
                   them
                   :
                   And
                   so
                   wishing
                   them
                   not
                   to
                   be
                   angry
                   if
                   they
                   lay
                   vpon
                   the
                   hard
                   boards
                   ,
                   considering
                   all
                   the
                   beddes
                   in
                   the
                   house
                   were
                   full
                   ,
                   backe
                   againe
                   hée
                   stole
                   to
                   his
                   Couch
                   ,
                   till
                   breake
                   of
                   day
                   :
                   yet
                   fearing
                   least
                   the
                   sunne
                   should
                   rise
                   to
                   discouer
                   his
                   knauery
                   ,
                   vp
                   hée
                   started
                   ,
                   and
                   into
                   the
                   stable
                   hée
                   stumbled
                   ,
                   scarce
                   halfe
                   awake
                   ,
                   giuing
                   to
                   euery
                   Iade
                   a
                   bottle
                   of
                   hay
                   for
                   his
                   breake-fast
                   ,
                   but
                   all
                   of
                   them
                   being
                   troubled
                   with
                   the
                   greazy
                   tooth-ach
                   ,
                   could
                   eare
                   none
                   ;
                   which
                   their
                   maisters
                   in
                   the
                   morning
                   espying
                   swore
                   they
                   were
                   either
                   sullen
                   or
                   els
                   that
                   prouender
                   pricked
                   them
                   .
                
                 
                   This
                   Hostler
                   for
                   this
                   péece
                   of
                   seruice
                   was
                   afterwards
                   preferred
                   to
                   be
                   one
                   of
                   the
                   Groomes
                   in
                   Belzebubs
                   stable
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   Another
                   Night-peece
                   drawne
                   in
                   sundry
                   collours
                   .
                
                 
                   SHall
                   I
                   shew
                   you
                   what
                   other
                   bottomes
                   of
                   mischiefe
                   Plutos
                   Beadle
                   saw
                   wound
                   vpon
                   the
                   blacke
                   spindels
                   of
                   the
                   Night
                   ,
                   in
                   this
                   his
                   priuy
                   search
                   ?
                   In
                   some
                   stréetes
                   hée
                   met
                   Mid-wiues
                   running
                   ,
                   till
                   they
                   sweat
                   ,
                   &
                   following
                   them
                   close
                   at
                   héeles
                   ,
                   hée
                   spied
                   them
                   to
                   be
                   let
                   in
                   ,
                   at
                   the
                   backe
                   dores
                   of
                   houses
                   ,
                   seated
                   either
                   in
                   blind
                   lanes
                   ,
                   or
                   in
                   by-gardens
                   :
                   
                   which
                   houses
                   had
                   roomes
                   builded
                   for
                   the
                   purpose
                   ,
                   where
                   young
                   Maides
                   ,
                   being
                   bigge
                   with
                   child
                   by
                   vnlawfull
                   Fathers
                   ,
                   or
                   young
                   wiues
                   (
                   in
                   their
                   husbands
                   abscence
                   at
                   sea
                   ,
                   or
                   in
                   the
                   warres
                   )
                   hauing
                   wrastled
                   with
                   batchilers
                   
                   or
                   married
                   men
                   ,
                   till
                   they
                   caught
                   falls
                   ,
                   lay
                   safely
                   till
                   they
                   were
                   deliuered
                   of
                   them
                   .
                   And
                   for
                   reasonable
                   summes
                   of
                   
                   mony
                   ,
                   the
                   bastards
                   that
                   at
                   these
                   windows
                   crept
                   into
                   the
                   world
                   ,
                   were
                   as
                   closely
                   now
                   and
                   then
                   sent
                   presently
                   out
                   of
                   the
                   *
                   world
                   ,
                   or
                   else
                   were
                   so
                   vnmannerly
                   brought
                   vp
                   ,
                   that
                   they
                   neuer
                   spake
                   to
                   their
                   owne
                   parents
                   that
                   begot
                   them
                   .
                
                 
                   In
                   some
                   stréetes
                   he
                   met
                   seruants
                   ,
                   in
                   whose
                   brest
                   albeit
                   
                   the
                   arrowes
                   of
                   the
                   plague
                   stucke
                   halfe
                   way
                   ,
                   yet
                   by
                   cruelll
                   maisters
                   were
                   they
                   driued
                   out
                   of
                   dores
                   at
                   mid-night
                   and
                   conuaid
                   to
                   Garden-houses
                   ,
                   where
                   they
                   either
                   died
                   before
                   
                   next
                   morning
                   ,
                   or
                   else
                   were
                   carried
                   thither
                   dead
                   in
                   their
                   coffins
                   ,
                   as
                   tho
                   they
                   had
                   lien
                   sicke
                   there
                   before
                   and
                   there
                   had
                   dyed
                   .
                
                 
                   Now
                   and
                   then
                   at
                   the
                   corner
                   of
                   a
                   turning
                   hée
                   spied
                   seruants
                   purloying
                   fardels
                   of
                   their
                   maisters
                   goods
                   ,
                   &
                   deliuering
                   them
                   to
                   the
                   hands
                   of
                   common
                   strumpets
                   .
                
                 
                   This
                   dore
                   opened
                   ,
                   and
                   Lust
                   with
                   Prodigality
                   were
                   heard
                   to
                   stand
                   closely
                   kissing
                   :
                   and
                   (
                   wringing
                   one
                   another
                   by
                   the
                   hand
                   )
                   softly
                   to
                   whisper
                   out
                   foure
                   or
                   fiue
                   goodnights
                   till
                   they
                   met
                   abroad
                   the
                   next
                   morning
                   .
                
                 
                   A
                   thousand
                   of
                   these
                   comedies
                   were
                   acted
                   in
                   dumbe
                   shew
                   ,
                   and
                   onely
                   in
                   the
                   
                     priuate
                     houses
                  
                   :
                   at
                   which
                   the
                   Diuells
                   messenger
                   laught
                   so
                   loude
                   that
                   Hell
                   heard
                   him
                   ,
                   and
                   for
                   ioy
                   rang
                   foorth
                   loud
                   and
                   lustie
                   Plaudities
                   .
                   But
                   being
                   driuen
                   into
                   wonder
                   why
                   the
                   night
                   would
                   fall
                   in
                   labour
                   ,
                   and
                   bring
                   foorth
                   so
                   many
                   Villanies
                   ,
                   whose
                   births
                   she
                   practised
                   to
                   couer
                   (
                   as
                   shée
                   had
                   reason
                   )
                   because
                   so
                   many
                   watchmen
                   were
                   continually
                   called
                   and
                   charged
                   to
                   haue
                   an
                   eye
                   to
                   her
                   dooings
                   ,
                   at
                   length
                   hée
                   perceiued
                   that
                   Bats
                   (
                   more
                   vgly
                   and
                   more
                   in
                   number
                   then
                   these
                   )
                   might
                   flye
                   vp
                   and
                   downe
                   in
                   darkenesse
                   :
                   for
                   tho
                   with
                   their
                   Letherne
                   Wings
                   they
                   should
                   strike
                   the
                   very
                   billes
                   out
                   of
                   those
                   Watchmens
                   handes
                   ,
                   such
                   leaden
                   plummets
                   were
                   commonly
                   
                   hung
                   by
                   sléepe
                   at
                   all
                   their
                   eyelids
                   ,
                   that
                   hardly
                   they
                   could
                   be
                   awakned
                   to
                   strike
                   them
                   agen
                   .
                
                 
                   On
                   therefore
                   hée
                   walkes
                   ,
                   with
                   intent
                   to
                   hasten
                   home
                   ,
                   as
                   hauing
                   fil'd
                   his
                   Table-Bookes
                   with
                   sufficient
                   notes
                   of
                   intelligence
                   .
                   But
                   ,
                   at
                   the
                   last
                   ,
                   méeting
                   with
                   the
                   Bel-man
                   ,
                   and
                   not
                   knowing
                   what
                   hée
                   was
                   ,
                   because
                   hée
                   went
                   without
                   his
                   Lanthorne
                   and
                   some
                   other
                   implements
                   :
                   for
                   the
                   man
                   in
                   the
                   Moone
                   was
                   vp
                   the
                   most
                   part
                   of
                   the
                   night
                   ,
                   and
                   lighted
                   him
                   which
                   way
                   soeuer
                   hée
                   turned
                   ,
                   hée
                   tooke
                   him
                   for
                   some
                   churlish
                   Hobgoblin
                   ,
                   séeing
                   a
                   long
                   staffe
                   on
                   his
                   necke
                   ,
                   and
                   therefore
                   to
                   be
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   owne
                   fellowes
                   .
                   The
                   Bel-ringer
                   Smelling
                   what
                   strong
                   scent
                   hée
                   had
                   in
                   his
                   nose
                   ,
                   soothed
                   him
                   vp
                   ,
                   and
                   questioning
                   with
                   him
                   how
                   hée
                   had
                   spent
                   his
                   time
                   in
                   the
                   citie
                   ,
                   and
                   what
                   discouery
                   of
                   Land-villanies
                   hée
                   had
                   made
                   in
                   this
                   
                     Iland
                     voiage
                  
                   :
                   tho
                   Mariner
                   of
                   hell
                   ,
                   opened
                   his
                   chart
                   ,
                   which
                   he
                   had
                   lined
                   with
                   all
                   abuses
                   ,
                   lying
                   either
                   
                     East
                     ,
                     West
                     ,
                     North
                     ,
                     or
                     South
                     :
                  
                   hée
                   shewed
                   how
                   hée
                   had
                   pricked
                   it
                   ,
                   vpon
                   what
                   points
                   hée
                   had
                   saild
                   ,
                   where
                   hée
                   put
                   in
                   :
                   vnder
                   what
                   height
                   hée
                   kept
                   him-selfe
                   :
                   where
                   hée
                   went
                   a
                   shore
                   ,
                   what
                   strange
                   people
                   he
                   met
                   :
                   what
                   land
                   hée
                   had
                   discouered
                   ,
                   and
                   what
                   commodities
                   hée
                   was
                   laden
                   with
                   from
                   thence
                   .
                   Of
                   all
                   which
                   the
                   Bel-man
                   drawing
                   forth
                   a
                   perfect
                   Map
                   ,
                   they
                   parted
                   :
                   which
                   Map
                   hée
                   hath
                   set
                   out
                   in
                   such
                   collors
                   as
                   you
                   sée
                   ,
                   tho
                   not
                   with
                   such
                   cunning
                   as
                   hée
                   could
                   wish
                   :
                   the
                   paines
                   are
                   his
                   owne
                   ,
                   the
                   pleasure
                   ,
                   if
                   this
                   can
                   yéelde
                   any
                   pleasure
                   ,
                   onely
                   yours
                   ,
                   on
                   whom
                   hée
                   bestowes
                   it
                   :
                   to
                   him
                   that
                   embraceth
                   his
                   labours
                   ,
                   hée
                   dedicates
                   both
                   them
                   and
                   his
                   loue
                   :
                   with
                   him
                   that
                   either
                   knows
                   not
                   how
                   ,
                   or
                   cares
                   not
                   to
                   entertaine
                   them
                   ,
                   hée
                   will
                   not
                   be
                   angry
                   ,
                   but
                   onely
                   to
                   Him
                   sayes
                   thus
                   much
                   for
                   a
                   farrewell
                   .
                   
                     
                       —
                       Si
                       quid
                       Nouisti
                       rectius
                       istis
                       ,
                    
                     
                       Candidus
                       imperti
                       :
                       Si
                       non
                       ,
                       His
                       vtere
                       mecum
                       ,
                    
                  
                
              
            
             
               Heere
               endeth
               the
               Bel-man
               .
            
          
        
         
      
       
         
           
             
             
               O
               per
               se
               O.
               
            
             
             
               LONDON
               :
               Printed
               for
               
                 Iohn
                 Busbie
              
               ,
               and
               are
               to
               be
               sould
               at
               his
               shop
               in
               Fleetestreet
               in
               S.
               Dunstans
               Church-yard
               .
               1612.
               
            
          
        
         
           
             
             
             
               O
               ,
               per
               se
               O.
               
            
             
               ANd
               so
               Good-morrow
               (
               Goodman
               Bel-man
               of
               
                 London
                 :
              
               )
               your
               Night-piece
               is
               drawne
               ,
               and
               my
               Day-worke
               is
               now
               to
               begin
               .
               Let
               my
               morning
               therefore
               I
               pray
               you
               be
               your
               midnight
               ,
               and
               now
               when
               all
               others
               rise
               to
               goe
               to
               their
               labours
               ,
               (
               who
               could
               scarce
               sléepe
               by
               reason
               of
               the
               noyse
               you
               made
               with
               your
               Clapper
               )
               get
               you
               to
               your
               bed
               ,
               and
               dreame
               vpon
               your
               pillow
               vpon
               some
               new
               discouerie
               .
               In
               that
               Map
               of
               Villanies
               ,
               which
               you
               haue
               drawne
               in
               Print
               already
               ,
               I
               like
               the
               handling
               of
               your
               Pensill
               ,
               but
               not
               the
               laying
               on
               of
               your
               colours
               :
               they
               are
               smooth
               enough
               ,
               but
               you
               haue
               not
               giuen
               them
               their
               true
               Swéetning
               ,
               Heightning
               ,
               and
               Shadowing
               .
               But
               I
               cannot
               blame
               you
               ,
               because
               
                 nocte
                 latent
                 mendae
              
               ,
               Women
               ,
               Horses
               and
               Colours
               are
               not
               to
               be
               chosen
               by
               candle-light
               :
               and
               you
               (
               Gaffer
               Bell-man
               )
               hauing
               no
               better
               guide
               ,
               it
               is
               a
               wonder
               you
               stumbled
               no
               wore
               ,
               considering
               you
               walked
               i'
               th
               darke
               .
               If
               therefore
               by
               my
               spectacles
               (
               being
               clearer
               then
               yours
               )
               I
               haue
               discouered
               more
               nests
               of
               Blacke-birds
               ,
               (
               I
               meane
               more
               Villanies
               of
               the
               Diuels
               owne
               hatching
               )
               then
               euer
               flew
               to
               your
               ●●st
               ,
               and
               were
               sold
               afterwards
               to
               sing
               in
               Shops
               in
               Paules
               Church-yard
               ,
               it
               ought
               not
               to
               raise
               vp
               your
               coller
               an
               inch
               higher
               for
               all
               that
               ,
               sithence
               in
               both
               our
               Land-discoueries
               our
               sailes
               are
               hoysted
               vp
               onely
               to
               doe
               good
               to
               the
               Common-wealth
               ,
               and
               because
               the
               Notes
               which
               I
               sing
               may
               appeare
               to
               be
               of
               mine
               owne
               setting
               ,
               and
               not
               eyther
               borrowed
               or
               stolne
               from
               any
               other
               .
               You
               shall
               know
               that
               seruing
               (
               in
               the
               late
               Quéenes
               time
               )
               many
               yéeres
               together
               
               in
               the
               office
               of
               an
               High-Constable
               ,
               in
               that
               Countie
               ,
               wherein
               I
               now
               dwell
               ,
               I
               drew
               from
               the
               examination
               of
               such
               lewd
               persons
               as
               came
               before
               mée
               ,
               the
               truth
               of
               all
               those
               villaynes
               which
               here
               I
               publish
               .
            
