Philogamus give place ye poets fine bow down now & incline For now the Muses nine So Sacred and Divine In Parnase holy Hill ●aue wrought their worthy will ●nd by their goodly skill upon that mighty Mountain 〈◊〉 Hellycons' Fountain That always doth remain since Pegase made it flow ●s by your books we know) Have washed the lips of one That slept not long agone That forked Hill upon Who after that anon As he had seen the Muse's New Poetry he uses And yours he clean refuses. For waking suddenly He wrote right wortheily Such kind of poetry As never one of you Had heard or seen till now He wrote I tell you plain An Antygraphe full main None such on this side Spain Antipus to suppress And clearly to compesse Wherein he feigneth no less But that if God were dead He might be raised in Bread Wherefore ye poets all And clerks both great and small submit yourselves ye shall And down before him fall And never not to rise For you cold not devise So great an enterprise As this new poet did Whose cunning is yet hid And many other works That secretly yet lurckes None such among the Turks Nor Saracens can be found The Gospelers to confound. His works are so well bound And builded on such ground As cannot well decay Till the sand be washed away. He is skilled so wondrously In the science of masonry. Wherefore I will not spare His learning to declare Although with mickle care Because I want the ways This Poet for to praise And fame upon him raise That floweth in these days, with such exceeding Eloquence And Superfluous sapience Imbute wtyh Insuffycyence Of learning and intelligence Whose writings are laudable So new found and not able I tell you without fable That no man under sky Can praise them worthily They show themselves so fair That none can them appayer And therefore now behold And see how well he could Describe them that are bold To marry being sworn To keep them chaste before Making their vow a scorn And taking to them wives, With them to lead their lives But with these bloods he strives And out of town them drives With eloquent taxations And violent vexations And earnest exprobrations with instant insultations And strange denominations That none among all nations▪ Can show such learned fashions As can this noble scholar He may well wear a collar Of. H. for his humanity And for his great urbanity He may wear upon his Bonnet A double. P. well set And with a traye above In tokening of the love That toward him he beareth Which men to Chastenes sweareth. Wherefore look up and see If ye believe not me Your own judges to be For easily may ye spy If ye look earnestly And well his latten try That out of barbary His learning he hath fett And all his Knowledge get. For this I dare well Swear Here can no such fine gear Be had but only there, Advise it well and read For here it doth succeed. O Insensati All married priests that be Nuyti Barbis dispuisatis Carnales hedos Uocati Quorum deus venture To the belly they be bound by Indenture Uentri semper obedire Uulueque serui●e Quorum Sathan est Pater Et ●eche●ia Mater This Genera Uiperarum Runs per Orbem Terrarum O God omnipotent Qui regnas et vivis Send shame and punishment To all priests and their wives And let them go void of all grace Et in fernorum supplicia With lucifer to have a Place In sempiterna supplicia. The Praise of the Meeter. O metre passing measure provoking sport and pleasure O treatise of high treasure So typical in figure None such from lyn to lygure Lapte up in such fine latin As passeth both syls and satin O Homer so Heroical And Percius Satirical Where are your works poetical? O Horace where art thou Uyrgyll and ovid now And all the rest of you Let se who dare avow One such a work to show No no, full well I know Take all you on a row Ye cannot do it I trow Not one of you that wrote Such satires well I wots If he your books had seen He would have shamed them clean You had no Peers you ween Because with laurel green Crowned you were by right But our new Poet might Be crowned with the vine And Garland Canabyve For engine and for wit The muses did admit Not only him to it But gave him so much grace That if he view the face Of one In any place He may make him with speed A Poet to proceed. The proof thereof indeed Full plainly did appear Within this half year For one that was a Smytthe A forger at the stytthe A mighty man of pytthe And strong of limb and lytthe When he had been him with And talked but a while He wrote so high a style As none within a mile Could fashion with a file With all his wit and wile, Well well for all ye smile Certes I tell you truth A lack it is great ruth That men will not believe The gifts that Muses give Beside all this his Smythery Uul●anus taught him certanly Wherewith he wrought right curiously As ye may see it evidently Contained in the testimony And latter will of Heresy. For there He showeth Poetry highly professing Romery Lo, now I say therefore Your books we need no more They may be rend and tore What though ye cry and roar We need not now your lore For if this art were drowned Again it may be found Even by the very sound Of these new poets Tools They be no small fools, If they be red In schools You may sit down on stools And so to take your rest As I suppose it best. But well ye think I Geyst By cock for all your looks You may clasp up your books And then go keep the roockes Or else with hangle hooks Go fish and take some flookes For clean your clergy crooks And goeth no more on right Since these began to write Ye have no more no might To flourish in their sight But this I will you tell The Mason doth excel Wherefore he may full well Above all bear the Bell Wherefore with all my power I will each day and hour Advance his high honour Praying these Muses Sacre With Hellicons Lavacre To wash me by their aid To do as I have said. * The praise of the Poet. O Poet so impudent Which never yet was studente To thee, the Gods prudente Minerva is