TAYLOR●… arithmetic. FROM ONE to TWELVE. WITH A solid Discourse between YESTERDAY, tomorrow, today, & A LOVER,  
LONDON, Printed in the year, 16●●   

Tailor's arithmetic, &c.  

0 00 000 0000 00000 000000  
IN the first line you nought but ciphers ●…ee▪  
10 100 1000 10000 100000 1000000▪  
But (adding One) they more than ciphers be:  
And take that One from them, what are they then?  
Just nothing (Ciphers) as they were again.  
So some who were but ciphers in estate,  
One set before them raised them to some rate,  
To tens, to hundreds, thousands, thousands ten,  
From ciphers unto millions, mounted men.  
One raised up Numbers, Numbers laid One low▪  
Thus (with Vicissitude) goes weal and woe:  
Now that One's gone, some are left bare and p●…r,  
Just nothing, ciphers, wanting One before▪  
And is it but for One we make this moan▪  
(Before us now are many more than One)  
But One did make me something, than I had  
Supportance from One to be fed and clad;  
But many (many sins) a cipher made me:  
Just nothing (nothing) ten years hath been paid me,  
Coin is man's earthly life, life's Nerves and Si●●wes  
And I should have some from the Crowns Rev●…,  
For which I've su'd, a●…d su'd, but have it not;  
The fault's not mine, 'tis my unlucky lot.  
And I might seek again (if I were mad,)  
And have as much as formerly I had;  
Were I as free from want as clear from hate,  
I would not with an Alderman change state:  
But cares and wants in troops assault me thick,  
Past numbering with my poor arithmetic.  
Thus upon One a little I have played,  
Zet more of One a little must be said.  
The Father's One, One likewise is the Son,  
The Holy Ghost One, and all three but One.  
One Faith there is, (he that hath two hath none)  
And in the Firmament One Sun, One moon.  
Man hath One soul, one corpse, One head, one brain,  
One Tongue, One heart, (some very Knaves have twain)  
One Life, (one span) if one inch more it be,  
It stretches to unmeasured misery:  
The World's but One, and that's a cipher round,  
And nothing but a cipher 'twill be found,  
All shall lose, All do lose, all have lost,  
Who shall, doth, hath the false world trusted most.  
If in Jerusalem One man had been,  
That had loved God, and strived to shun all sin,  
Th' Almighty on them would compassion take,  
And spare the City for that One man's sake;  
But as the Psalmist truly made his moan,  
The Lord beheld none doth good, no not ONE.   

On the number Two.  
Two Natures the most High, most bl●…st did bear,  
The Godhead great, the Manhood pure and clear.  
Man hath two substances, both soiled and ●…oule,  
A body cloyed with crimes, a sinful soul)  
He hath Two Eyes to see, Two ears to hear,  
Two hands to work, Two legs the rest to bear,  
He hath Two choices, Life, Death, Good or ill,  
(Yet hath no free will to choose which he will)  
 
Man's will to choose the good, and ●…un the 〈◊〉.  
Two lives, Two deaths, Two temporal, Two eternal,  
Two ways from hence, celestial, and infernal.  
I could speak more of Two, and more of One,  
But Three calls for me, and I must be gone.   

On the number Three.  
Three is that blessed Trinity, and I  
Do beg the blessing of that Trinity.  
Three times the Apostle Paul with Rods was beaten,  
And Three times suffered shipwreck, death did threaten,  
Three are the grace's theological,  
(Or virtues called Divine celestial)  
Faith is the Creed, and who so holds that fast,  
Hope (the Lord's Prayer) God's gift will crown at last,  
And Charity obediently presents  
Her service in the Ten commandments:  
Th●…se Three are th' Handmaids of Salvation;  
These guide men what to do, or leave undone.   