             
               In
               the
               mustring
               of
               this
               damned
               Regiment
               ,
               I
               found
               ,
               that
               whether
               they
               were
               Roagues
               taken
               in
               Romboyles
               (
               that
               is
               to
               say
               ,
               in
               Watches
               or
               Wardes
               )
               by
               the
               Petty
               
                 Harman
                 Beck
              
               ,
               (
               who
               in
               their
               Company
               ,
               signifies
               a
               petty
               Constable
               )
               or
               whether
               they
               were
               such
               as
               in
               the
               Canting
               tongue
               are
               called
               Mawnderers
               (
               of
               begging
               or
               demanding
               ,
               )
               whether
               they
               liued
               in
               
                 Bowsing
                 Kennes
              
               (
               Ale-houses
               )
               or
               what
               other
               course
               thread
               of
               life
               soeuer
               any
               of
               them
               all
               spunne
               ,
               it
               was
               euer
               wound
               in
               a
               blacke
               bottome
               of
               the
               most
               pernicious
               making
               vp
               that
               the
               Diuell
               could
               teach
               them
               :
               insomuch
               that
               albeit
               the
               very
               Sun-beames
               could
               possibly
               haue
               written
               downe
               the
               discouerie
               of
               any
               grosse
               villanies
               ,
               by
               them
               committed
               ,
               they
               would
               as
               easily
               venture
               vpon
               damning
               ,
               in
               denyall
               of
               it
               with
               oates
               ,
               as
               if
               there
               had
               beene
               no
               hell
               for
               such
               offenders
               .
            
             
               For
               my
               better
               painting
               forth
               these
               Monsters
               ,
               I
               once
               tooke
               one
               of
               them
               into
               my
               seruice
               (
               being
               a
               sturdy
               ,
               biglimde
               young
               fellow
               )
               of
               him
               I
               desired
               some
               knowledge
               in
               their
               gibrish
               ,
               but
               hée
               swore
               hée
               could
               not
               Cant
               ,
               yet
               his
               Roague-ship
               séeing
               himselfe
               vsed
               kindly
               by
               mée
               ,
               would
               now
               and
               then
               shoote
               out
               a
               word
               of
               Canting
               ,
               and
               being
               thereupon
               asked
               why
               with
               oathes
               hée
               denyed
               it
               before
               ,
               hée
               told
               mée
               ,
               that
               they
               are
               sworne
               neuer
               to
               disclose
               their
               skill
               in
               Canting
               to
               any
               Housholder
               ,
               for
               if
               they
               doe
               ,
               the
               other
               Mawnderers
               or
               Roagues
               ,
               Mill
               them
               (
               kill
               them
               ,
               )
               yet
               hée
               for
               his
               part
               (
               hée
               said
               )
               was
               neuer
               sworne
               ,
               because
               hée
               was
               a
               Clapperdogeon
               ,
               that
               is
               to
               say
               ,
               a
               Begger-borne
               .
               This
               Clapperdogeon
               staid
               with
               mée
               so
               long
               as
               hée
               durst
               ,
               and
               then
               
                 bingd
                 a
                 waste
                 in
                 a
                 darkmans
                 ,
              
               stoole
               away
               from
               mée
               in
               the
               night
               time
               .
               So
               that
               what
               intelligence
               I
               got
               from
               him
               ,
               or
               any
               other
               trained
               vp
               in
               the
               same
               Rudiments
               of
               Roaguery
               ,
               I
               will
               briefely
               ,
               plainely
               ,
               and
               
               truely
               set
               downe
               ,
               as
               I
               had
               it
               from
               my
               Diuellish
               Schoolemaister
               ,
               whom
               I
               call
               by
               the
               name
               of
               
                 O
                 per
                 se
                 O.
              
               
            
             
               Of
               him
               I
               learned
               ,
               that
               the
               cause
               why
               so
               many
               of
               this
               wicked
               Generation
               wander
               vp
               and
               downe
               this
               Kingdome
               is
               ,
               the
               frée
               command
               ,
               and
               abundant
               vse
               they
               haue
               of
               Women
               :
               for
               if
               you
               note
               them
               well
               ,
               in
               their
               marching
               ,
               not
               a
               Tatterdemalion
               walkes
               his
               round
               ,
               (
               be
               hée
               young
               ,
               be
               hée
               olde
               )
               but
               hée
               hath
               his
               Mort
               ,
               or
               his
               Doxie
               at
               his
               héeles
               ,
               (
               his
               Woman
               ,
               or
               his
               Whore
               )
               for
               in
               hunting
               of
               their
               Rascall-déere
               this
               Law
               they
               hold
               ,
               when
               they
               come
               to
               strike
               a
               Doe
               ,
               if
               shée
               will
               not
               
                 wap
                 for
                 a
                 wyn
              
               ;
               let
               her
               
                 Trine
                 for
                 a
                 make
              
               ,
               if
               shée
               will
               not
               —
               
                 O
                 per
                 se
                 O
              
               for
               a
               penny
               ,
               let
               her
               hang
               for
               a
               halfe-penny
               .
            
             
               And
               this
               libertie
               of
               Wenching
               is
               increased
               by
               the
               almost
               infinite
               numbers
               of
               tipling
               houses
               ,
               called
               
                 Bowsing
                 Kennes
              
               ,
               or
               of
               
                 Stalling
                 Kennes
              
               ,
               that
               is
               to
               say
               ,
               houses
               where
               they
               haue
               ready
               money
               for
               any
               stolne
               goods
               :
               vnto
               which
               nests
               ,
               birds
               flye
               of
               the
               same
               feather
               ,
               that
               the
               owner
               is
               of
               :
               for
               if
               the
               Ale-seller
               ,
               be
               a
               Horse-stealer
               ,
               a
               Cut-purse
               ,
               a
               Robber
               by
               the
               High
               way
               ,
               a
               Cheater
               ,
               &c.
               of
               the
               same
               coate
               are
               his
               guests
               .
               These
               houses
               are
               the
               Nurseries
               of
               Roagues
               and
               Thorues
               :
               for
               how
               could
               they
               bestow
               cloakes
               ,
               shéetes
               ,
               shirts
               ,
               and
               other
               garments
               being
               stolne
               ,
               if
               they
               had
               not
               
                 Stalling
                 Kennes
              
               to
               receiue
               them
               ?
               Why
               should
               Grunters
               (
               Pigges
               )
               goe
               whining
               out
               of
               the
               world
               ,
               hauing
               their
               throates
               cut
               by
               Roagues
               ,
               if
               they
               had
               not
               
                 Bowsing
                 Kennes
              
               to
               eate
               them
               in
               ?
               In
               the
               Ceremonie
               of
               whose
               ragged
               Assemblies
               ,
               the
               Bell-man
               a
               little
               mistooke
               himselfe
               ,
               for
               
                 Driggers
                 ,
                 Filchers
              
               and
               Cloyers
               being
               all
               (
               in
               English
               )
               Stealers
               ,
               vse
               neyther
               roast-meate
               ,
               nor
               spits
               in
               their
               Feastings
               ,
               as
               hée
               furnisheth
               them
               ,
               but
               when
               they
               entend
               to
               strike
               a
               hand
               ,
               they
               leuie
               their
               damnable
               troopes
               in
               the
               day
               ,
               but
               they
               sally
               forth
               ,
               &
               share
               the
               spoyles
               in
               the
               night
               .
               For
               some
               one
               sturdy
               hell-hound
               aboue
               the
               rest
               ,
               vndertakes
               to
               be
               the
               Miller
               )
               that
               is
               to
               say
               ,
               the
               Killer
               :
               )
               I
               hope
               this
               can
               be
               no
               disgrace
               to
               any
               
               honest
               Miller
               ,
               who
               is
               no
               théefe
               with
               a
               false
               Hopper
               )
               And
               this
               Killer
               brings
               to
               the
               flaughter-house
               of
               the
               Diuell
               
                 (
                 viz.
              
               a
               
                 Bowsing
                 Kenne
              
               )
               a
               
                 Bleating
                 Chete
              
               ,
               (
               a
               Shéepe
               )
               Another
               ,
               
                 Mils
                 a
                 Crackmans
              
               ,
               breakes
               a
               hedge
               ,
               and
               that
               wood
               heates
               the
               Ouen
               ,
               whilest
               the
               Shéepe
               is
               dressed
               ,
               cut
               in
               pieces
               ,
               and
               put
               into
               earthen
               Pots
               ,
               made
               for
               the
               purpose
               to
               bake
               their
               victuals
               in
               .
               The
               Ouens
               mouth
               being
               thus
               dawbed
               vp
               ,
               out
               flye
               the
               little
               Diuels
               (
               more
               dambde
               then
               the
               Ouen
               )
               eyther
               to
               breake
               an
               house
               some
               two
               or
               thrée
               miles
               off
               ,
               or
               to
               doe
               as
               bad
               a
               Villanie
               .
               The
               piece
               of
               Seruice
               being
               performed
               ,
               a
               Retraite
               is
               sounded
               ,
               and
               about
               mid-night
               they
               returne
               merrily
               ,
               fall
               to
               their
               good-cheare
               manfully
               ,
               and
               then
               diuide
               their
               spoyles
               of
               stolne
               shirts
               ,
               smockes
               ,
               or
               any
               thing
               else
               ,
               most
               théeuishly
               .
               In
               which
               Partnership
               the
               Host
               and
               Hostesse
               are
               chiefe
               sharers
               ,
               but
               such
               subtill
               shop-kéepers
               are
               these
               Habberdashers
               of
               the
               Diuels
               small
               Wares
               ,
               that
               they
               neuer
               set
               out
               to
               sell
               ,
               but
               when
               the
               coast
               is
               cleare
               ,
               and
               that
               (
               as
               théeues
               doe
               among
               Brokers
               )
               the
               Hue
               and
               Cryes
               throate
               be
               stopt
               that
               went
               balling
               after
               them
               :
               for
               about
               a
               seuen-night
               after
               ,
               (
               when
               all
               is
               hushd
               )
               to
               the
               
                 Stalling
                 Kenne
              
               goes
               the
               Duds
               for
               Loure
               ,
               to
               the
               théeuing
               house
               are
               the
               stolne
               cloathes
               sent
               roundly
               for
               money
               :
               which
               being
               told
               out
               and
               diuided
               ,
               away
               flye
               these
               Rauens
               scatteringly
               ,
               the
               next
               prey
               that
               they
               light
               vpon
               ,
               being
               euer
               at
               some
               Faire
               ,
               or
               else
               a
               market
               .
            
             
               And
               now
               that
               we
               talke
               of
               Fayres
               ,
               let
               my
               penne
               gallop
               ouer
               a
               few
               lines
               ,
               and
               it
               shall
               bring
               you
               (
               without
               spurring
               )
               swiftlier
               into
               Glocesser-shire
               ,
               then
               if
               you
               rode
               vpon
               Pacolet
               :
               there
               if
               you
               please
               to
               alight
               néere
               Tewksbury
               ,
               at
               a
               place
               called
               Durrest-Fayre
               ,
               (
               being
               kept
               there
               vpon
               the
               two
               Holy-Roode
               dayes
               )
               you
               shall
               sée
               more
               Roagues
               ,
               then
               euer
               were
               whipt
               at
               a
               Carts-arse
               through
               London
               ,
               and
               more
               Beggers
               then
               euer
               came
               dropping
               out
               of
               Ireland
               .
               If
               you
               looke
               vpon
               them
               ,
               you
               would
               thinke
               you
               liued
               in
               Henry
               the
               sixt
               time
               ,
               and
               that
               
                 Iacke
                 
                 Cade
              
               ,
               and
               his
               rebellious
               rag-amuffins
               were
               there
               mustring
               .
               Dunkirke
               cannot
               shew
               such
               sharkes
               .
               The
               wilde
               Irish
               are
               but
               flockes
               of
               wilde-Géese
               to
               them
               .
               And
               these
               swarmes
               of
               Locusts
               come
               to
               this
               lowste
               Fayre
               ,
               from
               all
               parts
               of
               the
               Land
               ,
               within
               an
               hundred
               myles
               compasse
               .
               To
               describe
               the
               Boothes
               is
               lost
               labour
               ,
               for
               let
               the
               Hang-man
               shew
               but
               his
               wardrop
               ,
               and
               there
               is
               not
               a
               ragge
               difference
               betwéene
               them
               .
               None
               here
               stands
               crying
               ,
               
                 What
                 doe
                 you
                 lacke
              
               ?
               for
               you
               can
               aske
               for
               nothing
               that
               is
               good
               ,
               but
               here
               it
               is
               lacking
               .
               The
               Buyers
               and
               Sellers
               are
               both
               alike
               ,
               tawnie
               Sunne-burnt
               Rasealds
               ,
               and
               they
               flocke
               in
               such
               troopes
               ,
               that
               it
               shewes
               as
               if
               hell
               were
               broke
               loose
               .
               The
               Shoppe-kéepers
               are
               Théeues
               ,
               and
               the
               Chap-men
               Roagues
               ,
               Beggers
               and
               Whores
               :
               so
               that
               to
               bring
               a
               purse-full
               of
               money
               hither
               ,
               were
               madnesse
               :
               for
               it
               is
               sure
               to
               be
               cut
               .
            