illudente Thou writest things diffuse Incongrue▪ and confuse Obfuscate and obtuse No man the like doth use Among the Turckes or jews Always inventing news That are incomparable They be so firm and stable Like as a Ship is able Without Ancre and Cable Roother mast or Sail Pully Rope or Nail In Wind Weather or Hail To guide both top and tail And not the course to fail So this our Poet may Without a stop or stay In cunning wend the way aswell by dark as day And never go astray If it be as they say. O Poet rare and Recent Dedecorate/ and indecent Insolent and insensate Contending and condensate Obtused and obturate O bumbylate, obdurate Sparing no priest or Curate civilian or Rurate That be already married And from their vow been varied Whereto the scripture them carried They might aswell have tarried I swear by the north door Rood That stout was while he stood That they had been as good To have sold their best blue hood For I am in such a mood That for my power and part With all my wit and art With whole intent and heart I will so at them Dart That some of them shall fart Before they feel it smart. Could not these bloods be pleased With men's wives to be eased And in their daughtars seized As well as the other greased Though thus they had not pressed? In faith they shallbe feased For I set to my hand In fight with them to stand By water and by land By gravel and by Sande And by the salt sea strand Behold here is a wand To beat them back and bone I trow a thing alone To make these gallants groan And with our poets aid They shallbe so dismayed So fearful and afraid That down they shallbe laid, As thick as hops and hail. Now will I them assail And threashe them with my Flail To mar these married priests I fight with both my Fists Look on the fray who lists. ⚜ A Latten Club, or hurl Batte. ☞ OUOS Insensati Et Sathana Nati Satyrique Uocati Barbis Detonsati Loti Levigati Corollis designati Quo sic effeminati Molles et Parati Sitis, Stupro dati Petulantes Hoedi Turpes et Cinoedi Per quos Pios ledi Ac Insontes Cedi Certo possit Credi Procreantes Hibride Sed Amicti Nebride 〈◊〉 non estis Nupti ●o plus Corrupti ●●tum profitentes Non custodientes ●erum odientes ●●lsumque Dorentes ●●ores non habentes ●as Conquerentes ●●bere abnuentes Intestui cedentes ●upi Existentes ●upam subsequentes Priapo seruientes In Deum statuentes Ipsumque Colentes● Auluas Indegantes Illecebras Amantes Uelut Scortatores Illorum Uxores Filias et Sorores Seruas et Ancillas Seducentes Illas ●apitis Ubique Uiventes quam oblique Nigri Necromantici Hydri Hydromantici Putridi Piromantici Incantantes Idolatres Publici Pseudolatres Anum Sathanam habe●is Patrem Papa●●que Tene●is Matris Gremioque sedetis Gomor eam Nominetis Cum his Penasque Lueti● Lupinis Uestibus Caudis et Testibus Dediti Incestibus Uiperarum Genus Quorum dea Venus Infernorum Te●●us Ducet Imperpetuum Ad Ditis Supplicium Id quod ●etet Ille Qui servat Millia Mille. ☞ ELQUIDUOS BED? Lo now how like you this? I trow I did you Bliss And them, as worthy is To ding till they shall Piss Me think I do not miss Though my Crown be not scraped Nor I in Order mysshaped Nor for such worship gaped Nor anoyted Preyste with Oil Nor Cream or other Soil Nor took such filthy Foil Yet will I tug and Toil Toss turn and Turmoil Cumbre Clowte and Coyle Dismember and Despoil All them that I may catch That daily wait and watch feat wenches to upsnatche And marry to their Match But I will them dispatch And byggely on them beat For all their wives so feat That are so nice and Neat Which sitting on their Seat Of Scriptures will Entreat And fain would us defeacte With words grim and great From Beads of wood and Geate And from our mighty Meat That is, our God of wheat Puff, so I swell and Sweat I Fridge I Frothe and Fret Of this Uncowthe to think But surely shall they Drink Till above the ground they stink With a Lyrycum Twynke For I can never Shrink As long as our Uulcanus And lusty Longimanus Will stick while he is Sanus For though he be Prophanus He is not nothing Uanus' Nor learned like Alanus I tell you he is no Na●u● But one of stature stout No Lubber nor no Lout He will reach round about And venting with his snout Will touch them top and towte And all their ruffling towte With Clarckly clubs to clout For fiercely hath he fought Endeavouring to drive out The reader in our choir That draweth to him here Men coming far and near There did our Smythe appear With countenance so clear Full changeable in cheer And dapper as a dear Chiefly he did him charge How he had taught at large More than he could discharge Or find in text or Marge Concerning consecration And transubstantiation Or all our Transmutation And Substance Alteration denying Ueneration And also Adoration In time of Ministration And that Non dentibus Panem Prementibus Nullis Euentibus Christum Gustari Nec Mancipari Posse vel de●ipi Sensus, cum Recipi Dabitur Panis. Sed Smyth, I●●nanis Abiit Inanis Butler or he went away He trimmed him I say With goodly tantes and gay And with a tryggum trey Like a fine Philologus Or rather a Pantolobus He called him Spermologus ☜ And would have a Dialogus But were there a Catalogus Of him and all his sect He might be chef elect These readers to correct For well can he object And subtly suspect In things that be direct But sure if he be chect Your courage is deject And all your hope in vain Yet still will I remain To take for you great pain If ye will me retain And put myself in apparel To fight thus in your quarrel If thou O Poet once That well canst couch thy stones Or fab●● with his mall To me for help will call Either with book or word Soon will I be the third So if I find you kind Certes you shall me bind To show that is behind Well well ye know my mind. LO thus Philogamus After this sort Helpeth Misogamus Him to comfort Against Monogamus That doth report That your Apogamus Is but aborte. FINIS. QUOD PHYLOGAMUS. Alias. I. What call Ye Hym.