On the number four.  
The four Evangelists, the Story penned  
Of him who ne'er began, and ne'er shall end:  
His low descending, his high Pedigree,  
His Innocence, wondrous works, and misery;  
His sufferings, and his bitter Death and Passion,  
To free poor sinners from deserved Damnation.  
Four virtue's Cardinal, Justice, Fortitude,  
Prudence, and Temperance, these four include  
All man's perfection here, from these proceeds  
Th' effects of our best thoughts, our words and deeds▪  
Four quarters of the World, are Asia,  
With Africa, Europe, and America▪  
 
〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 E●…t 〈◊〉 South, and Su●…-set West.  
Four seasons round about the year doth bring,  
The Summer, Autumn, Winter, and the Spring.  
Four Elements, Fire, Water, Earth are three,  
And th' air (unseen) which no man e'er did see.  
Four Dispositions, Dry, Moist, Hot, and Cold.  
Four strange Complexions, (Humorous manifold,)  
Intemperate Sanguine, Lazy phlegmatic,  
Sad mad Melancholy, rash choleric,  
And various mixtures of those four Complextions,  
Possesseth us with contrary affections;  
And which of these four humours are most in us,  
The same to Vice or virtue still doth win us;  
And were there not worse Knaves than four i'th' Cards,  
(I mean no Dukes, or Dons, or Lords, or Lards)  
The grieved people's plaints had not been such,  
And England's miseries not half so much.  
Thus having done with four, I think it meet,  
To fall to work on Five to Fill my sheet.   

On the number Five.  
Blessed He (whose Grace and Glory hath no bounds)  
For's Enemies received Five mortal wounds.  
Cursed he that with both tongue and teeth doth tear  
That glorious Name, and by those Wounds do swear,  
And forswear too; those cursed sons of Cain,  
Do crucify Christ every day again.  
He that's the Bread of life, the living Bread,  
He that Five thousand men with Five loaves fed,  
He whom Five Virgins wisely waited on, 
Mat. 25.   
With oil in Lamps: Five foolish ones had none.  
Five senses in our body he hath placed,  
●…o hear, to See, to Smell, to Touch, to Taste;  
But all those Senses senseless men do use▪  
The gracious giver of them to abuse.  
Men never were more cruel, merciless,  
Never more Pride, or vain voluptuousness▪  
Hypocrisy is masked in Robes of zeal,  
And Avarice preys on this Nations weal.  
Blind fortune in her wisdom thought it fit,  
To give some all, and many ne'er a whit:  
Though times be dangerous for an honest man;  
With God's help I'll pass through all as I can.  
And thus my fingers Five do make an end  
With Five, because on Six I must attend.   

On the number Six.  
Six I'll be brief with, for my mind I fix,  
To write more large of Seven and short of Six.  
Six days th' Almighty did preordinate,  
To be the time the whole world to create:  
He said but Let there be, and every thing  
Was made for Man, and he made Man sole King  
Of all the Creatures, but he quickly fell,  
He against God rebeled, all things rebel  
Against him for't, he'th lost both Grace, and pl●…ce  
In paradise, and all his wretched Race  
Unto his sin original are heirs,  
Increased still with the actual sins of theirs.  
For which the Curse was, Man his bread should eat,  
With Six days' work in Seven with toil and sweat▪   