             
               But
               would
               you
               know
               what
               Wares
               these
               Marchants
               of
               Eele-skinnes
               vtter
               ?
               onely
               Duds
               for
               the
               Quarrons
               ,
               that
               is
               to
               say
               ,
               cloathes
               for
               the
               body
               ,
               which
               they
               haue
               pilfered
               from
               hedges
               or
               houses
               .
               And
               this
               filthy
               Fayre
               beginnes
               before
               day
               ,
               and
               endeth
               before
               nine
               in
               the
               same
               morning
               :
               at
               which
               breaking
               vp
               ,
               they
               doe
               not
               presently
               march
               away
               with
               their
               bagges
               and
               their
               baggages
               ,
               but
               hée
               who
               is
               chosen
               the
               
                 Lord
                 of
                 the
                 Fayre
              
               ,
               (
               who
               is
               commonly
               the
               lustiest
               Roague
               in
               the
               whole
               Bunch
               )
               leades
               his
               ●ottered
               foote-men
               and
               foote-women
               from
               Ale-house
               ,
               to
               Ale-house
               ,
               where
               being
               armed
               all
               in
               Ale-of-proofe
               ,
               and
               their
               
                 Ben
                 Bowse
              
               (
               the
               strong
               Liquor
               )
               causing
               them
               to
               haue
               
                 Nase
                 Nabs
              
               (
               drunken
               Coxecombes
               )
               vp
               fling
               they
               the
               Cannes
               ,
               downe
               goe
               the
               Boothes
               ,
               about
               ●●ye
               broken
               Iugges
               :
               here
               lyes
               a
               Roague
               bléeding
               ,
               there
               is
               a
               ●ort
               cursing
               ,
               here
               a
               Doxie
               stabbing
               with
               her
               knife
               :
               and
               thus
               this
               Fayre
               which
               beginnes
               merrily
               ,
               ends
               madly
               :
               for
               Knaues
               set
               it
               vp
               ,
               and
               Queanes
               pull
               it
               downe
               .
            
             
               Yet
               to
               méete
               at
               this
               assembly
               ,
               (
               how
               farre
               off
               soeuer
               they
               be
               )
               they
               will
               kéepe
               their
               day
               ,
               though
               they
               hoppe
               
               thither
               vpon
               one
               crutch
               :
               and
               it
               is
               for
               seauen
               causes
               that
               thus
               they
               bestirre
               their
               stumps
               to
               be
               at
               this
               vpsitting
               ,
               which
               are
               these
               ,
               viz.
               
            
             
               1
               Euery
               one
               as
               his
               Roague-shippe
               is
               of
               bulke
               ,
               or
               can
               best
               swagger
               ,
               desireth
               to
               be
               chosen
               Lord
               of
               the
               Fayrs
               :
               or
               if
               hée
               loose
               his
               Lord-ship
               ,
               yet
               to
               be
               a
               Retayner
               at
               least
               ,
               and
               to
               fight
               vnder
               his
               tottered
               colours
               .
            
             
               2
               To
               méete
               with
               the
               Sister-hood
               and
               Brother-hood
               of
               Whores
               and
               Wallet-mongers
               .
            
             
               3
               To
               share
               such
               money
               as
               is
               taken
               for
               
                 (
                 Duds
              
               and
               
                 Cheates
                 wonne
              
               )
               cloathes
               and
               things
               stolne
               .
            
             
               4
               To
               know
               how
               the
               world
               goes
               abroad
               ,
               what
               newes
               in
               the
               Deusuile
               ,
               (
               the
               Countrey
               ,
               and
               where
               is
               Benship
               ,
               (
               Good
               )
               or
               where
               
                 (
                 Quire
              
               )
               Naught
               .
            
             
               5
               To
               be
               Bowsie
               (
               drunken
               )
               for
               company
               .
            
             
               6
               To
               bandy
               their
               tawny
               and
               weather-beaten
               forces
               of
               Mawderers
               (
               being
               of
               their
               owne
               Fraternitie
               )
               against
               any
               other
               troope
               of
               Mountibankes
               ,
               at
               any
               other
               Fayre
               or
               Market
               ,
               where
               the
               lowesi
               Randeuouz
               is
               to
               be
               made
               .
            
             
               7
               Lastly
               ,
               to
               enact
               new
               warme
               orders
               ,
               for
               fresh
               stealing
               of
               cloathes
               ,
               &c.
               with
               all
               manner
               of
               Armour
               for
               the
               body
               ,
               but
               especially
               ,
               Stamps
               (
               Shooes
               )
               because
               (
               being
               Beggers
               )
               they
               are
               seldome
               set
               on
               horse-backe
               .
            
             
               These
               are
               the
               seauen
               halters
               that
               draw
               these
               Hell-hounds
               to
               this
               Fayre
               ,
               for
               the
               least
               of
               which
               seauen
               ,
               they
               will
               venture
               a
               hanging
               .
            
             
               The
               Fayre
               is
               broken
               vp
               ,
               and
               because
               it
               is
               their
               fashion
               at
               the
               trushing
               vp
               of
               their
               packes
               ,
               to
               trudge
               away
               merrily
               ,
               I
               will
               here
               teach
               you
               what
               
                 O
                 per
                 se
                 O
              
               is
               ,
               being
               nothing
               else
               but
               the
               burden
               of
               a
               Song
               ,
               set
               by
               the
               Diuell
               ,
               and
               sung
               by
               his
               Quire
               :
               of
               which
               I
               will
               set
               no
               more
               downe
               but
               the
               beginning
               ,
               because
               the
               middle
               is
               
               detestable
               ,
               the
               end
               abhominable
               ,
               and
               all
               of
               it
               damnable
               ▪
            
             
               Thus
               it
               sounds
               :
            
             
               
                 Wilt
                 thou
                 a
                 begging
                 goe
                 ,
              
               
                 
                   O
                   per
                   se
                   ,
                   O.
                   O
                   per
                   se
                   ,
                   O.
                
              
               
                 Wilt
                 thou
                 a
                 begging
                 goe
                 ?
              
               
                 Yes
                 verily
                 ,
                 yea
                 .
              
               
                 Then
                 thou
                 must
                 God
                 forsake
                 ,
              
               
                 and
                 to
                 stealing
                 thee
                 betake
                 .
              
               
                 
                   O
                   per
                   se
                   ,
                   O.
                   O
                   per
                   se
                   ,
                   O.
                
              
               
                 Yes
                 verily
                 yea
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
              
            
             
               This
               is
               the
               Musicke
               they
               vse
               in
               their
               Libkens
               (
               their
               lodgings
               )
               where
               thirtie
               or
               fourtie
               of
               them
               being
               in
               a
               swarme
               ,
               one
               of
               the
               Maister
               Diuels
               sings
               ,
               and
               the
               rest
               of
               his
               damned
               crew
               follow
               with
               the
               burden
               :
               In
               which
               mid-night
               Catter-wallings
               of
               theirs
               ,
               nothing
               is
               heard
               but
               cursing
               and
               prophanation
               ,
               and
               such
               swearing
               ,
               as
               if
               they
               were
               all
               Knights
               of
               the
               Poste
               .
               Iewes
               did
               neuer
               crucifie
               Christ
               with
               more
               dishonour
               ,
               then
               these
               Rakehels
               ,
               who
               with
               new
               inuented
               fearefull
               oathes
               teare
               him
               in
               pieces
               :
               and
               no
               meruaile
               ,
               for
               most
               of
               those
               who
               are
               Beggers
               borns
               ,
               are
               neuer
               Christened
               :
               besides
               ,
               they
               haue
               in
               their
               Canting
               ,
               a
               word
               for
               the
               Diuell
               ,
               or
               the
               plague
               ,
               &c.
               as
               Ruffin
               for
               the
               one
               ,
               and
               Cannikin
               for
               the
               other
               :
               but
               for
               God
               they
               haue
               none
               :
               onely
               they
               name
               him
               ,
               but
               it
               is
               not
               in
               reuerence
               ,
               but
               abuse
               :
               all
               their
               talke
               in
               their
               nasty
               Libk●ns
               ,
               (
               where
               they
               lye
               like
               Swine
               )
               being
               of
               nothing
               ,
               but
               
                 Wapping
                 ,
                 Nigling
                 ,
                 Prigging
                 ,
                 Cloying
                 ,
                 Filching
                 ,
                 Cursing
                 ,
              
               and
               such
               stuffe
               .
               Who
               therefore
               would
               pittie
               such
               impostors
               ,
               whose
               faces
               are
               full
               of
               dissembling
               ,
               hearts
               of
               villanie
               ,
               mouthes
               of
               curses
               ,
               bodies
               of
               soares
               (
               which
               they
               call
               their
               great
               Cleymes
               )
               but
               laid
               vpon
               their
               flesh
               by
               cunning
               ▪
               whose
               going
               Abram
               (
               that
               is
               to
               say
               naked
               )
               is
               not
               for
               want
               of
               cloathes
               ,
               but
               to
               stirre
               vp
               men
               to
               pittie
               ,
               and
               in
               that
               pittie
               to
               coozen
               their
               deuotion
               :
               now
               whereas
               the
               Bel-man
               (
               in
               his
               priuie
               search
               )
               found
               out
               the
               nests
               of
               these
               Scréech-Owles
               ,
               pulling
               off
               
               some
               of
               their
               feathers
               ,
               onely
               to
               shew
               their
               vglinesse
               ,
               but
               for
               want
               of
               good
               and
               perfect
               eye
               sight
               ,
               not
               ●●eaing
               off
               their
               skinnes
               ,
               as
               I
               here
               purpose
               to
               doe
               ,
               and
               so
               to
               draw
               bloud
               .
               I
               will
               finish
               that
               which
               the
               Bell-man
               (
               by
               being
               ouerwatchd
               )
               left
               lame
               ,
               and
               shew
               those
               abuses
               naked
               to
               the
               world
               ,
               which
               hée
               neuer
               discouered
               .
            
             
               First
               therefore
               shall
               you
               behold
               the
               Abram-man
               in
               his
               true
               colours
               ,
               his
               right
               shape
               ,
               his
               owne
               ragges
               ,
               and
               then
               shall
               you
               heare
               the
               phrase
               of
               his
               Mawnd
               or
               Begging
               .
            
             
               Next
               him
               comes
               marching
               the
               
                 Counterfeit
                 Souldier
              
               ,
               with
               his
               Mawnding
               note
               too
               .
               At
               his
               taile
               follow
               Ben-feakers
               of
               Iybes
               ,
               (
               that
               is
               to
               say
               )
               Counterfeiters
               of
               Passe-ports
               .
            
             
               Then
               Dommerars
               .
            
             
               Then
               Clapperdogeons
               in
               their
               true
               abiliments
               ,
               and
               their
               true
               beggerly
               Rhetoricke
               they
               vse
               in
               begging
               .
            
             
               Then
               will
               I
               shew
               you
               how
               they
               hang
               together
               in
               Fraternities
               ,
               and
               what
               Articles
               of
               Brother-hood
               they
               are
               sworne
               too
               :
               with
               a
               note
               (
               as
               good
               as
               any
               Roagues
               marke
               they
               carry
               about
               them
               )
               how
               to
               know
               these
               
                 Knots
                 of
                 Knaues
              
               ,
               or
               these
               Brother-hoods
               ,
               their
               Names
               ,
               their
               Libkins
               ,
               or
               Lodgins
               ,
               their
               
                 Stawling
                 Kennes
              
               ,
               to
               which
               all
               stolne
               goods
               are
               brought
               .
               And
               lastly
               ,
               to
               shew
               you
               that
               euen
               in
               their
               mirth
               they
               are
               Diuels
               ,
               you
               shall
               heare
               their
               true
               Canting
               Songs
               now
               vsed
               among
               them
               .
            
             
               In
               setting
               downe
               all
               which
               hidden
               villanies
               ,
               (
               neuer
               till
               this
               day
               discouered
               )
               you
               shall
               finde
               a
               mixture
               not
               onely
               of
               all
               those
               detestable
               subtilties
               ,
               vsed
               in
               making
               those
               Soares
               which
               eate
               into
               their
               flesh
               ,
               but
               also
               the
               trickes
               and
               medicines
               they
               haue
               (
               without
               help
               of
               Surgeons
               )
               to
               cure
               them
               .
               I
               will
               besides
               (
               in
               their
               descriptions
               )
               here
               and
               there
               sticke
               words
               and
               phrases
               of
               their
               gibbrish
               or
               beggerly
               language
               ,
               giuing
               them
               the
               stampe
               presently
               of
               true
               English
               ,
               which
               labour
               I
               take
               of
               purpose
               to
               procure
               delight
               to
               the
               Reader
               .
            
             
               
               
                 Of
                 the
                 Abram
                 ,
                 his
                 description
                 .
              
