THE Sucklington FACTION: OR (Suckling's) Roaring boys.  

Much meat: cloth gluttony produce.  
And makes a man a swine—  
But heés a temperate man indeed  
That with a leaf can dine—  
He needs no napkin for his hands  
His fingers for to wipe  
He hath his kitchen in a box  
His Roast meat in a pipe   
HEre sits the prodigal Children, the younger brothers (Luk. 15. 12.) acting the parts of hotspur Cavaliers and disguised ding-thrifts, habiting themselves after the fashions of the world, as one that is to travail into a far country. Nisi hominibus placuerit Deus, non erit eorum, Deus. Because his father humours him not, with the Idolatrous Ceremonies to follow Popish Innovations, he becomes an errand Peripatetic, flying in a dudgeon and discontent from God's household, and consequently from the almighty's direction and protection. Not having God for his guide, he hath the devil to his conductor, walking now not only after the lufts of the flesh, and of his mind, fulfilling the desires of both; but after the Prince of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. With the debauched Gallants of these lascivious and loose-living times, he draws his Patrimony through his throat, bequeathing the creatures to consumption for consummation of his intemperate voracity, delicate luxury, and wasteful prodigality, spending all either upon his belly or his back, following the proud, apish, antic, and disguised fashions of the times, to present himself a painted Puppet on the stage of vanity.  Alia, vina, Venus, tribus his sum factus egenus. 
What with wine and women, horses, hounds, and whores, dancing, dicing, drabbing, drinking, may the prodigal man say: I am brought unto a morsel of bread, yea unto the very husks of Swine. Pride of spirit makes him to scorn an Alehouse, and therefore with greater eagerness he daily haunts taverns: where sometimes he sits by his liquour, and blood of the Vine, and the spirits of the cellar, exhausting, and infusing them unto mad ebriety: thus drinking ad modum sine mensura, whole ones, by measure without measure, like the Elephant through the juice of Mulberries, he is enraged unto blood, and most damnable resolutions and designs, terminated in the death and destruction of the next man he meets, that never did, neither thought him harm. Or having a noise of renegado fiddlers, Musicke-abusers, they with him, and he with them, sings and danceth, danceth and sings like a Nightingale 
* Vox est & praetevea nihil. , or Canary bird. He is profuse and lavish. 
— Donec dec●ptus & exspes,  
Necquicquam fundo suspiret nummus in imo.   
Never sparing till all be spent, dancing, and drinking away both wit and wealth. Now he acts his riots, anon his revels, and forthwith ferries to a playhouse, or Bawdy-house, where the woman with the attire of an harlot kissing him, allures this simple sot, void of understanding, to solace himself, (ver. 18.) and take his fill of love until the morning. Lust leads him to dalliance, till a dart (Ver. 23.) strike thorough his liver, until he be cast down and wounded, yea and slain by her.  
This notorious goodfellow (corruptly so called) being a confederate of the greeks, titeretus, or jovial roaring boys, is of the poet's mind, when he said;  
Foecundi calices quem non fecer● disertum? Whom hath not wine made witty? He drinks that he may be eloquent and facete, after his cup of nimis, he harps on Barnabies hymn, or Bacchus his inebriating Catch, bousing verily, and chanting on this wise merrily:  

Aesculapi tandem sapi,  
quid medelas blateras?  
Mithridatum est potatum  
inter vini pateras.  
Ad liquores & humores  
tandum crescunt salices  
Si quis aegrotet, mox epotet  
decem vini calices.  
Quiemblema, aut poema  
vult acuté texere,  
Ordiatur, vino satur,  
& uvarum nectare.  
Nil acuté, nil argutè,  
dictum sine dolio;  
Audivi sales, nunquam tale●  
ac in aenopolio.  
Quorsum plura, haec figarae  
satis rem nobilitat:  
Vas rotundum totum mundum  
plenè consignificat.   
These are children of spiritual fornication, such as go a-whoring from God after the idols of their own brains: Hos. 1. 2. such are superstitious Romanists, tutoured by their Ghostly Fathers, to believe in gross as the Church believeth, which (as Luther saith) is gross Divininity. These fall not only from piety to impurity, but also from Christian verities, to Antichristian vanities, foppe●ies, and trumperies.  
FINIS.   

Printed in the year, MDC. XLI.