On the number Seven.  
Since the Creation still (from Age to Age)  
Seven is a number of most high presage:  
Amongst all days the Seventh was chiefest blessed,  
A resting Sabbath, type of endless rest▪  
The Planets (in their revolutions) s●…ven.  
The 7 stars in the Firmament of Heaven.  
Pharaoh's 7 (dreamed lean Kine devoured 7 fat,  
And want and plenty Joseph found by that. 
Gen. 41.   
Yea more than forty times Leviticus 
As the 12. 13, 14, 15, 16. 23 25. 1 King. 18 44.   
Doth in 6 Chapters mention 7 to us.  
Six times Eliah's man went out in vain,  
He went the seventh time, and brought news of rain.  
Seven Priests, 7 times did with 7 trumpets blow,  
And then fell down the walls of Jericho 
Josh 6.   
King David 7 times every day did praise  
The Lord for's judgements just, and righteous ways. 
Psa. 15. 164.   
Th'Assyrian Naaman (at the prophet's word)  
Did wash himself 7 times in Jordan's Ford,  
Because he did the Seers command obey, 
2 King. 〈◊〉.   
His loathsome leprosy was cured straightway.  
The widows 7 sons in the Maccabees, 
2 Mac. 7.   
In liv●…s and deaths renowned for constancies.  
Pe●●●ions 7 taught by our Lord supernal,  
Include 〈◊〉 blessings, temporal and eternal,  
Christ (in compassion) in his Passions grief,  
Spoke 7 sweet words to the believing thief;  
Then he who paid our great Redemptions price.  
Said, this day shalt thou be in paradise: 
Luk 23. 43.   
These 7 words were celestial Gileads balm,  
Midst storms of death and hell, a blessed calm.  
One said to Christ, shall I forgive him free,  
That hath done 7 offences against me?  
The answer was, those that will happy live,  
Must 7 and seventy times (and more) forgive:  
Thus seven times seventy plainly doth express.  
If man remit, God quits sins numberless.  
Seven Asian Churches in the Revelation,  
Seven angels in them to preach man's salvation.  
Seven golden Candlesticks, with heavenly light,  
To guide us from the wrong way to the right:  
These sevens, and many more each man may view,  
In God's two Testaments, the Old and New,  
Man hath seven Ages, first his Infancy,  
Puerillity, man's state, Youth, Gravity,  
Old age, and state decrepit, these seven are  
From Birth to burial our appointed share;  
And every seventh year we may justly call  
Our life's division climactial:  
And nine times seven, of years are sixty three,  
Man's dangerous age, and death as oft we see.  
And ten times seven amounts to seven times ten,  
Just David's span the common age of men:  
Thrice seven years past that time, some may survive,  
Till grief and sorrow unto death them drive.  
Seven are the Sciences, so called indeed,  
Because from them all other Arts proceed.  
Seven are the deadly sins, whose root and stem  
Grew first in hell, and all sins else from them.  
Seven were the wisest men ere Gotham had,  
But England hath seven thousand sevens as mad.  
Seven Sages ●…nce in Greece renowned, admired  
For wisdom, (in these times not much desired,)  
Room once had seven wise Masters, they are dead.  
Seven thousand Knaves and Fools left in their stead▪  
Seven Wonders had the world since it began,  
But the eighth wonder were a righteous man.  
Seven Saxon Kings this kingdom once obeyed,  
But ne'er had peace, till one the sceptre swayed.  
Of Sacraments the Roman Church hath seven,  
H●…re only two directs the way to heaven.  
A holy Prophet long ago fore told,  
Seven Women should upon one man take hold. 
Isai. 4. 1.   
Which prophecy is very near fulfilled.  
By bloody wars thousands of men are killed.  
By Sea and Land death doth to men befall,  
Besides the common way that's natural;  
Males are in multitudes of life bereft,  
That one man for seven womens' scarcely left.  
The Seven Electors at an Emperor's choice.  
Are Seven to make up a prevailing Voice.  
Seven years' apprenticeship the Law ordained.  
Whereby men have their freedoms here obtained.   

On the number Eight.  
When the old World was drowned, Eight then survived,  
And from those Eight the new World was derived.   

On the number Nine.  
'Tis plainly and undoubtedly expressed,  
Nine sorts of people certainly are best. 
Mat. 5. Luk 17.   
Ingratitude Nine Leapers did defile,  
Their leprosy was not so loathsome Vile.  
Nine are the Muses and the poet's bliss,  
They make him sing his mind a kingdom is;  
But in that Kingdom's not one foot of ground,  
Or any thing esteemed if it be found;  
The purblind world, and Fortune holds it fit,  
That Reverend wealth should make a fool of Wit;  
Because each Poet wants a good Maecenas,  
I live and lack, and wander like a lean ass.   