               
                 THe
                 
                   Abram
                   Coue
                
                 ,
                 is
                 a
                 lustie
                 strong
                 Roague
                 ,
                 who
                 walketh
                 with
                 a
                 Slade
                 about
                 his
                 Quarrous
                 (
                 a
                 shéete
                 about
                 his
                 body
                 )
                 Trining
                 ,
                 hanging
                 to
                 his
                 hammes
                 ,
                 bandeliere-wise
                 ,
                 for
                 all
                 the
                 world
                 as
                 Cut-purses
                 and
                 Théeues
                 weare
                 their
                 shéetes
                 to
                 the
                 Gallowes
                 ,
                 in
                 which
                 their
                 Tru●s
                 are
                 to
                 bury
                 them
                 :
                 oftentimes
                 (
                 because
                 hée
                 scornes
                 to
                 follow
                 any
                 fashions
                 of
                 Hose
                 ,
                 )
                 hée
                 goes
                 without
                 bréeches
                 ,
                 a
                 cut
                 Ierkin
                 with
                 hanging
                 fléeues
                 (
                 in
                 imitation
                 of
                 our
                 Gallants
                 ,
                 )
                 but
                 no
                 Sa●tin
                 or
                 Chamblet
                 elbowes
                 ,
                 for
                 both
                 his
                 legges
                 and
                 armes
                 are
                 bare
                 ,
                 hauing
                 no
                 Commission
                 to
                 couer
                 his
                 body
                 ,
                 that
                 is
                 to
                 say
                 ,
                 no
                 shirt
                 :
                 A
                 face
                 staring
                 like
                 a
                 Sarasin
                 ,
                 his
                 hayre
                 long
                 and
                 filthily
                 knotted
                 ,
                 for
                 hée
                 kéepes
                 no
                 Barber
                 :
                 a
                 good
                 Filch
                 (
                 or
                 Staffe
                 )
                 of
                 growne
                 Ash
                 ,
                 or
                 else
                 Hazell
                 ,
                 in
                 his
                 Famble
                 (
                 in
                 his
                 Hand
                 )
                 and
                 sometimes
                 a
                 sharpe
                 sticke
                 ,
                 on
                 which
                 hée
                 hangeth
                 Ruffe-pecke
                 (
                 Bacon
                 .
                 )
                 These
                 ,
                 walking
                 vp
                 and
                 downe
                 the
                 Countrey
                 ,
                 are
                 more
                 terribly
                 to
                 women
                 and
                 Children
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 name
                 of
                 Raw-head
                 and
                 
                   Blo●dy-bones
                   ,
                   Robbin
                   Good-fellow
                
                 ,
                 or
                 any
                 other
                 
                   Hobgobling
                   Crackers
                
                 tyed
                 to
                 a
                 Dogges
                 tayle
                 ,
                 make
                 not
                 the
                 poore
                 Curre
                 runne
                 faster
                 ,
                 then
                 these
                 
                   Abram
                   Ninnies
                
                 doe
                 the
                 silly
                 Villages
                 of
                 the
                 Countrey
                 ,
                 so
                 that
                 when
                 they
                 come
                 to
                 any
                 doore
                 a
                 begging
                 ,
                 nothing
                 is
                 deuyed
                 them
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 Their
                 Markes
                 .
              
               
                 SOme
                 of
                 these
                 Abrams
                 haue
                 the
                 Letters
                 E.
                 and
                 R.
                 vpon
                 their
                 armes
                 :
                 some
                 haue
                 Crosses
                 ,
                 and
                 some
                 other
                 marke
                 ,
                 all
                 of
                 them
                 carrying
                 a
                 blew
                 colour
                 :
                 some
                 weare
                 an
                 iron
                 ring
                 ,
                 &c.
                 which
                 markes
                 are
                 printed
                 vpon
                 their
                 flesh
                 ,
                 by
                 tying
                 their
                 arme
                 hard
                 with
                 two
                 strings
                 thrée
                 or
                 feure
                 inches
                 asunder
                 ,
                 and
                 then
                 with
                 a
                 sharpe
                 Awle
                 pricking
                 or
                 raizing
                 the
                 skinne
                 ,
                 to
                 such
                 a
                 figure
                 or
                 print
                 as
                 they
                 best
                 fancy
                 ,
                 they
                 rub
                 that
                 place
                 with
                 burnt
                 paper
                 ,
                 pisse
                 and
                 Gunpowder
                 ,
                 which
                 being
                 hard
                 rubd
                 in
                 ,
                 and
                 suffered
                 to
                 dry
                 ,
                 stickes
                 in
                 the
                 flesh
                 a
                 long
                 time
                 after
                 ,
                 when
                 these
                 markes
                 faile
                 ,
                 they
                 renew
                 them
                 at
                 pleasure
                 .
                 If
                 you
                 examine
                 them
                 how
                 these
                 Letters
                 or
                 Figures
                 are
                 printed
                 vpon
                 their
                 armes
                 ,
                 they
                 will
                 tell
                 you
                 it
                 is
                 the
                 Marke
                 of
                 Bedlam
                 ,
                 but
                 the
                 truth
                 is
                 ,
                 they
                 are
                 made
                 as
                 I
                 haue
                 reported
                 .
              
               
                 And
                 to
                 colour
                 their
                 villanie
                 the
                 better
                 ,
                 euery
                 one
                 of
                 these
                 Abrams
                 hath
                 a
                 seuerall
                 gesture
                 in
                 playing
                 his
                 part
                 :
                 some
                 make
                 an
                 horrid
                 noyse
                 ,
                 hollowly
                 sounding
                 :
                 some
                 whoope
                 ,
                 some
                 hollow
                 ,
                 some
                 shew
                 onely
                 a
                 kinde
                 of
                 wilde
                 distracted
                 vgly
                 looke
                 ,
                 vttering
                 a
                 simple
                 kinde
                 of
                 Mawnding
                 ,
                 with
                 these
                 addition
                 of
                 words
                 
                   (
                   Well
                   and
                   Wisely
                   .
                
                 )
                 Some
                 daunce
                 ,
                 (
                 but
                 kéepe
                 no
                 measure
                 )
                 others
                 leape
                 vp
                 and
                 downe
                 ,
                 and
                 fetch
                 Gambals
                 ,
                 all
                 their
                 actions
                 shew
                 them
                 to
                 be
                 as
                 drunke
                 as
                 Beggers
                 :
                 for
                 not
                 to
                 belye
                 them
                 ,
                 what
                 are
                 they
                 but
                 drunken
                 Beggers
                 ?
                 All
                 that
                 they
                 begge
                 being
                 eyther
                 Loure
                 or
                 Bouse
                 ,
                 (
                 money
                 or
                 drinke
                 .
                 )
              
            
             
               
               
                 Their
                 Mawnd
                 ,
                 or
                 Begging
                 .
              
               
                 THe
                 first
                 beginnes
                 
                   Good
                   Vrship
                   .
                   Maister
                   ,
                   or
                   good
                   Vrships
                   Rulers
                   of
                   this
                   place
                   ,
                   bestow
                   your
                   reward
                   on
                   a
                   poore
                   man
                   that
                   hath
                   lyen
                   in
                   Bedlam
                   without
                   Bishops-gate
                   three
                   yeeres
                   ,
                   foure
                   moneths
                   ,
                   and
                   nine
                   dayes
                   ,
                   And
                   bestow
                   one
                   piece
                   of
                   your
                   small
                   siluer
                   towards
                   his
                   fees
                   ,
                   which
                   he
                   is
                   indebted
                   there
                   ,
                   the
                   summe
                   of
                   three
                   pounds
                   ,
                   thirteene
                   shillings
                   ,
                   seauen
                   pence
                   ,
                   halfe-penny
                   ,
                
                 (
                 or
                 to
                 such
                 effect
                 ,
                 )
                 
                   and
                   hath
                   not
                   wherewith
                   to
                   pay
                   the
                   same
                   ,
                   but
                   by
                   the
                   good
                   help
                   of
                   Vrshipfull
                   and
                   well
                   disposed
                   people
                   ,
                   and
                   God
                   to
                   reward
                   them
                   for
                   it
                   .
                
              
               
                 The
                 second
                 beginnes
                 :
                 
                   Now
                   Dame
                   ,
                   well
                   and
                   wisely
                   :
                   what
                   will
                   you
                   giue
                   poore
                   Tom
                   now
                   ?
                   one
                   pound
                   of
                   your
                   sheepes
                   feathers
                   to
                   make
                   poore
                   Tom
                   a
                   blanket
                   :
                   or
                   one
                   cutting
                   of
                   your
                   Sow
                   side
                   ,
                   no
                   bigger
                   then
                   my
                   arme
                   ,
                   or
                   one
                   piece
                   of
                   your
                   Salt
                   meate
                   to
                   make
                   poore
                   Tom
                   a
                   sharing
                   horne
                   :
                   or
                   one
                   crosse
                   of
                   your
                   small
                   siluer
                   towards
                   the
                   buying
                   a
                   paire
                   of
                   Shooes
                   ,
                   (
                   well
                   and
                   wisely
                   :
                   )
                   Ah
                   ,
                   God
                   blesse
                   my
                   good
                   Dame
                   (
                   well
                   and
                   wisely
                   )
                   giue
                   poore
                   Tom
                   an
                   old
                   sheete
                   to
                   keepe
                   him
                   from
                   the
                   cold
                   ,
                   or
                   an
                   old
                   dublet
                   ,
                   or
                   Ierkin
                   of
                   my
                   Maisters
                   ,
                   God
                   saue
                   his
                   life
                   .
                
              
               
                 Then
                 will
                 he
                 daunce
                 and
                 sing
                 ,
                 or
                 vse
                 some
                 other
                 Anticke
                 ,
                 and
                 ridiculous
                 gesture
                 ,
                 shutting
                 vp
                 his
                 counterfeite
                 Puppet-play
                 ,
                 with
                 this
                 Epilogue
                 or
                 Conclusion
                 ,
                 
                   Good
                   Dame
                   giue
                   poore
                   Tom
                   one
                   cup
                   of
                   the
                   best
                   drinke
                   ,
                   (
                   well
                   and
                   wisely
                   ,
                   )
                   God
                   saue
                   the
                   King
                   and
                   his
                   Counsell
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   Gouernour
                   of
                   this
                   place
                   ,
                   &c.
                   
                
              
            
             
               
               
                 Of
                 Counterfeit
                 Souldiers
                 .
              
               
                 THese
                 may
                 well
                 be
                 called
                 Counterfeit
                 Souldiers
                 ,
                 for
                 not
                 one
                 (
                 scarce
                 )
                 among
                 the
                 whole
                 Armie
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 euer
                 discharged
                 so
                 much
                 as
                 a
                 Caliner
                 :
                 nothing
                 makes
                 them
                 Souldiers
                 but
                 old
                 Mandilions
                 ,
                 which
                 they
                 buy
                 at
                 the
                 Broakers
                 .
                 The
                 weapons
                 they
                 carry
                 are
                 short
                 Crabtrée
                 Cudgels
                 :
                 and
                 these
                 ,
                 (
                 because
                 they
                 haue
                 the
                 name
                 of
                 Souldiers
                 ,
                 )
                 neuer
                 march
                 but
                 in
                 troopes
                 two
                 or
                 thrée
                 in
                 a
                 company
                 :
                 of
                 all
                 sorts
                 of
                 Roagues
                 these
                 are
                 the
                 most
                 impudent
                 and
                 boldest
                 ,
                 for
                 they
                 knocke
                 at
                 mens
                 doores
                 ,
                 as
                 if
                 they
                 had
                 serious
                 businesse
                 there
                 ,
                 whereas
                 the
                 doore
                 being
                 opened
                 to
                 them
                 ,
                 they
                 beginne
                 this
                 parle
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Their
                 Mawnding
                 .
              
               
                 GEntle
                 Rulers
                 of
                 this
                 place
                 ,
                 bestow
                 your
                 reward
                 vpon
                 poore
                 Souldiers
                 ,
                 that
                 are
                 viterly
                 maymed
                 and
                 spoyled
                 in
                 her
                 Maiesties
                 late
                 warres
                 ,
                 as
                 vvell
                 for
                 Gods
                 cause
                 as
                 her
                 Maiesties
                 and
                 yours
                 .
                 And
                 bestow
                 one
                 piece
                 of
                 your
                 smal
                 siluer
                 vpon
                 poore
                 men
                 ,
                 or
                 somwhat
                 towards
                 a
                 meales
                 meate
                 ,
                 to
                 succour
                 them
                 in
                 the
                 way
                 of
                 truth
                 ,
                 &c.
                 for
                 Gods
                 cause
                 .
              
               
                 These
                 Fellowes
                 goe
                 commonly
                 hurt
                 in
                 the
                 left
                 arme
                 ,
                 beneath
                 the
                 elbow
                 ,
                 hauing
                 a
                 
                   Iybe
                   ierked
                
                 ,
                 (
                 that
                 is
                 to
                 say
                 ,
                 a
                 Passeport
                 sealed
                 )
                 with
                 license
                 to
                 depart
                 the
                 colours
                 ,
                 (
                 vnder
                 which
                 if
                 you
                 rightly
                 examine
                 them
                 ,
                 they
                 neuer
                 fought
                 ,
                 )
                 yet
                 wheresoeuer
                 the
                 warres
                 are
                 ,
                 and
                 how
                 far
                 off
                 soeuer
                 ,
                 thus
                 can
                 they
                 wound
                 themselues
                 at
                 home
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 Their
                 making
                 of
                 their
                 Soares
                 .
              
               
                 TAke
                 vnslaked
                 lime
                 and
                 Sope
                 ,
                 with
                 the
                 rust
                 of
                 olde
                 yron
                 :
                 these
                 mingled
                 together
                 ,
                 and
                 spread
                 thicke
                 on
                 two
                 pieces
                 of
                 leather
                 which
                 are
                 clap
                 vpon
                 the
                 arme
                 ,
                 one
                 against
                 the
                 other
                 :
                 two
                 small
                 pieces
                 of
                 wood
                 (
                 fitted
                 to
                 the
                 purpose
                 )
                 holding
                 the
                 leathers
                 downe
                 ,
                 all
                 which
                 are
                 bound
                 hard
                 to
                 the
                 arme
                 with
                 a
                 Garter
                 :
                 which
                 in
                 a
                 few
                 howers
                 fretting
                 the
                 skin
                 with
                 blisters
                 ,
                 and
                 being
                 taken
                 off
                 ,
                 the
                 flesh
                 will
                 appeare
                 all
                 raw
                 ,
                 then
                 a
                 linnen
                 cloath
                 being
                 applyed
                 to
                 the
                 raw
                 blistered
                 flesh
                 ,
                 it
                 stickes
                 so
                 fast
                 ,
                 that
                 vpon
                 plucking
                 it
                 off
                 ,
                 it
                 bléedes
                 :
                 which
                 bloud
                 (
                 or
                 else
                 some
                 other
                 ,
                 )
                 is
                 rubd
                 all
                 ouer
                 the
                 arme
                 ,
                 by
                 which
                 meanes
                 (
                 after
                 it
                 is
                 well
                 dryed
                 o●
                 )
                 the
                 arme
                 appeares
                 blacke
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 soare
                 raw
                 and
                 reddish
                 ,
                 but
                 white
                 about
                 the
                 edges
                 like
                 an
                 old
                 wound
                 :
                 which
                 if
                 they
                 desire
                 to
                 heale
                 ,
                 a
                 browne
                 paper
                 with
                 butter
                 and
                 ware
                 being
                 applyed
                 ,
                 they
                 are
                 cured
                 :
                 And
                 thus
                 (
                 without
                 weapon
                 )
                 doe
                 you
                 see
                 how
                 our
                 Mawndering
                 Counterfeite
                 Souldiers
                 come
                 maymed
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Of
                 placing
                 their
                 Soares
                 .
              
               
                 THe
                 Souldier
                 hath
                 his
                 Soare
                 alwayes
                 on
                 his
                 left
                 arme
                 ,
                 (
                 vnlesse
                 hée
                 be
                 left-handed
                 ,
                 for
                 then
                 because
                 of
                 the
                 better
                 vse
                 of
                 that
                 hand
                 it
                 is
                 vpon
                 the
                 right
                 )
                 betwixt
                 the
                 elbow
                 and
                 the
                 wrest
                 ,
                 and
                 is
                 called
                 by
                 the
                 name
                 of
                 Souldiers
                 Mawnd
                 .
              
               
                 When
                 a
                 Soare
                 is
                 placed
                 on
                 the
                 backe
                 of
                 the
                 hand
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 hée
                 saith
                 hée
                 was
                 hurt
                 by
                 an
                 horse
                 ,
                 then
                 it
                 is
                 called
                 Foote-mans
                 Mawnd
                 .
              
               
                 When
                 the
                 soare
                 is
                 aboue
                 the
                 elbow
                 ,
                 as
                 if
                 it
                 were
                 broken
                 ,
                 or
                 hurt
                 by
                 falling
                 from
                 a
                 Scaffold
                 ,
                 it
                 is
                 called
                 
                   Masons
                   Mavvnd
                
                 .
                 And
                 thus
                 the
                 altring
                 the
                 place
                 of
                 the
                 soare
                 altereth
                 the
                 Mawnd
                 .
              
               
               
                 Of
                 these
                 counterfeit
                 Souldiers
                 ,
                 some
                 of
                 them
                 being
                 examined
                 ,
                 will
                 say
                 they
                 were
                 lately
                 Seruing-men
                 ,
                 but
                 their
                 Maister
                 being
                 dead
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Houshold
                 dispersed
                 ,
                 they
                 are
                 compelled
                 to
                 this
                 basenesse
                 of
                 life
                 for
                 want
                 of
                 meanes
                 .
                 Some
                 of
                 them
                 can
                 play
                 the
                 Abram
                 ,
                 (
                 be
                 madde
                 
                   Toms
                   ,
                
                 )
                 or
                 else
                 begge
                 
                   Rum
                   Mawnd
                
                 (
                 counterfeit
                 to
                 be
                 a
                 Foole
                 )
                 or
                 else
                 that
                 his
                 tongue
                 is
                 tyed
                 ,
                 and
                 cannot
                 speake
                 ,
                 and
                 such
                 like
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Of
                 Ben-feakers
                 of
                 Iybes
                 .
              
               
                 THey
                 who
                 are
                 Counterfeiters
                 of
                 Passeports
                 ,
                 are
                 called
                 Ben-feakers
                 ,
                 that
                 is
                 to
                 say
                 ,
                 Good-Makers
                 :
                 and
                 these
                 makers
                 (
                 like
                 the
                 Diuels
                 Hackney-men
                 )
                 lye
                 lurking
                 in
                 euery
                 Countrey
                 ,
                 to
                 send
                 his
                 Messengers
                 p●ste
                 to
                 hell
                 .
                 The
                 best
                 Passeports
                 that
                 euer
                 I
                 saw
                 ,
                 were
                 made
                 in
                 S.
                 -shire
                 ,
                 with
                 the
                 hand
                 of
                 one
                 
                   M.
                   W.
                
                 subscribed
                 vnto
                 them
                 .
                 There
                 was
                 another
                 excellent
                 Ben-feaker
                 about
                 P.
                 a
                 Towne
                 in
                 G.
                 -shire
                 .
                 In
                 S.
                 dwelt
                 another
                 ,
                 who
                 tooke
                 two
                 shillings
                 and
                 sire
                 pence
                 (
                 two
                 Bordes
                 and
                 sire
                 
                   Winnes
                   ,
                
                 )
                 or
                 two
                 Bordes
                 and
                 a
                 Flagge
                 ,
                 for
                 euery
                 Passeport
                 that
                 went
                 out
                 of
                 his
                 beggerly
                 Office
                 :
                 hée
                 counterfeited
                 the
                 Seale
                 of
                 
                   L.
                   D.
                
                 
              
               
                 Of
                 these
                 Ben-feakers
                 I
                 could
                 say
                 much
                 more
                 ,
                 if
                 I
                 would
                 be
                 counted
                 a
                 blabbe
                 :
                 but
                 now
                 the
                 very
                 best
                 of
                 them
                 are
                 made
                 in
                 L.
                 to
                 carry
                 men
                 from
                 thence
                 vnto
                 W.
                 
              
            
             
               
               
                 How
                 to
                 know
                 counterfeite
                 Passe-ports
                 .
              
               
                 THe
                 Seales
                 of
                 Noblemen
                 ,
                 Gentlemen
                 ,
                 Iustices
                 ,
                 or
                 any
                 other
                 who
                 haue
                 authoritie
                 to
                 vse
                 Seales
                 ,
                 are
                 grauen
                 in
                 Siluer
                 ,
                 Copper
                 ,
                 or
                 some
                 hard
                 stuffe
                 :
                 and
                 those
                 things
                 which
                 are
                 so
                 grauen
                 seale
                 the
                 Armes
                 or
                 such
                 like
                 with
                 sharpe
                 edges
                 ,
                 and
                 with
                 a
                 round
                 circle
                 enclosing
                 it
                 ,
                 as
                 if
                 it
                 were
                 cut
                 with
                 an
                 instrument
                 of
                 Stéele
                 ,
                 and
                 it
                 maketh
                 a
                 neate
                 and
                 déepe
                 impression
                 :
                 but
                 these
                 counterfeit
                 Ierkes
                 (
                 or
                 Seales
                 )
                 are
                 grauen
                 with
                 the
                 point
                 of
                 a
                 knife
                 ,
                 vpon
                 a
                 stickes
                 end
                 ,
                 whose
                 roundnesse
                 may
                 well
                 be
                 perceiued
                 from
                 the
                 circle
                 of
                 a
                 common
                 turnde
                 Seale
                 :
                 these
                 for
                 the
                 most
                 part
                 bearing
                 the
                 ill
                 fauoured
                 shape
                 of
                 a
                 
                   Buhars
                   Nab
                
                 ,
                 or
                 a
                 
                   Prancers
                   Nab
                
                 (
                 a
                 Dogges
                 head
                 ,
                 or
                 a
                 Horses
                 ,
                 )
                 and
                 sometimes
                 an
                 Vnicornes
                 ,
                 and
                 such
                 like
                 :
                 the
                 Counterfeit
                 Ierke
                 hauing
                 no
                 Circle
                 about
                 the
                 edges
                 .
                 Besides
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 Passeport
                 you
                 shall
                 lightly
                 finde
                 these
                 wordes
                 ,
                 
                   viz.
                   For
                   Salomon
                   saith
                   ;
                   Who
                   giueth
                   the
                   poore
                   ,
                   lendeth
                   the
                   Lord
                   ,
                   &c.
                   
                
                 And
                 that
                 Constables
                 shall
                 help
                 them
                 to
                 lodgings
                 :
                 And
                 that
                 Curates
                 shall
                 perswade
                 their
                 Parishioners
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
              
               
                 Another
                 note
                 is
                 ,
                 let
                 them
                 be
                 in
                 what
                 part
                 of
                 the
                 Land
                 soeuer
                 they
                 will
                 ,
                 yet
                 haue
                 they
                 an
                 hundred
                 miles
                 to
                 goe
                 at
                 least
                 :
                 euery
                 one
                 of
                 them
                 hauing
                 his
                 Doxie
                 at
                 his
                 héeles
                 .
                 And
                 thus
                 much
                 of
                 Ben-feakers
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Of
                 Dommerars
                 .
              
               
                 THe
                 Bell-man
                 tooke
                 his
                 markes
                 amisse
                 in
                 saying
                 that
                 a
                 Dommerar
                 is
                 equall
                 to
                 the
                 Cranke
                 ,
                 for
                 of
                 these
                 Dommerars
                 I
                 neuer
                 met
                 but
                 one
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 was
                 at
                 the
                 house
                 of
                 one
                 
                   M.
                   L.
                
                 of
                 L.
                 This
                 Dommerars
                 name
                 was
                 W.
                 hée
                 made
                 a
                 strange
                 noyse
                 ,
                 shewing
                 by
                 fingers
                 acrosse
                 ,
                 that
                 his
                 tongue
                 was
                 cut
                 out
                 at
                 Cha●ke-hill
                 .
                 In
                 his
                 hand
                 hée
                 carryed
                 a
                 sticke
                 ,
                 about
                 a
                 foote
                 in
                 length
                 ,
                 and
                 sharpe
                 at
                 
                 both
                 ends
                 ,
                 which
                 he
                 would
                 thrust
                 into
                 his
                 mouth
                 ,
                 as
                 if
                 hée
                 meant
                 to
                 shew
                 the
                 shew
                 of
                 his
                 tongue
                 .
                 But
                 in
                 doing
                 so
                 ,
                 hée
                 did
                 of
                 purpose
                 hit
                 his
                 tongue
                 with
                 the
                 stiche
                 to
                 make
                 it
                 bléede
                 ,
                 which
                 filling
                 vp
                 his
                 month
                 ,
                 you
                 could
                 not
                 for
                 bloud
                 perceiue
                 any
                 tongue
                 at
                 all
                 ,
                 because
                 hée
                 had
                 turned
                 it
                 vpwards
                 ,
                 and
                 with
                 his
                 sticke
                 thrust
                 it
                 into
                 his
                 throate
                 .
                 But
                 I
                 caused
                 him
                 to
                 be
                 held
                 fast
                 by
                 the
                 strength
                 of
                 men
                 ,
                 vntill
                 such
                 time
                 that
                 opening
                 his
                 téeth
                 with
                 the
                 end
                 of
                 a
                 small
                 cudgell
                 ,
                 I
                 pluckt
                 forth
                 his
                 tongue
                 ,
                 and
                 made
                 him
                 speake
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Of
                 Clapperdogeons
                 .
              
               
                 
                   A
                   Clapperdogeon
                
                 is
                 in
                 English
                 a
                 Begger
                 borne
                 :
                 some
                 call
                 him
                 a
                 Pallyard
                 :
                 of
                 which
                 sorts
                 there
                 are
                 two
                 :
                 first
                 ,
                 Naturall
                 :
                 secondly
                 ,
                 Artificiall
                 .
                 This
                 fellow
                 (
                 aboue
                 all
                 other
                 that
                 are
                 in
                 the
                 Regiment
                 of
                 Roagues
                 )
                 goeth
                 best
                 armed
                 against
                 the
                 crueltie
                 of
                 Winter
                 :
                 hée
                 should
                 be
                 wise
                 ,
                 for
                 hée
                 loues
                 to
                 kéepe
                 himselfe
                 warme
                 ,
                 wearing
                 a
                 patched
                 Castor
                 (
                 a
                 Cloake
                 )
                 for
                 his
                 vpper
                 roabe
                 :
                 vnder
                 that
                 a
                 Togmans
                 (
                 a
                 Gowne
                 )
                 with
                 high
                 Stampers
                 (
                 shooes
                 )
                 the
                 soles
                 an
                 inch
                 thicke
                 pegged
                 ,
                 or
                 else
                 patches
                 at
                 his
                 Girdle
                 ,
                 ready
                 to
                 be
                 clapt
                 on
                 :
                 a
                 great
                 Scue
                 (
                 a
                 browne
                 dish
                 )
                 hanging
                 at
                 his
                 girdle
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 tassell
                 of
                 Thrummes
                 to
                 wipe
                 it
                 .
                 A
                 brace
                 of
                 greasie
                 Night-caps
                 on
                 his
                 head
                 ,
                 and
                 ouer
                 them
                 (
                 least
                 hée
                 should
                 catch
                 a
                 knauish
                 colde
                 )
                 a
                 hat
                 ,
                 (
                 or
                 
                   Nabcheate
                   ,
                
                 )
                 a
                 good
                 Filch
                 (
                 or
                 Staffe
                 )
                 in
                 his
                 hand
                 ,
                 hauing
                 a
                 little
                 yron
                 pegge
                 in
                 the
                 end
                 of
                 it
                 :
                 a
                 Bugher
                 (
                 a
                 little
                 Dogge
                 )
                 following
                 him
                 ,
                 with
                 a
                 smugge
                 Dorie
                 ,
                 attyred
                 fit
                 for
                 such
                 a
                 Roaguish
                 Companion
                 .
                 At
                 her
                 backe
                 shée
                 carryeth
                 a
                 great
                 packe
                 ,
                 couered
                 with
                 a
                 patched
                 Saueguard
                 ,
                 vnder
                 which
                 shée
                 conueyeth
                 all
                 such
                 things
                 as
                 shée
                 filcheth
                 :
                 her
                 skill
                 sometimes
                 is
                 to
                 tell
                 Fortunes
                 ,
                 to
                 helpe
                 the
                 diseases
                 of
                 Women
                 or
                 Children
                 .
                 As
                 shée
                 walkes
                 ,
                 shée
                 makes
                 bals
                 or
                 shirtstrings
                 ,
                 (
                 but
                 now
                 commonly
                 they
                 knit
                 )
                 and
                 weares
                 in
                 her
                 hat
                 a
                 néedle
                 
                 with
                 a
                 thread
                 at
                 it
                 .
                 An
                 excellent
                 Angler
                 shée
                 is
                 :
                 for
                 when
                 her
                 
                   Coue
                   mawnds
                
                 at
                 any
                 doore
                 ,
                 if
                 any
                 Poultrie-ware
                 be
                 picking
                 vp
                 their
                 crummes
                 néere
                 them
                 ,
                 shée
                 féedeth
                 them
                 with
                 bread
                 ,
                 and
                 hath
                 a
                 thread
                 tyed
                 to
                 a
                 hooked
                 pinne
                 ,
                 baited
                 for
                 the
                 nonce
                 ,
                 which
                 the
                 Chickin
                 swallowing
                 is
                 choaked
                 ,
                 and
                 conueyed
                 vnder
                 the
                 Castor
                 :
                 Chickins
                 ,
                 linnen
                 or
                 woollen
                 ,
                 or
                 any
                 shing
                 that
                 is
                 worth
                 the
                 catching
                 ,
                 comes
                 into
                 her
                 net
                 .
              