On the number Ten.  
The Ten Commandments are the Law Divine.  
(To keep those laws, good Lord our hearts incline;)  
But from those Ten, should Ten men each pluck one,  
'Tis to be feared that left we should have none.  
The Atheist (which the Psalmist fool doth call)  
As he believes will have no God at all.  
Th' Idolater will stock, block, Idols have  
To save him, though themselves they cannot save.  
The Roarer that delights to damn and swear,  
From the Commandments he the third would tear▪  
The Sabbath-breaker would pluck out the fourth,  
The fifth with Rebels is of little worth,  
The sixth the murderer would stab and wound,  
The seventh the hot adulterer would confound,  
The thief would steal the eighth away, and then  
False witness spoil the ninth: and for the ten,  
The Wretch that's covetous would rend and bite,  
And pluck the rest in pieces if be might.  
Thus would these Ten (this cursed Catalogue)  
Each race out one, and spoil the Decalogue.   

On the number Eleven.  
Man seems to know (by Art and study great)  
Eleven long steps from th'Earth to God's blessed seat:  
The first step to the moon, and secondly,  
He mounts unto the sphere of Mercury:  
The third stair he to Venus' Orb doth soar:  
And fourthly, to the Sun make one step more:  
The fifth to Mars, the sixth to Jupiter:  
The seventh to Melancholy Satur's sphere:  
Eighthly to th' fixed stars 〈◊〉 ascends on high:  
And ninthly to the Primum Mobile▪  
The tenth step to the heaven called crystalline:  
And last where never ending glories shine.  
Here's knowledge with man's Ignorance so tainted.  
He nothing knows, nor with himself's acquainted.   

On the number Twelve.  
Twelve patriarchs, Twelve Prophets, and Twelve Tribes,  
These sacred Twelves the holy Writ describes.  
Twelve Gates hath heavenly new Jerusalem, 
Rev. 21.   
Each Gate's a whole pearl (unvalued gem:)  
Twelve thousand Furlongs, the Walls are, four square,  
And in each square three of those pearl Gates are.  
Twelve Angels, Twelve Apostles, Twelve Foundations,  
That all Believers from all Lands and Nations  
May enter there, from North, South, East, and West,  
And there be glorified with endless Rest:  
God grant the Writer, and this Reader may  
Keep there an everlasting holiday.  
Those blessed Twelves in Twelve lines I have penned.  
And thus my poor arithmetic doth END.    