               
                 Vnder
                 this
                 Banner
                 of
                 the
                 patched
                 Clapperdogeon
                 ,
                 doe
                 I
                 leuie
                 all
                 Pallyards
                 ,
                 as
                 well
                 those
                 of
                 the
                 great
                 Cleyme
                 ,
                 (
                 or
                 Soares
                 ,
                 )
                 as
                 others
                 ,
                 whom
                 I
                 tearme
                 Artificiall
                 Clapperdogeons
                 ,
                 albeit
                 they
                 are
                 not
                 Beggersborue
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Of
                 their
                 Mawnd
                 .
              
               
                 THis
                 Pallyard
                 (
                 or
                 Artifieiall
                 Clapperdogeon
                 ,
                 who
                 carryeth
                 about
                 him
                 the
                 great
                 Cleyme
                 )
                 to
                 stirre
                 compassion
                 vp
                 in
                 peoples
                 hearts
                 ,
                 thus
                 acteth
                 his
                 part
                 :
                 Hée
                 slides
                 to
                 the
                 earth
                 by
                 his
                 staffe
                 ,
                 and
                 lying
                 pittiously
                 on
                 the
                 ground
                 ,
                 makes
                 a
                 fearefull
                 horrid
                 strange
                 noyse
                 ,
                 through
                 an
                 hoarse
                 throate
                 vttering
                 these
                 lamentable
                 tunes
                 :
                 
                   Ah
                   the
                   vrship
                   of
                   God
                   looke
                   out
                   with
                   your
                   mereifull
                   eyne
                   ,
                   one
                   pittifull
                   looke
                   vpon
                   sore
                   ,
                   lame
                   ,
                   grieued
                   and
                   impudent
                
                 (
                 for
                 impotent
                 )
                 
                   people
                   ,
                   sore
                   troubled
                   with
                   the
                   grieuous
                   disease
                   ,
                   and
                   haue
                   no
                   rest
                   day
                   nor
                   night
                   by
                   the
                   Canker
                   and
                   Worme
                   ,
                   that
                   continually
                   eateth
                   the
                   flesh
                   from
                   the
                   bone
                   :
                   for
                   the
                   Vrship
                   of
                   God
                   bestow
                   one
                   Crosse
                   of
                   your
                   small
                   siluer
                   ;
                   to
                   buy
                   him
                   salue
                   and
                   oyntment
                   ,
                   to
                   case
                   the
                   poore
                   wretched
                   body
                   ;
                   that
                   neuer
                   taketh
                   rest
                   :
                   and
                   〈…〉
                   to
                   reward
                   you
                   for
                   it
                   in
                   heauen
                   .
                
                 These
                 Pallyards
                 walke
                 two
                 or
                 thrée
                 together
                 ,
                 and
                 as
                 one
                 giues
                 ouer
                 this
                 note
                 ,
                 the
                 second
                 catcheth
                 it
                 at
                 the
                 rebound
                 ,
                 vsing
                 the
                 selfe-same
                 howling
                 and
                 grunting
                 ,
                 which
                 ended
                 ,
                 they
                 say
                 the
                 
                   Lords
                   Prayer
                
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 many
                 places
                 the
                 Aue
                 ,
                 neuer
                 ceasing
                 till
                 something
                 be
                 giuen
                 them
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 How
                 they
                 make
                 their
                 great
                 Soares
                 ,
                 called
                 the
                 great
                 Cleyme
                 .
              
               
                 THey
                 take
                 Crow-foote
                 ,
                 Sperewort
                 ,
                 and
                 Salt
                 ,
                 and
                 bruising
                 these
                 together
                 ,
                 they
                 lay
                 them
                 vpon
                 the
                 place
                 of
                 the
                 body
                 which
                 they
                 desire
                 to
                 make
                 sore
                 :
                 the
                 skinne
                 by
                 this
                 meanes
                 being
                 fretted
                 ,
                 they
                 first
                 clappe
                 a
                 linnen
                 cloath
                 ,
                 till
                 it
                 sticke
                 fast
                 ,
                 which
                 plucked
                 off
                 ,
                 the
                 raw
                 flesh
                 hath
                 Rats-bane
                 throwne
                 vpon
                 it
                 ,
                 to
                 make
                 it
                 looke
                 vgly
                 :
                 and
                 then
                 cast
                 ouer
                 that
                 a
                 cloath
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 alwayes
                 bloudy
                 and
                 filthy
                 ,
                 which
                 they
                 doe
                 so
                 often
                 ,
                 that
                 in
                 the
                 end
                 in
                 this
                 hurt
                 they
                 féele
                 no
                 paine
                 ,
                 neyther
                 desire
                 they
                 to
                 haue
                 it
                 healed
                 ,
                 but
                 with
                 their
                 Doxies
                 will
                 trauell
                 (
                 for
                 all
                 their
                 great
                 Cleymes
                 )
                 from
                 Fayre
                 to
                 Fayre
                 ,
                 and
                 from
                 Market
                 to
                 Market
                 ,
                 being
                 able
                 by
                 their
                 Mawnding
                 to
                 get
                 fiue
                 Bordes
                 (
                 that
                 is
                 ,
                 fiue
                 shillings
                 )
                 in
                 a
                 wéeke
                 ,
                 in
                 money
                 and
                 Corne.
                 Which
                 money
                 they
                 hide
                 vnder
                 blew
                 and
                 gréene
                 patches
                 :
                 so
                 that
                 some-times
                 they
                 haue
                 about
                 them
                 ,
                 sixe
                 pound
                 or
                 seauen
                 pound
                 together
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 Clapperdogeons
                 that
                 haue
                 not
                 the
                 great
                 Cleyme
                 ,
                 are
                 called
                 
                   Farmarly
                   Beggers
                
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Of
                 their
                 Fraternities
                 .
              
               
                 THere
                 is
                 no
                 lustie
                 Roague
                 ,
                 but
                 hath
                 many
                 both
                 sworne
                 Brothers
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Morts
                 his
                 sworne
                 Sisters
                 :
                 who
                 vow
                 themselues
                 body
                 and
                 soule
                 to
                 the
                 Diuell
                 to
                 performe
                 these
                 tenne
                 Articles
                 ,
                 following
                 ,
                 viz.
                 
              
            
             
               
                 Articles
                 of
                 their
                 Fraternities
                 .
              
               
                 
                   1
                   THou
                   shalt
                   my
                   true
                   Brother
                   be
                   ,
                   kéeping
                   thy
                   faith
                   to
                   thy
                   other
                   Brothers
                   (
                   as
                   to
                   my selfe
                   )
                   if
                   any
                   such
                   thou
                   haue
                   .
                
                 
                   
                   2
                   Thou
                   shalt
                   kéepe
                   my
                   counsell
                   ,
                   and
                   all
                   other
                   my
                   brothers
                   ,
                   being
                   knowne
                   to
                   thée
                   .
                
                 
                   3
                   Thou
                   shalt
                   take
                   part
                   with
                   mée
                   ,
                   and
                   all
                   other
                   my
                   brothers
                   in
                   all
                   matters
                   .
                
                 
                   4
                   Thou
                   shalt
                   not
                   heare
                   me
                   ill
                   spoken
                   of
                   without
                   reuenge
                   to
                   thy
                   power
                   .
                
                 
                   5
                   Thou
                   shalt
                   sée
                   mée
                   want
                   nothing
                   ,
                   to
                   which
                   thou
                   canst
                   help
                   mée
                   .
                
                 
                   6
                   Thou
                   shalt
                   giue
                   mée
                   part
                   of
                   all
                   thy
                   winnings
                   whatsoeuer
                   .
                
                 
                   7
                   Thou
                   shalt
                   not
                   but
                   kéepe
                   true
                   pointments
                   with
                   mée
                   for
                   méetings
                   ,
                   be
                   it
                   by
                   day
                   or
                   night
                   ,
                   at
                   what
                   place
                   soeuer
                   .
                
                 
                   8
                   Thou
                   shalt
                   teach
                   no
                   Housholder
                   to
                   Cant
                   ,
                   neyther
                   confesse
                   any
                   thing
                   to
                   them
                   ,
                   be
                   it
                   neuer
                   so
                   true
                   ,
                   but
                   deny
                   the
                   same
                   with
                   oathes
                   .
                
                 
                   9
                   Thou
                   shalt
                   doe
                   no
                   hurt
                   to
                   any
                   Mawnder
                   ,
                   but
                   with
                   thine
                   owne
                   hands
                   :
                   and
                   thou
                   shalt
                   forbeare
                   none
                   that
                   disclose
                   these
                   secrets
                   .
                
                 
                   10
                   Thou
                   shalt
                   take
                   Cloathes
                   ,
                   Hennes
                   ,
                   Géese
                   ,
                   Pigs
                   ,
                   Bacon
                   ,
                   and
                   such
                   like
                   ,
                   for
                   thy
                   Winnings
                   ,
                   where-euer
                   thou
                   canst
                   haue
                   them
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
                 How
                 to
                 know
                 their
                 Brotherhoods
                 .
              
               
                 VVHen
                 at
                 the
                 end
                 of
                 a
                 Towne
                 ,
                 wherein
                 a
                 Fayre
                 or
                 Market
                 is
                 kept
                 ,
                 you
                 sée
                 an
                 assembly
                 of
                 them
                 together
                 chiding
                 &
                 brawling
                 ,
                 but
                 not
                 fighting
                 ,
                 then
                 those
                 Coues
                 are
                 sworne
                 brothers
                 .
                 If
                 likewise
                 two
                 Doxies
                 fall
                 together
                 by
                 the
                 eares
                 ,
                 whilest
                 the
                 Roagues
                 themselues
                 stand
                 by
                 and
                 fight
                 not
                 ,
                 that
                 also
                 is
                 a
                 Brother-hood
                 :
                 for
                 it
                 is
                 one
                 branch
                 of
                 their
                 Lawes
                 to
                 take
                 part
                 with
                 their
                 Doxies
                 in
                 any
                 wrong
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 Of
                 their
                 Names
                 .
              
               
                 EVery
                 one
                 of
                 them
                 hath
                 a
                 peculiar
                 Nicke-name
                 ,
                 proper
                 to
                 himselfe
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 which
                 hée
                 is
                 more
                 knowne
                 ,
                 more
                 inquired
                 after
                 by
                 his
                 brothers
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 common
                 familiaritie
                 more
                 saluted
                 ,
                 then
                 by
                 his
                 owne
                 true
                 name
                 :
                 yea
                 ,
                 the
                 false
                 is
                 vsed
                 so
                 much
                 that
                 the
                 true
                 is
                 forgotten
                 .
                 And
                 of
                 these
                 Nick-names
                 ,
                 some
                 are
                 giuen
                 to
                 them
                 for
                 some
                 speciall
                 cause
                 :
                 as
                 
                   Olli
                   Compolli
                
                 ,
                 is
                 the
                 By-name
                 of
                 some
                 one
                 principall
                 Roague
                 amongst
                 them
                 ,
                 being
                 an
                 Abram
                 ,
                 being
                 bestowed
                 vpon
                 him
                 ,
                 because
                 by
                 that
                 hée
                 is
                 knowne
                 to
                 be
                 the
                 head
                 or
                 chiefe
                 amongest
                 them
                 :
                 In
                 like
                 manner
                 these
                 Sir-names
                 following
                 belong
                 to
                 other
                 Grand
                 Signiors
                 and
                 Commanders
                 ,
                 
                   viz.
                   Dimber
                   Damber
                
                 ,
                 and
                 
                   Hurly
                   Burly
                   ,
                   Generall
                   Nurse
                   ,
                   The
                   Hye
                   Shreue
                   ,
                   The
                   High
                   Constable
                   ,
                
                 and
                 such
                 like
                 :
                 and
                 some
                 Nicke-names
                 are
                 eyther
                 vpon
                 mockery
                 ,
                 or
                 vpon
                 pleasure
                 giuen
                 vnto
                 them
                 :
                 as
                 
                   The
                   Great
                   Bull
                   ,
                   The
                   little
                   Bull
                   ,
                
                 and
                 many
                 other
                 such
                 like
                 .
                 
                   The
                   great
                   Bull
                
                 is
                 some
                 one
                 notable
                 lustie
                 Roague
                 ,
                 who
                 gets
                 away
                 all
                 their
                 Wenches
                 :
                 for
                 this
                 
                   Great
                   Bull
                
                 (
                 by
                 report
                 )
                 had
                 in
                 one
                 yéere
                 ,
                 thrée
                 and
                 twenty
                 Doxies
                 ,
                 (
                 his
                 Iockie
                 was
                 so
                 lustie
                 )
                 such
                 libertie
                 haue
                 they
                 in
                 sinning
                 ,
                 and
                 such
                 damnable
                 and
                 most
                 detestable
                 manner
                 of
                 life
                 doe
                 they
                 lead
                 .
              
               
                 As
                 the
                 men
                 haue
                 Nicke-names
                 ,
                 so
                 likewise
                 haue
                 the
                 Women
                 :
                 for
                 some
                 of
                 them
                 are
                 called
                 
                   The
                   white
                   Ewe
                   ,
                   The
                   Lambe
                   ,
                   &c.
                   
                
                 And
                 (
                 as
                 I
                 haue
                 heard
                 )
                 there
                 was
                 an
                 Abram
                 ,
                 who
                 called
                 his
                 
                   Mort
                   ,
                   Madam
                   Wap-apace
                
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 Of
                 their
                 Libkins
                 or
                 Lodgings
                 .
              
               
                 AS
                 these
                 fugitiue
                 Vagabonds
                 haue
                 Nicke
                 names
                 to
                 themselues
                 ,
                 so
                 haue
                 they
                 Libkins
                 ,
                 or
                 Lodgings
                 ,
                 and
                 places
                 of
                 méeting
                 :
                 as
                 one
                 of
                 the
                 méeting
                 places
                 (
                 as
                 I
                 haue
                 heard
                 )
                 bring
                 a
                 Shéepe-cote
                 ,
                 is
                 by
                 the
                 Quest
                 of
                 Roagues
                 who
                 nightly
                 assemble
                 there
                 ,
                 called
                 by
                 the
                 name
                 of
                 Stophole
                 Abbey
                 :
                 so
                 likewise
                 another
                 of
                 their
                 Lodgings
                 is
                 called
                 by
                 the
                 same
                 name
                 .
                 Then
                 haue
                 they
                 others
                 ,
                 as
                 the
                 blew
                 Bull
                 ,
                 the
                 Prancer
                 ,
                 the
                 Buls
                 belly
                 ,
                 the
                 Cowes
                 vdder
                 ,
                 the
                 gréene
                 Arbour
                 ,
                 the
                 blasing
                 starre
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
                 Such
                 like
                 By
                 names
                 giue
                 they
                 also
                 to
                 their
                 
                   Stawling
                   Kennes
                
                 :
                 and
                 note
                 this
                 ,
                 that
                 after
                 a
                 robbery
                 done
                 ,
                 they
                 lye
                 not
                 within
                 twelue
                 miles
                 at
                 the
                 least
                 of
                 the
                 place
                 where
                 they
                 doe
                 it
                 ,
                 but
                 hauing
                 eaten
                 vp
                 their
                 stolne
                 mutton
                 (
                 baked
                 as
                 afore-said
                 (
                 away
                 they
                 trudge
                 through
                 thicke
                 and
                 thinne
                 ,
                 all
                 the
                 hauens
                 of
                 hell
                 into
                 which
                 they
                 put
                 in
                 ,
                 being
                 alwayes
                 for
                 the
                 most
                 part
                 of
                 an
                 equall
                 distance
                 one
                 from
                 another
                 :
                 for
                 looke
                 howfarre
                 as
                 the
                 one
                 Stophole
                 Abbey
                 stands
                 from
                 the
                 other
                 ,
                 and
                 iust
                 so
                 farre
                 is
                 the
                 Buls
                 belly
                 from
                 the
                 Cowes
                 vdder
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 of
                 the
                 rest
                 :
                 so
                 that
                 what
                 waysoeuer
                 these
                 night
                 Spirits
                 doe
                 take
                 after
                 they
                 haue
                 done
                 their
                 déedes
                 of
                 darknesse
                 ,
                 they
                 know
                 what
                 pace
                 to
                 kéepe
                 ,
                 because
                 (
                 what
                 stormes
                 soeuer
                 )
                 fall
                 )
                 they
                 are
                 sure
                 of
                 harbour
                 ,
                 all
                 their
                 iourneyes
                 being
                 but
                 of
                 one
                 length
                 .
                 Yet
                 dare
                 they
                 not
                 but
                 let
                 their
                 Morts
                 and
                 their
                 Doxies
                 méete
                 them
                 at
                 some
                 of
                 these
                 places
                 ,
                 because
                 how
                 cold
                 soeuer
                 the
                 weather
                 be
                 ,
                 their
                 female
                 furies
                 come
                 hotly
                 and
                 smoaking
                 from
                 thence
                 ,
                 carrying
                 about
                 them
                 Glymmar
                 in
                 the
                 Prat
                 (
                 fire
                 in
                 the
                 touch-bore
                 )
                 by
                 whose
                 flashes
                 oftentimes
                 there
                 is
                 Glymmar
                 in
                 the
                 Iocky
                 ,
                 (
                 the
                 flaske
                 is
                 blowne
                 vpto
                 )
                 of
                 which
                 dangerous
                 and
                 deadly
                 skirmishes
                 the
                 fault
                 is
                 laid
                 vpon
                 Seruing-men
                 ,
                 dwelling
                 thereabouts
                 ,
                 who
                 like
                 Frée-booters
                 are
                 so
                 hungry
                 of
                 flesh
                 ,
                 that
                 a
                 Doxie
                 (
                 if
                 shée
                 haue
                 a
                 smug
                 face
                 )
                 
                 cannot
                 péepe
                 out
                 ,
                 but
                 shée
                 is
                 taken
                 vp
                 for
                 Hawkes-meate
                 .
                 And
                 it
                 is
                 no
                 wonder
                 ,
                 there
                 is
                 such
                 stealing
                 of
                 these
                 wilde
                 Buckes
                 ,
                 because
                 there
                 is
                 such
                 store
                 of
                 them
                 :
                 nor
                 is
                 it
                 a
                 meruaile
                 there
                 is
                 such
                 store
                 ,
                 sithence
                 hée
                 is
                 not
                 held
                 worthy
                 to
                 walke
                 ,
                 or
                 to
                 be
                 counted
                 one
                 of
                 the
                 foure
                 and
                 twenty
                 Orders
                 ,
                 but
                 to
                 be
                 banished
                 (
                 as
                 a
                 silly
                 Animall
                 and
                 a
                 stinckard
                 )
                 from
                 all
                 good
                 fellowship
                 ,
                 societie
                 ,
                 and
                 méetings
                 at
                 Fayres
                 ,
                 Markets
                 ,
                 and
                 merry
                 
                   Bowsing
                   Kennes
                
                 ,
                 who
                 when
                 the
                 Trumpet
                 sounds
                 ,
                 (
                 that
                 is
                 to
                 say
                 ,
                 when
                 the
                 Cuckoe
                 sings
                 )
                 thrusts
                 not
                 out
                 his
                 head
                 like
                 a
                 Snayle
                 out
                 of
                 his
                 shell
                 ,
                 and
                 walkes
                 not
                 abroad
                 about
                 the
                 Deusuile
                 (
                 the
                 Countrey
                 )
                 with
                 his
                 spirit
                 of
                 Lechery
                 and
                 théeuing
                 ,
                 (
                 his
                 Doxie
                 )
                 at
                 his
                 héeles
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Why
                 the
                 Staffe
                 is
                 called
                 a
                 Filch
                 .
              
               
                 THus
                 much
                 for
                 their
                 Fraternities
                 ,
                 Names
                 ,
                 Lodgings
                 ,
                 and
                 Assemblies
                 ,
                 at
                 all
                 which
                 times
                 euery
                 one
                 of
                 them
                 carryes
                 a
                 short
                 staffe
                 in
                 his
                 hand
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 called
                 a
                 Filch
                 ,
                 hauing
                 in
                 the
                 Nab
                 or
                 head
                 of
                 it
                 ,
                 a
                 Ferme
                 (
                 that
                 is
                 to
                 say
                 ,
                 a
                 hole
                 )
                 into
                 which
                 vpon
                 any
                 piece
                 of
                 seruice
                 ,
                 when
                 he
                 goes
                 a
                 Filching
                 ;
                 he
                 putteth
                 a
                 hoake
                 of
                 yron
                 ,
                 with
                 which
                 hooke
                 hée
                 angles
                 at
                 a
                 window
                 in
                 the
                 dead
                 of
                 night
                 ,
                 for
                 shirts
                 ,
                 smockes
                 ,
                 or
                 any
                 other
                 linnen
                 or
                 woollen
                 :
                 and
                 for
                 that
                 reason
                 is
                 the
                 staffe
                 tearmed
                 a
                 Filch
                 .
                 So
                 that
                 it
                 is
                 as
                 certaine
                 that
                 hée
                 is
                 an
                 Angler
                 for
                 Duds
                 ,
                 who
                 hath
                 a
                 Ferme
                 in
                 the
                 Nab
                 of
                 his
                 Filch
                 ,
                 as
                 that
                 hée
                 is
                 a
                 théefe
                 ,
                 who
                 vpon
                 the
                 high-way
                 cryes
                 stand
                 ,
                 and
                 takes
                 a
                 purse
                 .
                 This
                 Staffe
                 serueth
                 to
                 more
                 vses
                 ,
                 then
                 eyther
                 the
                 Crosse-staffe
                 or
                 the
                 Iacobs
                 ,
                 but
                 the
                 vses
                 are
                 not
                 so
                 good
                 nor
                 so
                 honest
                 :
                 for
                 this
                 Filching-staffe
                 being
                 artificially
                 handled
                 ,
                 is
                 able
                 now
                 and
                 then
                 to
                 
                   mill
                   a
                   Grunter
                   ,
                   a
                   bleating
                   Cheate
                   ,
                   a
                   Redshanke
                   ,
                   a
                   Tib
                   of
                   the
                   Buttry
                   ,
                
                 and
                 such
                 like
                 ,
                 or
                 to
                 
                   Fib
                   a
                   Coues
                   Quarrons
                   in
                   the
                   Rome-pad
                   ,
                   for
                   his
                   Loure
                   in
                   his
                   bung
                   ,
                
                 that
                 is
                 to
                 say
                 ,
                 to
                 kill
                 a
                 Pigge
                 ,
                 a
                 Shéepe
                 ,
                 a
                 Ducke
                 ,
                 a
                 Goose
                 ,
                 and
                 such
                 like
                 ,
                 or
                 to
                 beate
                 a
                 man
                 by
                 the
                 high-way
                 
                 for
                 the
                 money
                 in
                 his
                 purse
                 .
                 And
                 yet
                 for
                 all
                 these
                 base
                 villanies
                 and
                 others
                 ,
                 of
                 what
                 blackenesse
                 soeuer
                 they
                 be
                 ,
                 you
                 shall
                 at
                 euery
                 Assises
                 and
                 Sessions
                 ,
                 sée
                 swarmes
                 of
                 them
                 boldly
                 ventering
                 amongst
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 :
                 one
                 cause
                 of
                 their
                 tempting
                 their
                 owne
                 danger
                 so
                 ,
                 is
                 ,
                 that
                 being
                 sworne
                 brothers
                 in
                 league
                 ,
                 and
                 partnerts
                 in
                 one
                 and
                 the
                 same
                 théeuery
                 ,
                 it
                 behooues
                 them
                 to
                 listen
                 to
                 the
                 Prisoners
                 confession
                 (
                 which
                 they
                 doe
                 secretly
                 )
                 and
                 so
                 to
                 take
                 their
                 héeles
                 ,
                 if
                 they
                 spye
                 a
                 storme
                 comming
                 .
                 Another
                 cause
                 is
                 ,
                 to
                 learne
                 what
                 time-twigges
                 caught
                 the
                 Bird
                 i'
                 th
                 Cage
                 ,
                 and
                 how
                 he
                 was
                 entangled
                 by
                 the
                 Iustice
                 in
                 his
                 examination
                 ,
                 that
                 thereby
                 hee
                 abroad
                 may
                 shunne
                 the
                 like
                 :
                 but
                 the
                 Diuell
                 is
                 their
                 Tutor
                 ,
                 Hell
                 their
                 Schoole
                 ,
                 Théeuery
                 ,
                 Roaguery
                 and
                 Whoredome
                 the
                 Arts
                 they
                 Study
                 ,
                 before
                 Doctor
                 Story
                 they
                 dispute
                 ,
                 and
                 at
                 the
                 Gallowes
                 are
                 made
                 Graduates
                 of
                 Newgate
                 and
                 other
                 Gaoles
                 ,
                 (
                 the
                 Hang-mans
                 Colledges
                 .
                 )
                 To
                 shut
                 vp
                 this
                 feast
                 merrily
                 ,
                 (
                 as
                 swéete
                 meates
                 are
                 best
                 last
                 ,
                 )
                 your
                 last
                 dish
                 which
                 I
                 set
                 before
                 you
                 ,
                 to
                 digest
                 the
                 hardnesse
                 of
                 the
                 rest
                 ,
                 is
                 a
                 
                   Canting
                   Song
                
                 ,
                 not
                 fained
                 or
                 composed
                 as
                 those
                 of
                 the
                 Bel-mans
                 were
                 ,
                 out
                 of
                 his
                 owne
                 braine
                 ,
                 but
                 by
                 the
                 Canters
                 themselues
                 ,
                 and
                 sung
                 at
                 their
                 méetings
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 The
                 Canting
                 Song
                 .
              
               
                 
                   1
                
                 
                   BIng
                   out
                   bien
                   Morts
                   ,
                   and
                   toure
                   ,
                   and
                   toure
                   ,
                
                 
                   bing
                   out
                   bien
                   Morts
                   and
                   toure
                   :
                
                 
                   For
                   all
                   your
                   Duds
                   are
                   bingd
                   awaste
                   ,
                
                 
                   the
                   bien
                   Coue
                   hath
                   the
                   loure
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   2
                
                 
                   I
                   met
                   a
                   Dell
                   ,
                   I
                   viewde
                   her
                   well
                   ,
                
                 
                   she
                   was
                   benship
                   to
                   my
                   watch
                   :
                
                 
                   So
                   she
                   and
                   I
                   ,
                   did
                   stall
                   and
                   cloy
                
                 
                   what
                   euer
                   we
                   could
                   catch
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   3
                
                 
                   This
                   Doxie
                   dell
                   ,
                   can
                   cut
                   bien
                   whids
                   ,
                
                 
                   and
                   wap
                   well
                   for
                   a
                   win
                   :
                
                 
                   And
                   prig
                   and
                   cloy
                   so
                   benshiply
                   ,
                
                 
                   all
                   the
                   Dewse-auile
                   within
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   4
                
                 
                   The
                   boyle
                   was
                   vp
                   ,
                   wee
                   had
                   good
                   lucke
                   ,
                
                 
                   in
                   frost
                   ,
                   for
                   and
                   in
                   snow
                   :
                
                 
                   When
                   they
                   did
                   seeke
                   ,
                   then
                   we
                   did
                   creepe
                   ,
                
                 
                   and
                   plant
                   in
                   ruffe-mans
                   low
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   5
                
                 
                   To
                   Stawling
                   Kenne
                   ,
                   the
                   Mort
                   bings
                   then
                   ,
                
                 
                   to
                   fetch
                   loure
                   for
                   her
                   cheates
                   :
                
                 
                   Duds
                   and
                   Ruffe-pecke
                   ,
                   rumboild
                   by
                   Harman
                   becke
                   ,
                
                 
                   and
                   won
                   by
                   Mawnders
                   feates
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   6
                
                 
                   You
                   Mawnders
                   all
                   ,
                   stow
                   what
                   you
                   stall
                   ,
                
                 
                   to
                   Rome-coues
                   watch
                   so
                   quire
                   :
                
                 
                   And
                   wapping
                   Dell
                   ,
                   that
                   niggles
                   well
                   ,
                
                 
                   and
                   takes
                   loure
                   for
                   her
                   hire
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   7
                
                 
                   And
                   Iybe
                   well
                   Ierkt
                   ,
                   tick
                   rome
                   comfeck
                   ,
                
                 
                   for
                   backe
                   by
                   glymmar
                   to
                   mawnd
                   :
                
                 
                 
                   To
                   mill
                   each
                   Ken
                   ,
                   let
                   coue
                   bing
                   then
                   ,
                
                 
                   through
                   ruffe-mans
                   lague
                   or
                   launde
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   8
                
                 
                   Till
                   Cramprings
                   quier
                   ,
                   tip
                   Coue
                   his
                   hire
                   ,
                
                 
                   and
                   quier
                   kens
                   doe
                   them
                   catch
                   :
                
                 
                   A
                   canniken
                   ;
                   mill
                   quier
                   Cuffen
                   ,
                
                 
                   so
                   quier
                   to
                   ben
                   coues
                   watch
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   9
                
                 
                   Bein
                   darkmans
                   then
                   ,
                   bouse
                   ,
                   mort
                   and
                   ken
                   ,
                
                 
                   the
                   bien
                   coue's
                   bingd
                   a
                   wast
                   :
                
                 
                   On
                   chates
                   to
                   trine
                   ,
                   by
                   Rome-coues
                   dine
                   ,
                
                 
                   for
                   his
                   long
                   lib
                   at
                   last
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   10
                
                 
                   Bingd
                   out
                   bien
                   morts
                   ,
                   and
                   toure
                   ,
                   and
                   toure
                   ,
                
                 
                   bing
                   out
                   of
                   the
                   Rome-vile
                   :
                
                 
                   And
                   toure
                   the
                   coue
                   ,
                   that
                   cloyde
                   your
                   duds
                   ,
                
                 
                   vpon
                   the
                   chates
                   to
                   trine
                   .
                