Too late to call back YESTERDAY: AND To MORROW Comes not Yet. The words fancied in a Dialogue, supposed between a LOVER and the DAY.  Lover. 
HO▪ Yesterday.  Yesterday. 
Who calls?  Lo. 
A Lover.  Yest. 
Why?  Lov. 
Dear Yesterday come back.  Yest. 
Lover, not I.  
I dare not so transgress against time's glass.  Lov. 
One word— but one word.  Yest. 
Not one, let me pass.  Lov. 
By the Dews that decked thy Locks:  
By thy herds, and by thy Flocks:  
By Times oft well-taken Lock:  
By the Swallow, by the Cock:  
By the dainty languaged Lark:  
By every thing that hates the Dark: good Yesterday come back.  
By thy fair and lovely face:  
And by the Sun which gave that grace:  
Sweet Yesterday come back.  Yest. 
What should I do?  Lov. 
I gave my Mistress vows, nay, and tears too;  
Bring them all back, for (O sad truth to say!)  
She seemed true then, I find her false to Day.  Yest. 
What's this to me? their griefs they passed cure find  
Who (to give Love Eyes) strike their Reason blind.  Lov. 
I stained thy fair face with a foul sin, bri●… but that then back.  Yest. 
Fool! hope for no such thing:  
Go grieve, go weep, and let thy tearstained face  
Court Mercy, and beget thee new to Grace:  
For, to repent is ne'er too late, all say;  
But 'tis too late to call back YESTERDAY.  Lov. 
Why then (my blinded Reason to restore)  
I'll leave to Love, and love to sin no more.  To Morrow comes not Yet. Lov. 
Since then YESTER●…Y is gone,  
tomorrow wing thee, haste come on.  To Mor. 
I must not look to Day i'th' face.  Lov. 
Yet good To Morrow mend thy pace.  To Mor. 
I dare not.  Lov, 
Why?  To Mor. 
If I too swiftly pass,  
I press time's Sand too hard, and break his glass.  Lov. 
By my hopes to thee extended:  
By the fears of men condemned:  
By the joys thou bringst along:  
By the griefs that with thee throng:  
By the promised meetings made:  
By the money thou'lt see paid:  
By their gladness that receive it:  
By their sadness that do leave it:  
By those sweet maids' languishings:  
To whose beds thine Evening brings:  
Kind Husband, good To Morrow make haste.  To Mor. 
Why?  Lo. 
Shall I tell thee merrily?  
With thee my Lands comes to my hands, and sums of money store;  
With thee I'll Laugh, Caper and quaff, and never ●…de a Mistress more.  To Mor. 
This hastes not me, I must perforce refuse thee:  
Better not see, then see me and abuse me.  Lov. 
Why then, To Morrow, make a friendly haste,  
And my wild, rough, old Will, I will new cast:  
I that To Day am practised in the Trade  
Of sin. I will To Morrow be new made:  
Therefore to Morrow make haste.  To Mor. 
Thus some say:  
We are found worse To Morrow then To Day.  
When Verbalists subdue our easy Trust.  
We Plough in Sand, and write our hopes in dust:  
Dissembler cease, swift vows we soon forget;  
Repent To Day, To Morrow comes not Yet.  Lo. 
Why then (to shun succession of my sorrow)  
I'll be new made To Day, yet mend To Morrow.  To Day, while I may. Lov. 
Well ●…et to Day,  
Why such grea●… haste?  To Day. 
To please  
The longing eyes of the Antipodes.  
Yesterday▪ s their Day, in joy and sorrow,  
And I that am thy Day, I am theirs tomorrow:  
The round-faced wo●…ld is looked on by us three,!  
I pursue yesterday, tomorrow me.  Lov. 
Yet good today do not so swiftly slide  
By the Causes this Day tried  
By thy Beauty; and by all  
Thy dainty deckings; by the fall  
Of thy sweet fertile showers; and by  
Thy again unclouded eye:  
By the Birds that sing thy grace,  
By the winds that fan thy face;  
By thy four and twenty steps,  
By thy minutes active leaps,  
By my intended goodness; and  
By times strict observed sand;  
Since 'tis too late (as all men say)  
To call back gadding yesterday,  
And since tomorrow comes not yet,  
To my pain a Period set  
Being left alone to thee  
Good today stay, be kind, and pity me.  Today. 
And why (important Pleader) should I stay?  Lov. 
I feel another change, methinks, today;  
My souls dear Lover calls for me, his choice,  
And I desire today, to hear his voice:  
Enlarge not then my griefs by thy neglect,  
But let my high cause court thy kind res●…ect.  Today. 
This stops not me. farewell. I ●…st away.  
Lovers call for me past America.  Lov. 
Why then dear Lover of my soul,  
(Since I cannot Times control)  
Seek thy sheep, lost in this world's brackey ●…round,  
Seek him that doth desire to be found.  
Christ. Why woodest thou me? have sinners hope ●…o speed?  Lov. 
True Lord, a sinner, yet a broken Reed.  Chr. 
Thy life is spotted, foul, and black as night;  Lov. 
True Master, but thy life was Virgin-white;  
By thy love, my heart's delight,  
By thy unmatched excellence,  
By thy victorious patience,  
By thy comely silence, when  
Thou (my God) were't scorned of men,  
By that sweet and saving look  
Thou didst cast back on Peter, book  
Me in thy mercy▪ let thy Grace abound,  
Seek him that doth desire to be found.  Chr. 
Tell me, oh thou for whom I bled, I see  
A Majesty in thy humility;  
And there 'fore tell me, my lost sheep, be true,  
And tell me where thou feedest, a tear or two  
Will bring thee back; or if thou'rt gone astray,  
I'll send a voice behind thee, that shall say,  
This is the way walk in't.  Lov. 
I am not in  
A Spicy Garden, but a Sea of Sin;  
I feed not Lord among the lilies; no.  
I feast with mine own follies: Since 'tis so,  
That yesterday I was lost in this ground,  
And being not sure tomorrow to be found,  
Dear Master and good shepherd mind thy gains,  
Find me to day, ●…d take me for thy pains.  
FINIS.