              
               
                 FINIS
                 .
              
            
             
               
               
                 Thus
                 for
                 satisfaction
                 of
                 the
                 Readers
                 ,
                 Englished
                 .
              
               
                 
                   1
                
                 
                   GOe
                   forth
                   (
                   braue
                   girles
                   )
                   looke
                   out
                   ,
                   looke
                   out
                   ,
                
                 
                   looke
                   out
                   I
                   say
                   (
                   good
                   Connies
                   )
                
                 
                   For
                   all
                   your
                   cloathes
                   are
                   stolne
                   (
                   I
                   doubt
                   )
                
                 
                   mad
                   shauers
                   share
                   the
                   monyes
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   2
                
                 
                   I
                   met
                   a
                   Drab
                   ,
                   I
                   likde
                   her
                   well
                   ,
                
                 
                   (
                   my
                   bowles
                   did
                   fit
                   her
                   alley
                   :
                   )
                
                 
                   We
                   both
                   did
                   vow
                   to
                   rob
                   pell-mell
                   ,
                
                 
                   and
                   so
                   abroad
                   did
                   sally
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   3
                
                 
                   This
                   bowncing
                   Trull
                   can
                   rarely
                   talke
                   ,
                
                 
                   a
                   penny
                   will
                   make
                   her
                   —
                   :
                
                 
                   Through
                   any
                   towne
                   which
                   she
                   doth
                   walke
                   ,
                
                 
                   nought
                   can
                   her
                   filching
                   scape
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   4
                
                 
                   The
                   house
                   being
                   raizde
                   aside
                   wée
                   stept
                   ,
                
                 
                   and
                   through
                   the
                   mire
                   did
                   wade
                   :
                
                 
                   To
                   auoid
                   Hue
                   and
                   Cry
                   ,
                   to
                   a
                   hedge
                   we
                   crept
                   ,
                
                 
                   and
                   vnder
                   it
                   close
                   were
                   laid
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   5
                
                 
                   Toth
                   '
                   Broakers
                   then
                   my
                   hedge-bird
                   flyes
                   ,
                
                 
                   for
                   stolne
                   goods
                   bringing
                   coyne
                   :
                
                 
                   Which
                   (
                   tho
                   the
                   Constable
                   after
                   hies
                   )
                
                 
                   our
                   trickes
                   away
                   purloyne
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   6
                
                 
                   You
                   mawnding
                   rogues
                   ,
                   how
                   you
                   steale
                   beware
                
                 
                   for
                   priuie
                   search
                   is
                   made
                   :
                
                 
                   Take
                   héede
                   thou
                   to
                   ,
                   (
                   thou
                   hackney-mare
                   )
                
                 
                   whone'er
                   art
                   ridden
                   ,
                   but
                   paid
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   7
                
                 
                   A
                   Licence
                   got
                   with
                   counterfeit
                   Seale
                
                 
                   to
                   begge
                   (
                   as
                   if
                   vndone
                
                 
                 
                   By
                   fire
                   )
                   to
                   breake
                   each
                   house
                   ,
                   and
                   steale
                   ,
                
                 
                   o'er
                   hedge
                   and
                   ditch
                   then
                   runne
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   8
                
                 
                   Till
                   Shackels
                   soundly
                   pay
                   vs
                   home
                   ,
                
                 
                   and
                   to
                   the
                   Iayle
                   compell
                   vs
                   :
                
                 
                   Ill
                   may
                   the
                   Iustice
                   euer
                   thriue
                   ,
                
                 
                   so
                   cruell
                   to
                   Good
                   Fellowes
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   9
                
                 
                   Swéet
                   Punck
                   ,
                   béere-house
                   ,
                   &
                   béere
                   ,
                   good
                   night
                   ,
                
                 
                   the
                   honest
                   Roague
                   's
                   departed
                
                 
                   To
                   hanging
                   ,
                   (
                   by
                   the
                   Iustice
                   spite
                   )
                
                 
                   to
                   his
                   long
                   home
                   hée
                   's
                   carted
                   .
                
              
               
                 
                   10
                
                 
                   Away
                   swéete
                   Duckes
                   ,
                   with
                   gréedy
                   eyes
                   ,
                
                 
                   from
                   London
                   walke
                   vp
                   Holbourne
                   :
                
                 
                   Sue
                   him
                   who
                   stole
                   your
                   cloathes
                   :
                   hée
                   flyes
                
                 
                   with
                   hempen-wings
                   to
                   Tybourne
                   .
                
              
            
             
               FINIS
               .
            
          
        
         
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A20047-e1470
           
             One
             language
             through
             all
             the
             world
             at
             the
             beginning
             .
          
           
             English
             tongue
             comparable
             to
             the
             best
             .
          
           
             Building
             of
             Babel
             .
          
           
             Confusion
             described
             .
          
           
             Beginning
             of
             Languages
             .
          
           
             The
             
               Bell
               mans
            
             first
             Booke
             .
          
           
             Of
             canting
             .
          
           
             How
             long
             ,
             Canting
             hath
             bin
             vsed
             .
             The
             first
             canter
             hanged
             .
          
           
             How
             canting
             grew
             to
             be
             a
             language
             .
          
           
             The
             Dialect
             of
             Canting
             .
          
           
             Qui
             fixit
             leges
             pretio
             atque
             refixit
             .
          
           
             A
             description
             of
             the
             Hall
             ,
             where
             matters
             are
             tryed
             in
             Hell.
             
          
           
             Hine
             exauditur
             gemitus
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             
               The
               Iudge
               of
               the
               Court.
            
             Haec
             Radamanthus
             habet
             durissima
             regna
             ;
             Castigatque
             ditque
             dolos
             ,
             subigitque
             sateri
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             —
             impios
             vinclis
             perpetuis
             domant
             .
          
           
             The
             customes
             and
             condition
             of
             the
             Court.
             
          
           
             Vnde
             nunquam
             quum
             semel
             venit
             potuit
             auerti
             .
          
           
             What
             matters
             are
             tryed
             be
             fore
             the
             Diuell
             .
          
           
             —
             Quique
             arma
             secuti
             impia
             .
             —
             Epulaeque
             ante
             ora
             paratae
             ,
             —
             furiarum
             maxima
             iuxta
             accubat
             ,
             &
             manibus
             prohibet
             contingere
             mensas
             .
          
           
             *
             *
             Heauen
             .
          
           
             —
             Exercenter
             paenis
             ,
             eternumque
             malorum
             .
             Supplicia
             expendunt
             .
          
           
             A
             letter
             against
             the
             Bel-man
             .
          
           
             The
             Bel-man
             .
          
           
             Huc
             omnis
             turba
             
          
           
             Innumerae
             gentes
             populsqué
             .
          
           
             Graucolentis
             Auerni
             .
          
           
             Auser
             imur
             cultu
             ,
             Gemmis
             aureque
             tegnutur
             omnia
             .
          
           
             Burchin-lane
             described
             .
             Taylors
             at
             first
             were
             called
             Linnen-Armorers
             .
             Serieants
             .
          
           
             Hunting
             of
             the
             Lyon
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             Hunting
             of
             the
             Bucke
             .
          
           
             Hunting
             of
             the
             Hare
             .
          
           
             De
             magno
             preda
             petenda
             grege
             .
          
           
             What
             persons
             follow
             the
             game
             of
             Ferret-hunting
             .
          
           
             Dolor
             ac
             volupt
             as
             inuicem
             cedunt
             .
          
           
             The
             tragedy
             of
             Ferret-hunting
             diuided
             into
             5.
             acts
             .
          
           
             Nam
             illa
             omnes
             artes
             perdecet
             ,
             vbi
             quem
             attigit
             .
          
           
             Dum
             spectant
             oculi
             lasos
             ;
             leduntur
             &
             ipsi
             .
          
           
             The
             nature
             of
             a
             London
             Tumbler
             .
          
           
             Nil
             habit
             inf●lix
             paupertae
             durius
             in
             se
             ,
             Quam
             quod
             ridicules
             homines
             facit
             .
          
           
             Dedit
             hanc
             contagio
             labem
             ,
             et
             Dabit
             in
             plures
             .
          
           
             Infelix
             viris
             excidit
             ipse
             suis
             .
          
           
             Grandia
             permultos
             tenuantur
             Flumina
             riues
             .
          
           
             Hawking
             .
          
           
             Facies
             ron
             omnibus
             ●na
             ,
             ●ec
             diuersatamem
             .
          
           
             Qui
             nisi
             quod
             ipsi
             faciunt
             ,
             nihilrectum
             putant
             .
          
           
             The
             first
             Noate
             .
          
           
             Et
             qua
             non
             fecimus
             ipsi
             ,
             vix
             ea
             nostra
             voeo
             :
          
           
             Sen
             stos
             fuit
             ille
             Caducus
             Frange
             Puer
             Calamos
             &
             manes
             desere
             Musas
             .
             Quid
             nisi
             Monstra
             legis
             ?
          
           
             stultus
             quoque
             munere
             gaudet
             .
          
           
             How
             Birds
             are
             drest
             after
             they
             be
             caught
             .
          
           
             Strange
             hawking
             .
          
           
             Cur
             ego
             si
             neque
             ignoreque
             Poetae
             salutor
             .
          
           
             Proh
             superi
             quantum
             pectora
             caeca
             Noctis
             Habēt
             .
          
           
             scribimus
             indocti
             ;
             doctique
             
          
           
             Miserum
             est
             aliorum
             incūbere
             famae
             .
          
           
             The
             manner
             of
             Brideling
             a
             Colt.
             
          
           
             His
             order
             in
             marching
             on
             foote
             or
             seruing
             vpon
             horse
             .
          
           
             His
             Furniture
             .
          
           
             His
             mannes
             of
             fight
             .
          
           
             His
             qualities
             whilst
             he
             lies
             intrenched
             .
          
           
             What
             peeces
             of
             desperate
             seruice
             hee
             ventures
             vpon
             .
          
           
             Noctes
             atque
             dies
             patet
             atri
             Ianua
             Ditis
             .
          
           
             How
             a
             citie
             puncke
             Rangeth
             .
          
           
             The
             picture
             of
             a
             Horse-courser
             .
          
           
             How
             a
             Horse-courser
             may
             coozen
             his
             chap-man
             with
             a
             horse
             that
             hath
             the
             Glanders
             .
          
           
             Terramalos
             homines
             nunc
             educat
             .
          
           
             Noxia
             mille
             modis
             Laceae
             .
             bitur
             vmbra
             .
          
           
             Abuses
             of
             race-running
             glanced
             at
             .
          
           
             Vix
             sunt
             homines
             hoc
             nomine
             dignis
             ,
             quamque
             lupi
             laeuae
             plus
             feritatis
             habent
             .
          
           
             Iacke
             in
             a
             Box
             described
             .
          
           
             His
             exercise
             .
          
           
             Sitiens
             fugientia
             captat
             Flumina
             :
             quid
             rides
             ?
             mutato
             nomine
             ,
             de
             te
             Fabula
             narratur
             .
          
           
             Multa
             petentibus
             desunt
             multa
             .
          
           
             How
             to
             trauaile
             without
             charges
             .
          
           
             Trauelling
             Emperickes
             .
          
           
             Strowling
             schoolemaister
             .
          
           
             Inuidia
             nigris
             restibus
             ,
             currum
             insilit
             Nox
             .
          
           
             Noctis
             &
             erebi
             progenies
             sunt
             Dolus
             ,
             Metus
             ,
             Miseria
             ,
             Fraus
             ,
             Querelae
             &c.
             〈…〉
             3.
             
             De
             Nat.
             Deorum
             .
          
           
             *
             *
             Non
             verenda
             ,
             verenda
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             Sapiens
             in
             munera
             venit
             adultor
             ,
             Praebuit
             ipsa
             sinus
             .
             Neo
             polisti
             metuunt
             Deos
             nec
             hos
             respcere
             Deos
             opinor
             .
          
           
             The
             knauery
             .
             of
             Hostlars
             .
          
           
             Matronaque
             rara
             pudica
             est
             .
          
           
             saepe
             solent
             auro
             multa
             subesse
             malâ
             .
          
           
             *
             *
             Pectora
             tantis
             obsessa
             malis
             .
          
           
             Non
             sunt
             ictu
             serienda
             leui
             .
          
           
             Quisprodere
             tanta
             relatis
             Funera
             .